Conundrum for the ages (16 February 2026)

Marcus watches the Halberg Awards, and talks about roundabouts (for the one time he's allowed to every calendar year)...

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be eight o seven New Zealand. A good evening,
and welcome Marcus Lush here. I probably should be Marcus Slash.
The way the country has been lashed with rain. Welcome.
I'll keep you updated with the news throughout the next
four hours. The Halbergs are on. I've just had a
quick sneak peek at those because I always love to
look how boring the evening looks. And that's fine because

(00:32):
I'm not going to go because I've not something that's
ever want a tuxedo, and I wouldn't. But what gets
me about awards ceremonies. It's always the same the Halbergs,
because they're there forever for five awards. I don't know
what they do, and they all look bored, rigid. But
the thing that amazes me every year they do it,
they're all sitting. They've got I don't know where it is,
will be Sky City or somewhere. They've got everyone sitting,
all the athletes and they're plus ones, all dressed up,

(00:55):
and they're all sitting at round tables. So half the
people are sitting with their backs towards the stage to
spend the whole time doing this weird twist to time work.
What's I don't know why people haven't gone for crescent take.
There you go. I think have invented something. Always go
to the crest table for something like that. Otherwise people
are looking backwards. Anyway, Hey, I got bitten today, which

(01:18):
is interesting. I'm not a person that gets bitten, ever,
how some people are bitey people. I've probably got stung
by a bee when I was twelve for the first
day of secondary school. I remember that, and that would
be about it. Mosquitoes don't really bother me. But I
got bitten. Must have been something that climbed into a

(01:41):
top i'd put on. I don't know what it was
under sort of up. Yeah, anyway, why am I telling
you this? Because it was quite interesting, I thought. And
they swell up, they swallowed up, and they then they've
died down a bit. And I didn't take a photo
of them, but they swelled up in an irregular shape.
They weren't round. They were like Cyprus that kind of shape.

(02:01):
But have died down now but still quite still ginger
to touch. There you go anyway, and the scheme of things.
I just put that out there because other people might
have been bitten today. I don't know what it would
have been. I feel like I would have been a
centipetere or some I don't know. I'm not the bug man,
and not do I want to be, but I mean
no disrespect. But you know, people are aware, Oh what

(02:23):
would have been this or what would have been that.
I'm quite happy not knowing, but it sort of added
a certain third dimension to the day. Anyway, Now there
is an article and I don't know if this is
going to be the major topic tonight, but bearing in mind,
I am all is for your problems. If you are
without power and need to know information from me, I

(02:43):
will do that. We're getting Akiraha's getting slammed at the moment,
so it's down in the South Island. Say look, I'll
be that's my major civil defense is my major purpose tonight.
So I'll keep doing with what's going on. So if
there's something, I'm all there for you. So yes, rest assured, Yeah,
because I'll tell you what. I try to want to
find out some information about the floods. In the middle
of the night, I thought, hang on, what's the It

(03:04):
was quite hard to get information, but I'm all across that.
So I will give you all the information you need
about the floods, so that will be rolling news that
but if you've got stuff also, so you might think, hey,
this has happened to our street. We're underwater, or you
might want to ring up and say, hey, I've just
driven past this and this is happening. Do you think
that's right? Whatever, All of it is interesting to me.

(03:24):
But you have become a wet old country, haven't we been?
The last couple of weeks. It's would become the theme
of early February, late January. It just seems to rain
and slip. It's not good either. By the way, I'm
looking at these people and the mayor of Ortoa Hunger,
and he's talking about this is going to be talked
about for generations. And you see those shots of houses

(03:45):
with a meter of water, and then you think, goodness,
gracious me, that just looks like the most one of
the most upsetting things that could happen. Everything wet And
I never knew that Autoa Hunger was flood prone, but
I guess, well, maybe it's not, maybe it never used
to be, but it's one of those places. If you
look on Google Earth, it kind of looks as though
it's in the bend of a river. I don't know

(04:06):
if I'm wrong there, but that's certainly what I was
looking at over the weekend. Does look as that it's
the situation. Of course, these things can be appeased, but
like Bale Kluther and there's stock banks, but it doesn't
mean for uncertainty if you're living in that town. It's
not like you can divert the river now. So that's

(04:29):
me talking about ultra hung up. But also I want
to talk about the bite and I've talked about that
the other story. And the floods. Yeah, I'm very mindful
if you've got information about the floods to let me know.
And if you're worried about your power or anything like
that oneday when it's back on and you've got no power,
I'm happy to Google things up for you. I'm happy
to be your Internet for you and your eyes and

(04:50):
ears if you're stuck without power, and I think there's
probably thousands that are stuck, so I can do that
for you. Just I hope your landline's working. Otherwise you
can have a Wally phone and call charge it in
the car and give me a call from the Walley phone.
That's the thing that cars are good because you're and
actually charge phones off them.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Something will be textically at less. You've got a buttery car.
People love talk about battery cars during rains. That's fine,
you do you The other thing they've spent some time
understanding today, it's an Australian article about a guy that's
discovered a roundabout heck. Now, boy did my eyes perk

(05:30):
up when I saw a roundabout hack and I read
the article. I couldn't really understand it. I thought, hang on,
where's the heck? But I will tell you and explain
it to you, because it requires a very special set
of circumstances to warrant the heck and what we are
talking about, and I'll describe this as clearly as I can.

(05:50):
We're talking about a roundabout, right, And I'm only going
to spend so much time sharing this with you because
I want to know if the situation exists in New Zealand.
We're talking about a roundabout and the approach to the
roundabout has two lanes. So you're in the roundabout and
there's two lanes approaching the roundabout, and the much longer

(06:12):
queue of traffic is for people wanting to turn left. Now,
in my experience, a roundabout like that with most people
wanting to turn left. As an outlier, most roundabouts that
are congested are the people going straight ahead would have
a longer queue that turning left. There wouldn't be as
many people, but it's a roundabout where most people are

(06:33):
wanting to turn left. So you imagine that you get
the roundabout, you're facing the roundabout, you want to turn left.
There's two lanes of traffic. The biggest lane of traffic
is for the people wanting to turn left. It's much
much longer. There's no one going straight forward. And what
the hack is is you go in the lane closest
to the middle of the road as though you are

(06:54):
going to drive straight forward, and then you do a
two seventy, You go past the left turn, you go
past the straight ahead, you go past the right turn.
Maybeus it might be a three sixty, it might be
a four fifty. Let me look at it.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
You go.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
No, it's it's yeah, and then you come sorry. So
you go straight ahead and you go past the left.
Then you go pass straight ahead, and you go past
the two to the right, and you go past the
one you came on too, and then you go straight up.
Then you go into the direction as though you're trying
to turn left. So that is the heck. I don't
know if there's any situations in usener that would be

(07:32):
a thing. If you know those things, let me know,
because this is a great deal of interest to me.
Could I love anything to do with roundabouts? But I
don't think I've experienced that scenario, so you might have.
But also we're talking about floods and your experience and
the halbergs and bites. Gosh, already, there's too much to
talk about already. I've just only just turned the microphone on.

(07:54):
So yes, get in touch to get amongst it people.
Good sport in the weekend, wasn't it? Yeah? Oh, this
is interesting text from PATTORNI. Good evening, Marcus. I popped
into Woolworth's on my way home after work today. There
was no meat whatso wherever they were clearing up most
of the frozen food. Tons of food being thrown out

(08:14):
due to power cut last night. Seems like a waste,
doesn't it. Couldn't they give that to the refuge refuse refuge,
and we are talking about roundabouts and your situation with
the flood and bites. That's what we've got on the
board tonight. But yeah, where is the scenario with that roundabout?
Would be a thing because I can't imagine that scenario.
I'd love it. I'd like to go there and try it.

(08:36):
It's interesting about the angles because you're not turning. You're
not turning ninety degrees. You're going forward at one eighty
to seventy, but you're not going back and forward. It's
kind of complicated with it. You're not doing a one eighty.
Now get in touch you on talk on name as
Marcus Welcome. The lines are free, oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine ninety to text if there

(08:56):
is something else you want to talk about. But bearing
in mind too, I do want to talk to about
the floods, and a lot of tonight might be me
just talking giving you updates on the weather, and that's
fine for me. I'm okay doing that. They've got about
four different news sources that have got rolling you know how,
They've got those rolling banners, and I'm all across those.
So amongst us all, we should be aware of what's
going on and whether it's bad. Anyway, let me just

(09:18):
take a break. I'll come in to some of your calls.
He's not even there. Twenty wave, twenty past eight, Timm,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome and that hacks. Yeah, miss,
can't quite. I'm not quite hearing you. Tim. I'm gonna

(09:39):
hope that you'll get bitter.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'll talk loud it.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
That's weird, that's good, that sounds good. Yeah, reckon, we
can do that. What happens?

Speaker 4 (09:46):
What?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
What?

Speaker 1 (09:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
What's? Did you know what I'm talking about with the
left turn?

Speaker 6 (09:49):
Or do you want to know exactly what you're talking about? Yes,
there's a roundabout in Hamilton heading north into Hamilton and
glenn View, there's a roundabout. The left lane goes straight ahead,
there's no left turns.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
Get very cued back.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
So there's another there's another there's another lane. It goes
to the right. So that's the one that Okay to go.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
All the way around and cut off the track of
it's been sitting there waiting to get onto the.

Speaker 8 (10:15):
Roundabout, so I can see it much a hack in my.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Opinion, it's yeah, I don't I don't have a very
good view of people that use this.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Hack to people.

Speaker 9 (10:24):
Are people?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Are people doing it?

Speaker 10 (10:26):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (10:27):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Every morning?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (10:28):
Many?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Okay, you know the state higway three? I hopeo roade
is that the one?

Speaker 13 (10:33):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (10:33):
The one?

Speaker 14 (10:35):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (10:35):
So yeah, there's lots of people about one or two
a minute. We'll do it and you know, just make
the cue even worse. So you know, my opinion is
that those people are you know, I can see the
queue with everyone else.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I can see it now. Although I'm looking at that.
There does appear to be left turned on both lanes
with the arrows, but it might have been changed with
the thing. I think that would work quite well for that.
So you make out you're going to go down Fu Drive,
but actually go right round and bang off back at
a hopo.

Speaker 7 (11:05):
Yes, can't cut everyone off.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Brilliant, Okay, whole that my holiday. Listen, Thank you, Tim, Matt.
This is Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Evening, Marcus. When you said that roundabout hat, I thought, oh, yeah,
I've done that.

Speaker 15 (11:19):
There's one.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
I don't know there anymore, but there's one coming off
the towering at Eastern Link, coming off to papam Old Beach,
there's a big roundabout just for exactly that. From the afternoon.
It's quite a lot of traffic in the left hand lane.
But if you're really naughty, I wouldn't do this, but
I have actually, instead of going right round, just slipped
round to the right and then pushed in. Wow, that's naughty.

(11:44):
That's too naughty.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But well it's not naughty. But it's not naughty because
it's quite an extraordinary thing. If people know. The alp
Gillies thing in Auckland also to people waiting to go
on the motorway, and it causes such outrage. But that
outrage you're causing people there's nowhere for that to go
because they're stuck in their car and they are stuffed.
They can't do anything that they cannot do anything.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I reckon that's actually a three ninety when you think
about it. Well, no, I don't right round, but you started.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
But can I just say, if you go up and
come straight back, you've done a one eighty, haven't you.
So it's just one eighty, but a bit more so
I think it's a two seventy.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
All right, How do your men go straight through and
come back? You have to go right round the roundabout.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
But if you if you went out and oh yeah, yeah,
you've got right round.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, so you're right.

Speaker 8 (12:35):
Now that's a three sixty.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, then you've got another thirty. Yeah, so that's three
sixty and then another thirty. I think it's a three ninety.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
It might be right. What might be a three sixty
plus ninety, it might be full fifty.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's probably better for the flow of traffic too.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
I think it's probably a really good thing because because
you're dividing it, yes, and that's what that's what roundabout.
So great air, the great equalizer, because you you've got
to judge yourself. If you don't, you'll get hit in
the side. So it's they're much better than traffic lights
because it will Ward's confident driving and risk taking and

(13:10):
common sense.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
I reckon all good.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Would people twotor you with this one?

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I don't think doing the three ninety, but you have
you trund something without going right round if you just
go round the right lane and sit back into the left.
That's I've only done that once.

Speaker 14 (13:27):
Sad. What road?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
What road are we talking?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
So Taronga Eastern lank heading from Taronga Tokatani. That's out
that way and then you come to exit the interchanges,
the Papam interchange.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
That is that is that the main road?

Speaker 5 (13:43):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (13:43):
It is.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, So you're which way you're going? You're you're going yeah, okay,
you're going there?

Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (13:53):
Right.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
The one where they build up on the left lane
is in the left lane because in the afternoon they're
coming out of town.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah, so you're pretending you're going down Tara Road, but
then you're week right around the bang off your home
and host. That's that brilliant. I'm I'm still not quite
sure about my angles map, but thank you for that.
Roundabouts and roundabout hacks, particularly turning left with the double lane.
It's almost worth going to find when those running. And
also weather updates are I will do what I can
with the weather. The latter stuff got for you. Now

(14:21):
it's just shots, massive waves that hid in her mouth,
massive waves at cau Coulda or the double cab buttes
are there. Winds up to ninety k's rainfall is expected
to reach two fifty millimeters over Banks Peninsula, so you
no doubt there'd be a slip there. It seems very
slippy these days, Banks, doesn't It would be surprised if

(14:43):
people aren't slipping there. Flooding has begun. An arcada of
Bank Spincer with photos showing rising water's rising in the town.
There's a stream that's running very high, and colossal waves
are hid in the Canterbury Shawline. I don't say how
big they are. Wouldn't be surprised if the railway doesn't

(15:04):
get washed out. I'm not saying, actually, I would be surprised.
I shouldn't say ridiculous things like that, but you know
it does. Look that is the railways quite close to
the quite quite close to the ocean there. Now the
other situation I can see too, The other breaking news
I've got looks like tai Happy has been cleared and
one dou We Mutter. The residents feel that poor maintenance

(15:26):
of the creek contributed to flooding. Yep, they say council's
got a part to play. There's a deep channel through
one Aria mutter with thick, tall overground weeds and grass
down the steep sides. Our dad normally goes to the creek,
removes all the watercress and weeds and stuff. He's not
around anymore. And now if you see it, it's so blocked,
no water can get through. So yes, what happens situations

(15:48):
like this that people get angry then they start looking
for blame, and you may be counsels should be doing that.
And the Kennedy super written one way mutter a lower
hut is on to its second round of flooding from
the storm. It's heartbreaking. So yep. The owners had to
call one one one about two twenty times and begged
for help. Yes, so that that just seems heartbreaking for

(16:11):
the Gandhi brothers haven't sept since Sunday night. Funny that
they called for help and no one came to help.
That's bad. And it's been damaged to both locomotive and
carriages on the widered upper line, six carriages as well
as nine carriage windows have been damaged. Why would the
windows be damaged? Why do you damage your window? I

(16:32):
can't quite work that one out if anyone's got the
intel about that. So yes, lines ire free if you
want to come through. We keep you up to what's
going on with the floods and bites and roundabouts, and
I'll keep you updated with the scores. That not the
scores the awards from the Halburg. But if I know
those awards that if we've got an embargo, answer to
all of them down. Yeah, yes, Steve's right, it's two seventy.

(16:55):
For it to be three to sixty, you'd have to
end up traveling the direction you entered the roundabout. That's
what I thought. There they go, put me off, Marcus.
Hamilton has a nightmare to drive through bad signposted, really busy,
confusing traffic. Gards that need to be three times bigger piers.
This time last year it was due it was so
hot in Auckland. Birds and hedgehogs were dying in our lawns. Tonight,

(17:17):
I'm putting on a heavy jacket through my evening walk.
There you go, go, the heavy jacket. It happens there
evering out the Green Lane round am in Auckland, as
well as cars coming down Green Lane East cutting in
from the left lane into the right lane to turn
right to get on the motorway heading north cutting in
from the left onto the right way. There we go, Marcus.
The roundabout at Middaewa is a given. It's just taken
an Aussie all this time to work it out. Very good, Marcus,

(17:42):
about by tadda coffee with an old girlfriend today we're
a chatting way and she grabbed my hand, put a
finger in her mouth and bit it. Wouldn't let it go.
Just laugh. She's seventy eight and eighty two. Great stuff.
I think we're on again. She is Frank. Good on
your Frank Marcus roundabout. Heck, I did this move about
eight years ago on christ Jurdge Woodham Road, Cuz road.
My partner was not impressed. You must keep indicating right

(18:03):
as you pulled this off. Of course you would much
debate whether it's four fifty degrees or two seventy degrees,
and all good arguments. It happens a lot on the
hut roundabouts. It's called the trade's lane. Then you're not
waiting in the queue. You've got to be ready for
road rage though if people are on to you. Yes,
we have that runout in West Aukland. People go on

(18:24):
the left lane because it leads to the motorway. So
you go on the right rain and go right round
and get off left. Then you're not waiting in the queue.
Youve got to be ready for road rage though people
are onto you. There was a two parter so also
about the floods to it seems though Petni Countdown thrown
away all their meat because the freezers were down. It's bad,
isn't it? But get in touch here it'll twelve mane
of us mark as welcome. Oh eight hundred and eighty.

(18:47):
Anything else want to mention tonight, But mainly it's about
the weather. Keep you updated with that hitting down the
country now heading down towards a coroa. Then now the
headline is massive waves. They're on shore, though, don't think
they'll be any good for surf. They're not holding up
Colossal waves the word. I think Sam Ruth got the

(19:08):
Halberg for Best Young Artists, Best Young Athlete, but he
wasn't there obviously because he's in the States. And the
more toa MOTOA floodgates maybe close to opening. I'm not
familiar with floodgates. I'm not familiar with where the floodgates are,
if you know what I'm saying. I think that's palmessed

(19:33):
North wang and Oui area. But someone might have some
more information about that. But they're about to open. But yep,
need your calls if you want to be a part
of the show. Welcomped on midnight tonight, oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine roundabouts and the floods
and bites also too. What's back in the news? Eden Park?

(19:55):
I thought I saw today that Bad Bunny was announced
for Auckland. Did you see that? And then I haven't
heard them talking about Eden Park for that yet, but yeah,
maybe they haven't got the venue, so not qua sure
what's happening there, but yeah, you can talk about the
artists that now they've got more things to be there.
Who you want to see there? I'll probably try and
get tickets to the State of Origin, I suppose, although

(20:16):
I think i'd rather see a State of Origin in Australia.
I know that that sounds entitled, but I think that's
probably you want to be amongst seventy thousand screaming Aussies,
not ten thousand. I think that's what makes it, isn't it.
But oh, yep, it'll be a thing. You know what
people be complaining about. You know what the State of
Origin will play in Auckland in twenty twenty seven, and

(20:38):
the first thing people will be complaining about will be
the inner city railop Oh, where were the trains and
trains went there? They couldn't get us where we wanted
to go. YadA YadA yah, say yep, watch this space
twenty five away from nine looking forward to your calls. Okay,
bad bunnies. If you're not understanding where the in your
head how it works with the roundabout, you can go

(20:58):
to the Facebook page markets last nights. I've done a well,
I haven't. Dan's Animal has done a drawing of it.
We've all agreed it's to seventy degrees. So that who's that?

Speaker 4 (21:06):
The hell?

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Big?

Speaker 2 (21:07):
What are they all up for? Parathlete of the Year.
They look happy. I think they're taking the whole team up.
Not quite sure whore that is. I'll tell you when
that happens. When I get more information of that. It
looks stoked now good text on it looks like it's
Rugby union, doesn't it. Mind. It's hard to know because
they might be bringing out they might be people coming
up to actually present the award, so you never quite know.
They kind of get people up to present it, them

(21:28):
people up to do the damn thing. Oh now, what
was I going to tell you? Ex right, let me
think our black fans sevens might be Team of the Year.
Marcus Slightly similar topic to roundabouts. Passing lanes in summer
when all blocked, some drivers cover both lanes to prevent
people using the passing lane. They try and keep it

(21:51):
single file. My mate, the distant drove across passing lanes
and normal lane, and please find them for dangerous driving.
This is one of the most polarizing summer barbecue topics.
People get fired up and I don't know how passing
lanes and someone when all blocked, but thank you, Marcus.
The floodbates. The floodgates are at Foxton. That's from Lee.

(22:13):
The widered uper train was hit by a falling tree
last night between Carterton and Marterton. That's what must have
broken the windows. Marcus. It's a two seventy. For it
to be a three to six, you have to end
up traveling the same direction you enter the runovoit that
is Steve. All these are more, But if you want
to talk on here, if you've got situations with your floods,
or if you've got breaking news, or you want to
talk about roundabouts or the floods or roundabouts, or there's

(22:37):
something else in there on the top of wavebits, I'll
remember what is soon. The floods, the roundabouts and also
to Contsteedon Park. They're open for business. They can have
a lot more concerts. Who do you want? Will it
be Bad Bunny? Will it be Taylor Swift? Probably not
Taylor Swift. I think it's not the venue. I think
it's the accommodation. So an update from power Co Power Coast,

(23:03):
who's crewis around the North under adjoining the local efter
to restore powder customer Orangutiki and Mnutu, Tatadu and wided Apple.
Following the World Weather, power COO head said the damage
is severe and could take days to get customers back
on our cruise and fwung Anuia are pulling that this
is the worst damage to the power network that they've
seen in the region from a storm in years, so

(23:26):
they're saying it's significant damage. There are twenty five thousand
without power, eleven thousand customers are restored. My math that
shows fourteen still without power, fourteen thousand in that area.
It's a situation there. That's the latest what I've got
for you from power Co. But but and there are

(23:46):
the latest Metserver weather warnings heavy rain for the Lower
North Thigh and east of South Island southwest scales easing
over central New Zealand. The low continues to bring heavy
rain to the lower North Island and east to the south.
Heavy rain warning that is orange nineteen to nine seventeen

(24:08):
away from nine. With you till twelve, Trent, This is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (24:13):
Oh hey, how are you?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, good things, Trent? Thanks for calling. What can you
tell me?

Speaker 17 (24:19):
Well, I'm in the Ypower region. I work it and
it's looking pretty bad here. We get any more rain,
there's going to be some major problems the rivers already
in places coming up. I started paddocks and just about
touching the roads. But the other thing I wanted to
mention was that you know, there's not just us there.

(24:43):
I hear these even fluds overseas in other countries. About
two weeks ago, I had some couple of chaps come
and knock on my door and a couple of Indian books,
and they said to me they were wanting help with
the pods in India. And I said to them, yeah,

(25:09):
I can help. But my buddy, how he only reaches
the later books?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
How did that go down?

Speaker 17 (25:19):
They didn't quite understand me. Uh, they didn't have much
of the seats of dreamer anyway, Well, yeah, yeah, because
is in your longer, I'll be happy to be happy
to help. Yeah, anyway, did not brilliant.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
H oh trient day. I was curiously if it was
still raining and wiper, but then we went for the
for the questionable pivot anyway, say sometimes sap as creepers.

Speaker 16 (26:02):
Anyway, Oh, to come if you want to talk eighty
and I actually I had noticed there had been floods,
and I don't know that was the point.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'll keep you updated with the Halbergs also too. I
think the seventh the women's rugby sevens has got Team
of the Year and Sam Ruth Newcomer of the Year,
and I think with the top one, and that's just
the best of all of them. So I think that's
the way it happens. So Black Ferns have one Team
of the year, para athlete Daniel Hison, Coach of the Year,

(26:40):
James Sandlin in athletics, Emerging talent Sam Ruth. Almost thought
Braxton Sorenson McGee could have got that, but I guess
Sam Ruth is a generational athlete. Next will be Sportsman
of the Year Jordy Beamish, Hamish, Kerr, Ryan Fox, Luca Harrington,

(27:01):
Chris Wood, and then it's sportswomen of the Year Fisher
Black Cycling, Semi, Maxwell Cycling, George and Miller Rugby Union,
Alice Robinson snow sports, she's got two eighth giant down
on the other downhill Erin Rutli of tennis and Zoe
Sadowski Sinnate snow Sports, snowboarding. Fourteen away from nine if

(27:26):
you want to come through eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine nine to text. They are on the
Facebook Messenger. They are Facebook Facebook, not Facebook Message. They
are calling the roundabout heck, the roundabout slingshock. That's almost
just what like you're doing. You're going right round and
then flicking off. It's quite good. But we'll get the
truckies later on saying if they can use it. By

(27:48):
the way, there is flooding in Little River, Canterbury. For
those that don't know Little River, it's probably how would
you describe Little River? It's well, if you see Banks
Plincher as being kind of a mountainous area, Little River
is just before that starts, I think you discribe that airs,
oh not, but in there a bit longer than that.

(28:08):
Actually it's up one of the valleys, so yeah, I'd
say probably it's sort of in the start of the
road to Akaroa. Not every town that's got a band
named after it. But that's a situation there. So there
is flooding. That's the stuff websites reporting that, so that's
in fact, it's not them, it's the US Herald I

(28:30):
thinks reporting that. But anyway, there is the fire Brigade
of posted images from there from two hours ago says
please take extreme caution on our roads. Some now have
parts that are flooded or of water run off across
the road from the hills deby falling onto the roads.
If you need to travel. If you don't need to
travel them, please stay home. If you need imager to help,

(28:52):
call Triple One. Might mean that people in acro are
there also will be. They will be stuck. I felt
for Trent the farmer, because he obviously spent the whole
day thinking of a joke the people come to his door.
Some people need people to talk to pop myself in
that category, wouldn't I. Now we are in the middle
of the Halburgs also, and I'll keep you updated with

(29:15):
the awards as they happen tonight always come earlier than
I thought, actually, the Halburgs. But yeah, they're very much
what's on today. It's one of those awards you get
all the different categories and they out of all those categories,
they picked the best ones. And the latest news to
his Power coast is this is the worst damage they've
seen for a long long time. It's around Rangatike news

(29:39):
from christ Church. Christ Church City Council says it's closely
watching the weather and is aware of reports of surface flooding.
Roading crews are being put on standby overnight and more
we know it in the morning. Well that's not good enough.
We need to know more now because more and more
people seem to be getting caught in cars, which I
think is probably a parlor state, so probably need updates.

(30:04):
So what else can I tell you? Jay says Marcus.
I was born in Auckland. But the winds yesterday during
the whole day was so strong. I think it's the
first time ever I've seen it like this, So there
you go. It seems to be a bit of a
summer tempest. By the way, they say, the rivers are arising,
the river levels are rising faster than normally in Little River.

(30:29):
A lot of comments on the roundabout hack, some pretty
crazy comment why is everyone only talking about this? Now
done it for many years? Used to do that and
put it to a completely legal and smart thinking. Fair
play to you, quoting a something from Veden Fleece, which
is interesting is that one album that's on Veden Fleece.

(30:52):
Fair play to you. It's nothing new, says N. Brigham
Creek round about the cheats to a lap round or
turn left in the right lane grinds my gears when
I've been queued up. You should do it. The people
that do this other reason for the que Die says,
look looks legal to me. Where was that comment? I

(31:13):
love that someone said, well, why is the people even
talking about this? Oh waitatter eighty eighty and nine nine
to text, get in touch, weather Eden Park, roundabouts, anything goes?
Why has everyone talking about this? Now done it for years?
It's nothing new, says N. But yeah, the people are

(31:34):
the reason for the que That's the most pointed comment,
I think because it's pretty well spot on. Swell has
got big down here at Karatani, but the rain and
wind no show. I think I was going to get
that far down. It's called the three sixty barrel roll maneuver.
Here's a text Marcus, the Heathcott Riverend Kashmir is very

(31:55):
close to bursting early terraces. Sorry, does that say Emily
or Eernly? That are on the end of quite collect
What do you with that? Dan numbering and twenty It
says the early terrast Deyre the Lotus day spar is
completely flooded. So thanks for that early early Terrastyre the
Lotus day spar. So I'll look with that as that

(32:17):
seems as though it's probably worth avoiding, so that to
situate what do I call it early? It's like firmly
without the early terraces. I'll just near the Cashmere Club.
I'm just trying to get a vibrating of where there's
the Heathcait River. Oh right, it's not far out of
Oh yes, I see where we are. Okay, my Google
Maps is back to front. But you just be mindful.

(32:39):
So appears though there is flooding in christ Jute already.
Semi photos if you can, if you do, want to
call eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two text. Yeah, that's just on the tight bend of
the river there. Yep, get in touch you on too,
but this or anything else, I'll take it call quickly
before the news if you do want to come through
otherwise here until midnight tonight, as I say, oh eight

(33:00):
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to text.
Keep your texts coming through. I don't think the waves
would get that. Didn't realize it was going to affect Otargo,
but it seems as though a karaitani it's been affected
now it's just north of Dunedin. Any other news, keep
us in touch with that and be good to hear
from it. All about the weather and the halbooks and roundabouts,

(33:22):
which is kind of the way we like it. And
how about old Wow Navali poisoned by Ecuadorian dart frog.
Pretty grim, isn't it. Yeah, so that seems to be
the one they want to watch out for. That's what
they're try and called the KGB defective with as well.
That was the guy in Salisbury. So yep. Some would

(33:45):
start to say it's already a state of war. But
be in touch, you want to talk on your My
name as Marcus, welcome hid on midnight tonight. Get in
touch if you want to be a part of it.
Looking forward to you. But Roman will be along at
midnight tonight, yep. And I hope with the rain in
the window, I hope the situation's been If you're in Bromley,
we haven't heard about that yet. I think there's another
award coming up. Dan Carter's presenting it. I think it's

(34:06):
probably for the sports Man of the Year. All those
people sitting with their backs to the speakers, looks like
it's the high jumper that tall unit. Greetings and welcome people,
Marcus till midnight tonight. The number is eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two to text. Someone
sent me a picture of the flooding at early Terrace.

(34:28):
Thanks for that. It's a photo that was taken half
an hour ago. So yeah, it looks like if it's
still raining there, it looks like this could be a situation.
I don't want to say something that's happening if it's
not happening yet, but it does look as though the
This is from William This is forty five minutes ago

(34:49):
on are they ducks in the constant? I think what's
down on the bottom of the photo. It's like it's ducks.
But yeah, the river is right up the Heathkeett River.
So if you've got some updates from christ Chich, do
tell me about that. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine to text. So it seems to be the South
Island's getting slammed, now, mate, that poor guy is joke.

(35:13):
That's really funny. Not so much the joke the way
it played out tonight. Well, the thing was, I mean
with people, but he's there. I mean, I think the
weather event and wiper and auto la hunger is is
terrible to make an a vaguely questionable joke. Yeah, Chris
says water is flying over the Capani Stock Bank spill

(35:35):
way to relieve pressure on the Ottawa River in the
nuit two thank you. Someone says four to fifty degrees
three sixty go all the way around, then another ninety.
You're not quite right. I wouldn't think anyway. If you
want to talk on air, that's what we're about tonight.
The number is eight hundred and eighty today eight past nine.
Do we know who got the best on and we
know who got that. We're just waiting for the best overall. Halberg, Richie,

(35:55):
this is Marcus welcome and good evening.

Speaker 11 (35:58):
Oh hey, Mac's man good, thanks Richie good Its good.
Hey listen just driving them hands free, sono Gramma that yeah,
I was just listening to talking about the Hallbergs. And
did you say that Hamish Kerr won the overall sportsman?

Speaker 17 (36:14):
Is that correct?

Speaker 11 (36:15):
Is that what you're.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Saying, Sportsman of the year. That's my understanding.

Speaker 11 (36:19):
Okay, man, Well, I'm really happy it's an athlete.

Speaker 18 (36:22):
But I'll tell you what.

Speaker 8 (36:22):
Here's the thing. You've got this.

Speaker 11 (36:24):
Guy called Jordy Beamish who enters the three thousand meters
steeple chase. He gets tripped in the heat. It quite
stands on his head with spiked shoes. He stands up,
completes the heat, qualifies in fourth place or the final
comes up against Soufein Albakali, the double Olympic champion. The

(36:52):
you're almost unbeatable this guy for the last ten years
over three thousand meters steeple chase. In that final is
another guy called La Tessa mcgerma, who is an Ethiopian
world record holder. This guy, nobody's ever the three thousand
people trace faster than this guy, Jordy Beamish enters that
race and wins the World champs and beats the world

(37:16):
record holder and a double Olympic champion, and wins the
first ever gold medal in athletics on the track. And
he hasn't one Sportsman.

Speaker 19 (37:25):
Of the Year.

Speaker 11 (37:26):
I'm just I'm I'm just staggered.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
By that much.

Speaker 13 (37:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
No, And I think you put the case really well.
And look and I also think and I think I
think this is right, that there is there is from
you and me. Right if I could be as presumptuous
there is a judgment against high jumping because it just
looks kind of boring, and not many people do it.
Is that kind of the right thing to say. I mean,

(37:48):
you've never you could never, you could never say that.
I mean high jumping event toys much pretty much the same,
aren't they. Someone goes over and that's about it.

Speaker 20 (37:57):
Well, it's pretty amazing. I mean, when you got to
stick a you know, take me or against the wall
and you take a look at a human being something
all of them than adore, that's extraordinary.

Speaker 11 (38:09):
My point is, did he.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Did has Curd? Did he was here the Worlds this year?

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
He was at the world Yeah and he won won.

Speaker 11 (38:17):
Yeah, Yeah, he won the world and he won the
Olympic gold medals.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
That you know, but but when when was the Olympics?
Was four?

Speaker 11 (38:28):
So that Paris in twenty four years?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, so that's not within the last year, is it.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
No, So he's backed up.

Speaker 11 (38:33):
But what he then did is he did go on
and win World Champs last year. And I'm not saying
anything against Hamish Kurdude. I mean that guy is amazing,
don't get me wrong, jumping two thirty six to win
a world title in high jumpers are amazing. But what
I can't quite have them is that Jordy Beamish. Geordy

(38:54):
Beamish enters the three thousand steeple chase. So I just
told you the.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Story behind that great story, and I.

Speaker 11 (39:00):
Basically think, man, if you listen, if you if you
look at that versus what Ker achieved, and they're actually made.
Those guys, they know each other really well and we're
just school together. They've competed together, they've done all sorts
of amazing athletics stuff together. But if I had to
pick one and it was Hamish Curve versus Jordy Beamish,
my tax is that Jordy Beamish's performance in that three

(39:22):
thousand meters steeplechase to win the World champs and beat
the Olympic double ompit champion. I mean, these guys all
turned up.

Speaker 8 (39:30):
Man.

Speaker 11 (39:31):
You know this wasn't a soft field here. This was
the world record holder and the double Olympic champion. So
go on and win that and then not win New
Zealand Sportsmen of the Year. I think that's a bit
controversial myself.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Does it also not bring up the craziness of awards
ceremonies when you're comparing things that currently be compared. That's
what I thought, because.

Speaker 8 (39:52):
I know it's impossible you're not comparing apples with that.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
No, And I know it's a fundraise, but I think
that hal Burgs. I mean, and we never really see
who the judges are there normally people from the media,
aren't they it's sort of a sports right. There aren't
many sports writers left. I don't know who is It
still ends Smith. Who else is doing it? I mean,
who's doing in Smith? And and Phil Gifford.

Speaker 20 (40:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (40:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (40:13):
They're both good chats.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Oh great chaps. I'm hearing you, Richie, thank you. And
I don't know who's going to be the ultimate sports person.
They may have announced that they may not have. I'll
keep you posted with that one, Bob. This is oh,
we're up for the female sports woman, are we Dan?
Is that right? Yeah, yep, yep. And that was that
was the hyphen Senate Sadowski Senate. Yeah, Bob, it's Marcus.

(40:37):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 21 (40:39):
Did I hear you say earlier you were wondering what
floodgates were.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
No a saying which flood gates they were, which part
of the country they are in?

Speaker 21 (40:50):
Oh, right, well, then there's not much point in my call.
I thought you said you're wondering what they were?

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Well, yeah, which those ones were that they're referred to
on the news bulletin that they're about to open them?

Speaker 21 (41:02):
Yes, well, leaders are the barriers. But the interesting view,
of course, is what I'm talking to you, that the
word floodgate can also be used in another context. I
suppose a simple example for tonight would be, with all
the flooding that's going on, somebody will bring a claim
for flood damage and that will open the floodgates to

(41:23):
other claims.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Very good point, Bob, thank you. Yes, it's like, is
it a metaphor twenty fifteen past nine eight. Keep the
text through to keep an Eye on christ Church. Big
Eye on christ Church. Look like situation the readers are
the weather is high, the water is high. Only terrace
that seems to be where it's flooding at the moment.

(41:46):
No surprise is there. Well, I say no surprises there,
I think since I don't know if this is related
to the quake, if the weather the quake has changed
the lying of those rivers or quite what it is.
But there is a view weather watching place for the
lower North Island and the South Island. At the moment
there is flooding a little river, colossal waves right down

(42:08):
the east coast of the South Island. But we'll do
what I can to bring you the updates of that.
And also with the Halbergs, this is pretty interesting. The
bearing the bearing head wave Boy in Willington Harbor recorded
a thirteen point six meter wave at eleven thirty six

(42:28):
eleven thirty six pm last night yesterday, amongst the wild
weather impacting the capital. According to one observer, the wave
dislodged the moaning Mini boy. So that's what it's called.
The moaning mini and the wave. Yeah, wow, that's unbelievable.
So it's a very good thing the fairies were canceled

(42:51):
because that wouldn't have been a nice trip with those
sorts of conditions. Sixteen past nine, eighteen past nine, Craig,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (43:01):
Hey Marcus. How are you Dad?

Speaker 23 (43:03):
Good?

Speaker 8 (43:03):
Thanks, Craig, Yeah, good.

Speaker 22 (43:05):
Talk about the Halbergs in a bit of trimming about it.
My father used to work years ago. I was just
a baby for Benson and Edges and they sponsored the
first Halburgs. So it must have been the late sixties
early seventies when the first Halburgs were done and Benson

(43:28):
Edges brought to New Zealand Jesse Owens, the Olympian Jesse
Owens to be to present towards I guess, and to
make statements. And he went and took him out for
around the gold for that kind of thing. We lived
in Twoger and he bought Jesse Owens home. I can't remember,
but he signed. He signed for my brother and myself

(43:53):
a photograph that it's got to My photograph is tooth
Craig all the burs via future Jesse Owens and that
hangs fried a place in the man Cave and my
brother got one as well. So that's that's a bit
of history from the Hallbergs when they first started.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
It's amazing for the history.

Speaker 22 (44:14):
Yeah, and that's an amazing thing to have hanging up
on your wall, you know. And all my mates they
come out for and they have a look at the
photos and they see the one of this black guy,
you know, up on the one. They go, here's that.
That's Jesse Owens and then they read the message on
it and they all think it's pretty incredible.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
It'd be sixty.

Speaker 22 (44:40):
Well, no he must no, no, no, he's older than that.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
No, sorry, I say, when he came out, this is
nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Is it.

Speaker 22 (44:49):
Well I was born in sixty nine and I was
only a baby, so I get hit. The first of
the Halburgs must have been late sixties.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
I think it was about six. I think it was
sixty nine, So yeah, okay, right, so I don't even
I didn't even know who'd been to news here, and
that's interesting to me.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (45:06):
No, he came and what I appreciate was way back then.
So it was in sixty nine, I'd just been born
and Dad had the nous to ask him for a signature.
Honors photo for me to have years later.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Did you say your dad was with the tobacco company, Craig, Yeah.

Speaker 22 (45:26):
He was with Vinson and Hedges and they sponsored the
first ever Halberg's.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Was he promotion sort of management for them?

Speaker 17 (45:34):
Was he?

Speaker 22 (45:36):
I'm not sure what his role was there. All I
know is he worked for W. D H and Wolves.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know what the jobs
must have been, like Madman or something, those jobs in
those days, no schorge of cash.

Speaker 22 (45:51):
But yeah, but dad dropped Jesse out and they had
around the Gulf to do him a good afternoon, and
that before the awards, and he came back to our house.
Of course. You know, I can't remember, but I've got
that photo. W works dry the place really nice.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Good call, Craig, thanks so much. Yes, it's been around
for a long time. They how big since sixty nine?
Once that sixty years not far off that fifty six.
I get in touch Marcus till midnight twenty two past nine, Doug,
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 8 (46:24):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Doug?

Speaker 12 (46:26):
As I understand it, the roundabout question, if you take
the first exit that you've you've gone ninety degrees right. Yes,
you go past the second exit that's one hundred and eighty,
you go past the third exit that's two seventy, you
get back to where you started that three sixty. But
you take the next exit, so three sixty plus ninety
four fifty.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
But if you've gone straight through, have you not just
taken any turn at all?

Speaker 12 (46:49):
It could be zero, but you said you've taken the
full circle that's three sixty plus.

Speaker 14 (46:56):
Then you take the.

Speaker 12 (46:57):
Next exit that's three sixty plus ninety four to fifty.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
It's kind of I can kind of see it as
both ways.

Speaker 12 (47:05):
How do you do so? I understand the consensus of
two seventy. Okay, So if you're going round the roundabout
two exit is ninety, The second exit, which would have
been going straight ahead is one eighty. The next exit
would have been turning right, which is two seventy. The
next exit, which is where you entered on, is three sixty,
and then the next exit, which was the one you
wanted to go left into three sixty plus ninety four

(47:26):
to fifty. If you do two seventy, you're going to
the right and you want to go to the left.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah, it's a visual thing, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (47:34):
It's a mass thing. Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Don't know if it is a meth thing. Because you're
going around a cirt year.

Speaker 12 (47:41):
You do a full circle, you said, somebody said, fling shot.
You do the full three sixty and then you take
the next exit. So you've done a full circle, a
full circle of three sixty. Then you take the next exit.
Next exit to the left is ninety degrees from where
you started. That's three sixty plus ninety you're four fifty.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
I think people can also explain it as two seventy,
and that's because.

Speaker 12 (48:03):
They go to the right of the only go that's
that's three exits one two three times in ninety's two seventy.
You've gone right. You haven't gone left from where you started.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
I mean, talkback loves.

Speaker 12 (48:16):
The other point are just on the flooding thing, and
a gentleman.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
For you, someone makes a point out for it to
go three sixty, you'd have to end up traveling in
the direction you were going correct. And then you see,
so you're going you're going straight ahead.

Speaker 12 (48:31):
Straight ahead is one eighty.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
You're going as you come to the roundabout, you're going
straight ahead.

Speaker 12 (48:36):
Right yep, and you go past the first exit.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
That was just listen to me. Yeah, but you're never
going straight ahead again.

Speaker 12 (48:45):
You're doing the round bat is a circle.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Yeah, but you can but listen to me. You're going
straight ahead right, So to do a three, to do
a three sixty, you need to be pointing straight ahead again.

Speaker 12 (48:58):
You'd be pointing back the way you came. That's three sixty,
and then you go one more exit that's three sixty plus.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
But in no way in the sling shot are you
pointing back the direction you're going again. You haven't gone
right round and heading the same direction you were when
you're approaching coming into the roundabout.

Speaker 12 (49:15):
Well you did that, you'd have done three sixty plus
one eighty to be facing the direction you'd be exiting
on the far side of the roundabout.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
But if you're driving along a greasy road right and
you come unstuck and you do a three sixty, yep,
then you are gone spun right round and your car
is pointed in the direction where you started. You've gone
right round. That's what a three sixty is, isn't it. Yes,
Now in your scenario, you haven't gone right round.

Speaker 12 (49:46):
You must do.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
No, you haven't, because your car is never facing the
direction it was when you came into the circle.

Speaker 12 (49:54):
Well as you go. No, that's not the right way
to think about it. If you if you because you
never no, no, no, because you never exit. If you exited,
it kind of is.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Well, okay, well let's walk.

Speaker 12 (50:09):
Left ninety right, does it? Hear me out? You arrive
at the roundabout, you turn left. You've turned ninety degrees?

Speaker 24 (50:15):
Correct?

Speaker 20 (50:16):
Is that correct?

Speaker 22 (50:17):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (50:18):
If you go to.

Speaker 12 (50:21):
Do you hear me at you straight? That's one eighty agreed.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
No, it's not because you started turning the opposite direction
from your original ninety.

Speaker 14 (50:28):
But if you go straight toward, if you go into a.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Round away, you start you started cancing that ninety because
you started turning the other direction.

Speaker 12 (50:35):
But your power, your vehicle is perpendicular to the exit
at some point, which means it's one eighty. Essentially three
sixty is you're describing it where you literally almost pivot
on your own axis, but you don't. You're going around
a circle. You're closing the circle down to a single
point when you think the vehicle's turning three sixty. That's
different from saying I'm going to go around travel around
a circle which has a radius, So I arrive at

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the roundabout and I turn left, that's ninety degrees, agreed,
beg your pardon. If I arrived at that and turn
left and the left and I went left, that would
have been ninety and ninety degree turn.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
But then you started turning the other direction.

Speaker 12 (51:13):
But I'll take the much l It's a circle and
it's three sixty degrees in the circle.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yeah, I think, I think.

Speaker 12 (51:24):
I think all the way around a circle, that's three
sixty and then I take the next exit, which was
another ninety three sixty plus ninety a sport.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Yeah, I can see both ways.

Speaker 12 (51:33):
I don't see you get to seventy.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Well, because you because you haven't spun. You haven't spun
right round. Your car is not facing for it to
do a three sixty, your car would have to end
up facing the direction it was originally going. And then
go a bit.

Speaker 12 (51:48):
More on your logic. All you have it, all you've
gone done is is achieved ninety degree turn. Then you're
just ignoring the fact you went right a circle.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Thanks Doug. I'm enjoying that greatly. People. But anyway, someone says,
what's the aunt Winston says he won't work with Seymour.
Ever again at next election goes Labor Greens. He would
love to see crumble and if offer the PM reckon,
he'll be off on the other side. Thanks for that.

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I don't know what that was appropo of. Someone says,
good night, Marcus, I've lost the will to live. Someone says,
think of it in terms of your heading. It's a
two seventy degree heading change. Simple. Don't over complicate it, Marcus.
Did you know that if you're born on January the first,
you can never say that your birthday was last year?

(52:41):
What does that mean? Anyway? I think Richie mccaul's won something.
Didn't know he was back once he won. Dan is
there a legacy award or something? Who's he's a Hall
of Fame inductee. Who's the first?

Speaker 5 (52:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
I see second for tonight. He's in the Hall of Fame.
I don't know who the first is. Will find out
for you. Someone says, Doug is nling it Doug for PM.
Valerie Adams also got inducted. I wonder why she was there.
There we go twenty nine to ten. Welcome people, by
the way too. For those that don't know about state

(53:14):
of origin, this is the second time state of Origin
has not been played in Australia. The first time state
of Origin was not played in Australia. And this was
a bit of trivia that I wasn't aware of. Was
in California. Yeah, so anyone know that could almost make

(53:34):
the quiz. Actually, that will be in the quiz. I
think it was Dan's already written it. After Queensland won
the nineteen eighty seven series two to one, a fourth
game was played at Long Beach, California, to show case
rugby league to the American public. How's that sound?

Speaker 14 (53:52):
Eh?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Is that interesting? It is to me. I'll see if
I can find a bit more information about that. To
showcase rugby league. The match was played the Veterans Memorial
Stadium at Long Beach, California, twelve thousand, three hundred and
forty nine spectators. The Blues won the game thirty eighteen.

Speaker 8 (54:10):
Says.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
There has been some debate on whether this origin fixture
was countered an official match, but the records have confirmed
that that was an official match. According to the governing body,
it was an exhibition match twenty eight to ten. Hello Mary,
this is Marcus. Welcome Hi Marchas.

Speaker 15 (54:30):
You've got a clock skin in your studio.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
No, I was just listening. I'll just listen Dan. We
haven't got a Dan. Can you hear a ticking? Now?

Speaker 15 (54:44):
The clock ticking has been I've been listening to that
for about a week.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Now tell me when you hear it. Make the sound
you hear? Yeah, through the ticking it's a cop Yes,
can you hear it now?

Speaker 15 (54:59):
No? No, I'm through the radio.

Speaker 17 (55:01):
I can.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
We're about to you, Mary.

Speaker 15 (55:06):
Canterbury.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
It's not an electric fence, is it now?

Speaker 15 (55:14):
It's a clock ticking. Do you wonder what it is
when you're on the street, when you're talking in the studio.
I can hear the clock ticking. It sticks like my
way out in the lounge.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Okay, I can hear the tick. Love a mystery, two
things talk back Loves is a mystery and someone misinformed
like the man with the directions. Oh, Marcus, think of
the roundabout as a square. You make three ninety degrees
turns it's two seventy degrees. That guy that just called

(55:47):
it to my head in Now that's back to this
person with your birthday on January one, Your birthday is
last year, this year, and next year. It's every year.
I still understand that, Marcus, you are correct. The left
turn is ninety degrees, but then you make a ninety
degrees turn to the right, so zero or straight on.
I did hit black eyes, did a three sixty. Worst

(56:08):
thing seeing the powerpole of plate approaching my raar windscreen.
I ended up facing the direction I drove I three sixty.
The car took five seconds three start. Was quite unnerving,
but there we go. Now, let me just have it
of a quick look at the weather again, because you know,
we have a bit of mirth, but there is serious

(56:28):
things happening around the country. So what I do when
I go for weather I look at everyone's rolling weather updates.
I'm not seeing anything new apart from Little River, not
the band, but the town that's been hit with flooding.
And the boy, the moaning Mini Boy recorded a wave
of thirteen point six meters. Now, I'm not deliberately trying

(56:52):
to start controversy, but I've looked online and I'm not
quite sure whether the waves are from the trough to
the peak or from the median to the peak, and
I can't get any official information about that. It's quite
interesting that I always thought wave height was from the

(57:15):
average to the top, or from the base level to
the top, not from the trough to the peak. It's
not the scientific definition of it, so I'm not quite
sure what that is measuring. I suspect with that being
that amount it from as low as it goes to
as high as it goes. But some mariner might have
more information about that. And don't you love a mariner.

(57:39):
Someone said it'll be electric. I thought's an electric fence,
even Marcus, you could turn right at ninety degrees, then
turn right again as one eighty degrees back where you started,
but facing the other way. Marcus, I'm not sure about
the origin and Auckland. Most keys will bitch and moan
about the ticket prices. They won't be cheap. Plus the
game having such a lake kickoff and window overhear won't
be great conditions. Yes, they mown about the price, the mode,

(58:00):
about the start time. Then mainly they will moan about
the central rail loop not working properly. I can just
see it all happening out The check GPT answer is
four fifty degrees. But yes, so it's only talk. Guys,
don't get too heated. Twenty three to ten if you've
got weather updates, for us, please bring those through. It

(58:22):
is interesting that with how many angles you'd go because
you haven't gone right round. Latest for weather, here's what
I can tell you. Christ Church City Council said it's
closely watching the weather as aware of reports of surface flooding.
It says road and crews have been put stand by
overnight and more we know it in the morning. We
really need more information than that from christ Church. I

(58:43):
think I'll see what I can find on Facebook also.
But if you have got any updates, if you're driving
around christ Church yourself, people would be nice to be
put to. It'd be nice to be put into the
picture of what's happening there. Twenty to twenty two away
from ten, you are not seeing anything on the local
Facebook pages from christ Church either, which is a shame. Oh,

(59:06):
I mean it's a good thing. There's no bad news.
Twenty two to ten. We're taking the problem to the
maths department tomorrow. We will report back on that because
it's a real good one. That's a good question. It's
almost could be on the SATs for those that have
just joined in for the Halberg update. Sportswoman of the

(59:27):
Year Zoey Sadowski Sinnate Sportsman of the Year, Hamish Kerr
para athlete Daniel Hison. She's track Team of the Year,
Black Fern sevens Coach of the Year, James Sanderland Athletics
Emerging Talent Sam Ruth. At the moment, Ronnie Clark is

(59:47):
speaking after his national anthem. They won the moment, so
that's the moment fan favorite, moment of the year, and
then they're waiting for the award of the Ultimate Award.
I don't know if fan favorite can become one of
the ultimates all. By the way, btw ah, by the way, gosh,

(01:00:10):
I thought I was looking for an email text. I'm
looking for an email. Vow has emailed. I'm in North Canterbury, Mary,
and there is no ticking. I agree with you. She's
near an electric fence, particularly if the water is sold,
and there's probably more chance she'll get the electric fence
interfering with your phone line. I've had that in my

(01:00:32):
rural livelihood, so that's that it's not a bad thing.
We don't hear many on talkback, and she's we'll probably
one on one hundred. AH. Swells are measured from the
lowest point to the highest. It's a very good text
because I'm us getting swells confused with height of the waves.
It's great or the trough to the peak low tide

(01:00:54):
christ Church is eleven pm, so flooding may still be
three am onwards. Marcus. I originally subscribe to the four
to fifty scenario, but no pun intend. I've done a
complete three sixty and now subscribe to the tooth any
degree scenario. Thank you well. I think is great is people,
even though we are audio people are thinking visually. It's
quite challenging to think abstract directions when you're just not

(01:01:16):
writing things down. Marcus. The Heathcott River around the Beckenham
Loop has now broken at banks. It's on our Beckenham
local facebook page. Can I get on that stand of
you on that Beckenham facebook page. I'll get onto that,
but yeah, and could you tell me also too, how
big a deal is that. I don't want to say

(01:01:37):
that to diminish it. But is that something that happens often?

Speaker 21 (01:01:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
So is that something that's happened all too often or
very rarely? I just want to try and engage this
Beckenham neighborhood. I need sally into others. Our Edmonds can
I get no selling or advertising. Yep, yep. I don't
think I can get on tonight. If anyone to see
me some screenshots of what's happening on the Beckenham Facebook page,
I would appreciate that. So that's just the update you again.

(01:02:05):
And with what's teening. The Beckenham Loop has now broken
its bank, Marcus. The point is you are continuously going
to the left as you circumnavigate the roundabout. You are
not going left and going right. Your contenency going to
the left from exit to the next one. Oh yeah,
it's a conundrum for the age, is that. And no doubt,
once upon a time we'll be studying that in universities,

(01:02:29):
which is quite a good question. You probably need to
remove yourself from it. By the way, there is now
an orange rain warning heavy rain warning for the eastern
hills of Wellington and whited Lupper and the Terror of
Arrangers from eight pm to eleven a m. That's on
already sodden ground their people. But yeah, I'm bringing you
more than news that I've got. So that's a situation.

(01:02:50):
Just to refresh. It looks like there's flooding in christ Church,
Little River Kadoa the Beckenham Loop, very strong waves surging
and kai kolda a karaitani down the coast too. So
that's what's happening. I think we've got everything for you
at the stage. Oh yeah, so that's all the weather
stuff for now. It's fourteen away from ten o'clock. Someone

(01:03:15):
wonders whether who had the ticking, Whether Mary might have
a ticking beetle or a deathwatch beetle in her wooden clock,
because the death watch beetle will get into woodwork and
it will click. They knock their heads against the wood
in a rapid rhythmic ticking cadence. That's my prediction. I'm

(01:03:36):
still waiting for more updates too on the Beckenham Loop
for those that don't know, I think that goes to
where those are that guy Castle's did those shops? You
know what I'm talking about, do you? It's like a
there's old brick buildings they turned into quite as she
she shopping area. I think that's right. I've had a

(01:03:57):
bit of a wand around there and am I right? No,
I might be. I might be further up the river
than that, but I'm just trying to work out the
where that goes oh, and it goes straight through there. Sorry, yeah,
ignore that. Let's trying to look where in fact the
actual flooding is. So if anyone's got the more information
about that, do get in touch. Let's try to find

(01:04:17):
out that situation. Heathkep River around the Beckenham Loop. Yeah, okay, yeah,
I think that's just a bend in the river. So
that's where they started off talking about that at earnly Terrace,
So that's a situation. I was thinking about the tannery,
which is further down. That's where there isn't actually a
short cut across there. So yep, I wasn't right with

(01:04:38):
that one. Now let's look at the texts, Marcus. Last
week you were talking about restaurants. Twia could cook your
own steak. The Old Flame Palmerston North nineteen eighties had
a central grill fantastic that we need to know and
be in touching on talk on the radio tonight. It's
nine away from eleven, sorry, ten ahead of myself. By
the way, there is fireworks going off in Mount Oh.

(01:05:01):
There's Christopher Lux and our leader is it the Halberg's goodness,
he's presenting the ultimate Halberg. I think, Marcus, this thing
right now from Mount Albert there are lowed fireworks going off.
Now Is that illegal? I don't think it is. It's annoying,
but not illegal. Night away from ten. By the way,
hamous Kura has won the Ultimate Halberg for the Altermid Awards.

(01:05:25):
That's him. He's got that. David's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 25 (01:05:29):
Good Marcus. He has quite an impressive storm surge swell
out there at the moment, I was swimming at Brighton
Beach at six o'clock hot for the sauna at the
hot pools, and it's quite one of the biggest swells
and biggest surfs I've seen for decad or for years
a long time.

Speaker 9 (01:05:48):
But I thought that.

Speaker 25 (01:05:50):
The Hefkett River business had been sorted by Kurlitz Road
swale and supposedly soaking up a lot of that rain
and what have you. But evidently it hasn't been resolved now.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
Swale.

Speaker 25 (01:06:05):
Yeah, it's a large excavation by the stockyards on Kurwitz
Road there that they dug out and it was supposedly
going to absorb or take a lot of that rain
wash away from the Heathcot River.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Okay, a swale is like a wetland is it.

Speaker 25 (01:06:24):
Yes, it is, yes, it is just quickly Bruce from
little one that now. It used to have that issue
with a clicking I think, Bruce Russell Offfen and I
remember and we used to have a click click click.
But yeah, that was my thoughts on this. But they

(01:06:44):
would be pushing up to the heathkit, I imagine, and
not so much from the rain rain, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Dave, I just want to get a cut one other
before the news. But is it windy and raining heavily
or a bit of both? Just one it has.

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
Been, It has been.

Speaker 25 (01:07:01):
It's eased off a little bit now and I think
we're over the worst of it, evidently, but that we
have had a lot of rain.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
And okay, appreciate that, Dave. I'm going to move on,
but thank you so much for coming through. Joseph. This
is Marcus. Welcome, good inning.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
Roundabout. It was conducing only let's see if I clear
it up, because what we've got is two points of reference.
One is the roundabout, one is the car. And when
you're looking at the roundabout. We entered the roundabout, you're
starting that zero degrees. If you're get taking the left exit,
you're going a quarterway of the round that's ninety degrees

(01:07:35):
straight to head. You've gone half way around. You're taking
the right hand one, you've done it three quarters, that's
two seventy. If you're exiting where you came in, you're
doing a full turn of the circle. It's three sixty.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Yes, but your car, but your car's only turned around
one hundred and eighty degrees, hasn't it correct?

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
See, that's the difference your car is a one eighty
degree points of reference difference. So the left turn you're
doing a left ninety. If you're going out straight ahead,
you haven't turned the car and so that's zero yes.
And you're doing if you're taking the right and tune,
you've gone three quarters a round roundabout, but you've only
turned right knowing to degrees. And if you exit where

(01:08:15):
you came in, you've just turned your car around. You've
done a one eighty one sixty of the roundabout, but
one eighty off the car.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Free good Joseph, Thank you. Bennett's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:08:28):
Jay About the fireworks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
I'll be Chinese New Year, won't it.

Speaker 9 (01:08:39):
No, you're only allowed to have fireworks on Guy Fox
unless you're a public display.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
I thought you could only buy them then no, yes.

Speaker 9 (01:08:49):
You can only buy them then, and you're only allowed
to use them then.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Okay, what's the rules?

Speaker 9 (01:08:58):
That is the rules?

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:09:03):
I only found out the other day when I was
talking to a volunteer applyby gate Joger and he says, yeah, allow,
you're only allowed to use privates fireworks. I'm guy Fox.
Now any other time it has to be a public display.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Yeah, I don't know if that's true in New Zealand.

Speaker 9 (01:09:23):
There is New Zealand Tony came in this year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
I'm looking at an article now it says can I
buy fireworks now and lit them off later? On the air.
There is nothing to prevent people letting off fireworks any
night of the year, and they often appear in our
skies for sports matches, concerts, cultural events such as Dewali,
the Hindu vestal light and New Year's Eve, as well
as the lunar New Year. However, it's not recommended to
store fireworks long term. So yeah, I'll be curious to

(01:09:50):
see what the law is on that, Ben, But I'll
look into that because that's a good problem you brought
up as well. So yeah, we might talk about the
legalities around that because there seems to be some font
confusion back after the news. I'm going to go do
some roundabouts. Greetings, welcome people. Are we talking five weeks?
It seems as though you can to let them off
for any time you like. That's what people are saying.

(01:10:11):
Someone said the dogs are going crazy. I can see
a fire truck being called out already. There's fireworks going
off everywhere, and obviously it's February so it's dry and
there's fireways fireworks going off around me Helensville, Chinese New Year.
So people are saying that the perfect roundabout for the
maneuvers you've described are the twin roundabouts at Silverdale north
of Auckland. You can't help but do it when there's

(01:10:34):
two northbound on ramps to choose from. A plit sick
and just go to get on the motorway first, Mac Marcus.
You can set fireworks off at any time of the year.
Laurally applies to selling and purchasing of them. That's what
we are talking about. Welcome people, Hittle, twelve o'clock. My
name is Marcus Good Evening. It's all about the roundabout.
Oh they've finished the coverage of the Halbergs. Good evening, Laurie,

(01:10:57):
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:10:59):
Yeh hi Marcus. Hey you Solby Wise. I must agree
that the old Geordy Beamish could have been my picture.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
Yeah, me too, Well that guy quite convincingly.

Speaker 13 (01:11:08):
Yeah yeah. Now with the with the roundabout issue, I
mean the guy that said before, you know, think of
it as a course change. It is definitely two seventy degrees.
You know, if you get that picture of the roundabout
and you and you put your three sixty degree protract
on it and just trace around it because it's two

(01:11:31):
seventy degrees that it's the direction you're heading when you
when you're heading off. I'd say certain situations, I want
to avoid eye contact with people on the left end.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Oh absolutely, And you'd want to have your number plates
obscure if you live in a small town, Beau's not
going to go down.

Speaker 13 (01:11:48):
Well is that a road rage?

Speaker 21 (01:11:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:11:50):
But is there slingshot effect? It could be pretty good.

Speaker 17 (01:11:54):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
I think I think they could become a This could
become a viral thing. Like is the dress blue or gold?

Speaker 9 (01:12:02):
With that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
Is it two seventy degrees or four fifty degrees? Because
you can see both. Thank you? Laura, nice to hear
from you. Ten past nine, ten past ten, I beg
your pardon, missus harden Peter Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:12:14):
Amy Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Are there, yes, Peter, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:12:22):
On the old thing now on the Google now that
the guy most of the guys that did right, So
you can live off crop file if any time of
life in New Zealand, there's no law against and this
the council makes some by laws or whatever. You open.
Slavery just got they're doing up on Auckland. Now as
soon as the government does something about it, like your
team day, they can do it. A guy if I've
be talking about before with few and soon as the

(01:12:43):
bid will stop his clowns and doing what they're doing now.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
So who are the clowns?

Speaker 21 (01:12:48):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:12:48):
Those people they're doing that five weeks now up in
Auckland there's the Chinese Guy Forks is happening there tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Well, hang on, what's more important to celebrate to commemorate
Guy Forks or to celebrate Chinese New Year? It depends
what culture are, isn't doesn't it?

Speaker 18 (01:13:03):
Seeing regardless of what culture you are, just got to
bandon in New Zealand. So you just got to stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Regardless you as a Bennett for Bennett, for Guy Fawkes
or Guy Fox as people like to call it as well.

Speaker 18 (01:13:14):
Yeah, just so I was speaking us before a few times,
and you now just ban it totally. Just ten days
of the year after the Guy Fox, not ten days
go for gold after that's it and the dark getting
prosecuted whatever. Just got to stop this because we've got
enough past hassles in New Zealand now with insurances and
firefighters on strike and whatever. You want to cut that
those problems down as much as we can without adding

(01:13:35):
people adding to the problem.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Be pretty hard law to police.

Speaker 18 (01:13:39):
No, I don't think it would most people they had enough.
I think if you did a survey on it. You
know people got pets. Most of you got pets, have
got cats, dogs or whatever. Excarse the shit out of
them or what.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Watch the language, watch the language peat this kid sist thing.

Speaker 18 (01:13:52):
Yeah, as soon as they stop it for everybody as
well being and those people they let those off, But
they wouldn't like if they had pets or horses and
having pet bills.

Speaker 15 (01:14:01):
I think it is.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
I think they are celebrating that it is the Year
of the Horse.

Speaker 18 (01:14:06):
I don't know what that's celebrating for.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
But well it's a Chinese New year, and the new
year is the year of the.

Speaker 18 (01:14:11):
Horse, Year of the horse. Well, they're not taking much
of the horses, are they.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Well, that's what I'm saying. That's the that's an irony,
but that's the situation there.

Speaker 18 (01:14:18):
Well they should be doing is maybe sending all the
poor people that have horses here here it or broken legs,
and I'm singing them the bill the bit bulls.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Well you would also make the yeah, okay, I mean
it'll yeah, no, I won't go there, Peter, But thank
you not much joy in that call a that's all right,
don't always want joy Stanley. This is Marcus. Good evening, Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:14:41):
Good evening, Marcus. Now look I think I know the
reason why when you go around and round about and
you come back off the same way as you went on. Yes,
it's three sixty around the roundabout. But the reason why
your car does a one eighty is because as you
enter the roundabout you do ninety degrees anti clockwise.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 10 (01:15:06):
And then you go right round the circle, which is
three sixty clockwise, and then and then it's ninety degrees
anti clockwise to come off. So you've got two nineties
at anti clockwise, so it's three sixty minus one eighty,
which is it means your car has done a one eighty?
Is that makes sense?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
All makes sense to me because I think there's two
different ways of looking at it. How's the flooding where
you are, Stanley?

Speaker 10 (01:15:35):
No, it's all good out here at Maricopa. We're only here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Oh are you at the copa? Oh you'll be going
good breakdowns? Okay, it didn't land there, it's with a.

Speaker 10 (01:15:43):
It's only just over the hill. Yeah, no, but it's
been massive.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
But I looked at that. I didn't really know much
about that river. But yeah, the river that goes through
or did I hunger?

Speaker 26 (01:15:58):
Where does that?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Where does that start? Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:16:00):
Way up on the hills that's the water?

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Yeah, wipe? What are those wizards? What are the hills?

Speaker 10 (01:16:04):
It starts and called Oh I should know, but it
comes out in our wahie. You know that?

Speaker 15 (01:16:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
I do, I do. It's where they jump off. It's
where it meets thee. It meets the white out of that,
doesn't it?

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
Or yeah, yeah, but I'll tell you what. Back in
twenty fourteen, there was an article in the local paper
where the council had done a big study and the
engineer had given a warning back then that with you
know the extreme weather events that we're getting in the world,
that there's a stop bank in Otra Honga which could

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be overwhelmed one day with catastrophic consequences.

Speaker 9 (01:16:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Well, it's one of those towns I don't even realize
I was looking at on Google Maps. It's a town
on a river bend, isn't it. It starts at the
dang A Toto range. That's the range where it starts.

Speaker 10 (01:16:56):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just couldn't forget,
did not.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
It's not a range you ever hear about.

Speaker 10 (01:17:03):
No, there's lots of wild deer living up there. And
but yeah, it's head heads all the way down.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
To a long river goes a meandering way, doesn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:17:16):
Yeah, heads around past prong here. At Prong here, I
think it would have a job to actually flood up
over the land there because it's a way down, you
know what I mean. Understand it's way down. But then
when you get to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
I wonder, you wonder, if not know why he is
vulnerable at the at the meeting point of two rivers.

Speaker 10 (01:17:41):
Well, hunt No, I think it's not so bad. But
Huntley is vulnerable, is it?

Speaker 25 (01:17:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:17:48):
Yeah, because it's it's caught a lot of Huntley is
quite low. Sure, I understand, but yeah, now does there's
my theory on the on.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
The three, we'll check it with the other Stanley. It's
fun to have something about nothing. But thank you. By
the way, the Halberg's gone to Hamish, the ultimate Halberg,
the ultimate for his jumping. I like it when teams
win it. How was there anyone go to the yachting?
How is that in the weekend? Someone says, Marcus a disgrace.

(01:18:18):
Our education system has found these adults on your show
who don't know basic geometry that a ten year old knows.
They haven't said which way they're thinking. Oh, Marcus, I
checked the rules on fireworks. You can let them off
between five and ten three on private property only to
one am on New Year's Eve. Marcus, I am from
New Zealand of early European descent. I think let Chinese

(01:18:40):
using the celebrated day that's important to them. Yeah, fair enough.
Seventeen past ten, rud So, eighteen past ten, good evening, Vaughn.
This is Marcus, it's Marcus Voughn. Welcome there you go, Goodborn.

Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
This roundabout carry on, I reckon. It doesn't matter whether
it's three sexty or four point fifty. It's a dirty.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Movement, such a such a dirty move, such a dirty move.

Speaker 7 (01:19:11):
I'll just pull it out in front of the O
if I see them doing it that you can go
take a running jump.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Hey, for are there many roundabouts with that applies with
two lanes going in and whereas the left lane turning
left is the one that's really built up.

Speaker 7 (01:19:27):
Oh there's enough. There's a few, and turn on the mate.
There's Yeah, they're just bed drivers anyway, but yeah, you
get a few. It's quite surprising just how many they
are around the place. I couldn't start naming.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, But the thing is, the more people do that
dirty move, then the more the left turns clogged up
because they're all waiting to give way for the people
during the five point forty or the two seventy, if
you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:19:50):
Absolutely just doing the dirty So they're doing but yeah,
they're trying.

Speaker 8 (01:19:54):
Doing the dirty useless move.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
You ain't just block them back for ever, and so
just it's all about you I guess, isn't it's like that?

Speaker 11 (01:20:02):
Not what on there?

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
It's the key we share. It's the key Wei Shanghai.
Don't like it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:08):
That they're staying right? Yeah, but you know, not not
good at all. I reckon it's this cop should be
pulling you up on it. You shouldn't be able.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
To do anything else from you.

Speaker 7 (01:20:20):
Oh, the the white here the river around Prongier and
it used to live around here. We had a farm
that had a bit of a bit of white parents boundary.
It's quite interesting river and Beck in the day, the
riverboat used to come up to prom here and then
overland to Capia. So yeah, you used to play the
the pedictry there and you put up with few out effects.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Here and there and hang on how the riverboat go
then overland drop people like you get horse and meat.

Speaker 7 (01:20:47):
I suppose you because it's a there's an island in
the river just sort of the Poky Tootra, just just
about three or four k out of Brong here there's
an islands and the river boat couldn't go any further.
So there was a station over land to Kapia and
things like that back in the day. Is there's quite
a few bornamental trees and they're sitting around. There's not

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the captain of the off the station any more of
the homestead, but in the beck pedots.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
So how far where was your farm?

Speaker 7 (01:21:20):
About about four or five caddies out of Bromium, getting
towards that Trono.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
And is it is it it's deep at that stage?
Is it it's deeper that's fast flowing or pretty gentle.

Speaker 7 (01:21:37):
Navigatable, yetely navigatable. Yet it's she's a pretty big river.
And then like the penney from the other side of
the tivity that joins it, just around the same sort
of area, so quite a big, quite a big catchment
that it services and takes a lot of a lot
of river, a really salty river though, really really salty river.
So maybe that's just the farming making it worse nowadays.

(01:21:57):
I don't know, but but yeah, that back in the day,
that's where the river used to come up to and
border from here over the Kaffia or vice versa.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Oh yeah, kind don't know much about the don't know
much about the riverboat history around there, but I guess
that what, yeah, that's quite interesting what you're saying now.

Speaker 7 (01:22:18):
Yeah, we used to come up through probably from Port
White and then you know, come up hungry the White
Headow and then stood off aDNA war here and and
that's sort of thing here. So we wouldn't stually hear
much of the history and that sort of stuff these days.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
That's probably why Parongia originally exists. There would be the
good location for it. You get there on riverboat. Where's
the island, Well, Prongi.

Speaker 7 (01:22:38):
Here just about the s A four or five baseball
booking totra. Just Prongia used to be called Krongia, and
then it got chance to Alexandra because it was supposed
to be there was supposed to be what Hamilton and
there was supposed to be to make Hamilton, and it
was all grit seeks and doubts into hospitals and high
schools and paper roads and that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (01:22:58):
And then the road that's to the railway. The railway
is quite a way out of Tiamuda. It's not in
the in the main town center. And because you or
a straight line and shouldn't really go through the Rookie
year swamp and all the peak then, but for whatever
reason it did. There is a bit of a conflict
as to where it's gonna go, and and then they
were dumping ballast there for many many years trying to

(01:23:18):
get the railway through all the swamp through the peak.
It's pretty bottom us And so yeah, Promia was changed
Alexandra because he we couldn't even mawery name for our
main pain center. And then the railways suld have made
a bit of a left end and if you look
at it, you can see how the line should go,
but it sort of did a bit of an old
Megan and then they changed it back to here to Prongia,

(01:23:39):
so jewishit the the fop's eggs. Now the public he's
been going to Alexandra Hotel and Alexander voters and that
shes be called Alexandra, because yeah, it's gonna be. It
was gonna be what Hamilton is. It is gonna be
the big, big center. But the railway went the other
way and then.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
We just cut out of the one where view ended
up where you moved to.

Speaker 7 (01:24:00):
From there, I've ever total and now he has been
probably twenty years from here.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Did you like did you did you feel you needed
to be spend your life on roundabouts? Is that what happened?

Speaker 7 (01:24:12):
Oh, God, I wanted to retire staring it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
So spirit for nice to hear from you. Thank you
for that. Twenty four past ten lot going on, too
much going on? What am I going to do now?
I'm going to ask for some more calls. I'm going
to a weather check. If you have got weather information,
let us know what weather information you've got. I'm just
trying to look on Google Maps for the railway line.
It's kind of quite hard to follow it when you're

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if I go back to Autolo Hunger, we had to
reverse engine heer it. Oh, there it is, but look
you do come through eight hundred and eighty ten eight
nine text. We are talking about the roundabout heck, which
is the roundabout dirty when if you're turning left you
go right and once around. Well, as I say, once around,
quite what's around?

Speaker 14 (01:24:59):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
I love how people get heated up at straight away.
They think terror all the other blood with the education system,
we should be celebrating the fact that we found something
in myth that's quite complicated anyway. Oh, there's even Alexandra
Streets that goes to prang Areas right on funny shaped racecourse,
the one at Tello Mouto isn't it anyway? My name
is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine.

(01:25:24):
Text you want to be a part of the show.
That's the planned Stan Marcus, longtime listener and text of
forty one years ago old and had my first time
visiting in Vercago. I loved it. Great buildings and lovely gardens.
I was surprised by the car culture, and there's a
model train shop there too. It really had a vibe

(01:25:45):
I'd happily moved to. Only got called a jeff for once,
otherwise felt welcome. Thank you. You didn't hear the old
Jeffers anymore as much do you? We're talking five weeks
as a favorit of five weeks ago. A terrible day
for old Chinese New Year on a Monday, isn't it?
You want to be later on with a toy? That's
the way I suppose. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

(01:26:06):
Be in touch if you've got anything to add, And oh,
that's what I was going to tell you. The weather update.
That's right. Let's have a look at what weather updates
I have for you, because there's quite a bit of
rain falling in christ Church now. I shouldn't say now
like that, should I? But I'm not seeing anything new.
I'm sure the news agencies are given the juno's arrest

(01:26:27):
because of it a busy weekend. They've probably used up
their roster. So there are road closures. A little river
be advised that there are road closed a little river
township Stateto seventy five during Barclay Road to Council Hi
seventy five in Western Valley to Church Road, A small
diversion can be taken absolutely required down churches. I guess
they're encouraging people not to go. And there was a
thirteen point six meter wave recorded at Moning Mini the Boy,

(01:26:53):
which is just on the mouth of the harbor at Wellington.
I'm sure the truckes would be pleased if ferry wasn't going,
that would be a grim trip. I guess the ship
would and cope would they would? They would it? I
do feel for those people that are on the X
and Dry and Fury that is just moored. That's not

(01:27:13):
good that one. So if anyone's got any more information
about that, this is the one that's just moored off
Nelson that they can't get that to the Dan. I'm
just trying to look at my rolling coverage. I can't
find my rolling coverage from r n Z. What do
I click? What do I click on? For that much
of Yeah, I can't get the rolling feed anyway. I

(01:27:34):
think I've given most of what you need because normally
these websites have the thing where everyone puts all the information.
That's what I'm trying to find. For that one, they
might have stopped it.

Speaker 9 (01:27:43):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
What's the one half an hour ago? What are they saying? Yeah, okay,
we haven't got any more weather updates. But if you've
got weather updates where you are always good to hear from,
you be in touch if you want to be in touch. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Eden Park state of origin?
Do we know what time it'll start? But yeah, they've
had a state of origin overseas once and it was

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in California in nineteen eighty seven. I Suppo, how much
will tickets be? One hundred bucks? The bucks? It's hard
to know. They'll sell out. I reckon ten thousand Aussies
will be coming across. What game is is? If it's
I hope it's Game one or two. They don't know
which other because if it's game three, it's a dead
rather that will be disappointing. If it's one that we
already know the result from, let's hope that's not the case.

(01:28:27):
And good the keywis can place data origin that are
born in Australia. That's exciting. Yeah, that's a good thing.
Makes sense, makes perfect sense. The Halburgs. If you watch
the Halburgs, you might want to comment. I can't work
out why they've got them all sitting at round tables
with half the people. They're back to the audience, so
with the back to the stage. Could never work that out.

(01:28:48):
And I've kept you pretty well updated with the weather.
But you've got a weather update for me. They said
there was massive waves that hit in owy Mouth and Caukulda.
I don't know if they're doing any damage it. You
might want to let me know more about that. So
that's where're up to it the stage twenty eight away
from eleven. Some of the other stuff I can tell
you tonight. No more medals. We've got one silver and

(01:29:10):
one bronze medal at the Olympics. I will be happy
with that. In the T twenty quick at replay, Canada
next would be banana skin game, that's what they call them.
Rachel McKenna was back on shortened Street tonight. First Warriors
match is not far away now four weeks or three
and a half weeks. Warriors faced the Roosters Friday, sixth

(01:29:32):
March in Auckland at Ericson. By the way, this Sunday,
it's fifteen years since the christ Church quake. Long time
and they finally getting this stadium too long A twenty
seven to eleven. Hello Allan, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:29:49):
Yes, Egney, how I understand that they measure the wave height.
Of course, the boys go up and down with high
and low tide and GPS measured. So yeah, halfway through
the tide, we'll say we're halfway through the tide cycle.
It's measured from that point at that height to where

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the wave lifts the boy up to its highest point,
and that's the height it measures how it measured it,
so it can measure at high tide and low tight
and anywhere in between.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
Makes sense. Yeah, So if it's a thirteen point six
meter wave, is there also then a trough? Is it
from top to bottom? Is it even further?

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Well, if it was thirteen foot six waves. That that's
how high it lifted the boy and the GPS pinged
to give it the maximum height and where.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Because it'd be a trough at the back of the
wave too, wouldn't they.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Yes, but take that the trough.

Speaker 8 (01:30:52):
The wave had its head on.

Speaker 12 (01:30:55):
The trough didn't hit first.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
Yes, sure, understand.

Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Yeah, and then you get stability after the trough for
the next wave. So that's how I've always understood it.

Speaker 9 (01:31:06):
When I was dealing with.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):
Well nautical people and we're the people and that sort
of thing. They said it was measured on the GPS,
the boys lifting up and going down.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
It's a big wave. Thirteen point six meters.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
Certainly is throw any vehicles around in the ferry, not
alone counting throwing people around.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Be horrible, wouldn't I? Yeah, And I would never want
to be on a ship like that. So I think
the androna sort of pulled out at about six meters,
doesn't it.

Speaker 21 (01:31:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
They normally flag it for safety reasons when they're heading six.
Not to say that the boat can't handle it, but
it throws everybody about, and you're just testing things, I think,
So I throw safety to the wind and pull the
plug and not go, which is common sense.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I wonder what it would be like if you're in
the on one of those roll on roll off ferries,
if you're down in the we're all the ships, where
all the trucks and cars apart, and one of them
gets loose, you know, because they do, you know, when
they're all changed. It must be it must be horrible.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
No, they close the deck, They seal the deck and
close it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
Yeah, and you can't and you can't and even the
staff aren't on it, you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Know where you can't go down. Staff would probably be
able to go down. But they got watertight doors in
case anything happens. So when the boats loaded, everybody exits
and the crew do their last bit and they close
the doors and they seal everything. They're all water tight hatches.
So if there is an influx of water, you know,

(01:32:53):
I going to sink the ship and carry on up
the decks.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Brillian, good information and thank you for that. Twenty four
away from eleven. Oh, this is quite interesting. Someone's texted
me their father. Their biological father played for the Kiwi's
nineteen sixty five to nineteen seventy one, moved to Australia,
then played for Queensland nineteen seventy three. I think they've
played two state of origins, yeah, two against you South

(01:33:17):
Wales obviously. Yeah. So he's one person that's done it.
But I don't think many others would have played for
New Zealand and then played for state of Origin. See
that's a reality that's going to become more common now.
Although I don't know how that guy would have qualified.
I don't know. I don't know enough about the qualification there.
Thank you for that, Marcus. Is nothing dirty about doing

(01:33:40):
the two seventy It's all about human evolution and survival
of the fittest. You snooze, you lose. There's a Freemason's
lodge in Hamilton called Alexandra Lodge because it was originally
based in Prongia slash Alexandra. Thank you, Marcus. Imagine of
every culture that we have, and you said we're put

(01:34:01):
to set fireworks off to celebrate their particular New Years
Evil special day. We'd be having fireworks going on twenty
times a year. All cultures are welcome to accelebrate their
own particular celebrations of their country, but not to the
extent it bothers other people. Oh is that right? Is
it according to you, Marcus. You recently you pronounced you

(01:34:22):
didn't have the subject of climate change tonight the talkback
shows about the weather, which you said talking about seeing tedious.
I don't like. I don't mind talking about climate change.
I just don't like talking to the idiots and the
climate change deniers. And the point I was making about
the weather is that we are If you're not in
a weather affected area, it might seem that there's a

(01:34:42):
lot of weather that I'm giving you, but I think
it's very very important that people are kept aware of it.
For all those people without power listening on transistor radios.
People need to know. I think it's a very important
role that radio performs. I make no apologies for that.
I'm just saying it might not have been an interest
to others. But yeah, my commitment to keeping people informed

(01:35:06):
a second to none. It's pretty much why I'm here.
People so very very important, very important. So that's what
I'm on about. But yes, keep those texts coming, all
of them.

Speaker 23 (01:35:20):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
The roundabout doing the dirty. The dirty on the roundabout
is when there's two lanes coming up to a roundabout
and they're queuing to turn left and you get in
the right lane and you go right round then come off.
That's the dirty people aren't a fan of that. Andy,
This is Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:35:38):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm enjoying the show. Thanks Andy, Thank you.
So on roundabout that the state of origin the first
game was.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Nineteen eighty oh wow, okay.

Speaker 8 (01:35:52):
Yeah, on the new rules of you know, state of
origin per se as such.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Oh so that it was a new criteria. It was
a new criteria for to play for them.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Yep.

Speaker 17 (01:36:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:36:03):
Now you're roundabout saying if there's two lanes entering the roundabout, yes,
and you're in the left lane and you want to
turn the left. Yeah, Are you saying that that's typical?
Or if you know what I mean, if you're on
the left lane entering the roundabout, yeap, then then you
just keep turning left, wouldn't you?

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
What I'm saying, is there some situations I think a
lot of that happened in Totonger where it's got going
on to motorways and stuff. Right, So for those there's
two lanes and the people turning left right, yeah, the
traffic traffic is way backed up, is backed up for
like half a kilometer.

Speaker 8 (01:36:36):
Yeah, on the left lane on the left lane. So
what you do you're saying, there's only one lane to
the left exit in the left lane as well? Yep, yeap,
so there's only there's two So there's two lanes in
one lane out?

Speaker 13 (01:36:51):
Is there?

Speaker 8 (01:36:51):
What you understand it?

Speaker 9 (01:36:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:36:52):
Two lanes out, two lanes out, So.

Speaker 8 (01:36:54):
Two lanes in, two lanes out. Yeah, but the but
you're on the left lane, you're in your own lane.
You can just keep going round to the left.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
But what I'm saying is that there's that's way way
way back packed back with people turning left. There's huge cues.

Speaker 8 (01:37:09):
And what you do on the exit as well?

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
Yeah, so what you do is you go on the
right lane and then you go right round and then
come off that way.

Speaker 15 (01:37:19):
Well that that maybe, you.

Speaker 8 (01:37:20):
Say, But then what do you get?

Speaker 10 (01:37:21):
What?

Speaker 8 (01:37:22):
What what happens though? If if you're in the left
lane and you go straight, you're going straight through the roundabout.
Oh yeah, that's then that guy coming around he's stuffed,
isn't it. Yeah, So I don't think that's a So
you're going around the roundabout. Might you might might feel smart,
but it ain't.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
Well, I reckon this system works, but everyone on the
left lane is turning left. I think it's a specific
left arrow.

Speaker 8 (01:37:48):
Oh, a specific left arrow. Okay, but there is still
a spear lane on the right hand tide.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't done it. It's just a guy
in Australia reckons he's cracked the roundabouts by doing this.

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
Well, what you want to do is go to Paris
where you have to give way once you're on the
roundabout two oncoming vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:38:10):
Yeah, I'm not going to drive overseas. I'm good, but
not that good.

Speaker 8 (01:38:13):
You want to go there, Marcus, that would be funny
to hear your explanation when you got that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Do think i'd get back? Andy? Thank you? Fifteen to
eleven good eving marks. Oh my god, just heard you're
ask about sealing the decks. So that about the animal?
What about the animals that are down there in people's
cars and creates great company when I cannot sleep, which
is most nights. Thank you. I don't think. Yeah, I
was reimpressed. Last time I was on the Enron and
Ferry with OLP carrying the crew were to the animals.

(01:38:43):
They have them in cages, but they do take the
owners down at halftime to look at their animals, which
I thought was quite sweet. I hadn't seen them. I
don't know that it's a recent thing or the animals
seem quite happy, seemed to have very good people looking
after them. Fifteen to eleven, hit til twelve and everyone's

(01:39:03):
gone quiet with the weather. I guess it's a good thing.
Not very exciting, but I guess it's a good thing.
We have got road closures and giant waves, but the
updates kind of have stopped, so you make of that
what you are. We've got texts in information. There was
flooding of the Heathcot River near Beckenham, the Beckenham Loop

(01:39:23):
or something like that, and people are upset about fireworks.
Happens every year. It's just that this is a Monday,
and it's not likely the fire danger the country sodden.
I think it's probably a fine time to lead off fireworks,
probably better now than it was at the December five
November five. So the other thing that's interesting too is
that I've just finally thought about it. With if your
birthdays on January the first, you can never utter the

(01:39:48):
words when was your last birthday?

Speaker 6 (01:39:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
It was last year? Like for me, my most recent
birthday was last year, and I'll be saying that right
through until July. But if you're born on January the first,
you can never say your birthday was last year because
it never was. You've just had your birthday this year. Interesting,
isn't it. It'scored the last year paradox, so you can't

(01:40:11):
say it was last year. Is it interesting? Yeah? Well,
what if you're born on December thirty first, do you
always say it's last year? What wouldn't you until December
thirty one? It's always last year. There wouldn't be one
day whither it's today or it's last year. Is it
interesting for people? It's interesting to me Marcus. The Mikhale

(01:40:34):
Lumantov Cruise Ship Anniversary sixteenth February nineteen eighty six. Oh gosh,
it was too fourteen. It's forty years ago. Twenty six
and fourteen. Yeah, wow, now diving that for other don't
know they're still diving that or not. There was a
long time people were diving through down into that big
story at the time, very big story at the time

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when the ship went down, in much discussion about the pilot.
I can't remember all the inquiries, but it was pretty complicated.
You might have some memories of that night. It was
a Russian cruise ship, which seems like an anomaly these days,
doesn't it. I don't know if I don't think that
the crew were Russians, I don't think the passengers were Russian.

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I don't know where the pair. I think the probably
fair number of kiwis on it. It was a fiting
new ship to It was only about fourteen years old
when it went down. Three hundred and seventy two passages
crew of three four eight still rests were at saying
obviously they never brought it back up. The preliminary inquiry
found that at the time of the grading, the ship's
course and speeds were being directed by Captain Di I.
Jemison and the imploy of the Marlborough Harbor Board as

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harbor Master and Chief Pilot. The decision direct the ship
through the channel was made by Captain Jemison without consulting
any other person. At the time, the ship was in
position attitude forty one zero one zero four longitude one
even four nineteen thirty. When Captain Jemison has absorbed the
passage between Cape Jacks and the Cape Jackson Lighthouse to
open up, he made a sudden decision to navigate the
ship through that passage. Richard Prebble, the Minister of Transport,

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later stated of the captain's actions while he decided to
guide the ship of a passage that actually knew who
was too shallow, I don't think he'll ever be able
to answer. There was a court case and that was
all about damages. So it's all quite nicely summed up
in Wikipedia. Got a lot of discussion about that over
the years, a lot of talk back discussion about that

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through the years too. And I don't necessarily know that
that's a place that you see when you are on
the ENTRONO. I don't think you go through that way.
I'm not fully I'm not because the ship was big.
I'm not fully sure about the layout of that. Oh, anyway,
I've got to do a break. Sorry about that. Thanks Dan.
Seeveway from eleven just faw away from eleven Heit til

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twelve Roma. I'm pretty sure it's Roman at midnight as
far as the weather goes, Hi, Marcus, at our place
here in Lincoln, our backyard has turned into a lake.
If we are lucky, or the hazel nuts would float
down towards our back door. Pretty windy too. We have
a lockwood home and it sounds like the roof is
going to blow. Were used to the noise, but visits
Aunt Lol Loretta. Nothing like the crack of a lockwood.

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By the way, too, I wouldn't imagine if we're going
to see a spike in fruit and vegetable prices. I
think a lot of the growers have been very affected
by the reins, so it will be inflationary. There'll be
my expectation there. If you've missed the Halburg's Hamish Kurr
won everything well, I mean he won the Ultimate Halburg.
Varie Adams and Richie McCaul got inaugurated into the Hall

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of Fame, and Sam Ruth won the up and comer.
I think that's what I need to tell you about.
So that's the situation there, And if you want to
talk on air Hetel twelve, it'd be nice to hear
from you. Oh eight hundred and eighty to tendy one
of us, Marcus, welcome and yeah, getting ready for the
final hour. Let think think of some new stuff to
talk about. Then people are upset about the fireworks, mind you.

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People are upset about everything these days, aren't they? Rather
than celebrate the Year of the Horse. But that's some
of the discussions today also, and most of the news
I've had throughout the night has been weather and the Halburgs.
I haven't got much more information about the weather. It's
just come through. Looks like Richard Hammond of top Gear
his daughter has been involved in a high speed crash.

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She must be a car racer. And jedder On Dotton
Papoli is going to France. Well, yes, he's had a
tough time with the all Becks. I don't know what
happened with him and Razor, but wasn't really wanted his gomburger.
Eleven past eight past eleven, All night saving can't be
far away, can it? No comment? Can't wait? Hey, who

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wants to talk this hour? You are more than well.
Anything goes really, I've enjoyed it greatly, but we've lost
in a structure. Marcus Friday eight thirty Bulls versus Whole
a whole kr is It was called for club challenge
played with super leig rules. Was little promote the Indigenous

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All Stars versus the Maori team which was drawing. Watched
that match. That match was great, like the spirit where
it was played. The players look like they're into it,
like seeing Nico. I enjoyed the challenge. I thought they
went great. I thought there was some Yeah, it looked
like it was a great crowd at Wakatof and I
thought it was good. It was a great start to

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watching league for the year. So you did watch them
at a sport in the weekend, I watched the America's Cup.
I don't know if you were there. So it seemed
to have taken the joy out of the Sunday, didn't it.
But yeah, wow, that was a well I mean, you
can't be surprised that happened, but wow. So there was that,
and then there was He watched a bit of the
rugby union, but certainly watched the league. Didn't watch all
the women's match.

Speaker 11 (01:45:41):
But that was a draw.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Also, I think it was a draw. Actually, might might
not be right with that one, but yeah, thanks for
those texts.

Speaker 17 (01:45:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Roundabout cheats happens at the roundabout at the end of
the Northwestern Motorware at Auckland, big time. Those coming from
Westgate given the right lane there are two are left
and the right the right one for those to keep
going not turning off left, but the cheats can exit
alongside those then left as well. That's what they're doing
the right layers for those joining another roundabout entry point. Meantime,

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the rest of us sit there. These cheats indicate they
go right, then switch off the indicator of the drive
in the right roundabout. They could reduce the initial roll toller.
But if the camera was there, Marcus that birthday last year,
comment Unkenny for interesting and imagine if you avoid waiting
in long tue to turn left off the main road
and cheap by going right round the roundabout, you would
get toots of annoyance. Drivers would see you as they

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wait having to give way to you. It's not polite, yeh,
it's a good trick. Now you've got to up your
texting game number ending in nineteen o eight. That's not
very good. It comes through about thirty different versions. Cost
your fortune. Good evening, Alison, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:46:51):
It's just about the Halburgers, well, helburg Wars, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
Call them the Halburgers.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
I like that, Alberg. I'm just going to say the speeches,
I thought we're excellent, and most of the people that
spoke without notes, so I couldn't believe how good that
all the speeches were fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
I never know. Sometimes they have notes, you just can't
see them. It's on an invisible auto. Yes, so I
could tell that notes or.

Speaker 12 (01:47:13):
Not, I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:47:14):
I don't think Hamous Curd and I don't think Danniel
Atkinson neither of those did. I think they're just growing
completely off. Oh god, you know, without notes at all,
we really good. I thought maybe in the woman's it's
hard to go against Zoe, but I thought maybe the
tennis player might have Aaron might have got that one.
It's just unfortunate if you come up against the cavigar

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where somebody's got gold and that you're never ever going
to get the best sportswoman. So shot she won't ever
get if, I don't think. But she did very well
Aaron in the tennis and whatever. But yes, well, anyway,
the woman got the one in the in the the
black Friends got it in the team one, so in fact,
Georgia Miller didn't get the woman's one. Whatever. I thought

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it was very nice that Irony Clark got the best
moment one for singing at the yes at the rugby
that time. Yet it was very good.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Yeah, thank you all. It's so nice to hear from you. Hello, Darren,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:48:06):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:48:08):
So easy, it good, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:48:11):
I just start with I just I really feel sorry
for the door for but to whether that's going all idea,
it's just shocking, uh haarwa grassach And I've been read
with basically belclast you over there is that we're not
doing too bad here. It sounds what the rest of
you know terms as well. But are you talking about

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the earthquakes fifteen years ago?

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
It's a long time suddenly, isn't it Now?

Speaker 22 (01:48:37):
It just feels like, you know, it just feels like
a couple of months ago. It's just horrendous. I was there,
you know, I lived here and I went to it.
And the crazy thing about it, but it is I
lived in this house and I always did my window open,
and there's a couple of cats set and there out
there were the mats, but they wouldn't sleep on the bed.

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And then at four forty three these cats come through
a window started screaming, screaming and hairing, give up yea,
you know they see that bag and all. And then
it was was crazy that the sick one was worse
and its just that it will everyone but together and

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sort of everything out. I just don't, I can't believe
when to mate come down? He downs because he was
across his form, Darwin, and it's at a pub and
a drunket. There was anyone left around, so a lot
of people come to it. There was a lock of
a huge headlock that you couldn't cap with that with anything,

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and it just keeps shaking, and he goes, what was
it shaking for that? When was obviously tread this gay
underneath all the time and it just keeps shaking. You
couldn't you couldn't stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Well, all that after shocks.

Speaker 22 (01:50:02):
Just this lot, Mate, there was huge fass shaking and shake.
I just you couldn't stop it. It just keeps shaking.
And then we got hurt by one and all these
four were drives in the car pack and all that
kind of gone on two wheels and the buns in
the red and he basically which the import flew home again?

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
What pub was that, Darren? It was called Coasts Coasters.

Speaker 22 (01:50:29):
Castes, Teman and cross. It's it's nus raid what road
then you right? Recording name of Braden then was great?

Speaker 2 (01:50:38):
No, I haven't heard of that. And it's still there.

Speaker 14 (01:50:45):
Yeah, yeah, still here.

Speaker 22 (01:50:48):
I painted it for you or whatever.

Speaker 26 (01:50:50):
But we're lucky painted you tab? Sorry, did you paint
it to power your tab? I'm not like that sounds
like you might be.

Speaker 22 (01:51:03):
No, not at all. But where were We're old wyck
around here, so the old will be things deep in
here and that's what saved us. The gravel gravel just
two for the impact. Yeah, it's just incredible there. I
ended up going in and taking safe at the banks

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and you know that's where job was. And it was
just crazy that Valentine's robson Valentine's our dairy braying Columbo Street,
and it was just crazy that.

Speaker 10 (01:51:40):
It's just.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
Tell me something, Darren. Is there any excitement about the
stadium or has it been so long that people don't
care or are they physic about it? Mind you, the
Crusaders didn't do that well on the weekend today.

Speaker 22 (01:51:52):
It's fantastic looking thing. It's amazing looking the sheet.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
No, it's just incredible to the christ people are excited
about it. Oh, definitely, I'm heartened by that. Good on you.
Thanks for they are nice to talk to you. Get
in touch if you want to be. My name is
Marcus Hitler Midnight anything goes about the roundabout? Heck about
Eden Park? About Origin? Who else do we want to
ed in park? Now we're gonna get all these concerts.

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I think we're getting bad bunny. Not quite sure who else?
Probably he'd Sharon or comeback. He always seems to be here. Well,
he can turn on his own, doesn't he? No band
seems selfish. Someone on a Facebook page said that the
old Kiwi Shanghai on the roundabouts illegal. It says it's
against the legislation Road User Rule two thousand and four

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four point six y two. A driver approaching a multi
lane roundabout who intends to leave the roundabout less than
halfway round the roundabout must into the roundabout from the
left hand lane or from a lane signed with a
mark by lane news arrows for trafficking team to leave
less than halfway round. Goodness, Hello Mo, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:52:58):
Thank you Marcus. I'm just sparking a comment regarding your
previous call about the earthquake and without fuesteem anniversary coming
up on the Sunday twenty second. I'm very intrigued. Have
to be researched being done regarding children five ten year
olds back in the day they're the earthquakes.

Speaker 15 (01:53:18):
How they are now?

Speaker 23 (01:53:19):
Were they traumatized? Are they fine?

Speaker 10 (01:53:22):
Have just wondering?

Speaker 23 (01:53:23):
Be fascinating to know, wouldn't it how they're now?

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
Yeah, it would be, And I imagined I kind of
get a sense that they probably, Yeah, I kind of
feel a sense that they might be doing quite well.
But how would you know. I'm not hearing any signs
that there's a there's a delinquency problem or those people
that are sixteen or seventeen now that they were young
when their parents went through their trauma. Yeah, but I'm sure.
I'm sure that there will be people that will be

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really keen looking at the data and seeing if there
are any trees, because I guess it would be internationally
fascinating because you know, I actually worked.

Speaker 23 (01:53:58):
With youth and children as reception for many years, and
I saw them coming for counseling post earthquakes, and they
were all healed with lots of sessions. Oh my gosh.
Then a big as shot came leaving the last appointment
and not back to square one. Wow, traumatized again.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
I guess the really good I guess the really good
thing it hasn't been made you quake since Thank god? Yeah,
thank you, I agree, nice to talk to Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:54:27):
Mo.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
There we go short and shop and we go oh wait,
one hundred you know the rest of Marcus till twelve.
What have you got? What have you got? Give it
your best shot? Twenty three past eleven? Yeah, and also
state of origin? Will you be going? Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
Yeah for me?

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
If I want to go to a I would rather
go to a state of origin in Queensland, I think.
But that's just me. Someone's wondering if that when Darante
he painted the Coasters Hotel, if he painted a painting
of it or actually painted it. Oh, by the way,
I said it was America's Cup of the weekend. I
call that sort of sailing America's cup. Someone that it
might be sail gp Marcus had. I've been driving and

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cross tonight. The flooding is getting real bad. It's going
to be a nightwig a night me getting to work
in the morning by the way, high tides. Three in
the morning. Someone says, do you indicate going straight at
the roundabout? Yes, you indicate no matter where you're going
on a round about, you indicate if you're indicating left,
you indicate left. If you're indicating right, you indicate once

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you're on the roundabout. If you're going straight ahead, you
indicate once you've gone a quarter away around And if
you indicate if you're going off at the right, you
indicate to the right, then indicate to the left. A
lot of people don't know that because the rules were
changed about twenty years ago, and a lot of people
ever bother top skill. It seems police are particularly bad

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and indicating I've noticed, Yeah, Jeth throw it's Marcus. Oh sorry, Ian,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:55:58):
Good evening, good, cool, make cool.

Speaker 24 (01:56:05):
The train from Pucked into christ Shoots was parked up
in a bit of strange place up past Kakereing tonight. Yeah,
passengers on it stills would have been really a few
hours yeah, a few hours ago, now four hours ago.

Speaker 2 (01:56:16):
Because it must so where it was just just stop
north of Kakota, Is that right? Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:56:23):
North of k Yeah it was. It wasn't on a
duel like I wasn't able to pass into the train
where it was parked up.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
It was.

Speaker 12 (01:56:30):
It was weird.

Speaker 23 (01:56:31):
Would that be affected by the.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
Yeah, it could be. Could it could well have been.
There could be a. I'm not seeing any reports of it,
but there could be the lines underwashed because the line
is quite.

Speaker 12 (01:56:41):
So the waves are quite impressive.

Speaker 24 (01:56:44):
Come down it was quite nice. Well going that was better,
but yeah, come down it was quite well.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
Where the rail Yeah, the railway is the railways seaward
of the road.

Speaker 24 (01:56:54):
Yeah, it was sort of up by the Stone Church.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
I believe must have that must that must have been
what happened. But I've seen the reports on that. What's
that train called Coastal?

Speaker 12 (01:57:03):
I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
You think someone would have let us know about that,
but that's very unlikely. It stopped.

Speaker 24 (01:57:10):
Yeah, I was definitely parked up.

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
It wasn't moving because it doesn't go I think it
goes up one day and down the next, does it.

Speaker 24 (01:57:15):
Yeah, And at the time it was packed up, it
was just a strange time for it should have already been.

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
They must have put them on buses, wouldn't they.

Speaker 24 (01:57:22):
Well, there's still people, Yeah, there's still people on train.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
I'm seeing. I've got no news on that. Maybe someone
that's got yeah, and maybe someone that's got a scanner
could tell me. But up there, I'll check on the
railway facebook pages too when I see what I can
find out about that, but thank you. Anyone know anything
about the coast the Picked and christ Chote train if
that got stuck? I don't even know what it's called

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Coastal Pacific. Let me just google that up as well
if EE knows about that, because it must have the
line must have been washed away. Yeah, Hi, Dean, this
is Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:57:53):
Welcome, Happy year, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:57:55):
How's it going happen to year?

Speaker 10 (01:57:57):
Dean?

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
What's happening?

Speaker 17 (01:57:59):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:57:59):
I was just thinking about the turning point stuff that
you were saying and what ringed around it. I think
it wasn't just about roundabouts. It was like who gives
way to who on a lesson right situation? And that
became quite confusing if you'd learnt out of drive one way.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
I think Stephen Joyce changed that right hand give way
to traffic on your right turning right unleas you're right
or something. Remember that, yeah? I do.

Speaker 14 (01:58:29):
And it was about twenty twelve what you were saying,
but also that it wasn't just roundabouts. It was it
was any uncontrolled intersection. And you know, when I was
learning to drive, it was like if you can see
someone out of your right hand window, like give driver's window.
Then you give way to them. But then it was like,

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you know, who's going too far around one side or
the other, or you know, be clearing these praffic waves
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
Anyway, I think it's become more straightforward.

Speaker 14 (01:59:00):
Wouldn't you say, if you're closer to where you're turning to,
it makes more sense.

Speaker 21 (01:59:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:05):
I don't know about that what you're saying. Yeah, I'm
just trying to think. I haven't drive. I haven't been
driving that that long. I've been driving all this century.
So yeah, I did experience the right hand turn rule,
which was kind of crazy, right, remember that one give
way to traffic on You're right.

Speaker 14 (01:59:18):
Well, that's what I'm saying. If you can see it
out of your your.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
R that was your that the way is your way
of working out.

Speaker 14 (01:59:25):
Yeah, and if you don't, then you know, bag at them.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
But a lot of people say you don't indicate when
you're going straight through. When you do that, you you've
actually got to Oh.

Speaker 14 (01:59:36):
Yeah, rand Branded that's regardless. I mean this is just
a general interest.

Speaker 3 (01:59:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
Yeah, But I think if I think every different part,
like in Australia, I think you got to give way
to trams. They do something in Melbourne you got to
give way to trams. They do something quite strange.

Speaker 14 (01:59:49):
You got to pull over, oh well driving and know
them with the transits brightening.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
I've never done it.

Speaker 14 (01:59:56):
I didn't even know what those things. They're a lauren
to themselves. But speaking but speaking of Australia, like, you know,
I used to have a small villa near Eden Park
and you know, come one, come all, and it's great
that they have like sort of medium level rock acts

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there now, but like, what is the state of origin?
Wouldn't it be a bit annoying if you're actually a
high level player?

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Absolutely, I think.

Speaker 14 (02:00:28):
All of a sudden, Yeah, all of a sudden you
have to like go to like Auckland and then have
to play and you know, I mean, why does New
zeal And feel that they need to have something that's
like not really part of I mean, it's part of
the culture of the league obviously, but why a state
of origin and it's like so far away from any

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of the states of origin.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
Apparently hasn't gone down well in Australia. Parently they hate it.

Speaker 14 (02:00:55):
Yeah, you know, I'd never speaks on their behalf, but
I just think it's it just seems a bit weird.
It seems a bit you know, thirsty.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
I would say good on your day night to talk
to you think, thank you for that. Fourteen to twelve
you want to talk about state of origin or roundabouts.
That's the point people hit till twelve.

Speaker 17 (02:01:13):
What have you got?

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
My name is Marcus. Good evening oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine to text, Hello, Janet's Marcus. Welcome.
How are you Jane? God? Very good? Thank you very
good in this part of the world.

Speaker 19 (02:01:29):
You've had bad weather down there too, have you?

Speaker 9 (02:01:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:01:33):
The weatherspoon free for the weatherspoon, very pleasant all year
down here. I don't think it's rain.

Speaker 19 (02:01:38):
Holy yeah. We've had a huge twin store and quite
a bit of rain here in Longdon yuie goodness.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
Not a dry place.

Speaker 19 (02:01:52):
Oh no, hi, rainfall. That's why we don't have water
meters and no restructions or anything.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
Where does the christ where does the folly water come from?

Speaker 19 (02:02:05):
Under the ground?

Speaker 2 (02:02:06):
Oh yeah? Are you happy? Whether you filter yours? You'd
be worried about the fluoride or something, are you?

Speaker 19 (02:02:12):
Yeah? The lime it's very hard, so they add lime
and to soften it. Very bad kidney.

Speaker 2 (02:02:26):
What do you think bit me?

Speaker 19 (02:02:28):
Yeah, so I had a bite to sitting watching TV
and mix in the stinging, terrible sharp stinging on my forearm,
no sign of anything. So I just had to put
a bit of sliver on it. And that's sort of

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sting a bit. Well, you can put calumine lotion calamine
lotion to stop the sting too. It's good to have
that in your cupboard. And so you just get a
bit of cotton wall of.

Speaker 2 (02:03:09):
Dab it on.

Speaker 19 (02:03:11):
But I think had HLP him on my couch.

Speaker 21 (02:03:19):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:03:19):
How would you know it could have coming overnight?

Speaker 15 (02:03:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:03:23):
No, no, everything is sealed off. I had to help
the heces on today. It was so old first time. Yeah,
but where are.

Speaker 5 (02:03:35):
Your bites on my trunk?

Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
I'm not an elephant, but you know, you know what
a humans trunk is? Trunk? A humans trunk. You know
what a humans trunk is, don't you? What is called
a trunk when that's also Yeah, the torso is the trunk,
isn't it?

Speaker 13 (02:03:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (02:03:56):
It was it on your chest?

Speaker 2 (02:03:58):
Do you pack in between on the side what do
you call that? On the side side of the trunk?

Speaker 19 (02:04:07):
Yeah, A bit hard to lick around.

Speaker 2 (02:04:09):
There is I'm not going to look ad I'm not
a cat.

Speaker 19 (02:04:13):
But it's alive around now, do that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Wish when it's freaking me out anyway? Okay, so it's raining.
There much wind with the rain.

Speaker 19 (02:04:22):
There, jinh, horrific wind. I've got a great big tree
that hangs over the orchard. It's up on a bank,
and I think you every time we have a storm,
is that tree going to crash down this time? But
told and firm? Luckily? Oh, I don't know. She'd sit sleeves.

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It's like.

Speaker 2 (02:04:53):
I'm picturing an elm. Is it an elm?

Speaker 19 (02:04:55):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:04:57):
I thought you'd be good on planet identification.

Speaker 19 (02:05:01):
Maybe a poplar, oh yeah, but not as a big
sort of branching one. But it's huge and it hands
out right over the orchard. I think it's quite nice
as a protection.

Speaker 2 (02:05:19):
The trees. Yeah, what I call the wood wide web,
when all the trees talk to each other. You'd be
into that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 19 (02:05:25):
I don't know, you haven't heard of it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
Oh, the wood wide web?

Speaker 21 (02:05:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
They reckon? All plants talk to each other through their roots.

Speaker 15 (02:05:31):
Really, that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:33):
There's a there's a book called the wood Wide Web.
You're not heard of them?

Speaker 19 (02:05:37):
No, sounds wonderful.

Speaker 2 (02:05:40):
Well yeah, well they reckon all the trees talk to
each other.

Speaker 19 (02:05:45):
Well no, they it's it's an underground.

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Symbotic network formed by my causey or fungi that connect
tree roots and they're all connected to each other.

Speaker 19 (02:05:56):
Well fabulous. Ye, we don't know a lot about nature really.

Speaker 2 (02:06:02):
Some people even less.

Speaker 19 (02:06:03):
Yes, how's your tunnel coming on? Very good, growing, growing tunnel, very.

Speaker 2 (02:06:11):
Good, love of growing tunnel. Well good, Jen, I'll move on,
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