Cut your own cake (13 Febraury 2026)

Marcus covers another severe weather event, and talks about the restaurants that would let you cook your own steak at the table.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be I guess we'll be relying on you for the
weather updates tonight. People. What I can see is there's
significant flooding in Topor. I'm just seeing that from the
heralds running Banner State high One. Significant flooding and let's
her look at this oh old Aha Nui in the
Toport area. Receiver reports are flooding about six thirty no injuries,
but that might be a go wide and flooding in

(00:34):
the southwest. Whitekata I am on Waka Katahi looking at roads. Yeah,
that seems to be north of Toport State Highway One
going south, but it looks according to me that it's
the all clear. There is road surfacing there. I guess
what I'm saying. If you've got updates for us on
perfect let us know what you've got. Seems as though
it's late at night. The juno is are home, but

(00:54):
it's wet, and if you know where it's wet, let
me know where it's wet. I think that's what I mean.
I know that there's it's going to get difficult for
you to get around. Let me look at this. I'm
looking where the road closures are copy that autoto Hunger.
It looks like it's a couple of road closures there.
But if you're a truckee trucky, break a break alets
know what's happening with traffic, because I think there's probably
going to be a fair bit of trouble tonight getting

(01:16):
around the country. Little but flooding in the southwest Waikato,
State Highway thirty nine south of Polongiir has closed and
State Highway three south of Kihi Kihi may close the
next few hours. So yeah, they're saying don't travel. They're
same parts of Waikato had a one in one hundred,
so the rain gauge is an all too. Hunger have

(01:37):
had over one hundred miles since twelve pm. So anyway,
if you've got some updates for us, let us know.
But that seems to be where the most photos I
can see or to a Hunger, I'll keep you up
there with a rugby two fifteen thirteen Highlanders lead fairly
good crowd there at the Scarfe's singing Sweet Caroline. The
refs have got a new uniform. It's sky blue and

(01:59):
a light it looks good. Look in a light yellow
makes them. I'm sick of the refs and white. I
think that's good bit more colorful. Anyway, I'm hered on midnight.
It's the Friday free for all. It's loose like a goose.
We'll deal with weather. Today is World Radio Day. Now,
if you're a host and you had a host to
show on World Radio Day, what would you do? I've
got no idea. I don't know if anyone really wants

(02:20):
to share their great memories from radio.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Do they?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I don't think they translate that well, because sometimes people have.
It's the Mandela effect. I'll tell you something. Actually, just
just looking at that map, this is just a complete aside.
Oh two things from a completer side. Thanks to the
woman that rang from the Clifton Motorcamp and gave us
a heads up because it was no We were the
first place to hear about that yesterday. There was no

(02:45):
media everywhere. That became a big news story today and
very slip prone. That's the Clifton Motorcamp. So pleased we
could give you the first off, the first cab off
the rank with that one. So if anyone's got an
more information about that, but yes, clearly it looks like
that's flood slip prone, so they've reconcerned. There was a

(03:05):
whole feet, a whole line of maklacarpa that were about
to come down, and as they said, there was always
the toe at the bottom of the slip. So that's
not a try. Maybe it is. So yeah, there's no surprises.
They've pulled the pin on that campground, so you might
have memories about that. I got a couple of emails
about that too, from on the back of what we're
discussing last night. The other thing too. Right, once in

(03:27):
a while when I'm traveling, I think, oh we'll stop there,
they talk about on the radio, and we were heading
to Ohrconey from I'd got the train I've got to
Huia to Hamilton, which was interesting. I'll tell you about
that one time. It's a bit of a club to
Whoa but if that's what it's called. But that's the

(03:49):
train Auckland Hamilton. But yeah, I was on that and
then we got picked up and then I caught the
train down. But we're looking for a bite to eat
before we got to Herconey and I said, I will
try the bull ring. I've heard people talk about that
it's like a famous roadhouse. So yeah, I'm not even
quite sure what to say about it. But we did

(04:10):
kind of pop in for a minute. I don't think
it was for us, but yeah, what's the history there?
Why is that there in the middle of nowhere? And
what do they call it? The bull ring? You might
have something to say about that. Looks like it's slightly
down on its luck. Will that be a fair thing
to say? Anyway? You might want to talk about that
as well. I'm going to throw everything at you tonight
because I'm going to kitchen and sink it. So I'm
up against the rugby. I'm competing against that, and I'm
competing against the Winter Olympics, and I'm competing against Friday

(04:33):
Night and anything else. But if you do want to
talk on air, that's the plans. Stand. If you had
a weather update or a bull ring update, or I
see there's a big bar attached to the back of it,
that's probably where we should have gone. It looks like
it was. Although we were in a hurry. You didn't
always make good decisions when you're in a hurry and
you're hungry on the road. But yeah, come through if
you want to talk. Oh eight hundred and eighty todayy

(04:54):
Highlanders are leading the Hurricanes twenty two thirteen. That's the
Dunedin based franchise versus the christ Church based franchise. That's
what they call the Southern Derby. Ten minutes to go
from New Zealand Plice. Please advising motorists in the south
western Wakata area including all Tarahunga District, Wiper District in
Taiawa Mutu to south of the roads due to heavy flooding.

(05:17):
Thirty nine south of Prolongia is closed and State Hiway
through south the Kihi ki He may close. Please recommend
delaying travel. And there's significant flooding in the Auta a
Nui topal area. If you're across that, that might be
going up towards the bull Ring. So if you're there
and you know something about that, looks like they might
close it. If they're significant flooding, they must be about

(05:38):
to close the road, but they're also seting it at
the same time. Thirteen past eight, Chris, this is Marcus.
Good evening and welcome Marcus.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
How are you mate?

Speaker 2 (05:47):
All good, all good, Chris, all good with you?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Good Stuffy. I've just driven up from Christis. I'm a
truck driither. I've going up from Christi to Orkan too
tower i' and it just turned the key off. Wow,
it pretty much rained all the way from Wellington to
pretty much to Aukland.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Really, I thought they kept you guys in your island.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
I no, I'm an Into Island truck driver.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
What does that mean? Does that mean that you don't
like home or that you're better drivers or what's that about?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
No, I'm retired. This is my retirement job.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh okay, wow.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, you got to love it or you wouldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you get a room on the Do you get
a room on the ferry? We do.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
We get fed, we get a room, and the truck
drive's got a room as well, So it's yeah, we're
pretty spoilery.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh that sounds really good. Okay, so you've gone from
christ Church to Auckland and down to Toron. Is that right?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
That's correct?

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Now I'm locked off now for the weekend. I started
again Sunday evening and head back to christ You know.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
They're talking about raising their retirement age and you've kind
of got the vibe of that, haven't you.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Well, I'm sixty seven, sixty eight in a couple of months,
and I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Know you're going to see you'll go to seventy. Christ
your voice screams that you'll be going to seventy, won't
you seventy five?

Speaker 4 (06:55):
Maybe probably even eighty. While you enjoy it, you just
keep going, isn't that right?

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I can imagine.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Hey, the bull ring, I'll give you a bit of
THEMPO about the ball ring.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Eh, great, thank you.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Bull Ring is what we used to call this area
that all the logging trucks at kinleyth which is Tokar
we all used to go to in the mornings to
get your first load out of the bush. They called
that the bull ring and that's where that names come from.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
So was it like a big round area where there
was room for logging trucks reverse and do all? That's?
Was that the point?

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, you and they're empty with your trailer up on
the back. And then they'd they'd have a big loud
speaker there and as they saw you come in, then
yell out your name over the or you're not sorry,
not your name. They would call out your truck number
and give you a job, a gang number and description
way to go to. So that'd be that's why it
was called the bull ring.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
So would you get would you get your logs on there?
Or you have to go into the logging area and
pick up your logs.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Yeah, that's that the whole idea. You sit there and
then they call out your your truck number and the
gang that you only go to, and then you go
to that gang from that area and bring logs either
back into the port of Tarango or you bring them
back into the Kinley's mill for getting pulped. There's various
places they and other four millals as well.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, and then and then was there a roadhouse and
the bar already there or did that happen later on?

Speaker 4 (08:13):
That happened later on. I've been past what you're talking
about quite a bit, but I've never actually stopped it today.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
You must there might be old photos from you on
the woods in the old days, you know, are you
with your logging get on or something?

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Probably that'd be a frightening sight. No, we wouldn't want
to see that on.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Thank you, mar You're nice to hear from. You have
a good rest, you'll need it. Back on the road
on Sunday, oh, eight hundred and eighty eighteen eighty Highland
is twenty two Crusaders thirteen. I thuse, I think I
saw Jamie Joseph coaching the Highlanded team. I guess that's
probably not a surprise to people, he's their coach, But yeah,
I was surprised because yeah, that, yes, it'd be on him,

(08:54):
because you've got to do well, hasn't he. Otherwise you
get lowess say oh you kind of even coach the
your Highlanders. It looks like he's doing a good fist
of it. But yeah, getting oh that might be here,
then get in touch if you want to talk. Marcus
Way Mumu South and Field Day's third day highlight sheep
being walked around on a doglesh lux and smoothing the crowd.
We're the four seasons in one day, road killed pizzas,

(09:17):
happy farmers, spending money.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I did hear the guy from Infometrics talking about the
South end economy and it's going gangbusters. He says it's
a story of two recoveries. North Island Auckland slow, but
the South Island on the back of dairy prices obviously
going very very strongly. Oh oh yeah, someone say high

(09:40):
as a plane the Crusader. Sorry if I got that wrong.
I knew, I knew, I knew in my own mind
what I meant. Have you seen the Emmy by the
boring Market is a beautiful thing. That's from Dave. I
was just thinking about the music they planned supermarkets. It
turns out there's a lot of science around the music.
Supermarkets play to entice, shoot to spend more. Low volume
load tempo music will make you more alexed and in

(10:00):
turn your spend more time in the supermarket spending money. Well,
today's something. When I used to go right to Peck
and save in Vcagol, there was a jukebox you could
pick your money. That's gone pick your music. Marcus all
Toda hung a horrific our son picked up a pair
we a poor weed drenched dog on his way home
from Hamilton, put on the local pages and thankfully found

(10:23):
his parents, but doubt they'll get home. Good civil defense
warning regards Lindy. I live next to an estuary. Many
seagulls have arrived. Means bad weather north shore. Well though
it's his means death. The texting is terrible with the mistakes,
and they've just got a weird a red weather alert
on our phones and all to do. So that's happening there.

(10:45):
Someone said you need a worker going through Danny Vegas.
Marcus with you traveling over the summer holidays, how did
you find drive through the Badouins after the eighty three
million dollar repair upgrade. I think it's fantastic now and
hope it will holds. Roadmarking is clearly visible with plenty
of room now in both directions. Yeah, I think it
still wasn't that good. I almost trying to think back

(11:07):
to that trip. Can't really think much about it. Nineteen
past eight. Looking forward to your calls, talk about the
bull Ring and the Clifton Motor Camp and anything else,
particularly weather updates. If you could tell me, ring me
and tell me just what the weather alerte, You've just
got to do it as well. I'd appreciate that that's
just come through apparently. Send me a screenshot and this

(11:29):
is the latest update I've got for you. Fakatani Nandos
nandor Tanchos. He's warned resids to watch out for slips
as an orange rain warning is placed. He says there's
a risk of localized flooding and the sodden ground because
of rain means there is a risk of slips. He's
a man in charge. Twenty past eight Super Rugby Match

(11:50):
three quarters go one Highland is twenty two Crusaders thirteen.
Although it looks on over there. I was going to say,
it looks like the Crusader's about to score the score,
but the guy dropped it that. One of the guy
looks like he's after the spiralinguit boy. They dropped him
down on his neck in the scrum. He doesn't look
happy at all. One of the Islanders get in touch
on a talk. Oh wait, hundred eighty ten eight anything
goes Friday threefo all lives like a goose.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
This is from the Autahanga Museum page. They want sandbags, Urgent.
We need your help. Our waker house is flooding and
we need sandbags now. The waker inside is in danger.
Please help asap. So it makes me wonder why the
worker would be in danger if it's floating, But I

(12:34):
guess it's I look at what the worker is like.
I don't know that museum. I'lb. This is Marcus. Welcome
and good evening. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's for eating markets. How are you sy.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah good, say nice to ask, nice of you to ask,
very good, thank you?

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah yeah. I very seldom ring out negatively. But I'm
just complaining about the smell of s HRT we've got
to live with in christ Church. And I'll tell you
absolutely disgusting and trying to sell a house or anything

(13:10):
like that.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Luck, are you trying to sell a house?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
No? No, but I'm just saying it's kind okay.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
As a line flies, how far are you from Bromley?

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Three k?

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
And I was a scale of one to tea And
how bad has it been today?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh? I drove. I had a girl with me because
I've taken it out for a drink. And I was
driving across Promy and she was looking at me and
I thought, how's she looking at me for? And I
realized the sink. She must have thought I'd done something.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, wow, that's quite Where'd you find her?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I was a friend of mine around the corner. I
was just going to take her out from real margus.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh, but she would be she would be aware of
the Promiley of the Bromley Stinch say, would you not?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, I'd like to think so, But I think we
need some form of conversation or something, because we've got
to live with it.

Speaker 8 (14:17):
Markers.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, I've often thought. I often think about this. Yeah,
how much conversation would be enough?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Oh look, I don't know that the people, especially who
live on it's Fanny barking by the way. People live
in Bromley, especially what the eastly covered with trees around there,
and they cut the trees down and the trees used
to act like a swirling thing with the wind and

(14:50):
get rid of the smell that. Since they've cut the
trees down, people are living in Bromley, God help them.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Would a thousand dollars be enough?

Speaker 9 (15:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, just just an advertiser.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah, no, if you want compensation, because they could afford that, well,
they gave everyone a grand and said, here you go,
stop your quibbling. We're onto it. I mean, how many
houses would be affected? A thousand? I guess it's a
million bucks, though.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Wasn't it. It's I mean it's quite a bit markets
and there's no easier way out of the Markers.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Insurance fixed a bit quicker and started building it. But
where'd you take you? Where'd you take your friend for
a drink?

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Uh? It's the oak and fairy pub in the Fairy Road.
You get hot stones here.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
They cook your food on the hot rocks. Ye, Christier's
cos they got that. What it's called stone grill, is
that right, old stone girl?

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, stone grill? And I insist that they have vegetable
for it, not fries, A little, a lot, good food.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
You know it's a volcanic rock. I think they put
your food.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
On a Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
I'll tell you what. You don't touch it. It's hot
h t.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's been quite the spilling. It's been quite the spilling
lesson for you, hasn't it.

Speaker 11 (16:23):
They'll be yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I should say the poor old crusaderes are going down.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
No, no, it's twenty two twenty now they're only behind
by two. I think who's that guy? Jordan? What's his name?
He came on. He seems to have scored a try
or something.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Oh yeah, because I was problem to pick it up
from the net, but I fell asleep before they come through,
backing barking and woke me up.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
What do you have? You had the medium stone grill,
did you?

Speaker 12 (16:57):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
And with vegetables.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Select one one side fry, salad, steam vegi two meatsno
grams each chicken beef. You had two lots of beef.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yes, yes, lovely meal to Marcus.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yeah that sounds good. That looks seems reasonably priced.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Oh you have sixteen dollars.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, that's not is it like a well, is it
like a like a senior card discount?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, No, it's just standard. And I went to the
casino last night because a friend of mine plays cards.
I think gambled myself that they had a fifteen dollars
special with steak and ships and sell and he can't
beat that price.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
No, particularly if you're staying off the games, if you're
not gambling, I guess the food's probably quite good there.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, well they're trying to encourage you to the game. Well,
but my friend bought me a drink of apple and
was an orange, and I was halfway through it and
it beckon to watch the cricket be to the he
ate the cricket.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Gon brilliant, it'll be it. It's still someone's apple and
orange wouldn't be drink god steel. And what about that
stone grill stuff? Yeah, last time I had that was
in Great Town. Yeah, that's right, maybe eighteen years ago.
Cookie food on the Rock, I think it was no,

(18:33):
that might have been in feast, might have been Missus Featherston.
Actually very good anyway. I don't know where they get
the volcanic rocks from different place where they get the
stone for the cooling stones. It's pretty fasty go watch
those videos of that when they won't make the cooling stones.
That's good. Good to watch, Steve, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 13 (18:51):
Hey, Margas, Gail good.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Thanks, Steve, that's good.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (18:55):
I'm just wonder if i'll just put it out other listeners.
So I still have in New Brighton few years ago,
and the stench from Bromley would sort of d just
over that way as well, become a lot worse than
the last couple of years or something, because back then
it wasn't all that bad.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Are you asking a question?

Speaker 13 (19:13):
Yeah, other listeners to me because some feedba. Yeah, I
was there when it burnt down.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Oh okay, I see what you're saying. Oh you knew
it burned Yeah, So it.

Speaker 13 (19:25):
Burned down quite a while ago. I was living on
Old One's Road then and you can see the smoke
from miles and it was it was the processing plane
that had burnt down, But it wasn't really all that
bad then, so it must have gotten worse.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Now, Okay, I don't know much about it.

Speaker 13 (19:43):
Yeah, just certainly you know this brintin terran yep, yeah,
do you think of that that whole food was a
conspiracy or a freak accident?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Hang on? I think what was.

Speaker 13 (19:57):
His his actions? The Mosk attacks? So I was also
living in christ then.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Sorry, Steve, I don't think we're going to go I
don't think I'm going to start casting doubt or I mean,
how fences that to the victims? If you cast us
start counting, what did you say it was a conspiracy
or what?

Speaker 13 (20:16):
Yeah, because a lot?

Speaker 2 (20:17):
What was the other way a conspiracy? Or what a conspiracy?
Or what shot fifty one people? Shot fifty one people? Did? Stephen?
For goodness sake? Cheapest creepers either way is guilty. If
you pled guilty, would have got life without parole. If
he hadn't pled guilty, gone a trolley would have got life.
It's a total time waster anyway, and this you're exactly

(20:40):
the person why he has done that for us? Try
and flip Hey, let me get back on my spot.
People talk about am cheapest creepers, about Trojan Horse. Then anyway, Oh,
eight hundred eighty years it got a radio. I saw
he hasn't going a radio o'clock? Did you see that?
Or maybe that's just when he was in the initial
stages eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine to text

(21:04):
twenty six to nine. Crusader's gone a head by one
playing the Highlanders twenty three two hid by one eight
minutes left. Junet's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 14 (21:15):
Him Marcus, Hi, see the meal that you were talking about,
I was taken was the last birthday treat I've ever
had in my life. And I when I was sixty six,
and this check took me to the Gris the White
Swan and Graytown and he and the steaks come out

(21:40):
on a hot you know stone. You know, they're on
the stone, sizzling as they were put on the table
in front of you. And it was absolutely beautiful.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
So it comes out rule and then you just wait
for it to cook. I think, is that right? And
I remembered that rightly.

Speaker 14 (21:57):
Well, I didn't really take much notice, because you know,
it was my one was virtually cooked by the time
I sort of turned around and looked at it and everything.
But it was absolutely fascinating.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Did you say that was your Did you say it
was the only birthday I've ever sell it? Did I
get that?

Speaker 14 (22:16):
Par well, I'm seventy eight now, okay, I was sixty sixteen.
I can always remember that. And they sprang it on
me as a surprise, and because I said, I like
a steak, you know, and yeah, so and I heard
you talking about it, and I thought, well, it was
definitely the white Swan that did it. So where the

(22:37):
other people do it? I don't know, but it.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Was lovely and I think it's still there too, is it?

Speaker 15 (22:43):
Oh? Yes, not going anywhere?

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, thank you. That was a great thing that those
places used to cook your own steak. I don't know
if any of those places are left now are they?
For a long time the public, why hiki, you'd cooked
your own steaks? And then there was a fantastically named
big Big Willy Rustler. Big Willy Rustler's where you cook
your own steaks. Terrible to damn't it. The Big Willy

(23:07):
Rustlers feels a bit unloved at the moment. Big Willy
Rusters cook your own steak. I don't know if those
places still exist or not. Actually, by the way, if
you want to wear a if you want to read
a heartbreaking story, you want to read the story about
the family that went to Cob and Co for a

(23:28):
What was the family? The person went to cob and
Cove for a birthday in Dunedin part of the railway station.
She booked for twelve but only four guests were able
to attend, and they ordered drinks but didn't order meals
and they were told to get out in thirty minutes
after they didn't order Mainz. Well, yeah, of course they were.

(23:51):
You can't book a private room in a restaurant and
they're not eat Although I think the people that were
there it ended in tears. I think the woman was
actually upset that no one had turned up and they
had paid money to eat a cake. It's all in
the Herald. Read it, Read it and weep twenty to
nine debits. Good evening, Good evening.

Speaker 16 (24:09):
At being World Radio Day, I'd like to tell you
a quick story about meeting or not meeting one of
the New Zealand's prement radio announcers. No, yes, So I
grew up in Auckland and in the morning, of course,
Merv Smith was the radio announcer par excellent.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
You have no argument with that, and that he.

Speaker 16 (24:36):
Was also a very well known model railway Afficiernadio, I
wish my tongue would work anyway. Fast forward thirty years
and I'm helping set up the Wellington Model Railway Exhibition,
which happened every two years, and this particular year it
was at the Queen's Wharf Events Center. I was part

(24:58):
of trans Metro and I'd been roped into help set
up there display and.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Hang on, yep, we're trans Metro involved in model railways.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
We were.

Speaker 16 (25:14):
Major sponsors of the show.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Okay, But you didn't have your own little network, your
own little model of your layout or anything, did you.

Speaker 16 (25:20):
We had cardboard fold togethers of some of our rolling
stock and locomotives, and we had a quite a large
stand with come work for us, and that was part
of our job, was to try and find new staff
if you like.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yep, sure recruitment and pr you understand. Okay. So there
we are, yep.

Speaker 16 (25:40):
And so I'm entering through the concourse and walking next
to me is MURV Smith and like he's my hero,
and I'm trying to work up a way of introducing
myself coming the other way with three totally separate groups
of people. As they approached us, each group went get

(26:02):
ADB yeah, the second group dB haw's a gun?

Speaker 17 (26:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (26:07):
Yeah whatever.

Speaker 16 (26:08):
When the third group did it, Nervesmith looked at me
with a look that said, who the hell are you?
And he'd lost all hope of ever going to speak
to this man.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
So why were you so famous on the concourse? Is
that because you worked for the railways?

Speaker 7 (26:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (26:28):
Not only I worked for hours, but I'm not unknown
to some of the round fans around.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
The women understand, okay, yep, yep, So yeah, you.

Speaker 16 (26:39):
Might have kicked it up on larger than life and
yeah some of the group's knew me by sight.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And then at the actually at the actual event, did
you not did you not get to talk to him?

Speaker 16 (26:52):
I went over a couple of times, but he was
always had an entourage around him and.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Copy book honestly, and you know railway people has his
position would be unenviable because I mean railway people could
talk the leg off a chair. He wouldn't get he
would have a second of his time on his own,
would he? Because everyone wanted to talk to.

Speaker 16 (27:11):
Merve yeah yeah, and I wanted to talk to move
but yeah, tongue tied and totally afraid of the man.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I'll tell you something that's very interesting. Do you know
how old Morvesmith was when he retired from radio.

Speaker 16 (27:24):
I think he retired about fifty five. I know news
Talk Zidby went to news Talk z'dby. He was on holiday.
When he came back, the format had changed and he says,
I don't want anything to do with this, and he
retired at that stage.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, I think he was. Oh, he might be right.
What did you say, fifty three?

Speaker 16 (27:48):
Yeah, somewhere around that. He wasn't old.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, yeah, I thought he was quite young to have
just thrown it all in. But yeah, you might be right.
He probably was about fifty. If he was born in
nineteen thirty three, that eighty six would make her about
fifty three. Yeah.

Speaker 16 (28:03):
And Zibby changed its format of the news talk.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yes, that's true, and he.

Speaker 16 (28:10):
Said, no, that's not who I am, and it was
from radio.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
He wouldn't want to talk. No, don a way. He
wasn't knighted. That's the great broadcasting scandal.

Speaker 16 (28:21):
I think he read the few of the hierarchy up
the wrong way because he had an opinion and those
of who those of my friends that knew him personally
said he was tough to deal with.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, oh, no doubt about that. So yeah, good story,
thanks d B. Sixteen away from nine to one minute
left in the rugby, Highlighters are in head twenty five
twenty three. I didn't see what happened. There must have
been a kick. The Crusaders coach looks terrified, Penny, Rob Penny,

(28:56):
and the Hardness coach looks calm and relaxed. Forty five
seconds left to go, fifteen to nine. I'll just tell
you how the rugby's going because it's got a minute
over time and we've blown up the whistle. Now I
think that the Highlanders have won. That was a free,
long late surge from the Crusaders and let me just
see what's happening. Everyone's cock a hoop and the coaching

(29:17):
box of the Crusaders, so of the of the Highlanders.
But they have won that, so yeah, very exciting game
at the end of it, so full time Highlander's twenty
five Crusaders twenty three. Crustader's looking dejected, but yeah, it
seems to be a good match. Penny, the coach of
the Crusaders. They've got to shot of him up in
the thing. He doesn't look happy, but I think they

(29:41):
I think the Highness were head for a lot of it.
Get in touch of you. We are talking about restaurants.
We can cook your steak as opposed to them cooking.
It probably weird to go out in a place when
you cook your own meat. But was all the rage
for a while. I know that's still a thing, is it?
You might have something to say about that. One oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. He's excited, Jamie, Joseph
wow ethan grout hugging some of his players put a

(30:05):
blood on him. Get much if you want to be
a part of the show. Twelve away from nine. Now
here's someone that wants their texts read. Marcus, you not
say I'll mentioned any of my texts new to this James.
His last text was Marcus, when you get a good
pie and Gore, I've got no idea, And yeah, I

(30:26):
think you need to get some better texts, although he
has got sciatic nerve problems. So yeah, you've seen in
a text three you're not guaranteed to be read out,
So surprise Marcus. When you're not too busy with the
road alert. It's fifteen years of flatting and I've now
moved into the house with a big lawn. So of
a simple question wants the pros and con between electric

(30:47):
mower and a petrol mower, there's no idea, Right, how's
a ride on or at least I can lock up
a pushma on the laundry. I think you've got to
say that the that the electric mowers now are now better.
It's much easier. Just charge in a battery, particularly you've
got two batteries, then go to the guess head to
get the old the petrol. That's my take on that one. Yeah,

(31:09):
I'd go electric all the way, and I've done both. Steve,
it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah, I've been to I've been fortunately to go to
Japan a couple of times and love the experience of
going to restaurants where you had to cook your own
meal and yeah, it was just amazing. It was you know,
it added to the ambience of the whole experience.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Is that it a big central place or is it
like a lit up gas thing in the middle of
your table.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Yeah, exactly. The gas thing was in the middle of
the table, so you sat around there with about eight
people or maybe maybe maybe nine. Neil was delivered and
someone would take charge, and but it just just just
addited that whole sort of experience and in groups sort
of success.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
I think I've been to some Korean places up in
Queen Street, nor Can where you do that where you've
got a big thing you cook. They've got meats and
stuff and you cook them all around and there's a
guess ring in the middle of the table. Works quite well.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
Oh, it's great, it's great, and it's also it just
stimulates the whole, the whole experience for you know, you
and your mates because you're all sort of yeah, involved in.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
It, agreed. And of course you can't forget that those
Mongolian wreck restaurants, those Mongolian restaurants that have been the
standard of family twenty firsts forever when you all go on,
I actually don't cook your own food. You selected and
give it to the goal of the giant chopsticks, don't you.
It's all coming back three nine away from nine places
where you cook your own steak. So that's the theme

(32:40):
for tonight so far and road updates. I told you
it would happen, and it's happened. We're ahead of Waka Kotahi.
State Highway one is closed from Tram Road to Topour,
although State Away one does already go go through there
anymore does it. State High one is closed due to
flooding near the intersect with Tram Road follow the direction

(33:02):
of emergency services. So that's happened. Although I tell you what,
Waka Katah, you put that up at eight forty eight.
We knew about it. How do we know about it, Dan,
We knew about it at eight thirty six. Yeah, so
Steve texted us. So in a situation where you've got
a massive flood or a weather event, Waka Katah needs
to be quicker when roads are closed. They should have
the software. It goes on their websites straight away. I

(33:26):
kind of find that frustrating that it's behind their truckies.
But there we go that to situation. And by the way,
the people not to do We've got the flood alert
that was for all to the hunger, so that's kind
of crazy. They got it in the wrong area. So
despite the fact that floods and weather events are getting
more and more common and more and more severe and
more and more eventful, it seems that our emergency services

(33:47):
have got to get better at what they're doing with
road closures and phone alerts. Sometimes it feels like amateur
hour bars where you cook your own steak, Stampede and Papacuta,
do or did hot rocks? Someone says those self cooking
hot stones must be the most gen zed inventured ever.
The next generation of chefs have somehow found a way

(34:09):
to do but less work typical. Yeah, but I'm loving
that as a topic. Places you cook. I can never
remember when they brought out to Wayhiki. It must have
been in the eighties. At the pub there, people thought
it was the greatest thing ever. I rember the lates.
I mean fancy that. So salad bar, Wow, cook your
own steaks, fantastic in a garden bar. Sizzle sizzle. That's

(34:31):
before the Onatungue Beach went the well, what way would
you say? The Unitai Beach is gone? Trying to find
a kind way to talk about that. Oh, well, I
guess it's gone. Well, they're good at having a horse races,
and they have races for sealy examphibious boats. Goodness, you
see those people driving their boats down the roads. The

(34:53):
beach look ridiculous, don't they? But you're driving your boat
down the street. They not feeling goodness? Graciously, what will
be people were looking when they were thinking, when they
look at me driving that boat down anyway, each to
their own for those who have just joined us. The first,
I think it's the first, is a second one. Today
the first of the Super Rugby matches has finished, the
Crusaders narrowly losing by two points to the Highlanders. Yep,

(35:20):
that's finished about five minutes ago. So I don't know
what the story of that is, what the tale, what
the commentators will say. Jeff Wilson's growing a beard. No
one predicted that, although that's a fairly predictable thing to predict.
I would have said State Highway one north of Topal
is closed, and it's one hundred, one and one hundred
year of flood in the Waikato lot of rain, and

(35:46):
the Autoo Hunger Museum has plead for urgent help. Their
waka enclosure is flooding and the Waker is at risk.
And I've looked up that waker. I think it's a
one hundred and fifty year old. Yeah, I'm payballed on
the hell I don't know why one hundred and fifty
years old thirteen meter whiker carved out of a tortela
tree that has been restored and displayed, so obviously they

(36:10):
won't want water over that. Greetings and welcome. Hey. I'll
just tell you just beforehand, before the news, I was
talking and it seems to be a fairy big weather
event that is happening around the South Waikato. But they
need help at the Utrahunga Museum for their waka, and
I've just been reading it about the whaka that's there.
It was a whaka that was found in a quarry

(36:33):
and it's quite interesting because it was abandoned during the
making of it. So it's carved. Sorry, so it's hollowed
with the from a giant from a fairly large tortler,
but it hasn't got the decorations on the outside. In fact,
the roots are still on that so on one end
it comes to an aerodynamic point, but on the other

(36:55):
end there are the nulled roots. So I don't know
what happened. It was buried, but they must have abandoned
the place where they were building it for some reason,
and they've got a very historically significant they've got a
purpose but Wacker House for it, and that appears to
be flooding at the moment, so I don't necessarily know.
I can't see all the research on that, but that's

(37:15):
the situation there, So they probably do want people to
go and help. If you are there and can let
us know how that's going. If they've managed to get
the water out, do let us know something. I'd be
curious to go and look at next time I'm there.
So if you've got some information about that, they are
looking for people to help out there with sand begging
Kakamutu Road, if you want to go there and do
that ten past nine, if you're heading home from the

(37:36):
high enders, let us know how that was. How that
was for you? Fitty tents probably matched by the sounds
of things or from what I could see. Oh wait,
one hundred and eighty ten eighty we are talking places
where you cook your own steaks also too, When was
that a thing? And is that still a thing? Are
there store restaurants around the country where you can go

(37:57):
and do that? I guess restaurants and also beer barns.
Someone says the Crusaders were down two points the whole
way through the game tonight, saying they and now he
lost to Otago just doesn't sound right, even though it
is right and not raining and to longer and the
stampede and pocketing it had hot rocks. Yeah, oh eight

(38:18):
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text,
feel free to come through you want to talk. Anything
else you want to talk about, be good to hear
from you. As the Friday, it is also radio day,
International Radio Day. I don't know what you want to
say about that, but you might have some special radio
thing you want to say. You might have won something
significant on radio. I'm sure plenty of you have, but

(38:42):
get in touch you want to be a part of it.
Also talking a little bit about the bull Ring north
of Topra, although I think the road passed the bull
Rings probably closed because State Highway one is closed. See
bit of weather happening. It was quiet, but it seems
as though, oh yes, I'm just looking at the live
they went quiet on the coverage, but now it looks
like it's re energized. Awkaln Emergency Management has warned residents

(39:02):
on Facebook about a severe thunderstorm issued by met Service
for Rodney and Albany very heavy rain. So this has
just come through as well, so kind of came down
and gone back up. I don't know you even going
to learn, have you yet? Dan eight fifty two pm
Met Service with a radi of detected Savee thunderstorms near Walkworth, Audiwa,
pooh hoy Co, Kappa Kappa, Ahudoa and Silverdale. Thunderstorms are

(39:26):
moving towards the east southeast are expected to line near
walk with Audiwa, pooh hooy fung Ar, Pardah, Silverdale at
nine twenty Two's in ten minutes. We're quite exact now,
aren't we? Near Audia and Ahodaki, gulfung Aarpadawa and Silverdale
at nine point fifty two expected to be accompanied by
very heavy rain. And they say very heavy rain can
course surface sand or flesh flooding about streams, gullies and

(39:48):
urban areas and make driving editions extremely hesardous. No one
likes to equiplane. So that's just through. And they've also
closed State hi i Wan south or north obviously utu
Anui in the Topor district just north of Topour, but
that's a situation you are to speed. The Bay of
Plenty severe thunderstorm warning has been lifted State highay Wan

(40:12):
close also State Highway thirty nine Peronghia and Mia Road
and Autre Hunger. It's all happening and if you want
to talk on it, that's the planetat is the Friday
free for keeping eye on the weather and the sport.
There is some twenty twenty on let me change channels.
Ge they milk the coverage after the old rugby, don't they.

(40:33):
They're still on there. It was quite an uncomfortable interview
afterwards with a tall guy and not letting the little
guy ask any questions. Very uncomfortable to watch that. Don't
know if you saw that, That's what I thought. That
Marlborough player that seems to like to throw himself in
front of the camera a lot forget his name told
unit Australia playing Zimbabwe in twenty cricket T twenty. I

(40:54):
did see on Facebook that Zimbabwe had the rub of
it Australia sixty two for four, so yeah, this could
be a win for Zimbabwe. Feel free if you call
it through people. Thirteen past nine, we would have been
the first restaurant and use in where you could cook
your own steak. Let's go that way and watch which
will be the last one. It's probably big Willie Rustler's.

(41:16):
But get in touch and you want to talk about
this nine two, nine to two, also the bull ring,
anything else you've got that you want to and weather
updates if you've got those. That's probably our core thing
we should be doing tonight. Yeah, eight if you want
to text or call. Nine, text if you want to

(41:39):
come through. But yeah, we can touch raining and fang ada.
Someone says the boy races are quiet. That's probably a
good thing, isn't it. I get the novelty of a
hot stone to cook your slab of beef on, but
why go out for lovely meal and cook it yourself? Exactly?
It's only all the chefs are doing is heating volcanic rocks.

(42:02):
I think the point is it's pretty easy to cook
steak because I think it used to be a hot
rocks and High Street and lower Hut. You can pick
at your steak and cook it on the stove there.
Nice I went there once. Mackett's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
There's a still street on the off the side of
Queen Street in Hawkland. It's I think it's a lawn street.
And there was a restaurant there called Tony's, and he
had the Hungry Horse as well, and one over under
the Harbor Bridge, and he used to go in there
and cook your own steak.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Are you sure? Have you misremembered that or that's actually
what you could do?

Speaker 5 (42:43):
That's that's well my memories is that's what we could.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I think there wasn't. I think there was an Anger Steakhouse.
I think you could cook your steak there as well.
But I've never been to the Younger Steakhouse, but I
think that was a situation.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Yeah, well the Hungry I don't know that. I never
went to the Hungry Horse.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Oh gosh, we offered went to the Hungry Horse or
horses horse course to course, and you know that's a mystery.
That's a different song. But yeah, I'm just try to
think the jingle of the Hungry Horse. You couldn't cook
your stuff. You couldn't cook your steak at the Hungry Horse.

Speaker 5 (43:13):
No, so I I believe I remember doing it at
the Tonys.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Okay, we'll talk more about that Mac, Thank you place
you cook your own steak. Sixteen past nine. Looks like
the big rain has missed us at Mount mong and
Nui but still raigning most of the day, but not
like January crazy where they have a great day. Someone's
also emailed me and I appreciate that to Princess Daisy.

(43:41):
Today marks three years since we lost Craig Stevens and
Dave van Zwandenburg. They were members of the White Matar District.
Oh It says members of the White Matar District came
to get a hold of memorial service, taking time to reflect,
remember and honor to respected colleagues and friends. Craig and
Dave's dedication, carriage and service to the community will never

(44:03):
be forgotten. They remained for a part of our fire
and community fauna. We remember them today and always. They
obviously were the two people that perished I think in
that landslide in Mudaway three years ago. I think probably
on the Friday evening as well. I'm pretty sure when
that's that's when that happened. And that was Gabrielle. Yeah,

(44:24):
it was after the Anniversary day floods, because obviously it's
not anniversary day. But do get in touch, you want
to talk. Fearbit going on tonight. They want sandbaggers for
the museum and Autro hung it as well. Canterbury never
attempted to set up for a drop goal. Arrogance, cantabri
and arrogance. They thought they could score a try. That's
what I thought.

Speaker 11 (44:44):
It was.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Cask and Cleaver, good steak in christ Church? Yeah, now, Marcus,
as for things we won on the radio, you paid
our powable for a month once via magic Talk, Nick

(45:07):
and avangy Aura. Oh that's right, it's radio.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
We've got so much going on today. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty nine text Marcus. Do you remember a
family restaurant called Sizzlers? I'm in Auckland. One was in
Monaco and Kelston. Amazing pub. Kind of food didn't last long?
Could you cook your own steak? That's the caveat for
tonight's discussions. I think could you cook your own steak?

(45:31):
Where could you go? Could you cook your own steak?

Speaker 18 (45:34):
If so?

Speaker 2 (45:35):
This is the show Cask and Cleaver christ Church. Maybe
one in Auckland also just started bucking bucketing down at
Snails North, Auckland. Ben, thanks for that. Eighteen past nine,
twenty one past nine seventy three for four Australia against Zimbabwe.
That's the twenty twenty Also just bring you update to
on the what's it called Super Pacific? I think it's

(45:57):
now situation their school there too. Southern Derby Hogland has
won that narrowly, although they led pretty well the whole
way one by two points. I think if the Cantabrians
or the Crusaders had played smarter, they could have won
that in the last moments. But no drop kick. It's
looked like they didn't have a plan. Arrogant get in touch.

(46:18):
All the lines are free, cookie your own stakes and
the weather and flooding for your truck driver, what's the plan?
How are you getting up the country? State Away one's blocked?
I think coming through all too hung is also blocked.
How will you do it? You got an information about that?
Let us know and your line's free. Twenty one past
eight feels oh, and it's a Friday. Obviously Friday, it
seems after the first normal week, so many bitsy Bobby weeks,

(46:42):
but this one seems to have kind of been a
five day. Oh yes, State Highway threes open. It's the
one through PERONGI. You can't go up, which I think
is what's the way most truck drivers go, so they'll
be stuck to go through Tiaoamuta now. But yes, State
Highway one is closed. It says expected resolution until further notice.
Now what does that mean? In zad Ta? Just tell

(47:02):
people what your plan is and what you're doing. It
drives me crazy the lack of dec information. But ye,
fair number of roads closed. Also to the road to
Gisbone's closed, the road around hicks Bays closed. And back
at your people. If you want to be in touch,
that's the plan. There's something different. You want to mention
it as radio day. You might want to pay homage
to radio. I don't know what you'd say. And places

(47:24):
you cook your own steak, which is part of the experience.
There was probably an eighties and a nineties thing. Jim
steadenlong after twelve. By the way, I watched the giant
downhill with the key we last night after work. Was
about three minutes past twelve. She raced, did it right,
but looked like she was slightly out of control. So

(47:44):
that happened, and you might remember this this day. In
nineteen eighty three, Lance Ken's hit those six sixes at
the Melbourne City Ground at Melbourne Cricket Ground with his
extremely famous bat Excalibur, probably one of the most famous
bats in cricketing history, many cricket bats that had their
own name, sort of the stuff of legend.

Speaker 14 (48:06):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Oh and the other thing too, if you got stories
about Clifton Motor Camp. Everyone got the notice just to
get out of there quick spart. They won't be going back.
I heard the head biscuit from the council saying that
she's over over. Seems to be really, I'm surprised they
waited till today to get rid of people. Seems to
be like it probably should have happened a while ago.

(48:28):
There's lots of shots of high ebbs and stuff taking
cabins and places out of it. Anyway, enough for me
looking forward to your calls. Twenty five past nine. Oh well,
and I can bring you the update too, thanks to
a fairly onto it Facebook posting, this is at all
to La Hunger's museum. They have managed to move that
famous waka that's been moved to the church next door.

(48:53):
They have posted sixteen minutes ago, what an awesome community
we have. Thank you, thank you for helping move our
pressure danga into the church next door. Tomorrow we'll take
deep breaths and plan our next steps. So yeah, that's
the situation there, and looking at the photos, it's really flooded,
so it looks like it's been completely slammed there. They're

(49:13):
talking about one hundred year of flood and what I'm
picking up from what people are texting and saying, this
could well be a big weather event. Now there's another
issue for a thunderstorm in the far North kaitaia Anue
more Titangi, Kangaoa. So there's a weather warning for that
that's going to be between nine and nine oh seven

(49:36):
and ten oh seven. So we've got active thunder system
happening with heavy rain in the far North and also
north of Auckland Audiwa. So yeah, we're not out of
the woods yet, so if you've got the information about that,
So severe thunderstorm warning for Auckland and severe thunderstorm warning
for the Far North and several road closures one north

(49:59):
of topol Up near I think near the bull Ring,
not entirely sure about that, and flooding Hangaki and Prongia,
so a lot of those roads are closed. I'll keep
you updated with ways to get through. There you go,
and we're talking cooking your own steaks. Marcus christ Church
self cooking stone at Fox and Ferret Rickerton and sticks

(50:22):
and stones Belfast Marcus. The weather in your Plymouth is fine.
Had a little bit of rain to day, forecast for
us as good tomorrow. We are the sunniest place in
New Zealand. I don't think at the time when it's
running heavy is the time to weather brag. Twin brother
got an EXCaliber for birthday? Was or the rave was
jealous as heck. I'm trying to revisualize EXCaliber because I

(50:45):
know with the Gray Nichols bats, because they were the thing,
there was the four scoop and the single scoop sounds
like an ice cream. I think it was just the
single scoop excalibur? Am I right? Or was it just
that they had the shoulders chopped off and rounded? You
will know extra taking calls on anything tonight, as you
probably gathered. All the lines are free, so if you
want to take your chance. Oh yes, the shoulders of

(51:09):
the bat were playing down to form a conical rather
than a rectangular shape. I don't know I how to
power scoop at the back or not, but that's pretty
interesting that his beat's got its own web, or not
quite its own web. Page, but should have. But yeah,
get in touch here if you've got weather updates to
itt us know what they are. Nine nine two is
the text number, or eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

(51:30):
powers off and co copper couple and reports that some
of the vehicles on State High one north of Topol
cannot turn around because of the median barrier. Gosh, that's
the problem. The cricket update T twenty Australia have had
thirteen point three overs there one hundred. As soon as
I go to say it, they take the score off

(51:52):
one hundred for four. So one of the guys has
hit seventy and thirty nine balls. Oh sorry, they need
seventy and thirty nine balls. That's the situation there, and
all the lines there are free to come through and
talk people. Now, what's going to get you going tonight?

Speaker 14 (52:12):
Go?

Speaker 2 (52:12):
I want to talk about cooking steaks at restaurants and
when that happened. But it's quite a good email here,
I won't read all of it. A guy that's cooked
around the world and works for a large company and
brewery in Germany. The first I noticed the trend of
cooking your own steak was an Australia in the late
eighties was a standard around Sydney pubs with a salad

(52:32):
and meat bar with a huge grill station in the
garden for the guests to grill and sit. Kiwis finally
took this idea some twenty years later. Very much a thing,
very much a thing at the way Hicky garden bar
pub you remember that, but it could be somewhere else,
or the garden bar of the pub, but that became
quite the thing to bang in a grill and cook
your steaks or the legendary many of great summers we had.

(52:55):
I don't know if it's still a thing. Maybe it's
coming back. So talking about that and the weather bit,
a bit about Bromley and it's Radio Day. Not quite
sure how you're supposed to commemorate radio Day. Well, I'm
doing radio. I'm doing radio. I guess if you call
it that, Well it feels verty much like Friday Radio. Yes,

(53:17):
World Radio Day. What I don't like about World Radio
Day it's not even on the day that radio was invented,
so that's kind of weird. So I don't know why
it's this day. Anyone built a radio. I suppose a
lot of you have built crystal sets, but what you're
supposed to do is pay homage to the impact and
power that radio is given to the people of the Earth.

(53:37):
World Radio Day celebrates this element of mess media. I
think probably the one thing you could say about radio
is that, out of all the forms of media, I
hope I'm not these words don't turn around to haunt me.
Out of all the forms of media, they say that
radio is probably the one that's probably going to survive
the longest, doesn't require any staff, cheap to run, and

(54:01):
as long as people are driving cars to work, it's
probably got a fairly good lifespan. My take on that
twenty five to ten back in a bit looking for
to your calls the latest I've got from the weather
from people, Marcus. I live in Parongia and a river
on our side that feeds into the Waipa River overflow
the bridge for a while. Someone shed destroyed lots of

(54:23):
silt and mud, highest and most raging I've ever seen it.
They are talking about a one in one hundred year
flood in the south west Waikato. That's my take of
the region, Marcus. We drove from Hamilton to Cooper's beach
and gentle rain the whole way, apart from one down
poor north of Fangara. Now a few flashes of lightning

(54:47):
and rain building siren's gone off at the local fire department.
Involved no flooding to date. Keep up the good work
and things an. The one person I was feeding sorry
for was there's that extraordinary woman in Fungare that's set
the world record and continued to sit the world record
for running the most consecutive ultra marathons. She's running fifty

(55:10):
one k's a day and she's done it for something
like seven hundred and fifty days in a row and
also holds a full time job as a lawyer. But
she's out running today on her social media fees. It's
terrible because it's pouring, but that's what you gotta do
when you set a record to go rain or shine,
and she's certainly going through the rain that's happening for her.

(55:31):
It's twenty two away from a ten o'clock. My name
is Marcu's welcome. All the lines are free, and yeah,
if you want to come through, it's probably a chance
it might be something else you want to kind of
get in with. I've chucked all my topics at you.
The tragic story tonight is the story of the party
that's gone bad at Cob and Codunedin and the woman's

(55:56):
furious should pre cook de private she should pre book
a private room at Cob and Co Through a party.
It was booked for twelve at five point thirty, but
only four turned up and they didn't order meals. So
Cob and Co's put a private room aside for them
for twelve and there's just four of them ordering drinks,

(56:18):
so they said they got thirty minutes to go, and
it says the dispute left the woman whose birthday it
was in tears, so it doesn't look a good situation,
her friend said. The woman was really upset by the
no show on the day due to unexpected circumstances, only
one of the invited guests showed up, along with the

(56:39):
birthday girl sisters. The woman was really upset by the
no show, her friends said. As a situation sadly unexpectedly changed.
The group decided to support the birthday girl change her
mood by ordering drinks, bring up the birthday cake, take
photos and leave early as there is no longer need
to stay for the full booking After an hour or
so before the scheduled end time, an older woman, who

(57:01):
the friends said in front is the owner, entered the
room while they're cutting the cake. If they were going
to order anything, they said no, the friends said. The
diners were then met with a dismissive response. She claimed
the older woman said, you cannot come and book a room,
pay forty something dollars, referring to the cost of the drink,
and leave. It's rude to come to restaurant not order

(57:21):
a main course, the friend said. The birthday group was
told to get out of here in thirty minutes. Says
the manner in time of this interaction caused significant distress,
particularly to the birthday girl who has reupset you, who
was already upset you to the low tune out. She
was left crying and apologizing to the lady to spec
despite having acted in good faith anyway, I could hardly

(57:42):
think it was fair for them to go and actually
not spend any money. You might want to comment on that.
Also twenty away from ten if you want to be
a part of it, text and calls looking forward to it.
Someone said how many marathons does a woman have to
run to break the record. She's broken the record a
long time ago. She's just keeping going to set the record,
so it's going to be unbeatable forever. So I think

(58:04):
the world record was Yeah, I don't know what it was,
but I think she broke it about a year ago.
But she gets up at two o'clock every morning to
run her ultra marathons. But then she needs to when
she's running at two in the morning, she needs to
stop random people and ask them to be her witnesses,

(58:27):
to witness that she's running with all she needs to
photograph he units that she's run an ultra marathon every day,
so not onless's running in the nighttime, but she's having
to stop random people, engaging them in conversations and get
them to be her witnesses. Yep. True story eighteen to
ten Here till twelve. We are talking steakhouses. We cook

(58:48):
your own steak. It's been an underwhelming response to that.
I think we can do better. Also the weather and
also the woman at Cob and Co. Where it sounds
like it's funny but it's terrible. Sounds like the worst
birth ever. But what do they expect. You can't book
a room for twelve and they have four people tune
up but not have dinner. That's their business. They're a

(59:08):
restaurant and so the Margins and Cob and Co wouldn't
be great anyway, that's my take on it. Yeah, And
I don't know how well a Cobb and Co in
a train station would do. It's had a tough live
trying to get places that will make a living in
the nan railway station. It's had plenty of different iterations.

(59:30):
And they are talking now about the one hundred year
flood in parts of the Waikato I think. Also, the
Phoenix are playing yeah zero all seven minutes gone. That's
Singh's first match, Superate Sing's first match back for the Phoenix.
I'll watch that and keep you updated with that. Also tonight,

(59:53):
didn't realize that was on. It's a bit of sport
tonight that that's what you will be watching as you
should every today. I say, I've got to change my
batteries in my remote, but boy, it's bad just trying
to find the right channel for this a league. There
we go. Good evening, mo, this is Marcus. Welcome in.
Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:00:10):
It's good evening. And how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:00:12):
Good?

Speaker 19 (01:00:12):
Thank you, I must say, you must get so sick
of people asking how you are.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
I don't mind. I mean I think it's kind of
quite nice. Although some I think someone's when I think
how are you? I think, oh, I hope I'm not
coming across sounding sounding slightly short tempered.

Speaker 19 (01:00:29):
It's like going to a supermarket and they ask you
how your.

Speaker 20 (01:00:31):
Day is going?

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Having a good day? How's your they going? That's a
good point.

Speaker 19 (01:00:37):
Is about half an hour to listen to my problems?

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Yeah, exactly, absolutely.

Speaker 19 (01:00:41):
Anyway, I'm an amazing restaurant from christ Church here at
the street, go ge Korean. I went the two years
ago for a friend's birthday party, and they bring the
hot plates and the meats cooked, and they advise you,
you know, when to sort of actually could run your plate.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
So they come around and then readvise you and say
that's probably cooked. Is that what? They say?

Speaker 19 (01:01:01):
Yes? Yes, they just check on you and say no,
that it's probably you know it's cooked in us now
because it's a neat thing. Korean food's amazing. Do you
like it?

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
And there's also ones that you go and it's also
you've got like a broth and you cook all your
food in that that's in the middle of the table.
Have you tried those?

Speaker 19 (01:01:19):
I haven't tried that one. No, I've heard about the
Moroccan one. You've been to that one?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
What's the Moroccan or Mongolian?

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:01:28):
Sorry, Mongolian?

Speaker 14 (01:01:29):
There was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Sounds delicious.

Speaker 19 (01:01:34):
It does no pre craatious earthquakes. It's an amazing Mongolian one.
And the CBD. But I think that hasn't refurbished or
come back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Was it called was it called ginghis Khans?

Speaker 9 (01:01:45):
That's the one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
Yes, I think it might have been a chain that
love you talk. Keep it going people, eight hundred eighty eight.
You've got flooding updates. Let us know, Tony, this is
Marcus good evening, Good Tony.

Speaker 17 (01:02:00):
I am on the Wata River wrote down the bottom
men towards port and and here has been a lot
of rain. It's probably going to come down the white
how and come down towards us. So I'm just sort
of waiting and watching and hoping it doesn't get too bad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Okay, let me just let me just daral you up
where you are?

Speaker 7 (01:02:24):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Are you poony? Either been there or further closer towards again? Okay?

Speaker 17 (01:02:33):
On to Tiiki Island.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Oh wow, m hm, okay, so hang on to my
headphones just fell off. My headphones just fell off as
us talking to you, are you saying are you saying
that you're consumed? How high it's going to come up?

Speaker 17 (01:02:51):
Well, I know it was really low at the boat
room when I launched this afternoon to come down and
and and I'm just sort of wondering how long it's
going to be before it starts coming our way. Probably
twenty four hours away i'd probably imagined. But yeah, yeah,

(01:03:11):
the you're on a low lines.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
You're on a low lying sand island, aren't you. Is
it what it is?

Speaker 17 (01:03:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an island on the river.
And we had water through our batch I think when
there was I think it was the Comitic earthquake. Yeah,
we got a tsunami warning and then they canceled it
on the east coast, but it come down the west
coast and come up the river and flood at our beach,

(01:03:38):
which has been here for sixty seven years, and first
on it's eatherhead water through it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:44):
Okay, it's not raining heavily there though. It's all down river,
is it?

Speaker 14 (01:03:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:03:49):
Well it was earlier on we had a couple of
couple of heavy showers, but nothing too too drastic, you know.
But yeah, I'm sort of thinking it's going to come
down the wide bar and heat towards us. And how
bad is it going to be. Well, i'll find out tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
I guess quite a few bitches there, mainly for white painting.
Is it what they are?

Speaker 17 (01:04:11):
White bating, dutchoting, year, all of that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
Yeah, looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Real gentle Bean country. Looks quite amazing.

Speaker 17 (01:04:17):
It is a spectacular I mean a friend of mine
who's got a bitch just around the corner from where
I am, he often says to me, he says, look,
you know, we come down here and look at the
view and look at how spectacular it is, and you
drive ten minutes back and and it's it's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
What's the looking at it from it? But what's the
what of the what?

Speaker 14 (01:04:44):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
What the is it? Mainly Manuka, is it what it is?
Or it's no?

Speaker 17 (01:04:49):
No crocker tears, willows and and a lot of Dutch elm.
Oh yeah, the dutchy elm was planted you know, well,
we'll say roughly hundred and fifty odd years ago. For
the steamboats, that used to come come up the river

(01:05:10):
back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Understand any pigs or deer or anything on it?

Speaker 17 (01:05:15):
Pigs, Yeah, yeah, there's the odds there's a few years
floating around, but they're mostly on private land and so
you don't touch them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yeah, okay, are you are? You're not concerned they're going
to have to flee? You're you're you're not concerned about
the river coming up though. You'll be onto it, won't
you Philly? At least it'd be fairly easy to get
off at whyn't.

Speaker 17 (01:05:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it won't be a problem, I believe.
I think when it was the anniversary we can get
on the west coast, they had a warning with all
the big swells out there, and I was forecasting how
to attend meter swells and and I was saying, you know,

(01:06:01):
it could be could be some strange and unusual currents
on the river and all that. And there was about
four or four inches under albitch that day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
See, Okay, so you think they might be bet you
think they might be water on the Your betch might
be vulnerable tomorrow.

Speaker 17 (01:06:18):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
No, Okay, nice to talk Tony, Thanks so much for
your call night away from ten o'clock evening, Jim, this
is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:06:28):
Hi Is that me?

Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Hi Jim.

Speaker 22 (01:06:31):
Hi.

Speaker 21 (01:06:34):
I'm always interested in something nautical and by chance I
bought a boat in New Zealand magazine this month and
there's a four page ads go about the Edmund Fitzgerald
that you were talking about about a week ago, right,
And I thought you might be interested, you know, That's

(01:06:55):
why I was, can be a ring?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
What's it because it's fifty years since the well, fifty
years last November since the trade. What's the angle of
the article?

Speaker 21 (01:07:05):
Well, it's about the details of the ship itself and
the results of the inquiry into the casualty afterwards, you know.
And I thought you haven't heard, have you about the

(01:07:26):
investigation into the casualty.

Speaker 11 (01:07:29):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Yeah, there's quite a lot on there's quite a online
about that. There's much. There was much discussion about what
caused it, discinc whether the whether the hatches were left
open and things. But I think it might have just done.

Speaker 21 (01:07:42):
I think it's just uncertain. One possibility was she had
a sandbank and broke it back, but they don't seem
to be sure.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Anyway, I think we all know and lakes that the
waves because they affect the waves that can get extremely big.

Speaker 21 (01:08:03):
Yeah, but in my good days I was mas Samarana,
so they can be messy gates. Usually it was.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
A spectacular looking ship. It was unbelievable.

Speaker 21 (01:08:17):
Yes, yeah, yeah, and dear.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Jimi might seek that out too, So I appreciate you
coming through with that. That's always good to hear about
the old Fitzgerald. So thank you for that. Six away
from nine Daniel. This is Marcus good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:30):
Evening your name all.

Speaker 10 (01:08:32):
We're just the one lightning strike just wrent off there,
Marcus calling it from the Heyts and Warraur Park on
North Shore, just on my way home, and I had
to call in and it just started to start the
bucket down. Now it's really yeah, I've found a covered spot.
Take some shelter there it is, but it's thunder there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Gosh. Wouldn't it be great if you got struck by
lightning on World Radio Day when you're on the radio.
That would be something.

Speaker 10 (01:09:03):
That that'd be lightning. Wouldn't that feet lightning?

Speaker 20 (01:09:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:09:08):
It does it look like that because obviously that's where
there has been flooding in the past around those kind
of concrete streams. Does it look like there's any flooding
happening there?

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:09:17):
Yes, you better believe. Why are our road and sending
a road there down by the will worse? That does
flood down there?

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Is it flooding now?

Speaker 10 (01:09:28):
No, it's not flooding now, but it may. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
What movie did you see?

Speaker 10 (01:09:34):
Oh no, I just come out of Devon Port. It
was at a harmony hall with the with the oldies,
and there were all musicians and they were having a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
What were they're playing? What sort of stuff?

Speaker 10 (01:09:48):
The old stuff from the sixties and seventies?

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Eighteen sixties, No, there's nineteen sixties. Oh yeah, don't.

Speaker 10 (01:09:57):
It was a great night.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Yeah, sounds that like, okay, like folk or rock or
but are both rock.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Of folk rock?

Speaker 10 (01:10:07):
Yeah? But John Foy one of the well, it was
great to see these these old folks getting together and
and in the green room they had all of their
their their acoustic guitars and and yeah, oh it was
so awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
What what John Foggery song? That are fortunate son? Have
you ever seen the lane?

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:10:28):
He didn't pay fort it funny played Oh what do
you play? The escaping?

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Okay, old men down the road old.

Speaker 10 (01:10:39):
Man down the there, that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Yeah, oh that sounds excellent, Daniel. But yeah, let us
know anyway, have any developments well that we picked up
the end of the air, didn't we hold your horses?
People get to you in the next hour. West Sydney
Wanderers have scored. They scored a belter so they are
one zip up against Wellington. Sup It singers on the
Highlanders have won. They have beaten the Crusaders by two points.

(01:11:05):
What are they seemed to be? Oh gee, those students
are Scarfi's are loving it. The stand seems to be
full of young romance and people out there sort of
getting into their student days. And the wak up at Auto.
The Hunger Museum has been saved. They've taken it to
the church. Great place to take it. There's videos and everything.
It's all good. Zimbabwe has just beaten Australia in the

(01:11:27):
T twenty. That's just through and West Sydney is still
up above the Phoenix one zero. The situation in the
whatever they call that league eight past ten number is
eighty eighty. Your Peter, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 23 (01:11:46):
Marks wet scenario and that comvent core of those people
that have booked, well far as I can soon. If
ours at restaurant and people you're given that one of
the one of your rooms and the establishment, so I
think restaurant, if as a restaurant owner, you're going to
employ more staff they got I'm counting on you said

(01:12:07):
one or two, I'm not going to show I mean we're.

Speaker 11 (01:12:08):
Going to get it out of that.

Speaker 23 (01:12:10):
Say say two or three don't show up, You're still
going to make some money out of maybe nine people.
You'll employ more stuff you're got to You're going to.

Speaker 11 (01:12:16):
Have extra food.

Speaker 23 (01:12:17):
And what if I as a restaurant I'm not a restaurant,
restaurant I own, I'll be saying is well, can I
have your your credit card and we will charge you
for six anything over that Obviously you know you're going
to pay the space. And if they don't agree with that,
well you don't really want them and yourself establishment establishment.

Speaker 21 (01:12:39):
Do you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
It just seems poorly handled. This was the girl's woman's
birthday and they've all ended in tears and then been evicted.
It seems as though they probably should have explained better
during the booking that if it needed to be twelve
people they needed to eat. You can't book for twelve,
have four tune up and then not eat. That's no
one would No one would support that behavior.

Speaker 7 (01:13:00):
No, no way.

Speaker 23 (01:13:01):
As far as I have said, I feel sorry to
get Gill's birth isn't too nice for her?

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Well, no one, No one tuned up just to two sisters.

Speaker 23 (01:13:11):
Yeah, I feel sorry for them. Obviously we've got our
heart in the day is whether it's my birthday, whose
ever birthday is? Basically I'm responsible for hiring up that venue. Yeah,
fair enough, whether people show up or not. That the
people gone out of the way to a commodate you.
And if you don't accommodate it, the bulls.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
On you place and you plem you can cook your
own steak.

Speaker 22 (01:13:31):
Still, ah, I think it might be.

Speaker 7 (01:13:36):
It might be that.

Speaker 23 (01:13:38):
I don't go out that much for meals nowadays, but
one just by yourself sort of thing, you know, just
are the odd time I go out of might eat.
It's not the same thing to eat by yourself. Still
think A and A. I'm just sort of sometimes they just.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
At least at least no one tells you for being
on your phone.

Speaker 23 (01:13:55):
Well, that's that's right. It's got a bantage and disadvantages.
The eye not meant not many times to be honest.
That year at Paris, I am saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
That where's the cook your own steak place, Peter, and
you plymouth, I think.

Speaker 23 (01:14:09):
It's think it's that west. My mummy said a place
across there on two Copper Street, and the change you.
I don't know what the name of the place is.
And I think that's one that has that.

Speaker 7 (01:14:19):
There are a few.

Speaker 23 (01:14:20):
I think there's a few. There's another one who used
to be the lone star. I think.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
I don't think you cook your own steak. I think
they cook it for you, though, although the loan Stars
out of luck. As I see, they seem to be
closing oh.

Speaker 23 (01:14:32):
Gone, and something else has taken over that now new Plmouth.
They finished your new Plimouth, but now there's someone else
has taken over the rest, and I think they might
if it's not meaning New Plumoth.

Speaker 11 (01:14:40):
There might be one or two, but not many.

Speaker 23 (01:14:41):
I think that's sort of the dot. But you say,
I think they might be coming back in.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
I think, but okay, we'll find out, Peter, we'll find
out of cooking your own steaks coming back. Nice to
hear from you. At least the Highlander's one. Someone says Marcus.
The cob Carnival at Cobb and Coat is god tier.
Get the bacon wrapped too, Marcus, I'm damn sure I
wouldn't be approaching people in the middle of the night.

(01:15:06):
That's Donald wamadou h. This is about the marathon cook
your own steak at the Old Flame Parmerston North of
the Eighties, closed down many year ago. Marcus I was
watching one of those quest shows about dinner time yesterday.
One question was where was country Singer born? His answer
was Australia. The Combe put him out and told him
Urban was born just south of San Francisco, which was wrong.
Keith Urban was born in fang Aare. Someone said to

(01:15:29):
be a birthday she won't forget. Oh, they need to
get her back and have a good birthday. Would hurt
with her, Marcus and Neutral band Cidy used to go
to the Oaks Pub where you choose to cook your
own steak outside. Pretty sure it's still there, bears so
places you cook your own steak. And the floods and
the disastrous birthday at Cobb and Co. Now in all
the papers, and I'll tell you what the comments on

(01:15:50):
the news in here with about four hundred comments on that.
No winners in that, no winners in that lines three
thirteen past ten stories with the flood roads are closed.
It's raining heavily white par networks which provide electricity for
TiO Muti, Cambridge, Hummer, Heidi and Khafia see the severe
weather is causing outages. We are responding to power outages

(01:16:13):
caused by severe weathered flooding. We are working as quickly
and safety as possible to reconnect customers. And then they've
got a file photo. So that's the situation with the
power and they are saying it's a one in one
hundred year rainfall and part of the wakator I think
Tatawa Muta is quite badly affected too. More roads may

(01:16:37):
close later tonight. Delay your journey if you must travel,
increase your following distance, reduce speed, avoids sudden breaking, and
use headlights. Well though you shouldn't really tell people to
avoid sudden breaking. Sure they what if you needed to
break suddenly? They should say don't break suddenly unless absolutely necessary.
And they've saved the waka from the tier from the auto.

(01:17:00):
The Hunger Museum that's been saved. I don't know how
they carried it, and it's bucketing down in a portucky.
But yeah, that's ways. You got weather updates for us.
That's good too. I'm not quite sure about the Wakata River,
but that appears as are the wipers going into that
That might well be up in flood for those people
on the low lying islands. Moist festinated about an island
in a river. Yeah, it's pretty interesting that the biggest

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island on the Waikato. There's also a big island on
the Kluther which not many people know about south of Beaumont.
That's pretty hard to get to, but it's actually quite
a steep island, surprisingly enough. I know about that because
they were going to damn the river at Beaumont for
a hydro scheme. That was going to mean that it
would maybe they're going to dem it below Beomont, but
you there's some talk about that. But all the lines

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are free. It's fourteen past ten. If you're going to
cook your own steak, why would you even go out?
I think people like the social You go with mates
and have some beers. Things are social thing. Oh berry,
but well cook meer mate?

Speaker 5 (01:18:00):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
That two I like Oh gee, I like mine blue.
Oh you look at you jeepers greepers looks like it's
still alive. Oh what about some sell o that day salad.
That's kind of a chatter chatter. Yeah, enjoy those sort
of things. It's for the Yeah, it's social. You'll gather
around cook your cook your meat together, have a chat
about things. Or aw's your rates? Oh gude, mine's up cheapers.

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People love that sort of stuff. That's just the shared experience.
I mean, it's not all fun cooking at home on
your own. You want to get out and about anyh now,
if you want to talk, that's what we're about tonight.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and the weather
and places you cook your own steak. That's my suggest
to topics you might have your own. It is World

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Radio Day, and I think I've done about ten World
Radio days. I'm never quite sure what you're supposed to
do on World Radio Day, apart from acknowledging that we're
still here and why do we here for another thirty years?
Not myself personally, where as a form of media sixteen
past ten, speaking of dining out stories has just been
an outrage of a story in Sydney. Right, So it

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was a restaurant in Sydney and a diner. This is
a flesh restaurant at the Rocks called Pony Dying Dining,
and a diner complained about having a hair on a
steak and said because that he shouldn't pay a bill
for a six hundred dollars meal. So went back and
looked at the CCTV footage that's on the Daily Fail

(01:19:30):
and you can see him pulling a hair out of
his arm pit and putting it on the steak, which
is yeah, he's clearly sprung. So yeah, that was clearly

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the plan. But yeah, not good, that's just happened anyway.
That's yeah. I'm not saying that's a talk back discussion, Marcus.
The idea of cooking my own steak on a hot
rock has no appeal. I'd rather go to a tip
and Yaki restaurant had the chef in front of me.
Oh yes, but I think what we are celebrating it
was a thing. Is it still a thing? And I
want to know what was the first restaurant and news

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in and we could cook your own steak. I'm saying
it'd be the early eighties be a garden bar pub
somewhere and it would have been legendary. It would have
been the place to be that summer Phoenix down two nil,
twenty past ten. George, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:20:27):
I can say good nine good George.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
How are you getting on?

Speaker 24 (01:20:30):
Oh well, I'll be honest, mate, I actually went out
for dinner tonight and it was subpar. It was overpriced
and a light of the chat right now, I'd rather
bloody cook at home.

Speaker 10 (01:20:42):
I reckon.

Speaker 24 (01:20:44):
It was honestly the service. You know, you get a
couple of components and me go up for a meal.
You don't mind paying good money if it's good service,
good food, and it's on time. And quite frankly, tonight
fouled at every single one.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
That was not good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Is the place is the place you'd been to before?

Speaker 24 (01:21:07):
That's the thing, Mark is.

Speaker 17 (01:21:08):
I wanted to branch out, so we nowhere different.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Never never never branched out? George.

Speaker 24 (01:21:17):
Oh mate, well how do you explore?

Speaker 25 (01:21:19):
It was a forty dollars Maine?

Speaker 26 (01:21:22):
And I tell you, I just you just lose faith
in these bloody restaurants, you do, you know? And you
can see why the good ones go good and the
bad one fail.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
You really can.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
I think it's a tough time for hospitality industry. I think,
you know, I think the costs are up. I think
people aren't going out much to all luberrina. I think
they've been I think they've been squeezed.

Speaker 11 (01:21:45):
What did you want to agree?

Speaker 24 (01:21:46):
But at the same time, as George could service costs anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
What do you.

Speaker 14 (01:21:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
To be honest?

Speaker 22 (01:21:52):
Made?

Speaker 24 (01:21:52):
I got some It's like, ah, some pasta ravioli bloody thing.
But is that an Italian restaurant at Takpoona. Normally I
would go to a different one, but.

Speaker 4 (01:22:04):
I gave it a nudge and I was it's got it.

Speaker 10 (01:22:07):
It's got like a five.

Speaker 26 (01:22:09):
I could cook better at home.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
What was it, you say, what was it?

Speaker 22 (01:22:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:22:15):
Some, I have to look it up on the menu.
Yeah it was some it's nice, but no it wasn't.

Speaker 24 (01:22:21):
Actually it was bloody, tasteless.

Speaker 26 (01:22:22):
It was flavorless, and they had Bargeroll like bugeroll meat
him there.

Speaker 24 (01:22:27):
It's just all they can just shout a budget cutting,
which is fine.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Well no, but I think, I mean, what what it?
What was actually called the ravioli dish because some of
them don't have much meat in it.

Speaker 26 (01:22:38):
Oh man, I have to I have to look it
up on the I have to look it up for you.

Speaker 10 (01:22:43):
Did you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Did you have a garlic bread.

Speaker 26 (01:22:47):
Ah had a pisto, a pisto bread thing and.

Speaker 11 (01:22:52):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
A pisto.

Speaker 13 (01:22:56):
Oh we see you're not very deep.

Speaker 26 (01:22:57):
Do you not try a new restaurant?

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got a I've
got a fair of venturous Pellett. But I don't think
i'd order though.

Speaker 26 (01:23:07):
Oh yeah, well you know it's just you got.

Speaker 17 (01:23:10):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 26 (01:23:10):
It's a bit more better than just a plain bredge you.

Speaker 7 (01:23:13):
Know just what your normal go to.

Speaker 24 (01:23:17):
Take me in a beach caf mate, you'll find me there.

Speaker 10 (01:23:20):
I love it. That's bloody great.

Speaker 24 (01:23:22):
Get a skip you know, scan beyonmelet or else.

Speaker 26 (01:23:24):
You get the crayfish, Benny Alse. If I'm in christ Shirch,
I have to be King of Snake.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
I've been there, yeah as well, you know, two.

Speaker 24 (01:23:35):
Bloody great places. You know, you just stick to stick
to what you know. And I'm disappointed. But how Elsey,
would you know right exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
You pushed the boat out? You failed, George? Thank you
nice to if you text me what the what the
Ravioli was I'll be curious though about that. So Phoenix
down to nil lines three twenty three past ten. There
was a pub called the Don Cast in Sydney. You
could cook your own tuna, steaks or chicken, and they
offered free I think every one of the your own

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restaurants cop free. Yeah, get a free sound with it,
Marcus good Eving, Marcus, the one thing you should be
done on World Radio Day is to drive to drop
in a bit of radio Gaga by Queen. I will
never play Queen, never have, never will. I know there
are people that love Queen dearly. I'm not one of those.

(01:24:32):
I find the lyrics nonsense and all that performing those
performative vocals. Galaboush, galaboush, No, not my thing, Marcus, on
reading the Herald article on the Cob and Co birthday,
that woman must have known before arriving at the restaurant
there are only now four of them. She should have
told Cobb and Co. Arriving at the latest, the staff

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should have sorted an easy and pleasant evening for her here. Indeed,
were frequently had booking numbers changed you to colleagues, been
on call. Being a hospital town always explain the situation
never had a problem chairs Kate. Yeah, I suspect this
might have been a This might have been a rear
outing for this. Yeah, that sounds patronizing, but yeah, maybe

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maybe it was new territory for them, and maybe it
was just sisters trying to do something nice for the
other sister, Like they arranged to have a cake there,
which they had to pay. I think they had to
pay forty dollars to have the cake served as well.
So none of it looks good. But yeah, many comments
about that. The only thing mentioned on the day of
the booking was an extra twenty dollars charge for servicing

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the cake, which the woman agreed to.

Speaker 5 (01:25:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
I would imagine the whole attitude towards hospitality is always
try and communicate and people will do whatever they can.
No one wants a situation like that where you can't
just book for twelve, then tune up as four and
then not eat because I don't imagine they're into the decories.
Imagine it was traffic lights, John, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:25:57):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:25:58):
Was the sky shall and where are you bought a
down the line?

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
Yeah, I'm an invert Cargill tonight there's.

Speaker 15 (01:26:07):
A sky channel down or something that that's been off
mine on the one grade.

Speaker 11 (01:26:11):
It's down.

Speaker 15 (01:26:13):
About fifty minutes now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
Is it pouring outside? I imagine you've got weather. You've
got rain fade, have you?

Speaker 17 (01:26:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (01:26:20):
I don't know, it's it's been down since past nine.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Hey, don't get me started on sky I love that.

Speaker 15 (01:26:29):
Missing all the game?

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
What are you missing?

Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:26:32):
The rugby game? The other game?

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Yeah, it's not good, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
What is it?

Speaker 15 (01:26:35):
Warts and the other game?

Speaker 19 (01:26:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
I can even work out which your team's which.

Speaker 15 (01:26:43):
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, but it must be all
down around it was rain eight the weather?

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Do you want the score?

Speaker 13 (01:26:53):
What's the score?

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
Do you want it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
It's half time seventeen twelve to the Warrortis or the Tars,
say the Tar seven and twelve of the Tars.

Speaker 13 (01:27:04):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
If you want more updates, just called Dan Hi, Susie, Hi, Marcus.
How are you good? Susie good?

Speaker 22 (01:27:12):
Marcus?

Speaker 27 (01:27:13):
You were talking about get restaurants from that before. I've
got my sixtiess in a couple of weeks at the
Tarn Feather and Number Caggle and they were going to
charge twenty five dollars if they had to cut the cake. Yeah,
I think it's disgusting. My friend is getting a friend
to make it, and we can cut a rome with

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no extra charge. So how do you mean well, instead
of them cutting it, we'll cut ourselves and there will
be no charge.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
But I think when they say cutting it, they're charging
you for the plates and the knives and the washing up, aren't.

Speaker 22 (01:27:49):
They They are?

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Yeah, so they're not going to charge what sort of cake?
Will it be?

Speaker 28 (01:27:55):
Chocolate?

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
You'd order a meal though? The You're not going to
just go and eat the cake, are you?

Speaker 14 (01:27:59):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:28:00):
No, don't think so, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
It doesn't seem like a good I mean that seems
harrowing that everything about that story seems bad. Did you
search your sixtieth Susie? Yes?

Speaker 27 (01:28:14):
In the couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:28:16):
Wow, how big a group?

Speaker 27 (01:28:20):
Well, I'm up to about twenty seven. I'm expecting about thirty.

Speaker 19 (01:28:26):
They've all replied back.

Speaker 2 (01:28:27):
So, yeah, how comes so many?

Speaker 26 (01:28:30):
Oh well I've got a.

Speaker 27 (01:28:30):
Lot of good friends, Marcus, and a group that I
belong to and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:28:35):
Wow, Well, make sure make sure you make sure they
commit to tune up because want another repeat of the
comnco Susie, thank you, Oh taking along a little bit,
aren't we? But of this bit, of that, but of
this and that, Marcus. The only reason we had Sky
was for the shows on Discovery, which we had to
be extrafore in our neon have all the Discovery shows

(01:28:56):
up to date. So for a third of the price
with what we want in Sky will never see us
again as customers, Marcus, is a talk back discussion. Now,
did the guy in the Rocks in Australia not having
here on his head?

Speaker 10 (01:29:07):
No, he did.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
There's a picture of him. There's a picture, and he
looks like quite a well dressed sort of a unit,
the guy at the Rocks, And I think this is
a common I remember there were those unruly travelers that
went around the world and did it. He's sort of
dressed in Chino's and a polo shirt and the videos
there of him pluck it, plucking out the here under

(01:29:30):
his arm. He is thinning on top, but you can
see him doing it quite clearly. He should be prosecuted.
I don't think he was. Hello, Paul, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
Hey Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:29:43):
How was your break?

Speaker 3 (01:29:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Yeah, good, Thanks Paul. I'm back for about three weeks,
I think.

Speaker 29 (01:29:48):
Oh, I mean the long weekend.

Speaker 22 (01:29:52):
Still driving home from work, driving over it's pouring down
up here in one yeah, no, no, no sky.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
It was weird how that guy even wondered what was
wrong with this sky? Has he never had rain fade before?

Speaker 24 (01:30:05):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:30:05):
Okay, the windscreen wipers going flat sticks at the moment,
out of here. Restaurant restaurants, Yeah, we we book most
tables up to about twenty, and then once you get
the twenty you're asked for a deposit because it gets
a bit too much, right, But big tables, they're actually

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got good if half of them don't turn up, because
you can on sell the table anyway, you know, can
you that's a big deal. Yeah, yeah, which you might
you have more diners dying on two tables and you
send send like tables or two you sell three times
a night for a table of sex sell once? Yeah,
you know, so you turn over on tables or two

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are a lot better.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Right, But what do you do?

Speaker 29 (01:30:55):
What do you do?

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
What do you do if they want to bring a cake?

Speaker 15 (01:30:58):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:30:59):
Look, if they bring a cake, that's fantastic. It's all
part of the Also, it's all part of the happiness
of eating out. You know, somebody has a has a
birthday in a restaurant, everybody gets on and sings every birthday.

Speaker 5 (01:31:12):
Pull.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Do you charge them cakeage?

Speaker 21 (01:31:14):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
No, it mean spirited.

Speaker 22 (01:31:18):
Oh I think, well, I've got to give it. Restaurants.
It's a pretty fine margin at the moment, and a
lot of them are doing it real hard, you know. Yeah,
and when it gets when the tough gets gone, the
it gets a bit tough.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Yours, really, yours is a.

Speaker 22 (01:31:36):
Really good restaurant's gone under this? Yes, you know, it's
really sad.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Yours is a Thai restaurant, is it?

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
Paul?

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Yeah, So you're you're not big on desserts and cake anyway,
are you? So people would need to bring a cake
because you guys don't do that sort of carry on.

Speaker 22 (01:31:51):
I'll tell you what, ty fried bananas won't go past.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
Beautiful really yeah, yeah, I don't reckon. It'd be my thing.

Speaker 22 (01:32:02):
Ti fry bananas. Ice cream Sundays, the old simple ice
cream and it goes out the door.

Speaker 16 (01:32:10):
They love it, really, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
But you're not making you're not making your own ice cream?
Are It's just chip job?

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
Is it right?

Speaker 22 (01:32:18):
It just chipped up. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but a
sticky date, Poddy. I can't get enough of it, really
is it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
But that's not a tie. That's not a tie delicacy,
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:32:30):
Noym sticky dud?

Speaker 23 (01:32:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:32:36):
The bench we have done up there with this tours
you lure or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
Paris of the South, ye yeah yeah yeah? Have you
actually been to? Have you being to Thailand?

Speaker 27 (01:32:46):
Paul?

Speaker 22 (01:32:47):
I used to live there. Okay, it's a little bit
the Vietnam.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
You're beginning to hang of it. I've been a run Paul.
But thanks for the chicken from the neck and twenty
four to ten eleven. Hello, Tracy, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:33:02):
Yeah, Hi, how are you going good?

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
Thanks? Tracy?

Speaker 30 (01:33:05):
Cool not played restaurant, but the freaky all the same.
My sister and a friend went out to a cafe
and only hunger and she saw a custard slice. But
I'll just have a piece of that and the cabinet
and the coffee.

Speaker 31 (01:33:20):
So they go and sit down at the table.

Speaker 30 (01:33:23):
The girl brings over her order and the guy she
must have taken it out the back, and the guy
cut her slice in the heart and then he gave
her half of what she bought.

Speaker 13 (01:33:34):
Really, kids, you're not.

Speaker 30 (01:33:36):
So she goes, it's a bit weird. She goes, no,
I'm going to confront it. And so she goes up
to the counter and says, excuse me, I bought a
whole slice and you've gone and cutting that up. He
starts going off as nut at her, I mean screaming
at her, and these are other people in the cafe,
and she says like, oh my gosh. And so anyway,

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he goes out in the bag and she thinks should
I just go, and her friend goes, don't act one.

Speaker 15 (01:34:03):
We'll just sit down.

Speaker 30 (01:34:04):
We'll finish our food sitting there. Then that the baker
comes back out the front again and he had taken
the tray out the back and cut all the custard
slices and halfs and he brings it up to him
and goes, just see your better? Is this better?

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
Is this what you want?

Speaker 19 (01:34:19):
And do so like, oh my god, and so I
mean bad.

Speaker 30 (01:34:24):
Do it get hard?

Speaker 31 (01:34:25):
Aren't they?

Speaker 30 (01:34:25):
If someone can treat a customer like that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Well, if you're kind of get in how much was
it six dollars?

Speaker 30 (01:34:31):
You would be something like that an imagine cutting in half?
But and mean nothing because she can.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
It's hard to cut in half. It looks like it's
cut in half because you're kind of custard. Square in
half you kind of squash it down. But yeah, looks
like it's cutting half.

Speaker 30 (01:34:44):
And just totally humiliated it. So she looked him up
online for his cafes and he was panning himself on
the back on the hospitality.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Oh I don't think. I mean, you're only going to
put up your good reviews if you're in that business,
aren't you?

Speaker 30 (01:35:00):
But yeah, ah scary though, she said. Honestly she was petrified.
And Massis is a strong woman. You know, he's seen
us in prap with match. But she goes, no, honestly,
win this price. If he brought a knife out, he
was that crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Was the coffee and he.

Speaker 19 (01:35:18):
No, not really no.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Notice to hear from your tracy. Thank you twenty three
to eleven O wait turn with eighty Tenadian nineteen nine
to the text I can't do that, damn pasting. We
could what happened?

Speaker 11 (01:35:31):
Could we?

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Kevin? It's Marcus welcome, Hey Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:35:35):
There was just we want to talk about cafes. We're
going to cafe a few years ago and man.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
It took off.

Speaker 20 (01:35:43):
But now mate, we're lucky we got out of the game. Mate,
it's just hard man. So we ended up buying uh
car yard, man, and that took off for about seven years,
but then.

Speaker 7 (01:35:55):
It fell over.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
How does it run a car yard?

Speaker 20 (01:35:59):
We had a We had one in Auckland, one in
one an Auckland and one in warnington Borough. We had
two of them, but it only lasted seven years.

Speaker 7 (01:36:09):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
How do you make your money? Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:36:12):
You buy, you buy and sell chas online on the
street flipping. You get to other dealers and get the
singing hare and stuff, or you get to go overseas
and grab the brand new stuff. It was awesome, mas, bro.
But me and my missus, like, we drove all over

(01:36:33):
New Zealand, you know, delivering these cars and we had
other people delivering them. Uh it's funny mate, because because
some of them fell asleep and they crashed the cars. Bro,
And we said, oh mate, lucky we got insurance. Hey Dalks,
we told you, you know you've got to run in
the morning, nick minute that there's this one guy Bro.
He played play session all night and then he caught

(01:36:55):
the plane up to Auckland right from Huntington and he
drove down to flip mate. He didn't even get past
Cambridge and he had it excellent. And we said to him,
We said to him, bro, you're right.

Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
He was in hospital week.

Speaker 20 (01:37:08):
We said you're a right bro, and go yeah, and
I said, don't.

Speaker 26 (01:37:11):
Out the car.

Speaker 7 (01:37:12):
You know, people come first, mate.

Speaker 20 (01:37:14):
But we told him, oh, my nephew down in the
one incident and said, boy, you're going to get it
when you get home or when you get out of hospital.
And I said no, even bro, you know now he's learned.

Speaker 17 (01:37:26):
Mate.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
You know, did you get insurance for the car?

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:37:31):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
What what game was he playing?

Speaker 20 (01:37:34):
I don't know. Maybe he he was just playing all
night and.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Then must have been a pretty good PlayStation game.

Speaker 20 (01:37:41):
Oh it must have been Brokens because he did it
all nighter and then then his plane was at six
and when he got up through Auchran, they had a
couple of hours wait because the cars were in groom
and I said, you all you guys Broke traveled down
with convoys and yes, swears there's about eight of them.
And everyone veered off, you know when they got to

(01:38:01):
about Hamilton made and said, see last that was cool,
but someone sort of watched ten Burger is when he
took off from Hamilton. He didn't even make it to
Cambridge and he crashed where he fell asleep at the wheel.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
Well okay, yeah, nice to talk Kevin. Thanks for that.
Eighteen to eleven sixteen to tweleven. A couple of weather
related things I need to tell you about. The first
thing is there's another severe thunderstorm warning. This is valid
until seven past eleven. There is severe a line of
severe thunderstorms lying from Omaha to walk With the line

(01:38:37):
of thunderstorms is moving towards the southeast and is expected
to each a line from Parkery to Omaha to walk
With at ten thirty seven that's just been and from
Parkerrie to Omaha at eleven o seven. These thunderstorms are
expect to be accompanied by very heavy rain VHR, so

(01:38:57):
driving will be hazardous, so be concerned and careful about that. Also,
the Hooker River swim you too significantly more rainfall than
expected in Towport and across the wakat Or catchment over
the past twenty four hours, and with what is expected
still to come. It's with real disappointment we must advise
the Hawker River Swim will not be proceed as scheduled tomorrow.

(01:39:23):
We've been working closely with Mercury Energy to assess whether
we can reduce the river flow rate. Whoever, given the
substantial inflow into like toport already and what is forecaster
comes overnight Mercury unable to lower the river flow?

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
What is that? What is that?

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
The Hawker River Swim team, I don't even know what
that is. You wouldn't go over the falls, would you?
That's something different Hawker River Swim. I'm looking what that is?
A stunning three point three kilometer downstream swim in the
mighty Waikato River. It's sold out. Wow, go with the flow,

(01:40:00):
good vibees only bucket lists swim one of the most
beautiful stretches of fresh water in New Zealand on everyone's
bucket list. Of course, it's an overused expression, how isn't
it the bucket list? With a generous downstream current, you
can relax and go with the flow or swim your
fastest ever three k what it's a good event. Yeah,

(01:40:22):
well you're going to bring photo ID in your wetsuit
if you choose to swim in one for compulsory check
for freshwater pests looks very good. Compulsory wetsuit check bag,
drop clean your wetsuit a wavestart format. What a good event,
but not happening this time? Sold out anyway, That's what

(01:40:42):
I've got to say. It's thirteen to eleven. We're talking
about bringing your own cake to restaurant and the com
and Co party, which seems legendarily bad. I'll see what
they're saying on Facebook about that in the comments, because
the comment sections seem to be going off. The Waratahs
are seventeen over the Reds who are twelve half an
hour left to go there. That's what's happening there. And

(01:41:05):
I'll just see what they're say about this on the
comment section about the Cob and Co. You've really go
go to the comment section to see all the madness
with what people say, don't you. I wonder how the
weather's going to be for that sale GP with a
bit actually be some action there. It's what people want,
isn't it. Two hundred and eleven comments on the Cob
and Coat story. Most of it's cobon Co nostalgia. Someone says,

(01:41:28):
disingenuous concern from the new Zealand Herald with this article
only serving to humiliate these poor people. Further, Yeah, well,
it does seem as though it's say, yeah, someone says,
how could you book a restaurant for dinner and decide
not to order any food and say didn't know that
was a thing. That's a frevalid point. I think they've

(01:41:49):
I think they've misunderstood the function of a restaurant. So yes,
not much sympathy for the customers. But she was in
tears anyhow. You might want to comment on that as well.
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten, eight ten away
from eleven. Catch you soon. I'll tell you what I'm
more excited about. I'm more excited. Well, I'm excited about
the story about Cob and Co. But I'm really excited

(01:42:11):
about restaurants were you can cook your own steak and
what was the first one of those in New Zealand.
That's where I want to go, and I've got no
idea what it is. That's why I've asked. And some
of you will have been there and done it, and
I'm saying it'd be the early eighties. There'll be in
a garden bar and a pub somewhere before the stone Girl,
I mean Stone Grill. What have been a huge trend

(01:42:35):
there for a while and some of you will know
the answer to that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:42:39):
Good evening, Yvonne. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:42:42):
Oh him, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:42:43):
Look, I've been wondering what's happened about the replacement coach
for the All Blacks. No one's talking about it now.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Yeah, I think what's happened, right, yeah, is that the
applications have closed and then it goes to a panel
of five David Kirk, Kevin Milamo, Don Tricker and Steve Lancaster.
Although that's only four and.

Speaker 19 (01:43:14):
They are going to these people?

Speaker 12 (01:43:16):
Have we been told?

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
David Kirk is a business person that was the captain
of the Ala when they won when they won the
inaugural World Cup. Is Kevin Melarma is a former howker
and children's author and rugby player. Don Tricker I think
was a softballer and baseball player that then became a

(01:43:41):
high performance coach. And I don't know who the others are,
but they're rugby people and they have.

Speaker 31 (01:43:47):
Been had long careers in rugby there and have they
not Don Tricker?

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Don Tricker was someone that went and played baseball tried
to crack at the United States, I think. But he's
high performance.

Speaker 24 (01:44:02):
All right, he's.

Speaker 12 (01:44:05):
Gives the job done.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
Type of saying, I've got no but I've got no opinion.
But what's the point are you saying that they're not
the right people to appoint?

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:44:15):
Well, I wasn't sure, because you know, to be honest,
you have to pay, you know, to read some of
the articles now on your online numb I hadn't thought
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:28):
That is problematic for people that they haven't just read
the headlines because you can't click on today.

Speaker 12 (01:44:33):
Yes, it it's harder. And of course the community newspapers
they do, you know, they don't hold the same content
you rely on, you people.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
And I'll tell you something, When all Blacks coach is announced,
you will know about it. There will be talkback, will
speculate on the rights and wrongs of the appointment for
probably about three months.

Speaker 12 (01:45:05):
Oh that is not right, Marcus, it's too long. Let's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Okay, I'm gonna go. That's enough for me. Cask and
Cleaver and christ Church cook your own steak back in
the eighties, You better tell me more about that. Is
there any data on phone sales? Of the shutdown of
three G Marcus. The new white skyboxers don't get rain

(01:45:33):
fade as they switch over to the internet streaming when
the satellite signaled wrap drops out on Now, I'll tell
you what George who had the ravioli ravioli Dinatra handmade
fresh ravioli stuff with slow roasted duck served at a
port ginie mushroom sauce. Sounds delicious. Cook your own steaks

(01:45:57):
is the topic for the last hour. The restaurant where
we did it, and we did it, but I won't
know what the first one was. I think it was
probably a garden bar. I don't know. For you were
Zimbabwe shocked Australia at the T twenty and two nil.
The Western City Wanderers over the Phoenix. Sapete sings off injured.

(01:46:18):
Who does left knee? So that's not good down to
nil and the Wonder signing is off. It's not good
for World Cup either if he's injured, because he's he's
good to go. Humidity in ninety percent at Wellington. Hot
night there, hot night. It's ten past seven. Christ's Marcus,
good evening, Good.

Speaker 8 (01:46:38):
Evening, Marcus. Hello, good Chris, Hey, first time I cooked
my own steak was at a restaurant in Perth that
was the trained carriages or a train carriage in sort
of it. I think it was a pub.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Actually sounds fantastic.

Speaker 8 (01:46:51):
Yeah, I was just a young fello. I remember again
the parents. It was great and then come back from
my hometown were spot and they got Bailey's bar or.
I think you could cook your own steak there, and
I remember it being a huge thing for a small
town like this, but it wore off.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Pretty quick and you're thought, oh, well, that's just like
we did in Perth and the railway carriages.

Speaker 8 (01:47:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:47:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:47:14):
I think they got on a bit before New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Perhaps, well I reckon and I reckon west Put might
have when are we talking?

Speaker 8 (01:47:20):
Oh goodness, late nineties, early two thousands in the West
One is still there, no no long going mate with
many of their good pubs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Yeah, I don't remember. I'm just trying to work out
what the One and Perth would have been. That looks
like that's probably long gone as well.

Speaker 8 (01:47:41):
Yeah, yeah, I couldn't remember it was. It was a
very large pub, is it like.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
Out in the Garden because it was classic classic Aussie
weather for today.

Speaker 8 (01:47:49):
Yeah, no, but the tram or the train carriater haven
inside the building.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
Oh yeah, indoor train carriages.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
Okay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
When when was the last time you cooked a steak?

Speaker 8 (01:48:03):
Yeah, it would have been in Bailey's twenty one years ago, would.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Say, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
Nice to hear from your Chris excent. We were talking
about cooking your own steaks people in restaurants and pubs.
When did that happen? That's what we need to know about.
I want to know what the first one in New
Zealand would have been being would have been? But the
way Heicki Pub had one I reckon in about nineteen eighty.
If you own a tonguey hotel, I think it was
called Big Garden Bar, big circular thing in the middle.

(01:48:28):
It seemed very sophisticated. Yeah that was that was a
big deal. You might have remembered that. Also, even it's Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:48:37):
Oh yes, good evening, Marcus. A bit of a runaway
jet ski just before you came on here. This easing
really Yeah, four of them, Jason. What happened around while
it was driving around?

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Ever they got a dead man's break?

Speaker 11 (01:48:51):
Yeah, obviously they didn't have the old cord on the wrist.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Oh, so they must have had the cord wrapped around
the throttle.

Speaker 11 (01:48:57):
I'm not sure where they had it wrapped around, but
the jet ski was on its own.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
I mean, there are a special sort of there are
a special sort of idiot the jet ski people, aren't they.

Speaker 11 (01:49:08):
I'll just agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Where was it?

Speaker 11 (01:49:11):
I'll just sort of see our west of the airy
criminal there?

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
And I presume that at Auckland, Orkland Ferry Tournament terminal.

Speaker 11 (01:49:18):
Yeah, why heck you one?

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
Oh yeah, I presume the oh yeah, I presume they
go round and round to they.

Speaker 11 (01:49:24):
Ah yeah, it was sort of just they had a
mind of its own for quite a while.

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
Actually, did they less sue it? Or how were they
trying to stop?

Speaker 11 (01:49:33):
Finally started going round and round that It took off
straight line for a while, obviously, until the steering sort
of shook to one.

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
Side or something, you know, and then someone jump onto it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (01:49:44):
I was swimming around chasing at four of them.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Good story, even, thank you. Keep on. It's alive. The
hour so far fourteen past eleven. I do want to
get to the bottom the cook your own steaks, make
the effort with this. This is an important culinary discussion
for us. Oh, Marcus, the cook your own steaks? Do
you mean the stone grill concept? No, I don't mean

(01:50:09):
the stone grill concept. I mean you gave a pub
and in the middle of the pub, in the garden bar,
they'd have a big guess hot plate, and probably it
would be about a ten feet diameter, and you'd go
and you'd grab your steak and you'd go and cook it,
and you go to a big salad bar and you
get all your salads and you go and eat it.
Fantastic was the sound of some of that sizzling. And

(01:50:33):
then of course they've done in all sorts of other iterations,
and then there's been restaurants we cook your own steak,
not just garden bars. And then of course ultimately there
was the stone Grill where they gave you the hot rock.
I don't know if that's a good thing or a
bad thing. I'm not quite sure what that was. But
they're still in a round. I'm mainly at pubs, and
you still see them stone It seems like it's a
franchise Stone Grill. It's volcanic the star. I don't know

(01:50:55):
how I apresium. I just chucked the rocks in the oven.
That's what we are talking about. So that's the discussion tonight.
If you want to add to that, Westport in the
ninety will have been a lot of them, mainly like
not like licensing trusts, but mainly those sort of chains
of hotels would put them in to try and revive

(01:51:15):
a flagging franchise. So that's the discussion. Let's be hearing you.
Oh someone said, with Wellington's sewerage problem, would it be
possible to pump it into a tanker and take it
out to see and dump it. I don't know. Texas
says it was the Gosnill's Hotel in Perth, and I've
looked at the images. They did have a train carriage
and a tram carriage. Text Or says, I worked at

(01:51:38):
the Woodloo Hotel, Fortitude Valley, Bridgeman over fifty years ago.
They did it there, Marcus, late sixties, I managed the
Colonial Room restaurant, new Market. Some customers bought trout and
brought cook trout and brought them in. Our chef cooked them. Patrick,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:51:53):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening, Marcus, hold you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
Today, good Thank you, Frank. Sorry Patrick Patrick, So I
got that wrong. Wires crossed, Patrick Marcus. Yeah, good, thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:52:07):
That's okay, stone grill cock your own steak. I don't
want to beat your oin cloud.

Speaker 6 (01:52:14):
But is that sort of thing, yeah, kind of yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:52:21):
So do you go in your order your steak and
then you cock it by yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
Well, there were there were some that they had them
in bars and you'd cooked them in a big central
grill like hot plate in the middle, and I think
there's a stone wall one where they give you a
hot rock.

Speaker 25 (01:52:37):
Yeah, that's yeah, I've seen that, but I've never seen
the actual grill plate in the middle of a of
a restaurant and then you cook your own steak. I've
never seen that before.

Speaker 2 (01:52:49):
I think it was mainly in garden bars in the summer.

Speaker 25 (01:52:54):
Okay, yeah, I can see that, but would that be supervised?

Speaker 17 (01:53:00):
Do you think.

Speaker 25 (01:53:09):
It's not that I can't put my own sake, But
I'm just wondering for people, and you know, people can
be a bit I don't know. It definitely sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Are you worried about the safety angle.

Speaker 25 (01:53:28):
If it's an open grawl and you cook your own sake?

Speaker 13 (01:53:30):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Yeah, what would happen?

Speaker 26 (01:53:37):
Wow?

Speaker 25 (01:53:39):
That people put their hand on there or which you
probably shouldn't do.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
You know, I mean, yeah, it wasn't really my angle
for the discussion. My angle was sort of like just
the sort of a warm, fuzzy nostalgic angle about when
it first happened, not whether you could put you I mean, yeah, okay,
fair enough. I think I never saw anyone putting their
hand on the grill, never, not once evening Market's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:54:05):
Welcome, Yeah, Marcus, thanks for taking the call my pleasure.
Whitey Hotel. Wow, I reckon because I went to iz
in eighty one, so it was before then, really sne
nine or eighty. Yeah, and outdoors, I don't think they had.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
They've got kind of a big in or outdoor restaurant,
haven't they At White Tongue. It's sort of it filled
out outdoors, But it didn't. It's pretty nice there, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:54:33):
I think it's gone, is it? The one I'm thinking
of was actually before that, just just on the bridge
on the right hand, Yes, And I was with a
whole lot of mates just for the like a week
off in the summer. And I think you've got a
piece of stake. A couple of sauces and you put

(01:54:54):
on the barbecue yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
Was it called the White Ty Pub? I seem to
remember having a very good time there. Yeah, I've just
I've just been reminded of that.

Speaker 6 (01:55:04):
Yeah yeah, Witney.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Many years later, was it called the White Was it
called the White Tonguy Pub?

Speaker 6 (01:55:11):
I think it was. It was right on the water, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
Nomber it well was eighty seven eighty six eighty seven
was yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:55:22):
Yeah, So that's my first memory of something.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Like that, and I think I can remember that too, yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:55:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55:28):
And I can't find the images because I've googled White
Tangy Hotel and of course the pub on the Channel
Islands has that same name, so I can't find an
image of the existing one. I think it's gone, clearly
it's gone. That's that's a crime.

Speaker 20 (01:55:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:55:41):
I went in many years later and I was about
the only one in the bar, so I think it
came across tough times.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
Oh well, people start drinking at home, don't they after
a while with the private liquor or brewing their own.

Speaker 6 (01:55:54):
And also PI here and small population.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
That's brilliant. Okay, Well, see if we see if I
can find the image of that pub actually I've got
very vivid memories now. It's all coming back to me now,
the White Tongue Pub, very vivid memories. Oh well, thanks
for that. Keep it going if you've got calls about that,
cooking your own steaks at the pub, Marcus. I remember
going to the Islington Tavern and christ Church and cooking
our own steak in early nineteen eighty four. There used

(01:56:21):
to be cook your own steakhouse in Upper Willis Street
in Willington, early eighties. But count for life we remember
the name. See all our memory is going, isn't it.
If you've got something to say about this is the
topic of the ages. We might have a memory of
the White Tangy Hotel. Why it went? I need to
go to one of those old pub websites, don't I
a nostalgia website for pictures of them. I'd bite there,

(01:56:42):
I think. Yeah, Actually, can't really remember how I got there.
Oh no, I can remember that anyway. I should call talkback, Susanne.
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:56:56):
Oh hi Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:56:58):
The Waiting Hotel is still there, but it's called the
Copthorm Hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
Oh yes, I think we're talking about it, like as
you went cross the Bridge. There was a pub there.

Speaker 18 (01:57:08):
Yeah, that's right. Well, the hotel is on the beach side.

Speaker 23 (01:57:13):
You go over the bridge AND's on You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
You're not the Copthorn as such. There was a separate
kind of a drinking establishment that was sort of Yeah,
that was separate from there.

Speaker 18 (01:57:22):
I think, Oh, I didn't realize that. I've always known
the Hope Why It's Tingy Hotel to be that one.

Speaker 5 (01:57:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
No, I think there was a yeah, someone and I
think there was pretty sure there's a separate one there.
I'm just trying to find an image of it. But yeah,
I know the cop form, but there was actually a
sort of a public bar that was probably part of
it as well. David's Marcus, good evening, Margus.

Speaker 7 (01:57:45):
Have you been to the Newfield Club?

Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
Yeah, big Willie Rustler.

Speaker 17 (01:57:50):
Yeah, Yeah, there's one one big plate thing in there.

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
Yea.

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
Is it still going?

Speaker 17 (01:57:57):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 8 (01:57:58):
I haven't been there for two or three years.

Speaker 2 (01:58:00):
A couple of years since I was there. I thought
it could probably do with a bit of a refresh,
but they'll probably get around to what I suppose.

Speaker 17 (01:58:06):
Yeah, as you get two or three people in there
on this big plate where they're going yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (01:58:12):
Obviously being in the cargo, it's it's not a garden
bath thing. It's an might take the family there tomorrow day.
Thanks for that, Dave number two. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:58:27):
Oh good Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:58:28):
Iie not talking out of turn because I'm watching Canada
play USA and the curling and I've got a question
for the people. When they release the rock the stone,
a green light appears just by the handle, and I'm
wondering if it's got like a warming heating element in
the in the stone when they release it. And the

(01:58:50):
second point is I've got anti theft screws from my
number plates today and I highly recommend them to everyone
because I had the bat number plate on my car
pinched and so I got new plates and I got
anti theft screws from Bunnings only about eleven eleven dollars something.
But it stops people from taking a stealing your number plate.

(01:59:14):
So I think they're a good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
So would those handles is they are designed so to
tell whether that you have held the handle past the line,
which makes it a no throw.

Speaker 32 (01:59:29):
Oh, I see I'm watching it now, Marcus, and he's
just released it, and a little green light of and.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
If he hasn't released it early enough, it goes red.

Speaker 11 (01:59:39):
Oh and that's a no oh, that's interesting, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
And that's a no ball or a dead throw or
something like that.

Speaker 11 (01:59:46):
Gotcha. Yeah, it's a dead rock. I suppose.

Speaker 17 (01:59:48):
Yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
Where do you remember your first time you cooked it?
You went to a pub and you could cook your
own steak on like your own grill, like a big
single barbecue. You that'd be a bit, are you, David?
There'd be right in your bread basket, wouldn't it.

Speaker 32 (02:00:02):
Yeah, that would be right up by strata. But I
cook a mean steak at home.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
But what about what about the eighties and Australia or somewhere.
Did you go to some bar and the hang about
look at that you can cook your own steak.

Speaker 11 (02:00:16):
I know that some pubs, some places they do bring
out a like a hot stone. Yeah, hot rock. But no,
I've never done that, I'll be honest.

Speaker 32 (02:00:27):
And you haven't lived No, probably possibly haven't. But then again,
I haven't really been a big pub goer or drinker
in my day, you know what I mean. Like, I'm
not a big pub goer.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
No, But in the back in the day when you're
five pH and stuff, wouldn't you be?

Speaker 5 (02:00:47):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (02:00:47):
But yeah, you're quite right.

Speaker 32 (02:00:50):
But if I went out, I would get it brought
to me and I wouldn't cook my own trouble, you know. Yeah,
but I highly recommend these anti sifth screwster every week.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
You don't know if they worked. You only had them
for a day.

Speaker 32 (02:01:06):
No, Well, they do up and they don't undo because
you turn them up and they haven't got an undo
if you understand.

Speaker 11 (02:01:13):
It's kind of like you do them up, but they
can't be undone, so they'll do me And.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
Someone is someone done a rem ord with your plates?

Speaker 32 (02:01:25):
Probably one one of them. There was a back number plate,
and probably that's what I think the old field drive officer,
isn't it. I don't I suppose, I don't know, but
someone would have been.

Speaker 11 (02:01:35):
They have been reported for the police and canceled now
so I've got new number plates on.

Speaker 2 (02:01:41):
Brilliant. Nice to hear from you, Dave. Oh wait, one
hundreds you know the rest hitle twelve still to all
nine minutes of injury time? Oh not an injury time
extra time. Jan, This is Marcus, welcome. Hello, yes's Marcus.
Jan Good evening.

Speaker 29 (02:01:58):
Yeah, Hi, I remember the only hotel.

Speaker 2 (02:02:01):
Yes, didn't and they do. You remember when they could
cook your own steak?

Speaker 32 (02:02:04):
Yep?

Speaker 29 (02:02:04):
They had that great big sleep out in the garden.

Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
It was beauty. It was the only place to be
that summer.

Speaker 19 (02:02:11):
I know, it was fabulous. We've spent a lot of
time there wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:13):
God and a big salad bar, all the salads of
every well, marvelous.

Speaker 9 (02:02:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (02:02:19):
And in one little corner there was a young Chinese
he's only about seventeen or eighteen, and he sold chop
series and chairmains and things like that.

Speaker 2 (02:02:28):
Oh no, I don't. I don't remember that so much.
But sheapause that sounds good. What year we talk about?
What year do you think we were? We were eighties,
early eighties, an early eighty.

Speaker 29 (02:02:40):
Yeah, the the young Chinese boy is still on the island.
The working got his own takeaway shops. Fibulous.

Speaker 2 (02:02:49):
Wow, well that's the hell of a story. Okay, brilliant, Jan,
thank you for that. Gosh, we live and we learn.
You've got to love pubners down, you, don't you? What
were they we talking about? Talk back in fifty years
time they go and talk about the things we watched
on Netflix and the video games we played. I don't

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think so so to or draw in the A League.
I'll check the table. That was against the Western City Wanderers.
I'm not quite sure where they are on the hip parade.
Who's the tenth versus twelfth? So we should yeah, okay,
so it's still the bottom of the table type go round.
Oh they're the bottom team. My flip. It's not looking good?

Speaker 28 (02:03:29):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:03:30):
Soundra It's Marcus welcome?

Speaker 28 (02:03:32):
Oh hi Marcus. One thing, I haven't ever been in
the pub with an open grill my own stake, so
I've missed.

Speaker 2 (02:03:41):
Out the yea, yeah, I just thought it was it
was every pub there for a while, every single pub
did it?

Speaker 20 (02:03:46):
Oh oh wow?

Speaker 28 (02:03:49):
Well maybe how long ago, Marcus, would it have been?

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
Oh we'll be I mean, look it's been. I mean
I haven't drunk for a long time, so I haven't
been in pubs for a long while. But yeah, but look,
I think probably in the eighties and the nineties it
was always a big there was a big thing there
for a while.

Speaker 11 (02:04:04):
Oh well, I've probably dipped out on it.

Speaker 28 (02:04:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I have been in a Korean
restaurant where it said them to the table as a grill, yes,
and you pick picked your own meat and cook it
and it was really interesting and nice foods and similar

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a grill and a set on the table.

Speaker 2 (02:04:32):
So yeah, there's also those free famous Mongolian restaurants that
are all called Genghis Khan. And then but you actually
you actually hand it to the guy and he cooks it.

Speaker 28 (02:04:44):
That's right. Well, in the in the Korean restaurant, you
cook it yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:04:49):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 22 (02:04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
And they've also got ones that like the steamboat ones
where you cook it and like you steam it as well.
That's slightly different, you know, that's right. Yeah, it's changing
world now, isn't it. Maybe that's why the cook your
own steak thing is not such a big deal anymore.
But I guess it was good for restaurants that didn't
want to employ it. We shifts because they just get
someone to the cellars and cut the meat up. It'll
come back. If you had a butcher's shop next to

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a pub, great meats people at Lovell that wag you
stuff and that marbled stuff could go quite well. Hecker Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (02:05:20):
Oh hi, I was just going to bed and no
Ole Wifey, who you know very well, was listening to
your show and I heard your topic about the cook
your own at the old Big Willie Rustler's and oh
so many memories there. And the thing is you couldn't

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complain about the chef cooking your food because it was
you cooking it. And the best thing is is that
you could actually turn up and you know, they had pork,
maybe three or four cuts of steak, chicken, whatever, all

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the carts mate, and you could actually pick it. So
when they gave a pick that what the tongs you get? No,
I want that one, And they would give you the
you know, the porterhouse or the rump or whatever you wanted,
and you know, and then the sides side you wanted,
but it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:17):
Wasn't all you're going to eat. You had to you
had to pick your your one cut and pay for it.
That's right, isn't it yep?

Speaker 9 (02:06:24):
And then you've got three sides and you could get
it like a baked potato. But then people used to
get the baked potato and cut it up and then
fry it on the grill as chips. And I miss it,
I really do, because.

Speaker 2 (02:06:41):
It was because it's still going I mean, last time
I was there, it looked quite unloved.

Speaker 7 (02:06:48):
That's gone, has it?

Speaker 2 (02:06:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (02:06:52):
It's been shut for years.

Speaker 2 (02:06:54):
But the the new field is still there though, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (02:06:57):
But the other side is still there functioning is a
tavern which shows alcohol and pub meals that Troe and
the other.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
The trust shout that why have they brought their back?

Speaker 9 (02:07:11):
I understand think it was sustainable and.

Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
It looked like it was hard to hate. It was
a giant kind of a room.

Speaker 9 (02:07:17):
Yeah, it was pretty cool though it was very nostalgic
and yeah, but if you didn't want to do that option,
you can still get the bistro and then you get
the bend. Yeah, you know, with your number at the top,
with your we pick it and off you go to
the boat to get your chips.

Speaker 17 (02:07:35):
And you whatever.

Speaker 9 (02:07:37):
But you know, it was I don't know if they
just need to bring someone of their back because no
one can complain. Then you get to pick your meat,
cook it to your life.

Speaker 2 (02:07:47):
You don't need to remember, you don't need to employ
great shifts because they seem to be hard to find. Yep, yep,
And I think we'll start a campaign for that. Hecker.
Oh please, they got please, they got you please, they
got you out of bed. Yeah, stopped you on the
way to it. Lovely to talk he I love you
to phone meach again. Nice stuff. Nineteen to twelve people, oh,

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eight hundred and eighty. In fact, I'm even looking at
the newfield photos. I'm recognizing people in them, but no
shot sign of big willies, big willy rustlers. There we go, scheepers.
It's been all sorts of this out. Not often you've
become teary eyed yourself with nostalgia when you're running your
own show. Something said a word of warning about the

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number plate anti theft screws. The purpose actually do more
damage by yanking the number plates and damaging the bumpers.
Judy says visited de Leon Springs, Florida, and old mill
had been turned into a pancake house. Grill on the
table by a jugger milk pow it yourself. Oh that's
next level. So you actually do your own pancakes, probably

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not milk, but probably pancake max. I'll be into that. Excellent.
Hello Ross good I.

Speaker 31 (02:08:58):
We've got our own steak stones here. We got them
in from England. But we used to go out and
do their grills, And one of the drawbacks was that
if you tried to eat the meat too quickly, like
you cut the meat straight away take it off the
stone and you put it in your mouth, you burn
your tongue. But yeah, we enjoyed them, We still do.

Speaker 4 (02:09:21):
But the thing to.

Speaker 31 (02:09:21):
Remember about why these places we didn't do too well
is it took a hell of a on a lot
of time to eat those stones and begun and big ovens.

Speaker 2 (02:09:31):
Could you cook? Have you got your own at home?

Speaker 3 (02:09:34):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:09:34):
Do you just heat them up in your own oven?

Speaker 31 (02:09:37):
No, this doesn't really get hot enough. You got we
use a gas barbecue. Put the lid down and have
all the elements on and put it in there.

Speaker 15 (02:09:45):
And how long would it take a couple of hours
at least?

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:09:49):
Wow, Yeah, I had no idea. I thought it'd be
like twenty minutes and an oven or ten minutes. So
you'd need to have all the grills, all the stones
hot and ready to go before you opened.

Speaker 31 (02:09:59):
Yes, And they only stay hot for about more half
an hour, three quarters of an hour, and they they
called down fairly gradually. Those camp cookers that they had
the week tin on the side. I've used those outside
and put the one stone on each one and that'll
take two three hours.

Speaker 2 (02:10:19):
And then yeah, which of those the camp cookers with.

Speaker 31 (02:10:23):
They haven't we switched, you know, like they that they
have a can of gas that goes on the side
and then they close up.

Speaker 4 (02:10:33):
You must yeah, yeah, yeah, and they and.

Speaker 2 (02:10:38):
They take several hours to heat up the rock. What
do you know what temperature? Do you know what temperature
the rock's got to get to?

Speaker 31 (02:10:44):
No, the best way to tell at the time is
you get a teaspoon of water, teaspoon of cold water,
and you just put that on the stone. And when
if it just fizzles up and just disappears in the steam,
you know you're in business.

Speaker 18 (02:10:58):
Will there's a rock place.

Speaker 31 (02:11:00):
There's a place down here and kind of a road
because I'm in timrou a thing it's called bluestone there.
We've got a volcanic area around here, the Blue Cliffs,
and they make these bluestones they use they use them
for letter boxes and front fences and things. You can
buy those stones and they seem to work very you

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need volcanic rock really otherwise. Yeah, we had a marble
one here just about took me out. Yeah, the thing
fell apart when I was taking it from into the sink.

Speaker 9 (02:11:35):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
Yeah, so you're quite you're quite committed to it if
you've gone all the way to get bluestone and you're
hitting them out. So what what does it do to
the steak that makes it better?

Speaker 21 (02:11:47):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:11:48):
It tastes like it tastes dirthy, really, and not only that,
it's got it's got just the flavor. I guess it's
just the flavor the meat caramelizes. You keep turning it over.
You you'll cut them to the mouth size pieces and
you turn them around and around, and when they look
like they're just right, that's when I used to dip
it into the gravy because you get them on one

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of your sides and then oh yeah, no, it was
that dare good. I absolutely recommend them. That's one of
the best things I've ever had at when I go out.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
Oh, you don't cook your steak, hold you hold you
cut it out, cut it up.

Speaker 31 (02:12:24):
Yeah, you cut it up on the steak and you
you cook it piece by piece, because.

Speaker 2 (02:12:31):
I think I cooked it just the whole shbang. Yeah.

Speaker 31 (02:12:34):
Well, if you do that, then you probably will by
the time you get to the other end of it
the last, but it'll be well done in the first,
but it'll be very rare.

Speaker 11 (02:12:42):
I'd imagine, ha ha.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
No, if you're cooking it as one, it would all
cook the same time, wouldn't it.

Speaker 31 (02:12:49):
Yeah, but well you have to take it. I don't
think they. They didn't used to give us anywhere to
put it. You eat it off the stone.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Oh, I see what you're saying. You copy that you
and I understand. I'm gored. I question you about that.
You don't get a plate to eating off that exactly.
Thank you Ross for clarifying or caramelizing.

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