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A03 / 6 00032 NEW ZEALAND
Title: TALKIES
Advertiser: MARS
Product / Service PEDIGREE
Script In English:
MUSIC: FUR ELISE

PRESENTER: You’re listening to Talkies on Pedigree K9FM. Today’s topic, when does a stick become a branch, when does a branch become a log, and when does a log become a tree. Today's experts are Tree Surgeon, Doctor Peter Shaw, and Forrester, Michael Beaumont. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us on talkies. Let’s start at the beginning then, shall we-

MICHAEL: Ah-um.

PRESENTER: At what point does a branch uh, become a log.

MICHAEL: I tend to think of it as when you can float on it.

PRESENTER: Yep

PETER: That’s interesting

MICHAEL: When you can use it as buoyancy really.

PRESENTER: Bouyancy

PETER: Bouyancy. Ehm If you can make a structure,

MICHAEL: A structure.

PETER: Out of the wood, it is a log.

MICHAEL: Like you don’t have branch cabins in the woods.

PETER: No, you wouldn't have a branch cabin.

MICHAEL: No

PETER: Small one.

MICHAEL: Well you’d have a little, sure, maybe a toy.

PETER: If your making a log cabin, you’d make a model for it,

MICHAEL: Yes.

PETER: Preliminary model, out of sticks probably, and then-

MICHAEL: Intermediate model out of branches

PETER: Yep

MICHAEL: and then a full size-

PETER: A full scale one to one out of logs

PRESENTER: This is a wonderful debate if you’ve just joined us. We were sort of discussing earlier that a branch is attached to a tree. Sticks are generally not attached onto the tree-

PETER: On the ground.

PRESENTER: Yeh they’re on the ground. If we can push that further and just sort of see where this takes us, what point does a log become a tree?

MICHAEL: When it is still stuck in the ground with stuff growing out of it.

PETER: I’ll just stop you there, um I would argue that life, life that’s when a log is a tree.

PRESENTER: I’m not completely sure I understand.

MICHAEL: What he’s trying to say is when its stuck in the ground with things growing out of it.

PETER: A tree is alive.

PRESENTER: A tree is alive, okay well I mean that’s..

Matt: Log, no.

PRESENTER: A log, okay. You’ve been listening to talkies on K9FM. I think we really pruned our way to the heart of the issue there.

MICHAEL: (LAUGHS) Let's go easy there.

PRESENTER: You know

MICHAEL: That’s great

PRESENTER: Coming up next week we’ll be in discussion with Quantum physicist Alfred Knox, and senior store manager of Jim's Sporting Goods, Simon Partridge, in discussion-

MUSIC: FUR ELISE

PRESENTER: of where is the ball really? Thank you for joining us on Pedigree K9FM, this has been Talkies.
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