He was know as Mr Smiley (13 December 2024)

Three new toll roads have been announced, and residents of an apartment building in Auckland have been told off for drying their clothes outside.

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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):
At b.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Beck Cat. Your greetings, welcome, My name is Marcus. Toown's
busy A come pass some of the bars tonight people
are spilling out onto the street. It's kind of that
night and it's got that feel of it's that Oh,
let's give some Christmas drinks because next Friday. Let's face
everyone's out of the office by midday this Friday, though,

(00:40):
hanging one on. She's good if you the uberists are
out there in the big spoke, Let's hope it's a
good night for you. Haven't heard anything about whether it's
busy or not busy this time of the year, but
maybe that's something you can opine on tonight. It'll be
a change from washing on your balcony. The apartments where
you can't put your washing on the balcony are called risido.

(01:07):
They are in Mount Wellington. Has it ever been a
worse name for apartments than the risido? Cheapest? How do
those conversations go? Something along the lines of what we
call the apartments where people will reside there. Let's put

(01:27):
a no on the end. If you are living at
the reside of apartments. Right in Auckland. You are extremely
close to Sylvia Park. What a great place for apartments.
If you're into malls, you would need to dry your clothes.

(01:49):
You just got to came out and get yourself a
three dollar T shirt. It's literally twenty meters away from
Sylvia Park or Sylvia Pleths I like to call it.
Of course, we know once upon a time that Sylvia
Park was for of those half round sheds the American
Army put up everywhere. Remember those? Love those quon set huts.

(02:16):
I think is a name for those, although I think
the British called them something different. One of my dream
homes is a quonset hut. In fact, speaking of dream homes,
in Newcastle in Australia, they were short of houses, so
they made a whole suburb of houses that were quan
set huts. It's look quite good too. They've been modernized now.

(02:38):
But yeah, they were desperate for houses after the war.
They built a lot of those. It's a true story,
true enough. Anyway, welcome. My name is Marcus had On Midnight,
and a lot's going to happen in the next four
u It's been quite newsy with the dogs and the
fairies and Winston our hero who's going to make the

(03:01):
fairies rail and abled or whatever that means, he's going
to have trains on them. This is what Instant's time
to shine. Oh yeah, bare Catcher hey, by the way,
just because it's something that people might like to talk about,
and let's face it, on a Friday night, you want
to get things that people are likely to talk about
or might be likely to talk about. Toll roads, toll roads,

(03:26):
toll roads, toll roads. There's three toll roads. One is
called pin Link. It's a terrible name for a road.
Every time I see pin Link, I think it's a
petrochemical company. That doesn't sound like a road. But pin
Link right as a road to the Fong Paroa Peninsula.

(03:50):
If you have ever been on Fong trying to get
to town, it takes forever. So the pin Link means
you can actually skew it out and then you go
somewhere else. You come out at Silverdale or something like that.
It's not a bad of a road if you're into
roads personally, if I was living there to getting the ferry,
but I think they put the kibosh on that one.

(04:12):
So that's one of the toll roads. And what will
happen with that is probably the other road. It'll be
empty in this road will be congested. That's the thing
about new roads is that so many people use them.
They're bumping a bumper from the get go. But that
is PenLink. The other roads that are the toll roads
that have been announced, right, the other roads. I've told

(04:36):
you what PenLink stands. We haven't I Peninsula Link. Yeah,
that's right. The other road that you might have heard
about but have no idea what it is. Right, The
other toll road goes from It's called Taki Timu North
Link Stage one, and that's going to cost you three

(04:57):
dollars ten at peak, which will be six twenty per day,
which will be thirty one dollars a week, cost you
thirty one dollars as well as the guest to use
that road. I don't entirely know where that road goes from,
but what I believe it'll take you from Todonga to

(05:18):
or Macoa. If I'm wrong, let me know. Will that
be worth six dollars a day to get a toll
on that road? It looks like it's about oh five
k's long, is it? How long it is, so it's
gonna cost you. I don't know if there's going to
be an alternative. So really, what I want to know
from you tonight to start this whole ball rolling these

(05:39):
new toll roads. Are you excited about them and how
much they're gonna cost? Are you some that lives in
fang ar Paroa or Ormcoa and will you be jumping
all onto these roads? By the way, the pen Link
one is cheaper, but just by tiny Wincy into a

(06:02):
little bit of the Takatimi. The other one is u
Tucky to North of n which hasn't even got a name.
I can't imagine commuters would be using that, But if
that's the road you want to use as well, that
price is similar. So yeah, if you're going to do that.
The all Tucky live In Expressway, I'm not familiar with

(06:24):
that when either. I'm friendly googling them all up tonight
to work out where they go from. So if any
of these roads are roads you're going to use or
excited about, let me know and they will you straight
away use them because they will be value for money.
I would imagine all Turkey to live in to North
to live. It is about ten k's that seems to

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be the best for bang for your buck, So yeah,
particularly if you are I know, if you are loving
and living in All Macroo, it's hard work getting to Tottong.
It takes forever. I know it's a situation to infung
our Paoh. I don't know the situation with all Turkey
to live in. I guess that's just on holidays. So
if these roads are road you will use, let me

(07:07):
know when or how and if it's value for money.
Twenty twenty eight, I think the your marketole one opens.
So yeah, that's what I'm on about tonight. Just a
bit of background and how useful will these toll roads be?
Like have you built a house just to get ready
for it? That's something I'm asking for you. So yeah,

(07:27):
eight hundred and eighty. Who wants to be the first
person to start the whole shebang tonight? I realize it's
the silly season. I realize people are driving to and
from their Christmas party tonight. Every call is of interest
to me. I'm sure you're going to say some pretty
fun stuff so that we can be fast and loose tonight.

(07:50):
If there's breaking news within the next three hours, fifty minutes,
I'll be bringing that straight three hours forty five minutes,
I'll be bringing that straight.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
To you.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Because with a huge week of news it's been, I
wouldn't be surprised if something happens tonight. So get in touch.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. What about that
YouTube video on TikTok that guy in India that's fixing appliances?
You seeing that we need shops like that here there's

(08:22):
people coming in with blenders that don't spin. He just
kind of hits some with a bit of wood, jumps
up onto the shelves, fix them in about ten seconds.
I was very good. Marcus Manawa Nui Gorge Expressway has
escaped tolling It was a daft idea to toilet so
late in the piece. I believe that is the one
from Palmerston North to is it Danna Rk somewhere like that?

(08:47):
So that was the one. There's quite a lot of
people kicking out bobsy Die about that. So I think
your fuss has been taken notice of, and that's the answer.
You got to kick out bobbsy Die and start phoning Simeon.
So is that one has not been told, and I've
taken a lot of talk back about that. People were
fiery about that. I think it might be wood full

(09:09):
of pay here to it a Paveston North, not as
far as down to it. But so it's all about
toll roads. Tonight someone says that quan Set huts are
called Nissen huts. There was two different types. I think.
I think one might have been a British invention. One
might have been an American invention. I think qun Set
might be an Inoit word or an Alessican word, quon Set.

(09:34):
You'll know them quan set. Would that be esquimo? I
don't word anymore, do you? So the quan Set hut
was based on the Nissen hut. I love these buildings.

(09:59):
I don't know why I called quon set, by the way,
so maybe it's more like a I don't know the answer.
The first ones were built on Rhode Island at a
place called quan Set Point. Yeah, true story. Anyone live

(10:19):
in One'd be hard to hang a painting, wouldn't it,
because all the walls are curved. But talk about the
toll roads. For me, I want to have background to them,
want to have how excited you are. But if we're
going to be a country that's made on roads, Marcus,
motorcycles should be exempt from the tolls to encourage their use.
They have resafe, they've respace efficient and good full commuting

(10:41):
on Yes, but a lot of people die on them.
That's a trouble with motorbikes. I see their levees gone
up a lot, hasn't it. Did you see that today?
I think that was discussed on programs tonight. Yes, even
on Ryan Bridge nights, Ryan Bridge afternoons they had every

(11:02):
Leech talking about motorcyclists objecting to punitive a CEC Livy
increase eighty percent? How do they Malcolm Marcus welcome?

Speaker 5 (11:12):
How are you going Marcus?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Ten? Ten out of ten?

Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, I've described Actually just got home from driving
down from pair Prim to Palmerston.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
So wow do you mean Palmiston North?

Speaker 6 (11:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
How do you think people how do you think people
in Palmiston feel about You're calling it just Palmiston?

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Oh who cares? I don't think the place anyway?

Speaker 7 (11:36):
Enough?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well, okay, good answer.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
But yeah, that that toll road, which is you know
going to get built one day? Uh you know, I
don't think they realize that. How much do we know
how much it's going to be? The tolls?

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Stand by caller? What would be? How much would you
be prepared to pay.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Me your dollar?

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Are you a light vehicle or a heavy vehicle?

Speaker 5 (12:05):
I actually have a camper bus.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
Which where will you?

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Because I'll move out of this area soon anyway, so
I'll be living back in Wellington. So and we travel
to up the line probably eight to ten times a year,
so we would potentially potentially use that road frequently, yeah,
twenty twenty times, but not as frequent as someone that's
going to use it going to work. So someone is

(12:29):
going to use it going to working back. They're going
to lose fifty dollars of their wages, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yes, But you wouldn't be going there to go to
working back. Where would you be commuting from.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
A lot of people live and live in and.

Speaker 9 (12:43):
Work in Wellington.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
I've been doing it. I've been doing it for but
I've been driving up and down there four times a week,
really someone sometimes five.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's the hell of a drive.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
It's our on twenty minutes from my face to Tony.
But vegan sit in traffic and Wellington for that long.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
I thought we're all going to work from home?

Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yeah, I can't do that when you're a mechanical sort
of hard? Is it hard to do things over? Hard
to do things over the phone with spanners and that?

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, I guess it is. How much do you think
it would be a fear? How much do you think
a fear amount for that toll would.

Speaker 10 (13:16):
Be a dollar?

Speaker 5 (13:19):
But I've thought of a way around it because I
was thinking about this.

Speaker 11 (13:23):
So if do you want to know how it comes down?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Do you want to know how the much of the
toll is going to be?

Speaker 12 (13:30):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Is it five dollars?

Speaker 3 (13:31):
They threatened that two dollars?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Seventy to seventy okay, so to seventy twenty seven odd
dollars a week something like that? Isn't it?

Speaker 13 (13:43):
You know?

Speaker 11 (13:43):
Five day week?

Speaker 5 (13:44):
But ye, anyway around a way around it as you
get your boss. I don't know how they paid. I
think does it come in the post, comes out of something?
You could get your boss to pay it. That way.
You don't pay tax on eunings. Some of co bosses
would do that, you know, because taxing taxes. You know,
you get taxed and you get taxed again and again.
It just seems like a never ending tax in this country.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's something that's become a bit of a talkback catch
cry within the last twelve months, as people saying text
is on Texas.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Yeah, yeah, well it's the same. You know, you go
off the subject of Ted when they threatened to text
you on selling things on trade me.

Speaker 11 (14:26):
You're you're selling an item and that second hand.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
It's already had the text paid on it, So why
should you pay text again on something that's one of us.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Don't buy it, don't buy it?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah, yeah, Are you going to be living living in
your camp even? No, no, no, I'm going to get
another house back in the city. We should have stayed
in first place. I'm not a country boy.

Speaker 13 (14:48):
Apparently.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Well, they're leaving Wellington and the droves, aren't they eleven
thousand jobs discontinue there, so yeah, name your price to
fire sale to what's pretty damn com I'm looking at
Taka team who drive. There's two different toll roads take
a Tebu North Link Stage two and takatamuns complicated. Good evening, Andy,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (15:08):
Welcome Marcus, first time call on long time listener.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Thank you for making that brave step.

Speaker 12 (15:16):
Now this I don't see what the real issue was about.

Speaker 9 (15:20):
I'm up.

Speaker 12 (15:21):
Now Are we pay two a lot of seventy each way?
I'm happy with that. That takes me out of congestion.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Hang on, ha, have you already got your toll road?

Speaker 12 (15:34):
Yeah? But but let's go north?

Speaker 9 (15:39):
Is it going north? South? Mate? Okay, there's an alternative
you don't want to pay?

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh, yes there is two? But hang on, but where's
but you don't you you're not told going south from
audywhere are you?

Speaker 12 (15:50):
Yeah? You got two way mates, two way homeways?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Oh, where's the where's the southern limit of that toll road?

Speaker 12 (16:01):
Just before the tunnel?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (16:06):
You know it's not drunk drumson tunnels? Whatever it is.
The point is that you've got three options, and there's
two or turn doles. You take the free road, or
you take the paid road. Three road there's another fifteen
minutes on a on a good day, bad day, half
an hour in condition, or you pay the two seventy Hi.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
But if you're getting if you're going from Audio and
getting on the State high one south of Grand Drive, right,
then you're not playing a toll are you road?

Speaker 12 (16:35):
Yeap, So great grand drive is the last option for
the free road.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
So for you to get the for you to get
the pay the toll, you have to go north first.
Wouldn't you then loop around to go in the tunnel?

Speaker 12 (16:47):
Correct? Yeah, so if you want to go free you
have to go via O road and on the main
and the main coastiway.

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh yeah, okay, but we're so you're not actually an
adia where you're north of there? Is that, right?

Speaker 9 (16:57):
I go from poor hoy pooh hoy.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Okay, we know pooh hoy. Yeah, I see, I thought
you where that's where it's confused.

Speaker 12 (17:03):
Yeah, okay, right, so it's two two turnatives that you
don't want to if you don't want to pay, you
take the free road if you want to if you
want to know, a nice easy drive. Pai. Not an issue,
not an issue at all.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
You got is a town full of townies having moved there.

Speaker 12 (17:19):
Now it's getting a bit like that. But that's all right,
that's progress and growth and all that.

Speaker 14 (17:26):
So I know.

Speaker 12 (17:28):
But then other point I wanted to say to the
previous caller saying that your employee will pay for it,
doesn't understand what friends benefit taxes. So you know, maybe
needs to look that one up.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, I didn't really listen to that. What was he
saying that you that you get that.

Speaker 12 (17:42):
You get your employer to pay pay the toll road.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Good luck with that getting it in your contract.

Speaker 9 (17:49):
Exactly.

Speaker 12 (17:49):
And you know this employee did disagree to that. You
have to pay text on that because that's comes under
a Frinds benefits.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
And I don't reckon he's going to like that is
going to pay text on his Texas. That seemed to
be a mentor of his.

Speaker 12 (18:03):
But the whole point of toll roads is you've given
you can ever take the congestion road or take the
free you know, the the firing road, and pay a
little bit for it, and the money coflected is for
the design and the maintenance of the road. So use
a pay service.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
And the good thing now is it's seamless. You don't
have to actually go with change because it's just AI
or there's a film when they just take it out
of your bank, they film it and next thing, it's
it's painless.

Speaker 12 (18:30):
Yeah, there's two game trees up above that checks your
retro on that and it just takes money off your wallet.
So you set up a fifty dollars water playment once
a month. So in the TA money goes into your
online wallet and it just gets stepid at every time
you go through.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh, you're loving the You're loving the old gentry with
the cameras are at you.

Speaker 12 (18:53):
It's very big over into Australia as well. Sydney big
on it, Melbourne a big on it. That's the way
that unclub their congestion. It's just I don't understand these
people who don't want to pay two or seventy but
don't want a nice, free flowing road. But domin play
for it.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Brilliant that's the end. That's brilliant. Andy. Oh, you know
there's no shortage of people wanted to complain about stuff.
That's kind of our stock in trade. Sometimes I thought
it'd be a lot more. It'll be ten bucks. I'll
surprise how cheap it is. Have we never beenwhere I
need to go on a toll road? We are talking

(19:31):
toll roads are the good and the bad. I guess
for some people you could say it would be the
phonage of the wedge. That's something you could say. It's
going to be the phonage that I forget what the
other metaphors they have for something that's just going to
be the beginning. But yes, I reckon too for these
people with and look, brother Dan sit me the most
the most illuminating email about this Tucky TEAMU drive road.

(19:56):
So if you are living in Orco, I'd be canoeing,
but you can't do that. So you drive down your
lane to State Highway too. Then voom, you get on
Tacky Timu North Link Stage two where there will be
toll gantries. They had to look up gentry. That's an
overhead beam Minden road and plumbers rode over bridge. They're

(20:18):
gonna click you. And then you go visiting RU through
there and then you go to tuckt tim Wu north
Link Stage one. We've got more gentries and you enter
town before you know it. I don't know how many lanes.
I don't know if it's going to be fit for purpose.
Remember the Auckland Harbor Bridge, the car strangled spanner they
put that up and with a very short time was
it capacity even though it was told? And I just

(20:44):
wonder the initial toll for the Auckland Harbor Bridge, right,
what would that be in today's money? Because I meageed
it probably would be the equivalent of about ten dollars,
and that would be of interest to me if someone
could work that out. So who knows what the toll was?

(21:14):
They reckon it's about This is from an article The
reckon it's about ten dollars in today's money. So they've
gone and I reckon they've gone too cheap. That's my
take on it. So could someone tell me when they

(21:35):
went across the harbor Oridge nineteen fifty nine, what was
the equivalent? Was the equivalent a loaf of bread or
to a six peck of stein lager. This is bringing
the older people. I love talking about tolls. If you've
got texts, send those through. Love a Friday. Never understood

(21:58):
why bikers are getting totally burned with acc levees. You know,
I can throw on a rugby use and smash myself
to bits all winter and expect the text pay to
pay for all myself inflicted injuries. Toll ride from more
Macroo to Total will eventually reduce the morning congestion from
sixteen minutes to fifteen minutes. Can't wait, Well, that depends

(22:18):
on how many people be on it, won't it? Marcus
is the transmission Gallia toll roads that cost megabucks to
allow politicans to get to Parliament earlier. Marcus Victor from Huntley, Sylvia,
parks sheds with giant gable ended sheds, not this and huts.
I drove past them every day for twenty years. Giant
Cody beams motorcycles should be exempt from the tolls to

(22:49):
encourage their use. They've raised space efficient and good for
commuting on. I don't think we'd need to commute. We'd
all be working from home apart from the mechanics. Mind you.
When they got drivers cars, the drivers' cars could just
go round to the mechanics. Hello brenda ats Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 15 (23:10):
Hello Marcus. I just wanted to tell you that it
was one dollar to go over the bridge and on
the north shore there were all the things and you
threw your dollar and that was it. You didn't pay
to go into the city. It was like fifty cents
each way.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So from the very beginning it was one dollar, m
oh wow, for goodness.

Speaker 15 (23:29):
Sake, and then it was like nothing. It was only
one way, one way out of the city, you know,
and you didn't pay coming back.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's only tolls one way, and it was a dollar.

Speaker 16 (23:40):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Really okay, Breal, that's great information. Wow, should cause some
phone traffic that one first toll being pounds and pence,
isn't memory a phenomenal thing like an unpractical little sieve

(24:05):
pull as mark, good evening, welcome.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
Yeah, just the correction. The lady was on me saying
previously said I used to go through and throw your dollar,
and well, let's in correct because there's more. Currency didn't
come in until nineteen sixty seven, and the bridge it
opened in nineteen fifty nine. When I used to go
across the bridge, I used to pay my two shillings,
which is equivalent to twenty cents and decimalization, so it

(24:33):
was two shillings we used to pay, and I think
the average pay around there was about twenty pound, and
that was very good money in those days.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
So you work out two shillings which would be the
equivalent of five ten probably two hundred shillings would be
twenty pound. So there we go.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Would you be prepared to entertain pool that it might
have been more than two shillings.

Speaker 5 (24:59):
No, it wasn't. They They used to have a told
booth there and used to drive up and hand or
two sh links to the man and the booth and
then carry on. And the told booth used to be
on the north shore side of the bridge and going
and you'd be sure there was nothing on the other side.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
You'd be quite differently, you'd be quite different. That was
two shillings.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
There was two shillings. Yeah, death more currency never coming
until ninety sixty seven, I think, with the tenth of July. Yes,
ninety sixty seven.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, now, okay, it's my understanding that it was two
and six.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
No two shillings, it was.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Okay, oh well, yeah, okay, you know that's and that's
what I find interesting is about the whole thing about memory.
And I think too that you actually paid it both ways,
but then they just had it one way, which made
more sense. Originally you paid it going north and you
paid it going south, and then they split that up
so you just paid it one way. But someone will

(26:12):
have some more opinion about that also, because there's nothing
talked back likes more than someone confidently incorrect. But yeah,
I don't know. I'm just on the internet. But memories
are remarkable thing, isn't it. Kathy. It's Marcus welcoming good evening.

Speaker 17 (26:33):
Him Marcus calling about your last core two shillings was
exactly what it costs at the boots across the abbridge.
He's absolutely correct. My uncle who was a Kiwi, went
to Australia, got married and came actually get to work
on the Harbrbridge when it was being built, and so

(26:57):
we were and they were living in Devonport, so we
would go over frequently after the bridge opened.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
But did you go over did you go over when
it very first opened.

Speaker 17 (27:06):
The first opened, Yeah, because he went back just up
not long after it opened. They went back to Australia.
So yeah, we went over every Friday night, okay. And
I remember my dad, like you know, just all looking
for change and they were good stuff at the booth
which was on the north shore side, and just reached

(27:28):
a hand out and there was a man in the
booths and he would take what it was change you
put together to make the two shillings enoughy kay, nice.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Katy, thank you, Paul. It's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (27:38):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. As you say, isn't memory
a wonderful thing? My recollection was it was half a
crown going over. I was about three when it opened,
and then when I got my motorbike license. It was
one and six and I remember thinking, so that was

(28:02):
a cruil in the fifteen cents, but it in the
car it was always easy because it was just a
single coin. The half crown which was two and six
and commercial trucks my dad was a truckee. They were
four shillings.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Okay, okay, so and two and six to go over
and told both ways, but on the northern side no told.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
Well, no, you only got told going one way, which
meant the two and six covered their end.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Back Paul, keep listening. Thank you very much.

Speaker 18 (28:42):
Tom.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (28:45):
Oh Marcaus, you don't need me now, I think, But yeah,
I remembered two shillings, but I thought it might have
gone down to a shilling towards the end, but the
gentleman just said it's dearer for trucks and cheaper for cars.
But the two bobs what I ever paid.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Thanks Tom, Peter, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Peter.

Speaker 9 (29:08):
The bridge as the toll tolls. I remember when I
was nine years old on holiday in Auckland and going
over the Harbor Bridge, which was a thrill, and the
toll was a half crown or Tom suspense and in

(29:30):
those days.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah, I appreciate that. Thanks Peter. It's very very interesting
because the question is was just on one way or
both ways? And what was the actual cost? Ron Marcus welcome?

Speaker 6 (29:46):
There you go good?

Speaker 10 (29:50):
I remember the old man used two gents and pieces.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
Well two were they cuppings?

Speaker 10 (29:56):
Were the ones with the bags of the birds on them?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:59):
The birds are yeah, the dropping or top and two?

Speaker 16 (30:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
I didn't go up much. I'm just trying to work
out what there would be in the modern the modern
parlants of money dB. It's Marcus welcome, dB, Marcus welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
Eight dollars fifty in today's money. According to Wakakota, he's Hanbridge.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Page and what year was that done? This year?

Speaker 8 (30:26):
I don't know when they put this page together, but yeah,
I look on Yeah, so the tolls were two dollars
two and six and one day. You see the half crown.
Originally you were told in both directions dB to say.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
DB, how many crowns and a pound?

Speaker 10 (30:47):
Four?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Okay, one hundred and a pound, So I think it's
an eight of fifty seven. So I think in the
day's money it's fifty seven dollars twenty divided by eight
if it's half a crown, which is pretty much what
you came up with anyway, go about.

Speaker 8 (31:07):
I just read this off their website.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
The seven dollars fifteen. What did they say?

Speaker 16 (31:12):
It was.

Speaker 8 (31:14):
Okay, and a little a little bit of Manitia from
the toll plaza on the north end to the sweed
restriction signs at O Taiga and one Gray, according to
the cars I drove, was exactly one hundred miles.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
I think you might be right there, and I'll tell
you what happened dB. When they first opened the Harbor Bridge,
it was two and six, yes, and then quite shortly
after it, because it was such a success, they reduced
the toll to two shots. I remember two shillings.

Speaker 8 (31:55):
To two shillings. I remember paying twenty cents and paying
myself until after decimalization.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
And that's right, and it was always in my time
decimal currency sixteen nineteen sixty seven. Then I think it
was twenty cents for a long long time until nineteen
eighty when they put up to twenty five cents tolling.
Tolling was both ways right, yep, but made northbound only.

(32:21):
In March ninete eighty four. I'm surprised dident come up
with that earlier. It'd be best to pay twice and go. Yeah,
I don't know why they didn't do that sooner, all
those people, I think patton the tolls were removed in
nineteen eighty four. Oh, I see it did say tolling
was later made northbound only before being discontinued. Yes, and

(32:44):
nine outy four, So I don't know what year it
was made northbound only, but four the right.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
That was caused by a funny little bitse of kfaffle.
Somebody pointed out that the money in reserve in the
reserve account of the Klan Harvardard Authority equaled them down
the ode the government for building the bridge, and they said, well,
why did you just take this amount the bridge? We
could stop paying toll and there was just no argument

(33:10):
against it, completely flat footed.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
The thing that surprises me. Such a fantastic bit of infrastructure,
the country's most successful bit of infrastructure, the country's most
as successful endeavor and tolling row. They paid it off.
It was unbelievable. Yet we never followed it with anything
as significant or used toll because people love paying the tolls.

Speaker 8 (33:33):
Yeah, when I was driving regularly to one grade. I
thought nothing of paying that toll, and I still think
nothing of paying to go through the pru Hoy tunnels.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Yeah, but that's the pou Hoy tunnel worth now.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
No idea.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
It's been with five years since the last drove that way, because.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
At eight dollars, seems like quite a lot each way.
So if you're living on the north Shore, that's sixteen
dollars a day, it's eighty bucks a week, then you're
going to buy your lunch in town.

Speaker 8 (34:00):
But there was no other Texas. If you, like we
weren't paying, you're paying nothing for the fuel. You weren't
playing tst on everything that you know, so it may
not have been as much of a no.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
And Wilson's Parking Wilson's Parking praise the Lord probably didn't exist.

Speaker 8 (34:21):
All named after me, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Is it really didn't even know you surnamed d V.
Thank you very much for that. There we go, dB,
Wilson's Parking. Marcus should rename your show to Muttenham Radio.
Loll I think we've had that before, Marcus. People going

(34:46):
to trouble for heating up pennies and dropping them into
the collector's hand. It's a mean spirited thing to do, Marcus.
I do remember it being twenty said sometimes when hand
never a few foreign coins and hit the guests. So
I'm thinking that tolls should be more. They want to

(35:06):
encourage people to do different forms of transport, like the
or Macono ferry or something. They should probably do it
about eight bucks each because they will be creaming it
in capital gains, won't they. The hows will be going
through the roof as the new roads mean that people
can move there. That's a controversial thing to say, Hello Simon, Marcus, welcome,

(35:29):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 19 (35:31):
Just now, I suppose I'm reaching out to some other
people that might know the answer. But the tunnel that
goes underneath where the tolls.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Used to be, Oh, yes, I've walked under that.

Speaker 19 (35:42):
I think that's how the toll collect the guys and
girls got to their booths.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
I was really surprised by that tunnel when I found
that when I did my walk around Auckland. It's yeah wow.

Speaker 19 (35:54):
And I think they used because otherwise would be too dangerous.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
To just hang on with their letders into the different booths.

Speaker 19 (36:02):
Yeah, I think there's a few holes that you stills
well create it up wrong.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
No, Simon, hang on, you should do your own YouTube
channel because that's pretty interesting. Because of course you could
have the toll collectors dying after a day in hailing
lead fumes walking back so they drop down out of
that booth down a letter.

Speaker 19 (36:22):
Unless they went to like every second one had a
letter or something like that, because you.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Couldn't send a shuttle to drop them off, because then
you'd be going back across over the bridge and turning
around at w Staven.

Speaker 9 (36:34):
He couldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
I've never thought of that. Hang on, Simon, hang on,
hang on, hang on, I've got three minutes. I don't
want to panic you. Can you listen to the show
all night?

Speaker 9 (36:45):
I do?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
But can you okay? Okay, tonight we will speak to
a person that worked and told we will find one
great Okay, one other thing.

Speaker 19 (36:57):
Just on the subject that people are playing tricks on
the poor toll men and women in Scotland. I went
to a place called the Island Sky and Bridge going there,
and when they just know, they built a bridge, but
everyone protested against the bridge because they loved the fairy
so much, and so to protest that bridge where everyone

(37:20):
would just pay an individual one pence a presumably, and
then other days they did no paydays just as a
massive protest for weeks and weeks and weeks to complain
about this bridge ton't e because it was going to
knock the ferry out.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (37:35):
I don't know if we ever did any of it,
but it turns out the faery because this is on
the news only just recently in New Zealand. It's such
a unique theory. They've carried it on even though it's
not economic, because it's such a special theory and it's
like a tourist thing now. So the bridge is there
and the bridge is now free and to the island sky.
But they carried on the fairy too.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
And why is it unique? Because I think I would
have seen something pop up on YouTube about that. Can
you remind me what.

Speaker 9 (38:03):
You would love it? You would love it.

Speaker 19 (38:05):
It's got a because of the current in the little
area between the mainland and Isle of Sky. They can't
do a ferry at the end of the pontoon or jetty,
so it has to go to the side, but it's
got cars on it and they can't. So this has
a turntable, it has a turntable.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yes I have seen that, yes, yes, yes, yes, yeah,
it's remarkable.

Speaker 12 (38:32):
I think it might be.

Speaker 19 (38:33):
The last one ever anywhere. So that still happens, even
though there is a fantastic car bridge that goes over there.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
The last turntable, it's the last turntable fairy in the world.

Speaker 8 (38:47):
That's the one one.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
If that's in Winston and Nicholas plan could work, could
work for the cock straight that one. It's beautiful. Watch
that on video. Scottish turntable faery, last survivor in the world.
We'd put on the Facebook pagement. It's not good with
YouTube videos. That's what Dad always tells me, Is that right, Dan?

Speaker 6 (39:10):
What?

Speaker 16 (39:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I don't like a screenshot. You see the beautiful motion
of it. It's gorgeous looking thing to gorgeous looking thing.
Turntable ferry on It takes about four cars. So we
need to speak to someone now that worked in tolls

(39:34):
and how they got into a little booth. Gig up
a letter. So just to recap with the Auckland Harbor Bridge,
the car strangled spanner. So when did I open at
ninety fifty nine? There were tolls both ways, but they
were both at the northern end of the motorway and

(39:55):
it was two and six. It was then reduced to
two shillings. Then it went to decimal currency and it
was twenty cents. Then in my lifetime they only started
collecting tolls going one way. They doubled it, but you

(40:17):
just paid one way, which made perfect sense. And then
the tolls we got rid of all together, and they
sold the toll booths and people turned them into garden sheds.
But I think we need to find out how you
got into your toll booth. Did Anyonet work as a

(40:38):
toll collect That could tell me how they did that, Marcus.
The toll on the bridge it was two shillings and sixpence.
You could buy a packet of cigarettes for that. Now
twenty cigarettes cost forty odd dollars. Interesting, Frank Marcus. I
used to work at the Hungry Horse in nineteen seventy

(40:58):
three and used to pay for my parking with roast chicken.
That's from Tony loved the Hungry Horse. I love the
Hungry Horse, Marcus. I'd love to give a big shout
out to the roading crew working on the Karranga Hockey
Gorge to Waye. They give the biggest waves and smiles
one and all two and wave back. Imagine their imagine

(41:24):
standing there holding stop got signs all day. They're doing
a great job. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine to text anyway, get in touch. My name is
Marcus Hittle. Midnight, so do come through. Good evening, Roberts Marcus.

Speaker 11 (41:51):
Yeahy hey gang Marcus, thank you. I'll give you a yeah, yeah,
good good.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Look.

Speaker 11 (41:56):
I my experienced experience with tolls was over, and hearrope
and would hire a car out of skipp hole. Uh
and we and then we drove, drove all around the
Netherlands and then down through Belgium and we got into
France and we were driving well, we were taking all

(42:16):
the secondary roads and we were on our way down
to Mont Saint Michelle. And then to make up time,
we got onto one of the big highways, the end
whatever it was. And yeah, we come to this huge
toll booth area. There must have been must have been
a dozen tolls you could take. So I take one,

(42:38):
and I think the trucks were going straight through three
or four of them. And so I pull out all
these two euro coins to put them into the machine,
and I started panicking because a dozen comes when we're
behind me, and I was forcing these two dollars two

(42:58):
euro coins into a gap in the in the machine
that took the money, and I was forcing it, force
it into into oblivion. It wasn't the area I was
supposed to put the coins into.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
When you're driving a foreign country, you've got no idea
there's going to be toll road, so suddenly it's not
just one that I know in America, was one, then
the other, than the other, and you you're panicked, and
then your panic you're trying to find coins everywhere. It's
not straightforward.

Speaker 12 (43:29):
It wasn't.

Speaker 11 (43:29):
I was like, really, I had all these two euro
coins and I was forcing them into this gap and
it wasn't the It wasn't taking the money into a
French A French madame came out and she was body blasting.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Me because I think some of them, some of them
just waged your cord in America is to throw it
into a basket and they can check out the weight.

Speaker 11 (43:52):
I think, right, okay, well, well well we'll drive in Europe.
When we hired the vehicle was the first time I
had encountered the the cameras on the overhead bridges they
and where they timed you between one point.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
For the other.

Speaker 11 (44:10):
So so that was all engineer. It was all new
to me. It was real interesting. Yeah, my experience what
what what what year was that? That would have probably
been about two o six. Yeah, drove drove all around Europe.
We've done the bus about thing. Where we we you could, Yeah,

(44:31):
we would get to certain regions and areas of France, Spain,
Portugal and and we bought a six month bus ticket okay,
so you could so you could stop off and you know,
if you liked villagers or you like the town you were,
and then we'd hire cars and just drive. So yeah,
and then when the next but the buses were coming

(44:53):
through maybe every two or three days, and you could
hop back on the bus and then go to your
next city or your next country.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
Do you do you come across tolls much in New Zealand?

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (45:06):
Look, when I was young, I remember the Auckland toll bridge.
I do remember the one that told on the bridge
that went over to the mount because.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
I remember coming out of there one so those there
with the old man we went down for an event
and driving back and I thought we must have come through.
That's why I was curious today, but because I think
there must be three or four toll roads there now?

Speaker 8 (45:26):
Are there in Toronto?

Speaker 20 (45:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (45:30):
Oh yeah, it's yeah, there's a hot well, all the infrastructure,
all the roading that they put in. I think that's
the fastest growing region that it's mayhem down there.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
Well, it doesn't work. I mean that's probably that's probably
the salient fact. They're putting all those toll roads and
it's got the worst it's got the worst traffic in
the country apart from what it's shocking.

Speaker 9 (45:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (45:52):
Well, well, well, the problem I have with the tolls
is because I'm not used to them. I come from
a region that doesn't have tolls, and then I think
you get three or four days they send you a
reminder and I just forget to pay them, and I've
got the fees on top of it. So a three
dollars eighty toll in Bucks.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, okay, I don't know how that we are Okay, okay, Marcus,
I just don't think how many there are and total,
I don't know how many there are there, But I'll
see if I can find out someone let me know.
The Eastern Link Road. No, I don't know how many
there are there. But if you go coming from Hamilton there,
how many toll roads did you go through? I thought
there were three or four. Some of them will know

(46:34):
we are talking toll roads and toll roads internationally, there
might be three toll roads. It felt like more. I've
never done a talkback show when so many people have
said gentry, and that's too me and the other guy.
It's not a word I've ever used. You know, you

(46:56):
spend your whole life thinking you almost know what words mean,
but never really know. People love to say gentry when
they're oh, you get a gentry. I still want to
know about how the people got into their wasn't the
little tin of toll road?

Speaker 12 (47:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Yes it was it? Yes?

Speaker 16 (47:15):
Was it?

Speaker 21 (47:18):
Is it still?

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Marcus? I was a police sergeant in Auckland. Lived on
the north short of the end of the bridge toll
It was twenty cents on the northbound trip only. I
traveled mostly by motorbike. I kept a lump of blue
tech on my handlebars to stick the coin on save
taking gloves off and wet or cold weather. We have
two tolls, tod Eco and one Papa Moa to PUCKI Highway. Catherine,
thank you, good evening. Jim AT's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (47:44):
Oh hi Marcus. Just telling you a bit of a
story about Auckland Harbor Bridge. I'm going back about fifty years.
I think there used to be a toll collector on
Auckland Bridge. I forget his name, but he was really
friendly and people all sort they'd seen him in the
distance and they'd sort of gave it his cure because

(48:08):
he was such a nice guy. And if the kids
were in the back, he's leaning and sated them.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
That's a good story.

Speaker 16 (48:17):
I forget your name now, some real da it's fifty
years ago. But he was the most lovely man. And
we had friends. We picked him up at the airport
and we came from and they couldn't believe it. This
guy he presently knew our name, but we knew his name,

(48:37):
you know, whenever his name was, which is hello, misress.

Speaker 22 (48:42):
And they were just amazed.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
You wouldn't he wouldn't always you would He wouldn't. You
wouldn't have your same booth, would you mix? You wouldn't
know where he was?

Speaker 12 (48:52):
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (48:53):
Oh? I know you can see in the distance as
he came down.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Yeah, he was never the same one, was he You'd
always if I'm.

Speaker 16 (48:59):
Not too sure, I'm not too short of yours. He
always tried to get his booth because it just cheered
your day up.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
You know.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
And I think, and I think what quite often happened, Jim,
is that your dad would let you pay. You'd be
in the backseat, but you'd pay, you'd wind down the
window and there they love their kids.

Speaker 16 (49:16):
Oh yeah, but he loved the kids too, and all
the kids love to me. Yeah, he's a lovely man.
I don't think he'd be alive now, but he was
a great guy.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Do you remember us?

Speaker 15 (49:27):
Remember?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Do you remember it now?

Speaker 16 (49:29):
I can't. I can't. It was fifty years ago. Mister
Thomas or something pretty common name, I think, But yeah,
anyway somebody might remember.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
I see if they can be a mission, that can
be a mission to a fight. How they got in
their booth? Also, Oh, Jim, Jim Adrian Adrian Thomas known
as mister Smiley.

Speaker 16 (49:55):
Would that be right, Thomas Rings, Yeah, you're Thomas, I
said to you.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, I think what Dan's found an article on the sky.
If he's known as if he's known as mister and
I'll just try to get his dates, because in what
year is it then, because you'd be Auckland famous if
you're a bit of a legend and the toll booth,
wouldn't you Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 16 (50:21):
We was on the way home.

Speaker 22 (50:22):
You see him.

Speaker 16 (50:23):
If you'd had a hard day in the town, just
have mister Thomas cheer you up.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you. There's a whole there's
a whole paragraph on the sky right, I'll just read
this to you, all right.

Speaker 16 (50:34):
Mister Smiley. That's his name, was mister Thomas. I didn't
know his first name.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Hang on, there's a whole pair of how far down
is it? Then we're going to go yeah bridge, yep, ah.
It's is Adrian Thomas, known as mister Smiley, who was
probably the best known told booth officer of the sixties
and seventies and failing cheerfully each and every motives with
a smile and chat. One motorist, after his first meeting

(51:03):
with mister Thomas, said, I thought he was going to
get in the car, take the money out of my
pocket for me, give me a hug, and offer to
come home and cook the dinner. The toll booth operators
became well known. Once said that people would hold up
their babies for you, and over the years you'd watch
the babies grow up.

Speaker 6 (51:23):
The art of.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Conversation was lost as the crush of cars become greater.
The tod both officers had to take one hour of
fumes breaks and a low point one crawl. Prankster was
said to have dropped a red hot twenty cent cord
into underspecting palm. But that's that's definitely his name made
when Thomas judge Jim so think and what a joy
you've been to talk to. So thank you so very
much for that. There we go, mister Smiley. I'll see

(51:46):
if I can find a photo of them too. Dan
did very well to google that up. What was your
Google search, Dwan? Or did you know him? He said,
Thomas did he? Oh, Dan's brother. Dan's from the shore.
So so that's that's part of the that's part of

(52:11):
their song lines on there, whatever the word is, that's
part of their inherited culture on the shore is knowing
about mister Smiley. If you're going to do a job,
you do it well. If you're going to do a job,
you do it well. I can't find a picture of him.

(52:33):
There should be a plaque for her.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
May Ah.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Welcome people. My name is Marcus Hope. It's going all right.
M Marcus. Have you viewed the story about googly eyes?
Someone has stuck googly eyes on statues, monuments and artworks
around the US city. It's the perfect prank, a silent
protest and a pain of authorities behind three birds one started.

(53:00):
Local authorities aren't festive mood and don't find amusing it
at all. Marcus. I was living in Totonga when they
they finally removed the bike to the bridge tolls. They
had promised it would be removed. It was paid for,
but stalled and stored. People get some angry refused to
pay it. At this time there are only two toll
roads and tod On with a third coming bike. Acc Wow, Marcus.

(53:23):
If they made the tolls of flat two dollars, I'm
sure people would be happy to pay the money for
all the roading has to come from somewhere, although it
was too cheap. Marcus are an interesting show. I've been
wondering if Tony Dowe has left his news read to
miss his announcement. Cheers Karen Essue missus announcement. He is

(53:45):
retired and retired about three weeks ago, although he will
be filling in sometimes over summer. I don't know what
show he'll be filling in on. Maybe he doesn't know yet,

(54:07):
but yeah, there you go, oh eight hundred and eighty
eight out if you want to talk to him as
Marcus welcome, but also to know what's happening out the
big smokes in the mood of the city tonight. So
if it's been busy because the weather finally seems good,
doesn't what is work? Is it raining? Where you are?

Speaker 6 (54:21):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Brother Dan, Good day Auckland, Good day South and that's
enough North and South. Good evening, Chris, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (54:33):
Good day MICUs.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Thank you Chris good good Hey.

Speaker 13 (54:37):
I'm currently calling you from underneath the open motorway and
the tartans underneath where the toll booths.

Speaker 23 (54:45):
Used to be.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Oh well, thank you for doing that.

Speaker 13 (54:47):
Goodness now, that's all good. I work nearby and in
the Old Bridge Authority, and from my understanding is the
guys used to go up through some leaders and as
I'm standing here, there is three field doors on the
left hand side, and from my previous information, I've had

(55:11):
is that that is where they used to access the booth.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Well, okay, so there was that underpass and there would
be a letter to each booth.

Speaker 13 (55:22):
I don't think it was a leader well in the day,
but at the moment there's only three big large doors
or pad locks shut. Yeah, but it may have got
you up to you. I don't know. It could have
gone up to a mill room or something, or some
area where they access the booths. But yeah, there is
an existing building up in the middle at the moment

(55:44):
where the auto modiway lights work out of with all
their intenuators and roadworking trucks and things like that. So
but yeah, this is where they used to come through
and go up to the boots because otherwise they got
no other way of getting that.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
And was that because I have walked through that that
goes right through to the seat to the harbor side
of it, doesn't what do you think it was? Do
you think that's that's what the purpose of the underpass was.

Speaker 13 (56:12):
I think that's probably what the original purpose was. Yes,
I don't think they would have put it in just
so people can get to the other But.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Then I then I wonder why it did go right
through as well. But maybe it was two birds one stone.
We're putting one in for the workers. That's have one
that can go right through.

Speaker 13 (56:25):
Also yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Okay, many people, many people in the underpast tonight.

Speaker 13 (56:32):
No I'm the only one.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Yeah, it seemed like because I don't think most I
think most people wouldn't be aware it's there because it's
it's fairly easy to access, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (56:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's fairly easy to excess.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yeah, it's signposted.

Speaker 13 (56:47):
As far as I'm aware.

Speaker 18 (56:48):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Okay, and you are you working tonight? Are you working now? Chris?

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Ah?

Speaker 13 (56:53):
Yes, so yeah, I'm working at the moment.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Are you allowed to be there?

Speaker 6 (56:57):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (56:57):
Yeah, I'm allowed to be here.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Okay, what's that? Okay, nice to hear from you, Chris,
Thank you. Nine to ten. There we go. They must
have walked up the letters to show about tolls. Was
I the talking about hanging out your washing in an apartment?
But you know, goodness me, anyone that's encouraging people to

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dry their clothes and a dryer, for goodness sake, we
haven't had a clothes dryer, which means two things you've
got to keep your eye on the weather appt to
see when it's going to rain. And you need for

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good pegs. Now we've got those stainless steel, those stainless
steel wire pegs. Boy, they're good, unbelievably good. The only
pigs that work in our extreme conditions. And we've got
one of those clothesline that's along but with a pole
in the middle, and you put on, then you raise

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the pole. One of my great things is hanging out
the washing or bringing it in. We used to have
a rare attentive neighbor next door, and if ever it rained,
he would bring the Washington. Yeah, unfortunate's now in a home,

(58:31):
But there'd be many a time it would start raining
and I'd just think, oh, well, I really should go
and get the washing out. But I couldn't be bothered.
There'd be a knock on the door and he'd be
bringing the washing in for me. I'll be too embarrassed
to answer the door, knowing that I hadn't gone and
done it. But anyway, then it's life. I think the

(58:52):
drying wreck is called a flying nun Marcus. I bought
my home twelve years ago. I've only used the clothes
line on two occasions. Always the dryer, but one of
the most heartbreaking texts I've ever seen. What about all
the lint? You'll start a fire? What about those camping

(59:14):
ground dryers? Get the camping ground and go. I love
a camping ground anyway, Gary, Good evening.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Good evening, Mark, It's sure.

Speaker 18 (59:29):
How apt you good?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Gary? Are you stand upbeat? What's happening?

Speaker 12 (59:33):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (59:34):
Look, I've actually I'm about to pick my daughter up.

Speaker 18 (59:36):
She's she's.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Raising money for the ciccre debts outside a beautiful.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Christmas hang on the Ciccadets.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
It it's yeah, it's it's different to the Sea Scouts,
but it's a similar sort of you know, it's a
thing that the teenagers do when she loves it.

Speaker 3 (59:57):
Which which have they got boats?

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
They do do sailing, but it's more around the I
guess the discipline. I guess that comes with it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
But are you are you an a maritime kind of
a maritime town?

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Well, I guess you're good.

Speaker 18 (01:00:20):
Yeah, absolutely, Okay, Marcaus, Look, I just wanted to first.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
I actually met you about about twenty years ago a
roads in a lovely cafe, and I wanted to actually
I congratulated you on your amazing city shows that you did.
I think it was called North to South. Oh, yeah,
which was you know, it was brilliant, of course. It

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was a lovely cafe owned by a couple of sisters.
But I don't think the cafe is there anymore. But anyway,
the clothesline talk got me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
I don't think I think the cafe. I think the
cafe very much is still there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Gary you it was lovely. Demaris was one of the
lovely sisters that ran. It was co Co Cantina's maybe,
and there was a fas in it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Yeah, they're still I think they're still it's still there.
It still does very well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:11):
Yeah, brilliant lovely, lovely sisters. Yeah, but first time caller,
so you know very well, well have you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
You actually met me?

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Have you?

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
Renee is the other sister by the way, too. We
can't forget Renee. You can't give you can't give Themaris
all the limelight.

Speaker 4 (01:01:31):
No, I can't because actually the varchies where she worked previous,
that was back in the heyday Marcus, back in the
heyday family man.

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

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
But the clothes line, you know, and I understand, like
I'm well traveled myself, and and some some cities around
the world don't allow on that sort of thing, hanging
out your clothes to dry, which seems weird.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
It's your house, you shall be able to do with it.
What you want is your balcony one hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
But I am hanging out clothes now. I'm not sure
how hell you know you are listeners hang out clothes,
But I'm very particular when it comes to hanging out
clothes without clothesline for some reason. You you know the
steel pigs, Yes, they work very very well, and I
guess I'm pertaining. We do get a lot of sea

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breeze coming through.

Speaker 3 (01:02:23):
So are you Are you a pig? Are you a
pig shearer? Are you like two items of closed three pigs?
I always am, I look.

Speaker 4 (01:02:34):
I am, I really like one pig, one item. But
when you've got well, I don't know why. Maybe it's
just slightly neurodivergent. Maybe I don't know. That's maybe what
you call me these days. When it comes to putting
out the washing and it has to be an order
for some reason.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
You need to hell on, you need help. This is
a problem about your washing. But just just just just
to aert others scary is not saying one pig item
of clothing. He's saying one T shirt would be two pigs, right, correct,
But you wouldn't you wouldn't share one. It wouldn't be
you wouldn't share one. You wouldn't share common pigs.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Or you have three for two T shirt?

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Yeah, oh you do that, would you?

Speaker 18 (01:03:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
And then but then I am particular. I hang up
my my jeans. I hang them up by the bottoms.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Everyone's got to do that. I've been told off for
I didn't know, but I got told off for hanging
them the other way around. That's apparently that's common operating
procedure to do it that way.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Well, apparently the pig marks. But I'm like, well, no,
it just makes it's common sense, isn't it. Well, I
think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
I think it blows around more if you're if you'd
pegging them up by the bottom of.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
The leaks, that's gift you're right there.

Speaker 23 (01:03:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Do you lose clothes next door because our stuff always
gets blown?

Speaker 4 (01:03:58):
Well, you have to have anything heavy duty and wanting.
But what I might say, obviously is you know, you know,
the wooden bow is quite a lot, but the clothes
get right quick.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Yes, exactly, and even sometimes it blows so much even
it can be raining. The clothes kind of drys because
it's blowing that much. You ever had that, Yeah, that's right,
that's who would use a clothes Who would use a
clothes dryer?

Speaker 15 (01:04:26):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:04:28):
When to time? My kisses needed? But we we you know,
we try not to use it, at least we have to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
I'm with you, Gary, I've got to move on, but
nice to talk to. Thank you for your first call.
I knew about sea scouts, but not a sea scouts
and bluff very very good. Don't know about secredets. Marcus
isn't bad for teaching only by Christmas gift for their
favorite students? Or is that lesson in itself? Teachers shouldn't
buying for children. Marc's having told that if you put

(01:04:58):
your redge on a hold before you go through the
toll cameras, it doesn't cost anything. Haven't been brave enough
to try it? What is the laundromatic kit? I only
use laundromats to wash and dry the dog blanket. At
laundromats they have machines specifically for pet blankets. That puts
me off those laundro mats is and everyone takes their
pet stuff there, not that they ever go to one
of those laundromats. I can't be bothered with a whole

(01:05:18):
faffing around with a key, like a plastic key. Marcus
tore on the North Shore from nineteen seventy six till
about nineteen eighty five, and remember buying a concession cind
of tickets to hand over at the toll both and
can remember on more than one occasion getting a flat
tire and the bridge team coming to change. Marcus I

(01:05:39):
lived with an old timer artually sure. He was a
welder diver that had to decompress after a shift on
the piles for the Auckland Harbor Bridge. He was getting
one forty quite a week. I forget the name of
those things they went down, and it's another word like gantree.
It's like stanchions or something. Marcus is a ten year
old coming from the Thames Valley to drive the Harbor

(01:06:01):
Bridge retreat for the May holidays. Amazing thing happened. We
were the thousandth cart across the bridge. We've got one
hundred pounds to spend at the farmers. It did make
the newspapers. It was a very exciting day, Marcus, can
your listeners help me? I'm getting cramp tops of very
tops of legs, very painful. Thank you, Sally Marcus. Men

(01:06:26):
discussing how to hang and dry clothes, very funny. Cheers
Frank Marcus and bluff. If your washing is not drying
ten to twenty minutes, it's not there. As far as cramp,
I think there's something called cramp away or a cork
and your pillow. But yeah, every so off we get
people on in cramp cures. You got an answer to that,

(01:06:47):
let us know. Also talking about the tolls on the
Harbor Bridge and drying your washing when you can't put
them on those folding laundries. Marcus. I lived in Northcote
Point in the sixties. I would have been five or
seven and used to roam all over the point. I

(01:07:08):
would go down into the tonne under the tolls, as
it was open all the time. Our neighbor was mister Portridge,
who worked on the toll bridge. He was a very
nice man. Of course, in those days we called all
adults as mister or missus, so I don't know what
his first name was. They were a sort of khaki
uniform with a sort of pilot style hat and enjoy
listening tonight. Have a happy Christmas, Meredith. Lovely email Meredith,

(01:07:35):
and thanks to all the texts, and thanks to all
the letters at the post office box all the Christmas
well wishes also, it's been very well received. Yeah, that's exciting.
Thanks for all of those people took time out of
their day to send a card. Pretty oldtal liked it

(01:07:58):
a lot. Now if you do want to send texts
through nine two. Nine two is the number laundromats. I
think what I'm going to try this Christmas is I'm
going to try and put my tint in the laundromat
dryer because sometimes I've got a tint and we've got

(01:08:20):
a tent that's quite heavy canvas. It's good to dry
it before you put it away. And I wonder if
those massive, great laundromats have got a drum that will
be big enough to dry a tint, because I imagine
how tent must be thirty kilos. I'll check that don't

(01:08:44):
tavy to carry.

Speaker 16 (01:08:52):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
You go thirty one kilos. It's a pretty good guess.
But would the dryer handle the gendle? That's the question, people,
That is the question. There's something different. You want to
mention cramp, Marcus guaranteed way to stop cramp. Hold your
tongue on a square battery for ten seconds, give you

(01:09:14):
a buzz. But works. Would the tent shrink proleab wouldn't
be a bad thing if it's shrank cramp Salt under
the tongue. Tony Joe White sang a song about a bridge,

(01:09:35):
trolls and paying a toll. Check it out, Tomo, get
in touch Marcus till midnight. Good evening, Diane, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:09:46):
Oh, thank you. I just thought i'd be tuning you
into timorrow. Timorrow there's a open air concert down the
Baby What tomorrow and it's a Christmas one because it's
in Jackie chats. She'll be there, Jackie Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Yep, Oh, she's one of the greats.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
They have got a lot of time, got a lot
of time for Jackie Clark.

Speaker 24 (01:10:10):
Yes, and I'm not too sure. I'm not too sure
who else is there, but it's the Presbyterian. They run
it last year and so it's being held by them.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
I don't think she should be Presbyterian, was she, Jackie Clark?

Speaker 12 (01:10:24):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:10:26):
But they have they do have top entertainers you know,
down at Caroline Bay. So that's tomorrow night between five
cluck at stats and two hours.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Okay, so I've googled it up. It's sponsored by McCain's Vegetables.
Oh really be the naming sponsors. That's organized by the
Presbies Presbyterians Supports. It's time to tune the vocal cords?
Does Christmas Carol season arrives? The Carolyn kicks off on
Saturday at Christmas on the Bay at the Caroline Bay
Soundshore with a lead act for this year's show, Jackie Clark.

Speaker 16 (01:11:03):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
She'll perform a long she before all the Longest alongside
Review local X to perform on stage for the first
time after getting through video editions earlier.

Speaker 5 (01:11:11):
In the year. Yes, so that will be good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
You'll be there, will you?

Speaker 24 (01:11:18):
Yes, I definitely will. I used to take some other ladies,
but they have deteriorated in their health, and I don't
think they seem to answer their phone. So it's a
bit of a show. Their health has deteriorated. The phone goes,
but they don't realize to pick it up, you know,
And I, oh, but that's a shame. As you get older,

(01:11:40):
that's what happens, I suppose.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
So tell me something. When does the Christmas Carnival at
the Bay start?

Speaker 24 (01:11:51):
Oh, that starts on Boxing Day?

Speaker 3 (01:11:55):
Okay, And that's still a big deal, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:11:57):
That's still a big deal. Yes, it says they've got
they've got the it's all in the misweet's career to
route the carrier, or we only get the carrier for
tomorrow unless she get the hair ald or whatever. But
I only get the carrier. So it's all in there
about about the carnival and the artists. There's some good artists.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
How the bus is working, the buses. The buses they
go up on bus routes, and now they come out
and pick you up from your house and take you
where you want to go.

Speaker 24 (01:12:35):
It seems like it's like animals, and that you couldn't
take your animals, could you. I've got a little be
seon so she couldn't be left on her own all
the time.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
She says, like a delightful dog. What's her name, Jazz?
That's a great name.

Speaker 24 (01:12:55):
Yes, And we had another one, and it used to
be Sophie one other time she lived, so she was
fifteen in this one's nine now, so it'll be my
last dog.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Oh really, yes, I know how many of your head?

Speaker 24 (01:13:15):
Oh we've had We've had like oh, yes, we've had
a Ken's tearrit cross Ken's Terrier and you we've had
before that, we had just the kid's dogs, like Nigel,
my son Nigela used to have a fox Terrier black
and white fox terrier.

Speaker 16 (01:13:36):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:13:37):
Yeah, and yeah that we used to walk for miles
and yes, so you know I do like my dogs. Yes,
the day comes when you have to say no. But
I did get it looked after when I went to Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Is there a local kennel there?

Speaker 24 (01:13:59):
You can't have the spca's anymore. They don't do it.
You've got to go privately to do it. So I
went to the Chappy Obbit out near Tomoka.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
You too, Oh yeah, you wondered tout if you go there?

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:14:14):
Yeah, it's pretty good, isn't it. You're very good. Yeah,
she was well looked after and kid for so yep, no,
and they have quite a good run there. It's good
run there that their dogs have, you know, so they're
not just a little cubicle, you know, It's all right,
little cubicles, all right, it was just an overnight stace

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right for a week or so.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
I live at their time, but nice to talk. Do
you enjoy Jackie Clark tomorrow? She's all class. By the way,
Fong NUIs surf lifeguards have just got an any Christmas present,
a portable life saving tower. Where would they swim?

Speaker 16 (01:14:52):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
South of the rock Castle Cliff Beach, one of the
most dangerous beaches in New Zealand. Goodness, I wonder how
many of drowned there. I've never swum there. In fact,
that's on my list for this year. I think, yeah,

(01:15:14):
I'll go there, still coming together the hoghday plan, but
not the Yeah. I'm always amazed when I google up
how many surf life savers, surf life saving patroled beaches
there are in There's a great deal. They're not there

(01:15:38):
the whole time. There are a number of drownings there.
One in nineteen ten, one in twenty fifteen, Marcus great
night out of the Parnell Trinity Cathedral. Let's celebrate Christmas
event full of moon August a great great choir and
tenor recommend it. They've got the organ there too, haven't they.

(01:16:01):
You know where I'd like to go for my Christmas service.
Notre Dame was built on the eleven hundreds. It's pretty old, eh.
When they built that, before they had saws, all those
logs would be ax Hewan kind of think that's pretty amazing.

(01:16:27):
So there we go, while I'm fortunately hearing not much
about his elf on the shelf that seems to have
died the death that deserves Marcus for about forty Oh,
by the way, someone will say about their Christmas am
and the use by date for about forty years. I've
cooked a turkey in three apricot tins, always tender and yummy,
make the gravy delicious too. Went Christmas shopping and christ

(01:16:48):
itch all today and tried to be patient with the
young assistant standing around talking annoying though. Merry Christmas, Nikki
ball ITTs, Marcus, greetings, and good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:16:59):
Here you are mine. Good Paul, Hey, listen, you're talking
about pets.

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
A little bit.

Speaker 16 (01:17:06):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 20 (01:17:10):
I've got I had.

Speaker 7 (01:17:11):
Two little dogs called Monty and Balley.

Speaker 20 (01:17:16):
By Bailey.

Speaker 18 (01:17:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:17:20):
I lost Bailey or a few months ago, very sadly.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
But lost or lost last.

Speaker 7 (01:17:30):
I had to have them put down.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
Oh okay, that sad to hear okay, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:17:33):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, I saw this little mate and Monty.
But je they have been great, little mate. But it's
just like family.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
Yes, are your family, they are mate.

Speaker 16 (01:17:52):
They are.

Speaker 7 (01:17:55):
Yeah, I've had them for fifteen years, so it's a
good run. Oh hell are you absolutely great? Great little
mates a jeepers and Mondi's still taking on but he's
in the sixteenth year.

Speaker 20 (01:18:13):
But I'll tell what they'd be their little pool related.

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
Yeah, they're brothers and what breeds poodles? Little poodles. But
I'll tell you what. I'll tell it, mate, if you
give an animal one hundred and ten, they'll give you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
A hundred winny back get interest.

Speaker 8 (01:18:36):
Oh just as great.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
Just I'll tell you what. They're just absolutely wonderful, wonderful animal.
They really really are. And I'm telling you, how come
you went?

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
How come you went? Poodle?

Speaker 21 (01:18:51):
Paul?

Speaker 16 (01:18:52):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:18:52):
No, my my wife come home one day she said,
I've got a surprise for you.

Speaker 20 (01:18:59):
I can't believe you. And they they've never left me.

Speaker 7 (01:19:05):
It's just just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
You don't hear much about poodles these days. To you,
they are a fashion or I don't know they fashion
had a FISHI and under fishing.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
Tell what, but I'll tell Marcus there are so they
are so intelligent little animal.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Really smart dogs. Smarter than a foxy, smarter than a
fox area.

Speaker 7 (01:19:29):
Oh hell, tell you what, mate, They're very very intelligent,
very intelligent, Marcus, smarter than a cat.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Don't know they are? They smarter than a greyhound?

Speaker 16 (01:19:46):
I think so.

Speaker 20 (01:19:47):
They're very very intelligent. The one the one of the
most intelligent dogs you could ever get. I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
People keep saying that, but I've never seen a poodle
do anything that clever.

Speaker 20 (01:20:01):
Come on, never, never, they are they they know their stuff.
If they want some of them, they will ask.

Speaker 15 (01:20:10):
You for it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
How will they ask you? How they ask you for it?

Speaker 20 (01:20:15):
Well, they just keep keep annoying you for it. They
know they know what they want. They know what they want.
So yeah, and just you know you treat them? Do
you treat them with the way you want to be treated?

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
Fair enough, Poul, nice to talk to you. Thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:20:36):
There.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
We know that's the poodle call for the night. I
think they are one of the more intelligent dogs. But
how would you know, Marcus, down sleeping bag is cleaning
the bath with a down sleeping bag cleaner? Shout out
to Caroline Bay. Christmas shopping in person is over. Tottle
hours online, Well, shopping's over. I've been going on about
that for a long long time. That's one is known

(01:20:57):
that the malls. That's why the malls have got good
food courts might be okay? And in this hot summer
would you want to spend your whole time? And I'm
all trying to shop for people. That's why I'm still
absolutely conflicted on whether I want to be in this
secret Center or not. I just can't make the decision.

(01:21:19):
I just don't want to really be in it. But
I didn't I didn't want to sound mean spirited at Christmas.
I've been saying to it every day and long. I'm
back out of the Secret Center. For goodness sake, make
up your mind, I think. Yeah, Well, anyway, it's become

(01:21:45):
enormous in my mind, the terror of it. High Lomer,
I'm on the phone. Yeah, that's right, High Loba, it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:21:54):
Yes, yes, about cramp. I get it sometimes in the
calf of my leg, and I find the best thing
is to just like ignore the pain and stretch your
egg out as far as you can. It doesn't always
go straight away, but you should persist in doing it.
Is certainly works and it's always going to go, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
That's the good news about cramp? You know it's not
going to last forever. Yes, not very nice, but no,
I know, And it causes people can sue it happens
at night and they can't kind of go and do
anything about it. I don't know if you can buy
anything from the shops for cramp, can you?

Speaker 24 (01:22:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:22:34):
Yeah, that's is this something called I thought.

Speaker 3 (01:22:37):
Last time we talked about this, there was something called
cramp away, but I can't find that now.

Speaker 23 (01:22:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, anyway, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:22:45):
That's good advice. Okay, thank you, Lomer. I appreciate you
coming through. That's good, brilliant.

Speaker 6 (01:22:49):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
We're all beep there also welcome. My name is Marcus.
Good evening. How you're going get in touch? Eight hundred
eighty ten eighty nine to nine to detext Marcus, what
is an alternative Christmas meal? To use the additional meat
and vegetables. We can do what you want, so there's
no rules and Devil's on a horseback. If you like,

(01:23:13):
you can get a KFC do what you want. No
one's gonna judge you we dining or the stupid food
because we think it's the Northern Hemisphere people are slaving
over a hot oven. I don't know what the answer is.
By the way, I don't know what the better solution

(01:23:35):
is for Christmas. No one likes a turkey. One always
tries with a turkey and always struggles, always dry. I
don't know what that's about. But yeah, why would you bother?

Speaker 16 (01:23:51):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
By the way, where are the turkey farms? Are they
all from overseas? I've never seen turkeys and petics? I
suppose none of them are free ranger? Are they ever
seen a free range turkey? I suppose are you having
Canada goose for Christmas?

Speaker 6 (01:24:08):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
H Marcus tried cramp Easy for Cramp's cramp Easy. That's
cramp easy. E. Hi, Shane Marcus, Welcome, Hello Marks.

Speaker 18 (01:24:35):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
I think the product you're looking for is cramp Stop.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Cramp Stop Yep, that's a good one. That's a good name.

Speaker 2 (01:24:43):
And I'll tell I'll tell you a funny story about it.
A few well quite a few years ago. I knew
a guy who was a very good cyclist, and he
was taking part in the cycle race that used to
be called us. I think it's still going the K
two on the Corimental Peninsula. Copy that, and and he
was always having trouble getting cramp and he was he was,

(01:25:07):
he was a really good cyclist. Anyway, we gave him
this cremp stop and said this will stop your cramp.
And he got all the way around and he was
in the lead bunch and he got the bed cram
and he had to stop. And then the end he
pulled out of the race. And afterwards we said to him,
didn't you use the cramp stop and he said yeah,
he said, I sprayed it on my thigh. I sprayed

(01:25:28):
it on, I rubbed it and he said I used
the whole bottle. And we all looked at him and said,
you're silly. You're supposed to put spread under your cant.

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
It's a good story of Shane like I like it
a lot. There you go, cramp stop, guys, or cramp easy.
Let's you call it David cramp easy. There'd be what
I'd be calling it. Time to hear from you if
you want to be a part of the show. My
name is Marcus hurdled twelve, Hit'll twelve. Jim Steeddens on
from twelve people. What about cherries. It's a bit like

(01:26:03):
but early. If for cheers haven't seen you in the shop,
you might want to talk about that. If you're a grower, Hi, Terry, welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:26:10):
Thank you Marcus. Cramp stop is still available. I got
it ten years ago at the field days.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Ohodness sake, what a place to get it. It's their
market people farmers here, they'd give it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:24):
And also it's still available on the web. Cram stop
it's called and.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
You spread, you spread under your spread under the tongue.

Speaker 10 (01:26:31):
Yes, that's right. I think I woke up. I think
you're talking about it. Woke me up with cramp.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Okay, there we go, auto suggestion.

Speaker 10 (01:26:39):
Another thing, another thing, turkeys. I just I drove from
Auckland from Poker Corriage to Auckland to Gisbone and back again,
and I saw more turkeys and we saw only one
bed bossom.

Speaker 8 (01:26:54):
Wow, and how interesting is that?

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
When was that you drove?

Speaker 16 (01:27:02):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:27:03):
Yesterday, I come back from this with yesterday and the
end the day before.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
I always fine with possums, I said it on the
road going home. I always think it kind of more
happens with the full moon.

Speaker 10 (01:27:15):
This yeah, yeah, yeah, but anyway, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Of interest to me, Terry, thank you for that. To
keep it going people, Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred
and eighty nine nine two text. Do you want to
come through and talk about that. Anything goes tonight, let's
be hearing from you, Marcus. For cramp drink Tonic water
has quaneen in which stops cramps? Really or gin and tonic?

(01:27:39):
What about just gin? Tom Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:27:44):
Good evening, Tom.

Speaker 16 (01:27:49):
It's taken me a year to go over this.

Speaker 22 (01:27:51):
That's not the reason iron. You're asking me what I
would like son eight Now it's taking me over a
year over from half children evolved. When I'm back on
my bicycle and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
Oh, it's so you be you just back on your bike?

Speaker 16 (01:28:10):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:28:12):
And when you say.

Speaker 22 (01:28:14):
I've been on the back three months.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
And when you say a bike, is that a proper
bike bike bike or a standing bike?

Speaker 22 (01:28:22):
That's a mountain bike. I used to race them. Oh good,
the racing bike. This is the reason why I rang.
The trouble with the human being is we'll get relief
from things, but we'll never fix what the problem is. Ah,
And we always go for relief. That's the problem with us,

(01:28:45):
and this is what we're always going to kmis and
all these things to get relief. But you have to
find out what the problem is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Now.

Speaker 22 (01:28:55):
When I was cycling, I used to have cramp in
my I couldn't walk as of the train I was doing,
and I used to have handpu my legs all the
way up to my back. Now the problem simple thing.
I pick it every day, seven days a week. And

(01:29:15):
the problem with you is and I'm not being made
here as a lack of magn easier than your body.
All you have to take is one film. It's four
hundred grands. Helps make it four hundred grand, nothing less,

(01:29:36):
one per day. I protict my brother friends take it.
No more cramp.

Speaker 6 (01:29:42):
That's the end of it. It wasn't me that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
It wasn't me that had the cramp.

Speaker 22 (01:29:49):
Tom Oh, I see, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
That's right. I know you're quite strong, I know, quite
strong minded and stuff. So do you think you shouldn't
have bothered with the operation for your hat surgery?

Speaker 23 (01:30:01):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:30:01):
No, oh, no, I would die.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Okay.

Speaker 22 (01:30:05):
The good thing of about it was to get off
the National Party. If they don't give you much money
they paid for the taxpayer New Zealand. And I'm very
very happy to did. Oh, yes, what's happened to keep going?

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
How far are you cycling?

Speaker 16 (01:30:22):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:30:22):
I'm only doing about ten k's of a moment. I
used to do sevent decades a day. I can't do that.
I can't. I used to do truck fishing out the
back of Denny work. Yes, and I'm going back to
the gym. Yes, here we go after Christmas. I'm going back.

(01:30:43):
And I'll give you one other thing. And this is
an old remedy.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
I haven't got cramped, Tom.

Speaker 17 (01:30:50):
No, not for that.

Speaker 22 (01:30:51):
I'll give you another remedy of one old remedy, isn't it.
And it's the most terriblest thing you can take in
the world. And I take it used today and I
take it with Brock And it's called after side of Them.
You can look it up on the internet.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
It's Tom. Do you think people haven't Do you think
people haven't heard of the stuff that you're talking about?

Speaker 16 (01:31:20):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:31:20):
You don't hear it mentioned?

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
Well, because I've been talking about for it the last
sixty years endlessly.

Speaker 22 (01:31:27):
I never hear it mentioned.

Speaker 11 (01:31:30):
Are you going to.

Speaker 22 (01:31:32):
We're going to spend this money? And it's so simple.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
But yeah, I think people. I think people know about
side of anything. You don't mean it's been touted, has
been the secure all forever, hasn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:31:46):
Well, well, I think it's so terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
Hey, did you buy a new bike to celebrate your operation?

Speaker 22 (01:31:54):
Oh no, I've had this is a candidate bike. It's
no use going to the warehouse and buy the bicycle
at I've just spent four hundred just on the call gem. Yeah,
it's I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
You could buy Tom, Tom, Tom, I know about bikes. Yeah,
are you going for an e bike?

Speaker 22 (01:32:19):
What's an e bike?

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
An electra? A bettery operated bike that defeats exactly good.
I'm pleased to hear that.

Speaker 22 (01:32:28):
If I can't take al up the hills along walk up, then.

Speaker 3 (01:32:31):
That's exactly right, Tom. They're a terrible thing, the e bike.

Speaker 22 (01:32:38):
Yes, yeah, to meet you lazy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
But they're taking over everyone's got them. All these places
now have been overtaken by people, these new convicts on
their e bikes, ringing their bell with great alarm as
they bike around. Anyway, if you see me on one,
have a quiet word to me.

Speaker 22 (01:32:56):
Ah, if you want to live to you one hundred,
don't get an e bike.

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
Do you want to live to one hundred?

Speaker 23 (01:33:03):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:33:04):
Yes, I'd like to lived to one hundred and seventeen,
but will never happen.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
How old are you now, Tom? Can I guess because
your sound about eighty three?

Speaker 22 (01:33:14):
No, I'm seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
Okay, has five years too?

Speaker 16 (01:33:17):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:33:17):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 22 (01:33:19):
The oldest woman in the world and the words a
woman nothing. I'm not being nasty in it. But the
oldest woman in the world was the one hundred and
sixteenth Yes to one hundred and seventeen. I'll be the
oldest man in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
But the Guinness Book of the Guinness Book of Records
has said that the award for old age is one
of the least accurate and most contested because people forget
and people lie about it.

Speaker 22 (01:33:48):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
In I think the oldest woman in the world the
French woman they reckon, Actually she's her daughter. There's just
pretending to be her mother because she had some sort
of guaranteed rent agreement until she died, So she's just
aged her self upper tendency to her mother. And he's
actually about ninety two. It seemed to be one hundred
and sixteen. True story. Andrew Marcus welcome you, Andrew.

Speaker 25 (01:34:15):
I used to do a lot of trail riding, and
if you don't hydrates enough and working very hard, you know,
like the various obstacles and stuff, it will get dehydrated,
which will lead to cramps. And like the other joke,
it was the same. When it comes on, it comes
on fierce and brutal. I get at a quick Google

(01:34:36):
search one day because I got dropped at the floor
with it and warm water and vinegar. Mate, and knocks
it out in no time, no time at all. Couldn't
believe it. And I've had to do it twice from
excruciating quick rapid onset in.

Speaker 21 (01:34:55):
The legs both times.

Speaker 25 (01:34:56):
Yeah mate, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it's knocked out
a sa Feith.

Speaker 6 (01:35:04):
Yeah, just like that. Amazing.

Speaker 25 (01:35:06):
I never forgot it because it was so effective.

Speaker 12 (01:35:08):
And so quick.

Speaker 9 (01:35:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
Any sort of vinegar.

Speaker 25 (01:35:14):
We have both well both we have apple side of
vinegar and molt vinegar. But I think from memory, the
first time we did it, we just chucked molten and yeah,
but warm water and a good stout drop of it,
you know, like, don't be shy, chuck it in there
and yeah, and I think it's the electrolyte.

Speaker 22 (01:35:39):
Mm hmmm, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Sure it's been thank you Edward. Nice to hear for
a lot of people say cork under the pillar. I
don't know what that's about, but there might be some
reason that I don't know if you get a cork
anymore than they still have cork and wines whilst it's
up being near a wine bottle, they have corks in them.
It's all screw top, is it? Would there be any
with corks? Where would you get a cork? Probably couldn't

(01:36:01):
get a cork for love nor money, now, could you.
I haven't thought about that for a while. Good evening, Mike,
Hey mate, how are you good? Thank you Mike.

Speaker 23 (01:36:18):
Greyhounds, Yes, every animal in New Zealand is used by
people in a way anyway, be fun as a pet
or whatever. And in every one of those breeds of
animals there's a bad egg amongst us humans that's going

(01:36:42):
to ruin it for everyone. Okay, whether it be a
budget and a cage in a little cage or a horse.
The horse industry is worse than the greyhound industry and
saying that we're exploiting animals, but we can't ban everything.
If you're going to ban the greyhounds, you need to

(01:37:05):
ban everything.

Speaker 3 (01:37:06):
Well, are they are betting the greyhounds?

Speaker 23 (01:37:08):
Mike, Yeah, but it will get overturned, it won't happen.
I think what they're doing is in some ways they
are putting a limelight off the live export because I've
just brought that back and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
All the parties voted for, all the parties are in agreement.

Speaker 16 (01:37:28):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
It's got universal support.

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
It's not.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
It's not been overturned.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Now.

Speaker 23 (01:37:36):
I think it will get overturned in the next within
the next two years, I guarantee it.

Speaker 20 (01:37:44):
You got a dog, I don't.

Speaker 23 (01:37:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, I've got dogs. But I've got a
cousin in greyhound racing and I have been involved with it. Yes,
we used to have greyhounds, but we've had them for
forty fifty years in our family.

Speaker 6 (01:38:02):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:38:04):
And it's really sad for or my cousin, who is
racing them now and he's only got about ten but
he just absolutely loves it. It's his passion. And you know,
suicide will come into a lot of it with these
these guys. You know, he's only twenty seven, twenty eight,

(01:38:25):
got it from his grandfather, My grandfather and you know
he's still got a he's still got a dog that
was bred that is related to a bitch. My grandfather
won the silver collar was in ninety ninety four.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Sheeperscreepers.

Speaker 23 (01:38:43):
So if they don't care about their dogs and all
that sort of jazz they would have, they wouldn't have
those dogs with the same bloodlines through Now still, would
you like to?

Speaker 16 (01:38:55):
Would you like to?

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Would you like to come back as a racing greyhound?

Speaker 23 (01:39:00):
It'd be fantastic, Yeah, it'd be fantastic. Get an ice cream,
You get an ice cream after the race. On the
way home, they go through the McDonald's drive through sits
in the neck seed and so what else?

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
So what age diativily Tom lived to who's tivoly Tong
the winner of the silver copar n four?

Speaker 12 (01:39:23):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:39:24):
I know that wasn't and that wasn't man until about
I think she was about fourteen, and she lived out
her life that my grandfather's property. Yeah, and obviously like
dairy cows and things like that, if they're not up
to scratch and they're not fast enough and things like that,

(01:39:44):
but they don't have enough milk through a dairy cow,
they go to the freezing works and they get killed.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
Yeah, but you eat you eat the cow. You don't
eat the dog, do you?

Speaker 23 (01:39:52):
So at least the cows, and same with the horses.
The horse racing industry would be buggered if it wasn't
for the greyhounds.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
So why would the horse industry be buggered?

Speaker 23 (01:40:06):
Well, because what would they do with the horses, because
the greyhounds eat the horses, but.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
The greyhounds et alesh Is that what the greyhounds eat? Okay,
that makes sense.

Speaker 23 (01:40:15):
I processed one hundred a year for the one hundred
one hundred horses every year up until we're twelve months ago,
I was I was proceeding one hundred horses a year,
and they all getting sold with the greyhound boys. If
the greyhound boys weren't there, then the pet owners, because
I was used to sell it to pet owners as well,

(01:40:36):
and they'd feed it to their dogs and they absolutely
loved it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
I think I think most most horsemat goes to all
sorts of dogs, doesn't.

Speaker 23 (01:40:44):
It, Yeah, one hundred percent. But I mean they're still
getting killed, and I see so many that also get rehomed.
First home is fine, the second home, yeah, it might
be right, but by the time it needs to go
to its third home. They end up getting neglected because
they're too old to be doing that with.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
Them, they will better. The band will go through though,
what's that? Sorry, the band will happen.

Speaker 23 (01:41:14):
Yeah, okay, I'll ring you back and I'll ring you
back in two years time. Because they've got overturned in
Western Australia and.

Speaker 3 (01:41:25):
I think it was New South Wales.

Speaker 23 (01:41:27):
But yeah, to get overturned, you're right, Oh well yeah,
New South Wales. Yeah, got overturned there. Now I reckon it. Well,
how can they do that? But it's they going to
do that? Why don't they do it with the horse
racing industry.

Speaker 3 (01:41:39):
Too, Oh, because they've maintained that a lot more people
are employed by horse racing. That's the bigger export earner
for us. Yeah, but that's all about I still thought
you could make the same claims.

Speaker 23 (01:41:53):
One hundred percent. You could, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah,
there's a lot of people being paid employment with the Greyhounds.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
Nice to talk, Mike, Thank you. Marcus Terry here again,
we're got to cramp by here on the radio of
watching cricket. They use pickle juice for cramp, which is
vinegar Marcus. Want to get cramp and I feed at night,
I get up and take a sprinkle sot on my tongue.
Instant relief. That's not their name, that's what they get, Joyce, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:42:21):
Alo Goodham after I mean evening Marcus or nearly good.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Morning, nearly good morning Joyce.

Speaker 16 (01:42:30):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (01:42:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:42:31):
And when I was nineteen, I was at at a
reunion at school reunion and I had cramp and that
was that bad. And the doctor was over in two
at the breakfast, two things away from me, and he

(01:42:54):
came up and asked my husband if I had cramp,
and my husband said yes, and he picked we did,
and got a tea spoon and he got a teaspoon
of white sugar and he told me to put them
in my tongue. And I use that all the time.
And I'm ninety four now and I still got cramped.
Well when I get it. When I get it, I

(01:43:15):
put a tea spread and sugar. But I just used
raw sugar now and put it under your tongue and
it goes right away.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
I wonder how that works.

Speaker 21 (01:43:25):
I don't know, but there was a doctor that told
my husband to do that, and he went and got
this tea spoon from the kitchen and came back with
a tea spread and suar and put it under my tongue.
Now it works.

Speaker 3 (01:43:39):
What school reunion was that?

Speaker 21 (01:43:42):
Well, I'm ninety four now, that was in years and
years ago. Yes, so I'm ninety four.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
Now a liver Are you still a liv in?

Speaker 21 (01:43:56):
No, I'm anosious at the moment.

Speaker 18 (01:43:58):
I live in the motor home on the road.

Speaker 21 (01:43:59):
I've told I've ring before.

Speaker 23 (01:44:01):
I think you have.

Speaker 21 (01:44:03):
Yeah, And I live on my own and I'm ninety
four and June. In June I turned ninety four and
I got my license.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
Good on you?

Speaker 3 (01:44:16):
Do they make you drive for it?

Speaker 15 (01:44:19):
Now?

Speaker 21 (01:44:20):
In a quarter cheepers all around their shoest and all
around Parson Alton, then in everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
So what they did they make any comments?

Speaker 11 (01:44:32):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:44:33):
I got a three page letter and they said they
were going to put it in the and the AA
officaor in the AA book.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
Are you one of the oldest that can still drive?

Speaker 21 (01:44:45):
Well, I'm the oldest. I think probably just driving a
big mate hate me the motor home cheapers, so I'll
probably be the oldest droving man.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Yeah, did they make you drive the motor home for
your for your license.

Speaker 21 (01:45:04):
Yes, I did. It made me back a long way
in an out and parked me back into a park
and park and all that sort of thing. Years.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Can you reverse it?

Speaker 21 (01:45:21):
Yes, I can't reverse it. And I got no windows
at the back. I got my mirrors. Wow, But I've
been drunk since I was fourteen.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
You've been driving trucks.

Speaker 21 (01:45:38):
I was driving foot tricks at trucks at fourteen a half. Wow,
I could drive fifteen ton truck. Then Dad used to
say to me, go over there and get in that
truck and bring it over to me. And I used
to go and get in the truck in years. So
and when I was a young young I wanted to

(01:46:00):
be a mechanic. But they wouldn't let you be a mechanic.

Speaker 3 (01:46:04):
That's a shame. It sounds like it sounds you're ahead
of your time.

Speaker 21 (01:46:11):
I liked farming, so so I used to I was
in the Land Army for two and a half years,
and Mum put my age up to eighteen. I was
only fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:46:21):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:46:21):
And I served in the Land Army for two and
a half years years. So, yes, And when the war ended,
our march through the living streets with everybody else in
my uniform. So that was many years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
What did you do during the war in the land army?

Speaker 21 (01:46:44):
Oh a many starms.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
Oh yeah, okay, of course you did.

Speaker 21 (01:46:49):
High hill country. And I used to the men around
our district used to ring up the neighbor and us
and mum bringing back and these and I used to
pick up their cattle and team to the sale yards
and all it because there was no body to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
Does he ride a horse?

Speaker 21 (01:47:11):
Oh? Yeah, are broken and horses are bred. Horses are
broken and horses I had. I brought sixteen horses off
of a breeder and parners and brewed me and sold
two of them. Two watch his name as the.

Speaker 3 (01:47:32):
Singer Brendan Dougan, No John John Grenelle with the Moonlight tours.

Speaker 21 (01:47:42):
Yeah, I sold to the brows to him for because
even want to breed caughter horses, I mean year. And
he went came to Livin to the yards, and he
said and knew that I had brought these horses off

(01:48:03):
for Charlie Keebole and Para North. And he came to
me and asked me did I have and he left us. Yes,
I've got two beautiful roommares. And he said can I
buy him? And I sold him to him, yes, and
way back. And I don't know what year it was now,
but that's what that's my life.

Speaker 5 (01:48:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:48:24):
And I had a chap come to me today and
he wants wants to write a book about me.

Speaker 16 (01:48:31):
Who was he.

Speaker 21 (01:48:34):
Well an, he'sa Mary for you and he's not well known.
But he's going to get a dictating machine. But I
had a man came from Willington the other day. I
was out at tangim Mina at the motorcamp, and he
wanted to get a dictating machine. And because he was
asking me a lot of questions and he wants to

(01:48:57):
write a book on me too. So anyway, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
It sounds like you'd write your own book.

Speaker 21 (01:49:07):
I could, but I'm no good. It's at writing. I'd
take too many years to do it. I can talk,
but I'm too slow it write and ending down because
when I went I had corresponded specially in my life.
We were out in the back country, in the big

(01:49:28):
of the hills, and we lived in a house. I
was telling Joe today. We lived in a house with
no lining and respectus black paper, black tilt paper, and
wine hitting no power my mother never hadn't even hit

(01:49:49):
a sink or anything, because I just bought the farm
and Dad built my grandmother's house, and that when he
had to get out of the house that we were in,
he'd sold that piece of land. And he used to
have five vegas of Ruba and he used to send
the roombub to Auckland boxes of it, and remember the

(01:50:11):
roombat to Willington to sell those days. And he on
the train and and then him and his brother and
my grandfather brought this piece of land and it was
all high hill country and it's all pine trees now,
but yes, and that's what I used to manage. So

(01:50:34):
when when I was thirteen and I was taken out
a store to come home and because Margaret got kicked
in the stomach with a cow when she was pregnant,
and and I came home to milk and brought home.
And that's that's been my life. And I love I
love life. I still do love life. And but I'm

(01:50:58):
god I had a hip replacement, and as that's not
been very boods. It's taken a long mile to get
over my age. Because I was ninety nineteen ninety three
when I had done. Yeah, So this is my life, Marcus,
and I love Joycey.

Speaker 3 (01:51:18):
You're heading away for Christmas.

Speaker 21 (01:51:21):
And I'm just I live in my van and I've
been living in my van and this one brand new
for fifteen years. And I've been living on the men
on the road since I worked up in riper Are
milking fourteen hundred and eighty cows.

Speaker 15 (01:51:38):
And I was.

Speaker 21 (01:51:41):
Seventy then, and I was getting up a quarter three
in the morning and milking cows and feeding four hundred calves. Yeah,
so and I was in seventy then. Yeah, I know
what wal It's all about. And I know and I
love life. And my grand grandfather, great mom's and grandfather

(01:52:09):
he put the rum tuckers and he was the overseer
of the room and tuckers. His name is Berlin and
he was the overseer see it then and he walked
the rumor took us before he put the room, they
rumor took us through. And he was the first white
man to ride a horse by horseback from long from

(01:52:31):
Huntington to Wanganui with the mail run. And that's all
in the cyclopedias. So yeah, so there's a lot of
street back and Peter Berling. His mum's one of mum's
great nephews.

Speaker 3 (01:52:48):
The sailor.

Speaker 21 (01:52:50):
Yeah, and Price Susan Printers his mum dads have. Father
is my grandmother's brother. Who would have thought, Yeah, so
got a lot of history behind me. But anyway, I
love R Marcus. I'd love to meet you one day.

(01:53:12):
And I used to do a lot of hiking and this,
but of course I'm my age and my I try
and do that, but I've still got more ground and
but I had to use crutches of course. Anyway, I'm
still got my disrtions and I can still ride very good.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
Nice to hear from you, Joyce. Is anyone doing anything
interesting right now?

Speaker 16 (01:53:39):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
Might be driving home? You might be driving out or
oot as the Canadian saying oot. Wellington has lost eleven
point six percent of its jobs this year. Wow. I
read that and I thought, gee, that's a lot of
the jobs to lose.

Speaker 16 (01:54:01):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:54:03):
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