Even if it rips your hand apart (6 May 2026)

Marcus had a run in at a roundabout, and compiles questions for the upcoming NZ citizenship test.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from news
Talks a't be.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Eight oh seven. First and foremost, shout out to Darcy
Fortunate now they're on the FM and South and I
managed listened to him coming into work and yeah, I reasoned,
considered and enthusiastic commentator enjoyed that tonight. So thank you, Darcy.
How are you going?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
People?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome to listen land Welcome, Welcome, welcome. Hope it's good,
but it's not good. I hope it's better by midnight.
Oh yeah, I've got some things to say about some
things tonight. I've certainly got some things to say about
the Broadcasting Standards Authority, and I will say that tonight
at some time. First and foremost, though, I have a confession,

(00:56):
and that confession is I'm not quite sure how you're
going to handle this. By the way, I'm not sure
you think jeep is creepers, but I yeah, and it's
quite a straightforward confession. I'll cut to the chase before
too long without trying to turn into a queum builder.
I've lost my roundabout confidence. I was going through a
roundabout today heading south and I came to the roundabout right.

(01:19):
When you come to the roundabout, you look to the
left on the right. When I came to the roundabout,
I looked to the right to see if there was
a gap, and there was, and proceeded through to go
straight ahead, and then I just about got taken off,
got taken out by a car coming from the left,

(01:40):
and I slowed down and it was okay, driven by
a young woman. That's a material but I suspected that
they were someone that had roundabout panicked. But jee, it
gave me a It shook my confidence. So I proceeded
to drive back to bluff and I thought, hang about,
maybe there was two lanes and I was in a
lane that was specified. I had to turn right in

(02:00):
that lane. So drove back around and drove back to
the roundabout. But no, both lanes was There was no indicators.
It was just a diamond. So I certainly wasn't the right.
But yeah, I'm not quite sure how confident, No, I'm
not quite sure, not how confident. I'm not quite sure
how at risk you are from being t bone from

(02:21):
the left because you can't really look right, and then
you can't really acknowledge the left because that's out of
your field of vision. So yeah, I don't know if
anyone else has any roundabout confessions. Anyone else has lost
their confidence, the roundabout confidence, but certainly I have and
I'll never be the same because in the past I've
gone through roundabouts with gay abandon. I thought, well, as

(02:43):
long as there's no one coming from my right, I
am good to go. Sometimes you cut it a bit fine,
you might have to punch it a bit to get
through it, but gee, you know this mean it's gone.
So there's my confession. I've lost my roundabout confidence. I
don't know how to get it back. Because anyone been
a hit from the side and a roundabout from the left.
I was just curious to know because boy or boy,
was it close for me? Didn't star triple five anyone.

(03:06):
Sometimes when something like that happens, you're down the road
before you realize. Hang about, that was a bit sketchy.
I wasn't texting or anything. I was just concentrating. I
was present as a driver. But there we go. Is
this a unique situation as anyone else lost their roundabout confidence?
Because traffic lights you're controlled, you know, But roundabout's a

(03:28):
bit of a free for all, and roundabouts are all
very good if everyone's driving well, but suddenly a standards
slip and people are texting or doing see things. The
roundabout doesn't I mean, because we're round about crazy. But
I suspect that if people are not on their best game,
because the roundabout requires people to be responsible for their

(03:49):
own safety. And I could be responsible for our own safety,
but I can't be responsible for someone else coming to
me in the side. Maybe I've got it wrong. Maybe
I need a round about refresher, but yeah, I mean,
it'd be hard to look right and then to commit
and then realize that someone's going to come with a
round I wonder if we need a diagram. Do I
need a diagram? I don't know. Get in touch if

(04:12):
you want to Heardle twelve. Well it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, Hi, then Marcus. I think I kind of understand
the situation and I share your your concern, And I
think the protocols changed recently and where where whereas we
used to be able to go stray and not indicate
at all, I think the protocol is meant to be now,
if you're going stray, the requirement is that you're indicating, right,

(04:41):
So people from the left, are aware that you're not
actually taking the first exit.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, And I was indicating I was doing that. I
was doing that these people, these people would Yeah, I
was okay, my round about hygiens good. I do the
right things. And I were driven straight on and indicate off.
It's almost like a straight one. And it was clearly
it was completely the right. Yeah. And I was driving

(05:08):
obviously driving straight forward and that's kadonk And it does
make you wonder we all probably need to be more
present when we get to roundabouts. Maybe we take them
for granted.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, you can't really hope it if someone's coming from
the left and they're not paying attention.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
No, that's right, and you really are. I mean, obviously,
if you're going to be hitting any side of the car,
the left hand sides are side to be hit on,
isn't it, because you're not on that side unless you've
got a passenger.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
I still, Oh, freak me out, Bill, But nice to
talk to. Thank you. Anyone else got any quick comments
about roundabout etiquette too? Yeah, and obviously too roundabouts a
bit of a frequent fly topic for me. But that's fine.
We need to talk about it, Bill said, quite recently.
This changed the rules. It was about twenty years ago,
but you know, I guess in some people's life that
is quite recently. Always good to indicate off a round,

(05:59):
But even if you're going straight through, we're not always
good to essential to. If I can put it that way,
do you want they want to add two pieces, feel
free to come through. There might be some driving instructors,
some duel control, some law enforcement people, or just some
run of the mill roundabout. Know it all is always
good to hear from you. If you're one of those people.

(06:21):
Wrong for me, jeepers, then he wasn't here. I'm not
someone that has been in there missus. Hello Colin, ats Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yeah, hi Marcus. As you get older and I'm in
the over see many category, you do slow down in
your actions a lot slower, and so therefore you are
a lot more careful. But I was just in your case,
where that person would have had to have been, you

(06:53):
would have been on their right right hand side. So
you get way to your right full stop, don't you.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, absolutely, they are I certainly in the wrong.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
Yeah, But you see the other thing is that with
younger people, they're just a little bit too quick, you know,
the lights or at the intersections and roundabouts, and they
just don't. Yeah, they're not going to allow for older people.
So it's up to older people, I think, to sort
of make allowances there.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
I think it's very hard to make allowances to your
left because you're looking to your right to see if
anyone's coming, so you're not really aware of what's going
on the left.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
No.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
And the other thing is, if you've got a large roundabout,
if you indicate to your left, they'll think you're going
to go left and not straight ahead. You know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
Sorry, if you're in a roundabout that's quite small, it
seems ridiculous. You hardly even got time to signal leaves.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
No, it's almost like it's almost like a privial gesture.
I think the rule's okay, but more people need to
follow it. But even if I hadn't been indicating, it
still would have gone them no right to jump on
at the speed they did.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
Oh no, yeah, I've had my boy wiped out on
the left hand side because but he hit the rear
of the car. Okay, but oh yeah, yeah, but he
probably got more for the car through insurance. And what
it was, luckily at the tail end, but the whole.

(08:26):
I mean, I've made a race for any twenty years
and carts and saloons, thought you might and yeah, and
when you get get getting and even when I was racing,
it's about defensive driving instead of poking the bone at
someone else, you know, and you can't go wrong if
you are into defensive driving or doing an advanced driving course.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, I think that's pretty good at slowing down on
its mark. Thanks calling on it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
Good evening, Marcus, are you doing this evening?

Speaker 8 (08:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Good things Dale. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (08:57):
Thank you, first time cooling.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
You're welcome, first welcome.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (09:05):
Dave me. That really does because all aroundabout is is
the all way crossing. That's all it is. And people
don't see to understand that. And obviously being from so
Africa where roundabouts don't work the same as they do here,
we don't indicate if you're going straight. That's that confuses
me every time because the people put on left and

(09:27):
then it goes through and then if you're turning right
and it's like, so where you're going are you left?

Speaker 9 (09:31):
You came right?

Speaker 7 (09:32):
We actually going and That is what confuses me.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
If you're driving straight, if you're driving straight through a
roundabout in New Zealand, you only indicate as you're going
off the roundabout.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
You know, that's what That's what I'm seeing when I live.
That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
You're not you're not seeing You're not seeing that.

Speaker 7 (09:50):
No, I'm seeing people don't left and then the games
goes through the roundabout and then left it right and
I'm like, so we we are actually going now, but
then the game straight and we're actually going.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
If you're going straight through the roundabout, you only indicated
you come off okay.

Speaker 7 (10:08):
Then I think people in west Walking need to learn
that that is the rule, because you should.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Go on before you call. You should always say you're
calling from west Auckland.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Oh sorry that I've been here betweeny four years and
I love living.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, you indicate left, issue past the first exit. If
you're going straight ahead.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
Left pst the first exit, indicate Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You don't indicate as your approach, but indicate left as
you passed the first exit. Brilliant bit of a refresher.
Eighteen past eight I have Oh you know they must
do you on? How do they work in South Africa,
the roundabouts.

Speaker 10 (10:47):
No going straight.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yeah, no, there's no indicators at all. You're going straight
and and everybody knows that, and it just works. And
if you if you're certainly left or right, if you're
going through the roundabout and you getting left, and if
you indicate on it you getting left, getting right or
r the roundabus, then you then you get on that
you're going around the rounder us any anything else? Going straight?

Speaker 11 (11:13):
Do you do?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
You still go clockwise the.

Speaker 11 (11:16):
Same as it easier.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
And that's why the way I was a round of
us is the fourways always stop. That's all it is,
you know.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I think I thought this. I think the road people
love it because there's less maintenance than traffic lights.

Speaker 11 (11:30):
Yeah no, I agree. I agree that.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
They are less maintenance on them, but around them you
pick the round of us away and to mark the roads. Great,
then it's just the four way crossing.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
It does say on Google right, Yeah, to go straight
taking the second exit, select the appropriate R lane, stay
in the lane, signal left after we've passed the exit
before the one you want. So it seems as though
the rules are exactly the same. Okay, might have changed,

(12:03):
might have changed, might have changed that you left on Yeah,
that's yeah, okay, someone might we might get someone from.
Where do they call from? Then? Bribe? Is it where
they call from? Might get someone that's been back twenty
past eight, twenty three past eight, if you want to

(12:26):
talk one of them as Marcus welcome. Eight hundred and
eighty eight. Someone has texted Marcus. It's a myth. You
indicate right when going straight. In a full way round about,
they indicate left. You go straight, and indicators you come
off at to stand an operating procedure. If you're going
to the right, you indicate right, then indicate left. Good evening,

(12:48):
surely it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (12:50):
Because I'm sorry, I'm just going to change the subject
for a week minute. But today, of course, was the
National Life Flight Helicopter trash appeal right throughout the Wellington area,
and I am the area coordinator for the whole of
the Capiti Coast, and I just want to put my

(13:13):
voice out there to say to my fifty five people
that came forward and stood with their buckets and bibs,
and they gave me an hour of their time each.
We started at ten to six this morning. We finished
at five point thirty tonight. And those people were absolutely
amazing coming forward to help for a very good cause.

(13:36):
And the public were absolutely fantastic in giving so a
big thank you to everybody on the Capiti coast.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
What was your role?

Speaker 12 (13:46):
I was the area coordinator, So my job about a
month ago I started ringing people and saying, you know, Marcus,
can you give me an hour of your time to
stand at such and such a place? And I collected
fifty five people and we were out in force today
and it was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Nice to hear from you. Surely there we actually from
Carperdy Coast. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty, ten eighty,
it's going to be a roundabout nine to nine to tixts.
You do want to come through, Marcus till twelve? Do
you get in touches? Anything to add about this? Never
bad to have a roundabout refresher, but yeah, you feel
vulnerable once you've any being collected from the side. It's like, Wow,

(14:30):
I don't want to start basing my travels on roads
without roundabouts, but I can imagine one could go that way.
Be in touch if you want to talk nine to
nine tow to text. And people make mistakes. All people
make mistakes, plan for them. Thank you. I've always liked
that campaign about people making mistakes, Marcus. That exact thing
happened to me on a roundabout shook me also as

(14:50):
car was going very fast. I only I've been around
a lot of roundabouts and only happened once. You will,
you will recover goodness, Marcus. It's Brett My two thousand
and nine Volkswagen Golf gt I was hitting the car
parking Coastlands. They left a few scraps on the whee,
left real arch and the rear bumper. They don't eve
a note. It's sorry roundabout, though, is it?

Speaker 10 (15:14):
Do?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Come through eight hundred and eighty to eighty twenty seven
past eight. You've got to be a part of it.
Nine nine two de text If you want to come through? Fireworks?
Is beck in the news? Ho hum? New Zealand first
wants to ban fireworks. This is the result of a
Parliamentary committee's recommendation three petitions in tandem animal welfare, human injury,

(15:40):
environmental and properly damage and changing public attitudes. Given the
evidence we received, we find it difficult to do anything
other than recommend a ban on the public sale and
private use of fireworks. So I don't necessarily know there's
going to be any votes for it for National, but
I imagine there could be votes from New Zealand First.
I imagine Nation will want to avoid that because this

(16:00):
is like the whole cats and dairy thing. They wouldn't
want to seem to be meddling. But I imagine probably
that New Zealand First can put a slightly different slant
on it, and probably their voters would be the ones
that perhaps would be slightly more easily raped up about
the evils of fireworks. Marcus, my father's second wife, brought

(16:22):
thought that the roundabout was optional, decided to go right
over the top brand new Toylet Corolla took up the
center pole. Deloitte destroyed both the car and the seat
of the roundabout. I used to drive for Top Deck
in Europe. We used to have to drive the arc
to tref used to have to just point the bus
into the roundabout, accelerate and just hope that the public
would give way. I'll very famous, that, isn't it. I
don't think I'd be up for that. I think probably

(16:44):
driving on the other side of the road would be
the challenge to begin with. He Tel twelve Minames Marcus
Good Evening, eight hundred and eighty tady nine to text
roundabout Wednesday in a roundabout way. Operation Project Freedom is
on hold. Of course it is, course it is. What

(17:05):
about that ship with everyone that got the rat virus
could go person to person? Freak out, wouldn't it? They've
been on it for a long time. They can't get off. Well, boy,
I'd certainly been in favor of a roundabout question for
the citizens test. I don't know what it would be like,
but anyway, Rossett's Marcus Good Evening and welcome.

Speaker 11 (17:26):
I'm Marcus here us here. My roundabout experience was an
interesting one. Pulled into a very small roundabout newly established,
saw a car coming from behind and take too much notice,
went straight through. They can't approach me from behind. Instead
of going left around the roundabout, went right around. They're
still roundabout, ended up in front of ended up in

(17:47):
front of.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Me, so they decided dropping it. They decided to go
anti clockwise.

Speaker 11 (17:54):
Anti clockwise, anti clockwise. Young girl driving and I think
she realized she'd made a mistake.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
It was her first time.

Speaker 11 (18:06):
I know, I don't know, I don't know. It looks
like it was but that was kind of scary. And
when you get lots of traffic and multi lane roundabout
he's one in Hamilton on why we drive at peak time,
that becomes a real issue. And you're indicating, you're taking

(18:26):
your pace, you're putting your foot down, you're sign down,
you're breaking and.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Hoping the old hit and hope. Nice to hear from
your us. Thank you, Craig Marcus.

Speaker 13 (18:35):
Good evening good didn't he has a game?

Speaker 11 (18:38):
Good?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Thank you, Craig. Thank you for asking.

Speaker 13 (18:40):
Well, You're more than welcome. I'm from Hamilton also, and
I've got a couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Going strong in Hamilton tonight. Dear goodness, nothing else to
do'll be right. I wouldn't say that you said it,
but anyway, yeah.

Speaker 13 (18:52):
That's all good to get a bit of fun. I
had the same situation a while ago where I was
going through a roundabout Hamilton, going straight through, and there's
a guy in my writing side pulled up to your
roundabout and as we both took off, I thought he'd
be going left or going straight through now he decided
to turn right. I mean it's boned And I said
to him, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Is said?

Speaker 13 (19:10):
I indicated and it's like you're in the wrong lane.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
So that was fun.

Speaker 13 (19:15):
But also in Hamilton, we've got a roundabout in the
middle of Frankton where it's a four way roundabout and
about two meters from the roundabout on all the four
ways into the roundabout there's a race pedestrian instruct So
not only you got to worry about cars and you're
going to dy, you're going to make sure no one's
crossing the Yes, we.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Have one of those in the cargo with the pedestrian
crossing just near a roundabout and it's terrible. Yeah, So
the last thing you want to do is you managed
to just get through the roundabout. The last thing I
want to do is contend with pedestrians.

Speaker 13 (19:42):
Well, you get through the roundabout and then you've got
to stop in the roundabout wait for the districan to
go past you can get over, which is stupid. But
I remember years ago when I first got my license,
I went to Tarana, the back way to Tarring. I
was quite amazed that they've got round about that actual
has traffic lights on it.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yes, weird, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (19:56):
Yeah, it's a new driver. You pull up there and
you're like dead, what am I supposed to do and
my space to stop doing it is round about rules.
It was really confusing that. Yeah, I think they should
have it. Part is the they should have more of
it than the drivers. Yes, to show you what to
do and all that, because I've seen some really ones.
I've seen people go around the round about indycockwise and
all that and then go down the wrong side of

(20:18):
the road and you're looking at that game. Okay, interesting.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Would you change the way you vote for fireworks?

Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm not a fan of fireworks, I mean.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
But would someone get if someone said they're going to
ban them, would they then get your vote despite everything else?
They said, I definitely go to.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Vote on fireworks.

Speaker 13 (20:36):
Yeah, because I mean it causes a lot of like
I come from a rural background and stuff like that,
the animals and that, and it used to skip the
crap out of the heads of cows and stuff like that,
and then they had a problem with the fireworks is okay,
it's okay for them, you know, one day of the year,
but people stop them up and use them four kinds
of any visits right through the whole years. You don't
know when they're going to go off.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
So could that be the one thing you voted on.
I'm just trying. I'm just trying to understand if it
would motivate people to actually if there's votes in it.

Speaker 13 (21:01):
Yeah, it depends on what else that the party wants
to do it. I mean, you said it's a good thing,
but if they're going to come up with some sort
of weird ideas, but yeah, definitely you get rid of
fireworks and make them more public displays. Just I mean,
there's too many idiots out there use them dangerously and
all that, and yeah, it's just causing so much damage.
There's a lot of irresponsible people out there. So there's

(21:22):
good people that use fireworks. Response to me with Muller people,
they just tend to let fireworks off offter they had
a few too many to drink and it just tends
into chaos.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Brilliant the old few too many to drink and mixing
those with the fireworks. Hit'll twelve one of us. Mark
is good. Even anything you want to go around with tonight,
feel free to come for if you want to add
your bit. Fireworks, fireworks, fireworks. The end is near? But
how near? And what question would you ask overseas people,
what's the most important thing you've got to do when

(21:50):
you come to New Zealand. Someone says, what should you
do to a pie? It's a good question. I tried
a pie today. I tried one of the Fat Bastards pies,
which was the one with the un dip. It's pretty good.
It's called the double Dipper, chunky steak, classic Kiwi onion

(22:15):
dip and fried onion in pastry. It's a once a year.
It wasn't bad. Marcus Karl from the Neck hit in Maniah.
The roundabout gets used by the hoons wheelies around and
I've seen two car crashes there out the gate all God,
would Mania still have hoons? Someone says, let's come up
with a twenty citizen test questions. What are your test

(22:37):
questions for people coming to New Zealand? What should you
do with the pie? If someone asks, how are or
you supposed to tell them? What are the great Kiwi questions?
I don't know what the answers are to that. What
are the things that people in New Zealand know that
no one else would know or need to know?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
How about finish this sentence? There is nothing like a
crown for and it's pretty important thing to know. Isn't
it to think one of the other things that people
need to know about if they to be a New
Zealander when all of it's garbage by the way, this
whole concept, but anyway, and we must have some fun
with it. Twenty three to nine. Someone wants New migrants

(23:21):
to be able to to be able to recite the
key we Burger song off by heart soundtaka.

Speaker 11 (23:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
I'm not quite sure if I could do the whole
of that. Maybe a Saisan question asked people, what is
the name of the player whose statue is Eden Park?
Is it still there? You would want it to be
a sport related Well, I suppose it's about id Hillary
and you go from there. Maybe you get put on
to others with the Australian flag and the New Zealand flag.
Maybe you could ask them about the significant of fireworks,

(23:51):
maybe to really tell if they're in New Zealander. You see,
if they could actually put down the word Guy Fawkes
and make them pronounce it like Guy Fox like people
like to do. Hello Malcolm, Hey it's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah, hi Marcus. One thing I'd like to say is
in New Zealand, you must never ever take more than
one trip to get your groceries into the house an
unwritten more, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Even if those bags rip your hand apart? No, that's
quite right, no matter what you do. Yes, yeah, one
round little finger you have? That's it? No, that is
actually it. So the question would be how many trips
to unload the car of groceries?

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Exactly? There's only one answer, isn't that?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Yeah? Yeah, I think you're pretty well gone. And you
think that's peculiar to New Zealand.

Speaker 9 (24:43):
Oh well, I've been told it is. I mean, I
don't know. It's just it's something I do think about occasionally,
and I always laugh every time. If I ever do
have to take two, I just feel like I'm really
not a New Zealander anymore.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Brilliant questions the question you would ask someone to make
sure they're a good citizen? What was some our great controversies?
What are some of the great controversy that you already
need to know about if you're in New Zealander, I'll
just try to think about that you need an opinion
on or you'd probably need something about the under arm incident,
wouldn't you What did an Australian bowler do in tenth

(25:22):
of Feb nineteen night. I forget when it was. She'd
have the details better. Of course, it'd be people involved
with that what happened to I wouldn't mind a question
from early Shortland Street, remember short really early Shortland Street
and the guy that went to get a milk, get
the milk and never came back. What was that guy's name?

(25:45):
Remember that was quite famous. They just writ them out,
went to get the milk, never returned. Do you remember
that Tom Nielsen told Marge he was off to get
some milk, never returned. Seventeen to nine, the end, the

(26:06):
bitter end. I reckon you should be asked to rank
the best things you should bring. If someone asks you
to bring a plate, I reckon that's important thing, because
not just a packet chips or a bag of biscuit,
bag of biscuit, bag of chips or a pack of biscuits.
You need to make something. It's gonna be scones and
cream or something like that, or cinnamon oysters or asparagus rolls.
There'd be my p take Jamie, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
Hey, Markes there you're going tonight?

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Good?

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thank you, Jamie.

Speaker 10 (26:32):
Well I reckon one that should be on the test
of what day is Father's Day?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
But always different, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
Yeah, that's more at our house that same.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
But that's yea.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
We always whenever something's on on Sunday, we always say
what day of Father's Day?

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Tell me a bit more about this.

Speaker 10 (26:56):
Lady that was on the radio on the radio and
the clip famous clip on YouTube. I never went to air,
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
But then oh, yes, yes, yes it was the guy
Williams thing.

Speaker 10 (27:10):
I think he might have done something, but I think
it was Simon Varnett. Yeah, I don't answer Sunday what
what would the question?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
That's right, that's right. Yeah, I can't think about what that.
I can't think of the full details about that.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (27:30):
I listened to it not long ago exactly.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Remember how what's the background of it was?

Speaker 10 (27:38):
It was a radio thing he done to win a prize,
but I don't.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Know which which host it was.

Speaker 10 (27:45):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Simon Varnett, but I
could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
It was.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
No, it was Gareth. It was Gareth Listener who was
on maur reff em It was reversed and I think
it might have been in the money in the wider upper.
I'm not quite sure about that.

Speaker 10 (28:04):
Yeah, reverse trivia, that's.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah, the answer is Sunday. What is the question? Is
that right?

Speaker 10 (28:17):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
And what is the question asked? The question? What day
is Father's Day? But there could be any there could
be any questions, could it know?

Speaker 10 (28:32):
The YouTube clip, it was just funny. It was went
viral before viral.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I was I went viral before viral. Going viral was
exactly Jamie, thank you you're speaking of viral. I was
reading about the day to the aussy guy that went
viral thirty years ago with the with democracy man this
is Democracy Manifest. I did a bit of a deep
dive into that one. He was the guy said this
is a democracy manifest And then he was the guy
that said, can't you have a Chinese take with you

(28:58):
know that story? This is democracy manifest. So that's that's
a viral thing. That's an Australian thing. They're not a
key with nineteen ninety one. It's a long time ago
that when viral be four things could go viral. That
was the guy that was just eating a succulent Chinese meal.

(29:20):
This is democracy manifest. Yeah, that was a good one.
That one the question for the New Zealand Citizen Test.
Of course, if it's only twenty questions, I'll get handed
around pretty easy. Oh, Marcus, I took a relative from

(29:41):
Scotland to a movie that go on the screen said
box of birds, not understanding what was said by really
in a loud broad accent, said what's the box of birds?
Wholeted laughed, Oh, oh, this is a serious question, good
Old z b audience. Marcus of the country, who have

(30:01):
just arrived from started a war with New Zealand? Whose side?
Oh classic ten to nine? Ah it all happened on
Celebrity Treasure Island. Goodness to me. Spoiler alert if you're

(30:23):
watching that video when you get home, turn it off.
Barnett's tapped tapped out. Did they hear me or something?
That's what they say? He'd twelve one of us, Marcus.
Good evening, Marcus saw the AUSSI dja open as New
Year's Eve set with that what day as Father's Day

(30:44):
radio clip at rutherbend Vine's last New Year's What if
Gareth got the wreck? Did he get a Blacky Award
for that? Someone says A good question to be what
does nick minute mean we'll use nick minute in a sentence? Oh,
there'd be good questions. This is for the Democrat. I
know what they called some stupid citizen test which is

(31:04):
just going to appease the the serial complainers. From late
twenty twenty seven, most people apply for a New Land
citizenship will by grant, will have to pass a test
to become a citizen. The check applicants understand the responsibilities
and privileges that come with New Zealand citizenship. Wow, so

(31:25):
have you got any suggestions on what they'll be asked
or should be asked? Yeah, there'd be questions about the
voting system, like who chooses the government? Winston if they
put that one in Herember Night, if you want to
be a part of an eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nineteen ninety to text roundabout my confession, my roundabout

(31:48):
confidence lapse, celebrity, treasure Island, Barnett's gone gone, and the
questions that should be in the citizenship test to become
a citizen. What does the essence have been in New Zealander?
I been sure the essence have been in news Isanders
are not there's been There is no Essence's in it
because we are our broader a broader people. So I

(32:12):
don't know what that would be depends when the country
you were. I would think six from nine. Good evening, Nathan,
this is Marcus. Welcome, How are you good? Thank you Nathan?

Speaker 14 (32:27):
He just quickly what comes first? Residency? Then citizenship?

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah, I'm almost certain
about that.

Speaker 14 (32:37):
And then if you're a New Zealand residence residence, do
you have rights to live in Australia or do you
need to be a citizen.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
No, you have rights to be a resident, but then
it takes a while to become a citizen. Only because
I was a friend of mine on a face a
friend of mine on Facebook she's just got a citizenship
up to being there for ten years. So I think
you then need to go through some things over there.
That's my understanding, because yeah, like.

Speaker 15 (33:08):
Because I was just thinking, like, if you get residency, why.

Speaker 16 (33:12):
Do you bother with citizenship unless you're from the global South, Like,
I don't see why you wouldn't want to press for
citizenship if you have residency.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Yeah, I don't know. The is it to do with
your rights to vote? Yeah, it's a it's a really
good question. It's one that I am unable to answer.
I'd be curious, I'd be curious to know the answer.

Speaker 15 (33:40):
Yeah, And I was just I'm just curious. I'm just
kind of you got me thinking, and I was like,
what's what's the point of being a citizen if you
have majority of your rights under residency and then and
or unless you're really from the global South and you
want to change your citizenship, that doesn't really matter.

Speaker 14 (33:58):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Really good question. I'll see if I can answer that,
because I mean we night. Yeah, thanks, thanks that, Nathan.
I feel answer me that for me. You might have
gone through that reckmorol yourself. What's the between? What's the difference?
Oh so, yeah, that's the question. What's the difference between
a residence and a citizen? Did those kind of vague

(34:21):
words you never really know too much about it? Well,
I don't. I presume one gives you the rights to vote,
but can residents vote? Someone will heavily answer. Someone will
be going through that as we speak. It's also probably
something that makes you feel more secure once you're hear
if you are a resident citizen rather. But we'll get
some we'll get some going after the break about this one.

(34:43):
That'll be a good hour starter, the old hour starter,
the good odd hour start. Headle twelve, what's your name?
Get in touch Marcus to midnight eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine two nine to text and question and
this is I found this quite interesting because what should
they be able to say, because I'm sure most of

(35:03):
the traits have been a key we happen over us
mosis while you've been here, sometime you become more New Zealand,
like there you go to be it from the very beginning.
There'd be my take on it. Do something happens once
you've been around for a while. Nine oh seven here
till twelve. Vancy, it's Marcus, good even thanks for calling
and welcome.

Speaker 10 (35:24):
Oh good, thank you macaus a good things.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Fancy what's happening?

Speaker 17 (35:29):
Yeah, just I just had a I just heard that
question there on the previous caller regarding probably I feel
that it might be the might be eligible to answer
that question there being an immigrant myself up here since
a few years there, so might answer like a very
clear to everyone interested tourism for it.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
So, what is the difference to a resident and a citizen?

Speaker 11 (35:53):
Yeah, actually there is a.

Speaker 17 (35:56):
Actually there is a three different sisting there. There is
a once you get residents, you have to be after
two years you need to be a permanent resident, and
from the permanent resident of a three years you're eligible
for the citizenship. So total, from the time you get
residency you have to be five years in the country,
your presence in the country, you are eligible for the citizenship.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
But what's the big deal? What's the big deal? What
can you do as a citizen that you can't do
as a resident?

Speaker 8 (36:24):
All right, So.

Speaker 17 (36:27):
Being a resident or a permanent resident roy so being
by itself within the country, there is no big difference.
But so the citizenship will give you a visa free
access to equivalent to any other citizen by birth, so
that is a thing. And being a resident or a
permanent resident, you still have to apply for a visa

(36:49):
if you want to travel visa free to any country.
And number one number two is visa still a visa
no matter is a residency or a permanent resident, so
it can be reworked by any means. If you met
with any criminal offenses depends on the thing, like you know,
criminal offenses or anything, and can be deported, can be

(37:12):
deported anytime. So visa is still a visa and it
can be revoked.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
By the advancy. Can you get a passport if you're
just a resident.

Speaker 17 (37:22):
No, you can't get a passport. If you're a resident.
You still need to be holding on your original citizenship.
So residence is still a visa which will be standing
on your original citizenship.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Brilliant right out, Savanti, thanks so much, and Neil at
Marcus good evening.

Speaker 18 (37:39):
Hi, good evening, Marcus Sonil here. Hi, Neil, Yes, I
think just from the previous caller, yes, that's true. The
difference between residency and and you know, citizenship, that's the
main difference. However, there's another thing I want to add
is as a resident, in your first year of residency

(38:01):
you cannot buy property, but after the first year you
are eligible to buy property as well.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I don't know that's interesting. I didn't know that.

Speaker 18 (38:11):
Yeah, unless you're an investor there you can come on
an investor with then you can buy properties or businesses,
but it's for a residence. You need to be at
least thirty months to get that property first property that
you want to buy as well.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Appreciate that, Neil, thanks so much. Andre said to Marcus.

Speaker 19 (38:31):
Good evening, Good evening, How are you Mark?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Good?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Thank you, thanks for colling. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 19 (38:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (38:37):
Just following up on the previous callers. So I'm a
migrant myself, So the main difference I would say is
basically the passport. So if you're a resident, you cannot
go to Australia. You have to be a citizen in
order to migrate to Australia. It's a key week. That's
one major difference, and I think the previous caller Nathan,

(38:59):
a couple of callers before me, ask about what's the
point of getting the passport. Well, if you come from
the Global South and you get a Kiwi passport, I
think based on the latest Global Index, I think it's
on the seventh position globally. So if you have a
Kiwi passport, that's pretty good. You can travel visa free

(39:23):
to Europe, to the US, Canada and most of the countries.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So that's one thing.

Speaker 19 (39:28):
The other thing is that some people will like their
children to be New Zealand citizens as well, So if
you're a citizen, your offspring will be automatically a New
Zealand citizen, even if they are born overseas, so that's
another difference. And the other thing is that you can
actually vote in New Zealand, which I find it's great

(39:51):
if you can vote as a resident. Most countries require
you to be a citizen. But the other thing is
that in order to run for office, if you want
to become a mayor or even prime minister, you have
to be a Kiwi as well. I mean I don't
I don't know who would like to be that, but
some people might do. So, yeah, there are many.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
I say you need to be as you need to
be a citizen to run for office exactly. Oh yeah, okay,
I'm just trying to thin because I've run for I'm
a counselor, but I probably did have to show a
passport or something like that. Hey to become for someone
with a Kiwi passport, right, yes, and they go to Australia,
they just become a resident non immediate citizen. Is that correct?

(40:33):
I put them right on that one.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 19 (40:36):
My understanding is that if you're a q We and
you miget for Australia, you can apply for Australian citizenship
after four years of living in Australia. But you definitely
have to be a Kiwi. You cannot go to Australia
and become an automatic Australian resident just being a Keywi resident.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, okay, really good explanation. Think that makes it for
I think I've learned more in talkback in those two minutes.
I've looted my life on talkback. That's extraordinary, very very interesting.
Only forget that. That's good. So there you go, reight
to divice. You can run for office and you get
a pass. But of course obviously too that a lot
of people came to New Zealand from China and they

(41:17):
wanted to go to US straight. Well now that sounded wrong,
but you know they thought they may as going to
come here. There's challenges in both countries, but this China
was a bigger at least us in Australia was a
bigger country, so they would there would be a stepping stone.

Speaker 10 (41:28):
I gether.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
That's not as easy. Now someone's one eight million on powerball.
Maybe every number is even. What are the chances of that?
Accept the three? Ah, we look at my little Sudoku
numbers too often. Yeah, well three's almost even. Where it's

(41:53):
the second smallest odd number twenty two sixteen, four thirty four,
twenty four and three. Thanks Dan, Dan's got my back.
Gee cheap fruit Loaf, Fruit Loaf at Copeland's shout out
to Copeland's always good Living Crisis the Carbatorium. I don't
know what the Global South is.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Got to it.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
The Global South like some new ecunor it sounds like
something that people are talking about in blogs. A group
of developing emergency and less developed countries Asia, Africa, Latin
American Ocean and the share histories of scolonialism and socioeconomic challenges.
I think that's US. I think that's US. I'll tell
you what, because I've been listening to because zb's on

(42:39):
the AIRFM now down South. But I'm listening to five
to three IPI because they're on the AIRFM on about
one o three or one o three. They've got some
good music. But gee, there's trouble in PACIFICA with drugs
is in there. If the whole news bulletin was about
meth gangs and infiltration and there's some challenges in the Pacific,

(42:59):
I was really sort of quite alarmed by it anyway.
But yeah, good radio station. Actually, I'm not sure you
just get citizenship as a key. We traveling to Australia.
I think you get a special purpose visa which allows
you to live and work. But for residents, he need
to apply for once you get there. I see my
friend that got residency, she got given a tree, because

(43:22):
you know how New Zealand you always get given a tree,
like a native tree, like an Australia get a tree,
But what would you get? They got such bad trees.
I'm just trying to zoom in on my friend that
got residency's tree now and I'm looking at it. But
it's a jinky looking thing. Let me just have another

(43:42):
look at it, because what sort of tree would you get?
Like a bottle brush, doesn't even look like it's adigenous
Australian tree. Some gum there you go, some gum. Get
in touch if you want to talk. And what should
be on the citizenship questionnaire to prove you understand New
Zealand values? What are New Zealand values? But now after

(44:04):
last night, all those people saying they voted for Nestill,
we didn't understand how MMP work. That was disturbing.

Speaker 5 (44:13):
You.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
What are New Zealand values? Because my values are very
different from Dan's values. I mean, how would you know
if we have I mean, isn't good. We've got different value.
I mean, who knows what these are questions are? But anyway,
we're more about the fun questions and a bit of
a roundabout refresher tonight. Always good to get roundabout questions going.
I've lost my confidence around roundabouts. Only got sideswipe tonight.

(44:36):
They came from the left. I was looking at the
right and they came from the left along tweed out
towards the airport. Wasn't good. No, I started avoiding them
now the roundabouts. Email if you want to text, if
you can blah blah, Tim beverage long from twelve split

(44:59):
ends are playing Wellington tonight. David Edinburgh will be one
hundred on Friday. I'm going to a David Edinburgh party. Yeah,
what do you think that'll be? Like, he's the invite.
It's a text invite. Just came back from a text
Edinburgh party. Potluk, dress up? I think you're supposed to.

(45:22):
I just drop a cravett. How would your dress is,
David Edinburgh. I think your dresses David Edinburgh. I might
go as David Bellamy. And because it was David Edinburgh
and then there was David Bellamy. I think David Bellamy
might have actually gone down the rabbit hole of it. Actually,
I think something happened towards anyway, David Edinburgh. I suppose
you wear a kind of a sky blue suit, don't
you in a cravet. I'm looking at the image search

(45:44):
to see how you'd fancy dresses and oh, I got
some clothes like that might take along an iguana or
something on my arm. He always heads off an iguana
on his arm, didn't he. I like to wear sort
of blue blazer and sort of shuffling corduroy pens holding
a parrot. I get a parrot by Saturday on a kidnap.
Any who. It's going to be a big deal in

(46:04):
the UK because he's beloved. Ah, I'm singing a bit
of stuff that someone's I saw it read an editorial
in the Daily Mail that they said that he wasn't
pro human enough. He's a documentary maker, you know, a sociologist. Tim, Tim, Tim,
Reverend Tim, Tim, Good evening, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (46:26):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus. You well again.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
You've got a good voice.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Tim.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Do you think you could use that professional? Have you
thought of becoming a broadcaster.

Speaker 20 (46:34):
Well, you know what people said that to me?

Speaker 2 (46:37):
What have they said to you you should be a broadcaster?

Speaker 20 (46:40):
No, they said you've got to voice a voice for radio.
I've got a face for it as well, which is helpful. Yeah,
and they lack of confidence, I guess. Really anyway, well.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Well that's brave of you to say that. Thank you
for that, for sharing that with us. What did you
want to tell us about?

Speaker 20 (46:56):
Yeah, okay, so I'm just going to go down the
citizenship benefits. But I thought i'd just have a dad first,
or not a dad. But AVOs Kanda was they offered
me a tree. I think I'd take a shoe tree.
Probably the best bet inn Aussie. That's practical, safe.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Of course they should be giving shoe trees. Imagine the
laughs too, wouldn't it for people?

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Then?

Speaker 2 (47:20):
You know that would be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
What is a shoe tree?

Speaker 2 (47:23):
What is a shoe tree?

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Well?

Speaker 20 (47:25):
I thought I knew what a shoe tree was in
my head, and then I thought I'll just refresh it
before I make myself west and shore.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
A shoe tree is more like just for one pair
of shoes, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (47:38):
Yeah, it's like a what i'd call a shoe last Yeah,
I think on a on a stick, you know, with
a base there to be the tree. I think we'll
call it a tree instead of a stick. Yeah, so
there's that. But anyway, yeah, I was born.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
You look at something like a mug tree, and that
really is a tree for mugs, But a shoe trees
just for one shoe, really, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (48:03):
Yeah, it could be confusing, but you know you and
I know now, so.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Yeah, we'll be rightly and thank you for researching your call.

Speaker 20 (48:11):
I like that, yes, yeah, And so citizenship. I was
born in England, arrived here in nineteen seventy three at
the age of three. I think I think we got
I remember having to get a taken for you know,
put your best gear on about the age of whatever.
Ten years later and submit photos and the next thing,

(48:34):
our New Zealand passport's turned up and it was a
big deal. We were stoked, narles were staked and I'm
eternally appreciative for them for enabling that to happen. It's
a very highly valued passport. As someone said earlier, it's
up there with the best. I think it's actually the best.

(48:58):
I've never applied for a British passport. Don't need it,
don't want it. But I think New Zealand values, in
my opinion, are values that we can we can accept
that everybody is entitled to their own opinions and values

(49:18):
within the laws of New Zealand. That's just how I
say it. That's right or wrong. That works for me,
It works for me, it's just And I think that's
why we're considered to be generally laid back. And I
think that's a fair comment because you know, I think
what you think, what you want, just be mindful of

(49:40):
what we say, and that's what you can really do.
You know, we're entitled to not be happy with governments
and leaders and that type of thing, and we're well
out to say that if that's what we feel we
have to say, and we're probably not going to get
hassled for it, not by the authorities.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Where was Tim, and this is great what you're saying.
Where was your citizenship ceremony? Do you remember it?

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Well?

Speaker 20 (50:07):
We were living in on the North Shore in Auckland.
I can't honestly remember. I was more my stronger memories
of having to chuck on a pair of stubbies and
a ship and go along and get photographed.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Was there some politician that did it for you?

Speaker 20 (50:25):
Or I guess there was that. My memory of that
really isn't clear. Maybe it was down at the local
maybe the council officers and because.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
North Shore Council would have but north Shore would have
been a separate place then, wouldn't it.

Speaker 20 (50:43):
Yeah, the head office then, I think for us was
down in Brown's day and it was all pretty flash
and new and it's a different.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Was the north Shore mayor there.

Speaker 20 (50:56):
I would imagine. So, like I said, I really don't remember.
I was probably just told to you know, be quiet
and behave and you know, flash my very best smile,
and you know, just to stay in my lane, which
so good.

Speaker 2 (51:13):
It's a good advice for people. Actually, Good on you, Tim,
Thank you for that. Twenty four years at the time,
nine twenty four, twenty eight past nine. Good greetings, and
weld Jet's horrific. That ship with the rat virus. There'll
be a movie about that. No one can get off.
They can't go to Canary Islands anymore, can they. No,

(51:33):
No one wants them. They're pariahs because it's going person
to person goodness. So they're all stuck on that cruise
ship and it's gone viral. Literally, the rat virus has
gone viral airborne. What would you you be hiding in
your cupboard in your room? But I think there's shared
rooms key we on it. I don't know how well
informed the people on border. I suspect they are well informed.
But it's the hand to virus. It's what Gene Heckman

(51:57):
and his wife got. I think when they are living
in the house with rats, you don't want it. And
now they're talking to someone in a passenger and he's
in his room. I have the old news papers under
the doors. Don't if they've run out of food yet
no one wants them. But yes, that's just said, look
good looking trip. They went right down, intactically up through
the all the islands. I see there is a helicopter
pad on top of it. And why they don't I

(52:18):
suppose you call the get a helicopter to drive it.
You need to get a mayor, you need to get
a drone, take them off by drones. So yes, she's
pretty serious. I think it kills one and three. Oh,
you don't want to spend time with rats. I don't
know why rats carry so many diseases. I don't know
what that the evolutionary function of that is. But doesn't
seem to kill them though, doesn't. They're just the spreaders. Now,

(52:42):
how are you're going? People have enjoyed tonight so far?
So let's say we're talking about questions that you should
be asked to be in New Zealand citizen. We only
got to get seventy five. There's only twenty questions or whatever,
so you just learned them. It's token, it's it's not important.
Mark is something mini drivers are not aware of. If
you're going straight through round about and the exitcise is

(53:02):
greater than one aedy degrees, this is classed as a
right hand turn. Therefore drivers are quite a signal. Right
then left pride exiting look like exciting, thank you ed
anywhere else? Going to David Lett and Raparti this weekend.
It's all the thing. The harms outweigh the benefits. So

(53:23):
should we run that against cigarettes? The government has done
so much to liberalize the laws around and that's just
that's just madness to say something like that. Anyway, it's
all very well banning thing. But as far as the
whole hypocrisy is it's staggering anyway. What are the benefits

(53:46):
of smoking? What are the benefits when that's just going
to make them look laughable. They can't go through with that.
At these fireworks bring happiness and enjoyment for children and
the greatest day of the year. Any who, Now, Warren,
you've sent a text that's come through backwards. Marcus. Question,
what sliced fruit do you put a pavlover? I think

(54:07):
a pavlover related question is free free good, yep. What
fruit wouldn't you put on a peav of lover? Answer? Banana?
I think that banana is one of those fruits that's terrible.
Banana and a fruit salad I won't eat. I won't
go near that fruit salad. I hate bananas and things
I don't think. I like banana and a banana bread

(54:27):
or banana cake or but not in a fruit or
not in a pavlover. He hasn't got enough bang for
its volume. I that's kind of a yeah, it's gotta
step up the banana. I reckon they won't bend them
for twenty twenty six because people have already ordered for
thilling them. Will be twenty twenty seven. This is just

(54:49):
virtue signaling. They think it might be some votes in
it boats and it votes twenty seven to ten. My
name is Marcus Welcome HDDLED twelve. We have talking about
citizenship and the questions you would ask. People are also
talking about roundabouts. Here's a question that might be quite
a different question. It's so school board now. The question
is not about school balls. The question about school balls.

(55:15):
When did the car become a big deal? Is that
right around New Zealand? Or is that a South Island thing.
I'm seeing a lot of people on Facebook saying does
anyone know where I can borrow a such and such
and such and such for the school ball? When and
why did the car become a deal? And why would
that be a deal? Obviously I'm making on the bus,

(55:35):
but it does make me wonder why would that be
a thing? Is that a recent thing or is that
a regional thing? I've got no answer, That's why I'm asking.
That's a genuinely I don't know the answer to school
ball because people like higher cars. Did you know there
was everything? I mean, school ball's are always been dreadful things.
I make no apologies about that. Is this just part

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of the industry that people have now started hiring cars.
We'd have a tesla, wouldn't you a battery job or batto?

Speaker 3 (56:12):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Do didn't know Darcy was a crusader supporter. Benefit of
smoking saves me from killing someone who doesn't know it
indicated roundabouts. Very good point. By the way, don't text
me about public displays because, as we all know, the
firework public displays are always terrible, won by some amateur

(56:35):
rotarian group with no idea what to do. They don't
know why it's dark enough, and it says one of
the most lame things you could ever mention. Scottie Scott's
Scott Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
The answer is key, we fruit.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
The answer is all manner of things, isn't it. Well,
what you can do now is you can get the
three colored traffic the three colored key with fruits, so
you can kind of make a traffic light.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Oh god, oh my god, why would you want to
do that?

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Well, why would you want to do anything? Green, gold,
and red?

Speaker 21 (57:10):
Well, I remember when I was a child, which wasn't
that about ten minutes ago?

Speaker 3 (57:15):
There used to be gold.

Speaker 21 (57:17):
Yeah, and now we've got these green ones, which are
a bit they're quite acidic.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Yes, I find.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
And there's red. Have you seen the red one?

Speaker 5 (57:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Oh, there's a red kiwi fruit? Now, oh my god,
what flavor is that kiwi fruit flavored?

Speaker 21 (57:35):
So it tastes seriously, it tastes just like a normal kiwi.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Fruit, but it's red, the ruby red.

Speaker 21 (57:42):
Yeah, I'm down in christ Church. I don't we've never
seen them here.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Oh, yes you have. You guys are raised with your horses.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Well, the horses at the Crusaders match. You know you've
got them back, don't you.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
That's a good one market.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I don't think. I don't think the red ones taste.
I'm just trying to google what they I think they
taste the same. Well, there's just coloring, yeah, absolutely less acidic,
less tart, with a softer texture. Probably would be into
those less fuzzy skin. That'd be you.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
Are you trying to say something about us down here?

Speaker 2 (58:23):
No, but you don't. You don't sound that broad minded.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Broad minded you'd have.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Some strong views about things, I would imagine Scott well,
about the weather. You'd be a Winston vote. You'd be
a Winston voter. I would not, you would be or act.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I would not?

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Really?

Speaker 3 (58:43):
Yeah, really truly?

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Do you vote.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
On occasions?

Speaker 2 (58:49):
What gets you up?

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (58:52):
What gets you? What gets you? What gets you motivated
to vote? What do you think they should what do
you think they should ask residents? And this resident question
you a better light up for this one.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Mm hmm. Really waiting and willing.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
What question they're trying to get? A question there to
ask you New Zealanders to see if they reflect our values?
What questions would you ask them? Do you really care
about being in New Zealand though about anything? Okay? Any
other questions?

Speaker 21 (59:28):
Being very dismissive nowadays, and they we don't take time
to listen to people, and we don't take time to
reflect or to try and understand. We just have this
sort of like a defensive shield where this is what
I believe, and this is what I always believe. But
like voting back in the nineteen seventies when I was
a kid listening to the parents, when you know, came

(59:51):
to election time, you know they just voted for who they.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Always voted for. Yeah, habit a, it's a nonsense.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Will you try a RecA? Will you try I read
Kiwi fruit tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Yeah, well, if you've seen me one brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
He's a very good text. Marcus. Last week you discussed
people with surnames as first names and first names of surnames.
That's right. Actually didn't go that far. I wish I had.
I was discussing people with two surnames, like the coach
of the Hurricanes whose name is Clark Laidlaw. But he
says he thought the topic was people with first names

(01:00:34):
as last names and last names as first names, which
is a much better topic. And he says the Wellington
Phoenix player Mackenzie Berry and Mackenzie Antony. That's good, isn't it.
I'm not thinking some other people with surnames as first
names and first names and surnames. Yeah, I can't think
of any off the top of my head, Smith Johnson.

(01:00:56):
Just trying to think of common surnames and think of
people I know with common surnames as first names. McDonald Patel, Well,
I can't think of any. School Board cars have always
been a thing in Hamilton. I had vintage cars and
was re poppular dad around school ball time. Have I
ever told you what I think of vintage cars. I
don't think there's anything as creepy as a vintage car.

(01:01:19):
I hate them, but each to their own. Nineteen to
ten hettel twelve people lines free and that's interesting that
far not much excitement about fireworks being banned? Are there
that I am noticing? That's just the indication I am
getting sixteen to ten people school balls and cars. There

(01:01:41):
must be being a big thing for a while now. Marcus,
how interesting last night? Brought the red kibi fruit and
had it on, had it with plains and ice cream.
Oh my gosh, just beautiful. Went back today and brought another.
Do try youm and just try it? Also peek at piers. Wow,
another new one in the home. Very good. Marcus bought
kibi fruit, didn't realize they were red inside, felt a

(01:02:02):
little disturbed when cutting it open. Couldn't figure out what
was wrong until partner said it was normal. Now, still
disturbed by it. I wonder with self checkout how they
can actually charge more for different Kiwi fruits, because who
doesn't just check a couple of them together, because you
could really say, wow, sorry, I just sorry. I thought
they were the green ones, and how would you know?

(01:02:24):
That's the trouble with self check out, isn't it. Oh god,
is how Pekin saves a disaster. There's something wrong with
the floor. They're resetting the whole thing. It's just been redone.
But there's block passages and that you can't get a disaster.
I don't know what's happened. Be a trade that's gonna
have to have their contract revoked. Marcus, you should know
a few surnames used as first names, Hudson, Hunter, Riley.

(01:02:50):
Oh yeah, there'll be a trend. There's always trends in
the naming world. Surnames, his first names, first names as surnames.
I know a lady Joyce John. This old guy's got
it the other way around, jj Wapiata. Now Joyce John
is woman's first name, men's first name. It's interesting that too,
isn't it. Always fascinated by surnames and first names. Get

(01:03:15):
in touch people who want to be a part of
the show. Simon Barnett's tapped out of Celebrity Treasure Island
did a muscle yep, true story. Very poor for the
broadcasters Paul and Gillespie. She went out getting out of
the boat. You know he's gone. You see, that's not
a real job. They're not match fit. Driving the old
microphone terrible for broadcasters. Former All Black Andy Leslie married

(01:03:39):
a woman with a Christian name Leslie. Oh that's interesting,
Leslie Leslie. Thirteen to ten. Here's a question for you.
What fruit am I shopping? You ready? See how good
you are with your fruit? Noises? I'm using a knife.

(01:04:00):
I'm using a knife. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty
to ten eighty Jonnats Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 22 (01:04:07):
Hello Marcus? Are you are you chopping an apple?

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
No, that's your one guess?

Speaker 22 (01:04:16):
Oh, one guess.

Speaker 11 (01:04:16):
Oh.

Speaker 22 (01:04:17):
I don't know of any other now at the moment.
I have a grandson called Spencer, which I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Was a nice name. That's back to front that should
be I don't know.

Speaker 22 (01:04:25):
But I haven't finished yet. He likes his name Spencer.
And also I know a couple that live at ty
Tap and their surname is Spencer. And I have a
ninety nine year old friend who I visited last week
who lives in Spencer Street.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
So to live in a Spencer Street that was.

Speaker 22 (01:04:44):
Off Lincoln Road cross chet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Oh you know, mom was off No, mine was an Auckland.
Oh right, yes, somebody Spencer Streets in this country.

Speaker 22 (01:04:55):
Yes, probably is you know.

Speaker 23 (01:04:56):
Yes, is a.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Spencer Street and Bluff?

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:04:59):
Is there?

Speaker 13 (01:05:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:05:02):
Night living in Bluff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
All the streets in Bluff are named after Irish rivers.
Is there an Irish river called the Spencer?

Speaker 24 (01:05:09):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:05:09):
No, I never heard of that, haven't you? No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Well, what would we called that? Okay? What's what's Spencer's
first name? Last name?

Speaker 23 (01:05:20):
Godfree?

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Cheap has a lot of letters. There are you is godfree?
Seven letters?

Speaker 22 (01:05:26):
Yes, Yes, your long name?

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Goodness, Spencer, godfree night away from ten. If you are
to talk here till twelve, do jump through hoopes, do
jump and if you want to talk, we are talking
all manner of stuff. Tonight school balls. Would the car
such a big deal?

Speaker 25 (01:05:47):
He't?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Midnight? If you want to be part of it? Three
good texts? Six from ten? How are you going? People?
We are talking for questions. We're asking questions that people
should be new news in the should be asked in
their citizenship test. And there's been some good ones, but
we need more. Yes now, news around the world, there

(01:06:08):
is much. It's mainly about the ship with the rat
people on it, the death ship. Yeah, with the rat virus,
with the Kiwi on board. It's not a good thing.
Is it. So that's the thing, and citizenship and fireworks
and roundabouts. So pretty much the show the same as
every other show. If there's different stuff you want to mention,

(01:06:30):
talk about it. Saw me about time about now I
look at Brent Crude and how much I say it's
going to be one fourteen? It's my guess. It was
a personon just had one pip which was weird for personon.
Jee it's down. It's down significantly to one hundred and
one dollars. So there we go. Fuel's going to be cheap,

(01:06:54):
cheap as chips, Marcus. I knew a family whose surname
was Down. They had three sons, one daughter, Bo Bob down,
kneel down, bend down, and ider down. Very good and
not even a crew joke. There is a spinter Street
and Hoker ticker, Marcus. My kids went to school with
Sydney Denver, India, Adelaide, Paris, Bristol and North Forel like

(01:07:16):
a geography class. Great chili. And yes, I have a
Denver as a child, which is the name. I love Denver.
Always good to buy him clothes because you buy sports
merchandise with Denver on it. I think the Denver Nuggets
doing well again. He's not he's not mad on the
Denver Nuggets, but he doesn't resis that's his name. He
does watch a bit of basketball. Yes, I'm not opposed

(01:07:36):
to place names as children's names. Now, let's get ready
for the let's get set for the next hour people.
If that's a bit of you, then it should be
citizenship questions round about school balls and cars. They must

(01:08:00):
take photos of people arriving, do they. I mean, it's
been forty years since I've been on the school football
gosh aalkd unemployment is seven percent? Wow. But get in
touch if you want to be on air, Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty, and do get in touch anything
else that's the spirit. And I'd like to hear from

(01:08:21):
you tims on at midnight tonight. But that's the plan.
If you want to be a part of the show,
I'm worth you right through t twelve o'clock tonight. And
if you're doing something interesting too, driving or whatever is interesting,
do get in touch. But yeah, hitel twelve got mane
of is Marcus welcome? As I say, oh eight hundred
eighty tendy and nineteen nine two to text. Although you

(01:08:42):
know these numbers email Marcusset News talks. They'd be dot
You might want to mention fireworks too. With you till twelve.
I've been listening. You'll be caught up with what's going
on tonight. So, yeah, you're in the fray. There might
be something that you've resonated with you or something different
you want to talk about. You more than well would
talk about whatever you want to talk about tonight. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two

(01:09:04):
to text. Enjoyed it, enjoyed it greatly. So if you've
got something come through, do come through. It's interesting, ily
all the different colored kiwi fruit, but they will taste
the same. You think they could actually breed a bit more.
It's Eastern to them or something. Anyway, I'm not complaining,
but if you're breeding them for color, what's the point
with that? Hi, Brian, it's Marcus. Welcome Brian. Hello, Yeah,

(01:09:34):
I am Brian all here, I'm all is good mats.
Yes that you're Brian.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Yep, yep. I'm bringing them from him.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Or tim listening from Bluff.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
I've got several things talk to you about.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Perfect right, great start for the hour. Okay, it's a
great start for the hour if you've got several things perfect.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
And first is kiwi fruit great. I don't know if
you've been to kick a one out. But before they
put the expressway through by the old wall scarers, you
remember all the roses shots for along the fences here.

Speaker 21 (01:10:09):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:10:10):
That was a made of mine. He was an old
guy and he was very very very very good on
hord Or culture. Yeah. Ken k Nobs was mainly he
lived and take a lot of people would know, did you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Say ken Knobs?

Speaker 5 (01:10:27):
Yeah? And he produced a kiwi fruit. I saw it
with my own eyes, trying to do and it was
completely red like the greenlands read ones they call red.
They've only got a red vein through them, several red veins.
This is completely red, like a plumbing side light the

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green And he went to he was telling me he
went to Rooka when that was going out here, Hamilton,
and he went to them and told them and showed
them about it and took the fruit to them, and
they said it's no market for him. And now he's gone,
Well that's a town we missed.

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Did they steal it off him?

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Yeah? He was such a clever horticulturist. He'd leave all
these guys that's on TV and radio today.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Leave so many horticulturists on radio?

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
Are they?

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Who would you be thinking of? Okay, not many horticulturists.
If you said he'd leave all the guys on radio
for deed, who would there be? Like Scaro stereo?

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
Knew nothing?

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
So what's his name?

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Ridge?

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Kid was the beast? Was the beast. He was a
Hamilton guy too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Didn't like the unions. He was more handyman Ridge, chipnel
one he.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
Yeah, chied Noll was very good and the Ward was hopeless.
Who he used to have a garden center and town
people at the court here?

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
Who is it?

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
And I Billboard?

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Oh yeah, but I quite like Bill Ward.

Speaker 5 (01:12:13):
And I went and seen him one day talking to
Martin him personally, and I see it too, happy had it?
And I see the tigers. What do you mean toygers?
It just play looks like a bloody jungle jump.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Now that's that's the that's the that's the key. With fruit.
You're good on stuff. What do you want to say
about fireworks?

Speaker 5 (01:12:36):
Fireworks? Get rid of them. I'm always My family never
ever celebrated fireworks. We had eight kids in the family.
We never ever several braid of them a criminal activity.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
What a miserable guy you were? What a miserable father? Okay,
what a miserable father?

Speaker 5 (01:12:56):
No it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Were you described all those kids of the greatest day?

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
Okay? No, what not? That worked his gutsy up? You
damn My parents they gets out. They didn't go to
social welfare and get a bloody in the right they
do today.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Oh, I don't know if.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
This is way back in the fifties and second to
thirdy you want to talk to your beer? You live
in Bluffy?

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Do you know what bluff was cooled? Before? It was
cool bluff?

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Yep? What well?

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
You asked me if I know?

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
You know what it was called?

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (01:13:37):
It was called Kembulltown.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Rhythm Yep, it's Campbelltown, that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
Do you know where the other Campbelltown in New Zealand was? No?

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Is it some line? The target was somewhere?

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
Yeah, it was in wrong a Tier, which is west
of Palmerston North, and it was called Campbelltown. And the
male used to get all mapped up and then they
decided they would change in the town name. The wrong
a teer, which had a pair of five hundred people.
When I looked there, went to school there. It was

(01:14:14):
quite a busy place. It had a big dairy factory,
had a blacksmith bakery, you name it. It was all green
merchant place where I come from lands and it was
in a butcher. Anything we didn't have was a pub
we had.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I don't think they were celebrated. I don't think Guy
Fawkes is celebrating guy. They're celebrating the fact that he
was caught.

Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
Yeah, and anyway, Yeah, that was called Campbelltown, so they
changed it to Wrong a Teer. Then Bluff changed their
names a few years later.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
The Bluff funny old name for town in it Yeah, okay,
funny old name for a town.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Really yeah, yeah, and yeah it's Western Promise North and
that's I learned that at school. And yeah, they changed
it from Camboll d onto Wrong a day in Dean
Bluff name from Camboll k On to Bluff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Cont good information, Brian, thank you, Larry, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:15:25):
Hi Argus. Just the thinking the for the citizenship test.
I think that I think there should be exempt if
they could recite. We don't know how lucky were a
recital thing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
There should be an option to perform, to perform an
iconic song, shouldn't.

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
They in perhaps discuss some of the nuances of that,
the what.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
A darp thing?

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
The ability to stand for office. I think that even
applies to things like board of trustees. Years ago, I
was on a board of trustee election, and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
You'd be great on a board of trustees.

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
I ended up running a body swimming pool for age.
What what what?

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
How was heated?

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
He?

Speaker 8 (01:16:21):
No, No, it wasn't heated this one. It wasn't out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
You don't know how lucky. You don't know how lucky
you are.

Speaker 8 (01:16:29):
One of those things we take on the job, but
until all your kids have gone through school, you never
get you're stuck with it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
You would have been great at that, I would have mentioned.

Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
Yeah, would get a lot of call outs for the
old you know, you had the old keys shipped out
around the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Someone's lost their keys, or someone's got the chloring mixed wrong,
or what's.

Speaker 8 (01:16:52):
The coed browns?

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
That?

Speaker 6 (01:16:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:16:54):
No, God, not God, but certainly a citizenship. I I
got married and somehow my wife came across. We already
had a son. So when we're came to Hoka ticker
and we're there for a couple of a couple of
years and they went through citizenship. It's the ticker Borough Council.

(01:17:18):
It was in those days that may have made a
big fuss, put his chains on and everybody there was
only just my wife and the sun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
So did he give you a plant?

Speaker 3 (01:17:32):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:17:32):
No, it's one thing, you know, we didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
They give plants. They give plant to drop of a head.
Now current they got council nurseries. They got hundreds of them,
so there's always a plant.

Speaker 11 (01:17:44):
No.

Speaker 8 (01:17:45):
They well they put on an afternoon tea. There are
sausage rolls and stuff like that. Yeah, it's quite memorable.
But the Spencer name, I think he was a great poet.
Have you ever been in your tramping been up unto
the Spencer Mountains up in Nelson Lakes area, I haven't.

(01:18:06):
The peak is Fierry Queen, which was the name of
a poem that Spencer Road, and I think he wrote
it to Queen Elizabeth the first. But yeah, no, it's
a good area. It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
They to the west of They to the east of Nelson,
the west south.

Speaker 8 (01:18:21):
Well west of Nelson Lakes National Park. So if you
head it down and from Lake Rhodora south of there
to keep going and over a couple of passes here
it's and it almost part way down to the Lewis
Pass to basically sort of you can do you can

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hook up the tracks that were sort of bringing on
to Saint James Walkway as well.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
Probably when you talk about when you talk about your
wife and your son, did they have to do training
to be a citizen or is it just a ceremony
or do they have to go to classes?

Speaker 8 (01:18:54):
No, it was just a ceremonies from all here. They
had to swear, they had to swear an oath and
they've got, you know, a certificate that sort of stuff.
My son was only he was only two years old
at the time, so three yeah, so uh yeah. It's

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it's interesting. I think it seems to be a lot
of people seem to be I think that there should
be some sort of h ceremony. I mean that they
actually do acknowledge, you know, some of the New Zealand
right specially those come from country where you know they
I think women shouldn't be able to vote and that

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sort of stuff. Apparently in Australia it has become quite.

Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
Uh or called for.

Speaker 8 (01:19:45):
I think it's become quite popular that the residents actually acknowledge,
you know, certain things that's which would take the stranded.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
I'm sure Pulling Henson's driving it though, isn't she?

Speaker 8 (01:19:55):
Hm sure, Uh, she's she's making it's making a bit
of a come back these days.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
She's going for she's going for the Senate. So I
going to be prime minister, I think brilliant. I'm going
to run Larry Nice to talk eighteen past ten lines free,
how are you? What's happening? But to talk about fireworks
once again they're talking about banning them. Now Winston Peters
has got involved. Well, I say Winston Peters News in
the first they're involved with that. We're talking a bit

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about roundabouts. Only got t boned on one today from
the left. Wasn't a nice feeling either. And questions for
the citizenship ceremony, Yeah, so twenty questions or something? What
do you want to ask them? And we did talk
abouit about redtives between residency and citizenship. I think a
city you need once you go, once you are a citizen,

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you can get a pass or that seems to be
the big difference and run for local office. So that's
what we have talked about so far tonight. Now, if
you've got other stuff good, you are more than welcome
to come through over to a look around at the
world websites to see what's happening. I think there's a
sense of optimism that there might be an agreement. How
would this is about the straighthorn moves. I can't see

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there be anything lasting, but that seems we were reflecting
the cheaper price of cheaper price of guess, although it
hasn't really been a fair barometer and the guess is
really pivoted up and down. I have relatives in Northern
Ireland Thompson McCullough and my maid name was Thompson. I
used to love Guy Fawkes. That just needs shifting back
three months to the fifth of August. No fire rists

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get dark, say win win bend the fun place. I'm
with you. I can tell them it's when kiwi fruit, red,
yellar or green blind folded the red, especially as it's
more tropical. Oh you mean eating them or looking at them?
Let the hard fruits soften, so enjoy the varied flavors.
We grew gold and green twenty years ago up north
I find the gold Kiwi fru It's sickly sweet, definitely

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lacking in the tartaners. I love the green ones, not
red ones are non event spectrum. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:22:00):
Here you go, Marcus, first time call, a long time listener.

Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Love you to hear from your spectrum.

Speaker 11 (01:22:06):
Yeah, awesome. How are you doing?

Speaker 5 (01:22:07):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:22:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Good? Thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:22:10):
So did you almost get tea boned at a roundabout?
What you say? That's that's crazy because roundabouts design so
we shouldn't they shouldn't happen. How did that happened? Did
you not see the car coming from the left?

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Well, I was, I was coming to the I was
coming to the roundabout.

Speaker 6 (01:22:28):
M hm, and looked him right, yeah, as you do.

Speaker 2 (01:22:33):
As you do. Then when he hid, and then the
car came screeching in from the left from the.

Speaker 11 (01:22:39):
Left, trying to going the wrong way around the.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Round from the left as I passed through.

Speaker 11 (01:22:46):
Oh yeah, yeah on a double roundabout where.

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
Yeah, although it wouldn't even wouldn't have made much difference
if it was double or single, would it?

Speaker 11 (01:22:55):
Yeah? No? True? Yeah, so they didn't see you coming
because I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Dis judge my speed or something.

Speaker 11 (01:23:05):
Yeah, it's something one was just hard. And I remember, well,
I was working for a construction company in the central
of Target and we built this roundabout at the Shotover
It goes under the Shotover River, yep, and we landscaped.

Speaker 20 (01:23:21):
We didn't pull the round we landscaped it.

Speaker 26 (01:23:23):
And then a couple of weeks later we had to
rip it all out. And what they did was they
built it up real high and made this big mountain.
We're wondering why and they said it's shouldn't have to
see what's coming from opposite you.

Speaker 11 (01:23:40):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 26 (01:23:40):
Yeah, so you just you just look into your right
and that's where a lot of these little roundabouts as
it was a corner of roundabout, was it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so you the people are looking, you know, they're looking
straight through to see what's coming from the other side
of them. The seen are actually just focusing on what's
coming from their right.

Speaker 11 (01:24:01):
Like he did. Yeah, yeah, you know what, And God
for I reckon we should keep it. But like dear
Lista has said before, this move it back to the
wintertime whereas you know, but we are, and then nothing's
going to catch on for it's darker earlier.

Speaker 10 (01:24:19):
So we don't have to keep the kids up till
that makes the language.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
That makes sense. Yeah, I would excuse nanguage that makes
sense to me.

Speaker 11 (01:24:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's really that's good thinking right there. We
haven't thought it a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
I'll find out spectrum. Nice to talk to. Thank you
for that. Twenty five past ten, good evening. Welcome Marcus
till twelve our way one hundred and eight. Simon Barnett
has gone from All the broadcasters have gone from Wheel
of the Century, Barnett and Gillespie. Gillespie fell out of
the boat. Barnett fell during one of that. I don't
watch the show. So that's happened. Shock exit, yep, So

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that's the plan there, that's what's happened. This cruise ship
has been turned away from the Canary Islands. This is
the ship that knows. Gee, I tell you what they're
there are shares will be down. But the three cases
have been evacuated. I don't know how they They must
have chopped them off. I might have take them off.
An I did an ir be a rib one of

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those rib things? Do you know where it went? Doesn't
sound like a pleasant illness to have severe illness symptoms
are going for fever, fatigue, muscle achs, cough, shortness of breath,
and fluid in the lungs. It's like a barrel of fun,
does it? You stay clear of the rats, but yeah,
do get in touch by him as Marcus welcome eight
hundred eighty nine. Text anything else. That's the plan. Oh,

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that's why it's gonna look at news around the world
for you do do do do do do do do
do do do anything earth shattering happening. Oh, deadly cruise
ship rat virus which reaches Switzerland as canary arms with
fuselet vessel dock after three died. Now this is a
daily story. How would have reached Switzerland? A man who

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had been on board the cruise has been treated in
Zurich after developing symptoms following his return to Switzerland. Yet
spreading far and wide. It's all around the world now,
super spreader, cheapness, goodness. So that's what we are talking about. Well,
that's what I'm talking about. You're talking about other stuff tonight.
An ambulance boat with people wearing hazmat suits went to

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the ship. But where did they take the people to?
They might have taken those people to Cape Verde. It's
sort of unclear where everyone is now. It'd be a
great film. Do you think it'd be a good film.
I was always waiting for the film about those people
that went down to the Satanic in that Summarine. We
haven't seen that yet, have we.

Speaker 11 (01:26:50):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
Clar Nielsen, who was in Faulty Towers, has died at
the age of eighty nine. She was the one whose
husband clashed with Basil over the Waldorf Salad. The episode
explored a perceived golf and sophistication between America and Britain
during the seventies. Her agent had previously spoken about her

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agent's fury after she told them she'd accept the role,
as they fared playing such a part would ruin her career.
That's the latest for you. She was eighty nine, So
there we go. There is talk that fireworks will be banned.
New Zealand First seems to be in favor of that.
They've reignited the campaign. New Zealand First is promising to

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put cat push cabinet toward a ban. Three different signature's
got ninety six three different petitions got ninety six thousand signatures,
which to me doesn't sound that many. Two percent would
it be ten percent five hundred thousand. It's not many,
so that's something you might want to mention too. But yeah,

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if you want to talk on her, that's it's all good.
Keep those texts coming, for forgot about the texts and
arcles bay Auckland. There is a roundabout an intersection that
is literally just painted onto the road. No Central Rhode islands,
no raised there shot nothing I've been meaning to complain about.

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Excuse me three four, five, six seven eight. I've been
meaning to complain about it because the amount of near
miss is unreal. I often plup and see two cars
are sitting there steering each other having a Mexican standoff.
Roundabout to awesome, not like this. Yeah, move fireworks to winter.
When all the animals are hibernating? What animals hibernate New Zealand?

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You say all the animals are hibernating, I think that's
just headchhogs, isn't it. Could someone tell me what other
animals would hibernate New Zealand. I've never asked that question before.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
I think there should be one question to do with multiculture.
More for the naming of places and our national anthem etcetera.
Chairs Patrick, I don't know what that question should be.
I'm sure people have suggestions. What animals hibernate New Zealand.
If someone says shirt chure bro after you hold a
door open for them, they are insulting your herotage, asking

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where the nearest churches, expressing profound gratitude. Anyway, all these
questions and your calls, please, I'll let me sit up
and let me see if I can encourage you to
come through a bit of a second flurry people. I'm
still getting over that guy saying he wouldn't let yeah
with the end of your guy forks, Guy, we wouldn't

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want to revisit it. Our bats hibernate. Well, they don't
really hibernate, they go into a torpa. I haven't as
an adult seen a bat, which I'm quite keen to do.
But people want to move guy forward. I'd have a
problem with that. Just holdly your five weeks let them
off later on. I'd be the answer to that one.
But it's kind of a celebration of the coming of summer,

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which I think is quite a big deal. Now we
are talking about Oh, the other thing was about when
did cars become a big deal for school ball. That's
become a very big thing now, hasn't driving cars to
get there once? I no, that seems a little bit
not lame. I can't quite work that one out. Oh

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here's something for you people. Let me chuck some other
suggestions at you. This day in twenty twenty three, Charles
the Third and Kimilla were crowned King and Queen. Then,
of course he had the fight with the Fountain pen
and has been fairly underwhelming since the final episode of
Friends was aired. This day in two thousand and four,

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the Channel Tunnel was open this day in nineteen ninety four.
This day in nineteen fifty four, RB Roger Ballister became
the first person to go sub four, And this day
in thirty seven, the Hindenburg went up in flames Ah
the humanity. That's the famous quote from that one. Scientists

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want to make red Lan be read for longer to
force people to switch to walking. A good idea. I spect,
I know what you're going to say about that, and
we're asking what questions should be on the New Zealand
Citizenship exam. Applicants would need to sit the test in
person at supervised examination sites. This is brook Yan Vealden stuff.

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Van Velden said it wasn't response to the instant, but
had been born out of a feeling for ministers that
we have a lot of we have lost a sense
of what it means to be a New Zealander. Well
you might have, but I haven't. So don't speak for
us in your divisive ways, because to me, that's yeah,
it's just this is just done. It's just steering. I
think the exam would build on the process by requiring

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the applicants show they understood what they are signing up
for and placed by middle of next year. They're saying
it's similar to a value pledge, so it's something else
you might want to mention. Oh, sicatas would be high
in sect. You might be right about this, Marcus. The's
Q and A for immigrants is nonsense. It looks like

(01:32:13):
an excuse for accepting out of order people without being blamed. Well,
that's a different slant on it. It's pretty interesting a
twenty away from eleven o'clock het or midnight. Oh yes,
come on, people, I've killed the discussion. Don't feel very
good about We went on well for the first couple
of hours. So if you want to do a bit
of a relaunch of topics or if there's something different,

(01:32:33):
just not about MMP again. It took me a day
to recover from that. That discussion with people thirty years
old not understanding how it worked and no will to
learn how it worked. That was a frustrating thing. I
wish I could silo my frustration more on leave that
in yesterday. It did stay with me a bit that
I thought cheap is creepers and these are diama wall

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people to vote for one particular party but don't understand
how the system works. Oh well, I guess I should
celebrate people's right to be different. So that is that
and getting t boned your worst crash you've had it
around about and getting t bone That's one of the
things we could talk about tonight. Great questions for your

(01:33:17):
citizenship test. What people should be asked because I think,
I mean, you get people to answer the right questions,
but you can't change people's attitudes. You can't teach people
to be in New Zealanders, I don't think I mean
cheap is creepers anyway. All that and more seventeen to eleven,
Hello Pauline, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:33:39):
Hello, Marcus. This questionnaire business. I think it would be
interesting to have a look at it and see if
we could answer the questions ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
I don't don't and that would be great, But I
don't think they've come up with it yet.

Speaker 23 (01:33:55):
No, it would be ironic if we sailed and failed
the test.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
Well, I think probably most New Zealanders would fail. If
they can't understand MMP after thirty years, how will they
going what it is to be in that? That probably
is the irony.

Speaker 23 (01:34:11):
Wort, the nail on the head, Marcus when you said
that we probably would fail because we most of us,
have been born here, we've been raised here, we have
our lifestyles, and we understand that we obey the law,
most of us. So it's you're right. You're right. We
probably would fail. Something that they can cocture in parliament

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to test people who want to live here.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
No doubt we will get discussions of those questions. I'm
sure they will be widely publicized. Pauline, thank you. Good
even Jimmy, this is Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:34:43):
Welcome evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
You good thing for Jimmy.

Speaker 11 (01:34:49):
Good hey, listen to go around us A few years ago.
He's a young Feller drove our five time truck three
o'clock in the morning going through a sports small sports
own and she went to the round up. Uh, I
was busy trying to change, and I had been straight

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around a bit into the rosebushes and even thing else
took out a few days on the way through. Are
you okay?

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Were okay?

Speaker 10 (01:35:24):
Hey day?

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Were you injured?

Speaker 6 (01:35:28):
Uh? No, just my pride, Yeah, sure.

Speaker 11 (01:35:30):
Enough, my first time if I was trying to chuck here.
But funny thing is when I went back through that afternoon. Yeah,
I had a bit of a mess through the roundabout
and stopped pullow and that's what happened, and he someone
someone had been had driven through and I had a
rosebush and had a rosebush stuck on the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
That's funny.

Speaker 11 (01:35:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's another thing you're doing with emigration. I
was just curious. But that's the criteria for a refugee
and immigrant. Are they say? Are they similar? Where they
had a question?

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Look, I don't know that, but I would think that
if you're a refugee, that would be different criteria because
you're coming from from from Yeah. Look, it's something that's
interesting because I couldn't really answer that so yeah, I
would imagine it would be I would imagine they would
be a lot more welcoming for refugees.

Speaker 10 (01:36:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:36:34):
Yeah, I just think that it's a bit of a
backdoor things to come through.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 11 (01:36:42):
Mean, I obviously they come from countries. I don't know,
it'd be more wat and country from things by that. Yeah,
I was just curious about that, was all. If anyone knows.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Yeah, I'll see if I can find anything about that too. Jimmy,
thank you quite because in the south of the in
vere Cargo we have taken a a while bit. We
had probably a decade ago, we had a large number
of Colombian refugees and in Invertago the moment, the last
couple of years, there's been a large number of people

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coming to invert Cargo from the Congo Congolese big community,
several hundred at the schools and yeah, families so of
all ages. And that's certainly, yeah, been an interesting thing
for Invercago, and with all those raparroound supports that they

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need for those people. And I think there are challenges
with it also with work and all sorts of stuff.
It seems to be going and I don't quite know why, Yeah,
I don't. I think this was the previous government to
decided that that was a place for them, but seems
to have God Will. I think over the years a
lot of different groups of I remember once upon a
time in the eighties, maybe in the nineties. There are

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large and I better get this right, there are a
large number of people that came to Dunedin and I'm
pretty sure they for a from Cambodia, like a really
big I don't know why they went to Needen, but
sort of became a having a meetagu at the casino
that had come there. I think most of them ended
up going to Australia. But yeah, it was a really

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big group that went there. Might have been the nineties
or the eighties with the Kima Rouge. I think about
twelve hundred went to Dunedin. It's a real big deal.
After Khmer Rouge Camiers came to pround the seventies. But yeah,
and that was so that's the situation there. But ten
away from Levers, you want to talk, just let me

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check out the texts. The lines are there for you.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
Everyone wondering if anyone knows who decides which community groups
get lotto funds. You know the answer to that, someone
might know. Whatever happened to ex Auckland City Council Kathy Casey,
whom was a visitor to Wellington Parliament deliver a previous
campaign to Band five a few years ago. Now an
invisible Facebook profile after a city Vision photo reports got

(01:39:12):
unwelcome attention as a pop up media poster on Facebook
at a pre local body community hall candidate event. Marcus
runabouts and made of mine. Thought he would be an
idiot and drove over a roundabout island and his land road.
I didn't realize the barrier was hidden by bushes and
took out his entire suspension and the body stuck in
the middle. Took a crane to remove it. One hundred
dollar fine. Refugees. Refugees don't have an English language requirement,

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and we tend to accept families rather than individuals. They
also tend to be put in their own ethnic groups
so they can establish their communities. Elizabeth, I'm sure most
use initans would fail the driver's licensed test if they
took it tomorrow, and probably our test to be New Zealanders. Yeah, Marc's.
About a month ago, Tevens adapted an update and Since then,

(01:39:57):
the app hasn't been working properly wishless, not showing any
of all of my save problems programs, lots of legging
and very slow. We have talked about that a couple
of weeks back. People are up on that there are
certain spots and locations around the country where many drivers,
over many decades of two to their car horn, either
to pay homage to someone's memory or an old myth
of good luck if you took yourn three times. Do

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you do this anywhere?

Speaker 10 (01:40:22):
And why?

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
Years ago I was on inter city bus with the
drivers out at her horn and a huge boulder somewhere
along the Tuckapo Plains. She said the rock had spiritual
meaning for travelers. Marcus, what's wrong with trying to stop
fanatics or Brendan Tarrant of the world coming to New Zealand.
Why would you knock these initiatives? Well, twenty questions A
twenty question is not going to stop these initiatives. It's ridiculous.

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No one's going to think, oh, well, I don't know
the answer to that. I'm not going to become a
New Zealander. It's a crazy thing to think that they
can actually work out the people that are wrong by
twenty questions, think about it. There'll be the standard questions
people hand them around. It's just a yeah, it's going
to stop someone like that. Although daved on to it,

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surely you'd have to ask the question, what is the
onion dip recipe? What's quite interesting the onion dip recipe
because the only thing you have used reduced cream for,
isn't it. So yeah, there we go. That's people's thoughts
on that. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine two to text far away from eleven hit til
twelve o'clock tim Beverage at midnight tonight. So that's some

(01:41:31):
of the stuff that we have talked about. But a
lot's happening tonight with the old Well, lot's happening on
the State History Roger Bannis to the Hinderburg friends, and
Kimilla and Charles are crown King and Queen. Looks like
Kimilla is not really loving it. You'd think that's the
impression I have got. Now, the three suspected patients with

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this rat virus are on the way to the Netherlands.
I'm not quite sure how they had a boat that
went to get them several sick passengers had already been
airlifted from the ship. The ship's doctor had the virus.
But I'm not quite sure how they've got to the Netherlands.

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It's not clear from anything that I've read. There would
be some fairly complicated air transfers involved, and I would
say some fairly complicated medical insurance claims. So yeah, I
don't know what to say about that. I'm just trying
to find some more information about that now but can't
get it. But people have left that ship in an

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hour in Switzerland just in front of get some information.
They weren't allowed to dock in the Canary Islands. So
those aerial shots of and Embudence bout caring crew members
wearing hazmat suits as they arrive at the port after
approaching the pilot draw on the starboard side of the
cruise ship Envy. Yes, so maybe they got them there.

(01:42:55):
So you don't know the full details of how they
managed to do that, men invac They will probably come
out the next couple of days or two. Eleven oh
seven greetings A text learned about the Hinden burb on
the Waltons. John boy went as a reporter. I don't
have much recollection of that. I love the Waltons, but

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maybe I don't know what the Hindenburg was. Then of
course the Hindenburg was not the world's worst airship disaster.
I don't know why it's the most famous one. Maybe
someone is a fan of Zeppelins or dirigibles and I
didn't know that about John Boy. And that is probably

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the most interesting text I've had tonight, because I love
the Waltons and the backstories. So thank you to the
person that's said that. And if anyone wants to talk
about dirigibles and why the Hindenburg is the most famous one,
probably because there was footage, because they have aircrew disasters,
or there have been dirigible disasters when twice as many

(01:43:57):
people have died like the Akron. So the situation with
John Boy and the Hinden. John Boy wins a writing
competition and is awarded the opportunity to witness and write
a story on the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. Ah, yes,

(01:44:19):
we can see where this is going. Kurt becomes upset
when he finds it difficult to spend a time alone
with his wife Mary Allen. This is later on the
series when Mary Allen was wed prologue. They always had
a prologue without gorgeous voice. In the spring, it was
his voice, was John Boy's voice. In the spring of
nineteen thirty seven, My family and I were totally unaware

(01:44:40):
that a truly catastrophic event was about to take place,
and that I would be there to witness it. Ah
The synopsis says, John boy is busy putting another edition
of the Blue Ridge Chronicle to bed. His parents are
adjusting to their growing empty nest as the children are
quickly building lives of their own. A foot pedal breaks
on John Boyce press just he's making progress on copy

(01:45:01):
the addition. John offers to weld the part back on
for a six month half page add in the paper.
John boy wins a competition to cover the story of
the arrival of the Hindenburg. He arrives in Lakehurst, New Jersey,
and meets hard drinking season reporter Stuart Henry, who gives
him a ride to the airfield. John Boys astounded by

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the spectacle of seeing the airship arrive, but then is
dumbfounder when he witnesses the explosion and aftermath of the disaster.
He returns home but is unable to put the horrific,
horrific experience into words. Grandpa calls him down to the
living room where I god see Missus Brimmer. The Baldwin's
sisters and members of his family present him with a

(01:45:41):
certificate of appreciation for his achievement. When they ask him
to describe what he saw, his frustration burts out and
shocks his audience. John brings him a piece of Missus
Brimmer's cake and offers him some advice on how to
deal with his dilemma. Goodness, it's pretty interesting, isn't that.
The next morning, John Boy goes up to the mountain
with his father cut down some trees. As John Boy

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swings his axe as he relives his experience Onhurst and
is the tree fall, so does the Hindenburg in his mind.
He describes what he experiences to a father. The words
so eloquently from his mouth is he expresses the emotion
of what he witnessed. John tells of something that is
ready to write his story. Now there we go. It's

(01:46:23):
a bit of a Walton segue for you. So if
you want to talk about dirigibles, Marcus. There was a
seventies movie called The Hindenburg we saw it in Queen Street, Bob,
I might have seen that. I need your calls tonight.
It's the final hour. Anything goes at the final hour, roundabouts,
citizenship tests, dirigibles. I feel I'm saying dirigibles incorrectly because

(01:46:45):
I believe I don't know if his zeppelin is a
de durable. I don't know if they're the same things.
I don't know if they're synonymous when it comes to
lighter than air aircraft. Who's doing something interesting as we
speak now? Who's in the shed building something fun?

Speaker 3 (01:47:04):
Not me?

Speaker 2 (01:47:05):
But getting touch heitel midnight. Marcus is the name welcome
eighteen past eleven. Hello Michael, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:47:14):
It's just a short while ago. Who you mentioned something
about a project you're doing or something in the shed,
and anything sort of goes. So it's only taken me
about three days, so it's not a major project. But
about twenty odd years ago, when my four eldest children
were aged five, six, seven, and eight, we had a

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kitchen table and it was solid wood and I could
only just lift one end of it, that's how heavy
it was. And had this idea that it was a
nice table and these kids, you know, wanting to get
them to do something. So I sectioned the table into
tabletop into twelve sections and had gave them all some

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paints and brushes, and I've a period of about a
week or ten days, had them each drawer or paint
three images in their assigned space on the table, and
then I covered it with a heavy varnish. And that
was our kitchen table until they left home, you know,
sort of all left home about five years ago, so
fifteen years kitchen table. And then I had this idea

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last week that it's gathering not gathering dust, it was
gathering junk in the house and not doing anything other
than taking up floor space. Next door to the dining room,
I've got a what used to.

Speaker 20 (01:48:35):
Be a garage.

Speaker 25 (01:48:36):
It's a three foot stud no ceiling, so the rafters
are exposed. So I had this idea that I would
hang the table up from the rafters as like a
piece of art, because that's really what it was. It
was the art of my four eldest children twenty years ago.
And as I said, I could hardly lift one end.

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That's why it's taken me three days with inch by
inch and ratchets and ropes and everything to swing it
up into the rafters, and I finished it just on
dark dark today, so I haven't seen it in the
daylight yet because I've got no power, no electricity, so
I've only got a camping head lamp on my head.

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But yeah, so that's just my little prodod one of
a better word.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Did the varnish stay? Has it stayed varnished and complete
the whole time?

Speaker 27 (01:49:29):
Yes, it has.

Speaker 25 (01:49:30):
I think it was Cabot's not that i' got shares
in the company, but it was Cabot's floor. So it's
really really tough. And fifteen years of abuse by the kids.
And as I said, no power, so they'd have would
have candled on it, so they'd be candle wax drop
on it. It's probably ninety nine point nine percent of

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its fine. It just had a couple of a couple
of chips taken off it probably big bigger, not much
bigger than a fifty cent piece, and a couple of
the edges were a little bit a little bit down
to the I did a base coat first, a white
based coat so the paint would stick better. So pretty much. Yeah,

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as it was twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:50:15):
And how many kids painted it Michael four. And they
must have put for it to still be wanted to
be displayed. Now, they must have put some effort into
it and done it in a nice way, Is that right?

Speaker 11 (01:50:27):
Well?

Speaker 25 (01:50:27):
I guided them a bit the in the in the
corner each each of the four corners, I may or
made them ask them to draw and cut out a
person a figure, so you've got the and then they
use that as a template to paint over and inside

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so that it was the version of it of a person.
And they had to go through the process of cutting
the paper out and everything, and so you've got the
idea of a five six seven eight and five six
seven an eight year old version of what a person
looked like. And that in itself was quite interesting development

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over those you know, for or four years of what
that is. And then the two big girls on the
center of each of each of the long sides and
short sides. I gave them a rectangular piece to paint,
and one vertical and one horizontal each and asked them,

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I think the first one that I asked them to
do was paint a scene, a scenery with trees and
mountains and sky and sun and people. And I'm just
whatever they wanted, but some sort of scenery, which they
duly did. And then the second portal or referred painting.

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I let them do whatever they felt they wanted to do,
and the boys, being only five and six, I sort
of asked them to do some sort of scene painting,
and most of their scene paintings or both of them actually,
and they would diagonally opposite each other on the center
of the long side, so they weren't beside each other.

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Their own ones weren't beside each other or opposite, so diagonals. Interestingly,
their landscape ones involved a whole lot of horizontal brushstrokes
of varying colors, and the colors were quite especially by
the six year old. The colors weren't mixed. The five
year old colors a bit more mixed, but once again horizontal,

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and then when I asked them to do, said they
could do now whatever they wanted. Most of both of
them is the majority of the of the space they
covered is brown because they pretty much mixed all the paints,
and most of the bus strokes are vertical, so it's
quite interesting the similarities and differences, if you like, between

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between both the boys and the girls, but also the
age difference between a five year old an eight year old.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
Now, Michael, you said you've got no power there because
you're off the grid. Are you remote or is it
just are you away in the in the back blocks
or are you just in an ordinary place just with
no power?

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
It's what is it?

Speaker 25 (01:53:20):
About four hundred yards to the letter box, one and
a half kilometers from the post office. Wow, it's on
what was a larger block of land developed for kerry fruit,
but the bit I got six hectares sixteen acres was
deemed too steep and not good enough to plant and

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kurry fruit, so it was left as a bit of
native bush with a few pines. And when my wife
and I bought we're looking for a place. We didn't
want to live in town because I'd lived in a
tent for about ten years traveling, and so I didn't
want to be in town. And we found this place,

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and we could have afford to buy the the land,
but we didn't have enough money to put electricity in
because it was like four hundred yards from the road
and they had to go across a stream, so couldn't
afford to put the power on.

Speaker 20 (01:54:20):
And I built the.

Speaker 25 (01:54:22):
Shed and everything that we live in and whatever. And
as I said, I'd been in a tent for about
ten years, so I didn't have any electronic or electrical
things myself anyway, and my wife was happy enough. So
it just sort of evolved, not as a matter of
I suppose it was choice, but it wasn't an initial choice,

(01:54:43):
if you like. It was driven literally by lack of money.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
And what part of the country you in, Bay of
Plenty And all the kids are shot through now, yeah, except.

Speaker 25 (01:54:52):
For the youngest. There was quite about a nine year gap,
and so we've got a what is she now? She
just turned fifteen, But all the other the big first
four year, they've all they've all shut through, as you said, yep,
And that's why the table not getting used anymore. So
I thought, well, it's a shame just to have it
sitting there, covered in old newspapers and suitcases and what

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have you, just whatever whatever, taking up floor space. So
I thought, oh no, I'll do something with it to.

Speaker 20 (01:55:23):
Here, showcase it if you like.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Really nice story, Michael, thanks for coming through. Twenty five
to twelve. Carrie, this is Marcus. Thanks for calling and
good evening.

Speaker 27 (01:55:32):
Marcus just sort of just changed the topic of it,
if I may, thank you. I'm calling from Wellington. I'm
calling from Wellington and I've just come from the Split
Ends concert.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
Oh wow, I forgot to mention that.

Speaker 27 (01:55:45):
So I think it might have been their first one
of the reunion concert and.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
Carrie they had done they had done christ Due Julia
this week.

Speaker 27 (01:55:55):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know that. But when they were
around in the seventies, in the early eighties, I was
too young. I was very jealous because my sister went
to see them at Sweetwaters, but I was too young Togo.
But remember my brother and sister playing their record albums
back in the day, and that sort of attracted me.
So I'm glad I finally got to see them live,

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and not only that, I had a front row seat.
So it was awesome to see them up there performing
their songs again.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
Wow and look. And I had seen them in Sweetwaters
as their final show, but I hadn't realized at the
time how long they had been around there, because that
was probably nineteen eighty two to eighty three. Wasn't they
been around for ten years because I set seventy three.

Speaker 27 (01:56:38):
Didn't they Yeah, Well, they were talking about, you know,
amongst the you know, the little talk they give before
his song, they said they kind of first got to
fame was on the TV program Happening, and that was
around seventy two to seventy three, So that was the
public appearance.

Speaker 2 (01:56:55):
The crowd would have wanted a bit of chat, wouldn't they?
Is that what you guys were after?

Speaker 5 (01:56:58):
It?

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
Was it good?

Speaker 27 (01:56:59):
That was chatah, but they you know, looking around, the
crowd was absolutely packed at the Test b Arena and
it was interesting when you looked around it. You could
see mainly baby boomers and ex generations. I don't think
I really saw anybody younger than that there, but everybody
was in such a good mood, and they invited everybody
to break the barrier towards the end and go right

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by the stage, and everybody does and also sing along
to some of the well known I see Red and
six Months in the Leashy Boat.

Speaker 5 (01:57:27):
And so on.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
So where it was at the Fowler Center? Is that
what you said?

Speaker 27 (01:57:33):
The Test be Arena down by the water. Yeah, okay,
And they've got another show there I think either tomorrow
night or the Friday night, one of the two.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
Anyway, And they're not a band, they're not a band
that I know that. Of course, Neil Finn was briefly
in Fleetwood Mac and have Got Did they planny other
band songs at all?

Speaker 5 (01:57:53):
No?

Speaker 27 (01:57:53):
No pill split ends. But as I say, a lot
of the crowd, being the older generation, probably all had
the albums like True Colors and things. So therefore they
actually stopped singing several times during songs to let the
crowd sing along to them. And you know, they said
they everybody did a really.

Speaker 3 (01:58:11):
Good job at it.

Speaker 27 (01:58:12):
Everybody knew the harmonies and so on.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
Oh it sounds like a great night. Sounds like a
fantastic to buy a T shirt any merchandise, Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:58:20):
I was tempted, but yeah, I declined. Otherwise, I'm just
thinking if I got one, when would the occasion be
when I would actually wear it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
I'm never quite sure with people that buy bad shirts
at concerts to what they do with the old because
they always wear them straight away. I don't know what
they do with a T shirt they've had on previously.
But anyway, that's not for you. No, Oh, that's brilliant.
You've gone to that. I was wondering if someone had
gone to that, so how long I did it finish?

Speaker 27 (01:58:45):
Oh, it finished about ten to eleven tonight. They had
a band as a sort of a warm up group,
and then they came on at nine o'clock. So they
went for nearly two hours.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
And do you know who the support band was?

Speaker 27 (01:59:00):
I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 10 (01:59:00):
I want to be honest.

Speaker 27 (01:59:02):
It was a good support band, but of course everybody
was there to see the main attraction.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
I follow who it was, Kerrie. Thank you so much
for that. Twenty away from twelve, Kathy, it's Marcus. Good evening, Oh, good,
good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:59:16):
Now I've got three random topics.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
One of them was perfect.

Speaker 24 (01:59:19):
The top of the Lincoln Road radio tower was lifted
off today with a helicopter and my son, who was
working nearby, watched it all and they lowered two men
from the helicopter top the unbolted the top section and

(01:59:40):
then used the helicopter to lift the top end off.
So you know, we live out in West Aukland, so
we're kind of fascinated.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
By Donator too, because I spoke to my bond because
I'm because if you are in Auckland, if you drive
on the Norm, you're always their mess of town. It's
a huge yeah, And they're just taking one down, aren't
is it what they're doing. They're taking them both down
and replace, taking.

Speaker 24 (02:00:04):
The tops the top of the the old one down
and samsing to suggest that they've they've already built one
across the motorway towards the concourse somewhere, but.

Speaker 2 (02:00:19):
They were demolishing that one for scrap.

Speaker 24 (02:00:22):
Yeah, somebody said they wanted to use the land for
commercial use. But I'm not sure what a story.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
If you're demolishing it for scrap, why would you bother
with a helicopter? Couldn't you just knock it over?

Speaker 24 (02:00:33):
It's really tall so the motorways right, so you have
to take it down piece by piece. Otherwise it's a
health and safety issue and you've got commercial buildings and
people working all around it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:47):
So yeah, the other one, I'd like to see how
wide each bit was. Would it be three meters wide?

Speaker 11 (02:00:55):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:00:55):
Look, I only see it from a disk. Was quite
a substantial structure, and it's really tall.

Speaker 2 (02:01:02):
So yeah, my daughters, we've been in.

Speaker 24 (02:01:08):
A position of she had cars done eighty eight thousand
k's and we thought, well, maybe you know, get you
something a bit newer, because she's got two young children,
she had her husband and I went into the car
yards and was researching hybrids and electric cars, and the
car yards are full of petrol cars and we're just

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getting rid of petrol cars, and hybrids are becoming quite
hard to come by, so you know, obviously there's a
quiet hanic going on with the people with petrol cars.
Judging by the numbers of cars for sale there are.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
It's amazing active, it's an amazing one and effective deterrent costers,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (02:01:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (02:01:53):
Oh, by the way, is that that's the reason there, By.

Speaker 2 (02:01:56):
The way to my boss. My big boss has just texted, right, yes,
ten eighty is back on tonight. Oh yes, so they
must have switched over that went across the road, so yeah,
that's back.

Speaker 24 (02:02:09):
On the new one.

Speaker 4 (02:02:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:02:11):
That's exciting so well because I know, for I know
in Auckland FM's great, but a lot of places behind
the cones and the shield of don't get FM, so
a lot of people will be missing the AM. So
I'm excited to back on tonight.

Speaker 24 (02:02:23):
Well up, and I read where I had a lot
of trouble getting getting the AM version. I just got
a sort of luffing sound in the background that was
so annoying to listen to it.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
Now.

Speaker 24 (02:02:40):
The other thing, too, is I'm passionate about soil, and
I've been trying to watch least television and I read
in a gardening thing a test that you could do
on your soil to work out whether it's alkaline or acid.
And it's you. It's half a cup of vinegar and

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half a.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
Cup of.

Speaker 24 (02:03:04):
Baking soda and a cup of water. And you go
and get a cup of soil and two plates and
you put the soil. You divide it in half and
put it in each plate, and in one you put
water and vinegar, and the other you put half the

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water and baking soda, and whichever bubbles tells you whether
your soil is alkali or acid. And I did it.
You have to wait a few minutes for the for
the reaction, but I grow really good azaleas and citrus
fruit and the and the reason for that is the
the soil is acid. And it was like a light

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bulb moment for me, having like a little scientific experiment
that would tell you what type of soil you've got.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
And you're quite happy. You're quite happy with yours acid,
because that's what that's what you need, right well.

Speaker 24 (02:04:01):
It grows acid loving, so it must be in. And
I've been putt acid fertilizer on, which is not needed
because already acid soil. So kind of like I've been
gardening for years and I've never made the connection. But
all this time that nature's been telling me that it's
an acid soil because those plants do well, but I

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haven't made the connection.

Speaker 2 (02:04:25):
Are you getting hooked on TV? What do you get
hooked on? Merrit at first Site or something?

Speaker 5 (02:04:30):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:04:30):
No, no, I turned the television off and I've been
ringing people and doing more productive things with my evening
than sitting watching TV. We watching, No, I was it
was a website. It's called Gubba. It's a gardening website.

Speaker 23 (02:04:48):
And they had a thing on.

Speaker 3 (02:04:52):
Not the web.

Speaker 2 (02:04:52):
But when you said you got hooked on TV? Right, oh?

Speaker 27 (02:04:56):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
Sing on Netflix?

Speaker 24 (02:05:00):
Series is one called The Trial, which I love, like
crime and anything about the law, all those sorts of
There's been some excellent shows on and once I start
watching at the beginning and I get hopped on a
story and I'm terrible at turning it off, so I
just sort of think I'm going to spend my whole

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life wasting every evening. There's got to be something more
productive as but ring and talk to people.

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
Just stay ring, may stay connected to bring.

Speaker 24 (02:05:32):
You at this ridiculous era in the night too.

Speaker 2 (02:05:35):
God, look what I don't like it. I don't like azaleas.
You had to say that is that where you grow?

Speaker 10 (02:05:41):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:05:41):
I love originally from Toneden, and I.

Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
Love what flowers did you say you've got You've said,
you've said citrusas, rhododendrons.

Speaker 24 (02:05:52):
It's all the citrus trees. Years ago, I took cuttings off.

Speaker 9 (02:05:56):
A really old.

Speaker 24 (02:05:58):
Mayer lemon tree and it doesn't have the thick skins
of the modern ones you buy and the nurseries, but
it's got the lovely tart flavor which is really good
for cooking. And I took five cuttings off the one
that I had in the old house, and two of
them took and I brought them to the new place

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where I am now and applanted them.

Speaker 18 (02:06:23):
And they've just done so well.

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
Oh I've got to ask you to before you go.
Did your daughter are there no cars for her to buy?

Speaker 24 (02:06:32):
Oh? No, we ended up pulling money and getting her
an electric car. The the Hiondi and the keya paint work.
She's had an orange car which it has been outside
because I didn't have a garage and all. Like with
Auckland's UV, it should have faded, but it hasn't. The

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paint work is as good as the day we bought it.
And I just thought, like, I don't know any other
car that could be bright orange that would keep would
not in the sunlight. So we've kept with high on
die in Kia.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
I've gotta go, Kathy, but thank you so much. Hey,
I just want to I've got two e breaks before
the news, but I've just got breaking news.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
It's on.

Speaker 2 (02:07:18):
This is the Daily Mail. Admittedly breaking news. Trump set
to lift all US sanctions on Iran and three billions
in its assets. Extraordinary peace deal is set to end
the war within forty eight hours. Trump is on the
verge of securing a sweeping peace deal with Iran that
would lift US sanctions, unlocked billions, and frozen assets for Tehran.

(02:07:41):
The war is over a one page, fourteen point memory
random of understanding knocked out by Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kashner
and the Iranian officials.

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