Everyone should have one (19 September 2025)

The Friday free-for-all sees Marcus cover heavy trucks, potentially outgoing Finance Ministers, and the rules around pedestrian crossings.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News talks'd.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be greetings, welcome, how are you people? Seven past eight?
My name's Marcus. Here till midnight tonight. It's Friday. It's
loose like a goose. That's the way Friday rolls. How
are I hope you're God first and foremost heavy hail
and Bethley him just north of Totong. There's a weather.
There's a atmospheric river hit in the country. Now there's
one thing the radio loves. It's an atmospheric river. I

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don't know quite the timeline for it, but it must
have started in some places. If you are experiencing extreme weather,
let us know. And we all have an atmospheric river.
So if you got something to say about that, let
us know. Come through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
also tonight, it's the first well it's the start of
the school holidays. You might be doing a big journey,

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but he called, let us know where you're going, what
you're doing, and we'll spend that with you. Always good
to hear people giving us updates on the journey as
you go through the night. So you might be doing
that tonight also too, so get in touch. Oh eight
hundred eight ten eighty and nine two nine two de
texto the rest support will keep you updated on there.

(01:14):
That's the Tananaki vist. The Hawks band the Breakers play
their first match of tonight. It's on at seven thirty.
It's on now. I'll give you updates on then. I'll
get that on the you zee in thirty Brisbane twenty seven.
So seven to go in the well, seven ago in
the first half. What does that mean? That's seven to
go in the second quarter. Yeah, get the way it

(01:35):
works with bebell, So I'll keep you I'll be all
across that tonight too. But also to seven five two
Tananaki lead the rugby of a Hawks based seven five
So second house just kicked off with that one, so
there we go. Gosh, not much of a halftime, is
it forty?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Hey, welcome anyway if you want to come through. That's
the way it works on a Friday. Loose like a goose,
But do come through. Oh, eight hundred and eighty to
tenaighty and nine two nine two de text No one there.
I always say that, but sometimes they put the cameras
on the sides where the people are, so you can't
really tell how many people are there either, But yes,
it's gonna be a bit of a loose Friday night tonight.

(02:18):
Of my day was busy enough with indo. Oh actually
it was the teacher's only day today too. Yeah, that's right.
So I had one boy, well that was good. I
went for a long walk with him, so that was good.
Then we've had parties and then we've had farewells, and
it's been one of those busy afternoons. So I'm just
really defragging myself as I've come on here tonight and

(02:40):
trying to communicate with children without cell phones. I can
see why parents buy them for them. It's like cheapest creepers,
especially if you've got yeah, if you've got landlines, you
got to communicate with children who anyway, enough of that,
How are you going people? What's happening with you? I
let us know if you want to come to want
to start the whole ball rolling tonight. I don't really
know what we're going to end up talking about. But
Friday's are Bits and Bobby by nature of Friday's Bits

(03:02):
and Bobby, because people have a different mindset, they're in
the mood for sort of you know, a bit more party.
I'll tell you what. I had a big drive around
Bluff tonight because it felt like one of those first
real spring sensational days. It was magic cold, but just

(03:23):
one of those magic still days. Loved it. So yeah,
that was That was a lot of what I would
spend the day doing. Anyhow, that's not gonna get us
through it on midnight tonight. Be in touch if you
want to talk particularly, first need to start with the
weather and then we'll move on also to if you're
on the long journey today, there might be something else
you want to ramble about. There might be a question,
there might be some complaint. You've got what channels the

(03:45):
rugby on?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I can't see it. No, I'm in the basketball, I
say rugby. Oh yeah, that's some ESPN. Okay, And it's weird,
isn't it. And bearing in mind, this Rugby World Cups
caught me up quicker than I thought it was. It's
tomorrow morning at six that so Canada are the favorites,

(04:10):
Well they're not the favorites in New Zealand, but their
favorites is initially doin that. So let's hope that happens,
and let's Brixton has a blinder thirty four thirty five
the school. Now this is the first match for the breakers,
so that little an exciting match. Go watch that if
you like gets the bullets well attended. She because competition
that at Australian doesn't it exceeds to go from strength

(04:31):
to strength. I mean what I mean is it's self
sustaining it. It's not one of those ones you think
it's going to tip over. Seems to have good backing
and good support. But if you want to start the
whole the other thing too. That brand new iPhone with
released today two thousand, five hundred and forty nine dollars.
It's a lot for a phone, isn't it. If you

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brought one of those, I wouldn't mind knowing what it does.
But I think what happens with phones is that the
model for phone ownership. I don't know this, but I
suspect this is what it is. People don't really buy
them so much as they pay for them weekly, so
when it's paid off, then you buy the next one.
That seems to be how it works. So I suppose
most people look at that and it's probably two five

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four nine you've paid over the three years. I'm just
trying to work out how much it's going to cost.
You probably say in the article of I look key,
if you have two five four nine, if you pay
that off, how much would that be a week? But
it probably ends up it probably ends up being quite
manageable for people. But yeah, if you brought one on
time payment, I wouldn't know it. Wouldn't mind knowing a

(05:35):
bit about that. Interest free repayments, yes, and chunky trading deals.
So I pay you off for the old phone. I
don't quite know. Sixty five dollars per month, so what's
that per month? That's probably seventeen dollars a week. It's
probably sustainable. It's over three years. You wouldn't even notice

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it and showing you when you've got the fleshiest phone,
So there's great deals for it. You might have been
someone that's going to buy one of those, or you
might be about it. Wouldn't even know what I had
have got a fit. A new phone's at the head
for about two months, but jet's good. Well, it's good
compared to the old one when the battery had gone.
I guess the batteries we're out. But jet's good. I

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mean it's good as far as battery and accuracy. Anyway,
I'm raving do get in touched. You want to start
the whole wall running, as I say, Marcus, till twelve
oh eight, text me two people, because sometimes on a
Friday takes a while to get the whole show going.
I've got a problem with that. It's just the nature
of the beast, Marcus. We were walking along the Takapoona

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beach in the dark. We saw lots of bright fleshes
behind a laner Tata Island. Was there a fireworks display
on Wahiki? I don't know that there was, but someone
else might let me know what the flashing lights would be.
You wouldn't be setting anything up at Ringer Talto. I
don't know what it would be Takapoona behind there. That
would be why he would be behind there. There might

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have been something happening. I guess private individuals might have
had some fireworks that they've done. I haven't got a
nim more information about that, but someone might know about that.
But terrible shots of Hail and bethleyhem and Todonger Oh
side topic Eternal Derby in the soccer football and Croatia

(07:23):
Eternal Derby and split first versus second three on Sunday.
Oh yeah, got on here. Excited to have a good night, Marcus.
Thanks for that fourteen past eight. You got to be
a part of it. I'll keep you our data with
the news around the world in the next four hours. Also,
hopefully we'll learn something tonight. I normally learned something most nights.
Maybe on a Friday. We probably should be doing a
sweepsteak on the women's rugby, but we won't. But what

(07:46):
we will do as well if they get to the
final or whatever, sweep over for that. Sorry, imagine that's
something we will do because that would be a good
thing to do. Yeah, Kate, this is Marcus. Welcome. Okay,
are ye there, Kate, I just cut out a little bit.

(08:06):
Ark is welcome. It's a good start, a Kate, are there?
And yeah, can you just you start again because I'm
just what you're saying that you start again?

Speaker 5 (08:17):
We are you.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Well, we're just responding to that person who is possibly
thinking that.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
There's a fire.

Speaker 6 (08:24):
We're on both driving from Auckland teams basically and we
can see lightning splashes. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, so it's
lighting the whole sky.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
This will be is it? We're about? If we're about
are you going around the coast or down there? Are
you going down state? Hi wan?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
We now where are we now?

Speaker 8 (08:51):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (08:52):
My husband?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Oh yeah, okay, okay, well yeah, okay, Well you might
have to turn around. You might be a bed weather
for the weekend. I know.

Speaker 6 (09:08):
Well, yeah, we're going on a bike to it.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh really where your biking to?

Speaker 6 (09:14):
We're doing the Timber trail.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Now, you know, in on roads, yes, vaguely.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
So you go one hundred kilometers and over two days
and stay at the lodge halfway.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
I know a little bit about I know a little
bit about that old country. There was old bush rails
and all sorts of stuff through there in old timber towns.
But I haven't done the actual trail putting order, that's right. Yeah, okay, good.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
Well you want to yeah, you want to book well
in advance. It gets really booked out, which is why
we haven't sort of minished it up for a few years.
We've been wanting to do it, but it gets really
booked out.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
So the Timber Lodge, timber Ow Lodge is halfway. Okay,
the day or something over two days and they seed
you anything.

Speaker 10 (10:00):
It's really nice and.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's got spectacular swing bridges. By the look, it's on
old bush tramways. That's right, so some yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
Dozens of bridges, like five bridges or something. Yeah, the
sky is all whiting up, something chronic.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
But there's people. Is the thunder with it, Kate?

Speaker 6 (10:20):
No, we're not hearing thunderrection miles away from it. So
but I would have mentioned, depending on where you're sitting,
you might think that it looks like fireworks.

Speaker 7 (10:31):
Yeah, the storm coming through.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Do you take much stuff on your bikes with you?
Or you can travel fairly lightly?

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Well, what's lovely about this trip is they're going to
feed us, so they pack a big.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
Lunch for you.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
And and actually if you do it over two days,
it's actually not long. We'll be on e bikes.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
So maybe are you doing.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Oh no, I'm I'm quite strongly opposed to that that.
That doesn't feel right to me, Kate.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
I know, I know, I know.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
You just get further.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Ah, yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah, fair enough, fair enough,
you do you, Kate. I appreciate your call anyway, Thank you.
It looks good the time betrayal anyway get in touch
by names Marcus Rock of Heddle twelve. God wasn't cake good?
Anyway to the east the lightning so I don't know
if it's lightning, but can you see lightning when you
are Dan Marcus More just to her earlier observation is

(11:43):
someone that jumped off the train in Wellington that was
stuck for four and a half hours that when we
got to the Wellington station, the only taught their head
there was closed for cleaning. I was thinking, really, Wellington station,
you only have one job. By the way, the onboard
train were amazing. This is the train that got stuck
and I stuck for four and a half hours. I
presume because Gosha infrastructure is bad, isn't it. I presume

(12:05):
because the tracks were electric they could get people off
the trains. How bad's that? So they stuck on the
trains for three hours and they handed them emergency toilet
kits which were plastic bags. Yeah, products of a last resort.

(12:29):
One person on social media claim that people were starting
to pee in plastic bags. We're better off handing up nappies.
Wouldn't they be more discreet in a situation like that?
Power cable running across the train. One of them stepped
and was lying on the train. Oh that's not good.

(12:50):
But yeah, so yeah, Wellington Rail's got to fix it situations.
It just doesn't seem robust or resilient anyway. That's a
situation there. But they're thanks for the text to someone
that's texting that was on that train, just to text
to ending in fifty nine we were allowed to get
off the train. No, I guess they weren't if they
got off to Wellings and the toilets were closed. Spark

(13:14):
give big discounts if you do the plan and payoff monthly.
By recent purchase, my two four hundred phone was reduced
to nineteen hundred. Have done this way, I might even
have that flash phone. I know that Vanessa's went and
bought it for me, so I wouldn't know the whys
and wharforce of it. But we got did you see
an email we got from Spark man? Didn't you see

(13:35):
that when that woman got sold a dumb phone? Or
she said an email to me and Dan? Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yes,
she said thanks for your kind words about Spark. Oh yeah,
I wouldn't be surprised if they were like the red
carpet for us. Another text for the person stuck in
the train. We were stuck because we're on a bridge
and we had a live electrical cable sitting on our

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carriage which they couldn't isolate because I need to use
power to get the trains out of the tunnel behind us. Wow,
I guess they must have been must have been grounded
so they were safe. Would they? You would want that
you couldn't touch the side of the wet carriage. Someone says,
the timber trail has a spiral. There you go. Now

(14:19):
if you want to be in touch with the show, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ty nine texts, I'm going to
give you a half time store in the basketball, So
stay locked and loaded for that. People who're just interviewing
one of the players now, one of the Brisbania players.
Forty four forty six breakers, behind by two, behind by two,
twenty two pass state, do come through? You want to

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talk about the price of iPhones getting trapped in trains.
The weather mess of hail and bethleyheam just north? Is
it north? Just out of Todonger that's happening today. Also
strong gusts across parts of the South Island. Yep, someone
said the burst of Hale and Bethy Hilm was absolutely nuts.

(15:04):
Good thing to say, isn't. It's an atmospheric river, a
river of moisture and the sky transporting water vapor from
the tropics to the mid latitudes, causing heavy rain. So
it's hot air coming down from the north cheaper. There's
something else you want to talk about tonight, then I'm
up into all suggestions. If you want to come through
and help me out, particular, if you'm doing some long journey,

(15:25):
you might have got the kids away for an early
start at the school holidays. Why wouldn't you in this
cost of living crisis? Gee, none of the news is
None of the news is good about the economy, is it.

(15:46):
Do you know how much Woolworth was fine for the
road problem that went viral? Yes?

Speaker 12 (15:50):
I do.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
There's a lot of money. I surprised how much it was.
So as that's happened today, I can tell you about
that because it was. There was a while there that
every news story was about rats and supermarkets. They've been
can't find quart of a minor one hundred thousand dollars.

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A thorough investigation to the road activity at Countdown, Dunedin,
New zeal Food Safety is layter charge under Woolworth's Under
the Food Act to twenty fourteen. The charge road to
a failure to ensure a significant roaded infestation was promptly
identified and escalated in accordance with its food control plan.

(16:36):
It carried a maximum fine of two hundred thousand dollars
if my memory is right. They only came to our
attention because work is their phone, the media. So yeah,
that's a bit of a worry that one. Anyway, they've
got it sorted now twenty four past eight if you
want to talk here till twelve looking forty input, Oh
there we go. There some more calls. That's what we
want tonight. Get a good start. I'd like to get

(16:57):
a couple away before I take the first break. Love
the sense of panic of no calls. It's adictive. Yeah,
two one thousand dollars was the fine people. That's the
situation there for the rats. But there's also a supermarket
in christ Church. I think there was one in Auckland

(17:17):
too that had the rats. Must be a big problem
with dealing with food and stuff like that. To get
them sorted away. It's take a break, Pet. This is Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 5 (17:29):
Marcus there you good Pet. Do you know anything about
the stage trucks that are along, you know, overnight haulage
is and that.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
What's the word you said? Do you wonder anything about what.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Trucks the H trucks, the big they've got a big
age on them, big yellow H. And they're only well,
they're only meant to go under state highways. Apparently, they're
meant to have designated routes that the name some roads
are not allowed on. And I live in Cambridge, are

(18:05):
on the back road to between Cambridge and Tamu.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay, so h H is high HPV, high productivity motivator.

Speaker 5 (18:16):
Know what that means? But they just they just can't.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
But just listen because I'm trying to explain to the audience. Okay,
so the H means high product high productivity motive vehicles
winning extend standard mess under a special permit from in
Z Transport Agency Walker KAI, they operate on specific groups
that proved the heavier and longer vehicles.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yeah, that's right, but we're not on the state highway
and the permits apparently they're either the council or someone
wrecking NZTA today. And they say that they issued the
permits for the state highways, but the councils they can

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get special permits to come on other roads. Sure, well
they are wrecking out. Not only they'reripping our houses and
devaluing our houses as you come into Cambridge from MUDI hang.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
On, this is this is an important topic. Just telling them,
I'm going to go to headlines and I'll come back
and find out what your road is, exactly what's going on,
because I'm into this is a story. Back to your pets.
So are you on the road between Tawa Mutu and Cambridge?
Are you?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (19:25):
On our street is called Pope Terrace and that goes
out and towards too mud.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Hope Terrace, Pope Terrace, Pope like the Pope. Yeah, that's right, understand.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
And they come through there and they go down to
the low level bridge at Cambridge and then up past
the golf course and then onto the motorway.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sure I've seen that now, yep.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Can you see that?

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yep? That seems what are they carrying?

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Logs and mainly the big ones that are logs and
all sorts of stuff, you know, the overnighters, the truckies
that have that are karting stuff for supermarkets and they're
all sixty tonners. We all got big trailers on.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
And they're heading down the head of the port at
tot Now are.

Speaker 5 (20:16):
They the logs are? I will say so? Yeah, I
don't know if they come from Taranaki or Teka WiDi. Yep.
But instead of instead of staying on the Martin Highway,
they cut at Kiki and that's just before tr Moody
when they're coming up State Highway right yep. They turn
off at the golf course at Kiki and come across

(20:36):
the swamp road and it's called the back road from
tr Moody to Cambridge.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yep. Wow.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
And then they come into Cambridge the.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
State hy three that is. But yeah, I'm seeing with you, okay,
So they take you a shortcut and the roads they
shouldn't be on because they're only a proved for the
state highways right yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
And the camp I've been to the council talked to
the engineers and they just keep fogging me off and
they said it's Nzedta's problem and they do the roads.
I said, but it's in the borough. You're in the borough,
surely it's your responsibility, you know the road, and it's

(21:17):
just it's been going on for about five years, but
the last eighteen months it's got really terrible. There's sixty
trucks coming through all night, you know, an hour, and
that's that's.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's that, that's that. When you get a thud of
a truck gad, you sort of drop into your bead.
That gives you a hell of her fright.

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Well, yeah, my wife is sick and she's got CPD
and she's on oxygen all the time, and she gets
away bit disorientated and she thinks it's earthquakes.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, I can understand that.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
And a lady, a ninety three year old lady across
the road, straight across the road that's in some flats.
She had to move a bedroom to the back of
the flats to try and get some sleep. It's even
taking the toilet joint on my toilet. The joint has
come flooded one night because the joints are that that

(22:08):
is much of a shop that comes to it. They're
like many earthquakes all the time.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, that's horrible.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
It is as driving as crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
And it not only is it horrible, it should be solvable,
because it's wrong what they're doing. They must be buggering
the roads too, and your house failues.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Well, that's what I said to him, I said. He said, oh,
we're doing a lot of development in Cambridge and there's
a lot of sound trucks. I said, look mate, I've
been here for twenty years and I've paid your rates
for twenty years. I said, these new all the new developments,
they haven't paid any rates yet. And I said, surely
it's your responsibility to fix the road. And they turned

(22:48):
up and they walked up and down the road and
there's nothing happened. And this is what happens all the time.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
How do you mean you're expecting trucks to come past
when they're turned up? Is that what didn't happen?

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Is that we're saying no, I'm saying that the engineers
came out and had a look at the road and
they walked up and down there for half an hour
and nothing's done. And it's just getting worse and worse
all the time.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Is the road damaged?

Speaker 5 (23:15):
Pet it's getting more and more damaged all the time.
You know, it's where they resealed it. When I complained
about three years ago. But they put the joining. They
stopped the seal right outside of my place, and so
there's a join in the road, and so that makes
it ten times worse. And this old lady said, that's
what makes it worse for her too.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yes, it's just this sounds like this sounds like torture.
What's your mayor said.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
I haven't, hadn't the mayor. I've just talked to the engineers.
They we've formed a action group, the Pope Terra's action group,
and we're thinking about blocking the roads.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
It's all we're going to do that.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Do that.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
You've got the roads, Yeah, we'll just block them at night.
And yeah, I do that.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I reckon because I I mean, I don't want to
sound I don't want to from from Yeah, lawlessness, lawlessness,
I'd be doing that.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, because there's deep value in the house. I said,
if I tried to sell my house, Oh you couldn't.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Now you're on the radio, you told everyone I know
it's going to buy a pipe.

Speaker 13 (24:21):
Terras.

Speaker 14 (24:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Well, there's a man up just up on the hill
where they come down and they sort of come down
into Cambridge, and he's just moved in here and he
is he's got a pole house, so the poles go
down under the ground. And he said that his clock
and pictures are coming off the wall. That's how bad
it is.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
It's shocking. Yeah, they go across the Victoristic Bridge, do they?

Speaker 5 (24:45):
Yeah, the low the low level bridge, yeah, okay, I
don't know. They can pass the high level bridge and
then go down, yeah, down to the low level bridge.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, Well, look, I see if I can see some
what I can do for your pas. See if maybe
some of those truck drivers that have got the H
on the front of them could tell us what their
rights are and whether that's lead because it seems like
it's illegal for me. But I don't know. I don't
know the terms of the permit that they've got the
H license for.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Well.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
I asked the council where do they I asked you
it's in injed t a about who issues and they said,
we issue them on the state highways and if there's
any other roads that they're on, the councils that them
and the councils do it. The council that they do it.

(25:32):
Did you say, yeah, they must be doing it.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
I talked to the mirror, is it a close run.
Neural Team Cambridge.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
Well there's a few standing. So this is why I'm
really getting into them now, because.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
They said, oh.

Speaker 5 (25:52):
Injed Ta will do something about it, but they've got
no enforcement. The police are meant to enforce it. We
don't see any police stopping any trucks.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Nice to hear from your pet. Think you hold your horses.
Bob with you soon if you know the information, call
me twenty three to nine, get in touched Marcus to twelve,
twenty to nine. Good evening, Bob, welcome hers.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm Macrorom Australia.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Not good. Yeah, everyone's going there currently, Bob. You should
have stayed.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh god, not for me, mate, it's all too busy
to two skyscrapers. When we went to Sea World, it
was good. See World was really good. Now the rest
of them. My boy went to dream World with as
Auntie or whoever, and they had to wait two hours
to get a two minute ride on a roller coaster.
And that wasn't even school holidays. So if you went

(26:43):
there and you've got three rides, there's six hours gone.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I was reading an article about Disneyland yesterday. Are there, Bob,
These new Disneylands or disney World, the one in Florida.
The average person goes there for eight hours and rides
rides for ten to fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yep, that's the same. Minasi Why they can't just let
a certain amount of people and they don't how many
rides I got, But now along take I was quite disappointed.
SeaWorld was good. I got an aliicopter and drove all
over all the skyscrapers and went out and watch the whales. Wow,
that was good. But I mean, yeah, if you've got
little ones with you, there's no way they're going to

(27:20):
stand in a queue for two hours for I one't
going to ride on a roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
You need them in a nepe or something, wouldn't you.

Speaker 13 (27:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Well the other thing was the one of them I
can't remember. I might have been dreamworder that they had
these crocodiles in the pond that was no bigger than
a swimming pool, and I just sat underneath the food
cake where it's going to get fit and never moved.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, that's not good.

Speaker 15 (27:43):
It was cruelty.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, it was that the beaches.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Was that sea World? What was it called?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
That was dream World?

Speaker 13 (27:51):
That one?

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yeah, Okay, SeaWorld was good because the boy got on
with the dolphins and then he did scoop driving with
the stinger rays and shacks in that. So that was
quite good. But you know, you just had to wait
an horrendously long time and do one. It's god of
a lot of walking. I wouldn't go back. Although I
went to the beach. That was lovely. It was beautiful day,

(28:13):
but of course me with my buckle hip, I went
out with the water with the grandson and I got
bowled over by wave. I couldn't get back up again.
These guys come out and hold me out of the water.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Did you have to put your hand above your head?

Speaker 3 (28:28):
No, they could see me flanding around like a ded seal,
I think. And you know it was nice, don't get
me wrong. But unless you got a one hell of
a lot of patience, which of course I'm blessed with. Yeah,
unless you want to stand around for two hours waiting
on a ride on a roller coaster, the last more

(28:49):
than one minute, I wouldn't advise people to go to them.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
The boy must have loved it that way.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Oh yeah, no, he was good. Lucky as Anti turned up.
She lives over there, so I sort of him and
her sort of wandered off and done their thing. As
for the holding of the snake, and a lad hold
it any longer, they put it on a log and
put it beside you, and you just pack it.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Our PC got mad.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, and that's it. I mean years ago my friend
went over there and they had everything or something.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
But if you can't, what's wrong with the world.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
Exactly, it's gone bloody, mad mate. I had good flights
over and good flights back and that sort of thing.
So you're quite funny because I said to the lady
on the plane, I said, cut up another whiskey. She's
how many behind? I said, who's camping?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
You put a TV show? I've been rescued from the
sea like that. Meanwhile, Bob, yeah, that was rather embarrassing.
Good on you forgetting the water, Bob. I'm liking that.
Seventeen to nine, Charlie, this is Marcus.

Speaker 16 (29:50):
Welcome, hellom, make I see our first time caller. Hey,
I'm talking about the cost of living, yes, referring to
the interest rates dropping and you know, being beneficial. It
became clear to me recently as an obvious thing. But

(30:11):
all those people that rent they don't benefit at all
when interest rates drop.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, because the landlords living the rent executive the same,
is it what you're saying?

Speaker 16 (30:22):
Oh yeah, Well, you know, we're all focused, massively focused
on getting the economy going by you know, the Reserve
Bank dropping the interest rates and this is just similar.
But you know, and that's fine, But not everybody has
a mortgage. There's those people that are freehold, and there's

(30:44):
those people that are renting. So I don't know what
you know, I know the numbers between you know, the
percentages buyers, but you know, you do. You've got to
feel for the people that are renting. They aren't getting
any relief whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
We're in a world I heard at the moment. It's
not good.

Speaker 16 (31:06):
No, no, But we need to be honest. We need
to we need to be you know, we you know,
when we put out facts and figures, we we should.
You know, we've got to be clear to everybody about
how it operates in a way.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Yeah, yeah, I don't read.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
You know, you're not you're not going to get you're
not going to get good communication from government. But it's
all about spin and I mean, and failing to take
responsibility for the economic results of their poor decisions.

Speaker 16 (31:40):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm just trying to keep it
simple in a way, you know, Yeah, I just you know,
we we we delivered a society where we've encouraged people
to be investors and properties, which means you need to
have people that rent those properties. And you know, like

(32:00):
I said, and now they're saying, you know, we need relief.
And the way to get that relief is to get
the interest rates down, so people who got more money
to spend. But that thanks, that takes absolutely no, I know,
consideration of those people are the rate of living and
those are for property. So you know, we need to
have a little bit more of a broad conversation, a
little bit more of an honest conversation about the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think nice to hear from you, Charlie, Thank you
for that. Fourteen away from nine Ivean Marcus just left
Silky on a movie theater after seeing early viewing of
Jinder's documentary Very Good Watch. I love her. Didn't agree
with everything, but her heart was totally in the right place,
visibly aged through her tenure. You're just into a shame

(32:40):
we didn't live in a world where everyone can disagree
with that being hateful and dangerous. You did her best,
and I thank you for that that anyone can do.
Is that love your show, Donna? Thanks Donner. Yes, and
we don't have tickets to give away to that movie,
by the way, that some people asking for that, but no,
we haven't got any, so you have to just cope
with that. There are a lot of rental people who
have a credit card loan or paying off a car.

(33:01):
We're able to get a cheap loan with a low
interest straight so they no then the typing goes bad.
Sorry about that? Could someone tell me about those? I'm
more concerned about Patterner's trucks and his wife on the
cp AD machine. She thinks it's an earthquake, and the
neighbor and it's she's moved to the back room, and

(33:24):
him with his toilet joint, and the neighbor in the
pole house. Lot to unpick from that call at Texas
says bloody disgusting. What's happening to Patterner's neighbors?

Speaker 17 (33:35):
Man?

Speaker 2 (33:35):
She having sixty trucks a night going past your house.
And you've noticed that none of the white noise apps,
none of their features are ever heavy trucks driving path.
It's always rivers, isn't it? Or campfire and rain, it's
never heavy trucks. Still think it's a terrible name for
a movie theater, silky otter. Feel unwell every time I

(33:56):
see those words written together. Nine to nine. My name
is Marcus Hittle twelve. What's your name? People? Breaking news
when it happens across everything? The breaker is making hard work,
but it six nine at the final score. We're a
final pretty much. Taranaki thirty eight, Hawks Bay twenty four.

(34:16):
High scoring game. What a high scoring game? Night away
from nine people. Feel free to get in touch, looking
forward to your calls evening, Raymond. This is Marcus.

Speaker 18 (34:31):
Welcome, good day mate, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Thank you Raymond.

Speaker 18 (34:35):
I'm just ringing about about the old chap that lives
in Cambridge is having a few plublands with a heavy
traffic coming through. I'm a track driver and I used
to drive a fifty eight permitive truck from Taranaki parting
milk over to Holtailo and we weren't allowed to use

(34:58):
that bridge down the bottom of the hill. It's not
rated for anything over fifty ten. I think it might
be forty four. But I was fifty eight, so I
was definitely out. So they're supposed to.

Speaker 15 (35:10):
Go through to.

Speaker 18 (35:13):
Tama Harry and then hawk Onto.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
That makes that makes more sense. It looks like it's
about twenty k's more. Would that be right?

Speaker 18 (35:23):
Yeah, that's right, and I'll hawked back to how Taboo. Yeah,
along Expressway.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Straight Hiway through twenty one to Temmy Heady, then down
through Yep, sorry, keep going.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 18 (35:35):
I think it's it's turned into a bit of a shortcut,
and I don't think it's that heavily policed. But the
one thing he said about sixty ton permits there's very
few on the road, hardly any very unusual to get
a truck that heavy, but you know, repeated visits by

(36:00):
trucks about fifty eight can still going to hammer the
roads around his house. So I can have some sympathy
for the old chap of people stuck.

Speaker 19 (36:11):
To the rules.

Speaker 18 (36:14):
It's a bit of a hard one to police for
the cops, I think, because if they pull up all
the trucks along that route, it's not a very wide
road and it's going to impact on the thoroughy of
the The traffic is a busy stretcher road there.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
So, Raymond, you're saying they won't all be trucks with
the H on the front. Is that what you said
with those sixty tons?

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Is that right?

Speaker 18 (36:40):
So an H permitted truck is anything over forty four
ton Okay, you've got to have a permit for it.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Okay, So none of those stands, none of those trucks
with milk logs, none of them should be on that road.
Was that what you're saying?

Speaker 18 (36:57):
No, I'm not. I'm I'm sure of the weight limit
of the bridge down the bottom of the hill where
you turn right away from Cambridge. Ye, but if it's
fifty ten, there will be some that have age permits
that are allowed on that road. But if it's over fifty,

(37:19):
they shouldn't be there.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (37:21):
Okay, so there's not many logging trucks that are over
fifty Okay. So it all comes down to the he
will all his tazo is go down to that bridge
and have a look at it. It'll have a sign
and on as you roll on to the bridge, there
will be a little white signed with a weight limit

(37:44):
that'll tell them it might be forty six tonne or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
You know, but can the trucking bosses tell the drivers
which routes to take us up to them to know
which routes to take you.

Speaker 18 (37:56):
When you've got a heavy point permit. I had a
fifty eight time permit. I had a designator route that
was to go through to Tama Harry, get onto the
expressway and through to how Tip get off.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
And a designated A designated roupe means that's what your
bosses are saying, and you're obliged to take that right.

Speaker 18 (38:16):
That's not what my bosses are saying. That's what n
z t A are saying. It's an offense to DV
after that route. So it's all about policing. I hope
that helps the old follow. You know, I don't think
it's really a council's responsibility for police the roads. No,

(38:38):
I'm just I think it's t A.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I'm just saying there's anything online about the low level Bridge, Cambridge,
and it's where I found where it is on the internet,
so I can see if there's anything online to say
what weight rating it's got.

Speaker 18 (38:54):
Yeah, it helps anyway I'll get to get gallant.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
See it's got a three tons, it's got a three
ton weight limit from what I can see no, well
that's as come up with the low level bridge rating
in Cambridge is not because okay, no, that might be right.
That's a city AI answer. I can't get anything more specific,
but thank you's got any more information about that? Do
come through? Motivation of weight and speed limits on bridges.

(39:21):
I have found something for it, actually, and I'll do
some research during the break. It's very helpful. Thank you
for that. Here till twelve. Welcome. Well, we talk about
the problem that you have and a lot of you
will have it when you're in a quiet residential area
and suddenly you've got heavy trucks passing you day and night,
and what do you do about that? Because Pet tried

(39:42):
everything or the old fellows Raymond called him, and nothing's happened,
So you what do you do? I'm sure there's a
great many other people involved in something quite similar, and
it would be like a living nightmare because you get
obsessed and you start counting trucks and you sleep. No,

(40:03):
then you start counting trucks, are not going to sleep
and that would have issue. That would mean you'd be obsessed.
So if you want to talk about that, I'd love
to hear from you oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nineteen nine to the text nine past nine. It's
nine oh nine. Let's call it that. Peter, this is Marcus. Welcome.
Are you going there, Marcus, Peter, I'm going well, thank you.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:24):
Regarding those those truck he's doing that, it's easy fixed
with those hate stickers on those vehicles. They're designators to
go on Pacific roads. They go over the roads they
shouldn't be on. They'll get done with the big fines
on that. You protay, look and I look on the AA.
But I spoke to the guys who drives the fuel
those fuel vehicles, and he said, if you've got those

(40:46):
yellow stickers, say, I'll repick myself. You've got designator on
certain roads. If you go off those, if all that
person that's doing that, keep the company's name registration and
you'll find the problem going the way and the fines
are free high.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
So who do you see, who do you seeing the
name and the registration to.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Just go No.

Speaker 9 (41:07):
Ministry or New Zealand Road Transport softs really easy fixt
to get the company know they're doing it cunning. They're
trying to save on kilometers. They're trying to cut down money.
Obviously they're doing by doing is illegal. Not doing doing
the daytime is probably know his police around. You've got
them as far as riving us hold that problem real quick.
I was sold overnight.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, this is big talk. But this guy's tried everything.
Pets tried everything.

Speaker 9 (41:31):
I don't think he has.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
And say it their numbers and the reality, but but
there's probably not the reality is that.

Speaker 9 (41:39):
What they're doing is they got each ex or looking
on the AI. Now it's right at the end of
the front year. They are paid for. They say that
guy seed up the sixty ton whatever tannels they've got,
but that's what they're paid for. And they got those
yellow stickers designed the roots only because they're they're going
to buger up the roads. So exactly what he said,
they're bucking up the roads. So you canna stop them

(42:00):
easy that you know, that's all they have to do
is get the registration.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Sometimes but sometimes Pete, I worry about a talkback fix
because it doesn't really it's not tried and tested. You
haven't actually done this.

Speaker 13 (42:14):
Have you.

Speaker 9 (42:16):
I hope you get some more call back.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Because you might be giving this guy false hope.

Speaker 9 (42:20):
No, that's true. You read it now, it says here
I used to be a truck drive.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I know.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
But about what your tonnage in that is, I haven't
done it for a few years. Have you paid per
tannage on your vehicles? That's simple, hon't me? I mean
more guys will back me up on this. They've got
those yellow stickers. You'll see them on their on their
trucks in the front of the window or on the
number plates, by the by the bumper for designated roots.
That are they going to stuff those little roads up?
They can't allowed to go on there. They're doing on
the slippery that you'll soon stop that.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
The slippery means on the slippery means, on the sly a.

Speaker 9 (42:50):
On the slide, they're doing it. They're trying to cut
down road text mileage and set to thember. What they're doing.
Have they get caught on those bridges like that, previous
gentlemen said, they'll go for a skape because they're going
over a bridge they're not even allowed to go on.
Or'll buckle that bridge up. That's simple, simple. I don't
know that another person who's got the problem, he doesn't
know how to go about it. But Oh yeah, I

(43:12):
get a photoshot of that vehicle, of the company vehicle.
Maybe it's not the technology. If something to do that
registration you've got on by the curling earlies with the
big h on his on, you'll get them problem gone
their company it's doing that. I'll get and he's almost
the saying companies that doing that, and I'll get big
pines and I'll soon stop doing it.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Okay, Pete Hope, you're right. I just want Patterner's wife
to have a night to sleep. I'm going to lose
sleep over Patterner's why I'm not having any sleep. Needs
your calls on this. If you're a truck driver involved
with trucking in any way, it's really important. It's a
big issue. Marcu's not trucks. But we live in beautiful

(43:52):
Point Chevalier. I might be Chevalier. We have had buses
from six to midnight, seven days a week, without any
consultation around a beautiful walker park. Roads are ruined well, cities,
Buses belong in cities. It's a good thing. Summer says,
we are allowed to take that road at fifty four ton,
So there you go, they're allowed to do it. That's

(44:13):
probably the reality. But what pat needs to do is
change it. But say it's in the district plan or
something of Cambridge, say it's a residential area of contruction.
Be going past that helter skelter. So it's made your
life of living hell. And your wife thinks it earthquakes
because they're coming all the way up Cambridge Road from

(44:35):
Taioamutu and they're coming all the way up that road
and they're going down Pipe Terra's around about the nown
Pope Terrace, then Cook Street, then Shakespeare Street, they're down
the Thermalon explore a highway. Madness? Should all be going
by rail anyway? Gosh, tell you what Cambridge is growing,
isn't it? What's pretty much Hamilton now?

Speaker 10 (44:55):
Isn't it?

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Really?

Speaker 2 (44:56):
How far between them? Not far too far? He'll twelve
get in touched thirteen past nine. You want to back up,
back up, back up, back up what Pete said. That'd
be good. I'll keep those texts coming your emails. Also
going to talk about the weather and the lightning. Oh

(45:17):
that's nice. Hey, Marcus, I spoke to a week ago
when you're discussing gold at Wellington Marketer area. I talked
to you about Tetra Fitte station. I've a limited copy
book given to me by one of the owners which
tells the story of TetR fifty station. I have scanned
the section out the gold minding. It's quite interesting. Well,
my mate Gavin, the gold miner, came around. I said
to Gavin, you ought to be trying, he said, he said,

(45:40):
there's none there. How do you know. I've read the book,
I've been there. He says it was a it was
a it was a false claim. So it goes shows
he knows what he's talking about. But I'll read that too.
Thank you for that.

Speaker 20 (45:52):
John.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Any who get in touch by names Marcus, welcome here
till twelve. I'll tell you what that disaster of Dunedin
with that half marathon. It was short. I've read that
in some of Made of Mine's posts that try to
do it and they turn them in the wrong way
and they're all six hundred minutes short for running the
full distance. The marshal was supposed to be stationed, the

(46:20):
point did not show up, which led to some people
taking the wrong route. Hard to get volunteers for events
these days, isn't it. In Marshalls You get those gen
x that don't just show oh yeah whatever, stay at home,
watch TikTok, but do get in touch you on talk
Moname's Marcus Hittle twelve. There's other stuff you want to

(46:42):
talk about. I can handle that, what is it? But
mainly want to saw.

Speaker 21 (46:45):
About Pat with his trucks, with his heavy trucks, Bob
with the amusement parks in Brisbane or in Queensland?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Are they worth going to? Is it too much waiting around?
So I stagger to say it's of Disney World. You
wait for eight hours and you have fifth minutes of rise.
It's crazy. Hey, I don't know what the solution is?
Is probably none? Massive hailed to in Jerusalem, Bethley him.

(47:20):
So there's an atmospheric river, isn't there always? Just when
the holidays start? Be a part of you want to
join the show? Sixteen past nine, Thanks for that, Nina
twenty nine from ten, Jim Snedden from midnight? Are we
here till then? And then next week too. We've got
a lot of lineup changes on the shows too, so
a lot of people are away just so you know.

(47:43):
I'll we here though, I get surprised if you had
different voices. That's just a lot of people are going
on a holiday. That's what's happening to get in touching
on a talk on air eight hundred and Marcus, This
maybe a trivial question, and I'm not sure if it's
happening at the paid public car parks in the city
or up my own driveway. All four cat on the

(48:07):
tire of my car, where egos into the tires keep disappearing.
I was lucky to find some at the local service
station at the air pump, but those are gone too.
So my question is to people who work with tires,
are they necessary? If so, I'll go to ripcoat or
cheap ordos or are they just there to make the
car look good? What's the point people? What's the point

(48:27):
of caps on car tires? I think they're a bit
like caps on bicycles. There's no point. That's been always
my understanding. So, yeah, tire valve caps. He just does caps,
aren't they Well? I don't think the valves. It might

(48:49):
be definitely doing off road or something. I don't think
they're going to damage the valves. That might be something
I want to mention too. Tonight, Welcome Hittle, twelve o'clock
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine text, Oh jumpin'
anything else you want to talk about, that's what we're
up for. So I'll keep you updated with the news
throughout the course that all they're not not much is happening.

(49:09):
The only story they've really got is the weather. Oh,
the economy and the weather. I don't really feel like
I've talked about the economy on a Friday night, but gee,
it's not good. Oh even Matthew Houghton saying Luxan's got
to go. I don't think it's a second column targeting that.
But you never know what games they're playing on, whose

(49:30):
corner they are supporting, they ever got vested interests, He's
very much behind. When they got the old guy that
didn't last long and tonest to remember him, cheapest creepers
left off about two months. Oh wait t one hundred

(49:50):
and eighty nine nine two detext Marcus till twelve and
then else she got Yay, mother Todd Muller was the
guys they remember that, But do come through if you
want to talk. I'm pretty sure what're something that was
by where he was a supporter of him, I think
twenty seven to ten, and there might be something entirely
if you want to talk about on this Friday is
a Friday free for all after all? Yeah, how do

(50:14):
you think the women's rugby team are going to go
this morning? Hopefully? Hopefully they go. Well, saw some of
the videos of them. It must be an expensive campaign
for them and kind of flesh areas flesh support all
the staff with them. It's no mean feat to go
to a World Cup now with all the support players
you have and all the crew, it's pretty full on

(50:37):
any who. Twenty six away from ten, let's hear from you. Oh,
come on, people are not sure what's going to get
you doing going tonight, but you're gonna feet a little
bit better with your calls. People. Come on, we've had
patness trucks and we've had well, how is have we
had tonight? Charlie has Cost of Living Bob and has

(50:59):
tripped to dream World. You'll have something to add. Come on, people,
Sound of Music's coming back to the theatres sixtieth anniversary.
You're going might take the kids that actually or maybe not. No,
I think they've seen it actually, but not on the
big screen. So that's happening. What else you got? What's
what else is happening around your world. People. People can
play about empty buses and points Chevalier. It's pretty low

(51:22):
brow kind of a topic. Someone said, I hope Canada
wins if the alternative is another boring sweep. Oh yes, well, yeah,
you got a good well. I thought it was interesting
with the butter or built on or peanut butter. That

(51:44):
was good, Marcus. The Cambridge to Tiawa Muta road is
forty four and a half ton rated road. You might
be allowed forty five x. Every time I've known it
in the last three thirty years, we were allowed to
go over their road if we're forty four tons. Cheers Malcolm. Marcus,
my dad says. The caps on the turret safety feature

(52:05):
in case your valve is leaking. It also slows someone
down the lidding tires down here. Good point. Hello, Jane,
this is Marcus welcome. Hi, Hi Jane. He's got your
radio on. The Jane turned off to be fantastic.

Speaker 22 (52:29):
What tuned the radio off?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Yes? Have you got off? Ye're good?

Speaker 22 (52:33):
Yeah, hang on, hang on a minute, mm hmm, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I love this.

Speaker 23 (52:44):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Yeah, Hi, it's Marcus Welcome. Do you think I was
bringing you?

Speaker 8 (52:52):
Now?

Speaker 22 (52:52):
I just wondered. I was just discussing some family man
about that. Nichola Willis how she's the uh the what
does she again?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
The finance Minister.

Speaker 22 (53:06):
Finance and she's actually got no rights to do that.
I've got children that are ten thousand times were educated
to do with that sort of thing. And she should
never be the Minister of.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Finance.

Speaker 22 (53:33):
Yeah she. I don't know what's wrong with those people
why they put her there because she or she got
was it was a she got a degree for.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
English, she was honors, that's right. Yes, yes, she might
be very she might be very smart.

Speaker 22 (53:54):
Yeah, but you have to you have to have a
lot of to be able to do that. I mean,
my son overseas in Australia, he's very high up and
what's what he does, and you know he he knows
all about finances. He's done it ever since he was

(54:17):
at high school and went to university. And she is hopeless.
She is absolutely hopeless and there's no way she should
be the Minister of Finance.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Yeah, it must be, it must be. It must be
terrifying to do a job when you find out you're
not very good at it.

Speaker 22 (54:38):
Yeah, I mean, what's wrong with them? That it's just
because things are getting worse and worse things everything people know.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
I think we saw that with a GDP this yesterday's
announcement down almost a percent. You know, the economy is
shrinking since twenty twenty three.

Speaker 22 (54:56):
Honestly, and it's just awful. It's just awful that you
have somebody in this doing that that she hasn't got
a clue. It must be a lot of people must
be behind her. I would say they probably employ people
to but she's definitely she definitely shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Be doing that.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
I live it there, Jam. Yeah, the radio in the
back was problem, but thanks so much for that, Jane.
Nice to hear from you. Oh Marcus, what staff men
would take photos of rats and go to the media
instead of showing them to a manager. I don't think
the manager did enough. I think they went to the
manager and they didn't do anything. That's the that was
the chatterer at the time. Someone said someone planted them

(55:42):
to scare money. No, it was just a ret infestation. Anyway,
do get in touch on a talk. But yes, maybe
there won't be another boring sweep. Oh, but do come
through you want to talk. Kettil twelve o'clock tonight. I
think we need one of those topics that's going to
galvanize the nation. I don't quite know what it is tonight.
Maybe I've run out of topics, but all good. Get
in touch if you want to be a part of it.
Eight hundred and eighty Teddy had nine two nine to

(56:03):
de text here till twelve o'clock. And yeah, I'm none
the wiser of that such. I mean, what pattern needs
is clarification about what trucks can go down that road,
because it might be legit for them. Doesn't sound like it.
So like he's brought the house on the wrong street,
like buyer's remorse. And I feel sorry for the purse

(56:23):
of the pole house. It's just heartbreaking with the poles
they're rattling around. Oh, no earthquakes. Trit me to check
the earthquakes tonight? Should I do that? Eh? I think
we're about to get some answers. I said, we're about

(56:46):
to get some answers about the roads. I can feel it.
Look no earthquakes today all week? Yeah, bets, this is
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 24 (56:56):
Oh good evening, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Good? Thanks? Bats.

Speaker 24 (56:59):
I think it's a great idea. You ringaw about that?
Oh god, I hate the laugh at that. Yeah, can
you can you tell me just talking about when you
were mentioned about worse jobs I had. I had a
job once. I took a job in the cardboard factory

(57:20):
down in Price making cardboard. That was a real. It
was a real I opened because it all went and
wait and all came out right at the other end.
I was on the stacking at the end, and my god,
do you think I could stack this cardboard? It would
go all over the place. And you've got these headphones
on and the people down the line are screaming through

(57:41):
these headphones at you. You know, what are you doing
down at the cat You know that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
But it sounds like one of those jobs you have
nightmares about when you go to sleep at night. You
can't do it job when you're panicking, you know those nightmares.

Speaker 24 (57:54):
When yeah, exactly, I think I only lasted two weeks.
I was getting anxiety at home and oh my god.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
He said, have you started yourself out now?

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (58:05):
I'm John God, come right now. I've got a nice
easy job, you know now, just cruising around the country
every night. Hey, just about those tracks, I'll tell you
I'll give you a silly stat Me and my wife
traveled from Wellington Nesty now up to Tapau and from
Bulls to Twerpau. She counted one hundred and seventy eight
oncoming tracks on that road. Wow, that's on the Tuesday

(58:28):
night and on the Thursday it was one hundred and
ninety five. That's in the space of two hours.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
So what happens with a couple when one of them
decides to count trucks on a long trip? What's that about?

Speaker 24 (58:40):
What's that? Sorry?

Speaker 2 (58:41):
What happens with a couple when you have a long
trip together and one decides to count trucks?

Speaker 17 (58:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (58:47):
I know where I did count them. I got quite
into towards the end when she started filling out the
whole page numbers and crossers and.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Oh she was was she doing it? Appeared on Was
she not making notches?

Speaker 24 (59:00):
Oh yeah, she's doing the old do the fording cross prison?

Speaker 17 (59:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (59:07):
Yeah, yeah, So I sort of, well, Jesus, there have
been a few tracks, you know, because you're always got
the bright lights coming to here and the flashing and that.
I mean, like I said, they're all well behaved drivers,
but you know, you get a you get a bend
of seven trucks in a row like a bondvoy.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Yeah, my kids do that sometimes I drive within this.
That's seven in a row. I said, that's a record.
I think I record. I'm gonna run pet bats. Thank you,
Stephanie Marcus welcome, Yes.

Speaker 25 (59:31):
Good morning, next evening, Marcus, Cambridge. Yes, you can go
for the low level on bridge and you can go
out to where the old works were out near Leamington.
And that's as far as you can go. You can't
get across to oh how movies. You don't get across

(59:55):
the sept road.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Did you hear? Did you hear? Pet?

Speaker 7 (59:59):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Pet lives in the Pope Terrace right, which is just
by in Leamington. In he's at night, there's sixty trucks
go on that road between Tiawa Mutu and then over
the low Level Bridge past the golf course scene on
the State Highway one, and he says some of them
are trucks with H on the front.

Speaker 25 (01:00:20):
Yep, the H doesn't mean anything unless you're on a permit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Okay, if you.

Speaker 25 (01:00:31):
Literally running about forty six pounds on nine axles, you
you need to display the H. Now, there are two
different ages.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It's too complicated, too complicated for me. Yeah, so let's
cut let's cut it down, Stephanie. If yep, if he's
having sixty trucks going past his house at Pope Terrace
at night, they must be allowed to be doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Is that right correct?

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Because truck drivers are Laura biding? Is that right?

Speaker 25 (01:01:10):
I've got H sticks. I've got age stickers on my
truck tonight. Yeah, because I can run as an H
back tonight. I'm only running at about thirty five ton gross,
but I'm still displaying an H sticker. Okay, So it's
just because they've got H one. It doesn't mean to

(01:01:33):
say they're running as overweight. They could be eapy for
all you know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
So does he's still his house?

Speaker 25 (01:01:44):
Maybe free pilot anger better? But from where the old
works were?

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
I don't know where the I don't know where the
old works where. It sounds like a post song.

Speaker 25 (01:01:58):
People know where they were, which is out near Leamington
in the cambridge down across the low level.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
You can run as ANH is of Wait, what's it
called the low level bridge?

Speaker 25 (01:02:15):
Or was it slower than the high The high level
was up up near the shopping center tracks and not
over that one at all.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Someone set me, someone sent me an article and someone's
gone to the side and got fined a Fontier truck
or something.

Speaker 25 (01:02:31):
Yep, it's the one. Yeah, some some have tried, but
you're not allowed to do over that high level.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
Okay.

Speaker 26 (01:02:42):
Yep.

Speaker 25 (01:02:45):
There are maps that we run by that we can
exits on easy ta website and that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Shows you all the roads're allowed to go on. Correct
and has Pope Tiras on that map.

Speaker 25 (01:02:59):
I can't see it now Spring's gone, but yeah this
fifty in above so took out off and both of
those are running on HS so yep.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
You always sound reasonable. How's the weather.

Speaker 25 (01:03:18):
Fine at the moment. I'm just coming up towards.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Why Okay, thanks for the updates. Definitely appreciate. Hold your horses,
JT with your son teen away.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
From team.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Nine Away from teen j T. Marcus, thanks hanging on
the good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:03:35):
Yeah, break of one nine. This is a Rubbert Duck.
You've got a copy on the big Marcus. Come on, I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Appreciate your commitment to it. JD. That was good, Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:03:46):
Yeah, teen four, Big Ben Nursey six. It looks like
we've got ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
A calm boy tracking through the night.

Speaker 15 (01:03:55):
King Lewis Portland logs the Campbell, the Pete with the
reefer on and a Jimmy Holland hags. Yeah, Steven Joyce
has got to feel a bit to answer for with
these productivity trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
Yeah, I don't, did you hear pet.

Speaker 15 (01:04:15):
Yep? Yeah, I'll have a look at the map and that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
Of course you have.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 17 (01:04:26):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Which is Pet?

Speaker 15 (01:04:27):
Which is in companies?

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
Which is Pet's house? There aren't that many houses on
Pope Rode. I wonder which is his house?

Speaker 15 (01:04:36):
Yeah, well he's probably going to have to move or
downsize or sell up. It's just the layout once they
built that expressway that you know, being a truck driver,
it's all about the less number of kilometers and also
saving time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
He said, as mate got the pole house on the hill,
but I can't see where the hill is.

Speaker 15 (01:05:03):
Yeah, I don't know that area that well. I don't
think I've ever been Cambridge in fact. Well yeah, I
think if they were breaking the lord then the cops
would be onto them because it would be easy ticket
revenue and all that for them. Winn't it?

Speaker 19 (01:05:17):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Actually looking at Google Maps, now there's Fontier trucks and
there's massive trucks going down their road. On Google Maps
it's busy airs.

Speaker 15 (01:05:26):
Well, you should see what it's like between christ Church
and picked In at night because a lot of the
trucks they leave Christchurch about five pm and go up
Proticted and drop the trails off and pick up another
one and then head back and they all seem to
stop an ambulee for their breaks.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Is it okay?

Speaker 15 (01:05:47):
I bet that they know not to keep their trucks
open than that, because there's quite a few houses on
the main street there. But just that woman that was
talking about Nicola Willis, I think everyone can agree that
Nikola Willis has got to stop running efficets because that's
what she told us she was going to do.

Speaker 10 (01:06:10):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:10):
I don't know what happens now because they're not going
to change it before the election, and you know, the
whole the whole thing's been wait and hope that it's
going to come right. But you know it's going to
be a terrifying final wait for them for you because
clearly it's not going to come right. The economy is shrinking.

Speaker 15 (01:06:28):
I think they're going to have to announce a turnaround
plan either before Christmas or at the next budget at
the latest it makes some changes to super like raise
the age by six months all the once or well,
they probably won't want a means test it. But they're
scraping for every dollar they count. They shouldn't have given

(01:06:50):
those tax cuts. No, I see that terroists, visitor levy
part of that. They're just putting that into the general account,
whereas labor had it set aside for terrorism and to
dock and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
What's realisticking in people's cares. For the last week, they're
going on on about paying seventy million for concerts for Auckland.
Well that that's not going to do anything for anyone.

Speaker 15 (01:07:10):
Yeah, that's that's just subsidizing rich people. And now hotel health,
hotel bed Levy, that that wasn't going to affect the
people that are struggling. So they need to bring that
And I mean that tourist levy. The government National was
against that until it was broad and then all of
a sudden they're on board.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
I think something's got to change, you know. I don't
know that lux and Willis won end up leading the
National Party with the net Well, I don't know what's
going to happen. But it seems as though they did.

Speaker 4 (01:07:37):
You hear about that.

Speaker 15 (01:07:39):
You hear about that scientists today that come out and
land bastard lack luxe and for pulling all that money
out of funding for Callahan research and you know, R
and D and putting it into AI.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
That's the future of New Zealand. The future of New
Zealand is smart people doing smart things. We're not investing
with the brains. We've got no hope at all. We
can't just expect rich people to come here for a
bolt hole and prop up the economy.

Speaker 15 (01:08:03):
Right yeah, ten for their good buddy, When do.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
You move thing oversees j T? Are you planning to go?

Speaker 15 (01:08:09):
I'm here for the long haul.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Retired now, So what does that mean?

Speaker 15 (01:08:17):
It means I don't work full time anymore, happily for
medical reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
Oh yeah, brilliant. No, not not really, just the way
it does say, yeah, okay, I'd like to talk to JT.
Thanks for that. Just coming up to the headlines. I've
looked right round Pope Terrace for the pole house. But man,
it's a busy road. Even on Google Maps this cars
everywhere and trucks. It's even noisy looking at on Google

(01:08:44):
Maps that we've got an H sign on the front.
How confusing is trucking? Ah, it'd all be straightforward. Come
back to you after the news. What do you want
to say, John is the quick thing? Or Nichola willis
you want to talk about?

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Right?

Speaker 27 (01:08:58):
Yeah, Nicola Wallace. The other week with John McDonald was
he's the one that said too to our prime minister
about the forty seven thousand when they went up the mountain.

Speaker 19 (01:09:11):
And head to me.

Speaker 27 (01:09:13):
He says, oh, put it in these and I says no,
I put it on the top of his head. But
coming back to Wallace, Nikola Wallace, she needs to stop
licking these books because she's going cause their country. Mayhem.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Nice to hear from you passing announce Nicola Wallace. People
love mis pronouncing Polisian's names, don't they welcome? How are
you eight past ten? I'm not even sure I mentioned
worse jobs? Actually we're not quite happy today with that
as a topic. Worst jobs. How we're talking about the

(01:09:51):
trucks and pet Street which is called Pole Road, No,
not called Pole Road, Pope Road. I've got Pope and
pole House confused? And what happens when you're on a
road and suddenly it to a quiet domestic grade and
sudd he's got trucks going up at day. I guess
it happens to a lot of places. You move to
the back room and get white noise, I suppose. So

(01:10:11):
there is that also some discussion on Nikola willis although
interesting and say, we love mispronouncing well in recent times,
we love mispronouncing polishin's names. It was just sinta Ardun.
Then it was Christopher Luxton, which people say, and now
they started saying Nikola Wallace. I took them so long.

(01:10:34):
But yes, we're going to be in for an interesting
three months politically. I think something will be sorted out
before Christmas, but who knows. Anyway, it do come through.
You want to talk, I'm hddle twelve. See anything goes
on the show tonight, So yeah, whatever, it's a good
truck talk back there. And yeah, it's a horrible feeling,
that thump of heavy trucks. You do feel it right
through your soul of plexus. It's a kind of frightening feeling.

(01:11:00):
Fortunately we don't get it. We don't get much traffic
past our place at bluff at night. Very rare, does
it happen. So yeah, there we go, oh, eight hundred
and eighty eight ten eight. If we're trying to get
through there, there's lines, now, Frew lok forward to what
you've got to talk about. Someone says, oh, a couple
of questions. No, A couple of statements and a question. No,

(01:11:20):
A couple of questions and a statement. Could you please
ask truckies do they need a second battery to run
all those lights that make their truck look like a
Christmas tree on steroids and a baroccy head rush? Do
you need a second battery? Someone's calling a Nicola Wallace.

(01:11:41):
I think everyone for a while is calling a no
ship's Nicki or NICKI? No ships, NICKI, no boats. Christina
texts Marcus, just sort of amazing view of a meteor
while driving into christ from West Melton. Do anyone else
see it? Hope I'm not seeing things, Christina. Is there

(01:12:04):
an east Mountain? I don't think there is, Marcus. The
worst job I had was working in an elastic band factory.
I was sacked within a week because the manager said
I wasn't prepared to stretch myself alf New Plymouth high Marcus.
Dust caps are necessary, especially if you drive four wheel
drive into a river or salt water, as I have done,

(01:12:24):
had one dust cat missing. Over time, the valve got
corroded and they leaked slowly. Had to replace the entire tire.
Someone to know if those caps are worthwhile? Hi Marcus,
how long do you have to be in government before
you can stop blaming the previous government for the mess
the country is in? I think Luxon will still be

(01:12:46):
blaming Labour in twenty twenty nine or longer. I think
the point was made in the column from Hooton's today
that all other countries went through exactly the same thing
that we did, which was tariff's and the war and COVID.

(01:13:08):
I find the exact sentence, but that seems to be
no longer relevant as a Turk as a talking point.
Almost every country followed the same ruinous fiscal policies during
COVID as the ar Duran regime, and are affected by
wars and new tariffs. In all New Zealand's major trading

(01:13:30):
party partners grew reasonably well since Trump's liberation Day on
April two. Among the countries we compare ourselves with, New
Zealand is now at the bottom of the economics class
below China, USA, Australia, Japan, the OECD, the UK, EU,
the Eurozone and Canada. In fact, the only the only

(01:13:55):
figure in the negatives is Canada's GDP is down point
four since March twenty twenty five. Every other every other
factor which is GDP since March twenty five or since
June twenty twenty four. They're all in the positive, apart
from the two news in ones which are going down, down, down,

(01:14:20):
although Luxon said this week there's a real sense of
optimism thanks for a strong dairy price, resurgent tourism. Businesses
are humming, retail sales are growing, and construction activity remained
strong and in fact retails down, manufacturing's down, transport, curing
and warehousing are down. So everything's down really, So yeah,

(01:14:44):
she's not great, Well don't. We're trying to do a
positive tone this time of the night. Yep, Marcus at
work in christ Church can confirm that sighting of a
meteor very impressive. That's from Carl Marcus. Looked at the
HOMV map. It looks like they can access Pope Terrace
onto Cambridge Road for the Cambridge In as far as

(01:15:06):
mad Decision Drive only but not past that point. Maury
was a meteor about half an hourgo at Duntrum, bright
red green ball heading south. Cheers stew It says, Marie,
I think I mean I saw Is that right?

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
Den?

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Can you translate that one? Or Marcus? No, it's I
saw a media No there was Mary? Could they get
there from Maray? Who knows? There was a meteor about
half an ear arrago at dune Trune, bright green ball.
Everyone said it was green, West Mountain said it was green, Christchurch,
Karl said it was green, and stew says it was green.

(01:15:44):
So they're all seeing the same thing. It's exciting. Fourteen
past ten, looking fort to input tonight the meteor, the meteor,
togain in touch, as I say, looking forward to hearing
from you, eight hundred eighty and text I'll keep your

(01:16:09):
dad with the news around the world. End with the news.
Lander there is a weather atmospheric river coming and massive
hail and Bethley him, I can tell you that not
much other news I'm seeing apart from the meteor that's
happened tonight. And the magpie is overwhelmed by tallahacky. No

(01:16:30):
surprises there, Schlank and Man's been jailed for elephant trafficking
fifteen years in jail. Where keeping a stolen baby elephant?
I don't know where they are trafficking it, but yeah,
that's a thing, guesse. It's big for tourism with their elephants.

(01:16:50):
Will that be right in reserves? Jump it if you
want to talk. Fifteen past ten, Get in touch people,
if you want to call. Jim Snedden's along at twelve.
At seventeen past ten, I'll get to some texts and
a seck. But to give you a call now if
you want, I'm just just seeing a text. Oh oh,

(01:17:15):
it's got predictive. Didn't realize there was that now texts high.
I saw a meteor some nights ago that left a smoke,
a brief smoke like trail. I was wondering, as they
one know, what is the skyscraper sized rock heading towards

(01:17:35):
the general vicinity of earth? O? I don't know about that.
Applied for a job in England thirty five years ago.
I putting Chris Peckett's in a box. She said, can
you count to thirty? I said yes, over a math degree.
She said, you won't be able to do it five
hundred times a day and get it right. She gave
you a chance fight after three days very difficult. She
was right, good evening, Marcus. It's a couple of things tonight,
the Black Friends semi final versus Canada. Free to wear

(01:17:57):
tomorrow morning at six am, and a partial eclipse of
the moon at seven am on Monday, so yes on,
free to wear on sky open. The Black Ferns will play,
but as it progresses they'll stop for commercials, so it
won't be live the whole time, probably end about half
an hour later. Marcus. I'm questioning how Roger Douglas, Jim Bulger,

(01:18:22):
r Ruth Richardson have the right to give Nicola Willis
any advice as they can't profess to have done everything
right when they had their turn at the helm.

Speaker 14 (01:18:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
I always think it seems a bit desperate when politicians
are desperate to a pine about everything. They had their
chance and that their advice might be fine, but it
just it's just undignified. And yeah, it looks like they didn't.
It looks like that was the height of their life
and they haven't moved on again. Out of polyps, do

(01:18:54):
something different, don't become a commentator. There's plenty of them.
There's Richard Prebble, there's Roger Douglas, there's Peter Dunn, jumping
in every chance to have her say with sort of
a sort of a patronizing knowingness. That's my take anyway,
But maybe it's just because the papers ring them. Hello, Bob,

(01:19:16):
this is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, just listening about Roger Douglas criticizing Nichola Willis.
You know he short have crawled away and disappeared into
a hole somewhere. He sold all the state owned as
its off to foreign corporates. They raped all the forestries,
tuttle the mature pine down and took it all away.

(01:19:40):
And we left her with a paddock full of rubbish,
really to pick up the best. But and he has
the gall to get up and criticize her. She's doing
her best, and I think with a bit more support
from the rest of the national parties, I think she's
doing a very good job. But somebody's got to pay

(01:20:00):
the bill back. We should spend all the money headle
the fun there. Someone's going to pay the bill.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
When you look at them, you look at the numbers.
She's not doing great compared to other countries.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
But the other countries you've got a lot of things.
I've got less bludges and what we we got.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
I don't think that's right. I don't think that's right.

Speaker 8 (01:20:17):
Bob.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
Oh have you counted them?

Speaker 19 (01:20:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
No, I haven't counted them, Bob. But if you look
at the figures they've got, if you look at the
unemployment rates in those countries, so you can't just say
they've got less bludges. Have you counted them? It's a
crazy thing to say, and kind of so slightly peevish. Hollo.
I can really feel for Pat. We have the same
problem in Huntley with the trucks going past our place
bringing all the coal to create this huge coal reserve

(01:20:42):
for the Hunty power Plant. Great show tonight, Victor from Huntley,
Thank you, Victor. Marcus Gratcher was always I know this
was going to be a dud government when they gave
the residential landlords their text deductions back to one hundred percent,
and Nikola couldn't back down on implementing tax cuts, or
wouldn't back down implementing taxes only to do then only
to then use reduced government and come on cuts to

(01:21:03):
spend in good grief chairs Peter so reinteresting election next
year there might be a newly election, but you know
what happens. Because Luxon says he's supporting Willis, but Luxon
himself his position is not strong.

Speaker 8 (01:21:20):
Lthough.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
I don't think though they'd see Luxon would see Willis
as a threat now because she, I guess really has
been discredited. So maybe the fact that Willis is in
trouble now makes those two tighter and more of a team.
There was because the other leaders they always mentioned. The
only pert they ever mentioned is Stanford or Bishop or
there's one other I forget who it is, So yeah,

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who knows she's going to be tight. But yeah, people,
I've never known the country. It's people to be so
grim about what's going on. People are incredibly despondent. And
all those houses for sale and Auckland, and once they
get the five million people coming in to buy those houses,
they're straight off overseas. So yeah, those become ghost houses.

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I would have anyway, not my job to be miserable.
Bluff's going great, thanks very much. With the porters. I
suppose fishing is going well, although the figures for that
were down. The figures for forests we were down figures
for everything seemed to be down. But yes, be in

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touch if you want to be a part of it.
The trouble is talking about politics on the Friday night.
Isn't it that there's no middle ground for everyone. People
just died in the wall and sort of in their
corners and just say, oh, well things will come right,
or we always use she's going to be terrible. No
one ever changes their view. I don't think they do.

(01:22:49):
People just become more engaged or less engaged with what's
going on, just to show me I've got those new fairies,
because that is infrastructure and that's important. Pretty five past ten, now,
this is interesting. In the UK they always have competitions
to name public vehicles, like there was the Natural Environment

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Research Council which had a pole to name their million
pound pole of research boat, which was named RBS Boat
emcboat Face, although we ended up being named the Rrs
of Richard Edinburgh. Then for grit trolleys in Scotland they
have a competition to name those grit lorries and some
of the grit lorries in Scotland are called Chilli Connolly,

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Robert Bruns and lew Ice Capaldi and Gritney spears. But
they had a competition to find the name of a
truck or sorry of a train in England to blast
leafs from the railway tracks in Britain because there's billions
of leafs leaves in autumn. Some of the successful names

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for the train that were proposed with the autumn avenger
pop friction and leaffull weapon. But the winning vote and
what they've called the train now it's all sign written
that removes the leaves from the railway track. It's called
control alt de Leaf. Quite good, in't it. So there

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we go. I thought they'd make you a night. There
you have that twenty eight past ten and Marcus, welcome
it's lux and not Luxton. So many ignorant callers. That's right,
and that's what I always say. Now it seems to
be the thing they're calling a Nicola Wallace. They're calling
him Chris Luxton and they called her Jescenter. Someone says,

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because of the size of our population, we're more affected
by Paula. I don't know if that stands to rigorous testing.
That one, I don't know. Small necessarily means you are
more vulnerable to market vagaries. Marcus just sewed by to plants.
Can you give a friendly reminder out there it's time
to get your seeds in Keith. Thanks Keith. Our tunnel

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house is looking good, so cheers for that. Strawberries are
looking good. Get your tomatoes and people, if you must,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, get in touch,
Marcus till twelve anything else you got, yay, let's be
having you. And also when trucks invade your road, I

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would have thought you'd get used to it, but maybe not,
particularly if it's kind of triggering. You were his wife,
she got COPD and sharing is at earthquakes going past
the house because she gets quite deliriate. What do you
say she gets what was the word? Not derange, not delirious,
but forgets you some more kind of word than that.

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Oh oh wait one hundred eighty ten eighty. By the way, too,
if you want to watch the Black Ferns, they are
on tomorrow morning at SEXUS is the semi final against Canada. Now,
if you're not a great serve of the game, you
won't realize, but Canada are extremely good. I don't know
why women's rugby is so strong in Canada. I guess

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they've been doing it for longer. I could someone tell
me why Canada are so good? What's that about? Is
it because of ice hockey and they've played that? And
I don't know what the answer is. I don't know
why they're so good at rugby. I think it's probably

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been funded. There would be my gut feeling there. There's
pity of articles about why they're so good, but they're paywalled.
Isn't that the way the women's gave at tracts better
ethics for a contact sport as men lose out to
ice hockey in American football? Oh yeah, it might be

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something in there, but you've got in the opinion about
that too. Jumping hitdle twelve twenty eight away from eleven dedy.
But I don't know why people think that because of
the island, because because they're a small islandation that our
economy has not responded better. What the government did is

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they just they credited that they stopped ahold of projects
and started collapse in construction companies. They pretty well shrunk
the economy, that's what happened. And they fight everyone in
Wellington or that shrank the Wellington economy. It's desperate there
the things policies have effects. Janed Marcus Welcome evening. Hello, evening, Jan,

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This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:27:59):
Oh hi Marcus. I'm just fiddling with the phone trying
to get it to go louder.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
I can hear quite clearly.

Speaker 19 (01:28:07):
Yeah, I couldn't hear you very well. It's all right now.
Uh Now, why Canadian women are good at rugby? Was
that what the question was?

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Yes? Have you got if you rung up to answer that?

Speaker 17 (01:28:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
What's what's your guess?

Speaker 19 (01:28:31):
My theory? I have to run around faster and a
lot more because of the cold.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Okay, yeah, well I think probably you think in colder
climates they wouldn't be as good an outdoor sports. But
because I don't know the answer.

Speaker 19 (01:28:46):
Yeah, that's very fit people. Yeah, I lived over there
for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Oh you'll be our expert. Did you play rugby when
you were there?

Speaker 19 (01:28:56):
Hardly? Too busy cooking?

Speaker 17 (01:28:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
Okay, which part of Canada we were in? Gen Lake
up the woods?

Speaker 19 (01:29:08):
Yes, canaa fabulous. It's beautiful. They have lots of wild
beers and snapping turtles in the water.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Did you see did you see wild beers?

Speaker 19 (01:29:23):
I didn't, Luckily I was told do not leave the
rubbish and the rubbish from outside, because we'll have all
the beers swimming across the lake to get at it.
I thought, what beers? Wow, I was terrified.

Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
What have you got to say about tunnel houses?

Speaker 19 (01:29:44):
Yeah, you said your head one, So I thought that's
quite exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Well, nothing yet, which I will plant it this week,
probably plant it out.

Speaker 19 (01:29:54):
Well, that'll be something you and the boys can do.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
There's no short things we could and there's no shorterer
things we could do.

Speaker 19 (01:30:01):
Good never'll teach them how to grow things. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
The funny thing is the kid The kids are all
hooked on a video gard game called Grow a Guard
and I think all the parents are thinking, wh aren't
they out there actually planning a garden themselves?

Speaker 19 (01:30:13):
Yeah, they don't want them inside on audio again, what's
a terrible thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Thanks for the parenting advice, Jan, I think I'll take it.
Twenty four to eleven, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
How are you what's happening in your neck of the
woods people, Jan, Jan the giant fan. Yes, you're right there.
We go keep in touch. Yes, and look what else
are we going to talk about tonight? It's one of
those sort of it's one of those days and weeks

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of talked back. There's not one particular topic that's got
everyone going on about, but they still hope we still
might find it. I don't know when I am curious
today if anyone's had any success with trying to get
rid of trucks.

Speaker 13 (01:31:00):
In their area.

Speaker 2 (01:31:01):
I'm sure it's a very hard thing to do. But yeah,
that guy pet with sixty trucks going past us house
every night, he's probably in a hollow such thud, thud, thud.
So you've got something to say about that. Yeah, let's
be hearing from you. Eight hundred and eighty Tenadian, nineteen

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nine to de text Marcus till twelve, looking forward to
what you've got to say. Twenty four to eleven twenty one,
Away from eleven Hill, Midnight, Stefan Marcus, Welcome, good.

Speaker 14 (01:31:33):
Evening, Good evening, Marcus. I'm obviously just listening to you
for quite a while actually, and you were struggling for
a topic. I believe that when pedestrians are walking along
the footpath, they walk along the footpath and then they
suddenly turn right or they just change direction and walk

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straight across the pedestrian crossings and people are far too
close and you've sort of got a jam your brakes
on to allow for them. And I just wondered if
they should have to stop at the actual pedestrians need
to stop at the base of the pedestrian crossing, look
left and right and then walk across the road. But
they don't seem to be doing that anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Did we get rid of diamonds?

Speaker 14 (01:32:20):
Yeah, look that I've questioned that myself. What happened with
diamonds are so far back now from all the pedestrian crossing.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
Some of them are there, some of them are not.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Are there still diamonds?

Speaker 4 (01:32:30):
They are?

Speaker 14 (01:32:31):
But I was a career driver, right, so yeah, no,
I was and up until about eight months ago, and
I did notice this, and the diamonds are gone. The
people just look, look, and they sort of see you
coming and then they sort of speed up to get
across the pedestrian crossing and you've just got to slow down.

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And there's been way more accidents with pedestrians in the
last ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
But as a situation, if there's a diamond, if you've
got to stop before the dive, and if there's you've
got it.

Speaker 14 (01:33:09):
If you're a pestauran and a car is actually inside
the diamond.

Speaker 4 (01:33:14):
One, So I did it a while ago.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
You can't put your foot on, you've got to stand back.
But if they're outside the diamonds, you can step on.
Is that still a ruler? Did I miss miss interpret that?

Speaker 13 (01:33:23):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:33:23):
I believe that it was a rule, and it's just
just dissipated because you know, people just go I think,
I think that's all it is.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
But the bad ones are the ones when there is
that recess. What's that area a when you've got the
area in the middle with barriers around that you can
hide there. What's that called? Not a sanctuary? What's that called?

Speaker 28 (01:33:45):
Dan?

Speaker 17 (01:33:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
Well, Stefan, you can help me a comedians right, it's
got a word like a word like a place you
go for safety, like a not a sanctuary, but a
place like that, not a Look.

Speaker 14 (01:34:02):
Now, I'll be interested in know what they're liking in
the cargo rather than Auckland. I'm in Auckland, and I've
noticed all the diamonds are basically they're probably about or
a good forty or fifty meters back from the pedestrian crossings.
So when most cars that come along now, especially in
the built up shopping areas where there are pedestrian crossings,

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people are straight across the road with people are inside
those diamonds and in the car.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
In the car, we've got a roundabout and you come
out of the roundabout in the crossings right there outside
the movies. It's one of the most dangerous things I've
come across.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Were.

Speaker 14 (01:34:37):
The other thing they're doing now is they're they're building
lights near roundabouts and they've got pedestrian crossings on some
of the roundabouts, like fifty meters down the road from
the corner. Some have got traffic lights, some obviously don't,
So I think they need to look at that, That
says my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:34:56):
But you know, maybe there's a topic for you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
So do we know about the diamonds? Is the diamonds
a thing or is that something?

Speaker 29 (01:35:04):
Is that not a rule?

Speaker 14 (01:35:06):
Few When I was at the road code O, I
remember specifically learning that you had to look up and
down the road and if the car was inside the
diamond you couldn't go.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Well, I think I've discussed it with my partner, who
is slightly younger, and she said that that, yeah, I
think there was some suit a yeah, I can't remember.
I think I'm misinterpreted it.

Speaker 14 (01:35:26):
But yeah, okay, but do you have a look now
at Medestra in crossings that some have diamonds, some don't,
and they all don't see no one talks about the
diamonds anymore.

Speaker 17 (01:35:37):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
Literally, I'm talking about it.

Speaker 14 (01:35:42):
That's my thing, the diamond It's a human market.

Speaker 2 (01:35:45):
Yeah, well sometimes I'm tested seventeen to here we go,
marke us up a forty round game where I hate
Grow a Garden. I've played a lot of games in
my time, and what I say a lot, I mean thousands.
And grow a Guard as a brain dead game. All
you do is sitting. You could be waiting for an
online plant to grow, which can catch special ability things
that make its price go up. And I find it's
so brilliant hours for your plant to grow, just to
dig them up and flex on Starter as the best

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game in my opinion are cod Fix It Up, which
is an engineering card game on rob Locks, and Crash
Royale in operation. Don't let your kids play Growgun. They'll
be up at two am playing it for Edmund abuse
to get good plants. I think you're right about that, actually, Marcus.
One reason women's sport in North America is strong. The

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title ie ex Lawer legislates that colleges must funding for
men and women's sports equally. There is big one in
college football especially, so some of that corners to go
to women's football, soccer, rugby, soccer, softball and rugby. It's
a good thing. I think we've got a I'd love
a topic on pedestrian crossings, ped x jumping. I've got

(01:36:49):
my second one. I've got food. I've got food and drinks.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Where have I put that?

Speaker 13 (01:36:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
Here we go, Here we go. Pedestrian crossings are the
diamonds is the traffic officers are driving instructors out there?
Hm and grow a garden. Have a look on your
Facebook passage. I set your photo for a good topic. Cheapers, creepers.
What's happening out there in the world. There was a
big meteorite at West Melton. You know what freaks out

(01:37:24):
about West Melta. There's no East melt It's always freaked
me West and East. Have you looked at the message?

Speaker 6 (01:37:31):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:37:33):
Yeah, and I want the surprise going to Facebook now people? Oh, oh,
it's about the fire fighting in the swimming pool. It's
quite a Lisa Parlor. Oh, I see scrolling. She seen's

(01:37:58):
a lot of texts, doesn't she quite a texter?

Speaker 19 (01:38:01):
Cheap?

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
Isn't going a long way down?

Speaker 10 (01:38:10):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
The post is here's the topic for you. What did
you find when downsizing your elderly mother that she kept
as one of your favorite things that you cut kept
as a child. And it's a wristwatch. Walkman, it's a
wristwatch radio with headphones and I think it's a bit
of kind of ever seen.

Speaker 10 (01:38:29):
I quite like that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Thank you. Fourteen from eleven hit til midnight. Oh, Ranjie,
this is Marcus Welcome, Hey.

Speaker 13 (01:38:41):
Marcus wire good, thank you.

Speaker 30 (01:38:44):
I just want to mention there is a satellite in
Wellington between Paramatta and pa Yes, and that's that satellite
in one hundred ks on Yes, and therese a few.

Speaker 31 (01:38:58):
Incidents are maybe eat last year, but it's no one
talking about it. So I thought I just just mentioned
to you.

Speaker 12 (01:39:06):
Yeah, because the people can't because especially in the truck drivers,
when they driving and when they come closer and the
lights go yellow, they have two Suddain breaks and the
prides go inside the wrong you know.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
So I'm looking at it where about I'm looking at
it north of Parametta.

Speaker 31 (01:39:25):
Uh, south of Parametta when you're turning.

Speaker 12 (01:39:28):
Left to out here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
Yeah copy that.

Speaker 31 (01:39:32):
Yeah, they're set light in one hundred K zone. Broyeh Okay, Yeah,
especially when I have to pass through the here, I
always slow down like a forty to fifty, So I
don't know when the lights turn yellow.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
How could they fix it?

Speaker 22 (01:39:51):
Oh?

Speaker 32 (01:39:51):
I don't know whose idea is dead, but there shouldn't
be And there's a set light one hundred K zone
for you know me, fifty kson is okay, seventy maybe
all right, but not in a.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Hundred k It makes sense. Thanks coming through Myriad's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 33 (01:40:09):
Oh hi Marcus. Yeah, I was just clarifying from myself
what the diamonds meant on the road, but looked up
the New Zealand road code and the white diamond markings
on the road indicate that pedestrian crossing is you're approaching
a pedestrian crossing. This is a warning to drivers to

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be alert and watch for pedestrians, and the diamond itself
there is no direct legal function in the road traffic code. Yeah,
you are approaching an area where you must be prepared
to stop for pedestrians, so what rules?

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
What are the rules for pedestrians? They can step out
when they.

Speaker 33 (01:40:59):
Like, can they on the crossing? If you're waiting to cross,
the cars has to stop for you. If it's a
cross that hasn't got an island between the two lanes
of traffic, cars have to stop and wait until you've
completed the whole crossing before they go across the crossing.

(01:41:20):
They can't just wait you to get to the towards
the other side and then drive through. The only time
they can do that is if you've it's one with
an island in the middle of the road and they've
got to the island, then you can proceed across that lane.
There's no You've got to They've got to complete the

(01:41:42):
whole crossing before you before a car can go back
on it. Drivers are extremely bad about it.

Speaker 16 (01:41:54):
Today.

Speaker 33 (01:41:54):
I have nearly been knocked over three times on pedestrian
crossings because people haven't waited for you to either get
off the crossing or complete your half of the crossing
and then come across when there's no island. Fed up
with it, I'm a driver as.

Speaker 2 (01:42:11):
Well, so, but the rules say as you as you
come to the crossing, slow down and be ready to
the stop, give way to anyone on the crossing, or
anyone who's or anyone who's obviously waiting to use the crossing.

Speaker 33 (01:42:27):
Okay, but a lot of people only don't remember that
they've got to wait for you to get off the
crossing completely.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
They don't.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
They think it's on your half. You're fine.

Speaker 18 (01:42:37):
Yeah, and I thought the I thought the rule.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
I thought the rule had changed. If it was only
on your half, you you didn't wait on behalf.

Speaker 33 (01:42:46):
No, it hasn't. Did it ever change, I don't know
whether it did or not, but it's in the current one.

Speaker 19 (01:42:54):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
And what did you?

Speaker 28 (01:42:55):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
Interested, what happened to you today on a crossing?

Speaker 33 (01:42:57):
Did someone I've nearly been hit a lot of times
on a crossing. I've got half way across and then
the car has gone across in front of you. I've
had a car come behind me when I've not got
half way across. It's just hopeless.

Speaker 19 (01:43:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
It sounds terrifying.

Speaker 24 (01:43:18):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 33 (01:43:20):
And I've got full sight and hearing. For people that
have got disabilities, it must be a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Yeah, no, I'm not disagreeing with you there. Mary, Thank
you so much for that davy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
Hello, yeah, hi Marcus.

Speaker 29 (01:43:37):
I think she's wrong about it.

Speaker 7 (01:43:41):
The law states that.

Speaker 29 (01:43:44):
A pedestrian cannot enter the crossing of a car is
inside the diamond. So the diamond, if.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
You've got if you got that, if you got that
written down, if you.

Speaker 29 (01:43:57):
Just remembered that, well, I've just redone my truck license
and it was part of the So if if you're
approaching a crossing and and you drive over the cross
the diamond that the diamond is, if you're past the

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diamond and someone's at the crossing, you can you can
go straight through. So it's the pedestrian that cannot enter
the the crossing. And and the problem is there's no

(01:44:43):
r to teach the pedestrians. If they don't know what
the road code is, then they don't know that.

Speaker 19 (01:44:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:53):
Yeah okay.

Speaker 29 (01:44:55):
But the purpose of the diamond is is if if
you've passed the diamond, you have right away as a driver,
no you're you're not obliged to stop. So if you've
but if prior to the diamond, you treat it as
a red light.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
All the diamond means, right, All it means is a
pedestrian crossing is coming up. You should be aware of
your surroundings, that's all it means.

Speaker 29 (01:45:27):
Yes, but if if a pedestrian enters the crossing, you
then must stop.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Yes, but that's got nothing to do with But that's
irrelevant of the diamond though, isn't it.

Speaker 29 (01:45:39):
If you've if you've crossed over the diamond, you must stop.
So sorry, prior to the diamond, you must stop. If
you've crossed the diamond, it's now the pedestrian it has
to wait.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
No, that's not that's not correct, Davy. From my understanding
reading it, reading out, and I've just read another article
about it, it seems as though the diamonds have no
The diamonds have no function and traffic law or in
the road code other than as a warning that there's
a pedestrian crossing coming up.

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
Oh well I'm wrong then, yeah, yeah, And I think a.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
Lot of us have been wrong. I always thought the
diamonds where it had great power. Thirty six pedestrians die
each year on your Zealand roads, and a thousand were
injured to slow down their a pedestrian crossing. Pedestrians can
cross that marked pedestrian crossings whenever they want, but not

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to step out suddenly when a vehicle is unable to
give way, so it's all on them and the onus
is on them to cross when they want. Cheapest creepers
were away, thank you, Stefan. Of course most are on
their phones or with stuff in their ears. Someone says,

(01:47:01):
look at the bunny thought roundabout will do? Oh gee,
I learned some interesting things tonight Pope Road. I almost
want to go to Pope Road. See what's happening to
here with that traffic? Poor old pat good dunk. Another
truck going by, gudunk. He's bunny Thorpe does have a

(01:47:24):
complicador around about?

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
What is that.

Speaker 17 (01:47:28):
On?

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
There's trains nearby? It jeeps the Dixon's line head on
midnight Jim steading along from twelve back after the old
go round, looking forward to what you've got to say
here until twelve we're talking about pedestrian crossings. Someone's sent
a text through it says she is incorrect. The law
used to be the whole crossing, but not now. The

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island in the middle is called a pedestrian refuge. The
diamond is only a warning. You give way only to
your half willy driving instructor. I can't see anything that
backs that up. Everything I can see on the road
code says you've got to give way to people on
the whole crossing unless there is a refuge hello grunt.

Speaker 34 (01:48:07):
Okay mate, first, i'd call it just yeah, what you
just said was about the I think pedestrians you have
to give ways of trap that they can't just walk out,
they have to wait for the car to come to
the stop.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:48:27):
And yeah, and you've just pointed out that the beyond
in the morn in the middle it's called a refugee island.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
Yeah, that was all.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
Really just.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Yeah, yeah, you can't just walk out, You've got to
go to the room to stop.

Speaker 23 (01:48:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:48:50):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:48:50):
Pedestrians still has to they still have to give ways
of traffic. They can't just walk out.

Speaker 10 (01:48:56):
Yeah, wait wait for the car to come to a stop.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Yeah, brilliant. Okay, I appreciate that, grant, thank you. Yeah,
but I did think they change it so you had
to give way to people on your heart. But that's
just with the island or the refugee island, so you
might want to talk about that, Marcus. The road code
is free, well written, as comprehensive and details pastor responsibilities.

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Even horses every home should have one. No excuses not
to know the rules, Marcus. Last year they spent three
months redoing the main road a couple of k's away.
Our road was the detour. It almost drove me mad,
having all the big trucks going past, and the whole
house vibrated. I'd just get to sleep. Another one would

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come past, and the air brakes the intersection Fulton Hogan
were nice though, and came and tar sealed my drive
with some left over at the end. I suggest your moves.
If it's a permanent truck route, it might be very
hard on his wife's anxiety. She's got COPD. I think
it was pat but he shouldn't move. But he's not
going to sell his house. He now he's rug and

(01:50:01):
told the nation about it. It's only gonna get worse.
What are biggest muddle cambridges with all those trucks going through,
must be logs. Don't where the logs are coming from?
Should be going by sea? But anyone got any more
things about the pedestrian crossing the diamonds. The diamonds aren't forever,
they mean nothing. But I'm worried about Willie. The driving

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instructor says she's incorrect. Someone's complaining because they've spent one
thousand dollars on tickets to Sydney and they got powdered eggs.
You sure, how did you know that powdered? Someone says,
forget the road code, human versus car. Car always wins.
What's a good point? I thought it was a silly point.

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I thought about it. It's a good point jumping jump
jump pedestrian crossing. So I thought we're on to a
big topic then there, and let's keep going with that,
because yes, I was confused. But the diamonds mean nothing,
and you've got to kip wait to them on the
whole crossing. And this is a refuge. So the diamonds

(01:51:11):
don't mean anything. The diamonds don't come into it. It's
like a triangle on the road for a give way
sign just means you should be aware of your surroundings.
At twelve past eleven, not long till the black ferns.
They're at six in the morning. What times the actual

(01:51:32):
match start, Dan, I don't if I'm sitting ther larm,
I don't want all the pilava. It'll start at six,
will it? I haven't got my headphones on to talk
really loudly, brilliant, let's go, let's go. Uh oh wait

(01:51:52):
a one hundred eighty tady pedestrian crossings and trucks. It's
a bit of a driver one tonight, which I've enjoyed.
BDBD BDD start of the holidays. Yeah. But to talk
about Nikola Willis, I mean, no matter whether she stays
or doesn't stay, she's gonna hate it with everyone having
an opinion on it. I mean, what a thankless job.
I mean, obviously a job that she's not been fantastic

(01:52:16):
a at when you look at the GDP dropping by
all percent or point nine, but still wow flip. And
then there was that meeting with the guy about the
butter that's getting paid six million dollars a year. That
wasn't great, was it? That was like, well, hang about,
what actually have you done? You canceled the boats, you
did nothing with the butter, And now what the economy

(01:52:40):
is contracting sounds terrifying and everyone's leaving the country. Headphones
back on, Daniel be pleased to know, Shane, this is Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:52:57):
Welcome, OK, Marcus, just quickly about the Productrian, So I
haven't been a chucked over for over thirty years. The
law hasn't changed a lot that I know of. But
if there is a diamond, it indicates there's a pedestrian
crossing ahead. Yeah, and if there's an oasis in the
middle of the road, then you only have to give

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way to your side of the road. If there's no
oasis and a person steps foot on either side of
the pedestrian crossing, you have to stop. Yep, sorry, And
the onus is on you to keep that pedestrian straight safe. So,
regardless of the pedestrian a four year old old man

(01:53:42):
with his dog, if they're on the pedestrian crossing and
you hit them, you're the one going for this gate,
not them, So all liability is on the driver and
the big machine that's going to injure or cause death
to that pedestrian.

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
From my quick reading, Shane, it sounds like you've got
an extremely accurate understanding of the road code.

Speaker 10 (01:54:07):
That's good. I haven't looked at the road cope for
a very long time. But the onus is on the
driver to protect the pedestrian. If you hit them, you're
going too fast to stop, and that fault belongs with
the driver.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
And appreciate that Shane, thanks so much. Com it to
Marcus Welcome. Hi, good topic, great topic, one of the greats.

Speaker 13 (01:54:30):
I finally agree with that guy like a car versus
the pedestrian, Like you're going to feel bad if you're
that driver, for goodness, say common sense. And the other
common sense thing apart from the law is I would
not enter a pedestrian crossing until a car had come
to a complete stop.

Speaker 33 (01:54:52):
Otherwise you can't you.

Speaker 13 (01:54:53):
Know, you just can't trust everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:54:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
Makes all makes sense, Kim, nice to have met. Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:55:05):
Agree.

Speaker 35 (01:55:06):
I agree with the last few callers. It's it's like
people that across the road aren't obliged to there the
road code, so they don't know these things.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
That's right too, because they could be kids or visitors.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:55:24):
Yeah, so and you're going to make eye contact and
you know, really make sure everyone's safe. That's you know,
that's all there was to it. Then on the truck
driver too, And I recently READID my license. I only
ever came across that diamond thing that I said.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
I wonder if diamonds to do with I wonder if
diamonds had to do with school crossings when you've got
the school patrols, well.

Speaker 35 (01:55:52):
Are there anyway just to tell people that there's a pedestrian,
but more, you know, because the parallel lines might not
be as easy to see as the diamond driving up
to it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:04):
I guess good point someone's takes to Why did the
chicken cross the road? He didn't make that far? The
driver didn't know what the diamond meant for a good.

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
We're at the.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
Refugee Island, Sally, Marcus. Welcome Ah, Sally.

Speaker 8 (01:56:18):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:56:21):
You've just hit the nail on the head. It's to
do with the children crossing at schools.

Speaker 19 (01:56:26):
Year after year.

Speaker 20 (01:56:27):
I've been out to those crossings with the new group
of road patrollers and watched the traffic officer teach the
children that they must never put their signs out if
a car has come past the diamond.

Speaker 6 (01:56:40):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (01:56:42):
So I mean, I don't know if it has any
other use, but I know that that's a definite one
that it gives a kid away to judge when to
put the signs out.

Speaker 2 (01:56:50):
Do you teach people at the traffic crossing?

Speaker 20 (01:56:54):
No, the traffic officers do, but a teacher goes out
with them.

Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
Are you a teacher. Yes, and you you've been out
there recently?

Speaker 4 (01:57:05):
No, not recently?

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
How long ago?

Speaker 26 (01:57:08):
No?

Speaker 19 (01:57:08):
Five years?

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
The do the you know the lollipops, yes, do they
have holes in them?

Speaker 20 (01:57:17):
No, they've put into slots on the pole.

Speaker 28 (01:57:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
But the actual surface, that red circle, is it full
of holes?

Speaker 7 (01:57:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
Because I was going past the bluff because the Bluff
school patrol was out today the last day of term
with the head master and the teacher there, and the
Bluff signs that put the the signs that kids put
out are full of holes. And I wonder if that's
just because Bluff's so windy that it's easier to bring
them around for that. I've never seen that before, and

(01:57:45):
I wonder if that all changed that way it was
just in Bluff. But yeah, okay, Sandy, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:57:52):
Hi Marcus. Kids on bike except pedestrian crossings that come
up the foot path, they don't stop and just fly
across the crossing. Yeah, in front of traffic onwus not
on the parents to teach the.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Children that you were kids of kids and they're full
of joy on their bikes. I suppose you got to
cut them a bit of a room. I suppose, but
they probably shouldn't be doing that.

Speaker 13 (01:58:18):
No, they shouldn't. I had an incident a number of
years ago, and I was driving a large horse track
ten horses on it. What I saw there's two kids
coming along the footpath on their push bikes, And luckily
I saw them, and I buttoned right off to go

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slowly approaching, and sure enough they just straight across in
front of me. If I had to put my brakes on,
I would have stacked ten horses down in the truck.
Luckily I had space to pull over almost directly after
the crossing. I jumped out and I chased those two

(01:59:00):
kids across to the shopping center, and I followed them home,
and I tore strips off their parents for not teaching
them how to you go?

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
Were you going too fast?

Speaker 10 (01:59:11):
Though?

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
If you couldn't stop the horse truck in time.

Speaker 13 (01:59:14):
No I could stop. I could stop it in time.
But if I had of it with ten horses on board,
and you've stopped even a little bit quickly, livestock are
going to fall over.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
But you should have been approaching that crossing much much
slower than if that were the conditions of the horses.

Speaker 13 (01:59:34):
I was because I spotted the two kids, so did
the right thing.

Speaker 16 (01:59:38):
What I'm saying and in the past, in the past,
I don't think anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
I don't think anyone should be chasing kids time. I
think that sounds abu karny.

Speaker 13 (01:59:47):
Well, it was more of the fact that those could
need to be taught that that's not what you do.
And I am sure that in the past kids we
were taught that at school, no one.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
Wants someone to come and test strips off their pair.
And that just sounds like an overreaction.

Speaker 13 (02:00:06):
Well, it would have been an overreaction if I'd taken
the kids out because they hadn't stopped.

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
No, that would have been you driving too fast, wouldn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:00:16):
No.

Speaker 13 (02:00:16):
I think I was down to about five k But
those kids had no intention in the world of stopping.
They were up the footpath, straight across in front of me.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
How the parents, how'd the parents react? Uh, they were surprised,
surprised with some yeah you sound like you sound like
you've got a temper on you. No, not at all.

Speaker 13 (02:00:40):
I was more concerned about the kids being hit by
a vehicle.

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
But why would you test strips off their parents.

Speaker 13 (02:00:50):
For not teaching the kids the correct rule.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
Okay, were your thoughts on that, guys? Wow, Craig Marcus
welcome you know.

Speaker 10 (02:01:03):
Yeah, but the sounds a bit like a bit of
a bad temper to me. Hey, just wanted to Hey,
great subject. By the way, it's one of your busier,
busier ones tonight, good one. Hey, I just wanted to.

Speaker 2 (02:01:22):
Thanks for ranking the subjects for me, Craig. I enjoyed
that anyway.

Speaker 10 (02:01:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ever since they lowered the speed limits
down on the CBD in Auckland, it's it's actually it's
actually hasn't made things safer. It's made pedestrians more sort
of just blissfully unaware of it's happening around them. They think,

(02:01:48):
I said quite often as a bus driver, just people
just wandering out onto the road and just not looking anymore.
And it's ever since the speed limits were brought down, Wow,
it's just made pedestrians just behave behave badly. I mean
in general, like with crossings and things like that. Like

(02:02:09):
everyone's I think pretty much nailed it tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:02:13):
Yeah, Craig, we're better on crossings than we are in roundabouts, cauf,
I can say that.

Speaker 10 (02:02:23):
But yeah, ever since luring the speed limits like the
thirty and forty k speed limits around the CBD. My
pedestrians have just got like really really bad.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Maybe they feel safer, Thanks Craig, twenty three past eleven.
Marks is a pedestrian life is a horror movie and
public exiting driveways at speed is just as bad. And
hearing drivers talk on your show, how many drivers have
different ideas of driver condent littlone just like a pedestrians.
I personally live half my life in Tara about trying
to judge driver behavior goodness. Mark show on the right

(02:03:00):
track with crossings, but the road cut is not the law,
it's a summary interpretation. The actual rule is ten point
one of the Land Transport Rule to two thousand and four.
Subsection one some he says a driver must give way
to those on the crossing and stop for that purpose,
and subsection three says it's a traffic on each side
of trees are separate crossing. That's exactly right, So you

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don't just give way to your side of the crossing,
you give way to the whole crossing unless there's a
refugee island. The diamond indicates that if a car passes
that the pedestrian shouldn't work out walk out. If the
drivers se these pedestrians getting ready to cross before the diamond,
then you're obliged to stop. No, the diamond's got nothing
the diamonds. Ignore the diamond. All the diamonds are to
warn you there's a pedestrian crossing. Ignore the diamond. The

(02:03:42):
diamond has no standing in the court of law. It's
got no legal status. The diamond. But what about that
woman chasing the kids saying, well, with ten horses? Flip?
How would you chase kids home on bikes with ten horses?
Someone said the diamond is geometrically a square rotated ninety degrees.
Just thought you should know. It's not square. What is square? Well, no,

(02:04:07):
it's not square, it's a here's his pub quiz question.
What's the name given to the orange light at some
district crossings? I've got no idea. Tell me the answer, please,
A lines have suddenly become available, but istrian crossings and
the diamonds, although I do know if I mentioned as

(02:04:27):
I'm saying, I think, well, what else is there to say?
I wait all night for the golden topic and we're
done in dusted in half an hour. I mean, while
pet wake it up again by truck going past the house.

Speaker 17 (02:04:38):
Good dunk, Nigel, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
Can you hear me, Nigel? Why do you think I
would be on to hear tonight, Nigel?

Speaker 17 (02:04:49):
Because normally when you put me on there, it comes
up luter and it didn't come up later.

Speaker 14 (02:04:54):
OK.

Speaker 17 (02:04:58):
Yeah, I know when I'm not on the ere, you
turn it there, mat Yeah, that's right. The those diamonds
they were there for school patrol. I remember them and
school patrol days, primary school days. And so when you're
just motoring around of the cag or do you not

(02:05:19):
see so many diamonds?

Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
You don't always make it about me? You know, I
feel uncomfortable when you're make it about me.

Speaker 17 (02:05:26):
No, I'm just no, I'm just saying, like, do you
just see diamonds at nearer schools?

Speaker 12 (02:05:33):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:05:35):
I think every crossing has diamonds, but but they don't
mean anything.

Speaker 17 (02:05:40):
Yeah, I just thought that they might. You know, when
they do the repainting of the roads, you know, the
road painters they might just not bother only paint the
ones and again near schools, right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
Some of them do see some of the road markings
seems repolled these days, especially on win days and when
it's dusk.

Speaker 17 (02:06:01):
Oh yeah, they're hard to see in the dark and
in the wet the road markings, YEA did right there.
But I still remember that that pedestrian road rule from
primary school days. And it's years since, it's over fifty
years since I've been a primary school half a century,
and I knew, you know, if the car was with

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inside that diamond, you shouldn't cross the road. Yeah. So
it's something that's installed in this as kids, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
Yeah, but maybe we don't shouldn't instill learn about kids. Hey, hey,
we shouldn't do that about kids. And still there you're
taught it.

Speaker 17 (02:06:40):
You're taught it at school. Yeah. And oh did you
not have road patrols at your primary school?

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
I never did it.

Speaker 17 (02:06:50):
No, you didn't have to do it, but some people
loved it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:53):
It always seemed like.

Speaker 17 (02:06:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. Hey, can I talk about
something else if you must. There's that police officer out
a White Cat hospital yet or.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
He hasn't died, has he?

Speaker 17 (02:07:10):
I don't know. I've heard nothing for ages about him
because he took a few blows to the heat, didn't he.

Speaker 2 (02:07:23):
What's the date?

Speaker 17 (02:07:24):
The date is the nineteenth, almost the twentieth. Half an
hour's time will be the twentieth of September.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
The family have asked for privacy on his recovery.

Speaker 17 (02:07:39):
Okay, so he must be still alive.

Speaker 2 (02:07:41):
I think so, yeah, and we need to respect that
that that's what his family wants.

Speaker 17 (02:07:45):
Yeah, but didn't he take a few bullets to the head.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
I don't, look, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:07:50):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
It's not it's not the sort of stuff that I
would get that I would be that that I would
be interested in that the amount of shots or how
injured he was.

Speaker 17 (02:08:00):
That's the news I heard on the station.

Speaker 2 (02:08:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's just something that that
that those sort of gruesome details don't interest me. But yeah,
I think the when Chamberlain the guy came back from
the Australian funerals and him the hospital, he said there
was a long recovery head for him. So that seems
to be the situation.

Speaker 17 (02:08:18):
Let's be palls through.

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
Oh yeah, well I don't think that.

Speaker 28 (02:08:22):
I think.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
Yeah, I haven't heard that he was that he was
on death's door or anything.

Speaker 17 (02:08:28):
I haven't heard that Nigel, the last front line officer
got kill, was on the Auckland Northern Motorway. Won't remember
that one of the motorways up in Orkland he was
shot dead. Matthew, someone remember that.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
I don't know. I look as I say, I don't.
I don't know. I don't think that's quite a grim
thing for you to remember, isn't it?

Speaker 17 (02:08:53):
And well I remember Mowana the first guy on. He
was the first front line police officer. I remember dying. Yep, Juana. Anyhow,
as soon as we remember.

Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
Yeah, yeah, there was the court case for that guy
that got You're right about that guy and killed in
West Auckland. That was Was he hit by another cara?
Wasn't there? Was he shot?

Speaker 17 (02:09:23):
The police wanted to pull him over for a traffic
and furnishment and then was it there?

Speaker 2 (02:09:28):
Yeah, nineteenth of June twenty twenty. You're right about that.

Speaker 10 (02:09:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (02:09:35):
So there hasn't been a frontline police office for shot
and New Zealand since twenty twenty, not fatally.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
Thanks Nagel twenty seven away from twelve Get in Touch
oh eight hundred and eighty eight ten Eightian nineteen nine
to two detext. The fleshing lighter blistering classic is called
the Belisia beacon. Why would it be called that Belisia Beacon,

(02:10:05):
Belisia Beacon produced the UK by Minister of Transport Leslie Hall. Belicia,
it'll be a very good question for a quest checking
now and then, Charlotte Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 17 (02:10:20):
Hi.

Speaker 11 (02:10:21):
Now I might be.

Speaker 19 (02:10:22):
Going to be a bit mean to you tonight.

Speaker 11 (02:10:26):
Because the lady, the lady that rang up about the
horse flow that she had eight horses on horses, ten horses,
ten horses. Okay, now, what she did, it was quite right.
She saw those clips coming, she was slowing down anyway,
and she and she slipt. She didn't know whether they
were going across from the crossing or not. The little

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Sebastians shouldn't have just driven their bikes.

Speaker 10 (02:10:52):
Thes do that, I know, but why do they do it?

Speaker 11 (02:10:57):
They didn't do it in my day at school if
we had excuse me, they damn well did not.

Speaker 8 (02:11:06):
Well, you know they had.

Speaker 14 (02:11:09):
What do you mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
There'd be some instances of kids to kids are always
reckless on bikes. It's a good thing, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:11:17):
No, No, that's just the whole thing. They weren't in
now they and we were taught. When were you allowed
to ride our bikes across the pedestrian crossing. We were
taught to stop and push them across when when the
traffic stopped, and not just scream up the footpath and

(02:11:37):
onto the crossing as if the world is your oyster.
That children don't get taught very well today anyway, But
that lady, I don't blame her for going back and
talking to the parents about it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
Didn't know, Charlotte, She didn't say and went to the
talk to the parents. She says, she chased them, found
the parents and tore strips off them. Now, that is
someone that can't That is someone that can't control their Tembischarotte,
and we only people running around randomly yelling at parents.
It's way out of here. It's way out of what
she should be doing.

Speaker 11 (02:12:10):
It was not that the parents should have taught the
children a few things before they let them out on
their bikes, going in here, there and everywhere. The parent
thing of today is simply horrendous.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
I take exception to that, actually, because you're probably not
around the and I think probably parenting has never been better.
Oh really, yeah, really, Charlotte, And you can probably see
that all sorts of figures we're not beating our kids
within an inch of their lives. We're not terrifying kids.
I think parenting has come a long long way since

(02:12:46):
the Dark Ages. I beg your pardon, Well, you heard
what I said.

Speaker 7 (02:12:50):
What about all the.

Speaker 11 (02:12:51):
Choulder then you end up in hospitals?

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
Well, it's not as bad as it was when their
kids strapped and doing all sorts of things. Some of
that stuff that was hidden behind closed doors and was
never was never talked about, And I think the figures
will back that up, Charlotte.

Speaker 23 (02:13:03):
But to Chase, I didn't in an area where that happened.

Speaker 2 (02:13:09):
So it's just it's just different areas.

Speaker 10 (02:13:11):
It's just.

Speaker 2 (02:13:15):
Finish with you twenty three away from twelve eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to nine text, Well do
you live it up towards the end? Oh, Pedestrian crossing
diamonds are only a recommended road marking and not legally
required where space or distance does not permit. I also

(02:13:35):
don't think diamonds proceed or pedestrian islands anymore. I don't
know what we would do without pedestrian islands, refuge islands, Marcus.
If you hit a pedestrian a crossing it charged with
dangerous driving causing injury or death. Marcus, this is not
about a pedestrian crossing me. Years ago, my husband and
I were driving along a street in Mount Albert the

(02:13:56):
fifty k zone. Next minute a young boy came flying
down a steep driveway straight into our road. And now,
how in God's name we missed Hittingham was quite a
hair raising incident. My husband stopped the car and was
shaking hisself that the young boy could have ended up
under our car. It was quite an upsetting experience. He
kept saying to me, my God, I could have killed him.

(02:14:16):
Here till twelve looking forward to what you've got to
say twenty two away from midnight, Jim Steaden along after twelve.
But the most important thing six o'clock tomorrow morning. Yepia.
The Black Firms. Very tough match for them against Canada.
And you might have learned this in the in the wires,
but yes, Canada are the team to beat. They've beatn

(02:14:39):
us and drawn with us in the last three so
we've read tough for us to win that. Let's hope
they do. By the way, just been a small earthquake
in Wellington. Onto the drums to check that out. So yeah,
if you want to bring a talk about that dude
to come through. So looking at that now, people thanks

(02:14:59):
for the text. Can't say, oh, yep, no, I can't
see a week one that's happened. But if you'f by
a wait, a truck going past what.

Speaker 3 (02:15:11):
I live.

Speaker 2 (02:15:12):
But it's not Wellington, that's thirty k southwest the takaoah
to four point seven though it's deep though one sixty
sixth case, it probably was felt quite widely. Glennus Marcus,
welcome high glinnas. Hi Marcus, what tipman?

Speaker 13 (02:15:33):
I just bringing up tell you off as well?

Speaker 2 (02:15:39):
Good.

Speaker 13 (02:15:41):
I thought you were quite rude to that last caller
that called them who look good lady you said.

Speaker 16 (02:15:50):
When you said that, you mean.

Speaker 2 (02:15:52):
The horse, the horse late lady or Charlotte.

Speaker 13 (02:15:57):
Well, I thought the horse Lake horse like lady Sandy
correct correct them.

Speaker 2 (02:16:05):
What she did, well, just chase, chase kids and tear
strips off the parent. Yes that behave does that behavior?
Is never appropriate to run and starts to run and
start screaming at some random person. You know, there's there's
a time to have a polite conversation. You don't run
park a horse, truck or chase kids in the horse
truck and run and tear strips off parents. That's none

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of her, that's none of her business. It's just this
is this is the stuff where road rage and all
that stuff come. Kids are kids. Sometimes kids make mistakes.
That's that whole That very good road Transport campaign was
about that. Sometimes people make mistakes and you've got to
be aware of that. We're not all perfect and kids do.
Kids do exciting and exuberant things, and we should love

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children for that.

Speaker 13 (02:16:54):
I love children.

Speaker 2 (02:16:55):
Well, I don't know. I think a lot of people
want to just hit children and smack children, tell them off.

Speaker 13 (02:17:00):
No, no, I don't agree with that. I think they
do nowadays do what.

Speaker 2 (02:17:06):
I think.

Speaker 13 (02:17:06):
There's a lot of bullying and ill treatments children.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
They say, well, they's not children being whipped, not legally
being whipped and strapped and punished like they once were.
And even with my kids a number of times have
been in parks and stuff like that, we're interfering elderly people,
normally women have come around and told them off for
doing something, playing the wrong way, just not staying in
their lane. And it drives me crazy. There's people out

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there just looking to get involved in stuff which is
not that not their business. It's got to stop. Anyway,
enough said seven anyway from earthquake, I'm get in touch texts.
Charlotte needs counseling. She's horrible. Thank you for that. Thank

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you for making my Friday night for calling out the
crazy ladies. They needed to get off their high horse,
not chase someone with it. Peers didn't feel the earthquake
in Utucky. Oh wow, Marcus. That problem with kids riding
bikes on footpaths and pedestrian crossings in our little town
all the time. There's an article on the front page

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of our local rag in the last week, Well, kid
should be There should be bike claims for kids so
they're safe. That's the real problem is that we expect
children to cycle to work or to school, and we
haven't made it safe for them. We're putting children who

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should be allowed to bike to school on the same
roads as we put giant trucks and people in double
cabs yutes. So you know, we haven't really done much
to keep the kids safe. That's why I've refe your
kids cycle anymore because it's just so damn dandreous, so
damn dangerous. There sharing the road with trucks. Kathy didn't
feel the earthquake live. Thanks for that, Brendan. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (02:18:58):
Yeah, hey, yeah, good evening, Marcus. Yeah yeah, I'm in Wellington. Yeah,
and I am even received a notification. You know where
this earthquake was haunted.

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
It's a very light one. It's just four point seven
in or Tucky. Sorry, and I'll tell you where it is,
but it's not Yeah, it's it's way up in Tokarawa.
So I don't know that it would be. It's been
felt in Wellington if you look at the view map,
but it's not one you need a warning for.

Speaker 23 (02:19:31):
Oh I haven't thought nothing to night. But anyway, you
have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
Marcus YouTube Britain. Thank you for that. Fifteen to twelve,
thirteen to twelve, Dave Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (02:19:45):
Good, a good evening, Marcus. A little bit, a little
bit on pedistry and crossings, and then I'm going to
head a little bit on.

Speaker 17 (02:19:55):
Right with you.

Speaker 4 (02:19:57):
Well, I'm just wondering that my next question. I was
going to look up who Penlets are playing this week.

Speaker 2 (02:20:04):
But yeah, but you'll be one who watched the Black
Fans at the sixth of the morning.

Speaker 4 (02:20:09):
Hmm more interested in penrith.

Speaker 2 (02:20:11):
Yeah, hang on, it's going to nurl dot com and
I'll bring it up for you. The drawer they play
the bulldogs, So the drawers Raiders Sharks tomorrow at nine
point fifty Bulldogs Panthers Sunday six o five.

Speaker 4 (02:20:27):
Thank you now, of course stopping at a pedestrian crossings,
unless you're carring horses, which it seems you're entitled. And yet,
and now a little bit on our finance minister, who
perhaps seems to be under a bit of pressure, she
could consider advice from the likes of Stephen Joyce. Just

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consider perhaps because I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (02:20:52):
But Stephen Joyce wasn't Finance Minister English?

Speaker 6 (02:20:56):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (02:20:57):
Yeah, you're probably right. You've got a really good he's
got a very good head on his shoulders. And perhaps
even Bill English just consider advice. I think that's wise.

Speaker 2 (02:21:08):
Billing has took that huge money for that very quick
report that he did, which wasn't a good luck remember.

Speaker 4 (02:21:12):
That, Yeah, something of the funny.

Speaker 2 (02:21:15):
All the caring or a reporter selling all off the
houses or something that seemed to get paid half a
million dollars or some some amount that an account at
the cost of living crisis seemed exorbitant.

Speaker 4 (02:21:27):
And so Marcus, what happened was John Key? Why did
he e e vacuum? Why did he get out when
he did? I thought he were in a safe pair
of hands there he might have he.

Speaker 2 (02:21:39):
Might have found out. I mean, who knows what the
precius are. As a politician, you work the whole I mean,
he was someone that worked the whole time. I don't
know if Luckyon does because he's got no portfolios.

Speaker 4 (02:21:49):
So he wasn't. It wasn't a backhander from the Chinese.

Speaker 2 (02:21:55):
I wouldn't have thought so there. I wouldn't have thought.
So that would be my take on that one, Dave.
But yeah, gariots, you can't say stuff that's liveless gariots. Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 28 (02:22:08):
Can I just starting about racis cycle as a young
president in the nineteen eighties, Yes, and we did have
any of those green bicycle lanes. I was just a
young man, you know, six seven, and I've ever sidered,
I can ride. I was off, I was in the town,
and you know, I was weaving in and out of
main freight trucks and you know, but Condall Carriers t

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L Parker and I never helmet. I was just an
old blue HMX BMX bicycle. And I don't know what's
happened to the yesterday they all got a bit soft
or something about us.

Speaker 2 (02:22:43):
I identify with. I think what happened is I think
for a lot of people, they made them wear helmets,
and then their parents thought if you got to wear helmets,
it's unsafe, and they were discouraged from cycling.

Speaker 28 (02:22:54):
Yeah, I think you're right there, actually, yeah, because I
don't even wear a helmet to town, you know, just
just get out on the road of buckst it and
it was a good, good times.

Speaker 8 (02:23:03):
But that's all so I be. But Molly Coddall looked,
there's green by.

Speaker 28 (02:23:07):
The bicycle, laid little painted that sort of live awful
live green stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:23:12):
Oh that colored sand grit on them.

Speaker 8 (02:23:14):
Oh yeah, blight on the landscape. You're right, No, not
terrible to think of those green bicycles, blades, they just
spec upset.

Speaker 2 (02:23:28):
Triggered by green.

Speaker 5 (02:23:30):
Oh yeah, live green now on green all.

Speaker 24 (02:23:32):
It's the horrible stuff at it.

Speaker 8 (02:23:37):
Yeah, just terrible.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 24 (02:23:45):
What do you think I can do?

Speaker 2 (02:23:46):
Molley go?

Speaker 9 (02:23:47):
Gary?

Speaker 2 (02:23:47):
I wait, Trent eighty tady. Almost time for me to go.
People takes a couple more calls. If you want to
come through quickly, Oh I wait eighty twenty nine Text
Black Ferns six o'clock if you want to watch that.
It's on Sky. If you haven't got Sky, it's on
Free to Wear. It starts live, which I think is fair.

(02:24:09):
Gets through yourself to wait to about midnight to get
the matches from the last day, so they're not delaying it.
But there'll be ad breaks during it, so you know
what that means. It means that it'll take you two
hours to watch it when I'll take the other people
an hour and a half. I'm looking forward to it
seven away from twelve. He's a nice text. I was

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beaten at school and at home growing in the sixties
and seventies, bloody, terrifying, with nowhere safe to go. There
is a lot of neglect today and quite a lot
of helicopter parenting these days. But totally agree. Parents are
much more focused on being there for their kids today. Yeah,
i'd back that up. It's certainly what I think. I
wish you'd kept Charlotte on for re entertaining not in

(02:24:59):
our area, she said, I'm even listening for twenty five minutes, Marcus,
how entertaining. Those women need to take a chill pill.
She should have rung talkback, should have quietly taken the
horses with I was still get out of the fact
they have ten horses in a truck. They said, Hey,
it says the warning for anyone. If you've got kids

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with bikes, just be careful with them, you know. They
was the idea to teach them what to ride across crossings. AnyWho,
what do you want to say, Hamish? She might be
the last caller for the night.

Speaker 7 (02:25:31):
Hey, mate, can you hear me? Marcus?

Speaker 2 (02:25:33):
Yeah, a loud and clear receiving son.

Speaker 7 (02:25:35):
Well, I heard the last person who called up, and
they would sell it. They had an issue about the
bloody the bikes, mate, I've gone an issue with the
line scooters around town.

Speaker 4 (02:25:44):
Mate.

Speaker 7 (02:25:44):
They're just they're just bloody dangerous.

Speaker 2 (02:25:46):
What town are you in?

Speaker 26 (02:25:48):
I'm an awkward mate, really, yeah, because before COVID, right, yes,
all anyone could talk about was the live as scooter.

Speaker 2 (02:26:00):
As COVID came along when nearly all died, and then
everyone took it into perspective and now they quite like them.

Speaker 28 (02:26:04):
I think did.

Speaker 7 (02:26:06):
They're just far too dangerous markets. I've seen. I've seen
far too many accidents.

Speaker 19 (02:26:10):
Mate.

Speaker 7 (02:26:10):
So I worked just in town, just h just outside
the CBD, and I've seen I've seen far too many
businessmen fall over from victim to one of those beauty machines.

Speaker 15 (02:26:19):
Mate, we're about to do work, Oh like, I don't
want to disclose it on their markers.

Speaker 2 (02:26:25):
Really embarrassed a little bit. Yeah, well a you laughing
at me, that'll be embarrassed too. Oh mate, it worked now, Yeah,
nice to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:26:44):
That's that's when it comes to quicker.

Speaker 28 (02:26:45):
That's it for me.

Speaker 17 (02:26:47):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (02:26:48):
God less I get discussion on parentee jeepers or actually
we did though didn't we? I shall return and I
have been called what it was that one text I
got and I can't find it? What not a hobby
broadcast hobby parent Anyway, I should talk to you all

(02:27:12):
again to go to the black ferns and maybe sweeps
say they get in the final.

Speaker 1 (02:27:16):
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