1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 2: Well, welcome to that you worm. We got an email 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 2: from Craig saying, can you please help organize someone to 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 2: look after my bird Blaze for a week so I 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 2: can go to Broken Hill to see my mum. It's 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: been way too long and I miss her warm reassuring hugs. Well, 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 2: we spoke to Craig yesterday to get the loadown on 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: Craig and his bird Blaze. Craig has joined us here. 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: Hello Craig, good morning. 10 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,639 Speaker 2: How nice to see you and Blaze. Blaze is in 11 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 2: a cage there. Blaze is a Laura Keet, a rainbow 12 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 2: Laura Keet. How long have you had her? Did you 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 2: have her from the time she was an egg? How 14 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 2: did it happen? 15 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: Right? Okay, friend at work, colleague, her husband found Blaze. 16 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: She'd fallen out of her nest and they couldn't look 17 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: after her, and so I took her home. She was 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: only geez, she was more or less had a couple 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: of feathers, and so. 20 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: She was just a baby. She's just and so you too, 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: have a very tight bond over nineteen years. I can 22 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 2: see her here just looking at you, and you're reassuring 23 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 2: her saying it's okay. What's going to happen when you're away? 24 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: Oh, she's going to she's going to cause havoc. 25 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 2: Will she be upset? 26 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: She will be. But look, she loves people. She loves people, 27 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: She loves everyone. 28 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 2: Right, and we can let her out of the cage. 29 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, boiled. 30 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 2: How do we get her to put her back in? 31 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: Oh no, look, cage door open. She'll do what she 32 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: wants to. 33 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 34 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you just. 35 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 3: Leave the cage door open. 36 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 4: She'll just come out and then she'll just go back 37 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 4: in when she feels like oh yes. 38 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 2: Right, So you haven't seen your mom for three years? 39 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: How old is she turning today? Eighty two? Well tell 40 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 2: you what. Rex Airlines has come to the party. They 41 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: are flying you to see her today. So instead of 42 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: you having to be on a train for eleven hours, 43 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: you're flying there today. And thank you to Rex. They 44 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: are flying bowing seven three sevens to nine domestic destinations 45 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 2: these days, So thank you to Rex for stepping up 46 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: for this. Does your mum know you coming? 47 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: Yes? Does he does? Yes? She's looking forward. 48 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 2: Oh I bet she is. 49 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 3: You don't have to worry about a thing because we'll 50 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 3: look after Blaze. 51 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 2: What does Blaze eat? 52 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: She's a special lori keat mix. 53 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: Have you got some of that with you? 54 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 1: Yes? I do, Yeah, Yeah, it's just how much do 55 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: you give her the lo kee? Probably two big heaps, 56 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: heaps teaspoons. Ye, once a day, once a day. Mix 57 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: it up into a watery paste. 58 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,320 Speaker 2: See this is information we need to know. Ortery paste 59 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: with the LORI keep mix yep, okay, okay, And well 60 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: she won'ted, she won't be unhappy enough and go for 61 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 2: our eyes or anything. 62 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: No, No, she's pretty good. 63 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 3: And what about the poop situation, Craig, if I get nervous. 64 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: She's a pooper? Yes, yes, so. 65 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 2: She flies around in our studio, sir, poop. 66 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: What goes in comes out pretty quickly? Yeah, okay, put 67 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: her on your shoulder, Brendan's original. 68 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: So are you going to be stressed leaving her behind? 69 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: I'm going to be a bit stress, yes. 70 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 2: Because you know Jonesy's reputation with pets. In the fact 71 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 2: you even reached out to us is quite. 72 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 4: I'm fagregating myself of any responsibility here because it's not 73 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 4: it's here. 74 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 3: In the building. 75 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 2: It's not just check me. It's not just cheer. 76 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 4: So that's okay, because I had some trouble with listener fish. 77 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: Which giant carp. I'll tell you the story, Craig. Someone 78 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 2: asked us if Jonesy, who had a big fish tank, 79 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: if he would take these carp that someone had bequeathed 80 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: to him twenty years before, and he had to move 81 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: into state and he gave these fish to Brendan. What 82 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: happened Brendan giant carp the very night you put them 83 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: in your fish tank. You're saying to your daughter's boyfriend, 84 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: do they jump? And he said nah, And as you 85 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: said that, one of them leapt out of the fish tank. 86 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: Sleep above my head, slid. 87 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: Down a gravel driveway with gravel and its gills. 88 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: Okay, and some of. 89 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: The dog chasing it. 90 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's you know. 91 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 3: I'm just saying. And Nathan Rees gave me a bird 92 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 3: many years ago. 93 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 4: He was our premiere at the time, and I let 94 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 4: that go by accident at the top of the cage 95 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 4: came off when I lifted it up. Well, yeah, I know, 96 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 4: I'm just saying, but I'm not going to be I'm 97 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 4: not going to be in charge of plays. 98 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: Well don't. I don't want you to worry. I want 99 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 2: you to go and enjoy your time with your mum. 100 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 3: He looks nervous. 101 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,599 Speaker 2: Now Blaze is going to be okay? Anything else we 102 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 2: need to know? 103 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I mean, as you said. 104 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: She's nineteen, but that's not old for a Laura Keet, 105 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 2: is it? 106 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: No, they generally lived to or twenty five years. 107 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: And is she robust if we put on a song 108 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: she doesn't like? 109 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: What's going to happen? Oh she loves the music. Oh 110 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: she loves the music. 111 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 2: Right now, even rock sead. Oh yeah, okay, well she 112 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: might be safe in here. 113 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: Then well, Craig, you have a great time. I'm nervous, 114 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 3: actually to break in hill. I'm nervous, but it's going 115 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 3: to be okay for us. 116 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,720 Speaker 2: Say hi to Betty and happy birthday to Betty. Thank 117 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 2: you have the time of yours. I'm glad you reached 118 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: out to us, Craig. I'm glad we're going to make 119 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: this happen. 120 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: Thanks sus