A night of wild weather (11 July 2025)

Tonight Marcus takes updates on flooding and wild weather across parts of the country.  He also talks aging truck drivers, nude ad complaints and hops.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from News Talks, i'd.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be you see and welcome. It's seven past eight. Hope
you got My name is Marcus ed l twelve o'clock tonight. Obviously,
every wet day in parts of New Zealand and continuing
to get wet. It's always hard this time of the night,
when it's dark to know what's going on. So the
lines are open. If you've got updates from where you are,

(00:31):
it's all interesting to me because we don't really know
what's going on. Most of the reporters have kind of
tapped so far tonight. So if you are driving and
I think the areas affected our Northland, Auckland moving down
the country and also Tasman and around Tarcica rewaka those

(00:57):
sorts of places, if you've got some progress reports, it
would be of interest to me text them through or
phone them through, because as we know from the Anniversary
Day floods that had Auckland several years ago and well
and then the subsequent floods that hit Hawks Bay, I
think there are two subsequent weekends that yet it happened

(01:20):
very very quickly and people wouldn't have been aware of
what was happening. Lest people are ringing, we're ringing the
radio because it seems to be what people were doing.
So if you've got some information for us, phone it
through back at you. If I've got information for you,
I will throw it your way because I a ware
that a large number of a large part of the

(01:41):
Tasman is without power. And also Tartica appears to be.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I think we've told for people to go to higher ground.
I've just been looking at the maps of Tarcica. I'm
not sure if it floods from the river or from
the sea or from a bit of both. I know
there are histories there of flooding, so you might have
a background or there for me. Also Corrimandal, the mandal's
getting hammered apparently, but the biggest it's already getting hammered

(02:17):
in the Mandal, but the biggest rain will be later
this evening. And also for the Tasman there was more
heavy rain possible after ten pm. Highways are closed to Christchurch,
Echiroa closed fallen trees so they're coppying it again. Banks
plincher Our Banks is under orange with strong wind warnings

(02:38):
little early tomorrow morning with severe gale northeasterlies. It appears
to me this is not a drill. So yeah, there's
been twenty weather related callouts in the Nelson Tasman area
assisting with evacuations and rescuing people from vehicles caught and
rising floodwaters. That must be terrifying. Cruiser Assistant currently in

(02:59):
ten events. So you want to go to Nelson Tasman's
Civil Defense if you've got power. They're also telling people
to conserve water so water supplies will run out. And
a reworker and k Teddy Teddy, and the power was

(03:20):
shut down at Tupperwater, so they come from well haven't
they got a Jenny? Why haven'ty got a generator?

Speaker 4 (03:24):
There?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Sort it out anyway. There are people sheltering in the
community hall and reworker, well, you don't even know. Harmony
might be singing entertaining you. There we go. I hope
he's all right as well. So get in touch. You've
got the updates for us. There. That's a situation. And
so I'm looking for situation in the north and in Auckland.
I see there's people on PIHA on their Facebook pages

(03:48):
saying that houses are flooding and things like that. So
have you've got some updates, Let us know what's going on,
because the only way we're going to know is if
you know something. I think there's a restaurant in Kai Teddy, Teddy,
everyone's stuck there. It's called the bleak Beached Whale. Is
it a good name for a restaurant?

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Though?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
The beached Whale? I didn't know about that. I thought
that was making light of something quite seiously anyway. But
there is a map of Tarcica that looks like it's flooded.
I think that's a prediction. I can't quite work out
if it floods from the sea or from the river.
You all know. I've got every website up though, so
I'm doing rolling coverage for you people. But hopefully that's

(04:23):
not what I'm going to do all night. I've had
some emails they say that the Bay of Plenty is
going to get hammered later on about ten o'clock tonight.
That's not looking good there, So Bay of Plenty high
probability of flooding tonight high tides at eight pm. It's
a place to look out for as well. So if
you're Johnny on the Spoir or Karen on the corner.
Let us know what's happening there with the flooding. It
would be of interest to me and certainly to our listairs.

(04:45):
If you are driving, I've got updates, let us know.
Although people do tell you to stay inside, I'll tell
you what. One of those text alerts went out to Tarcica,
so that's pretty serious. They're banging those out anyway. If
you got something to say, let us know. Trees are
falling across Nelson, Trees falling across Nelson. They're telling people

(05:13):
to stay inside. Harvey Norman and Nelson that's had the
roof blown off it almost there's shots of that with
Fime and there. They're probably gonna wait it down. What
would you use sandbags? Probably, but the need to conserve
water and tasmand is urgent. By the way, there's water
in the dams for Auckland then dam and Hueya that's

(05:36):
flowing over. That's that's that's full full noise there. So anyway,
that's the situation I'm looking into tonight. If you've got
updates on the weather, lets No. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine to nine to de text and then
we'll get onto the matters at hand, But it'd be
good to get some updates anyway for you from you
with you a thirteen past eight here Tel twelve. Keep
those texts coming through also. Tonight just seems to be wet, wet, wet,

(06:01):
and Nelson preciousest amount to precious is amount of preciousness.
Not quite sure you're supposed to conserve water. They work consumed.
Someone was calling out for help on a ham radio
which sounds old school on Channel sixteen. They couldn't get
back to her. So have you got some information for us?
Let us know what's happening. I just want to be

(06:24):
the conduit of you for information and vice of verse.
If you've got information for for us, also let us
know what that information is. So get it through to us,
as I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine to text. It's always hard to know when you
are in my position, to know whether it's past the
worst or about to happen. But I think probably the

(06:45):
best course of advice for me is just to always
probably fear that it's as bad as people are saying.
So yeah, we'll keep an eye on it. So you
get in touch. You're Holly, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
Hello, how are you Marcus?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Good? Thanks? Holly? Where are you? Where are you? Holly?

Speaker 6 (07:04):
So I'm in Lachuaka, yep. Yeah, And it's a lot
of rain here. We've had quite a bit of flooding
on the street outside our house. Sure, but yeah, it's
we've got no power. We're sitting in the dark listening
to old transistor radio, listening to your show is the Handle?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Is there anything you need from me? Holly? Do you
know when the power is coming back on or do
you want me to look into that?

Speaker 6 (07:30):
I think they've said tomorrow hopefully when they can get
the get the guys out there working on the road,
on the on the power lines.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
We've got no water here too, which is a bit.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
So you turn on the tips and there's nothing there,
is that right?

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (07:46):
But we're we're connected to like a bore the door system,
so our pumps not no power.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's electric as well.

Speaker 8 (07:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, we didn't start raining. It's rained from about midday,
has it.

Speaker 7 (07:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (07:59):
It started midday quite heavily and it's been raining since then.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And it's still raining heavily.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
It's actually sort of eased off of it now, but yeah,
quite windy one of our trees is actually sort of
snapped in half in our backyard.

Speaker 9 (08:16):
Wy doesn't quite windy.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Does it flood often there? Or is this a rare
thing to happen? And where does it flood from? Does
it come down from the river?

Speaker 6 (08:25):
It doesn't normally flood this bad. It's sort of yeah,
the at the moment, it's just surface flooding because it's
so the ground's so wet. Yeah, but the Mochwaka Valley,
the river floods that area. Yes, it's from the rivers
and streams.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
So have you got you see the streets of flooding?
Have you got reports in your town that people have
been flooded from their houses or does that not seem
to be the situation today?

Speaker 6 (08:52):
So in Mochuwaka, Yeah, there are houses that have flooded.
There's sort of high street where they don't the drains
aren't very good and it sort of goes into their property.
So some of them have been flooded. But and I think, yeah,
re will the.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mochoreka Valley Free Walk is not far north from you guys,
is it. It's only like five k's nor just sort
of around the court. State High is sixty isn't it.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yeah, just around the corner. But they've got the Rewalker
River there and a few other streams. It's sort of
floods so yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, And I mentioned because because they're saying because it
is to the ground so wet, the rivers have come
up much quicker than they have before. It's happened for
every quickly today.

Speaker 8 (09:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:37):
Yeah, it's not as bad as the last was it?
Last week?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
There was it flood It's not the river, it seems
the whole time. But they could get us high though,
couldn't they If they're actually if it's so sodden, I
presume they'll get higher quicker.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, I think it is rising quite fast, but
hopefully it doesn't get as high as the other week.

Speaker 10 (09:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
If you've got batteries for your trend.

Speaker 11 (09:57):
Sister, we have.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Yeah, we've got heaps of batteries.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
And you remember it the fire dying.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
I feel sorry for people that have a.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Heat pump that that is the worst thing in the world,
is a heat pulp with no fire, because your stuff
fishing like that, it's just straight into the dinner. You remember,
you remember to extinguish the candles before you get a beard.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Yes, yes, I'm I'm a bit paranoid about that.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I always worry about that. The people think, oh
it's a power cup to check the candles on, they
fall asleep and that's it. So yeah, okay, oh you
sound like.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
They're all scented ones. So the house smells really good
right now?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Not vanilla though, I hate that smell. Is it vanilla?

Speaker 12 (10:36):
We've got some peer great pears beautiful.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah god, yeah, okay, but they're probably not candles you
meant for. They're probably more sort of etmos candles, not
for an occasion like this. Is that right?

Speaker 13 (10:47):
Nice?

Speaker 6 (10:47):
They're not really giving a lot of light, but quite romantic.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Something to get next time. Next time, fear is to
get some basic candles. So don't burn your good ones.
But nice to hear from your Holly. Thank you for
your update eighteen past eight. If you've got so, I'll
get to the text if you've got updates. Setters, there
was a good scene setter from Holly. Wow, you could
have asked for more. The fire going, the pear candles out.
It's a nice smear, that smell the pear um Is

(11:16):
this call? A ruraler on town? Don't know? Power out
at Mangy Toro As South Road. Later he been out
for thirty minutes. Marcus had sixty three mills today, just
south of the brin Duwins pass through now, Sue Tom says,
so far great barrier is good, apart from the wind.
That's from Tom. Hey, Marcus, Indianac. You're having messive rain

(11:39):
all day. John and powers out West Mountain, West Melton,
christ Church, Marcus wild night here and Tasman Strong, Whin's Richmond,
flooding everywhere, no power all over the place. Too windy
for electricity staff to go and fix the power till morning.
I hope people take care Sharky. It's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (11:58):
Good evening, you get a Marcus. I don't know if
you knows, but uh, stay highway over the Comi Whill
by the McLaren's falls that closed due to a serious
exciden so you can't get that way to keep the
tower and time on the highway too. I've just come

(12:20):
through Natia getting his kitting towards Trona. Uh and so
there's a lot more traffic on the road this way
because of the clime ight being closed. But there's a
lot of idiots out there the like taking men.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
There's a surprise.

Speaker 14 (12:37):
Yeah, yeah, I just you know, please, people don't drive
like idiots. I'm driving a fifty tone block of happiness,
and if you hit my fifty tone blocker happiness, I'm
the one who's going to have to tell the story later.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, well, won't be your fault. Thought least that you
go to be sleep happily that night knowing it's not
your fault. What time was it? What time was the
christ Highway twenty nine? Sharky?

Speaker 15 (13:02):
What's that? Sorry?

Speaker 2 (13:03):
What time was twenty nine? Highway? Closed?

Speaker 14 (13:07):
They closed and around about suck thirty Okay, yeah, it's
going to be closed for a while because it was
quite a serious equiment. There was a car business truck.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Okay, will that be whether we suppose we can't speak late.
But the weather is bad in that part of the country.

Speaker 16 (13:22):
Is that right?

Speaker 14 (13:22):
It's raining, yeah, windy, gaily, Yeah, just like anywhere else
really going on at.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
The moment, shaky. What sort of cars are the idiots driving?
And they're like Soubi's or something?

Speaker 4 (13:38):
What are they?

Speaker 2 (13:39):
What's it like families driving like that? Cases or what?

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (13:43):
Just yeah, it's all sorts. Actually, it's quite you know,
I don't know whether it's people just in a hurry
to well, because I'm in this fain, they always try
to overtake me or get past me, and so I
try to, you know, be as giving as I can.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yes, but.

Speaker 14 (14:01):
Yeah, it's just yeah, there's just people taking silly rescues.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, any risk silly. I suppose on a wetnight when
you're driving, they can't get any truck drivers. The everage
age is five years older. Good job, good career, sharky.

Speaker 14 (14:17):
Long hours, long hours, Marcus, it's you'll, you know, at
the moment I'm on, I'm doing my full ship any
hours a week at the moment.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Is that because you need the dough ray meal because
they can't get anyone else?

Speaker 14 (14:33):
Well, because they're shorter drivers. Yeah, because you know, I
want to have the nice things and nice but I've
got to work very hard to get them.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
And from where I'm sitting just listening to listening to
truck drivers over the years, I find that people enjoy
the job, but what they enjoy most is ringing me
up and telling me how bad the drivers are.

Speaker 14 (14:58):
Oh, I bet, I mean.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
It's great.

Speaker 14 (15:02):
It is a great it's a great tight style. You've
got to have a passion to do this. If you
don't have the passion for this, you shouldn't be behind
the wheel of a of a of a truck and.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Trailer or a big You have to have patience, wouldn't you. Okay,
So if you've just gone through the you know, gorge, have.

Speaker 14 (15:17):
You No, I'm just getting to Piroa and then I'll
be going through the gorge between Piroh and y the
kareng Haki.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh you copy that? Yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (15:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (15:34):
So drive safe everyone.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Okay, appreciate that, sharky thank you. Yeah, thanks for the
text of that alluded us. There's another bad extent tonight
on the roads too, which will affect you. Of course,
that's not the major thing that's affects you. The major
thing is that someone has died. Police can confirm one
person has died in a crash involving a car and

(15:58):
a truck on State Highway one near Tito today, a
Webster Road and State Highway five between there about four pm.
The road remains closed and diversions are in place, so
we've got two major rexents. I don't know if the
weather orlated, but it is a wet down the Road
one and Tito one on State Hiway twenty nine near

(16:19):
ber Clarin Falls across the kaimis so not a good
night to be driving. And the weather as predicted. The
weather system has really affected the Tasman area Nelson and
right round to Tarcica. Of course they've had about three
weeks of atrocious weather, so the ground is wet, so

(16:42):
the rain's got nowhere to go at cant soken, so
the rivers come up quicker, so it's not looking good. Marcus,
absolutely die situation Tasman. I have discovered why I drink.
It's so I can have a candle holder when the
power is out. Extremely good point. Unfortunately, can't post a

(17:03):
pick of the wine bottles or the candle holders, because
you can do the thing where you just dripped some
wax on the table and put the candle there. But
it's not as satisfying, is it as watching the wax
drip down the bottle looking like you're in a homely
Italian restaurant. Anyway, Marcus, now is the time to travel Auckland, Hamilton,
the Waka to expressways nice and clear, wit but no

(17:23):
traffic just derived from Melbourne traveling to Todonga. Whither is awful,
very hard rain rows. Hope you had a good time
in Melbourne, brilliant. Oh they'd be bad. You fly back
to Aalkland. You've got that three hour drive through the tempest.
Do we call it a tempest? You know there was

(17:44):
a while they gave weather system's names like the tasmand tempest.
They've called this nothing. Now we're getting so many weather
systems we have been coming up with names for them,
which is not good. It's eighteen to nine. My name
is Marcus Hddle twelve.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Where are you?

Speaker 2 (17:59):
The eels are coming to attack as well. Taka Command
Allen mcgavey is barricading his doors with rice sex as
floodwaters surround his home and see mobile alert has been
issued for Dharkka, with people advice to seek higher ground
if they feel unsafe safe. He said the water was
about ten centimes away from entering his home. With more
rain falling. He said, a large eel swam over the
lawn while he checked the water levels. It's like the

(18:23):
end of time, I suld. I suppose that's not helpful
for me to say things like that, but it feels
like it doesn't it. I haven't quite sure worked out.
I mean, look at in the warning and the map
of Darkka, they do show where the flooding's up to.
Does it come from the river or the sea? Must
be the river. I guess it seems a vulnerable place
for a settlement, doesn't it. At least they weren't thinking

(18:43):
about that with it, because it was there a while
back that they had situation that the with the dairy
company that to get all the milker was that a
flood or was that a fire and all the all
the milk tags had to go right over to Canterbury
to get the milk process? Remember that a couple of
years back? Was that was that the road that was broken?
I think the road was washed out, wasn't there? That's
that a faery going around to deliver good to remember that.

(19:06):
So it does seem to be vulnerable. If it's not
the flooding, it's the road that gets watched out, washed
washed out. Hey, get in touch by name's Marcus. Welcome.
I've learned a word tonight, Bob Tailing brilliant. But yeah,
if he's a truckie and he's a professional low he's
getting blown all over the show. Marcus fatal Exitt and

(19:30):
hornby chrost Dutes tonight conditions terrible. Wow. So that's three
fatals and a near fatal tonight so tel Tiquity and
Canterbury and one that could be well be a fatal
with the serious cresh investigating on the State Hiway twenty
nine over the Kami. So yeah, terrible night on the road.

(19:51):
Stay clear. So welcome to all our new listers, all
those people with the transistors and nothing else to do.
In the Nelson Tasman area, there's thirteen thousand people, well
thirteen thousand homes, so it could triple that couldn't. And
it's been an absolutely terrible night on the roads. And

(20:11):
I'm not saying that to exist. You know, there's been
three or four fatals tonight already. So yeah, so a
dreadful night on the road. So just be really really careful.
And I spoke to Sharky earlier. Sharky is a professional driver.
Thank you for your service, Sharky, and he's said it's

(20:34):
terrible people are overtaking because they're stuck behind trucks and
doing all sorts of terrible maneuvers and thirteen thousand network
tears when customers are without power. I pursue what it says,
thirteen thousand customers. That means thittingen thousand houses, doesn't it.
They don't quite how many people are in each house.
So Golden Bay not to work. At Tupplewadow and the
Wymere planes, they are all affected. They're not gonna You're

(20:55):
not gonna get your power back tonight because they're not
seeing the people out the linesman, the lines people because
it's too skitchy. I don't do that much anymore, do they.
I'm always impressed with them. Bluff and bluff. We lose
power all the time because it blows an absolute gale

(21:18):
and then they get salt on the wires and they
are can explode. But yeah, they always send the people out.
They're always up there in howling gales. We must have
some free robust ones. But anyway, it's all the time,
and there's people finding eels on lawns, and the mandal's
getting threshed at the moment of the corimandel. And also

(21:42):
Akada is closed off because of falling trees. You can't
get beyond little River. So very busy night for the
fire service. Also, and the rework of Grandmother she's among
those sheltering the community hall tonight. She packed some precious

(22:02):
home videos. I will someone should upscale those for an't
they They should be ont a us B stick And
she moved her valuables to higher shelves. My husband's in
a wheel chair, is not well. I thought it was
safe to get out while we could get the cat,
and away we go. I called the fiberger. They helped
to put them in the truck and put his wheelchair
in the back six inches around the house. And she

(22:23):
expect at least the garage will be inundated. Her daughter
was stranded on a farm to the south where shed
trees have been falling like bowling pins. Wow, it's a
good analogy. And apparently in Tarcica the floodwaters are rising
free fast and no power there also, and the Tasman

(22:46):
mayor Tim King's calling it a worst case scenario. It's
a bit of a lock and to it, the old
beached whale restaurant there without water and without power, but
they've got a generator and the people can't get home.
They're trapped.

Speaker 17 (23:05):
So go f.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
I'll do, madame, just to keep me entertained tonight though, Oh,
they've at a league tonight, so I'll watch that later on.
They're still whining about New South Wales, aren't they, Boy
or boy they've been dumping on that team cheap as anyway, Now,
get in touch if you want to talk before the
before the news, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and

(23:30):
nine two nine to text. If you want to talk afterwards,
feel free take it Dallas at your leisure with breaking
news or whatever you've got as far as what's happening
around the world tonight, but particularly in New Zealand. Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
to to text. Hitdle twelve there's something else you want

(23:54):
to talk about, Feel free, as I say, that's what
we're on about. But yeah, if there's any breaking news,
I'll bring that to you. But yeah, dreadful night on
the roads. I don't think the headlines have really kind
of got the but this SEMs to be at least
three fatal crashes and perhaps a fourth fatal crash, so
it seems as though it's a shocking night for traffic.

(24:15):
So you be aware conditions aren't goo Because it's not
a holiday weekend, there shouldn't be that much traffic on
the road. But yeah, she's shocking, So yes, get in
touch if you want to talk. My name is Marcus
Hreill twelve. Are we ready to talk about? Who's going
to the national anthem at the Rugby and Wellington? I
think it's Ainsy Allen's territory. Isn't it.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Home?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Advantage for her shift to be the easy call up,
wouldn't she anyway? Just rainly tonight we are keeping people
up to date with the weather. If there's other information
that you've got as well, it would be of interest
to me. And if there's something you want to talk about,
feel free. The weather is not exclusive, but get in touch.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine to detext if you want to come and contribute
to the show tonight. But yeah, it looks like it's

(24:56):
pretty sketchy. But the roads have been shocking, as you've
probably heard. I think three people killed already today on
our roads. Yeah, seems as though the situation with the
power and Tasman been so bad. Has money to do

(25:18):
with trees coming down, which I imagine is to do
with very strong winds. So if you've got some information
on to contribute eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine to nine to detext. We're now having reports about
there's been rock falls on the Corimandal Roads. Mercury Bay
residents should take care because rocks have fallen on the

(25:44):
Blackjack Road tonight. So there we go. Yeah, that's where
that Irpeedo Bay. Yeah, those sorts of places you won't
be getting to. Oh unless you're I won't say that.
Actually this you've got a helicopter, Aaron, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (26:02):
Oh good even Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
I just wanted to offer my condolences for those up
in the Testament district because goodness, gracious, mate, they have
had the worst of it, haven't they.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
And the thing is, Eric, we're about to see you.

Speaker 12 (26:23):
I'm in the selling huts and I haven't fish.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
I'm about to say right.

Speaker 12 (26:29):
Oh sorry, mate, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Because the tesman Nelson area boyo boarded. They always over
celebrate how good their weather was well, and suddenly something
in the last two or three years it's just rained
and rained and rained the Sunshine capitals I know.

Speaker 12 (26:46):
But yeah, well just as late, I mean a sense
to be terrible. They have just been attacked, well, not attacked,
but they've just been well, all this stuff happened to them,
and we had those awful folks in Canterbury, as you know, happened.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Because you too, didn't you.

Speaker 12 (27:06):
Well, I remember going up into the top of the
stop bank. Yeah, and the stop banks yeah, fifteen meters
high and it got within one and a half meters
at the top of the stop bank.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Did you have sandbags? Did you have sand bags?

Speaker 4 (27:22):
No?

Speaker 12 (27:22):
No, because we knew the stop bank would hold. There's
no point having sandbags there because if the stop bank
did burst then you just get immediately flooded. There's sand
bags would have done a thing. But I'm just walking
up to say I feel terribly sorry for those people
up there. And are they put in all those deaths
on the road up there. I mean, that's just awful.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Are you guys getting evicted erin?

Speaker 12 (27:47):
Well, I'm not. I'm one of the few that do
have a property just outside of the cell and hearts,
so I've got my own land. But it's it's it's
it's well, it's difficult to say. Most of the people
in there. The council's kind of taking it by a
case the case basis the green Bark huts have already gone.
But yeah, I don't really want to get into that.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
No, because last week we talked about this about a
year ago. It was quite a hot topic. We're the
green Park huts today, far from the seven Huts.

Speaker 12 (28:16):
About fourt in k Bar roads copy that. Okay, yeah,
but I just want to send my condolences to everyone
and Nelson and a Testament district because it must be horrible. Goodness,
gracious me, how many times can you go through this
and how much ground can know? How much grank and
the water.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
Exactly how much water? How much water can the ground
actually hold? Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 12 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, we get it here. We had the rain
today and the roses flood immediately.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Gee is it raining there now in the Testament and
the seven Huts?

Speaker 12 (28:49):
Yeah, there's raining and the winds very strong. But we're okay.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Have you been to check the weather?

Speaker 13 (28:55):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (28:55):
I have.

Speaker 12 (28:56):
I always thought it.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Okay, nice to talk to you, Erin. I enjoyed all
those plantings, those native plantings. Boys looking good. Marcus Mott
River at Woodstock flying fifteen seventy q MIxS eight forty
five and rising two weeks ago. It peaked at nineteen
ninety eight. I haven't heard from Taps yet. Tupper Winner Marcus.
When it's dart with flooding, maybe trees or branches down

(29:19):
the road. And it's great to be following a truck.
They have better lights than a car, and the drivers
that's higher up, giving him a bit of view on
the road. He head, he can see and react to
the conditions head better than a car driver. I'd rather
follow a truck on a night like tonight. They're also consistent.
Drivers don't accelerate and break all the time. Best wishes
toward the truck drivers well because they're old and sensible.
They're all about sixty five. No one young wants to

(29:41):
drive trucks. You know why. I don't know why. Imagine
it's because people don't see it as a lifetime career,
because they think there's going to be robot drivers before long.
And though there's no sign of them. I think because
they kept driving over people. Elon's driving cars. They couldn't

(30:01):
tell a baby from a Yeah, it wasn't good, so
you might want to talk about that. Also hered on midnight.
My name is Marcus. Welcome Marcus, check out hotel and
not to wake up. They've been amazing at supporting our community.
Our local business has been amazing at supporting. No mention
of how the supermarket is team up to the plate though.
I'll be just busy charging twenty bucks of a kilo
for butter. I see that Nicola Willis is having a

(30:24):
meeting with the boss of Finterra about the price of butter.
She happened two years ago, bucketing down in Toport Lake,
very full rebeca. What I don't find interesting is people
that text me about a place where there is no rain,

(30:46):
very calm, no rain or wind in Parmester North. I
hope you get it because that's a smug text. Marcus.
There are some real and it's a word I don't use.
R E T A r D. Marcus, there are some
real R E T A r D drivers on our
just home from Willington driving up Highway One, the amount

(31:10):
of vehicles today's conditions without lights on was ridiculous. What's
a bitter word they could have used? There are some
real poor drivers. What's another word for poor drivers?

Speaker 15 (31:21):
Up?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
The R word? Yeah, we've got a good language. I mean,
it's an effective word, but it's an offensive word, isn't
it the update from the Met Service. It's just through
now coming just on its way. The worst of the
rain is starting to ease, says John law he is,
the Met Service meteorologist. Tasman has no longer run a

(31:42):
red wayne warning, while warning for Norseland and Auckn have lapsed.
A bit of the rain easing on the western side
of the tazzy region. Still some rain to clear though,
but looking like the heaviest is already starting to pull away.
The strong wind should ease the next few hours. We're

(32:02):
not entirely out of the woodshet. We're still going to
find some showers running through that region. Particularly we head
towards tomorrow afternoon, the heavis will be a little bit
further down towards the west coast. Compared with the weather day,
it would be much better day for the woodlog region,
which would give some respite for recovery efforts. North and
Arkland also see the rain eases. The whole weather system

(32:24):
moved off towards the east. It's been a wet story.
Places like Kitty Kitty as much as seventy mils of
raided the last twenty four hours, but things are slowly
getting better. They have plenties in for a wet night
and current warnings and watchers would remain in places or
the early out of Sunday morning, Saturday morning, make that
fifteen past nine. Getting touched you on a talk. It's

(32:45):
the weather of anything else you want to talk about tonight.
I've mentioned truck drivers. They can't get them. They're elderly
and they're gonna retire no rain or wind and lower hut.
Hope you get it. Good weather brag anyway. Oh, by
the way, I don't normally mention this because it attracts

(33:07):
the crazies, but I watched a really interesting video today
on the so called Kaimanawa Wall, which people have misinterpreted
for generations, normally to fulfill some sort of racist, racist

(33:34):
agenda that Celtics had settled New Zealand or whatever. But anyway,
so it's an extremely informative video. You go look for it.
I've got a screenshot of what it's called, and it's
a guy who is a runs a YouTube channel looking
at the geology of New Zealand, and I've taken it.

(34:03):
I've taken a shot of it, but the shot of
it I'll have to take take another screen sh of
it because it's not clear. So the guy goes, I'll
bring it up on Facebook. The guy goes and with
an archaeologist and he's an archaeologist who I've got books

(34:24):
of who's very respected. I think his name is Hayward,
Bruce Haywood. And he goes and they spend about fifteen
minutes fostering around the kaimuna a wall to walk out
to work out what's caused it. And it's a fascinating video.

(34:45):
I'm just trying to bring it up something to tell
you what it's called. Anyway, they go and look at this,
and they spend some hours looking at it, and lo
and behold, I'm just googling on it, clicking on it
now to tell you what this thick damn thing is called.
Now I've got an air it's called chimunoal War Mystery Solve.

(35:06):
But I can't work out the name of the guy's
YouTube channel out the learning is the guy's YouTube channel
out their learning. So go look at the car onto
a wall with the Bruce Haywood who is the geologist,
and he arrives. He says, looks like it's man made,

(35:27):
and they spend some time fifteen or twenty minutes studying it,
and what transpires, quite clearly and without doubt, is that
as the road has gone through past that wall, they
have quarried the front part of the wall, probably for
a local sawmill or something. So it's just a natural
occurring slip of some sort of rock that has been

(35:50):
worked recently in the last fifty hundred years to take
away the big blocks for quarrying. And that's the reason
it looks kind of man made. Has been often quoted
and misquoted by people. So there we go. I told
you what it's called. Out there learning come onto a wall.
Mystery solved. It's a bit of science. Still looking for

(36:11):
weather updates. If you've got any, fine it Thri'll get
you straight to wear eight hundred and eighty today eighty
power cut. Those are the tests. When you're out, you're
out till tomorrow. By the sounds of things, Colin Marcus,
update for us, please, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (36:24):
So I'll just fo my run caamorary walkling back to
teraminary and a B double. It was okay, but nari
here and there. But you know, you're just adjust you're
driving to suit the conditions.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Not for amates though.

Speaker 15 (36:38):
Was it.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Not for amates though?

Speaker 14 (36:41):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (36:42):
Ah?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Probably not.

Speaker 18 (36:43):
I mean, you know, there was a few nervous drivers
out there that were going very very slowly, and that
was fine. They got out of the road, so I
didn't have any issues. I was at that accident at
tik Woody today. I was about to said truck back
once to got rid of the cars turning around, but
they obviously couldn't turn us around.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
You're cutting.

Speaker 18 (37:01):
Really nasty. Nothing to do with the weather. The boat
being towed by a car, the drawbar between the just
after the toba as she completely snapped and the boat
shot across the road and clicked it and trucked and
it's a carrom the other way to poor beggars.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
The front of the.

Speaker 18 (37:22):
They wouldn't have had it, wouldn't have had a show.

Speaker 15 (37:24):
It was terrible, terrible.

Speaker 18 (37:26):
I felt sorry for the cops and the ambos and
fimon and that sort of stuff that.

Speaker 15 (37:30):
Are there looking after that.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Why would that have happened?

Speaker 18 (37:35):
I suppose just fatigue. It was a biger boat, so
probably a sea going one, so you know, maybe a
bit of russ but I've bet thes Some questions asked
about the.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Beause trailers and trailers for boats to get how would
they check for warrants with that metal fatigue and things.

Speaker 18 (37:51):
Well, you know that's all part of the checks and
that there's any stress or anything like that. But what
I rang for was you were saying earlier on about
you know that the rigin was so short of drivers.
I mean, I'm seventy one, I've been driving fifty years.
I still drive. I work in Australia. I'm backing at
the moment. I just had to come back to medical
stuff and I'm doing a few trips here and there.

(38:14):
But if you look at the trucks these days when
they're going down the road, is anyone in the passenger seat?

Speaker 5 (38:19):
No, they're not.

Speaker 18 (38:21):
And that's because the kids aren't allowed to go with
dad anymore. And you know, once Health and Safety got
their AWA and the bloody into it and the company's
got threatened with it and into their life that they
allowed the kids and the cabs and that sort of stuff,
suddenly the kids aren't following dad into the industry. I mean,
you know, two of them I've always become trappers. I've
got a grandson who's into tractors and his sister. She's

(38:45):
the same, she's sixteen, and they're both off to Australia
north of Frannis. They've got jobs jacked up for the
for the croper.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
It's a good point. It's a good point you make, actually,
isn't it that that's what people want to do, they
get that experience in there.

Speaker 12 (38:58):
Yeah, it's it's a.

Speaker 18 (38:59):
Shame, you know. It's because you know, kids don't follow
mom and dad into the into the workplace anymore because
of some damn health and safety policy. I mean the
health and safety. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti
that side, but it just goes too far, you know,
and it stops this sort of stuff, and it's frustrates
a little stay out.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
The reasons? Is that the what is the reasons you
can't take your kids to work on your truck? Is
that what they say?

Speaker 18 (39:24):
Oh, they're saying shirts they say health and safety, it's
too dangerous and blah blah blah. I mean, you know,
we're not allowed anyonere near our truck's been the loads
and now we've got to sit down cams and can't
watch the guys load our trucks anymore. It depends, of course,
where you are, but in a lot of the big companies.
But you know, it's just frustrating. We used to take
people along to our rights, you know, to in the trucks.

(39:46):
You know, they were interested, they want to become a
truck and you explain to them when it's not that easy.
You've got to get your licensers and they've graduated. You know,
you've got to learn how to do all the stuff
and saye stare and driving and you take people along,
but you're not allowed to the stuff.

Speaker 9 (40:02):
You know.

Speaker 18 (40:03):
It's just how are you going to give you people
into the industry if we're not about to introduce people
into the industry. And they'll come up and I'll say, oh,
we've got the skin game. We've got that skin going.
It's a waste of time.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
You know.

Speaker 18 (40:16):
People need to be able to rock up to a
yard and say, I really want to be a truck driver.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Can you show me what I have to do?

Speaker 18 (40:21):
And tell me out with a few truckies and they
can give me a few tips. You know, we're relying
solely on important drivers and you know a lot of
them don't qualify. I think there are some very good
immigrant drivers don't get me wrong, But there's a hell
or a lot that aren't as well.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Are you what are're saying? Are you saying they haven't
got their truck license or they have.

Speaker 18 (40:45):
Some of them have got their licenses dubiously in Australia,
there's a lot of companies over there won't even rock
and I'm sorry to mention that in the country, but
if you're Indians, they just won't look at you. They
had some real problems with some dodgy stuff going on
from India. And don't get me wrong, I'll come across
some really calling their drivers. You know, I've had a

(41:05):
couple of words to me when I owned my own
trucks and they were absolutely excellent guys. But unfortunately a
few of them are letting the rest team down. But
you know, it's it's just it's impossible to get the
young ones unless special kids, you know, got special parents
who you know, ride into their trucks and they're sort
of stuff there. Some are, but you know, to have

(41:28):
someone come along and for a ride on or riding
wrong and see what the industry is all about. And
I mean the trucks out there in the days. If
I want to see the trucks I started working on.
I've got to go to the museum down and and.

Speaker 15 (41:40):
The it's a revival of trucks.

Speaker 19 (41:44):
I mean, the trucks like the.

Speaker 18 (41:45):
Scannier of driving tonight and it's just like driving a lemon.
You know, Yes, you've got to know what you're doing
with the damn things. And you know you've still got
a couple of trailers behind you, and you've got to
see a bit of wait, and the roads is slippery
and some pieces.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
But you know, Colin, what do you mean when you
say the drivers here have got their license? And the
dubious means.

Speaker 18 (42:09):
The licensing some of the I was an assessor for
a while, so I had I had a chap called
me from Auckland once and he wanted to put I
think he had seen guys he wanted to go through
for the Class five license, and he was trying to

(42:30):
basically get me to put them through for the class
five license in a couple of days. And you know,
I didn't know about backing and the sort of stuff
and you name your price and I'll pay you cash
and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I mean, so, did you have the ability to hand
out licenses NSSA. Yeah, okay, surprising to hear that coliment.
Thank you, Diet's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 8 (42:57):
Oh hi Marcus. Look, I just had to ring up
about the ad for the Lot of the Skier. Yes, seriously,
I think it's the best ad right. You know, there
are so many things that are really really awful going
on around the world, in all the weather, all the
people's pain that they're going through at the moment. You know,
when that ad came on, it just made me crack

(43:21):
up because I used to love skiing. I loved skiing,
and but older and I damaged my ankle so I
can't anymore. But you know, when you've been a skier
and the expressions on the people's faces when they're watching them,
it just brings back so many fantastic memories. Yeah, the

(43:44):
fun we used to have on the mountain as a
group of friends, and the things you do and just
set feeling of freedom flying down that mountain.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm kind of quite excited that people still watch commercials.
What would you be watching to see a commercial?

Speaker 19 (44:00):
Well, I don't have anything other than free of you okay.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
And you can't work okay, and you don't watch it.
You don't. You don't what you watch it live? You
don't time to shift it.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
No, I watched programmed Sliver or have you know?

Speaker 2 (44:16):
I like those? I like those senior funerals insurance as
either ones I enjoy either got a new one now
with the Grandma and the Dragon. Have you seen that?

Speaker 11 (44:25):
No, that's a bit.

Speaker 8 (44:26):
I'm sick of those ones. But I'll tell you what
the other ed that I think is quite good. The
a in z when they're dancing around, you know, we
need ad set, make us smile, wow, get us engaged?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Can you hum the tune?

Speaker 5 (44:44):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (44:44):
Very funny, Marc.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
People love that. Someone rang up and said how good
the music was.

Speaker 8 (44:51):
Oh look it's just some music and they're having fun.
They're dancing.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
You know we need that.

Speaker 8 (44:58):
Hey, look you have a great lie.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
They hang on. I wonder who would complain because it's
pretty out there ages. It would be pretty out there
to think there'd still be someone you could complain too
that would answer the phone.

Speaker 8 (45:09):
If we've got that many stuff shoots still here in
New Zealand? Is it any wonder? A lot of people
are leaving.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Exactly you want? Not what happening when they get on
the Internet and see what's on there.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
Over in Europe and an Australia naked out.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
They're all naked the whole time. That's it wandering around.

Speaker 8 (45:29):
Well, you know, there's a little year. There's a different attitude.
It's more embracing, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
That's what we want. I just like the fact that.
But I like about the add is that the port
Wakaddo shop that looks so beautiful looking across the river
at the forest on the other side. Marcus Tupwear was
famous for its raspberry pickers back in the day and
tobacco workers. These people bought a much needed genetic diversity
into the community. It was a great fun time. And yes,

(46:00):
back in the eighties the Woodsman Forest Development Program provided
Tupwear with So that's right. One of my neighbors all
gare if he used to work there, always going about
tupple Wearer. No, a lot of people that spent their
lives there. Marcus, our company has the largest trucks on
the road. They allow us to take drivers, kids and
passengers with us. We have to follow a few procedures.

(46:21):
No money, no growth, and poor infrastructure, so you can't
take your kids in a truck Hold your horses, shirty.
I'm not going to take you straight away. I'm going
to just take a commercial. Otherwise I'll get jammed up
at the top of the hour and it's boring to
listen to all the edge back to back power out
all over Banks Peninsula. Not sure of the cause, but
we've had very strong window evening winds. Hold your horses, shirty,

(46:48):
don't go anywhere. Eighteen to ten. Good evening, shirty. This
is Marcus.

Speaker 12 (46:52):
Welcome, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (46:54):
I'd also like to if I had the ability to
nominate that Lotto commercial for the best camera work that
I've seen. It's a very car commercial and it's really
enjoyable to listen to and watch, and I hope that
somebody in the advertising field takes notice of it because

(47:16):
it is the most calm commercial we've seen for a
very long time.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
And when you say calm, I like that. I think
that describes it well because it hasn't got many shots
or Reddit's. It's just the one thing of him skiing
down the mountain, isn't it. It is a peaceful ad.

Speaker 10 (47:28):
I think the shot of the owl, the shot of
the little shrub just hanging dripping snow. The shot of
his little head peering down the side of the hill.
It's so peaceful and so calm. You can't help but
just watch the glamor of it. It's really great, well nicely.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Put sure like the waves said that. Thank you so much.
There we go by the ways, joking about the s
and senior insurance commercials. People liking those because they drive
people crazy, because they're the only adds on sometime I
just see they've changed it. There's now got a dragon grandmother.
But every time you took out the edge that drive
people mad, they're the ones and I wants to be
reminded of senior insurance. That's always a bit of a buzzkill.

(48:07):
When you're watching TV in the middle of the day,
I think, oh, well, actually I'm watching TV along with
those people that probably need health insurance because they're not
long for them. Get in touch Marcus or twelve if
you have got where the updates seventeen to ten. Oh,

(48:34):
although I imagine probably people do like ads that people
complain about. It gives it more profile. They probably see
that has been a success. Can you take your kids

(48:54):
in your truck? Back in the day in the seventies,
and I of TV shows about truck drivers convoy and songs,
and was the only job to have. It's what they need,
they need, they need a TV show or a movie
about truck drivers us to be quite a romantic kind
of drive on you know on your you're a truck driver, Pete.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Youre going to Marcus good?

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Thanks Pete.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Yeah, you used to have driven bloody sorry milk tankers
for about six years off the first time three years
and I mean the way over seas, came back and
drove again milk tankers again. The reason why they don't
like you having characters with insurance companies so they're in
the premiums go and like that previous guy he nowt

(49:41):
and on the head the other fella. But it's stupid really,
because if you're a driver, and if you're not going
to put you're not number one, you're not going to
put yourself at risk little one the pass and or
your kids next to you, are.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
They well you were.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
You told Pete you couldn't take your kid to work.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
No, nowadays you could, but since then things have changed.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I haven't heard it though, but mind I haven't say
think kids don't know if i'd see them though from
down low.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
No, you don't, and it's very you're red. I think
most companies have the same policy like the other gentleman. See.
It is because because of health and safety once again
doing making that half everybody do well.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
I just like to know if it is true that
health and safety have seed you can't take kids. No
one's told me that yet, but nothing.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
It's a lot to do with the insurances companies now too,
as I've seen it before. He pity myself here. It
keeps you awake, you know, have you got your radio going?
If you got kids, You're not going to put your
kids or someone else at risk, are you? You know
student policy?

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Would you wouldn't take your kids all night though, would you, Pete?
They'd be wrong just to use your kids as a
kind of a wake up device.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
That's the dan the day when I drove, you know,
as daytime, we used to only forgot more than the day. No,
when I last time I did it for three years,
I was doing night shift as well. That's common sence.
You're not going to have your kids out in the
in the care of it, you know, after nine o'clock, ay,
But during the daytime you have ship work and that
you suck and do it. But you don't see many
kids at night, and they shouldn't be in the cave.

(51:10):
Then they should be sleeping. But I'm saying during the
daytime it should be fine.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
But you shouldn't be falling asleep during the day and
need your kids to keep you awake though, should you.

Speaker 14 (51:20):
No, But it's just it's just great.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
It's it's a healthy thing. If you got you can't
take your kids along with your mum and you're dead.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
In the truck.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
The sod he's gone, but crazy. Hasn't it anything about it?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
You say, PC gone mad? Or Health and safety gune man,
oh that does well.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
And insurance companies too. They have a big saying a
lot of things. Now, that's why companies realize all their
premiums will go right, or why the people standing up
like hide. You said, it's actually more healthy for me,
I'm more aware. I'm more actually when I've got someone
my kids are talking and he wouldn't say, may have
a friend or whatever. Nidreave Moulktanger's a cousin. It came
over here from Holland you spend the whole day with

(51:55):
me in the caves. Yeah, wowing New Zealand. She's from
a farming background over there as well.

Speaker 20 (52:02):
She enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
You should be encouraging this stuff, but this guraging it.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Brilliant. Good on you, Pete, Thanks Fitt, Marcus, great show.
Thank you. I went to Tupplewhere Area School, fantastic rural school.
As many walks to the Motacre River for swimming before
the school pool was built. Today the region has multiple
hop farms and dairy farms. Brilliant place. Free said to
see it going through the floods. Paula been stuck in
a cab with Pete, would be torture. Well, she's yeah,

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it was his cousin. Welcome Helen. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 20 (52:35):
Oh he's good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (52:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (52:37):
Well, I was nearly collected by a driver about ten
o'clock this morning. I was coming out of the side
road and around the bend and there's a sixty five
limit on that dep This driver was just like a bullet.
He comes tearing around the corner. He was a little
in a little gray car that was about the same

(52:58):
gray as the road. No headlights. It was raining and
I was just about to cross the road and I've
done a He missed me by feet?

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Are you walking?

Speaker 13 (53:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I was driving, should have been walking, Okay.

Speaker 20 (53:13):
I'm sorry. Why should I be warned?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
I don't notice. I think I think what to say
so well.

Speaker 20 (53:19):
I mean, I'm just saying people should drive properly, you know,
like you know, take care.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Did you pull out into the main road?

Speaker 20 (53:28):
Well, I was just about to. I was just just
just coming out of the road, and around the corner
comes as comes a bullet like little car, gray and
it was raining.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
I think that's your fault, isn't it what?

Speaker 20 (53:44):
There was nothing there when I started to come out
of the road. But I mean there's a sixty five
k speed limit on that and he was must have
been going about one hundred. You know, he didn't slow down,
he wasn't going It comes around the corner. I was,
you know, I was just about to sort of cross
the road, and he just missed me my feet. You know,

(54:04):
people are not driving properly. He had no headlights on it.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
It was the daytime, it was ten o'clock.

Speaker 20 (54:11):
Yeah, but everybody drives the rain with the headlights on.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Oh yeah, do you give them the fingers or too
your horn?

Speaker 4 (54:16):
Oh god?

Speaker 20 (54:18):
I had I had my headlights on. Anyway, People have
to be more careful, That's all I'm trying to say.
And I was nearly nearly collected, and I'm here to
tell the tale.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Oh god, yeah, okay, nice to hear from you. It
sounds like it was a badly designed but of roading.
If you can't see people coming around the corner, I'd
go another way. I don't like a blind corner. Almost
time for the halftime stretch. Good. So people seem to

(54:54):
love the ad with the naked person free calming shot.

Speaker 17 (55:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
I thought the days of ads that people liked of
long long gone. But that's interesting, isn't it that Southern
can still do that. I don't know. We're lotto spends
of advertising money I thought will be on social media.
But there you go talking about Tupper Winner and the
storms and the roads and the drivers and anything else

(55:29):
you want. I'm here till twelve o'clock. The numbers, oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two to text anything else you want to talk about.
Feel free to come through. I'll keep you up dated
on the rugby league. That's about table. I can't remember

(55:50):
who's playing actually I didn't see that before. It might
be the dolphin versus Cranulla. I think I think I
saw Nicko Hines out there warming up, so that will
be on a good Yeah, it must be that dolphins
will win this catch after the news, oh eight hundred eight,
ten eighty or nine nine, or the sharks will Welcome
to midnight people. My name is Marcus heretl twelve. Someone

(56:15):
texted through. Been thinking about Tom Phillips and the kids,
Not so much about him, but the kids to the cold.
Whether it's been three and a half years now, is
that it's unbelievable. You just can't imagine that could be true, Marcus.
Now that you mentioned I don't think I've ever seen
an ad for lot on social media. Ever. It's a
good point. Murder by Mushroom a documentary this Monday night

(56:36):
on TV three, Free to Wear. That's quick Tuesday Night,
TV three, Pulk unanswered questions, Wow, getting touch Hittle twelfth, Catherine,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
Good evening, Oh, good evening, Marcus. I'm assuming that you're
actually talking to me online. Now you meet you an
awful lot about tapawr and it seems to be quite
at the forefront and I grew up in that community.

(57:07):
But I also now love in Dovedale, which is like
thirty minutes down the road and it borders the Motueka River.
But what I need to say to you people is
that we have such a tremendous type community here and
everybody is they step up and they support each other

(57:32):
and in times of adversity. You know, this is the
strength of small communities.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
What decade did you grow up there, Catherine? Tell me
about the town. What was it based on when you
were there? It was it all about hops?

Speaker 7 (57:50):
Was it no no way way beyond that we were
Actually it was a forest forest, forestry town and raspberries
when I grew up there. And what's inspired me to
phone as the fact that you responded to my text.
So we had the raspberry growers, and then we also

(58:14):
had the woodsmen and the woodsman camp, which were part
of the forestry training scheme. And honestly, that place hummed.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Why did the raspberries happen to be there, Catherine.

Speaker 7 (58:29):
I don't know, but the raspberries seemed to be there forever,
and it was what we did as children growing up.

Speaker 17 (58:36):
In that.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Era.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
We picked raspberries for our summer holidays, and that was
actually our finance. There was what financed our hobbies for
the rest of the rest of the year. So I
guess it grew up on raspberries and tobacco because it
was perfect for that kind of a growing environment.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
There must have been big raspberry orchards.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
When I sayed the raspberry orchards, there was a lot
of I think when I look back, there were probably
small raspberry growers. And I couldn't give you the hectes
or the aches.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Okay, but I'll tell you something. I'll tell you something, Catherine. Right,
this is for me to you. Right, I love her.
I love a raspberry.

Speaker 7 (59:28):
Oh my gosh, our good raspberry.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
It can't be the good. And I'm quite a late tay.
I thought I knew my fruit, but I just recently
swerved in the raspberry direction. The lightness, the puffiness, what
a fruit? What a fruit?

Speaker 11 (59:44):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (59:45):
Yes, well, well back in the day, back in the day,
and that you're exactly right. A beautiful raspberry tasted. Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Was this some family that had them all? Is it
some famous raspberry family? There were you at school with
the kids?

Speaker 7 (01:00:05):
Oh my gosh, yes, I can probably let me dredge
it up from the murky depths. I worked for Robert
Porte House who okay, yeah, what'd you say, Macha Peko?

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
What's that?

Speaker 11 (01:00:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:00:25):
Much Peko? And for those that know who is just
over what we called the Banana Bridge from the Khatu Hotel.
Need I say anything more? Then we had we had
the Galtles, the Matthewson's, and there was a whole raft
of growers, all the Campbell's, and they grew raspberries up

(01:00:49):
the Tedmore Valley and there was probably more. And I
just can't immediately dredge that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
The raspberries. Yeah, okay, now do Dovedale sounds boring? No,
retire sounds like a retirement village.

Speaker 7 (01:01:08):
Oh my god, Duvedall is anything less than retiring?

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Sound that sounds boring?

Speaker 7 (01:01:16):
Okay, right here, let me put you in the picture, mate,
because I'm going to do this. Dove Dale has this
incredible type community and that we have been known to have.
The Grand Duvedail ball.

Speaker 15 (01:01:33):
Is.

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
Yeah, so the Grand Dubdlle ball is that everybody must
come and formal drinks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Sounds terrible. I hate something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:01:43):
I hate it and and we and we rock it.
Out to all that great music of our ages, and believe.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
It or not, we pullen it sounds like a retirement.
What sort of music.

Speaker 7 (01:02:00):
We hang on, Marcus, You know we're on the same
plane here. We pullen the music from the ages that
rock and believe it or not, the young people come
and they go, oh my gosh, we can't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Hate you guys sort of music.

Speaker 7 (01:02:17):
Okay, right, yeah, okay, I think everything from Guns and
Roses live Zip ebb Ebber Neil Diamond, come on, you know, yeah,
right right across the whole the whole spectrum.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
How many people in Dovedale, Catherine.

Speaker 7 (01:02:36):
Oh gosh, now you know you really got me on
the plate, because I'd have to know how many people
the the Wakefield Postage lovers too. But we're we're we're
talking small community and I'd be really would It would
be really ricent to me if I put a number
on it. But you know, haven't you said that?

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
You know, primary school, Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
There's a fantastic primary school there. And then John they
are John Fusty people. They have we have a big
consecrated church.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Is there a dairy? No, no, no dairy, But we
have a whole I think it's probably a couple of
hundred by the sound of things. For a quick gas.
Thanks Catherine. I love raspberries. By the way, we've got
real fruit ice cream and bluff now too. By the way,
there's a food cart there. Oh yeah, there'd be the
southernmost that's new. Just happened this week. So she's all going,

(01:03:37):
Ray Marcus, welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Thank you? Ray, all the bitter for talking to you,
I think tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Yeah, I'm just filling in the middle on the road
year in camp wearra Mark keep a rousby Cannibal every
year and Shifty proceed on the workers. Well we're ossie
girls that went to the office is over in Australia

(01:04:05):
and they two or three months off and come over
right and get them to break ro and I and
then go to the carnival and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
That it sounds that sounds like a plane.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Yeah, that was the thing. And tampa Ware was also
in the early days here they had the notional railway
which is called the when when Nelson had a railway
and tampa Ware and and Kiwi and it was a
big marshroom yard here for all the stock and they

(01:04:37):
and they they used to marshal all the stock and
take them through to the works over and Nelson through
through the through the through tunnels. That's a big, big
tunnel that goes under the Spooner's range.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
So the rail went through tampa Ware.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
Did it? Yeah, it was went up to tampa Ware
and up to through through the where where they're back
through Kiwi and Sheerye and the Sheer River and the
come out come out and the Gowan Gawan bridge.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
Hit the big hit a big dog leg, didn't it?
Ted Moore? Yeah, copy that and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:19):
The temple were hit. In the early days the bridge
went over the Mott River was actually road and rail
bridge it was.

Speaker 8 (01:05:29):
It was.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
It was one of the few road and rail bridge
head in the South Island. And in the early days
and in the foresty there was was they had the
the is it the lady was saying early on they
had the forty camp there and the the Woodsman's thing
there and they also had a nursery there was run

(01:05:51):
by the by the forest. They we planned out new trees.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Ye ye did did you live there?

Speaker 8 (01:06:01):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
I worked on t P schemes here so uh for
the forest and the foresty there and the one of
the one of our guys here from much way dress
not the swimming pool, the changing Shesine swimming pool at

(01:06:23):
the school there, so they've got they've got a wonderful
school there, the temple there and the the the railway
line used to go through there, the steep where the
steam trains were going through there, and it was it
was a penal they didn't keep the railway going there

(01:06:44):
with the red logs and all they got there there
and the coronation for the government had to pull a
line up because of the war and that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
It was it was always sort of uncertain where the
railway was going to go to because weird that was
going to go all that way to the coast, because
it seems surprising, doesn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
No, not as far as Carre was the last place
where it it got to as a passenger train and
then a work trade where as fire as a work
trade where the fires.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
To the gown yep, copy that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
And then and the original railway station is still at
the front of the Hope settle that the original.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Glean Hope is it or.

Speaker 4 (01:07:48):
Great Hope yeah, copy yeah, no, And the I say
there was it was two tunnels two tunnels there there
was one one tunnel just before Coward here and the
other tunnel was under the spooners.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
Okay it was.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
It was a great place here, the party camp. There
was a lot of a lot of young woodsman. They
learn learn all the trade, the safety and fingure working
in the bush and all that they were all against
and that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:23):
Wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I don't want to get back to it. But is
it ideal conditions for raspberry? Is it warm and not
too windy or no frost or something? What do they
need a frost? I don't know what happens with a raspberry.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
It's a it's a mild condition.

Speaker 5 (01:08:35):
It's a.

Speaker 4 (01:08:38):
Sort of a bit of a valley sheltered by the
hills on one side, and saga where the place where
the where glasses have been through.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
I don't understand, like a basin, like a basin. I
always say I'm going to get to tapwar this year. Yeah, okay,
I'm due holiday, right, I'm going to run, but lovely
to talk to you. I appreciate your wisdom twenty past ten.
I'll need your calls now. People. The other thing I
was broaching is a topic this would be only chance
to talk about it is the Kaimanowa Wall. I don't

(01:09:09):
in fact know where it is. I know it's in
the central North Island somewhere, but there's a very good
video a guy that does geological videos has posted explaining
what's caused it, and it seems to be caused by

(01:09:29):
well it's perfect. It's talked about geology, but it's the
it's hard for me to explain it. Go and look
at the video. It's about quarter no how long. It
explains it quite well. So yeah, that's happening also to
But I need your calls now, people, So if you
want to come through, it'd be nice to hear from you.
We might even get another topic up and running tonight.

(01:09:49):
I just don't know what it is. So if you
want to change yourself with something, oh someone, that's something
I did think about. Who here went to live aid
because it's forty years since that was a thing. They
our talk but the curse of live aid because most
of them have died. And for those that don't know

(01:10:11):
about live AID, I don't know so much about it,
but they reckon it was the it was Freddy Mercury
that outshone everyone. I don't know if that's the case.
I've never been a huge queen fan, but it did
seem to give a fairly iconic performance. But you might
have been someone that was there at Live Aid on
your OI forty years ago nineteen eighty five. I've been
your well I suppose if you're Gosh, I suppose if

(01:10:34):
you're on your Owei, you had been your sixties now
are your late fifties. But anyway, I'm up for those
discussions as well tonight, So get in touch, as I say,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine two
detext also top weather and the weather and anything else
you want to talk about, So do get in touch
Marc still twelve, so you be a part of it
if you want to talk if there's something anything goes
for the final hour actually and how it is oh

(01:10:56):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two detext
Market still midnight. The other thing is to your predictions
for I'm not going to a sweepstake, but your predictions
for the national anthem tomorrow night. It's in Wellington and
it's not Ainsleie, so I don't know who they're going
to get. Actually I don't know which way Willington normally

(01:11:22):
goes with one of those things, So there we go.
It might be someone from some show tune they're trying
to promote. Anyway, be in touch if you want to
talk here till midnight to that. My name is Marcus.
Welcome by the way. The Motawaka River at Woodstock seventeen
seventy two, q mex. And still rising. Which is interesting

(01:11:42):
because the same person's text me the last floods, which
were on a a week or two ago, it got
to nineteen ninety eight when it peaked, So it's from
eight forty five. It's halfway to its peak. I imagine
it probably will get there. Yeah, Milt, it's Marcus. Good evening,

(01:12:04):
good day.

Speaker 19 (01:12:06):
Haven't called you before. I've listened to you many an evening,
and I heard you say we're looking for a subject,
And for some reason I came up with what makes
people angry?

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
Wow?

Speaker 19 (01:12:21):
How about that?

Speaker 5 (01:12:23):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Is there a reason? Is there a reason you're about that?

Speaker 12 (01:12:29):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:12:29):
No, no, I haven't done a particular issue. It's something actually,
it's something that I've delve into in the past, with
people's behavior.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
And that sort of stuff.

Speaker 18 (01:12:37):
But and I what makes you?

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
What makes you angry?

Speaker 19 (01:12:43):
Not much these days because of of I've paid attention
and uh, and I've learned from basically what I read
to talking about.

Speaker 11 (01:12:56):
So what did so?

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
What happened to your anger? Dissipate?

Speaker 19 (01:13:00):
Now, I was never angry by nature, to be honest.
But and I told the kids not to put their
bikes in the driveway, Well, that's what makes me angry.
Yet that's one person's very Another person might say, I've
told your wife to call me if that's happening, So
I've got a little bit of their heads up. It

(01:13:22):
makes me fucking angry when I'm sorry. That makes me
angry when she doesn't do that. And we've all got
something that makes us angry. And they're all different reasons,
but we've got one thing in common. We're not getting
it the way we want it. That's what makes us angry.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
I mean, we're not getting our own way. Is that
what you're saying.

Speaker 19 (01:13:44):
That's what I'm saying, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Yeah, it's a good bit of advice, Milt. It's timely
for tonight, so I appreciate you coming through that. There
we go. You might want to respond to Milton to
twenty away from eleven back here until twelve, Jamie Good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:13:57):
Oh.

Speaker 15 (01:13:59):
What makes you angry? And people swearing? I'm looking on
the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
I don't really care. I don't really care, to be honest.
I saw of think I'm a bit precious about swearing,
but I decided that it was going to be I
weren't going to let people on because otherwise be a
race to the bottom. But I don't really care.

Speaker 15 (01:14:15):
Yeah, I just thought that was funny. I know we
have the same problem here in Australia with the aging
trust drivers and the lack of them. Yeah, and I've
had a lot of mates that have given it up
and they say that the overreaching government and the amount
of time you're not home, Like I'm just working out yesterday.
I was away two hundred and seventy days last year.

(01:14:37):
That's financial years.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Yeah, so it'd be different if you're sixty five, because
your kids to be off your head, you're probably wanting
to be a way more time.

Speaker 15 (01:14:45):
May Yeah, yeah, that's yeah. Yeah, I guess I'm saving
for a house, So that was part of it. But
generally on a normal year, we're away about two hundred
and twenty days.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
It's a lot. When are you giving up? When are
you tipping out?

Speaker 15 (01:15:01):
Pretty soon. Actually, I've come to a realization the other ways,
like why why am I working the hours of a
week when I've got everything I want?

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
You know?

Speaker 15 (01:15:11):
So, yeah, I'm about to try and find something different
and pull the pin from it in the next six months.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
I reagon, what do you reckon you'll end up doing?

Speaker 15 (01:15:21):
Maybe I don't know, something like or want to become
part of a community where we bought our house, because
I've never had that before from what has worked the way,
But yeah, I know, maybe it's the local farming or something.
I'm not too sure really there's anything anything that's going
to pay them mortgage.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Couldn't you become a social media influencer?

Speaker 15 (01:15:41):
I tried that and then I got mytok deleted. We
t it again.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Why did you get deleted? FOTA the guest department delete you?

Speaker 15 (01:15:53):
No, I just ticktoped for I got too many violations? Yeah,
what do they call it? Community violations? We're just the
kids racing a go cart up the street at the park.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
And then that was my final Did they get a
lot of do they get a lot of views? That one?

Speaker 15 (01:16:12):
I don't even know because I have made it about
four at once. And then I looked at my phone
an hour later and seen your techtoff has been deleted
and you got to email them.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
So I done all that and.

Speaker 15 (01:16:22):
They said, no, you've reached community guidelines. We won't get
it back to you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Did you ever ask your boss? Did you ever ask
your bosses you can take your kid to work?

Speaker 15 (01:16:33):
Yeah, I've actually seen two two kids in school all
they I've seen two different trucks two two two kids
in the east truck. So yes, I've seen two kids
going away with it. I'm getting their dad today.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Will that will that be an owner operate or could
anyone do it?

Speaker 17 (01:16:51):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:16:51):
They were both company trucks over here. I think it's
the smaller companies that will let you do it like
I'm allowed to do it. I've taken my young fellow ones.
It's just too dangerous. But you know the amount of
trucking accidents that over here on the coast road and
the humans every night and in an accident, yeah you know. Yeah,

(01:17:16):
I think it's too dangerous to take your kids in
the track.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Now, it probably makes sense, you'd know. Have you told
your bosses that you're going to throw on the towel?

Speaker 15 (01:17:26):
No, no, I'll keep no I'll keep worse for what
I want to do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Find a job first day?

Speaker 15 (01:17:36):
Yeah, yeah I had. Yeah, the wife would have seen
you the money for it. Upset when I told her that. Sorry,
I have been to give twenty years concerning not I
worked away.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
But it should be a lot of adjusting there. When
you beat the whole time. I preferred it when you're
away the whole time. You say one comment, Oh, well,
I preferred it when you're away six days out of seven.
I you might need to go to some sort of
course before you could get reintegrated.

Speaker 15 (01:18:05):
Yeah, I'll probably be a divorce the next two years.
I don't know, but yeah, I just trying to spit onto.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Her like it really well, she's she spent most of
the time with the kids in, isn't she She's done
the hard work.

Speaker 15 (01:18:18):
Yeah, so just you know, like she had a friend
that I'm their family. He was doing five and he
would come home and just upset the whole family like
it when he was for a week, and I was like,
says that are breaking up work sort of fight and
a visitor in the house.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Really, she could go truck driving.

Speaker 15 (01:18:41):
She's got her child life fast for so, I keep
saying that to her, but she's not too.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
Interesting to me to talk Jamie. Thanks, George, it's Marcus. Hello,
Hi George, how are you pal?

Speaker 11 (01:18:57):
I'm just ringing. Uh, you've had someone I don't residence
to your program much, but I just heard someone saying
him out the why they answer.

Speaker 15 (01:19:06):
It was me?

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
It was me saying about that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:19:10):
Yeah, And someone said about.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
The I can't think of the name pretty much, Freddy Mercury.

Speaker 11 (01:19:19):
That's right, Yeah, it was that, did that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (01:19:22):
Yeah, yeah, well I saw a bit of it, not
a right, but I saw a bit and I always
thought that what's her name, dire Straits and that song
money for Nothing was the best. Okay, what what did
they do in this?

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
Said at BLVDE. I can't remember dire Straits.

Speaker 11 (01:19:43):
I know they sang that song money for Nothing? Okay, yeah, anyway, yeah,
and I hear I just happen to hear it because
I was in the place when they were playing it,
and I had purely by coincidence. I was in what
they called the Den of the Little Red Foxes and

(01:20:05):
what those days was called the Shadow Commodos now Shadow
on the Park, and the Dire Straits had been playing
in Christias that night and it was pouring rain, and
I had tickets and I gave him the way to
some people.

Speaker 19 (01:20:22):
That's the material.

Speaker 11 (01:20:23):
Anyway, later on through the evening and I was meeting
a woman there and I happened to meet I happened
to be at the bar and this big tall guy
came in with the mendanna around his head. He was
about six foot six tall, and some other one with him,
and it happened to be Marknoffler.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Mike Andoffler. Your goodness, he was.

Speaker 11 (01:20:43):
One of the nicest person you could ever hope to meet.

Speaker 4 (01:20:48):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:20:49):
And he came and sat down him and the other
guy was there was the manager. And the lady I
was meeting was a Japanese tour guide and she was
bringing a tour back from Queenstown and when she booked
the people and the four of us sat down and
we sat there for quite some time with Mark Kniffler

(01:21:13):
and his manager, and they were the most fabulous people
you could ever hope to meet.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Was this after Dire Straight or before diastrates?

Speaker 13 (01:21:21):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:21:21):
No, this was a die Straight.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
No, I mean after Live Aid or before Live Aid.

Speaker 11 (01:21:27):
No, it was after Live Aid.

Speaker 4 (01:21:28):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
They did the Twists only did Sultans of Swinging Money
for Nothing?

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:21:35):
Yeah, that Money for Nothing I always thought was an
absolute fabulous tune. It was they and they told me, well,
he told me it was actually written by that guy Sting.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
Yeah STINGOK. Anyway, how high is how high is how
Tad Knobler?

Speaker 11 (01:21:54):
Oh? He was really tall. I mean I'm five point
seven and he was a town above me.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
In one point eight three meters? What's that in the
old old ones?

Speaker 11 (01:22:06):
I don't know. I'm just surmiled, you know a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
No, I don't reckon.

Speaker 11 (01:22:13):
But what I'm saying is I had to meet him
purely by coincidence, but he would be one of the
nicest people I've ever met.

Speaker 12 (01:22:22):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (01:22:24):
That's that's how life goes, doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
Yeah? No, that's it. Good on you? Okay, will you
be on arrested? George? Nice to talk ten away. Interesting
look at the set of Live Aid, Coldstream, Guard, Status Crow,
the style Council of the Boomtown Rats animant for one song,
Ultravox finished with Vienna, then spand Our Ballet, then Elviscus Today,
then Nick Kershaw. Wouldn't it be good? Charde did three
songs sting, Phil Colin's Brandon Massalas that are set. Then

(01:22:49):
Howard Jones, then Brian Ferry Jealousky what a song? Paul
Young every Time You Go Away You two did three?
Did two songs actually just Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Bad
Diastraates did two. Then Queen did seven songs, Bowie did four,
The Hoo did four, Elton John did six. Didn't do

(01:23:13):
tiny dance so why not? And then Freddie Mercury, Brian
made it one song, McCartney tod let it be? Then
bandaid do they know it's Christmas? That's the way it worked.
Went from twelve o'clock to ten pm. Probably all online
on YouTube now anyway, get in touch just so it's

(01:23:35):
interesting that all the data we've got these days, I
should be more up to date with it, but people
have texted me through just all the cue mex on
the different rivers two one hundred qu mechs and the
Motte River. At the moment, the Targeka River is dropping.
So in another Texas said, the Motorweka River is at
two thousand and sixty five q MEX. So it's higher
than it was in the last flood, which was a

(01:23:56):
week or two ago. I don't know where it's doing,
if it's flooded its banks or what it's doing. But
the river has become the waters have risen quicker. I
don't quite know what that means for the likes of Tapaware.
It's probably hard to know now whether it's flooding. We
were speaking to a caller that was in there last
week and all the paddocks were ruined. They're all just
covered in water, so I imagine that will be back

(01:24:18):
up again. So LOOKI you might want to talk about that.
Eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nineteen nine to de text,
Marcus die here raining very heavily in covid O for hours.
Thank goodness for volcanic soil. Anyway, get in touch. My
name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred and eighties. Yeah, piggy,

(01:24:39):
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:24:42):
Oh hello Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:24:43):
Oh you were talking about about.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Hopping, Yes, hopping, yep.

Speaker 21 (01:24:48):
I used to go hopping when I was a wee
girl in England.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Yes, what was that?

Speaker 21 (01:24:53):
And we used to go in our school holidays and
it was the best time a part of my life.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
So tell me what that would involve.

Speaker 21 (01:25:08):
Well, we used to go away and to the farms
who had the hops, and we'd stay in ten huts
and go out every day and pull the vines down
and pick the hops, and at the end of the
season then we would get paid, or my grandparents would

(01:25:30):
get paid, and they used to buy us all our
winter clothes.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
Well, so they grow on. They're a tall plant, about
twelve feet high, is that right?

Speaker 21 (01:25:40):
Yes, And they had a man who used to come
around with a long step with a fork on it,
and they used to cut it down for us, and
if he wasn't available, we used to swing on it
and pull it down ourselves. Sure, but now it's all
done with the show differently now, But that was the
best weeks of our lives.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
So Piggy tell me. So the plant just good Tonanuel.
It just grows one year and gives up and then
they plant you once for the next year. It's not
it doesn't live again, right, that's a bad way of
explaining it. But when you prune it, you kill the vine.

Speaker 21 (01:26:16):
Yeah, but now, yeah, we pulled it down and we
used to sat there and pick the hops off into
a basket. Then the tally man would come round, and
we'd tip all our hops into his basket, and then
we knew, you know, he wrote in his book Body
how much we'd taken and at the end of the
season we got our.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Money in the hop would be like a small like
a soft pie cone, wouldn't It's got different sort of
leaves on it, all in a tight lot, would that be? Okay? Yeah,
like a flower? I guess like a flower? Okay? How
long would you do it? How long would you do it?
For Piggy?

Speaker 21 (01:26:54):
Well, we were how long?

Speaker 11 (01:26:56):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:26:56):
Well, from early in the morning too late in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
For about six weeks, every day.

Speaker 7 (01:27:02):
For a week.

Speaker 21 (01:27:04):
So it was in the school who took a couple
of the school holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
How old were you?

Speaker 21 (01:27:12):
How old was I? Well, I'm heading to ninety now,
so I think it was in the Barties.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Okay, so you'd have been fifteen or fourteen? Would you no?

Speaker 21 (01:27:22):
A bit younger than that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Well, because it sounds on fish and sending a twelve
year old? Would your parents do.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
It with you?

Speaker 13 (01:27:30):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:27:31):
My mum used to stay home this year at work,
so I used to go with my grandparents and my cousin.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
You're staying to ten sheep?

Speaker 21 (01:27:40):
We lived in ten hearts and cooked out of size and.

Speaker 11 (01:27:47):
It was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Sounds fantastic, best time. Now tell me, Piggy, part, what
part of England was that tent? Okay?

Speaker 21 (01:27:56):
Where the apples grow?

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Yes, and the cider. I guess because when you said
you used to, when you said you used to go hopping,
I don't think we call it hopping in New Zealand.
I've never heard it referred to.

Speaker 12 (01:28:06):
Was that, Well it's hot picking?

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Yeah, yeah, hopping?

Speaker 4 (01:28:09):
I like that.

Speaker 21 (01:28:11):
Yeah, no, you know, I still think about it now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
It sounds like quite long days and quite hard work.
But I suppose the whole group of you there together.

Speaker 21 (01:28:21):
Oh look, there were lots of people from London that
went there too, and someone would start singing and we'd
all enjoy them while we're picking the hots, or we'd
go scrumping.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
Brilliant. Oh that's a good story. That's a good story,
pig I really didn't have any idea about that, So
I've enjoyed that greatly. Thirteen past eleven, Marcus till twelve.
Hi there, Marcus. Good friends of ours are and they
were properly there at the moment. They have a few
family sheltering in these as their houses a flooded. That's
from Marsia. If you've got any other other weather update,
thank you for that, bigg you've got the other weather
updates to get in touch with us. Oh eight hundred

(01:28:56):
and eighty eight to Daddy Marcus till twelve and nine
two nine two to text. Oh, what a good call
that was. Come on, just be hearing from you. Anything
goes for the final flurry. Also truck drivers or hopping Marcus,
we are in tupper weather for the week. A tree
branch has come down on our caravan. It's broken the

(01:29:16):
front window and pushed on the roof. We are now
sleeping in the car for the night until we can
call the insurance company for help hopefully tomorrow. Cell phone
receptionist spotty at best, and you can't call out yet.
Our starlink is working sending us email. Heavens and that
happy weekend. Jeff, Wow, gosh, I never enjoy a night

(01:29:41):
in the car sleeping because you're always kind of crunched
up out. You can ever get comfortable because you only
ready sleep one way in a car. Well, anyway, if
that's a good text to thank you for that, I
guess that at the caravan park a tree came down.

(01:30:03):
I presume it came down when it was parked, not
when you were driving, Is it right? And pleased you
got starling, Jeff, Dave, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:30:13):
Okay, Marcus giving were her here in christ she's blowing
and bid next she ventured out. But we can hear
the rain on the roof. Yeah, but I've spent a
season picking hops and reworker free chury angles for the
Ingles family.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
What year nineteen seventy, No, it would have.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
Been nineties, would have been the late nineties. And were
they were in vines and we bought them and like
cut the tops and bottoms and put laid them on
a trailer. Oh, they would have been about she had
been footlosshots on vines and these like berries you know,
tight flowers as you say. And we fed them onto

(01:30:58):
a revolving machine that took them through and through a
thresher and that used to thrust the hot berries off
and that were from there into a drawing room and
I would grive to the to the year kiln and
it was all for Steinlag apparently.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Yeah, okay, so it is that local breweries do use
New Zealand hop so that's a good signed Steinlag. I
guess it's a quality beer and quite a big outfit.
Was it for Steinlagg? And they make a bit of beer?

Speaker 5 (01:31:27):
Oh yeah, well they the Engles family is quite well
known up there, I think, or they were back then.
Also that I believe they own the Rewalker ten.

Speaker 2 (01:31:39):
Good thing to own.

Speaker 5 (01:31:41):
I'm watching cornlla and dolphins. I don't know it's not live,
I don't think.

Speaker 6 (01:31:44):
But.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Dat nil. Now you're about half an hour behind.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
Oh probably, I didn't want to meaning for you, but
but I.

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Got rain fade. Hey tell me something right about the
many Well, I suppose it's not labor intent. It's not
a lot of people from overseas doing it because there
wouldn't have been many of you just driving machines, right,
pretty mechanized now.

Speaker 5 (01:32:08):
Yeah, feeling recognized. There was two of us bringing it
in on the tractor while I'm a beck of the
tractor and the tractor driver and two of us feeding
them on almost like a revolving mitwork chain, you know,
like a chain and there where you hop the vine
up and it takes it through the threshing machine. Oh,
it's probably about five or six of us. I suppose

(01:32:31):
Marcus I enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Once upon a time. I think it was quite a
big you know, everyone will go there was quite like
a big job in the summers to go to Nelson,
Tasman to pick tobacco will hops or berries.

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
I loved it. I used to like it up here.
Well I still do not at the moment, of course,
but the very well known for the for the tobacco
used to be a Rothman's like a year as you
walk as you drive into the town, there macho acre
murder acre up and it was called back then up

(01:33:06):
and lower mood.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Stream muderaker rework at Tevan any good, Yes, I watched.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
I'll tell you who I watched there. Who was performed
the Marcus to This was.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Burns Soccer Barns to be Barns. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
a sort of place.

Speaker 11 (01:33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:33:27):
And the place was pumping. The place was packed.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
It's got to be. It's got a big garden bar, has.

Speaker 17 (01:33:32):
It, Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:33:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:33:34):
And it was place was down off.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Mun That sounds like a fantasy for you. A hard
week's work pecking hops. It seems appropriate going to the
bar and have a walrant full of money. That would
be a great night yeah, I like me to up there.
Did they did they put you in the shed?

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
Yeah? Yeah, it was all bad. As I say. On
the seasons, it's plenty at work going on up there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
Some of the hops comes in late summ autos.

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
Like April, Yes, late summer Riley. It was hot as
buggery and the shed were used to feed them on
And I never complain. Used to get brown as a berry?

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Did you ever then? You wear a hat?

Speaker 17 (01:34:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:34:23):
Probably, I can't remember. I suppose so, But I wasn't
adverse to getting the some tan back then.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
You weren't those days, mind you that?

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
It was amazing they ever got fixed up that hole
in the oz Remember how that came up? They banned
the stuff and fridges that it closed up. I can't
believe that that we managed to fix that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
That's right? Well have we?

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
You know that?

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
You don't hear about it anymore?

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
No, But I wonder whether that's like climate change. I
don't know whether that's a Yeah, I don't know. I've
got my own thoughts on that. Because the mummy Dave, well, do.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
You want another score of the rugby to spail it for?

Speaker 9 (01:35:03):
We ago?

Speaker 2 (01:35:04):
Here you go? Twelve zero looks like though were.

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
This, So.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Yeah, he's about Heine's about to kick back at fourteen.
So they'll win this and they'll be up in the
top eight again.

Speaker 5 (01:35:14):
Can I say France tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
I hope So I shouldn't say that, but I'll make
it intes it'll make the Third Test and imagine talk
back on Monday, people moaning.

Speaker 5 (01:35:26):
I know who win the national anthem?

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
Mate that it's a good song, that French one, what
a bang of that is, and it'll be almost best
Steel day and people be offeedded by the Rainbow Warrior
because that's fresh and everyone's mind it would be furious.

Speaker 5 (01:35:40):
That's right there to roll that out. But anyway, we're waiting.
See I am looking forward to that because so.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
Me too, right, I've got a good I've got a
good player day planning tomorrow, so yeah, yeah, I'm looking
forward to that. Kids aren't back, so I watched the
rugby on my own. Can't wait. I can't wait anyway.
Watch the old basketball South and Sharks. This is one
of the great stories of all time. South and Sharks.

(01:36:07):
What a team from nowhere lost five at the beginning.
What happened when we first started with the I've got
a bit time to talk the South and Sharks. I
don't know what time we started, about two thousand and
eight we got back in the basketball, but there was
a salary. There was no salary cap. So I think
we're quite a wealthy team, and we've got very good players,
and we won it for a couple of years. But
then they brought in some salary cap or something and

(01:36:28):
it's yeah, we didn't do so well for about five
years in a row. But this year, boy, oh boy,
they've got the right players. We're a sensational season.

Speaker 15 (01:36:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
You have enjoyed that going along as a family, making
signs and doing stuff so kind of works. I think
I think it works free well in those It seems
to me that basketball works free well in those not
so major cities. You know, you get good four or
five thousand people to a match, seems to work really well.
Your Nelson's and your New Plymouths and your Hamilton's and

(01:37:00):
your Totongers and your Hawks Bays. Seems as though it
goes every year. How they can afford it all or
the flying around and the pay of the overseas people,
if they seem to and get it televised anyway works well,
get and touched you on a text or call. We're
talking about picking hops or picking tobacco. What a lovely
story that was about her hopping. Of course, it'd be

(01:37:23):
exciting being out in the countryside with a group of people. Marcus.
Here's a random question. How come you can't google Earth
the South Pole? Maybe the satellites can't get over there,
the geostationary satellites. Would that be right, Marcus. In the
nineteen sixties, I taught for two years in Nati Molti,
a beautiful place on the mirth Tawaka River. Thank you?

(01:37:49):
Are there any product recalls someone always tacks every night
or any product recalls?

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Got no idea getting touched you on to talk Marcus
till twelve, anything goes for the final hour. See Dave
sounds in good spirits. Seems like the dam hasn't broken.
I'm pleased about that. But yes, haven't got any more updates.
It seems like the weather update. You know how sometimes
the websites now, like the Herald and stuff they do.

(01:38:19):
There's continual updates on the weather. But I'll tell you what.
They're very keen to stop them once it all looks
like it might be slightly over They tap out, So
I look at the last updates.

Speaker 15 (01:38:35):
For you.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
On ten forty seven Nelson's Wakefield Volleys the fire Brigades.
It appears the rain's gone for now. It did get
a bit weird out there. Thanks again for all those
of the community listen to the advice and state off
the roads. Oh that's a good thing for the Wakefield.
It's always good to get on your Facebook page and
do something. At the end of the day, Dean, it's Marcus, Welcome,
good evening, are you man good? Good?

Speaker 12 (01:39:04):
All right?

Speaker 16 (01:39:06):
He thought I would do a bit of a crossover
with the basketball and.

Speaker 13 (01:39:12):
The Nelson Hopps.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, sure, yep.

Speaker 22 (01:39:20):
They I was working with an NBA team a couple
of years ago, and we happened to be in Milwaukee,
who are very proud of their of their beer brewing
and the Bucks, Milwaukee Bucks one that makes the playoffs
that we were in.

Speaker 13 (01:39:40):
But every craft brewery I was in and that town
at times did always made a deal with Nelson Hops.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Well you look at.

Speaker 13 (01:39:50):
The back of the canton of these like amazing craft
breweries that they were doing. It was like Nelson Hops
on the back of the camp Elton Hops, that the
that the brewer was talking about and all that stuff.
So the Nelson Hopps do go far and why even
these days?

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Well, I had no idea, but I guess they're easy
to export. They'd be like, I don't know how they
do it? Did they they put them in? They even
know how you'd export them? I suppose in sex is it?

Speaker 21 (01:40:19):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 16 (01:40:20):
Maybe they maybe they melted them down and then explot them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:24):
I'm what were you doing in the NBA, Dean, I
was just working with the team. Okay, do you follow
the basketball locally?

Speaker 5 (01:40:36):
But here in l A not so much?

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Oh you're in LA. Sorry, I didn't really, I didn't.
I didn't realize you're in l A. Okay, that makes
that makes much more sense. Now, okay, can you can
you tell? Can you can you tell the Could you
blind test a beer and taste Nelson Hobbs.

Speaker 13 (01:40:59):
No.

Speaker 17 (01:40:59):
I think it's a marketing thing. But I think it
was the marketing thing that that the craft brewer is
really hold and I have seen and that's great for
recurmentry that they hold Nelson Hops and team.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
So it was because of clean and green using and
hop seemed to be the ultimate, did it?

Speaker 16 (01:41:17):
I think yes, it's probably the clean and green and
also maybe the ka of the hop.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Yeah, okay, okay. I appreciate Dean thinks that there we
go twenty seven past eleven, so I didn't realize he
was ringing from away. That would have made more sense.
Nice to hear from your Dean eight hundred and eighty
teenty nineteen nine to detext Marcus, can you ortis to
tell me what this advert is about a lot of

(01:41:43):
ad with a man's skiing. The dude don't understand it.
Could someone explain it to bea of the ad? I
think it's a pretty simple premise. I think the guy
sees if he wins a lot of he's going to
ski naked down the skifield. I don't know why he
can't ski naked anyway, But does he buy the ski field?
I don't watch it. Does he buy the ski field?
Why can't he ordinary? Or is he helly skiing? He

(01:42:05):
might be helly's skiing to like virgin pastures? But what
sort of Karen would complain? They see what's on the internet.
But someone bev wants an explanation of the lot of word.
If you can give that to her cheapers, creepers, Come

(01:42:26):
on Hittle twelve. My name's Marcus. Welcome. We're talking tobacco
and hops. I would have thought the hops would have
come from Sheikslovakia or somewhere. Georgia's Marcus. Welcome of the evening, Marcus,
the evening, George coming and strong. I'm liking that. Welcome, Welcome, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:42:48):
Oh look marvelous to hear your dolcet tones, dolcet tones.
They you have got me really keenly involved with. See
about thirty five years ago, I took some time out
and went and worked in rawalker.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
On.

Speaker 9 (01:43:09):
I did a whole season sort of thing there, and
you started off with apples and things like that. But
I was namely there for the the Kiwis, and uh,
there's a bet four or five families were the old
traditional families there, Marcus, that were part of the putting
the first mines in that and for the Kiwis and

(01:43:32):
so forth, and the Cedarmans were they were one of
the families, and that was the one that we lived
and worked on, and we lived in huts. They had
some huts for just a few of the workers out
the back and here the Stephen and his father, and
they were both There was a great sporting community too,

(01:43:55):
and that they were both rugby players for the local team,
which was the Rewalker team in those days, you know.
And office across the road where the Royal Stell it's
the Stevens brothers and they were that had been there
for donkey shares and so forth. But it was a
great community and a lot of the workers were locals,

(01:44:17):
and then they we were the ones that coming from
all over the show. And you worked hard all the season.
And I heard you mentioning earlier on one of the
one of the cores saying about having you know, you
sort of look forward to sort of pay day, and
that was the day you got together and from all
the other farms, and that you headed down to those

(01:44:38):
the Motorwacre pubbing that you know, and and I think
there's two or three pumps in the town there, and
it was just a great community thing. And then it
went right through to the end of the season. And
they always had a get together really sort of a
big get together and dancing and carrying on and carrying

(01:45:00):
on and carrying on, you know what I mean. And
then everyone dispersed, you know, and and went back to
their where from overseas or back to their hometowns in
New Zealand. And the locals that worked on these farms
of tobacco and kiwi fruit and so forth, that'd be

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doing other jobs during the season.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:45:24):
And there's a bit of another twist to it too
because about four years ago at the start of COVID,
I'm actually based in Auckland and my grandson from down Canterbury,
he was up there playing rugby up there and for
Stoke and he's the COVID that office for rugby that

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season and that come to the final final game anyways,
and he had been knocked out about a week a
month before and it hit a stand down for a
month and then they played their final game and they
played Stoke played for Walker, which actually another name there
because they combined with one of the Motor wakere teams.

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And anyway, there's the young fella playing against on the
opposite number ten to my grandson, and he was the
wonderful young fella that's coming through now. He was David
Havaui's brother William and he's gone on from that, you know.
I'm talking about four or five years ago. But he's

(01:46:33):
gone on and he's I think he's in the Pacific
team there or something like that, and do it quite well.
But no, it's just a great community. And like the
day I actually because he was playing in that last game,
I up to the Karen and mccarr and Auckland, I
drove all the way down to Tura Walker and watch

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the game and my grandson actually scored quite a few
points to win the game. But I couldn't even wait
to see him afterwards because it was COVID time and
I had to rush back to get on the pierry
to get over back to the North Island. Because the
atmosphere of that whole area, Marcus and they'd been going

(01:47:14):
on for decades, you know, the families going to help
in the area. And in those days Marcus fo was.
One other significant thing was they used to have the
doll was paid every second week, I think it was
in those days.

Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
And the.

Speaker 9 (01:47:36):
The house trucks used to live up the Moderaca River
up towards you talked about, not that township, yeah, good man,
good man, I knew a start of the tea. So
they let these characters lived up there, and it was

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quite a significant thing.

Speaker 13 (01:47:58):
This.

Speaker 9 (01:47:59):
I think it was a Wednesday, you know, a bit
of a joke. All the hippies coming down, they were,
they were happy, happy.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Yeah, it's a big it's hippy single, aren't it.

Speaker 4 (01:48:09):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:48:10):
Absolutely? And the of course, you know, in marijuana and
all those sorts of things. And one other quirky thing
was one of the they did a lot of drug
marijuana growing in those days.

Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
And the.

Speaker 9 (01:48:25):
Police had done a scoop and used the helicopters and
that and bought this, bought all these marijuana plants, very
mature plants, back, and they stored them out the back
of the for God's sake, out the back of the
old police station in Motawaca. And one of the scaley wags,
the local scaley wags, had heard about this, and he

(01:48:46):
whipped around there during the night because there's no one
on the police station at nighttime in Modo Aca, and
he dragged these these long things home. And of course
the police got there in the morning and there's got
to stuff missing. But the thing was all they had
to do was walk the trail of the lease around
to this joker's place, you know. But that's the true

(01:49:07):
story back in about eighty seven, nineteen eighty seven, were
there was.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
Just a season. Were you there, George, Yeah, I was.

Speaker 9 (01:49:15):
I was only there for a season that I did
actually go back on holiday at times, and you always
met these people that you worked with in the pubs,
and that the friendships last forever, Marcus, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
And there's be a lot of work too because of
the apple picking and berry picking. I don't know. I
guess a lot of overseas workers coming to it now.
Last time I was at the airport, there were a
lot of Fijian workers flying back and just finished the
fruit season. So I guess there's all sorts of people
travel around now with fruit picking.

Speaker 9 (01:49:41):
Oh absolutely, And that was also you talked about that
caller just recently said about the wolveses and the tobacco.
That was the end of that era, Markers. I think
about another couple of years after, perhaps nineteen ninety was
when the actual tobacco growing finished there.

Speaker 4 (01:50:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I think it was just by government legislation and New
Zealand cigarettes had to be so much local product. But
I don't think it was great tobacco. I think it
just sort of sort of bulked it out a bit so,
I think yeah. I think the overseas companies were quite
happy not to use the local stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:50:20):
Oh, I think so. I think so. But you know
before that those tobacco killed that and years before that,
you know, decades before that, they were huge there on.
Their tobacco was a big thing. Hops, hops and tobacco,
all the vice.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
It's nice to talk. George loved it. Thank you so much.
Games U become quite close dolphins around the charge back.
The score is fourteen twelve to be a coach killer
if they lose this after fording nil up. Don't deserved
to be in the top eight. And they're not just
crinulla just for a gentle ramble tonight too. So I'm

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enjoying it muchly, get in touch if you want to
add to it. We're talking, and of course all the
maccahn and Willison there all they're picking hops and picking fruit.
They all went to now much awaker in the day
was all a part of it seems an amazing story
of the outback miracle. This German woman that was lost
for twelve days her car got stuck. She just wandered

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too much about what happened. Fragile condition after twelve days
wandering in the outback.

Speaker 4 (01:51:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
I shouldn't stay in her car. I don't know much
about surviving in Australia. What they do say is what
happens quite often. You get stuck and you'll get hot,
so you'll drink your beer and then you get disorientated.
They say you should always carry light beer with you.
I had to fly to hospital. She's not in a
great state. There was CCTV for the java. But more

(01:51:56):
will be revealed, I presume. But yeah, dog Walker founder.
So it's quite a confusing story, this one. I'll wait
for the docu drama says there's no indication there's any

(01:52:18):
third paid involvement in her disappearance, but our minds are
open on any line of inquiry. Police ruled out foul play.
They said her disappearance is unexplained behavior and we're taking
it very seriously. I don't really know what to make
of that. Maybe nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:52:42):
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