Hanging off it day and night (1 December 2025)

Marcus talks changes for renters with pets, the problem with swimming in Auckland's harbour, and learns about a big change to the 018 Directory service!

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be greetings, Welcome people, work to the Welcome to
the first of deceb. It seems to fit a fairly
serious day night week in on the roads today also too,
I can tell you if you're coming down to North
from north in toto Walkland, there are disruptions State Highay one,
State Hiway sixteen at Welsford but every serious extent there too,
and children involved and they've taken to Starship. But that's

(00:33):
the situation for the corner. The road there is closed,
so State Hiway one between State Hiway sixteen and Davies Road.
I'll give you all the details. You've got the on
the spot information for me about that, let me know
and I'll keep advising you as I can know a
lot of people at this time and are driving, particularly

(00:54):
as it's coming into summer, but also particularly with truck
drivers and bus drivers and the like. So I'll do
what I can to keep you up to date with
what's going on. Tonight. As I go to NZTA, it
looks like they've changed their website. That might be pilot
era on that one, and I'll bring what I can
to you about what's going on with that. So any
other road closes, you've got to let me know. Eight

(01:16):
hundred and eighty to eighty and ninety. I just try
to see how long this is going to be closed
for a few are driving. We're just curious due to
a crash. State Hi one is closed being Davies Road
and State Highway sixteen in Welsford. Please follow short details
a short detour that'll be until further notice too. There's
also weather warnings. I gather well, I saw videos as

(01:41):
very heavy rain in Auckland on Sunday, saw video of
mountain and looking quite flooded. Not hearing any news stories
about that, but you look like it was more of
the same. And there is a severe weather update for today.
I think from ten pm this is an effect. A

(02:01):
severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for Northland. A band
of rain moves in from the north overnight. With this
rain is the chance of thunderstorms and short bursts bursts
of heavy rain tonight from ten be across that. Well,
I've got for you there, so yes, so it's all
on the North tonight anyway, get in touch with you

(02:22):
on talk MINEA miss Marcus welcome eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two de text. You
got to be a part of it. Anything goes as
the Monday free for all. But if you want to
talk on air tonight, that's the plan as we're going
to these last three weeks. I did watch the video
of Watson's store at the Ikea store. Don't know why.
I thought the dollar ninety nine hot dogs seemed fair.

(02:44):
I thought, Gee, some of those furnitured wholesalers like Harvey Norman,
it's right in their bread baskers and cheap couches. I thought.
I thought that's going to be interesting, probably good for
the consumers, I would have thought.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Anyway, there we go. That's a situation that all happens
on Thursday. The other thing that is of concern is
that more beaches are closed in Auckland because of the rain. Yeah,
so Herne Bay and other beaches in central Auckland are

(03:16):
closed because of that rain and the sewerage overflow. Thirteen
beaches marked black by Auckland Council on Monday, denoting a
wastewater overflow. What my question is to you, and I'm
really curious about that I'm not saying this in any
way that I'm not trying to say one way or

(03:37):
the other. I'm merely asking the question people out there
getting sick after swimming in the White Matar, is that
the situation with the sewage overflow it's making you unwell
or ill because, yeah, fortune needs to be spent. They've
never done proper separation or proper there's never been proper
plans for stormwater. They've got pipes that doesn't fit for purpose,

(04:00):
and as a result to the harbor would be filthier
than Sydney Harbor, which is more enclosed and not as
flush by the tide. So I'm curious to know if
you've ever got sex swimming in Auckland Harbor, all your
concerns about the contaminant what do they call the fecal contaminant? Yep,
But yeah, I know somebody. Yeah, not a great swimming

(04:22):
harbor or although the East Coast speeches are all right,
But I wonder if you've swum there how unwell it
has made you. I'm not I'm not saying the risk
is overblown. I don't know what the risk is. So
if you want to talk about that swimming the White
mantar be curious to know about that. How that's worked
out for you. The number is eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine to nine two text. I'm saying it robotic,

(04:45):
aren't I. Oh, but get in touch if you do
want to talk eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine two text. If you want to come through, yeah,
give them a go. Anyway, let's be hearing from you. Yeah,
Pete's Marcus. Good evening you A.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
I just thought I started a good topic for you
regarding now that the government's boarding and all about the
bringing in whatever regarding you have to allow hats be
brought into your rental properties. I don't agree to that.
They go on about getting all the red tape and
all this and don't interfeir people's business like the farmers

(05:29):
far as I'm concerned. If you've got rental properties, that
is your business. What does he give them their right
to say that you? And now I have to allow
people with pets. A few of the landlords I know myself.
I've been able to sees a few times and renting
my house out and I had one lady there. I
never had a cat. Next week she brings two cats
and they ripped me curtains and all that. They go

(05:51):
on about two weeks was it two weeks bond? That
is nothing and you can spend fifteen twenty thousand dollars
if they have to replace the carpet and that sort
of thing. I reckon that's wrong with David Seymour's pushing
a bit one eyed as far as I'm going. Said
on that one.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, it'd kind of a figs. I thought it was
Chris Bishop that's passed that law.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Well, I reckon it's wrong.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I just want to sell with the fact. I think
it's the Housing Minister, Chris Bishop that's announced that that's
coming today, right.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yeah, And I think David Seymour's behind her. I thought
he had more sense than that people given the business.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, I haven't seen I've always seen Chris Bishop been mentioned.
Maybe you're right.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Two weeks bond goes Nowhere.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
They say sixty seven percent if people have pets, so
they want to live somewhere, so they should be able
to find places to go. Wouldn't you say, Ah, they
have a right.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
But it's also the landlord was right to make that decision,
you know, And I reckon What they should be doing
is flag the two weeks bond. I'll let you have
a cat in here my rental property for you. But
whatever damage amounts to for the amount of damage that's caused,

(07:05):
if your carpetal or whatever, you have to pay the
total replacement barely of equivalent to what's there. Now.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Appreciate that, pete, thanks so much. You might want to
talk pet bonds. How that's going to work for you,
What it means if you are a landlord, it comes
into effect for today. It's not something that affects me.
But that's not doesn't mean we can't talk about it. Yeah,
if a tenant wants to start keeping a pet after
the first December, they must request a pet consent, but

(07:35):
the landlord has to approve. If the landlord approves, they
can set certain conditions in ten has to meet, for example,
to pay a pet bond. If the landlord declines, they
must have a valid reason. I don't know what the
valid reason is. It begets complicated because you actually gotta
also work out what is a pet and that's complicated. Yeah,

(07:59):
so yeah, you might have some discussion of that. Oh
WA eight hundred and eighty today also I'm talking about
swimming and Auckland. If anyone's got so with that, that's
something's happening to I. There's something else you want to
talk about tonight. Also to feel free, come through it's Monday,
woo and be in touch. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine to detext. The basketball

(08:20):
is currently on its close four minutes fifteen second left
in the third quarter of New Zealand. It's fifty Australia
fifty three, fifty fifty three. Looking forward to your input tonight.
As we go through till twelve. I see some of
the Christmas parades have gone. They seem to have gone
quite well despite the weather and the likes. I guess

(08:45):
that's a good thing. I don't know how the war
on the Asian hornets going. It's recomplicated to work out
how if they're having much success with that or not.
They've got a lot of traps, and I'd imagine by
the number of traps they've got it's not going so well.
They've found seventeen there's seven workers in twenty seven queens
in Glenfield and Birkdale. It's always the north Shore. They

(09:09):
could be eating hornets back at you're sixteen past eight.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Clean.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
This is Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Hey Marcus. It's always intrigued me because I don't live
in Auckland, but every time it rains you hear about
how the sewage and all that and effluence is filling
out into the harbor. And like when you build a
house or a building or a factory or a high rise,
you've got sewer the pipe for flushing tallets and sphinx

(09:39):
and everything, and it goes into a pipe and then
it will go down into a pipe on out of
the road, and then it'll go to the treatment station
and get treated with whatever have they do that. And
also you would also have spouting or guttering which is
storm water which then goes down a down pipe into

(10:01):
the stormwater drain and then that would go out to
the gutter on the road or and then that would
go down to a creek into a stream or whatever.
And that's fresh, it's fresh rainwater and goes out to
the ocean eventually, I would imagine. But it amazes why is
it when it rained that sewage or effluent ends up

(10:25):
and goes does it go down the storm water pipes
that you know obviously someone checked that when they got
put in that this is stormwater, and the other ones
they checked them that sewage. So how does it every
time it rains? Why does all that effluent end up
down there? I just thought that the pipework keeps them separate,
you know, seward goes to the place where they treat it,

(10:48):
and stormwater goes to the gutter, to a stream, to
a river into the ocean. How do they get How
does it just because it rains? Does it mean that?
I just can't work it out? But no one's ever
explained that. Can Do you know the answer? Or does
someone else?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I think? I think I'm vaguely aware of it from
my understanding, and someone I'm sure will be more involved
with it than I am. That because Auckland's population is
growing so quickly that the sewerage system they have got
has been under funded and it's not big enough to

(11:25):
cope with the amount of deluge they get when it rains.
So what happens is the sewerage overflows and goes out.
That's what happened, that the storm water the sewage get
mixed up.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
I think I can sort of kind of work there yet,
But effort's not raining, then there's no stormwater. Well, there's
no rainwater, but the sewage doesn't overflow. But when it's raining,
it gets inundated. But the rainwater and the sewage systems

(11:56):
of secret.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Aren't they Yeah, but they can't cope. I don't think.
I don't yet.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
Look, but it doesn't It shouldn't matter if it's raining
or not. To flush the toilet and you you know
your post, go down the thing and go to the
storm water that's still going to pie down to the
get treated. That's still going to that will go down
to the treatment station, whether it's raining or whether it's not.

(12:23):
With me, there are two separate lots of pipes. There's
a stormwater pipe for rain water, and there's and which
would be shouldn't be leaking because they test them when
they put them in. And there's the other parts which
are sewage pipes which should be tested to make sure
they don't leak, and they go to the treatment statement,
to treatment plant to get treated. So just because it rains,

(12:48):
it doesn't mean to say when you flush your toilet,
that doesn't go to the treatment station. They still goes
to the treatment station.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
Surely, no, I think.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
There's an overflow where it doesn't get treated. But yeah,
I don't know that. I don't know the mechanism for that,
that what happens with that, but someone might know. It's
probably important that we work out what As we discussed this,
I'll try and find out.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
See John at rains. Okay, cheers Marcus.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
But yeah, yeah, And I just think it's about underfunding
and about Paul planning, and it's going to cost billions
to fix. But I don't but you make a good point.
I don't know exactly what needs to be fixed.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yeah, Okay, Well, I just putting it ately right now.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's a fair question if we're can to help. Well,
if you can talk to them about what's wrong with
the Auckland situation with the Auckland sewerage and storm water,
I would like to hear about that. The number is
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
to the text. You've got something to say about that,
And that's what we are talking about tonight, Antonio. It's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
Good evening, good eating, Marcus. Oh yeah, I just want
to talk about the swimming and the harbor down as
the open beaches in the waterfront I'll swum down at
Koe Murrama quite a lot, not not all the time.
But I've never got sick down here.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Have you have you swum after? Have you swim after
heavy rain?

Speaker 7 (14:02):
Oh? But uh, there are warnings pot up on that,
but I still know people who have done it and
they haven't got sick.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Yeah, because I guess the tide. The tide does flush.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
But yeah, and sometimes I don't sure how current those
readings are anyway, Oh, I think they would be quite scientific.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I think they quite vigilantly take water samples after. Still,
I think there is science thrown at that.

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's true. But the tide, Yeah, like
it might be a little bit it's not like sometimes
not really clear water, but it's sometimes you can't help,
but like you know, it's just swimming out there a
little bit, swallow the odd bit of water, but it's
I've never I might have got a bit of a

(14:48):
saw stomach from this, just the salt water, but never
really got sick. And but yeah, I don't really go
in and straight after it's been raining a lot of
heavy rain. But you know, I know people who do it.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, well I guess I guess say it seems to
be the summer, but I guess it's only the sum
with people swim Antonio.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
We're swimming every morning.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
We're swimming today.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
Oh no, no, I haven't, but I'll go on Thursday.
Or there's there's a swim series down there, and I do.
I've entered a few of those races.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
There's people that are down there every day, aren't there.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
There's swimming down there in the mornings and the yeah,
like sometimes and there's a group of people who are
there every morning, you know, more than one group actually,
And yeah, they're good people. Actually they know the beach,
not not just co either might be Saint Hell he
is or other beaches Mission bay On. But and also

(15:48):
I just comment about the previous caller. He said the
storm wader and the sewage are separate, but I think
in the old house, older days, they were combined.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I think I think it's about old infrastructure.

Speaker 7 (16:04):
Old infrastructure. Yeah. And that was that leak, that big
problem they had up in Parnell where they there was
a massive problem they had but where it was was
overflowing daily into the harbor and they fixed it. There
was a massive, massive pipe that leaked Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Anyway, Look, I know according to chat GPT, if you
say what's wrong with Auckland's water, it says auckland stormwater
system faces problems to you to have been outdated, overwhelmed
by intense rainfall and having separate systems combined in older
areas leading to flooding and polluting. So it seems like
in older areas that storm water and sewerage is combined.

(16:48):
It says the old system was not designed for modern
rainfall intensity and the combined wastewater and stormwater pipes and
older parts of see frequently overflow. So yeah, what would
happen is is a lot more of the imperiable surface
now of a lot more housing, a lot more concrete
driveways and things, so the water wouldn't seep into the ground,

(17:08):
most of it would go into the drains, and they're
just overwhelmed. I think that's the answer. Hello, Carlott's Marcus
good evening.

Speaker 8 (17:15):
Good evening. Yes, a lot of the problem with the
Auckland's sort of storm water and sewage system is the
fact a lot of it went tonight fifty sixty years
ago and it was designed for one house per section.
But of course now before these apartment complex is going
and where you got anything from four to six houses

(17:36):
per site. It's the whole infrastructure just can't cope with it.
And that's always been one of the problems with this
obsession with building upwards instead of expanding or outwards, because
they just haven't updated the storm water, wastewater and your

(17:56):
main water supply to cope before these extra houses going in.
And it seems like they've got the attitude of out
of sight, out of mind. And also it's like often
when they get a break in the water pipe and
they report it to them, it can take them months

(18:16):
to actually fix it. And because I member a couple
of years ago when they had a water crisis, they
wanted just to conserve water and we've been reporting for
months about this broken pipe across the street and it
took them months before we actually got it through to
them that there's a broken pipe and they fixed it.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, I think what they've all agreed on is to
get the Auckland sewage and stormwater fixed. It's going to
cost billions of dollars. It's you know, it's really underbelt
and I think it's quite a it's probably quite a
major thing to do, because you've got to go underneath
people's houses and stuff to put in the new pipes
and things. It's quite a big deal. So, but it

(18:56):
also seems like the current situation with with the beach
has been closed all the time is crazy that. I mean,
they can't be allowed to continue.

Speaker 8 (19:04):
Yeah, but it almost seems like they've got to expand
awkward outwards, not upwards, and that they can put all
the new infrastructure and while there's no houses in the way,
and they can make anything big enough to allow for expansion.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
I've got to go for headlines, Carvert, thanks so much
for that. We can talk vaping also too. I think
the headline for that was the vape the vaping rates
for youth have harved. And boy Boy sensed that I
seen a number of years ago there was hysteria around
around vaping, benning children from school, toilets, all sorts of things,

(19:43):
and yeah, it just disappeared, and I sensed at the
time that was going to happen. I'm reheartened by the
fact that it has. I got no idea why now
we just got to get rid of the vape shops
because I want to. I don't want to tell people
they can and can't do, but they do seem to
be block that. They seem to have very unexciting shops

(20:05):
in your retail area. Se you might want to talk
about that as well, if you've got something to say
about that, they'd be good to hear from you. Eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to
the text Hittle, twelve o'clock. Looking forward to what you've
got to say. Also talking about the pipes. I'll get
to the texts. But ye, I don't know if any
other place in New Zealand where the well I guess

(20:25):
there's no I mean harbors more difficult than the coast,
because you've got to have them flushed out, don't you.
I don't know if Wellington or Otago or Lyttleton are
experienced the same problem they have an Auckland, and Auckland
seems to be terrible as far as contamination goes. Hi, Marcus,

(20:49):
they have just about finished a major pipe installation from
Herne Bay to Marngari which will solve the overspillers. Your
good information. Thank you for that. Someone says a lot
of the older inner city houses had water from the
roofs were rooted into the sewerage system routed catchment went
to storm water. So I guess that means when it rains,

(21:11):
it gets over it gets over it just gets overwhelmed,
and there must be overflow areas for the sewerage when
it does get overwhelmed. I think that's the way it goes.
Someone says, not just raw sewage in any of the
ocean's pollutings from the roads, such as rubber from tires

(21:33):
and oils. Marcus. The reason the sewage overflows in the
rain is because older parts of Auckland pondserby the CBD
and other places are not separate system. It's a combined system,
so both wastewater and stormwater go into the same pipe.
So when it's raining, it runs out of capacity and overflows. Yes,

(21:56):
and some of those beaches too. I mean I grew
up there. You'd never sort of swim in those beaches
west of the Harbor. I know that a great deal
of work on Points Sheep and places like that, but
you'd pick your day. Also, always amaze how bad Wayhiki's
affected quite off. I don't know whether that's from septic
tanks or what's going on there, but often beaches are
closed or not closed. Rather there are warnings not to swim.

(22:20):
There cross connections or legal connections of broken pipes, lots
of rainwowd ends up going to the sewer treatment plant
which gets overloaded. That's from Pete anyway, Oh my god,
Pete Ringing regarding pets and rental properties. He must be
joking as a landlord. I would rather have people with pets.

(22:40):
Animals are so much cleaner than people. What a cheek
Look at the student rentals they trash properties. Get a
live fit of still Pete, get a pet that would
You'd be surprised how clean animals are to people. That's
from Chris Marcus. The central interceptor has almost finished a
billion I think from memory light at the end of

(23:01):
the tunnel for overflows Marcus. How come farmers get fired
from forty thousand for first effluent discharge offense to one
hundreds of thousands of second or third defence And this
happens to Auckland beaches every year when this heavy rain.
No heavy rain is not a bitigating farmer and sitting
factor and sitting fines for farmers. If you want a comedy,

(23:23):
it's twenty five to nine. The number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two de dicks,
looking forward to what you've got to say? We're talking.
I just want to accuset everyone's ever got sex swimming
at Auckland beaches and sometimes the beaches do I mean?
Sometimes the beaches smell of sewerage. I think that's fair

(23:44):
to say. And that's just after the rain.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Some since.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I was watching an ITV and news clip a couple
of days ago. They interviewed a man who had lost
his grandparents and brother in the air in their crash.
When they returned the dead bodies, term they were the
wrong people. I guess that happens, doesn't it unfortunate? But
that's the thing. No word yet what's caused that? I
don't think.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
Don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Let me just look for a date. How long ago
that was? It was the twelfth of June twenty twenty five,
so just coming up for six months July, August, September, October, November. Yeah,

(24:35):
so coming up to six months, so it seems like
a lot longer than that. Twenty four away from nine.
Looking forward to your calls basketball news, I only head
by four hundred five minutes left to go, seventy sixty
six four forty five left. Aaron, this is Marcus. Welcome, Hey,
May how are you good eron?

Speaker 6 (24:55):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (24:56):
I was listening before in my drive home about the
gentleman that brought up about got the sewerage and in
the storm water mixing up. My big question is, like
most most people our age, I'm a taxpayer and a
rates payer, and you know, our rights keep skyrocketing. You know,
why is this happening? You know, someone needs to needs

(25:17):
to be asking pretty hard for the powers to be
that we pay enough for our infrastructure. Why is this happening.
It shouldn't be happening. Yeah, und today's society, you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
I think I can answer that, Aaron, yep. I think
that through the rates right, rate payers have never have
never made have never paid enough. Because councils work on
a three year term and always want to be re elected,
They've kept spending in maintenance too a low, and the

(25:54):
water and the sewage and the stormwater have been severely underfunded.
And that's why in the next ten to fifteen years
it looks like rates will go up to just get
all the maintenance done hundred years until needs to be done.
So I think if you look around probably most cities
in New Zealand, the water system, the three waters if

(26:16):
you like, is not really fit for purpose.

Speaker 9 (26:20):
Oh yeah, I completely agree with that. But if we
go backwards down the timeline, instead of having all these
councils subcontracting everything, I'm a contract engineer, and instead of
having the council subcontract and everything, we used to have
the Ministry at works. And yeah, I know, going back
and sign there wasn't that amount of feotball that there

(26:41):
is today. But our infrastructure was maintained properly. The roads
were maintained, so store water, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
I don't think the sewers were maintained. I think if
you look at the situation with the need and rusty
pipes and stuff like that, I think out of sight,
out of mind, they just thought they're going to go
forever and haven't really kept the maintenance schedule going properly.

Speaker 9 (27:00):
Well, I really do think that the councilors need to
be how to task because you know, we look at
all clans at South and you look at the amount
of money that comes in from rates going into the council,
and you know, councils going putting up a one million
dollar Christmas tree at the bottom of Queen Street. I

(27:21):
think that is absolutely ridiculous that money should.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Be and the terms and the ones that played by
the Christmas tree played by the in a city in
the city retailer groups.

Speaker 9 (27:36):
No, no, there's a small portion of that fund and
the rest is buy ours.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I mean text players are rate players, right players?

Speaker 3 (27:45):
Sorry? Great players?

Speaker 9 (27:49):
Yeah, yeah, I really do think that the councils need
to be how to task.

Speaker 10 (27:56):
You know, they're they're they're the ones.

Speaker 9 (27:59):
I've got one of my staffs and apprentice boys. Yeah,
they've built a brand new house and all the rest
of it. And I went around there while the building
spit was here, and you know, I said.

Speaker 11 (28:12):
The build fire.

Speaker 9 (28:13):
I said, okay, they've put flash new pipes from this
and it's all going into the standard stormwater and sewer
his wate systems. I said, you know, I said, when's
that going to be upgraded? And he looked at me
and he says, not really my problem. You know, all
these all these people are signing, signing stuff off, saying

(28:36):
yeah it's all good. Well, who's going to be helped
fast for maintaining the rest of the stuff down the street.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
But I think probably what's actually happened is the rates.
The councils have underfunded the pipes for years and years
and years, and that's because they were scared of putting
the rates up to maintain them, because I knew if
they asked for more rates, they'd get voted out of council.
So people have wanted always done on the cheap. Because
people wanted cheap rates, they've had cheap rates, and as

(29:03):
a result, they've got cheap water, they've got cheap pipes,
and they're not working. And that's why there's going to
be a huge amount of money to spend in the
next few years to get them up to code or
up to scratch. So this is not a good news story.
Rate to're about to go up?

Speaker 9 (29:18):
Yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Maybe, but you know, I don't know what the Maybe
that needs to be more expensive houses, I don't know
what happens with that. Seventeen away from nine. If you
want to get in touch, he until twelve. Keep your
texts coming through. You see it's still head by four
three minutes, just over three minutes left to go on
that seventeen to nine. I'll get to the text before
too Long fourteen to nine, Renee, it's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (29:43):
Good evening morning, Marcus is Renee.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
How are you.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Evening?

Speaker 12 (29:49):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, no worries. I've got a pushback on that.
Your last caller was I feel pretty spot on Christmas Tree.
Rate payers pain for that. That's not a nesses needed
you head the Wellington mayor now she's gone, that felt
that million dollar tallt didn't need to be built, or
could have been built at a cheaper price. It's the

(30:11):
nice to have that we don't need. It's the flesh
aft cycle ways that are.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Millions And I'm just I'm just going to say, I'm
just going to say, rene, with that Christmas tree, if
it's eight hundred thousand, the council is given that probably
wouldn't even make up point one percent of what would
be the council speed dig for the year. That the
amount in gyms of the billions of budget that they've
got is absolutely tiny. So these things become the flesh

(30:37):
point things for consumed ratepayers.

Speaker 12 (30:41):
But they yeah, communal as when it keeps building up the.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah but but but but.

Speaker 12 (30:49):
Cumulatives, Yeah, accumulating, So there's one cost and then you
have another cost on top of that for something that
shouldn't have been done, and then another cost on top
of that that didn't need to be done. So then
you're looking at the millions, if not the billions of
you accumulate it and the ye.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
But this is the Christmas trees and your toilets and
the scheme of things are small change. What's the situation
is is the pipes have been underfunded because they wanted
to put the rates out.

Speaker 12 (31:15):
They haven't. They haven't been underfunded, they haven't had but
they haven't put the funds in the right place.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Mark, No, that's not true.

Speaker 12 (31:21):
That was running for the cargo. Well, I think you're
just trying to defend something that doesn't need that, that
is actually undefendable. You you're trying to defend it there
when it's actually if you deep down burrow into it,
the money has been allocated to where it should be going.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Okay, well I disagree with you.

Speaker 12 (31:40):
Yeah, And that's why I'm running here because I don't
agree with you as well, because it is if you,
if you actually look at it, why is the piping
not being done because they're not putting the money into
the point.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
No, No, that's not that's not the way it works.

Speaker 12 (31:55):
So we're about to you, Marcus. You're in Cargo, are you?

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (32:00):
So how many houses are there in in Vericago? Just
a rough ball part toge how many houses do you
think there are an InCAR.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
I could tell you.

Speaker 12 (32:12):
And then you average that out for each rate that
that house pays per year, and then you work out
how much that council is bringing in per year for
those rates. You can't tell me that they don't have
the money to be able to fund the piping. If
you look at it in Wellington, you look at it
and crist you're looking into it in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Yeah, I mean you can ask you can you can
ask anyone. But that's that's why the that's why there
is such a situation is because it's all been underfunded.
And that's not because they're funded. That's not because they've
funded Christmas trees. It's because the amount is much much
more they've underfunded to the terms of billions of dollars.

Speaker 12 (32:52):
Well, that's where you come back to accumulative Just it's
not just the Christmas tree, it's the other stuff on
top of that that I said that makes it come
into the millions, if not over ten tens of millions
because it's the stuff that I mean, I'm not against
the Christmas tree, don't get.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Me wrong, and I'm I'm not going to convince. I'd
have to sit you down and show you the whole
council budgets and how they work and what the situation is.
But it's not the forum for that. But I mean
everything that's considered it counsel they look at what impact
it has on rates and the situation. You know that
these yeah, And.

Speaker 12 (33:25):
I don't think they do because it's not their money
you spending, it's the rate payers money.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
And renee, renee, renee. I'll tell you they do because
I've sad it council. That's exactly what they do. They
look at the impact on rates and that's literally the
whole process what that involves. And if you go and
look at your council minutes where are you.

Speaker 12 (33:46):
In Auckland, No, I'm Christio.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
If you look at your council minutes, they're available on
your website and look at them, and each funding decision
will have how much the impact on rates is and
all that stuff will be there and go and look
at it all there. If you look at it you'll
see that those decisions are exactly like you've said they will.
They look at the impact on each person as far
as rates goes, so you don't get caught up on

(34:10):
the on the thing that all the talks about, the
rainbow crossings and the Christmas trees, because yeah, it's a
bad look, but in terms of the actual total revenue,
it's a small part of it. Nine away from nine O.
So also curious if anyone's got six swim. That's kind
of what I'm really interested into. And the other question too,

(34:31):
which I'm fascinated by, and I kind of thought that
was what was going to happen. Vaping hasn't caught on,
and what a fantastic thing that is. The tobacco companies
thought they're going to pivot into vaping and it seems
to have been a trend, and just that not one
that's been sustainable. So yeah, nothing cool about vaping and

(34:56):
was big there for a while and dropped off very
very quickly because a lot of paranoia around it, which
I thought perhaps might be misplaced. It's kind of just
quietly gone away nine from nine. It's just that we
haven't been focusing on the basketball because I've been engaged

(35:17):
to the talk. I think it's seventy five, seventy four
with less than a minute to go. It's time out
at the moment, So I despair about this. It could
look looks like we could be losing a match that
we could when this is New Zealand ahead. This is
basketball for the qualifications to the Basketball World Cup. So
Australia won the first one and the second match is
about to conclude. Hopefully we'll win this. I'll keep you

(35:39):
hopefully it'll be. It will be concluded before the news
five away from nine. Very keen to talk vaping and
swimming in the white material if it's made you sick,
if you want to talk about that also too. I
don't want to get into into fights about the rates,
because oh we can. But I think there's probably a

(35:59):
fair amount of misinformation around there. But that's fine, that's
what people want to believe. But yeah, I think there's
probably deeper issues there involved. But do get through if
you want to come through eight hundred eighty eight, get
to the texts nine two nine. So if you do
want to text, I'll get the basketball school and it's happening.

(36:21):
It's a oh that's a disaster for skyund sounds like
the coverage has ended and the game's still going. This
is like a total failure for Sky. If that's the case,
let me know, because that's a disaster. So we can't
see what the result is. That happens so often with
Sky it feels like there's no one there in the
office monitoring it. I'm looking at Sky sixty now and

(36:46):
it's got someone rowing across the ocean. If you've got
any live score for me, Dan, that's there? How long
lift to go? Okay, try and find out where it is?

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Okay?

Speaker 11 (37:07):
Ugh?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Sky crazy? So I have no idea what happened to
the basketball. It appears that we've lost. I think looking
at a live school that I've seen, but I don't
know what happened to that match because the coverage on
Sky stopped. I've found something online that says the score
was seventy nine, seventy seven to Australa. Is that what
you've got, Dan? And no reason why it stopped on
the ESPN. That's crazy. It wouldn't happen with the All Blacks.

(37:30):
But there we go. A few wants to speak about
that if they're watching it or saw the end of it.
I don't know if anyone who means to see the
end of it do come through eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine to detext Marcus Sky said.
He convention said it will launched its grand opening on
eleventh February twenty sixth. The following month of March eighties
hobe we launched the brand new underground rail loop. Kiwis

(37:51):
and Auclers arelike love to give things nicknames, So any
ideas what we could call Auckland's underground train round about. Oh,
by the way, I think it's the second half of
twenty twenty six. I think it's opened in March. I
think it's going to be opening later on in the year.
That's the latest information I have got. So that's a
situation there. But sky City, I mean that was amazing.

(38:11):
That was the one that the convention it was supposed
to opin. It burnt most delayed. It must have been
four or five years ago. Was that fire?

Speaker 13 (38:16):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Marcus? The Central Intercept was a huge project that will
make a huge difference to heavy weather overflow. It runs
sixteen point two kilometers from point Erin in the southern
foot of the Orkland Harbor Bridge through to the marng
Andy Water Treatment Center. One point six billion dollar project
in the tunnel up to one hundred and ten meters
beneath the orcan Isthmus has been six years in the building.
The entire length will be operational by the middle of

(38:41):
next year. It will carry a mix of waste and
stormwater has a design life of one hundred years. The
pipe is concrete with a three millimeters plastic liner that
will stop the naturally acidic waste water from corroding the concrete.
Quite the project and stopping wastewater overflows at the Waitemata
Harbor is one of its primary objectives. Marcus, I'm a

(39:02):
very long term vapor. I would be able to give
you a jinger when I finished work at eleven o'clock.
I'm just nipping out for the last break of the
day and get a quick and dirty vapor. Anyway, do
doo doo A good pace A good case in point.
Levin's stormwater system cannot cope with a cold not cope,

(39:23):
and this causes surface flooding in some areas in the
west of town. A new two thousand plus house development
has been planned for the east of town stormwater and
sewerage system runs east to west. There has been no
mention of plan to increase pipe size and capacity in
the existing system to carry the increased load to the
west for processing and discharge. They have increased the size

(39:45):
of a failed pipe to the head of the sewage
treatment planet of planned to add another tank in the plant.
Peter from Levin, my friend Connor used to smoke three
cigarettes per day and he switched to vaping, and now
he doesn't take the thing out of his mouth sun
up to sundown. Marcus at last, goa. I think that's
Renee had no idea. People on everything all at once.

(40:05):
Imagine if councils did pipes all at once every where,
people would complain about all the roadworks. Who Now, what
I want to talk about is vaping because three years
ago there was vaping hysteria because what happened, I think
is their tobacco companies found that not only was evaping

(40:29):
a good smoking cessation device, they could actually get the
kids hooked. And yeah, for a while there everyone was
smoking at But like a lot of things happen with
I mean, children are very prone to trends, but they're
also very prone to give up trends, and that seems
to have been what happened with vaping. Despite most of
the vapes that they smoked contain nicotine, it seems as

(40:54):
though the power of the addiction was not strong enough
to take hold on all of them, and the rate
of vaping has halved. And that's something we should be
very very happy about because often we don't hear I mean,
often we get ourselves in a panic about how bad
things are. We don't celebrate when in fact they haven't
been as bad as they seem they were going to be.
So Yeah, if you are involved in the youth vaping,

(41:14):
you've got kids or grandkids, what happened with that? Because
you talk about schools and schools and having to block
having to shut down toilets, and because they're going to
vape during the school it just doesn't seem to have
become the big problem that it was. So youth vaping

(41:35):
is hard within two years and hardly anyone is smoking.
A survey of more than thirty thousand New Zealanders that's
a good sample side a seven more than thirty thousand
year ten students indicate the perception of vaping is changing.
The number of teenagers who've vaped regularly once a month
and more had tripled between twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one,

(42:00):
peaking at twenty percent twenty point two percent, but the
latest Action on Smoking and a Health survey has found
the number has since then. Vaping is not as cool
as it used to be. Chairperson emeritus Professor Robert Bigelholdt
said the number of teenagers who vape on a daily
basis dropped to seven percent, down from a peak vape

(42:20):
of ten point one percent and twenty twenty two, and
fewer than a third had ever tried vaping, which is
great news. He believed regulations had also made an impact.
Vaping products were arrietly available for teenagers until twenty twenty,
when the government banned the sales of those under eighteen,
but feared that overregulation could push people back to smoking.

(42:43):
It says vaping helps out old smokers quit and as
much much less harmful, much much less harmful than smoking.
Bagel hold said the country was raising a smoke free generation,
with a negligible number about one percent of young people
smoking on a daily basis since twenty twenty one. This
is a major global success which we should be celebrating
we are leading the way. Youth smoking has almost disappeared,

(43:07):
and vaping continues to fall. I think some people have
started going to that oral nicotine products, that sort of
that stuff you get from Sweden that you put in
your mouth. Anyway, if you want to talk about averreckon
to talk about vaping tonight. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine two detext What happened with your children?

(43:27):
Why did they decide it was not the thing to do?
Was it too much of a hassle to buy? Was
it considered unsafe? What happened with it? That would be
of interest to me? Get in touch here till twelve.
If you want to talk about that, oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two de text
you want to be a part of it. Also talk
about swimming in the way to Baitar Harbor and if

(43:48):
anybody ever got sick with that? So you get in touch. Yeah,
And I don't know if anyone knew what happened without
basketball on Sky TV. That was crazy.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
I see they come back on for the poster analysis,
but they missed the end of the match. I don't
know if anyone's seen that or anyone I don't know
where people would be complaining about that online. I'm looking
forward to reading that, but you get in touch, you
want to talk on here eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine two de text looking forward to what
you want to say. Also, the situation day with pitts

(44:27):
and landlords, the law changes today. I'm not fully of fad.
It's quite complicated. You might know more about that. I
don't know too much about it. But if it's affected
you as a landlord or a pet owner, be in touch,
if you want to come through, that would be good.
That would be good. I see speaking of big cities

(44:55):
having problems, I see christ Church massive problems with transportation,
and I've always thought that was the problem with the
rebuild after the quake, that did everything right apart from
a rapid transportation system which they neglected. And we're hearing
more and more stories about how the transport there is very,
very bad, with kind of traffic build up and blockage

(45:18):
every day and no plans or no solutions for it.
So obviously people are saying the future is Rael, Well,
that would be much more appeal to me than a
train from Invcago to Christ Judge would be getting getting
Christ chich short because you want to talk about that
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine to
text Hittle twelve. If you got to be a part
of it and vaping, why the youth fell out of

(45:38):
love with it? Maybe it's just not very good. Although
I know that people in the older age group that
are given up smoking for vaping, man a man, do
they love sucking that thing? Hanging off at day and night?
Really going to suck it the whole time to get
the same kind of effect. Yeah, blah blah blah. Here

(45:58):
to the end, hit on, but not looking forward to
what you've got to say. There's some big Trump story
about as the MRI scam. It don't know too much
about that. Look into that. Are you being this is
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 10 (46:11):
You get a Marcus through. I spoke since I was fifteen,
started baking about three years ago, and I gave it
up probably about six months ago.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Well done you, Yeah, that's a big deal. You're off it, mate,
You're off it. You're free.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
Yeah yeah, Well look, I'll be honest. I'm on a
Friday night after work, a few drinks, I do have
a couple of cigarettes, but it's only when I'm drinking.
Apart from that, I don't smoke or vaping more.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Where are you getting those cigarettes that you're doing on
a Friday?

Speaker 10 (46:48):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Where are you getting them? Are you going to buy
a peck just for that Friday night? Are you cadging
off someone else?

Speaker 10 (46:57):
You've got a pick it that lives in the glob.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Box, You've got a secret You've got a secret stash.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
Yeah, but they sit there and you know, it's just
like drinking end in hand. Was smoking normally?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Is your mount from your secret stairs? You're smoking each
session going up?

Speaker 10 (47:14):
No, I would say I might, you know it might
have a half a dozen cigarettes on a Friday night
at the pub. And it's about I reckon.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
That's risky, m nisky being I reckon, that's I reckon.
That's I don't know if I'm happy about that.

Speaker 10 (47:26):
Well, it beats a peck of the day, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
You know where they are. What happens if you get
a tough day at the office and you know they're
in the glove box.

Speaker 10 (47:34):
I haven't been tempted to grab them yet. I just
don't feel the urge. They have one but when I'm drinking,
everyone else seems to be having one, So that's when
it's when the issue arises.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
We're clear not drinking in a pub. Are you you
drinking in a garage?

Speaker 3 (47:48):
No?

Speaker 10 (47:48):
No, no, we drink at the pub. But you just
smoke outside in the smoking area.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Doesn't that put you off? Was it quite a pleasant.

Speaker 10 (47:57):
Smoking areas just because everyone's doing it. It's more of
a social thing, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Yeah, okay, it is. It is your cohort vaping or
they're all smoking out there in the smoking area.

Speaker 10 (48:08):
To be honest, I've actually seen quite a few of
them that we're beeping, then they've actually gone back to smoking.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Vaping doesn't do it all right. I'd rather you are
vaping on your Friday drinks. Pretty way. Been nice to
talk to. Thank you. Hello, Bruce, This is Marcus. Good evening, Yeah, but.

Speaker 11 (48:24):
Evening Market really love your show. Just a couple, well,
a couple of things I want to talk about. Firstly,
the vaping I live in. I live in the Far
North and I don't with our young people. I don't
see any any decline of them stuffing on their vapes.
You know, all ages, all ages are doing it. And

(48:46):
it's maybe the education is just you know, maybe the
message is getting through to the big centers.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yeah, good point.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
Where there's probably, but you know, in where I am,
there's you know, kids are vaping. Everyone's vaping.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
It's just.

Speaker 11 (49:02):
In the tragedy. I see, as we almost had cigarettes not.

Speaker 9 (49:06):
On the head.

Speaker 11 (49:07):
They were uncool, that's right, they stunk, And for some
reason we went these and we went to vapes. And
now we've got these kids breeding fumes and the lungs again,
which is just the biggest belief. How how we could
go from almost eradicating smoking, which you know, which is
a big ask, and then substituting it with vaping. It's

(49:29):
to me, it's just a no brainer.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Yeah, well that could have been a lot worse. You know,
vaping could have come along because his marketing a particularly America.
If they had those things called jewels j u u
well s, it really took America by storm. But even there,
I think they have it. It hasn't really taken you know,
it was all the trend there for a while, but
they've stopped with it.

Speaker 14 (49:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (49:51):
Well let's hope.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Let's hope.

Speaker 11 (49:53):
So it's you know, I wonder what the next next
thing is going to be that the kids are going
to pick up because you know, they're pretty addicted to
the sort of a hand mouth sort of hand you know, gadgets, devices,
that sort of thing. You know, that's I think it's
a lot that space with this one. But the good
news is that it's on the day climb well.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Great using youth makings down to one percent, that's phenomenal.

Speaker 9 (50:15):
Yeah, that is great.

Speaker 11 (50:16):
I think the cost too, is also a factor, and
you know that's probably a positive and rising cost of living,
that's right. The other thing I wanted to wanted to
talk about, There's something I've been meaning for wanting to
talk about for a while is the capital gains tax.
Now thirty one of the thirty eight OECD countries have

(50:38):
a comprehensive capital gains tax, and New Zealand likes to
compare itself to countries like Canada and Australia and Ireland.
All those countries have a capital gains tax as a
fundamental cornerstone of their tax policy, and a capital gains

(50:59):
tax is probably one of the fairest taxes you can get.
But for some reason, the but the psyche of paying
tax on your on your capital gains, in other words,
money you've made just by doing nothing and just sitting
there not not having that tax to me is not

(51:23):
right now. If we go back, say thirty five years ago,
forty years ago, the Auckland property market for the last
you know, forty years has been on an exponential rise.

Speaker 9 (51:36):
And there's been you know.

Speaker 11 (51:37):
There's been lots of capital. People have been buying and
selling houses. And when you come over from other countries
to New Zealand and you see what's going on in
the housing market and you see people buying a house,
doing it up selling it and having a capital gain
and not not paying tax on that capital gain, it's that,

(52:01):
you know, it's money that's been earned. You haven't worked
for it. It's not like you're up which you actually
get text on your sweat and labor. But capital gains
is for some reason this country just doesn't touch it.
And I think it's properly because capital gains are seen
as the equity and it's in some ways it's the

(52:24):
retirement of our of our people as they as they
see here.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Look, it's probably a big topic for another night, but
I think I think New Zealand's economy basically is just
a property Ponzi scheme. I think how it's described, I
think that's pretty much what happens, and it's not good
for us. All the money is going to housing, nothing's
invest into anything else, and I think it's to our detriment.
But yeah, I think there will be the big discussion
of coming up for the next election will be market

(52:50):
although Labour's one is Labour's one is is not really
as strong as it could will be. What did you
want to say about pets and houses?

Speaker 11 (52:58):
Oh, well, the I just think that, you know, being
a landlord, I just think landlords have to have us stay,
you know, they have to have they have to be
able to judge, you know, because it's their house. And
I just think the pendulum has swung too far in favor,
you know, of the renter. It needs to be brought
back to the middle.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
You know.

Speaker 11 (53:20):
I'm not a landlord anymore. But what I see as
I see their rights slowly being taken away by this
great drive we have for fairness and equity in this country,
and that driver does trample the rights of some people
who you know, who have worked hard for we love God.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I'm quite quite interesting, Bruce, because you're prode the capital
gains but also standing up for the rights of landlords.

Speaker 11 (53:45):
Well, well they're not the same. The capital gains tax
is just a common, basic cornerstone of any government's tax policy.
It's it's you know, it's instead of having a fifteen
and a half percent gest we even.

Speaker 13 (53:58):
Have ten percent.

Speaker 11 (53:59):
But what happened is labor completely stuffed it up. What
they what they came up within them nation means New
Zealand will never get a capital gains tax for another
ten years. And what is really I find really concerning
is we've got center right politicians like Luxon and David Seymour.

(54:20):
A capital gains tax is right in center right parties
wheelhouse of tax policy. Now for conservative MPs to walk
away from a capital gains tax just bigg as belief.
And I think you'll find that just about every tax
accountant in this country now out here are tax Justice

(54:42):
have just published a big circle published a few years ago,
a survey comparing the effects of New Zealand not having
a capital gains tax for other countries that have one.
And yet at the same time we like to compare
ourselves to those countries that have are taxing capital unearthed

(55:03):
unearned capital gains, which you know, which is some, but
you know, the gonment should get some of that money
because the people that are getting the capitol going, they're
doing nothing for it.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Olive it there, Bruce Butt, thanks so much for that.
Twenty six past nine. You're talking vaping and talking pets,
but also talking about the fact that the youth didn't
do all that and maybe the maybe some of the
hysteria around vaping was successful because I've always thought that
people had talked up the dangers of vaping where it

(55:37):
seemed as though they were a factor of ten safer
than smoking. But the words like popcorn, lung and things
thrown about, so people were fairly hum Yeah, and it's worked.
And now we just need the vape shops to go
out of work, out of business, and the daiies with
those dodgy set up cupboards to go away. It could

(55:58):
be of every good thing, Marcus. Vaping stinks. It's just
a different type of smell, sickly and disgusting. That smell
travels a long way. The great thing about vaping is
you can add as much to CONTAINU to your vapor
as you want the problem with wey spoke in vaping,
as the rest of us get stuck with the secondhand.
Even vapors exhale a portion of what they inhale is
but the thing about the vapor is what they're exhaling

(56:18):
is steam, not smoke, and steam by nature is not castrogenic.
All the congestion and the christ CBD lands squarely on
poor city planning, planning through ideology not practicality. The CCC
chose to funnel traffic through no tune here and no

(56:40):
tune there, causing inefficient traffic flows across the city. They
are disgrace to our city. As per usual, we pay
for their retardation. According to post on Facebook, the Sydney
stream also was cut out. So people angry on Facebook? Dan,
can you sent me some of those comments screenshots? One
send them so I want to blow them. I want

(57:02):
to blow this up. Hey, just as far as Christ
Jewish and planning and transport goes, oh, I know the result.
You don't need to text to be the result. I
know the result. It's just that the whole coverage stopped

(57:25):
Christ Church and transport. I think one of the problems
with Christ Church, and this is my unique person to
say this is my perspective, and after the quake, and
after the quake and the role I was on at
the time, the media role I was on at the time,
I had spent I went to christ Church a number

(57:47):
of times to talk to the people involved with the
rebuild and what struck me and continues to strike me.
And I asked the guy that was charged in to
see rebuild one time, I said to him, what do
you expect the population of christ Church to be within

(58:08):
the next decade? And someone might back me up with this,
but I don't think they had any idea because remember
in those months after the quake, so many left christ Church.
I don't think for a long time people realized it
was going to be this great phoenix that it is.
I think for a long time they thought people were
just going to continue to leave. So I think if

(58:32):
some of the planning seems a bit wonky when it
comes to transport and putting in a rapid transport system,
I still believe it's because even the people in the
rebuild were not committed to how big christ Church was
going to be and were seen within a very short time,
mainly because of so many people moved to christ Church
for the rebuild decided to live there, but that it's

(58:53):
grown like topsy. They've got places with Roliston on thirty
six thousand people and a lot of those are working
within christ Church are going back and forward. So yeah,
I think it was hard for them to know how
quickly it was going to grow. And that's a rhyme.
I didn't intend that to be a rhyme, but that's
what I am saying. Now. Basketball coverage people on Facebook,

(59:17):
what they if if if if if the Tall Blecks
versus Ossie Basketball had to see the final score on
nby overtime. Useless bunch of turkeys started the broadcast of
New zealandvist Australia game two thirty minutes into the game.
But wait, then cut the feed with the game still
at two thirty four and hanging in the balance. Then

(59:37):
adds and back to the lame rowers. Serious, is this
how you treat us paying New Zealand viewers? No, bloody wonder,
you're losing customers. You are frigging useless. Hope the NZBB
fed feed exits come knocking down the doors because somebody
needs to give you a kuto whatever that is. But yeah,
that was shocking. Oh, kick up the Okay, it's I

(59:59):
thought it was a MOULDI word, but it's it's it's
a it's an acronym. Yeah, because creature is a plant.

Speaker 15 (01:00:07):
I think it's a sedge, a tall spiky sedge, or
like a rush.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Yeah, okay, so kick up the twenty four away from ten.
If you want to talk about the basketball, about about
about vaping, about about about listen to me about about about.
Glad you talked about basketball. I spent about fifteen minutes
try and figure out where the game had gone. So annoying, Marcus,

(01:00:38):
how do you determine the number of those who are vaping?
To enough? The numbers are going up and down. All
those on the ground said to be saying it's as
rife as ever. Be interested to know how the numbers
are determined? Well, look, I can quote the article, and
the article is a scientific one, and it's been mentioned

(01:01:00):
by the Medical School, and it's a survey of more
than thirty thousand of New Zealand's year ten students and
year ten I've got no idea where it is, Howard.
If you're year ten fourth form fourteen fifteen, that's a
very good sample size. It's also interesting because I thought
with surveys for smoking and vaping that probably kids would

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be tendered if they thought it was cool to say
they'd do it, even if they don't. So it must
be really uncool for the number of respondents to have
hard that say they do it. Yep, that's a great thing.
We should celebrate this because in twenty twenty one there
was absolute vaping, hysteria, popcorn, lung and all sorts of things.

(01:01:46):
So there's that. But get in touch if you want
to talk on any of these things. I'm in the zone.
I hope you're in the zone. Yep. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine two nine two.

Speaker 15 (01:01:59):
De text.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
For fur four fourth get in touch twenty two to ten.
It's just back to the basketball. I was at the basketball.
What a great game. The crowd aw some well done LEDs.
You almost got there. Other than unfortunate last mode of
general skill, we would have won. Any people in willing

(01:02:23):
to complain about not be able to watch the game
on the TV should get along to these events and
watch them live. Cheers, Steve, you're fair enough. But for
those of us watching as we worked and now this
is the irony, and now well forty minutes forty five
minutes off the end of the match. There's still got
the panel show discussing the match. We couldn't see the

(01:02:45):
end of it. Now there's some confusion whether it's Disney
Plus or ESPN, But so ESPN is run by Disney,
Is that what we're thinking?

Speaker 16 (01:02:56):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Oh, yeah, they would have scream streamed it on digital
end on Sky. But yeah, I don't know fully understand that.
But Sky is not responsible for what. But it seems yeah,
it seems it seems like it shouldn't have been on
the SPN. It should have been on one of the

(01:03:22):
other channels that they've got more autonomy over. That would
be my thoughts with that. Also, so like a lot's
happening tonight, if you got any of it, Oh, by
the way, to have still got that road closed on
State Highway sixteen, you might want to mention that you might.
But if there's any if you've got any traffic messages
for us, that's toys of interest high there to z B.

(01:03:43):
In my travels and all can walking or running, I've
seen a lot of rubbish lying on the grass, fogies
and roads and gutters. This includes vaping, packaging, and also alloy,
cans of different types of alcohol, non colored food, rappids, takeaways, plastics.
I do my best to pick it up and dispose
of it and rubbish, but we are Why are people
throwing the stuff on a street so easy? It seems
keep your seating clean. I always think the streets are

(01:04:05):
pretty good as far as rubbish goes. Yeah, I've actually
found that we are a literary type place. I know
that people had perks up from time to time. I
always think it always looks pretty good. I was going
to tell you about the updates on that road road.
Can't see anything just currently. I will keep looking and

(01:04:27):
I'll bring that to your attention. I've got anything more
for you, but yes, oh wait eighty ten if you
want to talk about anything else tonight, I'm very keen
to the world.

Speaker 9 (01:04:37):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
By the way, there is a a wind a weather
warning for the north from ten o'clock. By the way,
terrible floods in Asia Indonesia shrank of Thailand. I think
a thousand have died there. Not good, and the forecast
is going to be a hot, dry summer for most
of New Zealand. Yep. Above average temperatures for the whole

(01:05:02):
country and below normal rain four for Southland. I think
the North Island's going to be wet this old Brandolino,
So that's a worry. Yeah, three to four degrees warmer
than usual in the North, but that will fuel moisture

(01:05:28):
and water vapor. If the oceans were ready warm, it
through off humidity and put water vapor to the air,
which was fuel for heavy rain. So the North, the
Upper North, I was in for a wetter than usual summer.
Here comes that summer. Who's sang that was a good song?
Sixteen to ten Onne of his Marcus, good evening, welcome
if you want to be a part of it. Good good, good, good, good,

(01:05:50):
good good good. I smoked full on for forty six years,
in vape for four years. Do neither now, Founders, I've
got older addictions such as caffeine and nicotine, don't have
the same garrip. Really, go you head on midnight one
of his Marcus fifteen to ten, thirty to ten. All

(01:06:11):
vape retailers have to submit their sales volumes of vape
products annually, have to also be registered to sell them. Now,
lots of data collected by Ministry of Health that's could
sell the results around population vaping, so all accounts, it
seems like the stats are good. So, yeah, the youth
have not fallen in love with vaping, and I think
that's great because there was in youth smoking rates through

(01:06:35):
the floor. They're down to one percent, and that's where
most smokers got hopkeed was his youth, as we all know.
So it's a very very good thing. Could be a
lot better, but still you have to be happy with that.
So vaping is a new technology that I think the
tobacco companies cynically targeted at youth and they haven't responded,
which I think is fantastic. I mean, youth these days

(01:06:56):
are quite concerved. They don't drink, they don't smoke, they
don't do much play video games. It seems twelve to ten.
Good evening, Jared, this is Marcus. Welcome well.

Speaker 17 (01:07:10):
Some long time listener, and you have done a lot
of listening. But the first time caller, thank you for
the welcome you. Look, I can't say enough about anyway. Look,
I'm out in the country, pretty I'm a pretty random
sort of a bachelor fellow, and I'm eating the eggs

(01:07:31):
for young at the moment, and no, I got it.
From from Castle Cliff. Actually I'm on Wanganui base. Look
I rung because I was coming up the hill to
my property outside of Manganui and I heard you talking
specifically about recycling.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:07:52):
Yeah, so look, just a quick snapshot of Wanganui and
it's recycling. It's got a fantastic facility here in and
it's in Mariah Place. And look, I have been the
Brunswick or the Bachelor that I am. I'm not frequented
it too many times. But look it's a very well

(01:08:12):
run and efficient and it's an asset to the Longinoi community.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
It's a beautiful thing, a well run recycling depot. It's
one of life's great sites.

Speaker 17 (01:08:23):
Yeah, and look, I've just only keyed into it fairly recently,
and it's Look, it's well structured and there's seems like
a good team of people there that that run it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Yeah, okay, good shout out. Is that what you run?
You want to talk about Sri Lanka as well, did you?

Speaker 18 (01:08:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:08:37):
Yeah, Look, I just look, I don't know a lot
about it. I just heard a quick briefing on your
news channel today and there was a new touched on it.
There's a thousand people in there's flooding. Look, my heart
goes out to Look, I know a couple of Sri
Lankan people in the Longer community, just not friends, but associates,
and just yeah, work in town. And look, it's they're

(01:08:58):
very good people, very quite spoken, and look it's quite Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
I heard they've had civil war for years too. It's
a tough country, isn't it. You wouldn't wish that upon them.

Speaker 17 (01:09:11):
Yeah, I don't know a lot about that because but
I churned into the news at sleek moments. But look,
that's that's a tough gig, just with Look, I'm lucky,
I'm up on the hill and I'm well drained where
I am, so look, I but I do have a
perspective of flooding, you know, most six and different places
times here and long I know we've had a number
of floods. But look, yeah, I appreciate you taking my

(01:09:33):
call tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
So yeah, nice to meet You're nice to phone meet you, Jared.
It's made my night. Thank you. Nine Away from ten
favorite of answer is a criticism for the principle of
Auckland grammar, calling the vapors low life. But oh yeah,
they'll be right Jennifer, it's Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:09:51):
Hi Marcus, how are you good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Thank you, Jennifer, it's good.

Speaker 19 (01:09:55):
I was thinking about thinking about a rapid rail for
christ Church, especially from the airport into town.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Be great. Well, they could have done it when they
when they had to. Yeah, it would have been easy
do it after the quake, wouldn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:10:08):
Oh, well, of course yes, it would have. And also
you know from Burnham and Rolston, the noise of the
traffic a long moory as the house is there, it's
just appalling.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
And bring one in from Kayapoi and from Rangua would
have been great. You know, the lines are always there,
they just double track. They would make it a rapid thing.
Be great for christ Absolutely yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:10:35):
I mean it's just perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Because it's so flat, flat and easy.

Speaker 19 (01:10:40):
I can't understand why they didn't do it after the earthquakes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Well, yeah, it was all go, it was all the plan,
and then they suddenly just quietly put it aside.

Speaker 19 (01:10:49):
Well typical, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Well it would have been a smart thing to do,
and they'll end up doing it anyway. It'll cost them
probably ten tight well one hundred times the price.

Speaker 19 (01:10:58):
Well, it's always the way in New Zealand asn't. Yeah, absolutely,
and I mean Auckland's another one that should should have it. Well,
even if they did it overhead.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:11:10):
You go to other cities like Melbourne or with me
and yeah, that's those bullet knows things. That's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
The other thing is because we don't do things like
railways reoffered. When we do do it, then we haven't
got the skills. That cost about three times more than
it costs anywhere else to do because it's so I
mean the cost of the underground rail loup in Auckland,
it's like three times anywhere else.

Speaker 19 (01:11:35):
Yeah. Yeah, and I mean they could have done it.

Speaker 9 (01:11:38):
Overhead, yes, either.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
I haven't got a problem with it been underground. I
think that's probably a good thing.

Speaker 19 (01:11:45):
Well, I've got a granddaughter who's that's done urban development.
Oh sure, and yeah, well she said to me, oh Nana,
she said that the reason that they haven't done it
is because we're not having enough children. No, you know,
the population's not growing quick enough.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Yes, what does that mean we should?

Speaker 19 (01:12:10):
We should be having more children and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Then we have more trains.

Speaker 19 (01:12:15):
Well yeah, well we haven't got the population to you
know people are not having enough children to warrant spending
money on more trains and rapid rail and that sort
of thing because we haven't got the population.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
She had children, No, no what she might be telling her,
She might be about to by the sound of what
she's telling you.

Speaker 19 (01:12:41):
Well, she's twenty two and nothing's happened with that department.
None of my grandchildren have had had children yet.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
How old is the older.

Speaker 19 (01:12:51):
Would be about thirty Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Oh wow, well, I guess they have them later now
and not as often.

Speaker 19 (01:12:59):
Well, I don't know beyond me Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
Oh well, I don't want to get too deep on
your Jennifer, but thank you Jennif for twenty six sorry
nine p fifty six four away from ten if you
want to talk vaping transport, but of everything tonight. By
the way, I talked a lot about that train between
Auckland and between christ Church and v Cargol on Friday.
What I didn't mention is if you go christ Church

(01:13:27):
to Invacago or reverse, those are going to cost you
one hundred ninety nine and one hundred and sixty nine
I think it was three hundred and sixty eight dollars
one way. But you'd also need to stay overnight in Dunedin.
It wasn't within the same day. I only realized that afterwards,
so I thought it'd be remiss of me not to
tell you that. So, yes it was. That's a two

(01:13:48):
day trip, so it'd be expensive for meals and all
sorts of things. I don't know who the market is.
We gave that a good go around on Friday, but
there was just a bit more information I've learned about that.
So good luck to them. Works out well for them,
But yes, get in touch. You want to be a
part of the show here till twelve tonight Monday, free

(01:14:12):
for all, whatever that means. And we lost the basketball.
Not only we'd lose the basket, we lost the coverage
of the basketball. I don't know what was worse, blowing
a four point leader in the last minute or losing
the coverage here to twelve. Anything goes looking forward to
what you do say, have to say, Oh, eight hundred

(01:14:33):
and eighty ten eighty vaping and youths, if you've got
some intel on that, why'd they give up on it?
Why'd they give up on that? Could have been legislation,
couldn't have got the ones they wanted. We got too
confused with leg legislation. I think they changed the brands
you could buy. Is that right? Maybe someone knows more
about that. I don't actually know what the full legislation
changes were. It was a lot of things that were proposed,

(01:14:56):
and I think the subsequent government came in and changed it.
I don't know what the vaping laws are, and you
seel the next sho. I probably should do some research
about that. If you do, no, give me a holler.
Didn't they being the disposable ones? Yeah, that's right. I
was right about that. I've just looked it up. As
of June twenty twenty five, a band on disposable vapes

(01:15:16):
took effect. That could have been the answer. I think
that was the cheap and cheerful ones that kids would buy,
but the entry level gateway vape. Gabriel, Gabriel, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:15:29):
Oh, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Thank you my pleasure.

Speaker 16 (01:15:34):
Sorry, I beg your pardon.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
I said my pleasure. You thank me, I said my pleasure.

Speaker 9 (01:15:39):
Yep, oh, thank you, my pleasure.

Speaker 16 (01:15:42):
I wanted to discuss the bus isshoe on Hobson Street.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
This is Auckland near Sky City, right.

Speaker 16 (01:15:50):
It's Auckland and it's before it's way before, it's after Sky.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Is telling people out of Auckland what the street was
so they'll know. Yeah, sure, copy that.

Speaker 16 (01:16:00):
Okay, yes, So therefore.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Matthews, yep, yes, yes.

Speaker 16 (01:16:06):
Right, So we're talking about two O six two eight
Hobson Street. Hobson Street is one of the most residential,
if not the biggest residential street in New Zealand.

Speaker 11 (01:16:22):
Did you know that, you sold?

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
I mentioned that would be true with all those big
apartment buildings down there.

Speaker 16 (01:16:27):
Apartments.

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:16:29):
That.

Speaker 16 (01:16:31):
So as of Saturday, they took away the main bus
stop without giving any of the residents, who, by the way,
have no parking or car parking, who don't have car backs.
They rely on the buses. Overnight they literally took away
the bus stop and let no one know. Wow, which

(01:16:57):
was quite incredible considering they were having the center parade
the next day, which is really quite amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
So, hang on, is a temporary stop or a permanent stop?

Speaker 16 (01:17:12):
Permanent?

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
You say it's the route to I six, It must
be another route. Has it got a longer number?

Speaker 16 (01:17:19):
No? No, no, no no. It actually had six six
to eight buses stopping at this one. This is Toro
six Hobson Street. This is where it's at Torowaight, Hobson Street,
right next to wah Lee's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Why where are those busses going to?

Speaker 16 (01:17:41):
They're all going west, They're going west east everywhere. There
are about six to ways of them going there overnight,
overnight without telling any of the probably three thousand plus
residents just on that one block.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
That it was closing.

Speaker 16 (01:18:01):
Down copy without without saying diddley squat biny of them.
It just banged. They just took away everything and no buses.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Gone.

Speaker 16 (01:18:18):
I say, and I say, the irony of OK. Can
I just finish this?

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
No? No, No, I've got to talk because I've got
to get some clarity on this issue. Yes, can I talk?

Speaker 6 (01:18:32):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:18:32):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:18:33):
Is the bus route changed?

Speaker 6 (01:18:36):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:18:37):
Completely?

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Where do the busses go now?

Speaker 16 (01:18:43):
Well, apparently apparently because they've just finished off the Albert
Street turn around anything to go up to Simon's Street,
which you don't really need, but I won't go there,
and they finished it. Apparently it's going to start from

(01:19:04):
Mail Drive and the first bus that you can catch
as you live on Hobson Street is outside the YWCA.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Sure is it Vincent Street.

Speaker 16 (01:19:26):
Yeah, but none of the buses stop on Vincent Street.
By the way they go up Vincent Street, there's no
bus and bus stop on Vincent Street. It stops up
on Pitt straight outside the YWCA, which I find really
quite weird because that's right next door to the fire station.

(01:19:47):
So that could cause a lot of come from You
can imagine, Oh, certainly we've got a major fire and
all the fire engines have to come out and there's
a bus coming up. What who's going to do?

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
What We're okay, Gabriel. I found a bit from the
Transport Advice from Saturday twenty ninth. From Saturday twenty ninth November,
routes W X one eleven, T eleven, W eighteen, one five,
one nine five and two O nine will no longer
travel in and out of the city using Queen Street,
Hobson Street and Wyndham Street. These routes will no longer yeah, yeah,

(01:20:21):
I'm just reading. If you just consume me, these routes
will no longer use bus stops on Queen Street and
Hobbins Street. Instead, they will travel down and use new
U bus stops on Albert Street, Mayoral Drive, Vincent Street
and Pitt Street for buses heading out of the sea.
A temporary bus stop we set between Victoria Street and
Wellesley Street. From early two thousand and six, this bus
stop will be moved to Meyoral Drive, but.

Speaker 16 (01:20:41):
That is not conducive to the three thousand plus residents
in Hobson's Street. And there's a lot of old people
both way and Hobson Street. And the other thing is
a lot of those bus stops are not going to
be coming into fruition, which they have not told you

(01:21:03):
until next year. They do not autom me picly come
into fruition. Sure, yes, you didn't see that, did you, Marcus? No, But.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I wouldn't send antagonistic to me. I'm just trying to
get the information from you and trying to find out
what's happening.

Speaker 16 (01:21:22):
Well, I just got given this information today by these
lovely two women had to stand outside the said bus
stop that I'm talking about, the ambassadors for at and
they were so embarrassed, they were so so embarrassed about it,
and they said to me, you're about the one hundred

(01:21:44):
and fiftieth person we've spoken to alone. And this was
by the for mid Day because nobody, no, none of
the residents told, and they say there is no car parking.
So these people rely on buses. And the lovely people

(01:22:07):
that are sure in these apartment buildings, they're not just
all young and you know, full of beans. I'm one
of them, and you know, so we go down to
the supermarket and we rely on the bus to bring
us back up. We can't lug out, you know what
I mean, we're expected not only that the nearest bus

(01:22:32):
stop is that says outside the y m C. A sure,
I mean take yesterday's weather.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
I love transport of I suspect you're more patient than
this about than I am. You spoke to two ambassadors
from aa T. Is that what it's called aa T?

Speaker 16 (01:22:52):
No No, at eight.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Eight did they tell you why they have moved the
bus stop.

Speaker 16 (01:22:59):
They had no idea. They were just there to get
feedback from that they had Well, actually what they did
say is well, now Albert Street now open. The Albert
Street in mal dryly being closed up for a long time.
And it's all to do with the train station that

(01:23:22):
goes up to Simon Street. I mean, who really needs
a train?

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Well, there's always train anyway, Yeah, there's always transport players
they're always changing which way buses go. So I imagine before
too long, a probably come back on Hobson Street. I hope.

Speaker 16 (01:23:37):
No, Well, it's say permanent on.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
The nothing's permanent.

Speaker 16 (01:23:46):
What does in your dictionary? What does permanent mean?

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
They're always rejigging bus routes.

Speaker 16 (01:23:52):
But yeah, my dictionary, permanent means forever permanent.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Yeah, but you're coming in a bit strong, but yeah, Okay,
how far is the walk?

Speaker 16 (01:24:03):
Quite a way from me? I've got info, Semia, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Yeah, okay, a mile there is unfortunate.

Speaker 16 (01:24:13):
Half a mile to the near to the nearest bus stop.

Speaker 9 (01:24:18):
A mile, I reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
You've got reason to be angry about that. Poor communication
and a bad idea.

Speaker 16 (01:24:23):
And but not only that, I mean poor communication is
like the biggest joke. There was no communication, little one,
poor communication. There was nothing sent out via mail. There

(01:24:43):
was nothing. And where as I say, Hobson Street is
the biggest residential street in New Zealand, it might.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Be the way because it's such a busy place that
the buses get congested. There's a lot of congestion on
that that route, so it might be very hard for
buses to get out of there because it's so busy
with traffic.

Speaker 16 (01:25:03):
And here's another Okay, all right, so we'll go no, no,
because they've got the bus lanes. So here's another thing.
So they're taking the bus lanes out, but you've still
got no. They didn't take the nose stopping between two
thirty two.

Speaker 6 (01:25:26):
Six, you know, so.

Speaker 16 (01:25:30):
The little eighty people come up and tag your car
even though it's not a bus lane anymore. Person, You
know what I'm saying, it's a I don't know what
they're doing. I do not know who these people are.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
I think, gabriel I think I've heard enough. I think
I've heard enough. I appreciate you must be taking more
time my pleasure. Yeah, and I think you've got a
free valid point. They're elderly people that are relying on
buses for groceries and now they have to haul their
It's a steep hill you have to haul up up
well as his streak to get to their house. I

(01:26:08):
can understand that they're not being served, although the train
might be an option for Gabrielle. When that station opens,
Marcus Eye, along with other residents of our care home,
we're trying to watch the netball when it suddenly vanished
ESPN or Sky need to kick up the rusty bullet hole.

Speaker 9 (01:26:26):
Olf.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
I think it was basketball, Alf, Yes, I've mentioned that
it wasn't God, Marcus. We had toot for Tucker sirens?
Do you have it? Do all towns have it? Be interested?

(01:26:52):
I don't know what toot for Tucker is. Someone will
explain that to me, Marcus. Used to be cool to
see one of your Hollywood stars smoking on screen. I've
never seen anyone vaping on screen. Do they vope on
vape on Emmerdale? The stop on Hobson Street makes sense

(01:27:18):
to get rid of because the congestions. You now, the
buses go along Albert Street and it frees up Queen
Street and Hobson Street for cars and pedestrians. Going down
Queenstreet on the bus would literally take ten minutes of
all the lights at are now taking away all the
car park in the ground. Shops want to complete disgrace
and we'll just make businesses who I want to talk

(01:27:39):
vaping or anything else actually want to go in on
with tonight, Marcus. This is from Zach. The bus has
changed back to Albert Street as construction had finished on
the City rail link. We were told this was temporary
five years ago. There's print of communication over the five
years about that. So as I thought, they've put it
up to Hobson Street as they as they jigger read
around with Albert Street and they trenched and covered. They

(01:28:02):
didn't tunnel up Albert Street. It was a trench and cover,
it's my understanding. So they dug a big hole and
then covered it over. So they had to close the
road for that. It will be a plan twenty one
past ten, be three minutes past ten. Keep your text
through if you've got them. Yeah, let's be hearing from

(01:28:30):
you if you want to. And I'm always keen for
I mean, yes, what am I keen for? I think
the greatest advantage of public transport that we need to
celebrate is that apps and with Google Maps and everything,
they tell you when buses are turning up and where
they're going from. It makes it remarkably if you're in
a news to town, it makes it very easy to

(01:28:51):
work out where things are, and nice suggest if anyone
can get hold of those things that makes it tell
you how far away the buses. It is the golden
time for transport. But yeah, it is frustrating when things
like that happen so have a certain amount of sympathy
for gabriel Gabrielle and.

Speaker 7 (01:29:08):
We.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
I don't know what I can say to make things
make things any better, but look, if you want to
talk on there, someone said Marcus the Tall Black seam
to be getting much coverages this evening. Don't forget about
both our women's and men's rugby sevens teams winning the
Duboi Compienstion over the weekend. Twenty four of the world
team's competed and both our teams been austral in the finals,
thanks macklisting from France. I struggle with seven's well, I've

(01:29:36):
always won forever, haven't we. That's just me. I think
it's kind of a sport where our dominance wrecked it.
I know that we're not quite as good as we
once were, but it's kind of we were so good
for so long it's hard to get excited about it.
That's just my opinion. You might want to say something
else about that, but that's just my opinion. I know
some people might be for everybody, but a lot of

(01:29:57):
people seem to like sports because we win. For me,
it's good. I always thought sevens were a strange old sport.
I mean the trouble with sevens is for a long time,
dress up like a nurse to enjoy it and get drunk.
It was more a party than a sport, wasn't it.
So I think it's always suffered from the fact that
it was always kind of a bit of a drunken weekend.

(01:30:18):
So I think the sport's always had a bit of
a credibility problem. Might have changed, but yeah, mention that
if you want here till twelve, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine two text, I've got to come through.
Also the change of laws for pets and rentals that tepnin.

(01:30:41):
Good evening, Paul, This is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:30:45):
Yeah, thank you. I'm sort of suffering from concussion. I've
had three concussions in the last two or three or
four weeks, and I've come out of the hospital and
send me home, and now they're saying that if I
want to drive again, I have to sit there test
at a list. Six hundred and fifty bucks. Who pay

(01:31:07):
that on the tension? That's crazy, That's what the That's
what I said to the to the occupational therapy people,
that's crazy. Did you get to ring in my license?
Now because I'm seventy two. But they said trick on
hundred and fifty us every year's time.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Have you checked that?

Speaker 16 (01:31:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:31:29):
And three years, three years time, I have some more
to my eyesight or hearing or something because maybe it's
because the rural rural New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Literally so this is not just a license renewal. This
is for a concussion test, is it.

Speaker 21 (01:31:49):
Yeah, anybody who's concuchon who, especially in the pensions, we
have to go and set to the driving test. It's
just ridiculous saying and the basic fifty bucks to go
in the driving test with people well in the town
and town love and we don't have any stop science,

(01:32:11):
we have a few giveaway signs, we don't have any lights.
And the main where I live, the main track I
get that is longing trucks and you just let them go.
So how I don't know how they're judging how I
can pay six time and fifty for a new for.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
I can't see any what's the actual license you've got
to what's the test you've got to go and get.

Speaker 21 (01:32:37):
It's similar to when you when you're fifteen, when you
got to go to get your provisional I suppose or
your stuff start it's I got my license in nineteen
seventy three. I've been going something like that, a few
tickets to look at no major damage, no killing anybody

(01:32:59):
else on the road. I get to this little town
and were all New Zealanders getting hit.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
Because it's hard for me to discuss this until I
can find any proof of it costing this and I
can't see that.

Speaker 21 (01:33:18):
Well that's what the diagonical medicals given me say it,
but that's what the day or medical outfit want me
to pay for. And you like a real conditioned license
towards on you because.

Speaker 2 (01:33:30):
It is more a medical thing that they need to
approve of.

Speaker 21 (01:33:34):
No, I don't think so. I just think it's just
a bit of money grading going on. Why didn't I
tell a few other people who have pensions that are
having it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
How did you? How did you get those concussions in
such a short time?

Speaker 21 (01:33:48):
Well, I don't in a house that's very very floor
and it's flooring, and I have kept over a step
and wecomed to a fridge and boat broke some rubes
and had a couple of couple of other falls off
a room to get on the roofs to repair, and
we gave the worlds around it all started.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Okay, well, I'll see if I get some information from
other people. I can't see anything about that cost, but
I'll keep looking. Anyone has the information for Paul. I
don't know what that is the concussion test, Dan, did
you see anything?

Speaker 8 (01:34:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Did you have a lock year? And this is a
medical test that they've got to Yeah, I can't see
what it would be. It might be an occupational therapy assessment.
By the way, Mikey bebben along after midnight tonight this
day in nineteen thirty three. It was the first flight
from North Cape to Invericago. I don't know where the

(01:34:50):
airstrip wasn't not I guess I didn't need airstrips in
those days. Would they paddic bashes, barnstorms, whatever they were?
It seems quite late. That was the first flight sixteen
hours and ten minutes. He was a twenty two year old. Oh,

(01:35:14):
it's an interesting articles. I don't really understand it. It's
his pilot, Teddy Harvey, and his female passenger, eighteen year
old Trevor Hunter, set a record for the longest flight
within news end of a single day. Now, why would
his female passenger be called Trevor. That I don't understand.
They flew eighteen hundred and eighty kilometers between North Cape
and Vicagan and sixteen hours. It was a remarkable feat

(01:35:35):
as twenty two year old Harvey had been flying for
just a few months. Harvey had long decided to make
the record breaking flight. In his book Venture to the
Far Horizon recorded how he first thought of it at
nineteen twenty nine. As last year at school, he was
fortunateenough to be give an instruction between January and March
nineteen thirty three while a crew member on Kingsford smith

(01:35:56):
Southern Cross during a turret made of New Zealand. It's
a good story. They didn't really go from North Cape.
They went from Kaitaia, or maybe they flew up there. Oh, okay,
they did. Harvey and Hunter took off from Kaititi at
two am. They were assisted by the taxi driver topped
them off and some of the bystanders who had gathered.
While the driver shown his headlights behind the plane. Two

(01:36:19):
people are there in panic pointed flashlights towards it. Harvey
initially headed north, then turned south once he'd reached the
attitude of North Cape Harward. It was their third refueling
stop and that's when they gave up the scoop. It's
a good story. I don't know why she's called Trevor.
I like that though. Trevor Colway Knee Hunter on third

(01:36:42):
of deceven, nineteen eighty three, are reenecktment of the flight
was staged by Harvey's nephew, Don Haggett. Harvey and Trevor
Colway Knee Hunter were Invercalle to meet him. Both had
enjoyed careers in aviation. Hunter was one of five years
women to serve the Air Transport Auxiliary in Britain during
the Second World War, while Harvey was the Chief Air
Investigator Exit Investigator from sixty eight to seventy seven. Laureate's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:37:07):
Hi there, Marcus here. Hey. Just looking on the front
page of the old Great Power magazine today and it
was talking about the testing or the appeal process for
people that are denied their licenses. Made us sort of
retest and supposedly if he has had concussion and perhaps

(01:37:29):
his GP has said he it's not, doesn't give him
a medicine or the reckond he're not capable of driving. Now,
if he wants to contest that will get a second opinion.
He can get a referral to an occupational therapist, but
the cost is likely to between eight hundred and fifteen

(01:37:51):
hundred dollars. Oh wow, So it would seem like perhaps,
you know, if he's had several concussions in his GP,
even though like he wasn't due for his driving test
at the time, he can stick that he needs to
be he's failed a cognitive test and or needs to

(01:38:14):
be tested basically, and the chip he must have decided
he's and not suitable for driving, And so the way
around for him is that he has to get a
second opinion, and that second opinion involves either the occupation

(01:38:34):
or therapist. But the irony is if he was seventy
five or aged seventy five or over, he would have
had the alternative of going for an on road safety test,
which is free at that age. Basically here, so if

(01:38:56):
you fail your cognitive test, you can request the test
an on road safety test. Yeah, so that seemed to
be what where that the issue was about the the
occupational therapist. Yeah, it's pretty difficult for him. I mean, well, I.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
Didn't like that I didn't like the fact that he's
trying to say he driving was easy because they went
me intersections. I thought that was probably he himself probably
knew he shouldn't be doing it if he trying to
make out that it was easy.

Speaker 8 (01:39:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
Yeah, Well it doesn't necessarily come into the assessment if
if if the if the doctor or had reckoned, he
was his cognizability was impaired. Yeah, and so that's probably

(01:39:47):
something may explain it anyway. Yeah, that's apparently you know,
you can't he can't go and appeal against t A.
Apparently it's it's it's it's a medical thing. Yeah, so
he is basically able to get a second opinion, but

(01:40:07):
it's kind of cost him. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Is it a good read? The Great Power Meg.

Speaker 6 (01:40:14):
I joined up with Great Pair because you can join
you can get a reduced electric pair bill. Basically, Hey, yeah, no,
there's bits and pieces in there, you know. It's it's, uh,
how much cheaper is the power?

Speaker 8 (01:40:30):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:40:31):
I forget what. I switched over from Genesis a little
war back, supposedly because I was on parent guests and
things have split up a bit. I'm using more guests
now because I even got a wood for but yeah, no, yeah,
it's supposedly cheaper. Yeah, I just like even't got the

(01:40:53):
figures on it that I supposedly Yeah, if if you
join great pair, that's that's funny options they can do.
They do board band as well, and it comes through
another supplier, is it? What does it? The uh play
the bill anyway? Uh, I'm sure that they they've stepid overall.

(01:41:23):
I don't you know, I don't micro manage the payer
basically yet sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
No, I understand, I understand that, but it sounds like
you out there for cheap dale but see that like
it's more complicated than your thought.

Speaker 6 (01:41:32):
Uh yeah, But anyway, as far as med goes, it's
not too bad. It's interesting, buts and pieces.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
I'm hearing a lot of talk about people trying to
get out of the guests. Now it's becoming quite pricey,
is it. There's that kind of sunsets. It's kind of
quite a complicated issue. It seems to have become.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
Yeah, well, I was decision I really didn't want to make.
I say, I had my uh my fire hit a
cracked firebox, I got red bloody stick it on it,
and they had to make a quick decision. They so
because we had guests on tip, I put this one
on and I said's a good fire, but it's it's

(01:42:15):
going to be expensive here.

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
Nice to talk, Lauri. Thanks for that twenty righte away
from eleven. Now get in touch by name's Marcus eight
hundred and eighty nine nine to text.

Speaker 16 (01:42:28):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
The Pendington the Musical has just opened in the UK
in London and everyone is raving about it. For those
that don't know about that, the great thing, it's a musical,
the great This is why doufficuats are back actually because
it's got a dufflicat. The great question was how they
were going to do the Pennington because you can't do puppets,

(01:42:50):
really can you, because these strings everywhere. What they have
done is they have managed to combine. They've got an
actor who is short about three foot something and combined
who movements with someone who does the voice and the

(01:43:14):
facial expressions. So it must be animatronics there also, So
they reckon it's outstanding and the record it's going to
run for years and years and years. So that's probably
something that some of you will be going to the
UK four. You ought to be booking tickets for that

(01:43:36):
that's my hot tip. So yeah, every news article I've
seen has raved about it. Artie Shah is the actress
well I call actor full foot tool the characters boards
life for a combination of her on stage performance in
a bear suit and off stage remote puppetry and voice work.

(01:43:58):
I don't know what off stage remote puppetry is. It
sounds like a video game. I guess that's what it is,
and that moves the facial expressions. But apparently it's extremely
good and people love it. Yes, so there you go.
Everyone says it's irresistible and joyful. Will it come here

(01:44:21):
probably in twenty years. By the way, this is really
interesting about the woman that flew from North Cape to
in Vera Cargoll. She has a Wikipedia page and some
of you probably will know about her. Trevor Hunter was
a using aviator. She accompanied Ted Harvey on the record
breaking flight from North Cape to Bluff in December nineteen

(01:44:42):
thirty three. She's the first of five years in women
accepted to fly with the Air Transport Axilary during the
Second World War. Trevor Hunter was born in fung and
NUIs on the twenty fifth of Junal January twenty fifteen.
To Winni and Marmaduke Archer Hunter. She was named Trevor
as her mother was sure that the babe would be
a boy.

Speaker 13 (01:45:00):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
She was remember the pongingw Eero Club gained her a
license at age sixteen. She was one of four female
pilots who flew information with Jen Batten on her arrival
to New Zealand. Following her solo flight from Britain in
nineteen thirty four. She was in the Air Transport Auxiliary.

(01:45:30):
During her four years, she logged twelve hundred hours of
solo flying through forty two types of aircraft spitfires, Warwick's,
Mitchell's and Wellington's. She was employed as a commercial pilot
after the war and set intermediate grade ballet examinations in
Sydney and took ballet and ballroom dancing and wanganu till
she retired. Died in two thousand and two. Great story,

(01:45:56):
something I knew nothing about fifteen to eleven text if
You've got them, concussion and driving found terribly as on
the roof Marcus. We are booked to see Paddington the
Musical in April twenty twenty six. Can't wait to see it. Marcus,

(01:46:18):
that woman should move to Levin. We have no problems
with the local buses if we have no buses since
a taxi company brought out the tender, Marcus, the problem
with driving testing is they are not concerned with the
ninety nine times you are okay to drive, but the

(01:46:38):
one time you get in trouble. This makes driving assessments
overly pedantic, but also put health expects difficulties because once
again the one one hundred is unpredictable. The doctors themselves
tell you they are unsure what is needed to answer
vague questions. Someone says it should be paid for by

(01:47:00):
acc marg As you were talking about vaping. I saw
some of the short and street cast opening vape on
the episodes. I've also seen Scott Robinson vaping once when
they put the camera on him in the coach's box. Really, really,

(01:47:26):
I don't think that's true. That might be scarleous. Someone
has texted they said I can't I can cur Raises
a vapist, but I've looked at the video footage of
him vaping and there's no vapor. What he's doing is
he's taking up a pack of chewing gum to his

(01:47:48):
mouth and just extracting one or two pieces of gum
using the teeth method, as you do occasionally when you're stressed,
So it looks like he's vaping, was actually getting gum.
I mean, I don' would have a problem with him vaping.

Speaker 5 (01:48:04):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Not a problem at all. Actually, although I see that
South Africa smoked whales, which put our victory into perspective.
They really are hopeless, aren't they? Wow? When do they
become such easy beats?

Speaker 14 (01:48:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:48:20):
Now the has the World Cup draw being on? That's right?
I think that was on tonight. Someone said it was live.
I didn't see a long winded ad for that on TV.
Someone say, are you watching it live? I guess that
implied it must have been on. I felt like it
was on the last few hours. I can't see the
information about it. Maybe it hasn't happened yet, Trusso this

(01:48:43):
is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:48:46):
Good matte. Did you say you wouldn't be worried if
you did that Scott Robertson was vaping in the in
the wh he was watching the game.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Yeah, it wouldn't consume at all. I try it to
be judgmental, fair enough, fair enough?

Speaker 13 (01:49:04):
Well, yeah, I mean Trus and that sort of vapor
oil comes from the other side of the world, and
I don't know what to do, so I'd rather stay
away from myself.

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
Yeah, I don't think it should be compulsory, you know what.

Speaker 13 (01:49:18):
Talking about Scott Robinson, you know, I barely put the
Scotland game, but I heard McKenzie started on the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
Beach, yes, but then won the match for them.

Speaker 13 (01:49:29):
Hey, and then he won the match? Yeah yeah, well
that's just you know, what do you think would happen?
You know, you know, with a name like McKenzie coming
over to play in Scotland, it's like a big full
circle pretty much. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Yeah, it was his destiny.

Speaker 13 (01:49:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Hey, how's your sheep going anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
No babies, no no offspring, no progeny.

Speaker 13 (01:50:00):
Okay, you've been running around with them more.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Ye not a very good not a ram clearly Crusoe. Yeah,
what a waste of time that was anyway, Master talk,
Thank you. Eight to eleven. Beginning to feel a lot
like Christmas. Six to eleven. Lannie, this is Marcus. You

(01:50:23):
are welcome to the air waves. Good evening, Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:50:29):
Yeah, a bit of a random call, A story about
interaction with the world.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
Bud briefly right up my wheel.

Speaker 20 (01:50:37):
Yes, yeah, well yeah, I got a few. Anyway. So
there's this young bell bud and that's happened the bit. Yeah,
they're up in the tree and he's doing a three
note call. Work much better than that, and then he
starts doing two notes, and then he starts doing one note.

(01:51:01):
So I sat something in the missing notes, you see,
that's my whistles. And this off for about five minutes,
and then I must have pissed him off, I think.
And he came flowing down out of the tree and
landed like about a meter away from me, and he
was looking at it, looking at me, and he was

(01:51:21):
laying him forward like this, and he started talking like
a human, but he was like making a noise like
a fast talking humans. Like he was looking at me,
and I think he was sort of ridiculing me, like
if you talk like it did, well, I'm going to

(01:51:41):
come down there and talk like a human to you.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
I'm sure that's what he was thinking.

Speaker 20 (01:51:46):
Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure that's what he was thinking too.
And it was like I think he was I might
have pissed him off. He was sort of taken the
piss out of me and yeah, it was. It was
quite quite funny. He was very determined and.

Speaker 2 (01:52:01):
He was just so I can visualize it what he
were you doing.

Speaker 20 (01:52:07):
I'm on the least case as a mountains and you know.

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
That pretty birdy.

Speaker 20 (01:52:15):
Yeah, yeah, well I've had a couple of things heaven,
but yeah, I think the young birds are a bit cheeky,
you know, No.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
I agree. Nice story, Larnie, thank you for that. I
was out up the around the back of the bluff
hill dated up at the top of the bluffing over.
There was a woman there from Belgium and she was
offended by how few birds there were. Excuse me, because
you tell me where the birds are. I said, well,
there's toui and there's bell birds, and there's wood pigeons,

(01:52:49):
and I thought there'd be more. I said, well, really,
people come here for the pelagics, for the sea birds.
I mean we have just recently had Arctic turns. I said,
you're a bird watcher. She's well, very keen on birds.
I love watching them. I said, well, if you sit
here and you will see them. But classic tourists, I
just thought, well straight away they wanted to know straight
where the birds were. If you sit with yourself quietly.

(01:53:11):
They'll come to you impatient. I think she was bored
because her husband was out on the shark boat, and
I think she was it was a long day to
amuse herself with. I think the shark boat is quite
a long day. It's not into sharks. But there after
Stuart Island to see the kiwi, So good luck with that. Yeah,

(01:53:32):
bird is there there. Yeah, they're hard to satisfy. Something
I meant to ask you earlier, and I apologize, but
I didn't do it yet. I haven't done it. How
did your Advent calendar go today? Or first day of Advent? Collors?
Was that a successful thing? I wonder? Let me know

(01:53:55):
if it was. We tried two of them. One was
a ludo Advent calendar, which I don't have great hopes for,
and the other one is a wizjag one yeah, and

(01:54:19):
I don't know if that's going to be good or not.
It's like a jigsaw. I didn't see a very good
Salami Advent calendar, which is just a pack of salami,
which I thought was very good. I'll try to send
that to them, and I can't work my emails. Eight
past eleven, eight ten eighty and nine. No, I can't

(01:54:40):
sit attachments on my email, so of frustrates me from
time to time. Used to have that ability, could be
pilot error, get in touch if you on a talk
and getting your license after concussion or regetting your license.
That's one of the topics for tonight. You might want
to talk about that. By the way, the draw for

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the Rugby World Cup is Wednesday, and the much start
again too, which is excited about too. The Eshes is
coming up, Helen. It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:55:14):
Now I live out of Dargaville, right, I understand that
there's no taxi services in Dargable. If you lose your license,
I think you're in real trouble. So there's no taxi
as far as I understand. Now, if you want to
get some ray and you've got some sort of disability,
it's just about impossible because there isn't is really any

(01:55:37):
bus service. There is a takes people, but it doesn't
go through it doesn't go in the school holidays. And
also it's not accessible, so that if you can't actually
climb up those steep steps, well you're just really you're
just really stuck and something's got to be done. About this.

(01:55:58):
I think perhaps I shall, I shall try and do
something about this. Must still try and get a petition
or something going, because in these in these rural areas,
I think coaka out there that there's no taxes, there's
no taxis in these small towns. Yeah. And then and

(01:56:19):
then as well as that, I understand that they're doing
they're doing something with the total mobility schemes so that
they're tightening up on that, so that that's going to
affect a lot of people. Also, like if you live
near they say, if you live near a bus stop,
you actually don't really need it. Something along those lines.

(01:56:43):
It's it's pretty grim.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
I am seeing online there's a bus from Dagle def
and Beckach day by white Water Coach Lines.

Speaker 14 (01:56:51):
No, I think I think that's closed. I think that's
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
That's I think I think they've said they've closed the
ten thirty and the twelve thirty one. I think there's
still a morning one.

Speaker 14 (01:57:00):
Yes, but if that's a bus, it's still going. I
understand it doesn't have any it's not accessible for people
who can't who can't get up on it because the
steps are inaccessible. You know, it's got a walker or something.
It's just pretty bad.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
But can I just clarify there is a bus?

Speaker 14 (01:57:20):
Well, well, there is a bus, but I don't know
if it's that one that's on the website.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
Okay, different, but you said there wasn't a bus.

Speaker 14 (01:57:27):
Right, No, No, I didn't say that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Okay, you said there's a bus, you go with it,
and that's also the school bus, is it? That's weird.

Speaker 14 (01:57:35):
I'm not too sure about this, but I understand that
there is a bus, but it doesn't go regularly, it
doesn't go in the school holidays, and it's not accessible
for people who've got mobility problems because if you can't
climb up the steps, you know, to get onto the bus,
you can't really use the bus, can you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
No, I don't want the answer to that either. It's
bad because they are the people that need to transport
to people that can't get around. So that's that's a sale.

Speaker 14 (01:58:02):
Yes, there is there is the you know that the
service for people to go from Dargable to Fungay to
the hospital. But I don't know how reliable that is either,
because I ran into some people at the hospital and

(01:58:22):
they said it was too complicated for them to apply
it for so they gave up and very people are
very poor up here. You know, perhaps somebody knows more
about any of these issues that we'd like to hear
from them.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
Please, Well, that's why I've got sympathy for the guy
with concussion from Dagon, because there's no other options for him.

Speaker 14 (01:58:44):
No, and if you've got nobody.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Drive you, well what he's supposed to, So they're no
texts a dargavill I don't think so. Is there a
driving Miss Daisy?

Speaker 14 (01:58:54):
Oh now that's another thing. Now, driving miss Daisy. If
you're under acc it's three. But if you aren't and
it's happened to be disabled like like, it cost hundreds
of dollars to get your groceries delivered. And also if
you want to get if you live, if you live
further out Sathan Tongue, Lahini, you can't get your groceries

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delivered by you know. This all came to discovered these
hard facts during the COVID thing, so that I live
further out than Tongue, and and that's as far as
they delivered them. And you had to be on the internet,
and people a lot of people aren't on the internet,
and so, oh god, this is awful.

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
Sure, there is a there is a taxi company and
Dave all good Cody Coast Caves. Have they closed down?

Speaker 3 (01:59:47):
Have they?

Speaker 14 (01:59:47):
I don't. I don't know. PREPSA. Well, that's good to
hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
You said you said you said there were no texts?

Speaker 9 (01:59:55):
Did you?

Speaker 14 (01:59:56):
I did that? I didn't think to work.

Speaker 2 (01:59:57):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know about that because a lot
often things go out. You wouldn't know if they've gone
out of business, would you.

Speaker 14 (02:00:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
Yeah, okay, we'll talk more about Helen. Thank you, Solendra.
This is Marcus. Welcome him.

Speaker 22 (02:00:08):
Marcus. I was listening to here talking to Helen.

Speaker 5 (02:00:12):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (02:00:13):
Yeah, if she's wanting a taxi ride from Dargaville to
Finery As I drive for an cab and we do that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
You're based in are you?

Speaker 22 (02:00:24):
Yeah, we are based in Finerray. But if they need
to come to Finary from Dargaville, we do a run
to Dargaville and pick them up and bring it to Finerarray.

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
No problem.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
Hundred bucks.

Speaker 22 (02:00:36):
Oh it's more a little bit more than that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
Okay, so return a return trip, a return trip would
be expensive, yes, okay. Do you know if there is
a taxi company in Dargaville.

Speaker 22 (02:00:52):
No, I'm not sure. But if there's people, when people
need ride from there to come to Finerry Airport or something,
we do the run, go there and pick them up
and we only charge when we come back from.

Speaker 11 (02:01:04):
There to Finerary Heap, very often.

Speaker 16 (02:01:10):
Every nine and then.

Speaker 22 (02:01:11):
Okay, well when somebody need an age, yep.

Speaker 2 (02:01:15):
Appreciate that, Tolendra, thank you for that. Fifteen past level
if you want to talk Marcus still twelve by the
way too, if you just joined us, what a fiesco
it was the basketball? It was a buzzer beater right
at the end, but the coverage went off, so I
even quite worked out, why will we cancel our subscription
when we should unbelievable not to be believed? Eighteen past eleven.

(02:01:45):
If you're going to England for Pennington, The reviews of
the stage musical are rave reviews. Someone says, can we
talk about the breaking news LIGMA outbreak from overseas? Yeah? Wow,
that's good. Well, actually I've got to say, I've got
no idea what that is. I'll look that up. Prank,

(02:02:09):
I've never heard of that. Oh to me, I think,
but thanks for that. Let's be by understanding about that
now someone's also emailed texted Marcus. Long time evid listening here.
People are constantly answering your questions, but just a checking
how are you? Anything in significance is going on in
your life? No, just getting ready for Christmas. This is

(02:02:34):
a funny one, Marcus. According to my advent calendar, Christmas
is in three days lull very funny, Marcus. In a
little community of pay here till we have no taxis,
we have no bus services to talk about, but we
have a community shuttle, which is a vehicle put by Monday,
naded by local businesses, run by volunteers, booked at our eyesight.
Also accepts gold coin donation. That sounds like it's a

(02:02:54):
good thing. In relation to the sports news, eight pm
was reported that two news in test quick is are
unavailable to what was reported to as insupportinate groins. This
is not a meta condition I'm familiar with. Can someone
please enlighten me? I presume they have a groin strain, Marcus.

(02:03:14):
Did you realize that in Singapore it's a legal to
vape first defense to two thousand dollars fine thing events,
two weeks jail, Oh, Marcus. The butter chicken pie has
risen from a niche fusion food to become text ends
there now I'm reading a lot about the the pie,

(02:03:35):
the buttered chicken. One of my kids is always asking
for a butter of chicken pie. I've never tried one,
but clearly they're delicious and the kids seem to love them,
So there we go. That might be something you haven't tried.
One of those that seems to be the thing they
are tracing its career over the last twenty years. It's
become quite a big deal. Started in Mount Eden in
a cafe there that is still going. So it's kind

(02:03:57):
of fusion food, isn't it. But yeah, buttered chicken pie
not a bad thing. Speaking of food and fusion food,
I've been looking on some online videos of diners and
pubs in England showing what they're offering for Christmas dinner

(02:04:18):
with their Christmas roast meal. And yes, just like we
talked about several months ago, it seems like every Christmas
meal there features very small sausages wrapped in bacon. It
seems to be a very big part of the Christmas meal,
which I'm excited about. I've never experienced those, so there
we go. So people see something on talk back, and
indeed that is true. Pigs in a blanket. It's called,

(02:04:42):
by the way, the sausage wrapped in bacon, Susie, this
is Marcus. Good evening, and welcome.

Speaker 23 (02:04:48):
Good evening, Marcus. I just sort of ring and tell you.
The new buses and number cargo are lovely. Oh god, yes,
but yeah, they are so smooth.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
We're not that new though, are they.

Speaker 23 (02:05:00):
Oh yeah, they're the pretty fashion side, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
How old would they have whened the new ones coming?

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
Though?

Speaker 23 (02:05:08):
About three weeks ago. They sat down at the depot
for quite some time. But I did hear markers that
one was out y kiwi and it started beeping because
they have to be charged. Sure, and I've had to
take the old one off because it's just about running
of its battery. So they had to take it back.

Speaker 11 (02:05:29):
And for one of the old ones on Oh yeah,
the electric okay, I sing on Facebook they say they
struggle with the range.

Speaker 23 (02:05:38):
Yeah, but they're lovely to ride on. I used the
buses a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:05:45):
I think they must have driven them down the country
by the looks of things.

Speaker 23 (02:05:49):
Possibly, yeah, but those old ones, they had it they
wouldn't make it to christ church.

Speaker 2 (02:05:54):
No, oh, that's good news. I'm pleased to hear that, Susie.
Thank you. There we go twenty five past. If you've
got anything to add here till midnight, Marcus. As we
get closer to carving up the Christmas do you know
if we get any pork products from Spain? Are you
aware of Spanish swine fever happening over there? Thank you?

Speaker 16 (02:06:13):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:06:13):
I don't think you get to Spa, you know, well,
I don't think you get swine. I don't know. I
wouldn't imagine you get Spanish swine fever for eating pork.
I meagere it'd be more alive thing. Yeah, I don't
know about you. You need to have avoided your Christmas
hams because certainly before long they'll get sold out. I

(02:06:35):
think most of our hams come from Scandinavia or from Canada.
I remember them information about that. If that's still the case,
I don't know, but yes, it comes from a long
way away. I don't know what happened with that with
our own piggeries. I think it's been that way for

(02:06:55):
a long long time. We just can't do it, or
haven't got the will to do it. But yep, hite
if you want to be a part of it. My
name is Marcus. Welcome. Anything else you've got here for you?
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Will we play carols
on the show? Probably not. What I wanted to try

(02:07:18):
and do is to try and incorporate an Advent calendar
in the last days of topics. But I couldn't really
come up with an Advent calendar topic thing. Maybe I
could work on that for next year. I couldn't quite
work out how to actually do an online Advent calendar
or an on Advent calendar, if anyone's got any ideas
about that, Like an talkback topic Advent calendar sounds like

(02:07:43):
a gimmick to me. And how would you know if
I'm even using it. I'm sure people think it was
just an imaginary one. Hello, Matt, this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 24 (02:07:54):
Hello Marcus. How are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (02:07:55):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 24 (02:07:56):
How are you doing fantastic? Just finished book?

Speaker 2 (02:07:59):
Great, that's a bonus and I'll be following you soon.

Speaker 24 (02:08:03):
Yeah, it's weird finishing at this time of the day.

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
It's not great.

Speaker 24 (02:08:09):
Oh that's all good.

Speaker 6 (02:08:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:08:11):
I've been vaping since it pretty much started in.

Speaker 2 (02:08:13):
New Zealand early adopted.

Speaker 24 (02:08:18):
Yeah, no, I was. I got quite sick or a
heavy smoker.

Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
Yeah, how heavy?

Speaker 24 (02:08:25):
Very finished your pecker thirties in the day you and
then then move on to another peck if I in
it sort of thing.

Speaker 15 (02:08:34):
Yep.

Speaker 24 (02:08:36):
Yeah, I feel a lot better for quitting smoking and
taking that vaping. Sure no, I quit drinking as well.
So that's all I do?

Speaker 2 (02:08:49):
There is what vape?

Speaker 9 (02:08:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:08:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:08:53):
Gee, you lot spare time and spare money.

Speaker 24 (02:08:58):
I thinks with cars, so we got to speed money.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
So what are you going to do? You're going to
give up the vaping?

Speaker 24 (02:09:06):
No, no, I enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (02:09:09):
You haven't cross addicted to the pokes or anything, have you?

Speaker 14 (02:09:12):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:09:13):
Sure?

Speaker 24 (02:09:14):
Yeah, I don't touch them.

Speaker 2 (02:09:16):
Oh good. What's your vape flavor?

Speaker 24 (02:09:20):
Well, at the moment, it's very vanilla's disgusting. No, it's
it's nice. I got a sweet tooth, so I like
the sweet flavors.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
Are you? Are you cutting down on the nicotine in
each one you do?

Speaker 13 (02:09:36):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:09:37):
Oh no, no, continue on mister, what I've got? Okay,
that's it's all I do.

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
Have you got a giant vape? Some of those people
have huge contraptions. They hang off and some people, I
mean some people are the vape machines that they've made
in the eighteenth century.

Speaker 24 (02:09:53):
You might's huge.

Speaker 5 (02:09:55):
I like it.

Speaker 24 (02:09:56):
I like a big, dirty vape.

Speaker 3 (02:09:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (02:09:58):
I've tried to the other ones, but no, they don't
feel right.

Speaker 2 (02:10:04):
What's good about the big ones?

Speaker 24 (02:10:07):
That's with the big ones.

Speaker 2 (02:10:08):
What's good about them? Are they just kind of more robust?

Speaker 24 (02:10:12):
Yeah, they a bit more robust. I couldn't refill mine.
All I've got to do is I've got to replace
the coil once every two weeks. The coil doesn't last,
and just buy the fake jews once a week. And
it's about it.

Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
The dream met. Nice to hear from you. Thank you know.
This is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 18 (02:10:33):
Hey Marcus good mate. Yeah yeah, okay, Marcus. Look, I'm
a directory. You need directory over one mate?

Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
Train Yeah yeah, yep, yep, yep, U three hang on?
Are they still going?

Speaker 18 (02:10:48):
Yeah? Yeah, well yeah yeah, but today AI took over Shivers.
It sucks. It's not coming to a robot now it's
a human. But he tells you that he is a
a agent agent.

Speaker 1 (02:11:11):
Is that right?

Speaker 18 (02:11:11):
And and it sounds like to me, it sounds like
Peter go. What's just to put voice voices sounds like
somebody you like or something.

Speaker 2 (02:11:20):
So it's just gone a. I you it's only just today,
gone a.

Speaker 18 (02:11:26):
I yep, to the first of December, because and then
and then just wait, come on and then and then go.

Speaker 2 (02:11:39):
Over it just to think of what I've freaked about
that I don't do it now, Dan, get that up.
I thought it would be. I thought it disappeared years
ago the five years since I've called one eight. Have
to click on it, bring it across. I want to
hear the ringing.

Speaker 3 (02:11:58):
Then welcome to one eight agent. Are you looking for
a residential or business number?

Speaker 2 (02:12:06):
Sorry?

Speaker 1 (02:12:07):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
Can you brings? How can we do it? Just to
let you know, just yeah, that's yeah, that's what I thought.
But you bring Darlad. Just bring it across so I
can click on it. I don't know we'd have to
push any buttons, but we'll see how we go. Bring

(02:12:28):
it across, so that's on. They can't we put across
onto on air?

Speaker 9 (02:12:37):
Right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:12:40):
Yeah to one eight. I'm Glenn, your friendly AI agent.
Are you looking for a residential or business number?

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
Business business?

Speaker 3 (02:12:54):
Great? Thanks for letting me know. Can you please tell
me the name of the business in this location. If
you can give me the town or suburb, that'll help
narrow it down.

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
The radio station one's.

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
Thanks. Can you tell me which town or suburb one
ZB radio station is located in? Help me find the
right number for you.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
It's in every town, but it's just sorry you go,
no worries at all.

Speaker 3 (02:13:23):
Just to confirm. Are you looking for the phone number
for one ZB radio station?

Speaker 2 (02:13:27):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
So could you please tell me which town or suburb
it's in. That'll help me find the right contact details
for you.

Speaker 2 (02:13:34):
It's a radio station that's right across the country, but
its offices in Auckland. But I want to bring talkback
radio and be on the air.

Speaker 3 (02:13:46):
Thanks for clarifying. So you're after the phone number for
one ZB radio station's office in Auckland, right, I'll look
that up for you now. I found the main office
for Newstalk ZB and Auckland. The number is zero eight
zero zero eight zero one zero eight zero. I'll repeat
that zero eight zero zero eight zero one zero eight zero.

(02:14:06):
Did you catch all of that? Would you like me
to go over it again?

Speaker 2 (02:14:09):
Yes? Please one more time?

Speaker 3 (02:14:13):
It thanks just to confirm sure thing. I found the
number for Newstalk ZB, which is the one ZB radio
station in Auckland. The number is zero eight zero zero
eight zero one zero eight zero. I'll repeat that zero
eight zero zero eight zero one zero eight zero. Did
you catch that? Okay? Would you like me to say

(02:14:33):
it again?

Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
Thanks so much?

Speaker 3 (02:14:36):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
One eight? Who owns that?

Speaker 6 (02:14:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:14:42):
Wow, I'm pretty interested in that. I forgot about that
because you just to use it a lot, didn't you. No,
you don't want to call anyone. I don't think I
would have called O one e but for a while there.
You can just google people, now, can't you. I don't
know who owns one eight directory? Is it Spark the tenement?

(02:15:07):
Paddy Garish? One ZB one ZB? How much did that cost?

Speaker 3 (02:15:15):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (02:15:15):
Does it? Say? I think it's a dollar?

Speaker 20 (02:15:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:15:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:15:22):
From your landline? How much does it cost to ring?
Cost to ring directory? It uhould be fifty cents, must
have gone up. But what an amazing use of chet GPT.
Probably going to use my voice and download it, that's
what's going to happen. The cost to call a directory

(02:15:43):
depends on the provider the type of call. For example,
calling one eight for a mobile cost a dollar three.
A landline is considerably cheaper fifty one cents. I feel
on a post directory high one zb. I'm just trying
to work out could I write down how he said
the number? It was like, oh eight, oh, it's one

(02:16:07):
all timee seven get it?

Speaker 3 (02:16:08):
The number zero eight zero zero eight zero one zero
eight zero.

Speaker 2 (02:16:14):
Zero eight zero zero eight zero one one more time.

Speaker 3 (02:16:19):
The number zero eight zero zero eight zero one zero eight.

Speaker 2 (02:16:23):
Zero zero eight zero zero eight zero one one zero
eight zero. Oh wait, zero eight zero zero. It's pretty confusing,
isn't it? Eight zero one zero eight zero. That might

(02:16:44):
be a new way to do it. It triggered zero
eight zero zero eight zero one zero eight zero flip.
Don't really want to reprogram myself. It took me a
while to get back to after I went, oh, no, oh,

(02:17:05):
what which is the way he should be saying it?
The number four ones eb.

Speaker 17 (02:17:12):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:17:13):
Wait zero Yeah. A lot of people don't like saying, oh,
eight hundred. I didn't say that's what. I didn't say,
oh eight hundred? Did he? Oh, it'd be say zero
eight zero zero? Doesn't he says it?

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:17:24):
Zero eight zero zero eight zero one zero eight zero.
I've got it. If you want to talk on air,
the number is zero eight zero zero eight zero zero
zero eight hundred eight zero one zero eight zero flip
or called a rectory.

Speaker 1 (02:17:46):
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