It is dirge-like (24 June 2025)

In this episode, Marcus covers Noel Edmonds, the national anthem, boy racers, and an angry US President.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings in good evening. Yes, not Operation Midnight Hammer, but
Operation Midnight Chatter. Will talk till twelve. If you want
to partake, you're welcome. You're welcome to partake, You're welcome
to listen. I reckon it's probably going to be a
three topic night. I got no idea why it's going
to be three time. That's just what I suspect. I

(00:34):
feel there's no singular topic going to dominate everything. We'll
keep an eye on the cease fire, very complicated, the
old three headed beast, which is the cease fire. So
obviously the next four hours i'll keep you update on that.
If anyone breaks that, I don't think it. Actually it
didn't even enforce until now, but I never know what

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constitutes breaking it. But we're all across that tonight till twelve.
Some of you will be interested in that also too.
There's three things I want to start off with. Actually
I don't normally start with a trident, but I feel
that's kind of what we've got to do tonight. I
feel that's what we've got to do. It's thirty years
since the Rugby World Cup final in South Africa with

(01:20):
Nelson Mandela and the Springbok jersey and the cap presenting
the cup to the winner with Francois Piena nineteen ninety five.
You might have been there, and that would be great
to hear from you. If you were there, it was history.

(01:41):
Probably if you look back in time and want to
have gone to one rugby match, that was probably it,
although the All Blacks didn't win obviously. But yes, there's
been movies. I mean, there are many games that there
have been movies made about, so you might have been there.
I want to know what it was like, the tour

(02:01):
before the match and that final match also, So if
you're there, very happy to talk about that, because of
course I just emerged from the isolation of the apartheid
era and they played there, so anyway, it was huge
thirty years ago, so I don't ah, I kind of

(02:29):
remember watching it. So if you're part of that, that's
something you want to talk about, feel free to come through.
The Other thing I'm really curious to know about, right
And as I said, there's probably be a three topics
start tonight. The Bugger in the terrible name. This is
Noel Edmonds pub. Now, if you don't know Nol Edmonds,

(02:51):
he was everywhere in the nineties with Nol House Party
and mister Blobby. It was kind of unwatchable, but I
think people us even watched it because it had been
a phenomenon in England, and I mean light tenth there
was sort of Barrymore, Michael Barrymore and Noel Edmonds. Funny enough,

(03:12):
both of them have moved and you've seen it at
some stage of their life. I don't know what that
tells you about them, but anyway, but Noel Edmonds is
near Motorweka now nar Nelson. I don't think it's actually
called that. It's called something else the town where he is.
But he's got a well, he's got a number of

(03:34):
businesses with pubs and restaurants and the like, and he's
done a TV series about them, which is a bit
like Clarkson's Farm.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Right.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Anyway, my question is is it any good? Have you
been there? What's it like? He says he's hemorrhaging money,
and there's not much sympathy for that because I think
probably he was in the head not so long ago
for grizzling or being a bad and I can't remember
what it was, but if you've been there, I'm curious

(04:13):
to know what that's like. He eventually went to Matakhana
and now he's in the Motawaka Valley. So if you've
been there to his pub, the bugger In, or the
restaurant or the Vineyard, wouldn't I know what it's like.
If you've don't experience that, is it worth a trip?

(04:35):
He spent thirty mil on it, and now he's made
a TV series about it now eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nineteen. I think it's a terrible name
for a pub, the bugger In. It's not even clever.
But anyway, it's just me. So if you've been there,
let me know what it's like. That's two things I

(04:58):
can ask you about tonight. And the third I'm just
trying to work out what the name of the town
is because I want to get that's right. Oh, it
just looks like flat farm man doesn't even look that
extraordinary the landscape. Oh, now I can see where it is. No,
I've got the wrong one. It's brought up something wrong

(05:20):
on my map, So I apologize for that. I was
looking at the one on Piaco. But yes, if you
want to come through and talk about that. Eight hundred
eighty ten eightyan nine two nine two to text. So
that's what we are on about tonight. Anyway, I will

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find out where it is, so get in touch, as
I say, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eightyan nine two
nine two to text. Now I want to also talk
about people that have never had smartphones. We might save
that for a little while. Don't know how long will
save that for, but we might just save that one. Jason,
it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 5 (06:01):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Thank you Jason?

Speaker 6 (06:04):
Excellent, No, and yes, my goodness to me. Growing up
in the UK, I recall him.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
The first time I recall him was Saturday Morning.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
Swapshop, which was a kid's TV show. He was a legend.
I grew up with him. But unfortunately it turns out
that he's not who we imagined he was really Yeah,
well yeah, I'm kind of disappointed. I thought he was

(06:45):
a good sword and it turns out he's not.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think that's TV people, particularly kids hosts, that become
I mean, who'd want to be a kid's host anyway?
For a start, that's a weird thing to want to be.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
And then let's not go down that.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Okay, Well, I mean look at was he was? He
the BBC ITV.

Speaker 8 (07:04):
To be honest, I think probably it TV square enough
for me.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
Yeah, okay, he's not.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
Proper enough for the beab.

Speaker 9 (07:14):
No.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
I was just thinking along the lines of who they
have hit at the BBC as kid hosts, and they've
been shocking. Anyway, have you made have you made a four?
Ready to go and see his place?

Speaker 10 (07:24):
No?

Speaker 8 (07:24):
I haven't.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
Actually, it's probably best I don't because I can't believe
I've got anything polite to say.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Well, I appreciate you coming through anyway, Jason. Then we'll
get off here while we can anyway. Willet's Marcus, welcome
in good evening?

Speaker 11 (07:42):
Good is that may?

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah? I will Gooday.

Speaker 11 (07:46):
I just wanted to say I wanted to take now
off of it here.

Speaker 12 (07:49):
I am.

Speaker 11 (07:50):
I live in the Nelson region and I've got beehos
all over his property. Oh good, Yeah, I've I've been
working with now I'm muzzy and good bag of this
way to get along with him really well, and he's
been been really good for the community and to me
but yeah, that's I'm a good runs. He's just think

(08:11):
it's just a bit. That's like a people taking the
person taking advantage of my face. That yeah, to f
my twoth ins in there.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
So what's he got there? Is the risk that I
see on the on the internet. The restaurant says it's
temporary closed. Is anything open there?

Speaker 11 (08:28):
Uh, they're not too sure. I know they have they
kept in a Yeah, I didn't realize.

Speaker 8 (08:37):
The pub was closed.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
River Haven temporarily closed, so I don't know why. But
that doesn't say the bagger run that might be open.

Speaker 11 (08:47):
I'm not too sure. The last I was there, I
had a pipe here and you know the pubbles there,
but really really fun.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Is it quite busy?

Speaker 7 (08:59):
No?

Speaker 13 (09:00):
Not?

Speaker 11 (09:00):
When I was there, there's a lot of bikes that
come through there. A lot of the people got drafted,
not really high in that and they stopping for a
pint and and yeah that's over crowds. Did they only
opened nothing on weekends? Maybe Friday, said day.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Because it's actually quite it's not the world's most popular spot.
It's quite out of the way, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (09:24):
Yeah it is, yeah, Yeah, there's it's probably Yeah, it's
probably thirty forty minutes from Richmond.

Speaker 8 (09:30):
Some reasons.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Okay, oh good, and your bees are there. Your bees
are there to fertilize the good are they They're not
they're gathering honey. They're there to fertilize it. That the
way it works.

Speaker 11 (09:39):
Both are the pollinad and they've got a mess of
garden up top and pollen aiding their fruit trees and that. Yeah,
and Losie loves das and and all that. So and yeah,
they've they've got a bit of honey. So we've put
off a cup of honey and know we're selling it.
I'd say, I'm not too sure what the plant is there?

Speaker 5 (09:57):
What's the honey?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
What's what's the honey? Predominantly it's awesome gold.

Speaker 11 (10:02):
That's a mixture of sort of honey, Joe, there's a
bit of minoka nuka there. It's kind of more of
distant honey. What we call it autumn gold because it's
been a miss of this sort of stuff on there.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Okay, thanks for that. Natti Moti is where it is
by the way too, that's or the Motorwacre Valley. Keep
the calls coming through. I'm curious if you've been there,
Bugger in eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, he's played
thirty million goodness. You need a good return on it.
You wouldn't you think you need to be open more
than just the weekends Ape. You'ist good people, Marcus, there

(10:36):
we go. This is great, Marcus. I was redisappointed in
the pace the National anth and was sung at the
Chief Crusader's Final. Too slow like a dirge? What did
you think you might have been too picky? Best wishes, Mary,
You're not being picky at all, Merry. The trouble is
the song's not good and it is dirge like even

(10:59):
at the Olympics when its Oh, I can feel the
energy being drained out of my body ther it is
a dirge, a durgae. It's not a good song.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I don't think we should change it because it's ours,
but it's not a banger. Some anthems are bangers. Some
anthems are bangers. Ours is far from it. Our anthem
is a It feels like your spirit has been drained
from you throughout the course of the song. I feel

(11:33):
like I'm being deflated. It's just hasn't got a good beat,
and I'm not a musical person. I just know I
don't like that anyway. It's fine now, Mary, people are
agreeing with you. She's right. It was killed on Saturday.
Who sung it?

Speaker 10 (11:53):
Who sung it?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I don't really have a sweepstack. Was it Lizzie Marvelli
or was it who was it sung it? Just if
y either two people at the national anthem at the
Crusaders Final. They did it in two minutes and seven seconds.
Two minutes seven seconds. Just for a comparison, the great
Hailey Western Ra seventeen years ago, fifteen years ago, thirteen

(12:15):
years and fifteen years ago thirteen she did it in
one fifty seven, in fact, one fifty two. So Hailey
does it fifteen seconds? Quicker? You want to do it
less than two minutes. Basically, if you're over to you're
just you're milking it. That's my take on that one anyway.
But you don't know if they're any good singers. I think

(12:36):
one of them is from pop Stars. It was Jenkrmene
and Michael Kuriesa, Shane Marcus, welcome, Marcus, how you got good? Shamee?

Speaker 14 (12:45):
Hey where I'm from? Two minutes is a long time
just saying yeah, yeah, hey, nol Edmonds, I might have
come in halfway through that story. Yeah, the context for
you is it is it just about him been down
there and having a bit of money and trying to
make a living.

Speaker 15 (13:02):
Is that what the story is about.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
I just asking if the restaurant and the bar were
any good.

Speaker 14 (13:08):
I've been there a number of times. The restaurant and
the bar are fantastic. He's actually quite a bit operator
our business, does a little bit of business with them.
I haven't seen him for twelve months, but he's a
good investor, does a lot for that area, brought a
few rundown properties, and I think he's done quite a
good job. But I'm not sure where the negativity comes from.

(13:30):
Maybe it's tall foppy Kiwi syndrome.

Speaker 16 (13:32):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I'm not hearing the negativity. I was just curious because
I see there's a lot of publicity of the UK
for his TV series. Now, why when you're seventy five
would you do a TV series about what you're doing?
I don't know the answer to that, do you no?

Speaker 14 (13:47):
I think much you have been in the limelight. He
has for most of his life been out of it.
Probably hurts, you know. I don't think a lot of
New Zealanders understand how successful he is or was in
the UK, and it might even be a coup someone
like him and his wife moving to New Zealand investing
a few million bucks. So maybe in England he's a

(14:07):
very popular man.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Is that right? Okay?

Speaker 14 (14:10):
So there's he started with Blue Peter and he's one
of the original founders off Top Kit way before Clarkson.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Mh goodness.

Speaker 14 (14:20):
Really, if you research Noel Edmonds what he's done for
television in the UK, you'll have a heart attack.

Speaker 12 (14:29):
Man, he's right up there.

Speaker 14 (14:31):
He is the men very interesting character, made a lot
of money over a long time and invested an awful
lot of New Zealand. Lots of New Zealand businesses have
benefited from him being here and having a crack if.
He's a very good operator.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
So he does he work in the restaurant ah.

Speaker 14 (14:53):
But he's pretty hands on. He's got some land pretty
sensey land rovers to other little high end vehicles, couple
of jacks and he knows what he's doing. He won't
die wondering and he's got some money he doesn't mind spending.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
So what's your connection with him? Shane?

Speaker 14 (15:09):
Just run a small business up in the North Island
that makes steel kinks and he has some businesses that
require skill and he chose our company to supply them.
And I've just dealt with him since then, and he's
always been really good to deal with.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Steel Texis loves still tanks for vehicles or for wine
or something.

Speaker 14 (15:28):
I know, diesel. Thanks good operation.

Speaker 15 (15:30):
The one is a green.

Speaker 14 (15:31):
He's like, you know, he's a battery objectors around Marcus.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Oh, I know, Shane. I'm not trying to be tricky.
I'm just talking to is like a puzzle. I'm just saying,
what what's he need the diesel tanks for? Is it
for his vineyard or something?

Speaker 14 (15:46):
Yeah, he's got a lot of orchards and some other
properties down there that would require machinery to be operating
at all at all times.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Okay copy that twenty six past eight eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine to text Marcus. If you've ever
heard the noise that the little penguin makes that lives
around the Golden the buggering in is quad an app
name for that pub whatever that means. Keep your texts
coming through nine two nine two to text Marcus till

(16:14):
twelve a rugby World Cup Final nineteen ninety five, this
day thirty years Marcus I was at the game on
Saturday with the Crusaders and Chiefs. Sion one hundred sent
agree with other cause and testers texters that that was
the worst rendition ever of the national anthem. Incredibly slow.
There are about three different speeds coming from the different

(16:36):
areas of park. It was just awful, Marcus Smiths said,
is anthem, but never know what's the triple star? Love
the Raoh we should forget about the English cheers Mary
Gee Mary, that's a controversial text for earlier the night
it'll happen Marcus private Heady Adams has produced a rebust
tradition of the internationally the on two occasions at the

(16:58):
wonderful afl Ensics ceremony prior to the Collingwood Essendon match
on April twenty fifth. Also the this is the different text.
Also the speed thing definitely makes a difference too, Like
when Happy Birthday song starts at toddler party, it's always
about half the speed it should be. Plus people can sing.
Probably if it's faster, they're less anxious for it to

(17:19):
hurry up and finish. Marcus, it's time for shape shifter
and brook Phraser to co lab on a new national anthem.
Very slow, Hey, the old anthem. They're rigged it. Oh hell,
I don't know who's the musical directly ss that go
out there and eratio, get it done. One beat, Hayley

(17:41):
Western go in one forty five. You're done and dusted.
If you want to comment on that also too, be kind.
That sounds like a disaster. Maybe they did it deliberately
to put the chiefs off their step. You never know
these days prematch entertainment. They might have rigged it. Tell
you what, we'll have no cowbells, will sing the anthem
frustratingly slow, will put them off their spot. Anyway, get

(18:04):
in touch marks till twelve. If breaking news breaks, will
be here breaking it Operation midnight Hammer, not quite but
midnight chatterheadle twelve. Seven minutes ago, Israel Defense minister says
he has ordered a tack on Iran after claiming Tehran
has violated the ceasefire. Well that was quick cheapers, by

(18:37):
the way. According to the BBC website, Iran has denied
firing at Israel could be one of their proxies. Marcus
and his anthems should be changed to air poor by
Prince Toui tek it's a banger. Oh yes, I'm familiar
with his backcannon. That is a great song. That's one
of the great songs of all time. Then someone wants

(18:59):
I want POI air for our national anthem. So no
one happy with that. I don't think anyone would have
the guts in the current government to change the anthem.
They tried the flag and it backfired. But maybe that's
what we need to do. Sing it frustrating, he siding
and can people will get jack of it, Marcus. Maybe
they need a drum and bess remix of it. Base

(19:19):
it's twenty twenty five, after all, the kids would go nuts.
UT's nay ah gee, we're back with it. And I
haven't brought this up the anthem. Just don't put me
on a cross. This is not me saying we should
change it. This is the people. There's Jean valjeaning it's
the people singing the songs of angry men. Why would

(19:44):
they have the national anthem for a lie? And I
thought that's probably slightly pompous, is it anyway? Get in
touch on a Torkettil twelve Rugby World Cup thirty years ago,
the winning one at South Africa Elis pak Is. They
always call it, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty just

(20:05):
a text here, Mark, I just did some quick research.
Edmonds had nothing to do with Blue Peter, nothing to
do with starting top gear, but did host two series
of it. The guy is wrong, he said, do the research. Backfire, Marcus.
We don't need to change the anthem, just speed it up.
It's not a funeral, it's a celebration. Maybe they chose

(20:27):
singers that were unsuitable for the tempo. I don't know
the people. I don't know what their directions were. But
you want to do it quick, in and out, that's
my take. I mean the British, God bless them. They
do a lot wrong. But I'll tell you what that
God Saved the King. Gee, that's quick. Flip your in

(20:48):
and out about thirty seconds. What would be the world's
shortest national anthem? Do you reckon? I'll google that up,
thank you very much. It's probably God Save the King.
I think he used to be God Save the Queen, well,
which would be long long. And they're both one syllable words,

(21:08):
aren't they. Apparently Japan is one of the oldest and
shortest anthems in the world. Cam Iago yep, camiyaga, kimigaio
seems to be the shortest in the world. Go figure.

(21:35):
I'm just desperutly trying to find out how long it is.
Some Wikipedia are a wonderful thing. Only pears to have
ten words. May you reign continue a thousand and eight
thousand generations until the tiny People's ground A mess of boulders.
Lush with moss. That's the eendlish translation. Of course that's

(21:55):
my surname. So I'm excited about that. Lush with moss.
I don't know how long it is, by the way,
might be a minute, six in and out, four lines,
threety two characters. Oh dan? Is that on the quiz? Lush?

Speaker 17 (22:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:19):
What's the shortest national anthem in the world? Lush with moss?
Why is that not on the chase? What is the
shortest national anthem in the world? There you go, lines free,
It's a fiesta. Get in touch, Marcus still twelve Operation
Midnight Chatter. I'll get you there, Marcus. All three blokes

(22:44):
we've phoned and have had poor audio setups. That's right.
That's why I wonder if it was someone one person
doing sort of voice detection. There you go, get in touch. Mainly,
what people are furious about is the anthem. I haven't
heard any discussion on that. That's normally I'm up for

(23:04):
anthem scandal. But yeah, and you got to say, you know,
Western rass sat the bar so high that I'd walk away.
I know a lot of people like Judd Arthur. They
love Judd Arthur, didn't they because he was a opera

(23:25):
singer and a rugby player. You don't think he was
strongly a pined on the David Bain situation, wasn't here?
Memory serves me right, and my memories normally fairly good
with Arcania like that ARCANEA. What's the longest anthem? Then? Yeah,

(23:50):
there will be ones that go I think our one's
goes forever. There's more verses, but we don't do those.

Speaker 18 (23:54):
Hi, Mary Hallo Marcus.

Speaker 13 (23:57):
I'm so pleased that I got the response that I did,
because I thought, perhaps I'm just an eighty two year
old Twitter's too narrow minded and not quite was the
world that think of the French national anthem.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Browsing one of the French one. They've just about won
the game as they stand there they cry, and it's
so moving.

Speaker 13 (24:16):
I know that. Yeah, No, I was just I put
my actually put my head in my hands when it
was it was being I thought, I can't believe that
he's ever organized this, has done it, has done this.
So let's hope that the next time we play the
All Blacks or whoever, that they live and it up

(24:36):
a bit.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Yeah, it's terrible. The players don't sing it, no one's
into it. It's a dad let's face it as a
dud what it is?

Speaker 8 (24:44):
Yes on, Mary?

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Are you a Crusaders supporter, Well, look I.

Speaker 13 (24:50):
Can tell you another little story. I'm actually a Chief supporter.
I was a real Frian. I was a real fan
of Damien. But I did something really quite weird once
when the tech camera was on him and he swore explicitly.
So I sent off a text to the the Chief's
management saying, you know, all these young kids are watching

(25:12):
these games, and you know some of these rugby players
they should be aware of what the impression they're giving.
So you know, once again, perhaps I am the rabbit
now who finds his older lady.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
A bit of a Karen move there texting the boss
because he swore. That's Pete Karen, that's amazing. Did you
get a reply?

Speaker 13 (25:32):
No, well I just got a standard reply. But anyway,
the joke of it was that a friend of mine said,
if Damien comes on the field and sticks his finger
up in the air, hell, yo, it's at me.

Speaker 9 (25:41):
And then the.

Speaker 13 (25:42):
Next time, after I'd said this text, he didn't pay
for two weeks. So I was head of a lot
of people having the odor bells. It's all your fault.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
You're not saying how do you get the how do
you get how do you have the chief's phone number?

Speaker 13 (25:54):
You just know I sent an email, So I just
did it through their management through an email. So you know,
it's amazing what happens when you know, I do a
bit of investigation on these magic phones.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
There he goes, was it the air word? That's all
they say, isn't it word?

Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (26:13):
And you know when the camera's right on them and
it's so explicit and it's not means reference. I mean,
we know how they feel. I must feel pretty dead.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
To say fidget spinner or something. You know, he should
be more responsible. He's got a liquor company and things.
He should be more responsible. That's a bad example.

Speaker 13 (26:27):
Isn't it absolutely good that you agree with me?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Good Mary, I'll pick Carroen. They're cheapest creepers, Marcus. Nothing
tops God save the King at twicken and with eighty
thousand Arabi clans seeing at the top of their lungs, amazing,
have to be there, Marcus, congrats on Duned and retaining
their airport's international status. They should give North and South
Islands fraud national airports each Ironically, when you go on

(26:53):
air tomorrow, sky Open TV will air world's most scenic
railway Durneys Bore the inlander and the seasider through the
Taidi Gorge, the greatest traine trip in the country. Maybe
we should night on the things you've complained and texted
people about. But gee, emailing David Mackenzie's boss because he

(27:14):
swore that's kind of next level ownership, isn't it. You
might want to comment on that. Eight hundred and eighty
to eighty nineteen to nine. My name is Marcus. Welcome
looking forty. I will keep you updated with the cease fire,
although how would you know? Oh what are the latest updates?

(27:38):
Iranian state media vision response to Israel's exis of the
country breaking arrests implemented ceasefire, denying reports that fired missiles
at Israel after the ceasefire came into effect, and israel
Is vowed to strike targets in the heart of Tehran
after Iran violated a ceasefire hours after it went into effect.
So yep, you're not what there used to be the ceasefires,

(28:03):
Marcus aid, anthem last Saturday night. All I remember is
the young woman standing there in the shortest dress at a
rugby final. Come on, a bit of decorum, please, very
inappropriate for the event, plus it being the worst rendition
of the anthem day, always shaving for them for what
they wear. Now, goodness, Marcus, she would be hard to

(28:26):
beat Ireland's call, but the Sri Lankan anthem at the
cricket is rather upbeat. I would love ours to be
Dave Dobbin slice. I don't like Slice of Heaven. Yeah,
I don't like that. It's a bit too. I mean,
I like Dobbin, but not Slice of Heaven. Of course,

(28:46):
Ireland's call because it was hoops with Dave Dobbin. Ireland's
call is not an anthem e, there is it? Can
I say that? I don't think Ireland's calls. It's a
great song, but it's only because the Republic of Ireland
and the part of the UK that's Northern Ireland come
together for rugby. I need a special song. There you go, Marcus.

(29:13):
Can we talk about school speeches? Finding my topic? Hard
day in the life without technology? How about where's your
punctuation for that text? Marcus? I've been to many global
sporting events. Nothing beats Cardiff Arms of the Welsh people
beautifully singing with passion and in tune. Gary doesn't help
their rugby though, does it. That's the trouble with them,

(29:35):
too much effort on the singing. The top topic seems
to be the stand of the anthem at the rugby final.
I don't even know why they needed the anthem at
the rugby final. And while they had two people singing it,
but apparently Freevere slow two minutes and seven seconds Western
radd in one fifty two, so yeah, it is slow.

(29:58):
I don't know what their brief was, but there we go.
People went happy with it. I don't know if it
was deliberate, ah, but it's just one of those songs.
You get it wrong, you get it so wrong, you
get it wrong. It seems like a wet week. It's slow.
Don't know what the answer is. Anyway, you might want
to comment on that. Noel Edmonds, if you've been to
his restaurant, that is good also too, to talk about

(30:20):
that too tonight. The Rugby World Cup thirty years ago.
You might have been at that final. Curiously what it
was like touring around South Africa in nineteen ninety five
as they got welcome back into world rugby? Haha? Anything else?
Also the ceasefire you might have your hot reckons on
that doesn't appear to be holding. But we don't really know.

(30:45):
I don't know who is the impartial observer to tell
us stuff from there. But we'll keep you updated with that. Also,
there is something different you want to mention brilliant get
amongst it? Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the

(31:06):
way the boy racers and live in They are saying
that they've got nowhere else to go. They're getting pinged
for doing convoys. The men said they are frustrated authorities

(31:32):
sought to crack down on them but gave them no
affordable to go. One day at Manfield is probably just
under a grand Why does skaters have skate parks. Footballers
have football fields. Why do rugby players have rugby fields?
They want somewhere they can go boy races. Well done

(31:57):
of the response that you might want to comment anyway, Bridget,
this is Marcus. Welcome good Marcus, tell you good, Bridget.

Speaker 19 (32:06):
I just wanted to make the comment about the Levin
boy racers. Now, I mean, I'm middle aged now and plus,
but haven't we been hearing it about these boys for
a long time now? We should we should really be
embracing their boy racer thing that they're happening in live
In and just get behind them instead of just like
pushing them to the site.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Like good branding for the town. Because we all know
about the Levin boy racers a.

Speaker 19 (32:33):
Well, they're kind of like a movement now. They've been
around for like a decade or so, haven't they.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
I don't know, Well, this isn't Are you from there?

Speaker 19 (32:41):
No, I'm not, but I mean, yeah, I'm not. I
could be wrong, but at least five years, right, yeah, yeah,
So I'm just I just don't know why we don't
just give them somewhere to race. They're not going to
stop racing. They're obviously well entrenched now and just just
lay off them, you know. I mean, we're better off

(33:02):
policing it than we are to be not giving them
anywhere to do their they're.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Yeah, I appreciate it. So you're catching yourself out with
the phone on that, with your ready on that caught
you up. I think you make some valid points. Thank you, Nigel, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (33:17):
Good evening.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Then, young Nigel, my name is Marcus, not Nigel.

Speaker 20 (33:23):
Okay, yeah, sorry Marcus.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, and I'm not young. Don't pete calling me young anyway,
what did you want to say?

Speaker 20 (33:32):
I was going to say, I'm going to challenge you
on the best rail journey in New Zealand. I reckon
it's the christ the Graymouth terribly after after a good
dumping of snow, it's just marvelous.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
There and back there and beck in a day. The
people are kind of poking their eyes out with boredom
by the end of it.

Speaker 20 (33:54):
But that's the same with Tory. Gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
No, that's as sure. That's a couple of hours up,
a couple of hours back. It's brilliant, it's perfect.

Speaker 20 (34:02):
Or the other option, as you get off the train,
wherever's a middle march or booker rang and do the
cycle trail.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
A yeah, no, I yeah, I just think that I
always support the Tayry Gorge because there's run. You know,
they don't make a fortune out of it, and I
always think it's I think five hours there and back
the gorge.

Speaker 20 (34:22):
Yeah yeah, but don't you what about that alpine scene
with all the snow. I went up done the christ
Church the Graymouth after a big dumping of snow and
it was like being in fairy land with all the snow. Now,
once you got up off the tender be planes into
the Alps, it was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Okay, thanks Nigel, Joe, Marcus welcome, Hi Joe. Okay, it's Marcus.
Welcome here you are mate, good, thank you, Joe.

Speaker 21 (34:55):
Yeah, I was just ringing up about the.

Speaker 12 (34:59):
Races.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
Yes, so I was in town that night.

Speaker 21 (35:03):
Me and my partner are out having a drink or whatever,
and we were there and the cops were, you know,
doing their things. They were eradicating everyone whatever, and it
was good what they were doing, but they were targeting

(35:23):
the wrong people, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Sure, tell you more. Who were they targeting?

Speaker 21 (35:27):
It was no so the boy racers had left, they'd
all got in their cars that've gone and we were
just outside the pub and we all got told to
leave town.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Oh they're targeting you.

Speaker 8 (35:42):
Yeah, yeah, just bystanders.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
And yeah, oh that sounds like that's that sounds like
real bad policing.

Speaker 16 (35:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (35:53):
No, well, you know, obviously they're targeting what they could get.
But yeah, it was, Yeah, it was sort of more like, hey, Chase,
what you're actually here for?

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Always seems a bit hyped up? This thing, doesn't it.
They're like they're all, yeah, I reckon. Yeah, I can't
quite work it out because I'm there are even that
many people living out How many boy races are there?

Speaker 15 (36:14):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (36:14):
They all come from backtown and it's you know, they're
they're really burnouts and they leave like they're only doing.

Speaker 16 (36:20):
It for attention.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Will Where do they do the burnouts?

Speaker 21 (36:25):
Oh, they do it on their main interceptions and everything,
which you know, you can understand the truckers, but they're
getting paid, they're suing their waiting, so you know, the entertainment.
Good on them.

Speaker 8 (36:37):
But yeah, just the way that.

Speaker 21 (36:42):
You know, the cops react and everything, that's sort of
if you're going to do something, do it to the
people who are actually causing the issue, not innocent people
on the side of the road that are obviously come
out from a pub. They see what's going on, so
they come out to look.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Sounds wrong, Joe, thanks for that. We'll talk about that
more in the next hour. But it was a busyer.
It's all going on. Oh, eight hundred and eighty t
nine nine to the tics mark till twelve. We are
talking about the Levin Boy Races, which is.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Great.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
I've got no idea what even the thing is, and
most of us only know the headlines, but I don't
really know what happens if it's an annual thing of
there's something that regularly. Got no idea what it is.
I mean, it always seems incongruous Levin and Boy racing.
So if you're involved we know anything about it, give
us a holler and maybe we can deal with some

(37:34):
facts about this. Also, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty,
they're saying they need somewhere to go, yeah, which is
often the cry of the Boy races. But then there's
old times that say, oh, we've opened up the car club.
They don't want to go there, but I think it's

(37:54):
quite expensive. They're going to a race track and do
things like that. Anyway, you might want to talk here
till twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty night. I wait,
John Marcus, welcome, Hello, Margaret, Tell you good John, Thank you.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
It's good. Hey, I'm actually a Karen enthusiast myself.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Good thanks for calling.

Speaker 8 (38:17):
Oh no, that's fine. Hey. I do think it probably
was in the right area, but it was actually the
good thing.

Speaker 17 (38:24):
You know.

Speaker 8 (38:25):
I actually do enjoy the cars, and they were good.
It was in the wrong area.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Are you talking about where it was on Levin?

Speaker 8 (38:35):
Yes, yes, yes, it was a good thing for the
cars to have it, but it wasn't a wrong area.
And I can agree with the people not wanting to
go to the car clubs because they actually don't have
the areas for people to do burnout.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
Can you tell me what the Levin thing is? Does
it happen every year?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Does it?

Speaker 22 (38:54):
No?

Speaker 8 (38:54):
I'm actually not entirely sure. I just caught wind of it. Yeah,
and it would have been probably about three days before,
so I went down and I did go to it,
but it wasn't the wrong area and people could have
got hurt, but we were pretty controlled. I would have.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Thought, who was how many people were there?

Speaker 20 (39:15):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (39:16):
To put a number on it, I would say fifty people.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Was it well organized?

Speaker 8 (39:27):
Well, obviously not Marcus, but well, I.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
Mean, was there someone in charge?

Speaker 8 (39:33):
I don't actually know the nitty gritty to be fair,
but fair enough.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah. And was there a burnout competition? John?

Speaker 8 (39:44):
No, No, I don't think there was. I was just
a couple of enthusiasts, what doing laps or.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
What's that?

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Were they doing laps? I mean what were they actually doing? Oh?

Speaker 8 (39:59):
No, I was just quite related to it, just a
little bit of a car thing.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
What did you turn your radio on?

Speaker 23 (40:08):
No?

Speaker 8 (40:09):
No, I don't have radio on. Okay, you're going on
the background here?

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah, that doesn't work. Okay, So yeah, can you? Yeahs
hung up? What a terrible call they hung up anyway,
So you might have been involved with that, because I've
got no idea what it was. If it's an organized
thing or something happens regularly. It's been in the news
number of times, but there's huge hype around about it.

(40:39):
We weren't saying they're pooringly behaved and this and there's that.
But I'm sure there's boy races that congregate all around
the world every day, all around yours in it every
day and don't kind of have the same attention. So yes,
you might know something more about that, because ev it's
quite sort of a settled sweep town, isn't it. Not
much going on anyway, getting a lot of new callers,

(41:01):
which is great, but just turn your radio off when
you can't get on here, otherwise you'll hear yourself delayed
and it will mess with your mind. It'll mess with
your mind like you won't imagine, I can promise you
because you'll hear yourself in the background and it will
it will affect your your flow of thought. That's my

(41:24):
take on that one. Also to about the National anthem,
how appalling it was at the Crusader's Chiefs match. Just
slow sorry Marcus, but who the hell do these kid
racists think that I was involved with the racism Beau
Monsteret ANDRT in the seventies. Someone says, how many kids
and gum boots were handed off the wild we shootout

(41:45):
on the weekend? What does that mean? They had one
in field and where they could go, but it cost Ooh,
it's all about what happened at Levin. While we talking
about Levano, because the guy said that it's because the
guys sounded a bit self pitying. What said is that

(42:09):
the skaters have skateboarding places and the rugby players have fields,
but the boy racers have nowhere to go. But they've
got the roads. That's what the cars are for, aren't they?
Aren't they for the roads? Was even talking about this, Dan,

(42:31):
I find the original article. There was something about that today.
That's why I'm talking about it. Levin boy Races, Oh yeah,
Tnarian dead story. Livin Invasion organizers say boy races need
somewhere to go. Live In Invasion organizers say government tough

(42:57):
talk and promise boy racer crackdown spurred them on. They
say enthusiasts have nowhere off road to go. Transport minist
promises tougher luws on the way, and it says they've
been labeled cowardly, try hard, idiots, menaces, and morons. They've

(43:23):
going a crowd of a thousand and two hundred cars
filled the Horner fen to a town over three weeks ago,
doing burnouts that caused public outcry and a large public response.
But the people kind of involved with organizing and doubling
it down, says convoys are just corenthusias out to see

(43:43):
each other's cars. They're not intimidating the public. The men
who agreed not to be named said they were frustrated
authorities sought to crack down on them but gave them
nowhere affordable to go. They're not going to said. As
a sport, pads are quite expensive. One da manfield is
probably just under a grand. It's not cheaper accessible for
those of us who like to do it on the

(44:05):
daily or we kens. Why does skaters have skate parks?
White of footballers have football fields. Wide of rugby players
have rugby fields. Those are publicly fund of those are free.
There's obviously a big trend coming through in right now
where skidders are getting out there on the street. You're
gonna need somewhere to put them. I presume a skidder
is like a drifter, is it? What's a skidder? They're skidders.

(44:31):
Police officers are attacked with fireworks, something the organizers said
they didn't condone, and four bystanders were injured by the cars.
We endorse for people of stealth, the roads stay clear
of our skidders, but still they like to get close
to get that ten second video.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Brilliant.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
You want to mention that eight hundred and eighty skidders, Marcus,
Let's be very clear, living was a riot. Police were
padded with rocks and bottles, head bottles and fireworks. Sort
of them lucky that none suffered serious injury. Why Marcus.
Years ago and the mid eighties we used to cruise
up around the Queen Street and Nork and mostly hild
cars off. Often we would go to places like a

(45:17):
Scott Road marg and E which was an industrial area
away from the public. It was a rite of passage held.
We didn get a schooled by police, but not on
the scale day. I think probably the scale is not
their big these days. You're hard to hear of boy races.

Speaker 7 (45:34):
I don't what a.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
Skids are, Marcus. They say with scientific evidence. News Inna
is the best place to be if World War III
was ever to break out, as long as you don't
want to go and buy butter or fruit and veggies
for your family looking for your hot reckons on the
anthem performance at the can at the Crusaders Chiefs match

(45:59):
Saturday night, two minutes seven seconds. Far too long. I
don't know if that had a backing track or what
the time was, but not good A cappella. That'll be
the problem. The other thing too is the boy racers
and live in They say they actually need places to
go and do their skidders. No idea what a skidder is.

(46:20):
I think it might be like a burner. I don't know.
Seems to be annual season with people beating up on
the boy races. This story kind of peaks from time
to time and then they're ignored and they go away.
But the couple of the organizers have got their backs

(46:40):
up with the government saying there's going to be harsher
boy racer laws.

Speaker 12 (46:44):
All good.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I'm then standing up for themselves. I suppose. I think
there were fireworks. I don't know if the police had
rocks thrown at them. I look into that police describe
being hit by fireworks. Yeah, ten arrested. Oh one young

(47:07):
woman had both your legs right over. Well, that's not
a good look. Eight twenty past nine, JOHNO, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (47:15):
Welcome, Marcas going good. John It's right.

Speaker 23 (47:21):
Hey, Yeah, I reckon like I'm a bit older now,
I'm mid thirty's, you know, and I've been They've done it.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
I reckon.

Speaker 23 (47:28):
The bloody boy racers scenes massive these days. A yeah,
where I live and Cambridge, and you know you get
mobs of hundreds of cars. They come into town and
skids everywhere. Police try and turn up, they just throw
bottles and ship at them.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
And what sort of cars, John know, what sort of
cars are the boy races into these days?

Speaker 20 (47:50):
Wow?

Speaker 23 (47:50):
Because you can go and buy like a pretty cheap
Falcon and stuff now, and you know they've got plenty
of plenty of toad to do a skid pretty easily.

Speaker 16 (47:58):
And then.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
There are they're old cars.

Speaker 23 (48:03):
Yeah yeah, well they're all like, you know, a model
Falcons and stuff like that, where will drive Falcons and
like what year like the Da Falcon heaps them around.
I don't know what they are. They must be like
late teens, yeah, okay, yeah yeah. And then and then
all those Japanese cars that we had growing up, well

(48:24):
a lot of them are like modern modern day classics
and stuff now and yeah, they they're richet and bust
them to day. It all over Instagram and TikTok and
all that.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
You know, so they're all filming each other, that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (48:39):
Now.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
That's a different level as the post. So what's a skidder?

Speaker 23 (48:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (48:43):
Oh well I've got no idea. I'm just getting it.

Speaker 23 (48:46):
Some burnout.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
So they just get they just get to like dary
and streets, they do burnouts and that's the kind of thing.
Then they post those videos.

Speaker 23 (48:58):
Yeah, and then they also they've obviously got like group
chats and stuff, and someone will just say there somewhere
and then within like an hour there's fucking hundreds of just.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Bring the language back, but yeah, there's hundreds.

Speaker 23 (49:12):
It's just hundreds of them there, you know. And then
I'll just chet each other and that just snowballs massively.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I mean to be fair, To be fair, John, if
you're young and you're into cars, it sounds quite fun.
It sounds like.

Speaker 14 (49:29):
I'm not gonna lie, you.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Know, as long as you don't start having running battles
with the police. Yeah, yeah, and as long as you're
safe with the burnouts. Because some burnout I think there
was some work party Winton, some guided a burnout in
the shed and it work doing it somemer, which seemed
to be stupid. But you know, you'd want to stay
well clear of the burnouts. But I guess with people
wanted to film them, they get quite close.

Speaker 23 (49:52):
Well, I think, how you know, our obstacle was always
trying not to get caught. But now they just don't
really care, I feel, you know, okay, yeah, you know
the police turned up and they'll just you know, they
throw bottles and fireworks or whatever at them, and you
know they that regard for the law.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Really A Levin does sound a bit different. Are you
in Cambridge? John?

Speaker 23 (50:14):
Oh? I am yup, yup.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
But the boy races had come from Hamilton, wouldn't they.

Speaker 23 (50:19):
Yeah, well they do, like they do big meet up.
So I know that there's on Tarafus straight in Hamilton.
The boy races through laps around there like most Saturday
nights or whatever. But every year they do a thing
called the Hamilton Invasion and they'll be like, I don't know,
three hundred plus cars that come down. It's like it's

(50:41):
absolute carvts.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Yeah, brilliant, okay, good to hear. Joo, brilliant, colorful language.
Mark Marcus, welcome, you're okay, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (50:51):
I remember in the two thousands, kind of probably early
mid two thousands there's boy races because I'm from Auckland,
and that'd be creising around in Auckland too, like down
Queen Street and stuff just sort of slow just and
there was some seriously cool cars, all jack cars and
stuff like Evos there, specially Evos and the Sabahi wrxs

(51:16):
and skylights and stuff, and you could recognize them even
from being a performance car, like they are really properly
done cars. And there was no police, snow violence, no fireworks,
no throwing things, no nothing, and they were more just
sort of cruising and almost kind of parading the cars,
kind of revving the engines, windows down, all saying good

(51:38):
out of each other, and if you knew them, you'd
say hi and whatever. And I reckon, what's happened is
it's become really kind of boguny and it's I mean,
three hundred cars and kind of rar on news in
one it. I mean, I've just traveled to Dunedin today
and there's some kind of matte black old Nissons and
stuff like slammed on wheels kind of I don't know,

(52:00):
like I just remember a time where it was actually
quite spectacular, no harm being done, just really cook cars
and you know, actually some quite onto it.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Guys, Yeah, turn out well, to be fair, I always
thought the boy Racer was the definition of bogan but
and yeah, and Mark, what's different now? Is in the
old days, even going back to Beaumont Street in the seventies,
they don't seem to be drag racing anymore. They're not
doing illegal street bass. They're just doing burnouts and skidders.

Speaker 12 (52:31):
Yeah, they're just absolutely blazing tie and then and then
when the old farmers or whatever where they're in those
areas whatever you know, come out and say clear off,
they absolutely lose their rets and start throwing things and
kicking off.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Have you have you have you seen this or just
heard about it?

Speaker 12 (52:54):
I'm just hearing him. I hear, I read and hear
atective about what you're talking about, Like, yeah, when.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I haven't seen much bad stuff. We've got boy racers
in the cargo, but they just go around the two
roundabouts and just go back and around, and it always
seems quite quaint and kind of unspectacular.

Speaker 12 (53:11):
Yeah, you've got what about gorons?

Speaker 8 (53:13):
Do you have some gorens?

Speaker 3 (53:14):
They have the old Yeah they got there. Yeah, they've
got the big old cars. They come down, they go
to the they come up to the Blossom festival and
they drive her out up Queen's Down. But they they,
I mean, they seem pretty old and pretty unharmless.

Speaker 12 (53:27):
Yeah, and the criteria seems to be a to have
a mullet and maybe.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
I think I think you're go to a bench seat
so you can get three in the front.

Speaker 12 (53:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
I think that's quite important. And the cars get handed
down from generation to generation.

Speaker 12 (53:44):
Yeah, and then maybe some girls on there and some
of those, yeah, much as we used to have.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
The no, I think they have. I think they have
flag and I think they have the Petsy rigular beer
and a paste glass. I think that's what they do.

Speaker 12 (53:57):
Or even those goon bags, you know, the bus wine, maybe.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
The old riot peck and it has been going for
a hundred years, hasn't it.

Speaker 24 (54:09):
Yeah, it has.

Speaker 12 (54:11):
I think My point is that I remember it being
a little bit more. Yes, you say, I mean they're
all boguns, but I don't know.

Speaker 24 (54:18):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
I don't think it's even sophisticated.

Speaker 12 (54:21):
Well maybe just a tear above like your head cars make,
you know, the magazines, and I'm making it in there
because they were they are a well done car and
setting these ten second records at Mary Mary or whatever,
and they were and then you'd see the same car
that you've just seen in the performance car just just
you know, cruising down Queen Street. Just I mean, basically

(54:44):
it's full of It's just from how face you can
get from one set of lights to the next. Se
You're not going to get up about more than thirty
k's actually, but you know, and I remember it being
just actually quite spectacular and a bit more interesting than
just idiots with these matte black sort of shith household
cars just you know, ruining their tires.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
Okay, I've got to think more about that, but well,
might see someone else is going to get into the
if it's become if it's become less sophisticated supers get
in touch by name is Marcus welcome?

Speaker 16 (55:21):
Oh wait?

Speaker 3 (55:21):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty and nineteen ninety two
to text, who get in touch Marcus till twelve anyway,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen ninety six. It
is all about the boy races. Pretty happy to talk
about this. A lot of great texts coming and I'll

(55:43):
get to those soon. Beautiful the liver. So what I
can tell it seems the whole thing that's changed about
boy racing is now it's gone online, TikTok, Instagram, It's
quite visual, and I guess you're doing burnout. So one
of those other things door bangers. What's it when you
slam the doors? Or I can't I had some videos
once upon a time. I don't know much about it.

(56:05):
But oh wait, ten hundred and eighty today, Jamie Marcus, welcome,
Oh Marcus, there you go, good Jamie.

Speaker 15 (56:15):
I was just listened to your last caller and as
someone that was very much in the scene in the
mid two Felvin, there was nothing. There was nothing sophisticated
about it. The only I was thinking, why were they
lots more sophisticated was only because the cars were newer,
whereas now they're thirty years or twenty years down the track,

(56:36):
you know, so they're still racing the same cars because
it's a passion for them. But yeah, they're just so
that was and yeah, you did have the ones that
got on the magazine, but then well they were far
and kee between. They've used to go and buy five
hundred dollars Graspers cut the springs and then we cruise
up and down Queen Street and then go out in
South Auckland. And they were riots for the whole the

(56:58):
whole shooting matches to.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Go on you and when you come across them, like occasional,
they'd be parked right along Key Street towards the mc
cann ex pay. There would be a lot of cars.
It'd be four or five hundred, wouldn't there.

Speaker 15 (57:10):
Yeah, yeah, it was massive. Yeah, it would be. When
you get on the Southern Motorway, it would be like
it was bumping a bump of trafficking at eleven o'clock
at night, you know, all going to like clear any
drive before when that first got put in before there's
imagine the houses along there now, but there was just
that was in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
How did you communicate? Was this pre cell phones or
was this texting days?

Speaker 15 (57:35):
This was just texting days, but it was very much.
So you just go down Queen Street and then the
word aeron was sort of going, we're going to leave now.
And then you'd get down the bottom down through Key
Street and then out on the Southern Motorway and you
just take a car and follow and you'd hope that
you'd end up in the right spot.

Speaker 11 (57:55):
Was sorry you go?

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Was the racing or burnouts or just yeah, yeah, all of.

Speaker 15 (58:03):
The bump yeah, and then the cops would show up,
and then you know you'd all scrambled a couple of
bottles and get in front of them, and then you
go to the next right game A cat and Mountain
of night. Huge fun, so much.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Fun, incredibly exciting. I suppose you're young with your car.
It seemed, yeah, stakes were high.

Speaker 15 (58:23):
Yeah, you get a fine every weekend, but you didn't care.
You know, I wasn't tool till now they've they've put
me in the bump. But back then you go, what's
the eight hundred dollars fine when you only earned four
hundred dollars a week? Was the kind of well, you know,
there was a big amount of money and you didn't care.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
What were you find mainly for.

Speaker 15 (58:43):
No warrant, no regio restricted driver and the company learner
restricted driver with friends just all that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
How much did you mess up?

Speaker 15 (58:55):
The peak of it was about forty grand I had
to get a person alone to pay the box, so
I didn't come back to the country, So I bought
my second house, got a person alone, paid them off.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yeah, did it come to stages you're building up towards
forty grand fine? You think actually I got to stop
because this is getting out of hand or were having
too much fun.

Speaker 15 (59:19):
I got to the point where, you know, like I say,
I was an apprentice vs probably making six hundred dollars
a week. They were taking one hundred dollars in fines,
and so it was just like, man, this was never
going to end. So who kids, we just keep getting
some more.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Okay, So you never you never stopped until you left
the country.

Speaker 15 (59:41):
Yeah, then yeah, and then I'm paying them. Ahletil we
moved to Australia and then they got you know, I
had eight grand in the end, so I paid that
about four months ago.

Speaker 5 (59:52):
I paid out.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Did you get speeding tickets or tickets off on thee?
I suppose you can't with your job as a truck driver.

Speaker 16 (59:59):
Yeah you got.

Speaker 15 (01:00:01):
I didn't every state for a while there, I had
a few grands of fines just because they loved to
the trucks are an easy target over here. They know,
get money out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
You know that, of course they are suppose yeah, okay,
but yeah, do you know anything about the contemporary scene.
Is that the same kind of thing what they're doing now?

Speaker 15 (01:00:24):
I'd imagine so I couldn't. Yeah, I haven't say for years,
I've been over here but from the video though, it's
it's pretty similar. They're raising the same of cars, like, yeah,
they buy those mid nine probably get those mid ninety
Falcons and be your skidder. Yeah, d cheap.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Someone's asking you if you remember a car with a
Ridgio four banger.

Speaker 15 (01:00:50):
Ring the bell, but yeah, I can't really remember.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Ev. That's addressing. People are trying to get your shout
out to their cars they remember anyway, Okay, yeah, what's
a skidder?

Speaker 15 (01:01:04):
I don't be just like I imagine it would be
anything real drive that's cheap, so like a Falcon or
coming on.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Okay, nice to hear from you, Jamie twenty four away
from Team We're talking boy Racing eight hundred and eighty
Marcus First Car Park, Mission Bay. Back of the day,
mid eighties women make one bat mark when escort huge
burnouts just seems to be part of most males growing up.
That's it. That's what they do. Get where their mates

(01:01:34):
drive cars happen forever a text or read it. Check
out Mexican and hun Cartel on YouTube. That's from Wayne.
So a lot of them seem to have Facebook pages
now or Instagram accounts where they show their post videos
I guess that's the next level. Now it seems as

(01:01:54):
though you can post pictures of yourself doing things. I
imagine the success of the Fast of the Furious movies
would probably show where your audience are. I think they're
still making them. Are they brilliant? I've watched all of those,
tell you what, they vary quite a lot in quality.

(01:02:18):
Harriet Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:02:21):
Hi.

Speaker 25 (01:02:22):
I'm just bringing to make a comment about all of
the boy racers bringing up tonight and making their disclosures
about their previous and long term you know, speeding fines
and all the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
And I'd just like to make them meaning, I don't
think guys find with the speeding. I think he said
they were for yeah, well driving on a restricted license,
unaccompanied and unregistered and unwarranted. I think he mentioned speedings
to be fair.

Speaker 13 (01:02:56):
Okay, So there's.

Speaker 25 (01:02:59):
Boy racers, and there's skinners, and there's all these things.
But twelve years ago one of them killed my sister
on the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
So where was that area.

Speaker 25 (01:03:11):
I would just like to see what people've got to
say about that. So what were the circumstances of that, Well,
the circumstances the lost control and hit my sister on
the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
So I would just like to see what people have
got as a spectator, what was the scenario that happened.

Speaker 9 (01:03:31):
Yeah, that was yep, spectator's true.

Speaker 16 (01:03:36):
Hm.

Speaker 9 (01:03:37):
So I would just like to see what people have
got to say about that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
So what's your response to the people from Levin saying
that they need places where they can go and do
it where it's safe.

Speaker 25 (01:03:47):
I think that boy raises need their has taken off them.
They need to learn responsibility before they drive.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Well, they tried that. That didn't work. I mean, I
know that crush The Colins tried it. They crushed one
car and I think they got the wrong car, So
it seemed as though the whole laws were unenforceable.

Speaker 25 (01:04:07):
M okay, And what do you say about the dead
people on the side of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
Oh, well, yeah, that's the tragedy. But I'm just trying
to say that they've tried to find a workable way
to stop it, and they don't seem to have had
any success.

Speaker 25 (01:04:20):
No, not yet.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
And they tried to crush cars and it was unworkable.
That's why they're not doing it anymore. They crushed one
and they got the wrong they got the wrong one.

Speaker 25 (01:04:30):
But these boys aren't getting harsh on penalties.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Well it seems though that age, the penalties don't really
worry them. As he said he had forty thousand dollars
with a fines.

Speaker 25 (01:04:42):
Yeah, and that's exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Nice to talk, thank you. Eighteen to ten, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Marcus. There are two different kinds
of car groups out there. They're those with rebuilt cars
that belong to recognize car clubs and are usually tombed
as hot rods and go on cruisers. Then you have
the boy races as they are apparently called. It don't
seem to care too much about their cars or anyone else. Shame.

(01:05:06):
Someone can't do date a padder can get it concreted.
So they have somewhere to go and do their burnouts
donuts without bothering the community. Let's face it, even the
kids have skateboard parks. Just breaking news, his real defense
minister says he's ordered a tech on a run after
claiming to run has violated cease fire. He's ordered a
force for military response. So yep, much going on there,

(01:05:27):
Dean Marcus. Welcome to Harriet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
I am boy racist from back in the day. Unfortunately,
these are tragic things that can happen, and it's not fair.
I remember back in the day seeing people get hit
out of certain places that people would congregate, you know,
guys swinging donuts and stuff. Seeing people get hurt, it's very,
very tragic. But it's honestly no different to being at

(01:05:55):
a rally. You know, cart loss control and somebody gets hit.
It does happen. It's just one of those freak things.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Quite often rallies.

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Don't you that the unfortunately, but it does happen. I
suppose you run the risk when you're a spectator. You
know it's happened at which Araka park? Remember one of
the years ago, one of the guys Will think she
was my mate's brother, Will came off as car he
was in a stock car going around the track, actually

(01:06:24):
flew off, went into the crowd and actually killed somebody, unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
I guess the difference probably is with some of the
nighttime so called illegal activities with boy racis. I imagine
probably I don't know, I'm not partaking, but I mentioned
that's probably often as there there'd be alcohol involved, which
probably would appair judgment and some of the decisions made,
or even worse, I would think.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Yeah, I mean, just for a quick story, my mate,
you just have a custom Bedford van. It's called Midnight
Miss had a mural of a sailing ship on the back,
done beautifully, you know, turned timber inside, had a nice
big double bed in there and had three twenty seven
shives and a forward. Unfortunately, but we're racing a guy
in a falcon. We're going to the lights of Wellesley

(01:07:09):
Street and Victoria and the lights changed and the guy
and the falcon decided to go. We stopped, and it
was lucky we stopped. As soon as we stopped, hed
a bang under the van hopped out. Looked down underneath
in the drive shaft had actually dropped off the back
of the gearbox and onto the ground, and the other
part was still connected to the to the dipp So

(01:07:30):
if that had happened while we were going nuts, we
probably would have pulled vaulted end over end down Queen Street.
So we were lucky we stopped.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
This in the eighties, eighties, nineteen eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
It was in the eighties year, mid eighties to sort
of late eighties year.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Yeah, the Midnight did the Midnight must have steam trains
on the side of.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
It, thank no, No, the midnight must So it was
a sailing It was like sailing ship type thing. So
it was metallical, metallic brown. And inside it was all
turned timber, you know, like a French polisher had done
turned all the timber. It was all done promptly inside
a nice big double bed and had the bubble window
at the back on the left and the right inside.

(01:08:11):
But I had a mural of an old sailing ship
on the back. Somebody might remember it, but I mean
there were a few vents flating around those days. Used
to be an old Crimson transit man called the Deer Hunter,
which was quite well known that used to cruise around
town as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
What happens to vans that they just get scrapt in
the end.

Speaker 26 (01:08:30):
Do they?

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
I don't know, you kind of hope people have held
on to them and they're actually you don't see them around,
do you. No, you don't, honestly you don't. It's real.
It's good when you do see the odd one, but
you know, it's like all those classic gut falcons and
manaros and that you know, they're all tucked away in
someone's garage. Now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
You know, nice to talk, Thanks so much, Jan, good evening,
Paul ats Marcus, will we just chick? I've just done
something weird with my mouth. Oh, Paul, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:09:02):
Hey, I'm just rigging about that previous caller, Harriet y.
I do agree with the fact that it was wrong,
but she didn't really set the scene on how what
had happened to her sister.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
No, but that's I mean, it's a powerful call to make,
isn't it, because someone's got killed for what they're doing.
But I mean, you know, I mean, of course, a
lot of people get killed by cars, about four hundred
every year. So yes, yes, yes, bol it's tragedy.

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
But yeah, I mean something completely different.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
Yes, And I didn't feel particularly comfortable grilling here about
the about the details of his sister's death because obviously
it was a tragedy.

Speaker 8 (01:09:41):
Oh no, no, no, the same. It's not apples with apples.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
But you've got to have that. You know, there probably
can be another discussion here about.

Speaker 8 (01:09:52):
Because there is a degree of empathy or I understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
But you know, it seems as though even since American
graffiti there'd be sixty years ago that at least. Yeah,
there's all has been boy racers, and there's always some
sort of moral panic. And I'm sure people out there
think it's much much worse than it is because they're
never they're witnessing it. They just hear their reports the

(01:10:16):
next day. I know, for a long time christ Church
was tormented by boy racers going around the inner city
avenues and they banned them. I know in Hamilton five
years ago it was all out the west of Hamilton
and people were tormented. I know in Auckland for a
long time was happening. Now it seems unlikely of all things,
that's happening in Livin.

Speaker 8 (01:10:36):
Yeah, And that's exactly things. And people see a lot
of things. People see the steps. But it happens most
nights other than not. I'm not condoning it, but we
all hear about it when it goes dead.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
But also to the young people, it's probably not a
huge amount for them to do. Are you too young
to be going? I haven't got much money, you got
your cars and it's probably everything you need really Yeah. Yeah,
particularly in small towns with his dumb and I suppose
a lot of people on video games these days, are they?
I mean, I'm not in that kind of market, but.

Speaker 8 (01:11:13):
No, neither of myself really to be fair, but yeah,
I just.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Can't see them. So I just can't see them solving
it anytime soon.

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
No, and crushing them is not going to fix up.
Like you said in that call, they've tried then and
that didn't work well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
I even think they I think in the end they
got the wrong car. The guide swapped. There was a
guy from Milton. He'd swapped the plates, so they didn't
even crushed the right car. So it sort of made
the government look a bit like a laughing stop. They
could even find the car and confiscat and get rid
of it, so it just seemed unworkable. I mean, there's
smart boy races, aren't they, because I know all the
things with switching around number plates and all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:11:52):
Yeah, well then you get somebody that's got a vehicle
that's financed, and how.

Speaker 10 (01:11:56):
Does that go.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Yeah, a good point. It's a really good point. Okay, Paul. Thanks.
They say boy races need places to go to do
their stuff. What that stuff as, I don't know. They
say skidders, although on the flip side. You could probably
say they'd build them that stuff. They wouldn't want to
go because what they really want is the element of

(01:12:19):
danger and illegality. I'm sure that's one of the draw
cards for it.

Speaker 16 (01:12:26):
Text.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
They not only swap plates, but they have police radios
and watchers too. They sit the road interests to where
they are. The smart ones leave when the cops are
on their way, but the drunk, surly, young ones are
what leads to the chaos that eat it up and
live in. That sounds like a good ring true to me.

(01:12:48):
The livin instant was mostly out of town. Is using
it as a convenience. Why don't they join a car
club and use the Manfield track to hell with tex
and ratepayer supplying them with a skid pad. They say, Manfield,
that man will costure just under a grand, so it's

(01:13:09):
too expensive. So we are talking about you want to comment, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. The back comment tonight
is also about how bad the anthem was it? The
rugby the final of Super Rugby the Crusaders versus the Chiefs.
Apparently it was a shocker, slow and long a cappella

(01:13:30):
two minutes seven for like two hours seven apparently, I
don't know why we do it to tell you what
the players aren't into. It be different if the players
got right into it and use it to rack them
up a bit. But Noah, Anyway, that's what we're on

(01:13:50):
about tonight, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine to text,
get in touch, looking forward to your comeds if something
different you want to talk about. Also, let's be hearing
from your Marcus till twelve and I'll keep your da
with you throughout the course of the evening. But we
mainly talking about boy racist. Your thoughts please, because Christ
seem to sort it out and Hamilton seemed to sort out.

(01:14:11):
It just seems to kind of appear in different places.
But boy racers say they need places where they can go,
and they say there's rugby field for rugby players, which
is fair enough when council spend a fortune on stadiums,
although it's a sport not a pastime. I guess that's
a slight difference. A good evening, Gabe, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 27 (01:14:35):
How are you Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
Thanks Gabe, excellent.

Speaker 27 (01:14:39):
Hey, I was just thinking about this whole good pad thing. Yeah,
totally understand I'm a rate payer. In fact, we have
two houses we pay rates on and they do they
just rip around and wrap up all the tar seel
and all your beautiful streets and all the rest. Why
not give them a dedicated space so they don't go
and wrap themselves around a powerpole. And sure they could

(01:15:00):
pay the fund it if it's the worst part, but
at least give them an option.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
I guess the questions would they use it? But I'm
sure it'll be concrete, so it'd be better too, wouldn't it.

Speaker 27 (01:15:13):
Well, either that or you know, ash felt. But the
chip seal stuff just it's cheap and nasty and it's
you know, I don't think it it's built to last
as much as what it is. They've just reach chip
sealed our street probably less than six months ago, and
they just go over top of what currently there. They
don't come in the holes and all the rest. I mean,

(01:15:33):
for these guys on a good pad, I think they're good.
Like if that's their passion and that's what they want
to do, then why not support that?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
If you go as a society, is there a boy
race a problem where you are? Gabe?

Speaker 27 (01:15:46):
Yeah, I'm in sung today, mate, there's there's definitely a
few of them. My brother lives in christ Church and
he said that was terrible and they basically the police
cracked down on them and that kind of has stopped
them somewhat. But you know, at the end of the day,
some of the guys get on the track and do
it properly, and then there's the ones that either can't
afford to get on a track and do it properly
or they just out there to cause trouble. And Mike,

(01:16:07):
I think you said, you know, they probably enjoy the illegality.

Speaker 12 (01:16:12):
Of doing this.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Yeah, I'm sure. I've been at the tracks a bit. Stuff.
It's sort of second generation with the money, I would
think too. Probably nice to talk Gabe, Jack Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
Welcome the obvious solution.

Speaker 22 (01:16:30):
Good pad for them, but YESU was counsel and a
sec are going to shut it right down. These unwarranted vehicles,
vehicles that are not fit for the road and figuring
on the skip pad whether it's private.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Property or you make a very good point too, because
if you're going to be on a skid pair, you
would need to be warranted and your car would need
to have safety checks, would it Otherwise? It would become
a death trap. It works.

Speaker 22 (01:16:55):
And the problem is these people go on Facebook marketplace
by two three dollar cars. They don't give back of
a car or anybody else on the road with that vehicle.
And what's going to have on the skid pad. The
vehicle's going to fall apart. They might fall off a
S good pad, rolls or car andji themselves and j bystanders,
you know. So a simple solution is if they had

(01:17:16):
warranted vehicles, you know, insurance, and there's some sort of
oversight on it, by all means, get a S good pad.
I'm sure the counselor a scis be more than happy
of it. But at the moment, there's the large majority
of them that love having unwarranted vehicles, love the risk
of being caught by the cops and just you know,

(01:17:36):
just having that badge on their shoulder. Hey, I've got
this from the cops. So I got that from the cops.
So I expacked the cops tonight by driving like a
complete fall.

Speaker 3 (01:17:43):
You know that that's the problem, Jack, Jack, do you
know this from experience? Are you a parent, a boy
racer or a cop.

Speaker 22 (01:17:51):
I'm not a cop.

Speaker 12 (01:17:52):
I'm not a parent.

Speaker 22 (01:17:53):
I'm not a boy racer. I've been to a couple
of events as a bystander. I know people have boy
racers as permit of your texts earlier. A lot of
them do have police scanners, but that only works up
in like Living and Pumps Awkway because it's not in
crypt channels. When they come down to Wellington, they're not
sure when the cops have been called or coming unless

(01:18:14):
they're spotted by their spot is at their entrances to
these streets.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
I sus speak what you're saying, right, I suspect if
you're unregistered or unwarranted, it does add to the excitement
of it.

Speaker 9 (01:18:29):
It seems too.

Speaker 22 (01:18:30):
It just seems to be an attraction the whole Oh
what we're doing isn't legal. And the problem is that
ACC is still accepting these claims from his injury. They
should just be declining them like what we're doing, Oh,
you're an illegal event?

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
You know?

Speaker 22 (01:18:43):
That would crack down a lot of people attending these
Their claims are.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
I don't think the boy raised them intelligent. I don't
think they're going to be thinking about ACC somehow.

Speaker 22 (01:18:55):
I'm pretty sure they think about it pret quickly once
they're lane on that hospital bed, wondering how your wage
is going to be covered, how we're going to be
paying for their rents coming up. It's at the end
of the day and it's head figure out up in
legal st get their vehicles in a legal condition. I'm
sure farm owners have been more than happy to let
them on certain paddocks if their vehicles are legal warranted

(01:19:17):
and there is no risk to a farm owner.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
Nice to hear from you, Jack, Thank you, good evening, Sarah.
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:19:25):
Hi Marcus Cecely, congratulations on your award a couple of
weeks ago.

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:19:33):
And I was actually ringing to talk about Trump, but
I just thought i'd say on the boy racer thing,
I have five brothers and they have between us all
we've managed to have. I was trying to count them up,
but probably a does nephews. Nobody has been into the
boy racing thing, and I think it's a parenting thing
around boundaries, safety and all that stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:19:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:19:58):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
I think there's great differences between where you live too.
I think in rural communities like south And it's a real,
very big thing because it's not a lot else to
do and people need cars. Because they're living out of
the city on farms and it becomes a big thing.
So I think, and I don't think suddenly everyone in
South is a bad parent.

Speaker 18 (01:20:17):
Yeah, I think you're right about that. Though I'm calling
from Auckland, so I think you're probably right. So it's
kind of a thing where there is boy racing and
that sort of stuff in Auckland too, But yeah, different reasons.
I was just going to call about the Trump thing
and say, it's a really difficult time in the world.

(01:20:38):
And I did study World War two history some time ago,
and I just remember the time between Chamberlain and Churchill,
and Chamberlain tried for years to go through very peaceful
times in negotiations with Hitler and Germany, and I think

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and then Churchill came in after him and basically declared
that the Britain was at war with Germany. And I
just think we are in one of those very strange
times where there is a lot going on in the
world and it's really hard for us to sit there

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in the background was a lot with very little information.
When there are countries with a lot of nuclear capability
in development, like Iran, and I think some in the
context of peace time and pragmatism. There is some quite

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extreme views in countries like Iran, and it's very difficult
to think of those countries with nuclear arms.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
Yeah, although once you've got nuclear arms, once you use them,
you get a blitter rage. I think that's why North
Korea is not use these. It's mutual, it's mutual destruct
It's mutual destruction, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:22:12):
That's exactly what it is.

Speaker 18 (01:22:14):
And I think that there are a number of countries
who do have them, and then there are many who
who do not have them, and those who are in development,
maybe they potentially like North Korea.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Like your point here, I think North care has got
I think North Korea has got nine that they can
use nine I have them.

Speaker 4 (01:22:34):
But I'm just.

Speaker 18 (01:22:35):
Thinking there are countries where there are potentially extreme views,
and you might argue that North Korea has got quite
extreme views, but I would think that Iran has experience.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
You could argue that the United States has got free
extreme views these days.

Speaker 18 (01:22:49):
Yeah, they have potentially used to, but I don't think
the whole thing has played out yet, That's all I'm saying.
And I think it's really difficult for us to form
a view at this fine some time, and I think
we can form an anti Trump or anti Iran or
anti Israel's view. And I really don't feel like we

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actually have enough information, especially here in New Zealand. But
I feel like we don't have enough information.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
I don't anyone's as anyone asking anyone to form a view,
are they?

Speaker 19 (01:23:21):
Yeah, well, I.

Speaker 9 (01:23:22):
Think actually so.

Speaker 18 (01:23:24):
I think I've got friends over on the in the
Northern Hemisphere who have got views, and I've got friends
on this side of the world who have used And
I don't actually think we are in a place to
actually have a view or a fixed view on it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Live with the Sarah Thank You twenty one past ten.
No one loved the anthem the text are saying it's terrible.

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
Yes, that anthem was a shock of so long and slow,
totally inappropriate for the rug. We needed a fast, enthusiastic performance.
Should have been backed by cowboys. Twenty three past ten.
David Marcus welcome, Hey, yeah, good David, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:24:05):
Yeah, it's going on up to just bighlight. A couple
of things in the sense of the boy Racers subject.
I've had a nineteen ninety five toilet super for the
last eleven years, and for those eleven years, I've been
getting profiled as a boy racer. I'm a car enthusiast.
I've never modified the car at all. It's completely stuck

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out of the factory. But yeah, for some reason, I
just keep on getting profiled with the nineties Japanese import car.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
What do you mean you get profile? You mean you
get stopped or what happens?

Speaker 7 (01:24:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, I get Well, it's been ten eleven
years of harassment. Realistically, I live up in Hamilton, by
the way, So.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
What form does the haracement take.

Speaker 7 (01:24:53):
Well, they'll like fly up out of nowhere past like
three or four different cars, pulled me over and say
it's a random stop where I got full license, waff Ridge,
Everything's legal, everything sweet. So in my books, that's not
exactly a random stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Is daytime or not? Is daytime or nighttime? David both?

Speaker 7 (01:25:18):
It doesn't really matter if it's day or night. But
I would say it's gonna be worse at night because
you're gonna get profiled if you're in a Japanese nineties car.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Yeah are you young?

Speaker 7 (01:25:31):
But I was young once upon a time.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Okay, I'm just trying to think once people realize you're
not boy racing material. Does the heate apologize or do
they just go about the way.

Speaker 7 (01:25:43):
You don't get apologies from police and Hamilton. There's a
lot of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Well they check your license and make your blow, do they.

Speaker 7 (01:25:52):
Yeah, it's all just a waste of time, really, waste
of my time, wasted their time, waste of resources sounds it,
But yeah, I did go I did go out a
couple of times to go check it all out, and
and I can see where they're all coming from. I
didn't get involved in it. It's kind of just spectate.

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But when you think about it, I'll be keeping an
eye on it over the last well eleven years or so.
And people just can't afford to get into professional drifting
at that point. And the reason why they go out
to the middle of nowhere is for the respect of
the community when it comes down to it. They're trying
to go out to the most romance, all of the

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most remote areas they can think of, so they don't
disturb people's sleeps. They don't do too much to mess
up the roads, but you'll just see the police come
along and just chase them around all night, and that
just creates more havoc because everybody's running away, people are

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trying to find different spots. Yeah, it's just chaos. So yeah,
what someone else is saying, if they did give them
a dedicated spot in the middle of nowhere, yeah, they'd
go to it.

Speaker 16 (01:27:06):
No worries.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
Is a good cow the super.

Speaker 7 (01:27:10):
Oh yeah yeah, but I'm thinking about getting rid of it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:14):
To be honest, it's not worth it, or it is
worth it.

Speaker 7 (01:27:19):
Well, the sentimental value, it's it's pretty high up there.
But with all the harassment and I'm receiving more being profiled,
I just don't think it's worth it. I might just
swop up for classic American muscle car lowrider or something,
just because you don't exactly see what Rod's classics and

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low writers getting pulled over constantly?

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
How many times a week? Would this happened a month?

Speaker 7 (01:27:52):
Uh, not so much anymore. But the latest thing, I
was going through town just three o'clock in the morning.
They went over to a friend's. Well we were just
playing games all night, watching movies, but we go get
some food pass through town. This was on June the
first and next thing, you know, I'm getting profiled because

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it's three in the morning. I've literally got some pickup
strips and some strips on my lap as I'm driving
through town. Next thing you know, I'm getting arrested and
pulled out of the car.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
They're resting you on the grounds.

Speaker 7 (01:28:32):
Well yeah, I'm taking that through the course at the moment,
but realistically there was no real grounds. If I'm pounded
the car, it's just classic profiling.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
What charge did they reached you for?

Speaker 7 (01:28:48):
Well that's the tricky part. So I'm driving through town
down on the side of the road. There's no cop
stop or anything, any signals puts the stand out. Well,
he wants me to stop, and I think you did
say the words stopped. So I was like, in New Zealand,
you have the right to know you're being stopped. You
can't request that and they should provide that. So I asked,

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as the police officer, you know, why am I being stopped?
What is the reason? Which he didn't provide. I asked
him again, you know, if you can give me a
reason why I should be stopping, because I have the
right to know, then I'll stop. Just tell me, like
I do you want to do a breath test? Do
you want to do a license shack? Just tell me
and I'll stop. He just ends up pulling out his

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pepper spray, ripping up like ripping open the door, just
starts getting the aggress of trying to rip my keys
out of the ignition. So I'm sitting there, got my
friend over here next to me, he's setting a wall
and we're both like, what the hecks going on here? Wow?
So there is there is a downside to all of
us in the sense that there is genuine car enthusiasts

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that get the bad rep or being a boy racer
just because they own a Japanese vehicle.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
Nice to hear from me, David, thank you for you,
Thank for you, honesty, Peyton, Marcus, welcome, there you go,
and there Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:30:08):
Yeah, it's good talking at the boy of races. I
agree what Jack said. He was right to what he
was saying. So I think, you know, we're going to
do something for them because hearing you Plymouth were spending
millions and dollars on a sports stadium that they call
it the Hub, new netball courts and all that sort
of thing. So we know, like Jack said, he sort

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of much said it all like you know, sort of
safety in that as well, like you that previous call
or said as well. But I think as a community
we have to do something for them, like build something
for them because they're out here in the industrial areas.
If you've got kids in that and that you know
they're going to do their stuff, you can do whatever

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you like. Maybe we should heads together as a counselors
the government too, and we have places like there have
the scrap of speedway here in Strafford, your Mary, Marya
in Auckland. There's plenty of facilities around. Maybe we've got
to charge them like.

Speaker 25 (01:31:10):
You.

Speaker 24 (01:31:10):
They got to have the vehicles are going to be
warranted to dance to the they do.

Speaker 8 (01:31:16):
Build something like that.

Speaker 24 (01:31:17):
They can do their thing like a twenty or ten
dollars entry whatever it is, so they can get their frustrations.
They can do what they want to do. And I
think we just have to work together. That's what they do.
They've been doing it for years.

Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
But let's build.

Speaker 24 (01:31:29):
Something for them, like save it for an hour or
two from a major city like you Plymouth, Hamilton where
it is. Build something for them. At least if you've
got parents, you know they can do their thing in
a safe area, and let's do it. They do something
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
Wow, were you one?

Speaker 24 (01:31:53):
Oh, we used to do a little bit about two
like here, we scot up like that up there.

Speaker 7 (01:31:58):
You know.

Speaker 24 (01:31:58):
Younger days you've got them up the mountain in the
car parks and do wheelies in the big car park there.
We they been going on for years, so we can't
say we haven't been doing it. So let's let's do
something for them. Because we spend all this money like
the communities and swimming pools. Like I said before, it's
still something for them. So appearance you know, they can
your sons and your daughters, they can go to one

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of these facilities. It might cost a bit of money.
Adult run that they say before. We have a lot
of places it. They already have the facilities. They just
charge them. I said there Sunday. Then they can do
your thing and a safe environment and then the cops
can jump on them. But you can say you don't
have to do this stuff anymore because we've got facilities
where you can do your stuff. Ten or twenty dollars

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entry fee and everybody wins.

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Real it nice to hear from your Pete. Thank you
keep your calls coming through. Good evening, John AT's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:32:48):
Welcome, good evening market, can you hear me? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:32:51):
Let unclear?

Speaker 11 (01:32:53):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 28 (01:32:54):
I lived in Sweden for a number of years and
the people over there are a little bit more pragmatic
than we are when it comes to the boy raisers situation.
And I just quickly explained to you that they have
a kind of a crazy system. They have a car
they make for boy races and it's Evolvo, people for car,
and they called it an a tractor. You can find

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them on the into met there. And what they do
they get the Evolvo can't put two gearboxes behind it,
which slows the thing down. That match that in low
low the car's got a top speed of thirty kilometers
an hour, and that means a twelve year old kid
can trove it on the roads, and they do. The
farmers make them. All the kids turn up at school

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on the Evolvo duets they're called, you know, which is
an interesting way just to look make sure the kids can.

Speaker 16 (01:33:44):
Drive while they're still young.

Speaker 28 (01:33:47):
And then after that they have developed in that country
and I used to go and watch them. They are great.
They're called folk racing and it's kind of evolved into
rally cross but it's a circuit where it's half tassie
on half dirt and you've probably seen it before on

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the motory sports. But there's folk racing. Just members of
the family can go and all drive the same car
and you know that it works out on your lap
times and all that. But they embrace that. Those kind
of people, the boy racers will go there. They learn
how to drive properly in a controlled environment and you
could just have a folk racing car, which is usually

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an old Volo years old and it's really you know,
it's all positive. I can't see any negative about It's
quite quite good. And I believe that you know that
somehow we have to look at the boy racers here
because every country in the world has got the same problem,
and I thought Sweden addressed it as best of any

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and I've ever seen. Thank you for listening to that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
My absolute pleasure.

Speaker 7 (01:34:54):
John.

Speaker 3 (01:34:54):
Do we go, Peter Marcus welcome? Hello, Yeah, Hi Peter, Wow,
nice to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (01:35:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:35:04):
Look, it's about boy racis. But look, we've never had
a car in my life. I've never had a cup,
but we do have boy wasaces here at the Marine
uh in the Saar it's very dangerous.

Speaker 8 (01:35:18):
Look, we got elderly, we got.

Speaker 4 (01:35:20):
Children from school, you know, are we school for listeners?
They all go home, They're all we do have. Boy
wasaces zooming the cars fast days in the seat, no
key for the for the in.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
The At three o'clock in the afternoon, are they racing?

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
Are normally around the time, normally around three when they
usually children go home. They walk through the theater same
as the hourly they go pay their bills.

Speaker 8 (01:35:48):
They nick mid it round girl, And I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:35:53):
Like, oh no, no, not to just put your holy
crossing the road early and uh, you know, tragedy ambulance.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Uh yeah, you know, it's still a problem, tea. But Peter,
thanks for that. Nice to talk to you. Twenty away
from eleven hitdled twelve, Pete, a lot of people shouting
out and during your sound effects as that they're excellent, excellent.

Speaker 9 (01:36:16):
MJ.

Speaker 3 (01:36:17):
Marcus welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:36:20):
Is going good?

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:36:24):
So I'm actually one of the main leaders of one.

Speaker 8 (01:36:27):
Of the car crews over and telling her, well go
you yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:36:31):
Oh well it's probably a bit sarcastic, but we do
actually try and keep everything like quite chill and talent
basually runs like sticking to the rules and not drink
driving and whatnot because we don't want to have any
crashes and whatnot at our meetups. But it's the people
that are the tracks that then put a bad name
on everyone else. Nine times out of ten, if you

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look at the drivers of the cars, they're the ones
that's sober and they're the ones that are more responsible. Yes,
they're doing skids, but a lot of the times it's
out in the big intersections and whatnot. So have the
road blocked off, so that's at like there's going to
be a car coming around the corner or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Is it unofficial that your leader or is it some
sort of arequ So we run from croup.

Speaker 10 (01:37:18):
Chats and then you like we put out with the
spots are and whatnot and when they're going to be
happening in the group hats okay?

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
So do you close the roads down yourself for the skids? Nah?

Speaker 10 (01:37:29):
Not ourselves. It's just people people that turn up can't
really stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
So you're doing skids on public roads?

Speaker 7 (01:37:38):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
Nah? Nah?

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
Nah? Nah?

Speaker 16 (01:37:44):
Where are you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
Where you where you're doing them?

Speaker 8 (01:37:48):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (01:37:49):
Now on the back roads the country roads?

Speaker 3 (01:37:52):
Oh yeah, But it's on roads roads. Yeah, yeah, so
what do you how do you stop regular traffic?

Speaker 23 (01:38:00):
Wow?

Speaker 10 (01:38:01):
When you come around the corner and you see fifty
cars blocking the road, okay, it's quite hard to get through.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
Okay. Many of the cars not registered or warranted? Okay,
how many cars unregistered and unwarranted?

Speaker 26 (01:38:15):
No, see quite a feel of them.

Speaker 10 (01:38:16):
Are Like you'll get the ones that will come on
a trailer and whatnot that would be built in garages,
and then they'll throw them on a trailer to get
them there to the to a spot so they're not
getting pulled over on the way. And then most of
the drivers that are doing the skids a full licens
got everything in order because.

Speaker 7 (01:38:33):
They know their attention is hot.

Speaker 10 (01:38:35):
Like, if you're heading into one of the spots, the
chance to getting pulled over are pretty high.

Speaker 7 (01:38:39):
And no matter what car you're driving.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
And how would how would the skid work? You just
just tell me how the actual skid goes.

Speaker 10 (01:38:47):
Read it up and stunting the clutch and hold on.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Well, just dubbed the language okay, yeah, okay, and your
video that wow, I mean I guess the question say
want to sound I don't want to sound add old
fashion MJ. But is that the same as a boon out?

Speaker 7 (01:39:06):
Yeah, yeah, okay, you would have done some back.

Speaker 3 (01:39:11):
I wouldn't have actually, but anyway, okay, so they burn out, okay, yeah,
and how close would people? What's the greatest danger that
you reckon?

Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
The greatest danger?

Speaker 5 (01:39:23):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (01:39:24):
And what aspect?

Speaker 3 (01:39:25):
Well, who's going to get hurt of people standing standing
close to someone's burnout goes bare? They could take out
someone's legs or.

Speaker 10 (01:39:33):
Only the drunk idiots that walk up and everyone knows
where the's good hap in the intersection, and you'll get
people that will get way too on the person. Then
they'll start getting real confidence running out into the middle
or trying to slap the back of cars and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (01:39:47):
That's crazy, and they'll be wanting to video on their
phone and stuff like that. So they drunk the young
they're wondering out slapping the back of the car. Next thing,
they've been hit.

Speaker 10 (01:39:56):
Yeah, yeah, because nine times out of ten, any of
the videos of people getting run over or sweeps off
their feet and whatnot, it's not the car losing control.
It all that cars skidded through their countless times, and
they've done the same thing but someone else has just
skipped out trying to be the hero and all of
a sudden on their ass.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
So it's pretty hard to control those drunken idiots that
kind of come along for the for the thrill of
an eight.

Speaker 10 (01:40:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
So that's why oftentimes we'll just get the boys.

Speaker 10 (01:40:28):
That actually just want to be there to have a skid.
We'll just getting them together and keep it all in
between us and then get out and have no spectators
out there.

Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
Okay, so you won't so you won't publicize. It'll be
done on the down low.

Speaker 10 (01:40:42):
Yeah, yeah, and what it is one of our good
intersections that's pretty quiet, and just get into.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
It, very illuminating him. Jo's JORDI greatly thank you. By
the way, one more day of summing up by the
judge before the mushrooms, before the trial, before the jury
gets sequested to come up with their inevitable verdict and
put Aaron Patterson behind bars for a long time. That'll
be probably where I can't imagine the jury will be out,
but they might go out to her on the next day.

(01:41:12):
So I haven't seen much compelling evidence to think that
she didn't do it. With the old d Hydrader goodness.
So that'll be tomorrow, the next that it'll be Wednesday, Thursday.
We should get averted on that one. We are talking
boy races. The livin people think they need skid pads

(01:41:34):
where they go and do it. I thought MJ was enlightening,
you cause you imagine sort of the young pesses coming along,
haven't been on the RTDs or something, wandering, oh, wandering around,
slap in the back of the car. Good dunk. So

(01:41:55):
that there's some pretty ganali videos out there of people
doing that sort of stuff. You want to comment, it's
nine from eleven with you till twelve people of New
Zealand get amongst an eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
No one knows what's happened to the enriched uranium be

(01:42:19):
someway safe. Seems like it's just in conventional barrels. For
what I was seeing on the CNN when they're winning
a or away, fifty six percent of Americans disapproved of
the attack. So yeah, and that will change, I guess
is we find out how it goes, how the ceasefire goes,

(01:42:40):
where they get into a war, a long war. Ate
away from eleven. My name is Marcus welcome, good evening
a Hunter.

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Hello, how are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
Thanks? Hunter?

Speaker 26 (01:42:53):
I noticed you were talking about the boy racers from
Leven and how they were well skid pads would be
ideal to keep them off the street. Yeah, you know,
I think it's a well, you know the skate parks
around the skaters. I understand. It's like a concrete path.
It's big enough for like a car or two to
just slit rip out of me, out out out of

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the suburbs. It would keep them well off the street.

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
Would they use them? Hunter? Are you are you of
that persuasion?

Speaker 10 (01:43:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:43:24):
Yeah, no, I have a modified car. I get it.
I would a hundred We would one hundred percent prefer
to take it off the street if we had the choice,
where do you do it?

Speaker 10 (01:43:36):
Now?

Speaker 26 (01:43:39):
I take it down I normally, if I do decide
to go do it, I take it down to the
industrial area at night, no one's around. It's wide enough
the road generally. Yeah, if someone don't show up, I'll
just say all right, I'm out of here.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
And basically what you're doing is people no longer racing,
or what you're doing is just burnouts, right yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:43:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Is it expensive for tires?

Speaker 26 (01:44:03):
Depends on what tires you get. If I am going
to burn rubber, I'm not going to get a nice
set of tires. Generally, I'll just go get a second
hand set of tires. It's the dumped already shut them.

Speaker 3 (01:44:13):
Oh okay. So and how how much how many days
with the skids would you get on those.

Speaker 26 (01:44:19):
From being generous?

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Two?

Speaker 26 (01:44:21):
Maybe three?

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
Oh okay, okay, okay, so it's gonna be hand and
twenty bucks for a couple of days of burnouts. Okay,
So you know, drifting like on fast to the furious,
people aren't doing that. It's it's it's not as. It's
not as because that would be quite dangerous if people
are like doing drifting around corners. But it mainly is
just burnouts, is it.

Speaker 26 (01:44:41):
Yeah, I'm not going to say people don't do it.
There are the occasional people that will go do it,
but the majority of the time it's just burnouts.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Yeah, okay, because I imagine if you're having having illegal
drifting races, then I imagine that really could take out
some pedestrians.

Speaker 26 (01:44:55):
Yeah, yeah, no, I don't. I don't support that whatsoever.
That's gonna end in tears.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
Are your is your car?

Speaker 26 (01:45:01):
Warranted at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
Yes, Okay, what do you see as the great danger?

Speaker 26 (01:45:09):
The danger is at this stage, it's it's most of
the time it's people getting too close to try film
from social media when they're trying to, you know, rip
their tires. Generally they do need to swing the car
a little bit and better rubor is needed.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
But it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Is people getting quite on a hits on social media
with things like burnouts. Is it quite a big audience
for that stuff?

Speaker 26 (01:45:33):
Depends?

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Yeah, it can be.

Speaker 26 (01:45:34):
If the burnout is big enough and yeah, you get
some good footage, you're definitely there is an audience for it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Have you got your own social media page yourself?

Speaker 26 (01:45:42):
Hunter, I'm not for burnouts? No, No, I won't put
that stuff online. It's I would rather not encourage people
to do it on the streets.

Speaker 20 (01:45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
I mean the way you sounds quite sensible. It sounds
like if they had a place that people would go.
I mean, you wouldn't need that bigan area, would you.

Speaker 12 (01:46:01):
No?

Speaker 26 (01:46:01):
No, The place I use is maybe like a fifty
meter a fifteen maybe like a fifty meter wide road
that's like a cold de sack right at the end.
That's that's that's enough room to give my car onto it.
And it's a big board selcan.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
So you've got to go buy four secondhand tires and
then for one hundred and twenty bucks, and then you've
got to check your car up and put those four
tires on, and then I'll give you two.

Speaker 26 (01:46:28):
Days generally, just too mates, because of.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
Of course, of course, And how does it take to
get the tires on?

Speaker 21 (01:46:36):
Not that long?

Speaker 26 (01:46:38):
Not that long time. I can do it, and I
can do it about twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
Well I never thought about that. And then you get
two days worth of those tires.

Speaker 26 (01:46:51):
Yeah, yeah, I could go by brand new ones if
I want, but it's just not worth the money.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
But there must be money in the tire companies for
all of this. They must be loving it.

Speaker 26 (01:47:04):
To a certain extent.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
Yes, it should get Bont's it's nice to talk, Hunter,
found you enlightening. Also, there we go. Sounds like a
very reasonable guy, doesn't he? Brilliant Marcus. The problem with
building the boy races a track is then the government
has endorsed at what comes next? Well, they endorse all

(01:47:25):
sorts of things. Lookers on five dollar note on Hillary
wet up the mountain, Mountain climb and that's not safe.
Government endorses that. There's always people taking risks. What made
this country great risks? Look at the old guy split
in the at and all that radiation. He didn't care.

(01:47:45):
Just split it away. He goes split, split, split. Now
we've got nuclear fusion. Goodness me. By the way, if
you're going to the rugby in Dneda and there is
a train from Mosgiel, well there should always be a
train from Mosgile. That's a train that they should be
bringing back because it's double tracked and there's tunnels that

(01:48:06):
would be better than the bus. Good evening, Donor. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:48:11):
Hello Marcus, just quickly, just on that the anthem.

Speaker 22 (01:48:15):
It's what was a dide.

Speaker 9 (01:48:16):
We were sitting in a pub and we all looked
at each other and said who died? But anyway, that was.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Hang on it was it good? Were you You weren't
in Canterbury?

Speaker 7 (01:48:26):
Were you?

Speaker 23 (01:48:28):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:48:28):
I was in Northland? Was the only chief supporter in
the pub?

Speaker 23 (01:48:31):
Was there?

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
Was there a good atmosphere at the pub with people
watching it?

Speaker 16 (01:48:35):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:48:35):
Yeah, god, you know no, it was good even though
the warriors had just lost, but we were okay, Yeah, Okay, anyway,
what you just read out something about somebody really worried
about this son or not because I had to collect them.
Sixteen year old is an al teaser. I'd love to
know how a sixteen year old could afford the al teaser.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
How much is it worth?

Speaker 9 (01:48:58):
Apparently they're thirty to sixty grand because they're all souped
up a bit of her by the time they've done
what they need.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
Cont it's his independence. You know, he might be working
stacking groceries or stacking shelves.

Speaker 9 (01:49:12):
Yeah, my kids had little, cheapy cars and the ones
they could afford to with cheap.

Speaker 20 (01:49:16):
I just I really.

Speaker 9 (01:49:17):
You know, whoever the parent is, maybe they could give
you a callin and tell us exactly how their kid
could afford the.

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Old We're going to start judging the parents now.

Speaker 9 (01:49:25):
No no, no, no no, no, well might, but no,
I'd love to know what sort of jobs they're doing,
because there's the whole stack of kids. I'd love to
get them doing those jobs.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
On the train between five nine hundred and twenty grand
for a medium price for our teaser sety nine dollars.

Speaker 9 (01:49:44):
Excellent, okay before the souping, and I'd still love to
know the sixteen year old that's earned that sort of money.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Good on them.

Speaker 9 (01:49:49):
I'd love to know what they're doing. But yeah, no interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
So he's the latest from the United States. Visibly furious,
Trump launches if word rent at Israel at Iran on
live TV for breaking ceasefire before telling Nitya, who do
not drop those bombs? Donald Trump has vented his fury
with a foul mouthed rant at Israel and Iram dropping
the F word. Is he accused both of violeting a
cease fary broken last night. The art of the deal.

(01:50:17):
We've got two countries who have been fighting for so
long and so hard, they don't know what the if
they're doing, he says. He stormed onto the marine one
a helicopter away from the press. The cease fire agreement
appears to be in tant is just hours after coming
into effect, with the warring art jenemies accusing one another
of launching strikes almost immediately after they agreed to stop
their tit for tet attacks. By the way, just as

(01:50:40):
an aside, can I say once again what an extraordinary
looking helicopter that is. I'm not really a helicopter first,
but every time, I said, I'm just totally in awe
of it. Marine one.

Speaker 7 (01:50:54):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
It's massive, but just kind of has the one. We
must have massive rotors, jet to gorgeous chopper. Unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (01:51:10):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:51:14):
A VH ninety two, a Patriot white tops. Any Marine
Corp aircraft carrying the Vice Prison, United States without the
prison has the call signed Marine two.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
I think there's a few of them. As of two
thousand and nine, Marine one had never had an extent
or been attacked. However, in two thousand and six, prison
George Bosh George W. Bush boarded Marine one with the
departing press secretary, but the helicopter would not work, so
the prison lifted a car. By the way, the former

(01:51:55):
VH three Marine ones at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Mess of Marine one is the proferdal tunate to motorkids,
which can be expensive and logically difficult.

Speaker 7 (01:52:10):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:52:12):
Anyway. As a security measure, Marine one often flies in
a group of as many as five identical helicopters. One
helicopter carries a president while the other serve as decoys.
Upon take off, these helicopters shift in formation to obscure
location of the president. This has been referred to as
a presidential shell game. Marine one is also equiped with

(01:52:34):
stentimentary anti missile counter measures, such as flares to counter
hexity missiles and cheff to counter radio guided missiles. To
edit the security of Marine one, every member of HTMIX
one is required to pass a Yankee White background check
before touching any of the helicopters used for presential travel.

(01:52:55):
I found that interesting to get in touch with talking
boy racers and Trump and the anthem at the rugby
that was shocking, apparently, Marcus. When the anthem is played
in slow tempo, try and sing the words of twinkle
twiggered little start of the music, and you'll find that
that's a match because the anthem was written to that tune. Marcus.

(01:53:16):
Even in Roman times people complained about young men racing
through the streets on their chariots. Yes, the cost of
staff for counselors high. The Sea of and n City
Council's paid four hundred andy three thousand. What does she do, Oh,
she does a great deal. She's like a sea of
a big company. It's a fairly big job in a council.

(01:53:37):
Chief executive You've got a huge number of staff under
your under your watch. It's a big business I think
it's pretty standard or council chief exexcutive. But because its
a big business position, you need people have an extremely
high caliber for those jobs. So yeah, they're not just

(01:53:59):
something that goes to meetings. It's something that runs the
whole shebang. And that pay rate would be set by
the councils after input from the high salaries commissioned all
sorts of people. So yeah, you want have a quality
person running the whole show, otherwise it would be a disaster. Anyway. Oh,

(01:54:22):
by the way, this is Trump just before he goes
to go on the helicopter. Have listened to this.

Speaker 17 (01:54:27):
Israel as soon as we made the deal, they came
out and they dropped the load of bombs, the likes
of which I've never seen before, the biggest load that
we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when
I say, okay, now you have twelve hours, you don't
go out in the first hour, just drop everything you
have on it. So I'm not happy with them. I'm
not happy with Iron either, But I'm really unhappy if

(01:54:49):
Israel's going out this morning because the one rocket that
didn't land, that was shot perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.
I'm not happy about that. Have we basically have two
countries that have been fighting so long and so hard
that they don't no what they're doing. You understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
He is furious, looks like he's gonna blow old Trump.
God help us. Anyway, there we go. Yeah, not happy
at all. Twenty five to twelve, looking forward to you.
Drag racing, that's what run about, Marcus Man. Years ago
I went to queak Key Street drag. Someone put d'sil
on the road, all the flash cars taking off trying

(01:55:32):
to do burnout. Me and Thisss and Sunny drove off,
nicety friends. They just started a great burnout. I had
no idea. There we go a lot of people who
have enjoyed their days doing burnout, and we've got Trump swearing.
Seems quite unstatesman like. Is ditch the tie and the hat.

(01:55:56):
Least surprising news ever, there's a cease fight didn't hold, Marcus.
I wasn't watching DC a couple of weeks ago and
saw Trump fly out in the white that spectacular helicopter,
a beautiful green color and so shiny. Wayne AT's Marcus Welcomes.

Speaker 5 (01:56:15):
Okay, I don't know how many people know about it,
but Tony Quinn has put a big skid pad in
down at Hampton Downs down there that people can go
there and use. I think you've got to pay a
nominal fee that go user. But it's a massive, big
concrete skid pad and.

Speaker 4 (01:56:36):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:56:38):
Yeah, it's huge. It's right out and side, right out
in out of their main office. I've been down there
a few times. I don't been on there myself, but
I've been down there, watched the occasional day down there
and there's it gets fairly well used, but not I
don't know how often it's opened.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
It's quite a big deal, that isn't It's quite There's
apartments and all sorts of things there, aren't there?

Speaker 5 (01:57:05):
Oh yeah, massively a very expensive apartment.

Speaker 4 (01:57:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
I think you have to be a car person to
want to stay there, wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (01:57:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, well I think a lot of them are.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
I'm just to see what I'm looking at on Google Maps.
Where is the skid peg out the front of it?

Speaker 7 (01:57:20):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:57:21):
Yeah? Yeah, out? I suppose it's probably about thirty meters
by thirty meters looks huge.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
Oh, I'll see if I can get some more information
about that, Wayne, Thanks for that. There we go. That's
just south of Auckland people, just just south of the
drags at Meddy medi Anyway, twenty two to twelve, you
on talk Marcus to the end here till midnight. Got
to be a part of it. Trump is furious, an

(01:57:51):
explete of ridden. So yeah, well, he thought he had
done the great thing. Now it appears that perhaps they
are not obliterated in a way he told them. I
suppose do he want of the hum out of there
because now it's sort of been sequestered. Anyway, guestplay for

(01:58:12):
stories to tell us whether he's done the right thing
in time? Eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty. I don't know.
It's Marcus, welcome, give.

Speaker 16 (01:58:23):
You hear Marcus, could hear your voice?

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (01:58:26):
Just a quick note on current situation with President Trump.
I think he's he's upset because it what's happened with
the supposed breach of ceasepies. It jeopardizes his a long
term vision of a Nobel Priest Peace Prize. I think

(01:58:50):
he's got of annoys him the most. Oh that's my theory, and.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
I think he probably saw himself this would be his
legacy move. He would be the guy that stopped Iran
getting the nuclear getting nuclear warheads. But you know, yeah,
some say it could have accelerated them because there'd be
so few curious. It's what they'll do. They'll double down
and be yeah so I mean goodness.

Speaker 16 (01:59:11):
Oh and in the essence here if you started this
because he anyway, he took he he broke the curry, he.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Pulled them out. Yeah, he pulled them out, the inspectors
and took your.

Speaker 8 (01:59:26):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:59:27):
Nice to hear from you, thank you. That's I need
some sleep. But yes, no one liked the anthem and mainspreads.
Shouldn't have set them up like that. They should actually
get people and actually make sure they're going to do
a good performance. Give them the proper tempo. They'll just
be young musicians trying to get out in life. They
don't want to be vilified for how bad they did.

(01:59:48):
You know, they make them do it proper or you
get western ra, but you don't set them up to fail.
That's terrible. They have families that was tuning into it.
How do you think we went, mum, Well it was
but slow. It's going to protect people from things like that.
That's not good, is it?

Speaker 7 (02:00:07):
Oh boy?

Speaker 3 (02:00:08):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (02:00:10):
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