It kind of screams 'canny pensioner'

Marcus talks tech that should be better by now, pushing buttons, and honouring the greatness of Timaru.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from news
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
The good news is there's a comet we can see.
It comes around once every one hundred and eighty thousand years.
So just after sunset you look west and the western sky,
it's getting a little higher reached in the western sky.
It gives you as a long time to opportunity to
see it a western sky about now after sunset, probably

(00:33):
about now, best viewed from the elevated unobstructed spot goes
without saying, ooh, there we go. That's happening. It's made
of ice, rock and dust. We know that with our
comet one on one. But anyway, so that's a situation.
Someone's taking photo of it from Point Chevalier Beach on
Wednesday at six forty six pm. You're probably about now

(00:54):
or too late actually, but go and have a look
for that. I do like things in the sky if
people are talking about that, but get in touch, want
to start the whole here's something. What are you disappointed?
And at the moment when I say that it's twenty
twenty six. My current disappointment is kettles. Why are they
so slow? I really and some of you will say, oh, well,

(01:16):
we've got taps that do boil water. Well, I'm not
that person and I don't work in that office. But
why is hot water not instant? Why aren't there kettles
that can make water bomb like that? How hard could
it be? Why a toaster is so slow? Why a
kettle so slow? The kettle hasn't got quicker since, in fact,
I think it's got slower, And there can't be a

(01:39):
reason for that. There can't be a reason that they
thought quick kettles was dangerous or it was going to
use as a weapon or anything anyway. So what bit
of technology are you disappointed? What bit of technology did
you think we'd be further along with buy now? For me,
it's kettles and toasters. Don't like either of them. Thought
the kettle would be quicker. I thought the toast would
be quicker. I thought the toast would also be smart

(02:01):
and know when the toaster is done, and know when
you're cooking vogels done. What did someone say they're putting
the toast the other day? Yorkshire pudding? That's just disgusting.
So what did you think we'd be further along the
line with people? For me, it's the kettle. I mean
sometimes during a commercial break, I try to make myself
a hot drink, but you know I can't do it.

(02:22):
I got three minutes. I can't do it. I've got
to go at one commercial break, turn the kettle on,
and then go at the next commercial break and turn
the kettle on again to bring it up to boiling point.
What I need is a remote. But yes, part the
technology that's disappointing, there'll be things might be the remote
ud ring. So what is the technological thing that's disappointing

(02:45):
you currently? Did you think we'd be further along. We've
got robots that play table tennis. The rest not very
good at all. So you can talk about that. That's
the starter for tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
The technology that you're disappointed with. Look, once I start
thinking about it, there'll be hundreds will come for me.
I'm always thinking about that bath plugs I don't like.

(03:06):
But that's not really technology, is it? What is technology?
We quite often have discussions in our house and say, oh,
it's a technology free day, but then we work out
what is technology. I'm not good on that. I'd say, well,
the tech and my day, the TV was technology, but
the others think that the TV is something that's like
always been around. So yes, start off, Come on, what

(03:28):
are you got as you drive home? The technology that
disappoints the one thing? What is the technology that's been
the most disappointing. You have something, I'm.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Sure you will.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know what it is. That's why I'm waiting
for you to call eight hundred and eighty ten. Our
printers would be dised. I don't go near printers. I've
got no time for printers. So but yeah, if you've
got something to say about that start of the whole
wall wrong, that's the plans dand it's the kettle and
the toast of the basic ones. The ovens are fuck

(04:01):
quite like the ovens. I think the ovens are fine
once you learn that hack on how to shut the
door off, the doors not shutting evenly. I did that
the other day our own of and that's the one
just put t tails down, both hingures and bumper. Someone said,
having the equipment using in airports of planes can land
in the fog, you waters with fog, how hard could

(04:24):
it be to how hard could it be to land
a plane and fog well, Marcus from a polyxu. It
is very hard. Probably it's quite Harday, could you have
a radar or liight ove? And talking about lighter these days, Marcus,
I wish there was one charge that fits everything, a
universal portal. I tried to buy a razor that were

(04:45):
charge in the car impossible. They tried to sell me
a razor that took batteries. They didn't try to sell me.
That was one of the because no one tries to
sell you. You're at the hard you're at the appliant
shop and there's a shop assistant filming through the glass
cabinet the QR codes of items and looking up on

(05:06):
the webs site forget sipat brian AND's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Our home, Marcus. I've got a solution for your your
chedule thing. I had a neighbor and he used to
on his day off from work, he would boil the
kittle and tip it into a thermous flask, and then
he used the water from the thermos flask during the day,
which they would remain boiled all day long.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
It kind of screams Kenny Pensioner, though, doesn't it?

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I thought it was real.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
Cliver.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, it's a very good idea. I just can't see
myself doing it. I've had a bad experience with some
of the generation that all the thermoss with a glass
flask and got smashed. I know they're better now, but
I've had bad thermous experiences. Bob, it's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 8 (05:57):
I want to talk about your jack, the electric jug
that you you worry about.

Speaker 9 (06:01):
It's taking too long to boil.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, didn't you think they would be didn't you think
they'd be quicker by now?

Speaker 10 (06:06):
Well?

Speaker 8 (06:07):
No, So I'm going to give you a technical reason why.
It's because all our power points that you plug into
are only rated at ten amps. Now ten amps is
only about two thousand watts, so every jug can only
be a maximum of two thousand watts of power.

Speaker 11 (06:24):
You need to put less.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
Water in the jug when you're boiling it, and it
will be able to boil that volume of water faster.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
But can't there be some sort of step up thing
that means there's more amps.

Speaker 8 (06:36):
No, because anyone can plug a jug in anywhere you
mean on the jug itself, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
They can't. They tuboth things.

Speaker 8 (06:49):
Not on a power thing. That's a that's a combustion engine.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's difference because the Americans can't even boil a jug,
can they. That's why they've got those funny coffee makers.

Speaker 8 (07:00):
That Americans.

Speaker 9 (07:01):
That's Americans.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
They've got even less amps, haven't they they are?

Speaker 8 (07:06):
Will they work on that weird one twenty vault system.

Speaker 12 (07:09):
Yeah, So that's that's why that jugs haven't changed.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
Apart from back in the good old days, you used
to be able to change the elements in them. You
could go to the local hardware shop and buy a
new element. Nowadays, as centers, it stops boiling or something
goes wrong with it, yes.

Speaker 13 (07:25):
Throw it out.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
So what about those snazzy places where they've got electric
hot water on tap? How does that work?

Speaker 8 (07:33):
That's instant oil underneath, so it's like you know, yeah, yeah,
it heats the water as it flows through a small tube.
So the electricity heats the big element heats it very quickly,
a very small amount of water.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
So why can't you have a kettle on that that
you just turn the for the water. Surely a kettle
could have that system, It could feed the water through
that element.

Speaker 8 (08:00):
I can see your point. But no, But yes, you're
just going to have to get more modern.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, thank you Bob. Technology that should be better
by now being at the Marcus.

Speaker 14 (08:10):
Good evening you get a Marcus. I've got one that's
probably a game changer for you as well. Living on
bluff in Aussie, you've got clicking collect services, Woolworst, Repco
and Big W which is the same as a weehouse
pretty much. And they offer twenty four hour clicking collect
so you can you can buy before the store closes.

(08:31):
And then they've got lock boxes and you just get
a pass code scan your phone opens the lock box.
You can pick up your groceries at midnight if you want.
And I think that needs to catch on over here.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is that not here?

Speaker 14 (08:46):
I think wool Worst might do it. But look over
the are You've got Repco, You've got Big W. You've
got a whole range of.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
With happy staff being paid time and a half in
the weekend. I'd like to get a big Big W.

Speaker 14 (09:03):
Yeah yeah, but you know, like having your collecting your
groceries after Euthanish work, say at twelve thirty at night,
instead of having to come all the way back just
to do groceries the next day. There'll be a game
changer for you, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Loving a game changer. Thanks Ben Cheap as creepers keep
it going. Eight hundred and eighty to eighty nineteen nine
two dedict Bobbitt's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 15 (09:22):
Yeah, Bob, are you good?

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (09:25):
Bo I mentioned one other day about innovation or what
I think they should have been having to update, is
when you don't click your seat belt, your car does
not start all.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Right, reckon, you'd be a seat belt where above I am?

Speaker 16 (09:40):
I wear a seat belt. How come because I discussed
it one other day to you that a friend of
mine got killed by not wearing a seat belt. So
I'm pretty pretty conscious about wearing a seat belt now.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Was it just?

Speaker 16 (09:53):
Was it just when they were in the days when
it was a box of beaver? And I don't even
really think you had to have them? But they got killed?
And when are on route?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
What are the seat bet? Did they say the seat
bet would have saved them?

Speaker 17 (10:05):
No?

Speaker 16 (10:05):
No they didn't. He didn't have one on. He flew
out the car, so that presumingly he wouldn't happened.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
O God, But I mean they.

Speaker 16 (10:12):
Go on about how dangerous. So there's people don't put
their seat belts on, and you can't tell me to.
They modern day's technology that they can't have it so
that if you don't click it, they don't start.

Speaker 14 (10:23):
Well.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
The weird thing about the seat belt is the cops
can't see if you're wearing one or not because they're dark.
I thought they should be a bright color and it
would stand out to the officer. But anyway, they don't
seem that committed to I think.

Speaker 16 (10:33):
I think most of the revenue for them revenue money.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Here we go, but they don't enforce it to they
because they can never tell if you're wearing one or not.

Speaker 16 (10:43):
Oh, I have heard of quite a few people being
pulled up for not having them on. But anyway, that's
all I've got the sound that matter, Mark.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
I don't think I've been pulled up for not having
a belt on. I've got an interesting seat belt story.
Have I have an interesting seat belt story?

Speaker 10 (11:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't think I have. Wish I did have an
interesting seat belt story. I'll wait one hundred. You know
the rest, Marcus till twelve. Marcus, get yourself a jet
boil from a camping shop. You can buy an instant
hot water to spend it for about a hundred bucks. Goodness,
here's someone that so the topic is gosh, I thought gosh.

(11:24):
I thought technology would be better by now. Someone says
they thought by now there would be clocks on appliances
that changed automatically with daylight saving and on cars. How
hard could it be? Course cars should change with daylight savings.

(11:47):
They're science. Where's my hoverboard? My granddad used to cook
so sevenois and his kettle. Get in touching That you
the thing that technology has disappointed you by I'd like
to get that worded better. Where technology has failed us?
Who thought there'd be a bitter toaster and a bitter heater,

(12:10):
not a heater, A bit of toaster and a bit
of kittle by now that to me, and I'll say it, Oh,
be in touch marks till twelve oh, eight hundred and
eighty Teddy nineteen ninety to text anything goes oooh, get
in touch anyway. Twenty past eight Hittel twelve State Hiway

(12:31):
twenty on he hung a southbound right to southbound lanes
are closed while cruise clear, debris could be space debris.
Doubt it be exciting if it was one hundred and
twelve for Brent Crude and Marcus Evening. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (12:47):
Hello. I thought i'd just let you know that I
use my microwaves to boil things and then you just
put them the right amount water in and just in
the microwaves, I don't waste any water.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
And oh it's I kind of I think microwaves are
mean spirited that I wouldn't go near a microwave. But
I'm loving what you're saying.

Speaker 18 (13:08):
Why do why not? Why want to go near one?
Why wouldn't you go near one?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I guess I've worked too long in radio stations where
they've got a microwave that people cook everything, and it's
just always a bit scungy. Oh have you ever with
a shared microwave? It's never good.

Speaker 18 (13:30):
I don't share my micmas.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, no, well, yeah I wish I didn't.

Speaker 18 (13:35):
Can't you get one for yourself and not.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
A priced thing? I think it's no. It's a matter
of principle for me with the micro I don't like them,
and part of me also, part of me always thought,
how come you can put stuff in plastic and put
it in a microwave. I've never really felt comfortable with
the technology, to be honest, I've never really thought what's
that about? How could that not actually put the plastic

(14:00):
in the food? So you I apologize for that. Diet's Marcus.
Good evening. This is Mark Die.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
Oh Hello, hi Marcus. Sorry, Yeah, I'm I'm ringing up
about my disappointment in my latest mobile modem. About twelve
years ago, so somewhere around there, I bought a spark Arm.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
It was a.

Speaker 10 (14:26):
Hawaii make dongle modem. Right, you just plug in, very small,
you just plug into your laptop and you can use
it anywhere, pick up anywhere, top of a mountain, wherever.
And so that was phased out, being three D and

(14:46):
so went looking for the replacement. And I don't have
a smartphone, right, so I just I needed something as
mobile modem for my laptop. So looking around I found
a d link and that worked for about or three
weeks and failed. And then the Spark who had previously

(15:07):
put out the smaller Wibi one, they were no longer
doing that, and they had put out a five G
maybe wire, which is a much bigger piece of equipment
like a small modern smartphone. I'm not the thing is.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Die, I'm not die. You've killed You've killed me and
killed the topic. I think I'm not with you. The
last thing I heard was a mobile modem Hawaiwi dongle
and you've got no I don't know what that is,
but what's happened with it?

Speaker 10 (15:43):
Okay, well, I've pased it out because it's three G
so instead of a simple The technology was there, it
was working, and now it's no longer available, not in
New Zealand anyway.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Schepers Okay, well lost bray seeing at bray Dog's back Dan,
thank you for that. Eight and eighty to someone, this
is more the spirit. Someone says, I'm disappointed in the
air hand driers in the bathrooms. You think by now
the technology we be quicker than using a hand towel. Oh,
they're shocking, even though it'se dice in wanes air blade.

Speaker 14 (16:18):
No good.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Cindy says, washing machines need a tissue detector. I'm hearing you.
I'm get in touch if you want to talk. Eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty is he back.

Speaker 19 (16:31):
Fudge?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh flip, I shouldn't. I shouldn't have gone to the
dongle call. Obviously you get them imentum going, then suddenly
you get the dongle call. Oh, welcome people. How are you?
Mark's have a toaster that does my head and either
booons it black or slightly warms it. I have just
did it a dozens of times. I think I'll chuck

(16:53):
it over a cliff. I reckon there would be a
business in destroying people's toasters for them, because not enough
to throw them away, we want them actually obliterated. That's
how much we hate them. That's how we hate them.
I don't want a jet boil. Get yourself a jet boil.
We'll use them in the bush. I'm just trying to say,

(17:14):
quite simply, what did we think would be better by now?
I thought the kettles would be better. I thought washing
machines could detect when you put bits of paper in
your pockets. There'd be a good thing. Someone reckons they
could run a littleton a ferry from toad On. It's littleton.
It's not really what the topics about. Marcus just just

(17:34):
had a checkpoint between Candala and Johnsonville around eight thirty.
After I passed the breath. There's the officer show on
his torch to check that we're all wearing seat belts.
Never had this happen before. I couldn't believe that I passed.
The last part is just a really bad dad joke.
Just so you know, I don't know where the jet
dad jokers anyway, get in touch with you want to talk.

(17:55):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten. The appliance as we
thought would be better by now. We got robots running marathons,
we've got robots playing table tennis. But a lot of
the stuff is er er. You know, midnight to partake,
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine nine to the
text if you want to be a part of it. Oh,

(18:16):
eight hundred eighty ten eighty looking forward to what you've got?
Good shows, A quick show, Bruce, it's Marcus.

Speaker 20 (18:25):
Good evening, Good evening, Marcus. How are you, Bruce?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
God, thank you.

Speaker 20 (18:31):
I think you've for me. I've kind of gotten into
diversifying the use of useless appliances. So you know you're
talking about toasters. Toasters are variable in the function, but
I can tell you they're an excellent way of timing
how you coach an egg. So if you put any
toaster to the full cycle and push it down and

(18:52):
wait till it pops up, that's the perfect time for
poaching an egg, So I find a toasted very handy,
is there?

Speaker 17 (19:03):
So you're right?

Speaker 2 (19:05):
How long is it?

Speaker 20 (19:07):
I don't know, but if you if you put a
piece of vogels in the toaster and you always turn
around to the you know the maximum because that's how
long vogels and you put it down and it pops up.
Perfect time for poaching an egg, could.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You I'll get someone to time it for me. How
long is the longest cycle because it would be four minutes?
How long to poach or to blow?

Speaker 20 (19:31):
So you've got to so for me when I poach
in the egg, because I'm you know, I always put
a bit of signer or vinegar in the water so
it allows the egg to clump properly. It's going to
be kind of simmering, not boiling rapidly. So a seven
or eight on the temperature you put the egg in
it and then you hit the toaster pops up.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
That might be one of the best thing I've ever heard.
Do the numbers? Do the numbers indicate minutes?

Speaker 20 (19:59):
I don't know what they mean. But the good thing,
it doesn't matter what toaster it is, you turn around
to the brown and perfect time to poach an egg.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Maybe night, Bruce already twenty eight to nine, Chris, it's Marcus.
Good evening.

Speaker 21 (20:14):
Oh hi, Marcus, look slightly off subject. I'm talking info
tech here somewhere I think we've actually gone backwards. Is
death notices. In the day of newsprint, you could open
up the newspaper and all the surnames of the departed
were listed alphabetically, and you could race down there and

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you could find out in the first ten seconds if
he has any names that you knew you jumped out.
But these days you can go online. But most of
the were the one that I use anyway, You get
the name, but then you get the full met the
full notice, and then you have to scroll through all
of the notices to see if there's anyone you know.

(20:57):
So it's actually slower, much slower than now good old newsprint.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
So are you so? Would the news in on the
Herald have death notices in the online edition?

Speaker 21 (21:05):
All right, look, I'm Wellington, So I'm talking post.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Okay, just looking now, death notice. They're going to read
an ad. They put an ad before the death? Does
that too bad? Isn't it a pop up ad?

Speaker 21 (21:15):
Yeah? Yeah, Well, I mean that's that's the name of
the business, so that that's fair enough. But every name
you see has a full notice under it, so you
have to scroll. And not only that, they come up
with memoriams and that sort of stuff built into it.
But back in the day when you can still do it.
Now you open up it on post and most people
don't put the message in there anymore anyway, But you

(21:38):
can scroll down the alphabetical order of the surnames and
you'd know within seconds if there's a name you you.
So it's a backward step.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I think you're right. What age do you start reading
the death notices?

Speaker 21 (21:52):
I always have because I've always been had I've always
had a paper, being accessible to a paper from my
early working days. So a bit morbid possibly, But I've
missed I've missed Junerules because I have an you know,
I haven't been online to have a look or you know,
whereas when the paper was about I'm not I'm not

(22:13):
suggesting to bring that newsprint, but it was very efficient
when it came to finding out who had departed.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Very good, Chris, thank you been more interesting, I thought, Mike,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 22 (22:24):
Good evening, Yeah, Hi, good evening, Marcus. How are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Good Thank you, Mike, thank you for asking.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
Oh excellent.

Speaker 17 (22:30):
You know, on the topic of.

Speaker 22 (22:34):
Products that didn't really make the grade. It was about
thirty five years back and this contraction came to our house.
I can't remember how, but it was a It was
like a large double boot. They had a heating pad
at the bottom, so you put both your feet in.
But I think the idea was slightly flawed. So for starters,

(22:58):
you had to be near a plug to plug in
the meter along lead and it would warm your feet.
Trouble the warm blood from your lower extremities i e.

Speaker 12 (23:11):
Your feet would get.

Speaker 22 (23:12):
Would call down by the way by the time your
heart pumped it up to your head, so you'd sit
there with sweaty feet and a cold head. And yeah,
it didn't We didn't. Our family didn't really used to
fight over it because it never really got used.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Just didn't work. A no probably would work. Have they updated?
This is thirty years ago. Has it been updated.

Speaker 17 (23:32):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 22 (23:33):
I have an investigator because yeah, I had a little trial,
but it didn't impress me.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Good on you, Mike, Thank you. There we go twenty
four away from No, No, No nine, eight hundred and
eighty The bit of technology that you think is probably marcus.
I'm disappointed that Pizza Ravens aren't like the ones and
back to the future, But I remember the Pizza Rovens
and that that'd be the sequel, would it. I wish
they would make some technology that would turned vehicle headlights
on when the motor has started. The amount of drivers

(24:02):
that don't turn them on during adverse weather and pull
visibly is diabolical. They are Is it to all road users?
You need to get a Volvo? I think it's famous,
the famous story of the person with the Volvo with
the number plate that was I know, because everyone wouldell
they had their lights on. But yeah, I think Volvo

(24:23):
the lights are on when you turn it on. Stylish, well,
not a stylish car, but safe. I don't know much
about the Volvos. Are they still safe? The Volvos these days?
You don't hear many people getting killed in Volvos.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Do you.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
What's ep O A dan? Someone wants to know about
zbe story about EPO A abuse. I don't know what
a p O A ish and during power of attorney
that's e PA, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:57):
I don't know anything about that a while, aback, my
wife purchases me Reading a while aback, my wife purchased
a new luxury twelve hundred dollars toaster. After sitting down
after the shot from the price, I read the manual
toasts anything has multiple senses. Toasts to your input of
requirements on screen this morning, and toasted my bagel while
getting ready to work. Sensus cook and keep my bagel

(25:19):
warm to my desired temperature. I've fallen in love. That's
so true, Bruce. I've been doing poached eggs like that
for years. What sort of idiot would use their toaster
as a timer? I mean cheapest? Really, maybe it's a
good thing. People love it. Someone said you won't be
killed and Evolver, but you might die of boredom. Wow,

(25:41):
it's actually honored to do it. It's honored to do
perfect poached eggs. That way always works. Wh're not idiots?
How are you enjoying the tapping? Toasters are a great
way to heat plates, resting them on top for a
minute or so, hot plates ready for that gourmet dinner.
Why can't batteries have a gauge to show how much

(26:03):
charge is left in them? I have lots of batteries
in my kitchen draw I'd like to see the glance
if there's any good without having to put them in
an appliance. And why can't sharpie pens have a warning
when they're about to run out? Why can't it change
color right at the end, so now you're down to
the bottom. Had a sharpie run out today at the pub?
Met Ravel got pub that one too, by the way,

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nineteen to nine Selliot's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 23 (26:28):
Oh hi Marcus. I normally listen to you from May
to clock Homewards, but bt of a the Stevens Tonight
I had an email from Genser, which I normally fly with.
I go to the Gold Coast to visit my families
over there, and they change my flight for when I

(26:53):
go over in July August and I have to go
via Melbourne. I don't quite to get out.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
Yeah, that's what I thought too.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Are you sure it's not a Melbourne flight that's going
via Sydney and you change it?

Speaker 23 (27:12):
You know, I'm probably all the time Christ's Gold Coast
and it's going vire Melbourne Melbourne too, And it's an
all gay thing because I get held up from Melbourne
and to the Gold Coast flight.

Speaker 21 (27:32):
So anyway, you're.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Going to Melbourne and then Melbourne to the Gold Coast.

Speaker 23 (27:37):
Yeah, and normally I go straight to from christ here
to call and get it.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Where did you Why do you say if you've got
family there or you've got a place that you go
to in the winter.

Speaker 23 (27:49):
I've got family there. I go there quite often.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
I.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Can mention, I just because that's I mean, I know
there's a fuel crisis, but actually you're going in a
more fuel expensive way, aren't you.

Speaker 7 (28:06):
No.

Speaker 23 (28:06):
I see the email that they sent me to my
daughters and they couldn't believe it. But they're going to
sort of that anymore. They're going to change of flight.
But I thought hairy, ridiculous. And because my flight leaves
had a reasonable laur to go over there, and I

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spent all day in Melbourne and then flight of the Gold.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Coast, I go about six or seven hours in Melbourne.

Speaker 23 (28:35):
Yes, it's iculous.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh, nothing worse than wandering around them.

Speaker 23 (28:41):
Quite a smark, to be quite on a smarke as
I thought it was a scan.

Speaker 16 (28:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
No, I can't understand.

Speaker 23 (28:48):
And I'm seventy eight years old, so I can't because
I'm mucking around all day and an airport that I
don't know what.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Did they say? What did they say? It was because
of the fuel situation?

Speaker 23 (29:01):
No, No, just my flight had been changed and they
sent me details and I sent the most to my
daughters the email and they couldn't believe it either. But
they're going to sort of that.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
And it was direct, it was.

Speaker 23 (29:20):
Supposed to be direct Gold Coast to I mean to
call together a flight I've taken so many times before.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
No, I think that's crazy. I think that's we'll see
if someone else knows about I can't. I can't give
you any.

Speaker 23 (29:37):
Yeah, my daughters of cheek, Well, they'll just get me
on another flight. There's a direct flight that looks like
it's going to be on a different day.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'll see if that's happened. And you won't get a
refund for that, will you sell you?

Speaker 24 (29:54):
Well?

Speaker 23 (29:54):
I presume it'll just be a tense feer of funds.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Okay, I see that's happened to anyone else. Ty, keep listening,
appreciate you. Fifteen to nine. The brink Crude Price Is
Going was a website that stopped updating the brink crewd
is it to one twenty one so she's going skyward,
so full up and stockpile because fuels I suppose I'm
not supposed to say that fuel's going to get much
much much more expensive, much more expensive. How are you people?

(30:25):
What tapped me out there? List of the land, the
bit of technology that's continuing to disappoint you. We're not
where we needed to be. That's what I'm asking people about.
So get in touch. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty
nine nine to text. Tough times in Westport. I see
a lot of job redundancies there. It's tough. So you

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might be in Westport. You might have some more information
about that if you want to talk on air. That's
what we're on about tonight. Put the heater on people.
It's down to two degrees in the south tonight. Anyway
here till midnight. You want to talk thirteen to nine,
Get in touch if you want to, Oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty me just I'm just sending an email.

(31:07):
How are you going? People? I thought i'd be quicker
on that break to send that email. What's happening now?
The technology that's disappointing, disappointed, disappointing you or anything like that.
So that's the situation. Get in touch if you want to.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine to the text, Marcus till twelve. Keep those texts.

(31:28):
They've re every good the texts. Technology that's not where
it needs to be, Marcus. I was at a post
shop today. They were telling me that post overseas is
going up tomorrow. Oh my god, it's al really very
expensive to post there Ooh Marcus. I'm not much chop
at cooking, but I cooked the best poached eggs according
to my wife and family, thanks to my trusty toaster

(31:49):
that pops the toast and I remove the eggs from
the heat. Whooshga love a whooshga w zero zero woo
shka wooshka.

Speaker 25 (32:02):
Lee.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hello, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (32:06):
Yeah, good Marcus. Here you're going mate. Just one of
cool hey, just one of the technology things that have
gone backwards.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
This is one of.

Speaker 11 (32:16):
The irks of my day, which is a dip switch
in a car. It needs to be on the floor,
remember the old old school ones.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Fucked up? You love those?

Speaker 7 (32:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (32:28):
Yeah, you flick your don't switch onto you know, with
your foot, change your beams and a where you go
whereas now they're on the on the stick, on the
steering wheel and yeah, and it's takes a bit of
time to get there, you know.

Speaker 22 (32:43):
If you say, but much much better on the foot absolutely.

Speaker 11 (32:48):
Yeah, yeah, so yeah, that's just yeah, just me. But
that's one of the things that I think have gone backwards.
A weaver was it was.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Would you be was it the same place where your
break would be?

Speaker 11 (32:59):
It's on it's usually on the on the old car left. Yeah,
on on on the left where you sort of you're
just sort of close to your foot sort of sits
and yeah, and you just jump on me at the
change of change of beams and are where you go.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
But yeah, that's I'm just trying to I'm just trying
to you do my feet as though I'm an emmanual.
That's the that's the foot you do the clutch with,
isn't it.

Speaker 7 (33:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah, man, yes, I can't see any safety concerns with it.

Speaker 11 (33:34):
No, oh yeah, yeah. It just seemed to me to
be able because I've had one recently. I had an
old school car and yeah, a lot quicker just to
jump on the.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Love I record be in a day with calls about
modern cars that have got a dip foot dep if
you got one, let me know. Nice to talk Lee
by the C seven to nine, five away from nine.
Good evening and welcome. We are talking about when technology,
well the bits of technology that have led us down.
We thought things would be better. I thought kettles would

(34:09):
be quicker. I thought toasters would be quicker. It seems
the important thing. There's no appetite. They're so busy making
robots that play table tennis. I haven't really focused on
the things people want, which are quicker toast and quicker kettles.
That's my particular take on it. Let mess sneeze, suppressing, suppressing, suppressing,

(34:31):
Sorry about that. That's that gone into the ether. Now,
what is the collective noun for unicorns? That's in the quiz,
but I'm not that's on the stuff quiz. But I
can't be bothered doing that now because I don't think.
I think I've got to be a subscriber. So boring
subscribing to everything these days, isn't it? So devil's muddle

(34:56):
the Stuff website. It's a blessing of unicorns or a sparkle.
I should have known that, but I mean they're not real.
So when would you be using a collective noun? I
suppose you have the collective noun from eentioninery things. Could
you a group of fairies, fairies, a fleet of fairies,

(35:17):
A group of fairies. Ninety two jobs going in West
Sport tallies ninety two? It's fish is going to be
a project process to Motuweka and timudu Ah. That's a
great town that's got another body blow. So it'd be
hard pressed finding other job there, would you. I'd presume
the fleet was coming across the port there. I don't

(35:38):
know if that's going to mean that there's going to
be other jobs lost in related industries. AnyWho here toil
mid not manim is Marcus welcome. Be a part of
it if you want to be a part of it,
if you want to get in touch. There was talk
of the radio. There was talk on the radia of
a scam in Australia which were claims are made to
travelers that their plans had be altered. There was an
increased playment requested, would that be a scam? When that

(36:00):
woman was selling anything? It is Marcus as a potty
to them all. Today saw a woman talking into an
envelope at the post office. I asked the guy who
was serving her after she put a stamp on at
what was she doing? He reckon? She was sending a voicemail. Ah,
it's pretty good. Get in touch if you want to partake.

(36:20):
My name is Marcus. Till midnight eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine nine to the text, do come
through headle twelve knock me out?

Speaker 7 (36:28):
What do you like?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
What is the most disappointing aspect of technology? The thing
you thought would be nailed by now, but it's still
jankies all get out. I'd like universal charging cables. I'd
like quicker toasters. I like quicker I'd like a quicker jug.
I'd like I'd like I'd like cars that the clock
adjusted it for daylight savings. I'd like cars that knew

(36:50):
the difference between a box of fijos and a person
in the back seat. I tend not to buckle up
my box of fijoas if you're reading fijoas it is
fijoas season. Like a barrel, you don't cut in half
and scoop. You get a knife and you cut the
top of the bottom off and then you peel it
like staves. Of a barrel. Better to eat that way.

(37:13):
I've convinced a lot of people about that. I'm changing
the way people at fijoas there should be probably a
mechanical Fijo appeeler. But yes, the bits of technology that
it is disappointing you. Cell phone batteries just diabolical. The
battery life on phone since the knock you they too
tend it't all gone backwards, it's all gone. Oh, by

(37:33):
the way, the Southern Motorway by istamac he has a
crawl full fire engines to just passed. That's right, there
is a crash or Tahuhu Princes Street off ramp. Get
in touch. Someone said the original unicorn was actually Indian rhinoceros.
I thought the original unicorn was a nawool. It was
a sea thing. But anyway, I don't even know about this.

(37:58):
When I was a kid, there was no such thing
as rhin as unicorns. Seems to be a recent thing,
isn't it. A lot of these days you see children
dressed as unicorns welcome people. My name is Marcus good Evening.
Oh we eight one hundred and eighty to ten eighty.
Oh gosh, I've got the instructions for the clothes and
the dry when I get home, always something it's my

(38:25):
early night, gone come on and selling in a flight
fight or flight I'd fight for your flight nine two
nine to detext. By the way, Petrol, I'm back on Petrel.
It has gone to a dollar twenty six. Wow, you
heard it here first a dollar twenty six.

Speaker 16 (38:48):
You know why?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Because I realized now it's not going to be a
quick solution. Hello, did not people realize two months ago
it wasn't going to be a quick solution? What's wrong
with these commodity traders? From the from the ververy start,
it looked like it was going to be a long
long anyway, crude cheapest creepers there, that's high. But I

(39:12):
want to talk to you tonight about this or anything else.
But mainly it's things technology that disappointed you. We're just
for an indication, guys. When in February it was sixty two,
so it's pretty well doubled. The price is doubled, double doubled,
ten past nine. If there's something different you want to
mention tonight, and there are those reoccurring topics you want

(39:34):
The reoccurring topics for this month are the callbacks. The
rare occurring topic is the horses at the stadium. Yeah,
and how good is that stadium? But if you want
to be in touch, that's the planned people.

Speaker 16 (39:52):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
It'd be nice to hear from you. Oh eight hundred
and eighty today and nineteen nine de text Hittle twelve
disappointing technology. That's a situation. Yes this day. In nineteen sixteen,
Germany and a its World War One allies became the
first countries to use daylight saving time. So it's German

(40:14):
good goodness. I thought they'd be the last piol on
to play around with a clock. If there's something else
that you're determined to talk about, you are more than
welcome to talk about that also tonight, So come on, Marcus,
A barrel of oils and twenty six, one hundred and
twenty six very good point. Skybox Dakota is still meeting

(40:35):
HDMI cables and said, like cables this day and age,
you think they would be wireless. I just think we're
getting some other countries stop. They don't need it? Is
sky is that terrible? I've given up hate everything about it,
hate the new remote, hate it all, and they won't

(40:56):
allow my partner to do anything to do with the bills,
which is weird. So yes, I've got problems there. Marcus
just booked the ferry for over Chris, but the Interranda
has put its prices up recently. No surprises there. It's
going to be expensive to plan for Christmas because the
petrol could be two hundred dollars. No one might be
going anywhere. We might be all working from home. Thirteen

(41:21):
past nine. I'm looking for a quick flurry to start
the hour. Oh, just pulling a label off the drink.
That's satisfying. Those plastic labels. When you pull those off,
isn't it, then you can stick them to furniture around
the office. Marcus. The word unicorn is derived from the
Latin word unicornis meaning one horn. I think we probably

(41:44):
all assumed it would mean one horn and comes from
around two thousand BC from the Greek, the Indian and
Chinese texts. Wow, so all those languages got that in common.
That's weird, isn't it. If you got any more news
about the accident and or Tahohu get in touch about
that also, So that's the situation. Come on, let's get

(42:04):
the whole ball rolling that the you're bit of technology
that has disappointed you the most that you thought would
be better at this by now that's kind of where
we're about. Haven't explained it that well? Would this crash?
State Highway won the crash. The middle southbound lane is blocked.

(42:25):
That's at Otahuhu, so get off or go elsewhere. There
probably will be delays. I imagine that happening and rubberneck
because it could all be a fairly bit of a
tricky situation. There Dedy eighteen people killed in the past
ten days, six not wearing seat belts. There you go,

(42:47):
and now they're trying to market Timudo is the riviera
of the South. Goodness, what's on about? Check them there?
If there's no one else, will go to Darren fifteen
past nine. But you be in touch if you want
to there's something of interest you've got to say, the
technology or if there's something different you want to talk about.

(43:10):
There's been a favorit of discussion online tonight today, online today.
It's kind of a complicated story to get into, but
I'll mentioned in case some of you have seen this
being talked about online. It's one of those thought experiments, right,
I'll read it out just because I've started talking everyone
in the world. This is not going to happen. This

(43:32):
is just a hypothetical thought experiment. Everyone in the world
has to take a private vote by pressing a red
or a blue button. If more than half the people
press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than half
the people press the blue button, only people who press
the red button survive. What button do you press? Two buttons?

(44:02):
Go figure? Do you want to talk about that? You
might have been across that today A hit L twelve
sixteen past nine. As I've said, technology and all, by
the way, not looking good for anything. There cutting more
of their original flight, so that's not good. Blah blah,
blah blah. Someone thinks the most disappointing technology are reading glasses.

(44:22):
Can you imagine if they're invented today, being the first
person to walk out of the house with some number
eight wire and it planned with frame holding two pieces
of glass, And yet this is what we all do
and we pay a fortune for it. It's a good
point that Pauline as Marcus good evening.

Speaker 26 (44:37):
Hello Marcus. Now I'm going to be the trouble maker tonight.
I am not pushing either button.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Oh Okay, what's going to make you push the button?
That's the point.

Speaker 26 (44:46):
It's nothing, absolutely nothing.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
I don't think I fully understand it yet.

Speaker 26 (44:50):
Because everyone survives or no one survives.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Everyone survives, or just the people that press the red
button survive.

Speaker 26 (44:59):
Oh, I'm not even sure i'd want that.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
No, or you loved ones wouldn't come with you?

Speaker 26 (45:04):
No, all my dogs? What's the blue one?

Speaker 8 (45:09):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Where is the picture of the buttons?

Speaker 19 (45:14):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (45:14):
That's what I'm missing out on my That's why I
didn't explain it very well. It's just come up bad
my buttons. I'll find and I'll read it out better, Pauline,
I promise you that. Luke Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 11 (45:26):
Hey Marcus, Luke here, how are you?

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Thank you?

Speaker 10 (45:29):
What can I do?

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Look, I'm listening to you and I've just had a big,
massive trip to South Island in Lumsdale.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
Yes, Lumsday, Lumsday.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Lumps and lumsd Lumps and yeah, anyway, there's three tracks
that come together into one town and it was big
in the old days. And what struck me like like
a whack in the head was the rail system of
old technology that has just been.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Wasted and not you so wasted, wasted.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Yeah, the technology and the network of rail. If you
do the bike tracks in the South Island on the
you know, the old deserted bike tracks in Middle March
and all that, it's just wasted and beautiful technology that
is built by thousands of men, sweat and blood.

Speaker 16 (46:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
I think they should put the train back. I think
they should put the train back in. I know it's
put it from tone to crom a dull dug out.
It wouldn't be that difficult. I mean you could, couldn't
you too easy?

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Yeah, And it's not a lot of energy because it's
all flat.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Yeah, you wouldn't even you wouldn't even need rails. It
could be like a thing that, Yeah, you wouldn't need rails,
would you. I suppose you would. Would you need rails?

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Well, it would be good because there's no friction. Well
there's little friction on the steel things, steel to steel.
But it struck me that all the energy was put
into making those things, the tunnels, the technology of the signals,
all that beautiful technology has been forgotten and wasted, and
we've got trucks on the road with burning rubber.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Now, I guess the thing for rail that I always
come back to as far as moving people goes right,
if you've got a railway and you've got all that
maintenance of the goods, and then you run that against
aeroplanes with there's no maintenance because you're flying through the sky.
So it doesn't stack up for moving people compared to
a plane, does it.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
No, No, I'm talking about freight freight heavy things like
sheep or cows which are super heavy, which wear out
the roads. I just don't understand. And Shane Jones, I
know he's a madman and we don't like a lot
of the things he says, but he's saying a good
stuff about ray, which I believe in what I thought.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Was quite telling about rail. Europe went for rail for people,
America went for rail for freight. And it's quite interesting
different because America moves quite you don't see it, but
America is quite dependent on its rail for freight. Right,
those double box I mean there's Messa.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
Trains here, yes, and then the double containers you said
in rows and rows, if you waited it in the
States for a training to buy it, it goes on
for ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
It's an extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
And the diesel they're saving, like what's up with New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Complete liquor vision? I would say, was that the right
thing to say? A failure of imagination is that it?

Speaker 20 (48:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:34):
Yeah, yeah, And it's a basic technology that's been around
for one hundred or longer than one hundred years. And
we're using bloody main freight trucks.

Speaker 10 (48:43):
Why why?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
And diesel diesels expenses?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Now we'll discuss more. Look, thank you so much. Twenty
one past nine, twenty five past nine, Hello John, John John.

Speaker 27 (48:55):
Oh, hello Marcus. You mentioned Timuru being the Riviera South
because always.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Thought Riverton was the revere of the South, but now
it's Timoo.

Speaker 27 (49:09):
Well, Timuru was always famous for his it's Caroline Bay,
and I just wondered why is it called Caroline Bay?
Who was Caroline.

Speaker 25 (49:26):
Are?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
It can be the name of a ship that got
stuck there.

Speaker 27 (49:29):
You you could be right, but Timuru has been famous
for one or two things. You nobody darts that you
fire into an animal that's got the anesthetic in it,
and that that was invented by a chemist from Timuru.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Goodness, yes, did you lay there?

Speaker 23 (49:58):
I did.

Speaker 27 (49:58):
I went to school there. But that's all beside the point.
But and another thing. Of course. The first person in
the world, which is still debated, to fly an aircraft
was a fellow by the name of Peas and he
came from Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
And clearly he wasn't Yes he was, he was, he was.

Speaker 27 (50:22):
He was about a week before the Wright brothers.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I don't think he flew.

Speaker 27 (50:26):
He flew over a gorse hedge at y toy.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
I don't think that's true though, is it.

Speaker 27 (50:32):
Of course it's true.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yes, someone was remaking his plane.

Speaker 27 (50:38):
Oh, could well be.

Speaker 5 (50:41):
But anyway, I'll tell you two.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Things I do know about Tim is the it has
New Zealand's oldest dairy.

Speaker 11 (50:48):
Yes do you know that?

Speaker 15 (50:51):
Yeah, well I know.

Speaker 27 (50:54):
I had an uncle that thought he had invented the
greatest thing in the world, which was an ice cream
on a stick, and he suggested it to the Rose
Will Dare factory and they said no, it wouldn't work.
But a few weeks later apparently they produced his idea,

(51:18):
and that would be the ice cream on a stick.
We used to call it as a kid, the chocolate bomb.
But I'm going back a few years now when.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I met the oldest deary, I met the oldest like
dairy shop.

Speaker 27 (51:35):
Oh, oh goodness knows.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
It's also the site of New Zealand's first fatal car accident.

Speaker 10 (51:44):
Is it.

Speaker 27 (51:45):
Yeah, you're you're obviously googling there.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
No, no, I didn't know a lot about that.

Speaker 7 (51:51):
I do know.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
I'm not googling it. I do know these things. I'll
try and find the name of the dairy, but thank
you John, John John. Now, I've got that written down
somewhere about the oldest dairy in New Zealand in my notes.
If I bring those up, tell the name of what
it was called, because I had done some research a
long time ago about that. If I can bring that

(52:13):
up because i'd been to it, it wasn't that interesting.
Where will I have put that? I don't mean to
talk about that at some time, but stand by, I'll
find that notes.

Speaker 16 (52:29):
Ryot's Marcus welcome, gooday, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (52:34):
Rape.

Speaker 17 (52:36):
Yeah, I've just come back from over from courtious event
or careac done? What's the winning they had? And they
go past the new stadium there. What a wonderful site, Marcus.
The incredible work thing that I've done for the town.
And I'm thinking I was thinking to myself there today

(52:58):
when I was coming home. They got the trams here
running around in the circle around the town. Why the
hell can't they send the trams down to the railway
down to the railway station. The people can come in
on the train, get on the tram and come into
the videos into the center of the town. Tell you
about a stone show away from the from where the
trains leave in Manchester Street or High Street. And and

(53:22):
the trains could get they could divert them then the
City of Roads, they could take them down to the
to the to the new bus railway station down you
know where the sow yards used to be there, take
take take a train, take the trains down there. The
City of Roads that can take them down and and
and and take them into the into the railway station

(53:42):
and pick up the pick up the people from there
and bring them into the Flayer trains have got the
right away there through most of the intersections. And and
they I mean they they don't have to put us
some disorvenant price on them, just just for the people
that come up on the on the trains there from

(54:04):
what they will do from from the need and originally
and they've got it. They've got to get from the
railway station things, so bang of them tram trams through
to them. They've got any of old trams they can
use down at Fairy Need.

Speaker 28 (54:19):
Are you ray?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
People aren't happy with the state of glasses. I suppose
you'd call glasses technology. Yes, reading glass and sunglasses with
those tiny screws that come loose. Someone says, there's anybody
plastic labels on pieces of fruit? Why aren't they edible,
nouga or such like? Disappointing technology easy as a toaster
is anyone ever had one that actually gets it right?

(54:42):
There we go? When that's the metaphor? Weever come that?
Now people are talking about we need trams that were
built one hundred and fifty years ago. Steve Marcus welcome.

Speaker 25 (54:55):
Yeah. Recently, I've just been to a trucking wrecking firm
and I purchased a Kneeko oven and jug. It's a
heat exchanger, comes from off a big truck, probably a
Mac and it works off the exhaust manifold. It's a

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heat exchanger. I've got it sitting on the floor behind
the driver's seat and it's sort of The jug part
holds about a pint of water and takes about twenty
minutes to get boiling water. Using a heat exchanger or
the little oven, you can either get a lamb shank

(55:41):
or a very small chicken and it takes about an
hour to cook. You go from Thames to Hamilton and
you've got a cook chook or a lamb shank, a
Nico ne coo and it says or of Penrose. Underneath
it says Auckland, New Zealand. You ever heard of one?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Steve?

Speaker 25 (56:05):
Yep, h where did you go? I went to a
truck wrecking firm in out on the hurrikee planes today today? No, no, no, no, no,
last year. Okay, this is taken a little bit of
the time to get Okay.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
So you did you have an inkling or you just
curious to see what was there?

Speaker 25 (56:24):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's a Christian.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
That's a question.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Were you looking for the specific thing?

Speaker 25 (56:31):
No, it was in his little office, just sitting on
the floor.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
So how did this happen? Did you just were you?
Do you know the guy?

Speaker 6 (56:39):
No?

Speaker 25 (56:41):
Oh no, friend of mine was saying something about they
were wrecking. There was a milk tanker that had a
twisted chassis. It would have written off just curious.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
And then and then so you heard that then you
heard it was being wrecked.

Speaker 25 (56:57):
Yeah, I was just curious as to how they would
go about straightening it out. And in his little office
there was this a little nico.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Did you go around to see the guy to just
see how they're going to fix the fix the milk
tank track?

Speaker 25 (57:13):
Yeah, because God over and twisted the chase, so I
think it probably could get back on the road.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
You didn't know the guy, but was just curious how
you're curious to see how he was straightening up the chase.

Speaker 25 (57:25):
He's going to straighten out his little office.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
Here.

Speaker 25 (57:30):
He's got this nico in e c O. Yep, it
says of of Pinros.

Speaker 7 (57:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
So he's got this oven.

Speaker 25 (57:39):
Auckland, New Zealand. Yeah, little oven and on the top
there's a little coil. It's is sort of like a
like a fir met.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Hang on, hang oni on the top, hang on, hang on, Steve,
And did you say, will you sell that to me?

Speaker 19 (57:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (57:57):
He said, yeah, no, couple how much because mostly your copper,
the copper pipes, the little tubes or copper. Okay, so
there's probably one hundred bucks with the copper there.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Now I'd like to stop and ask you some more questions,
because when don't you say things like manifold and stuff
like that.

Speaker 25 (58:16):
Yeah, it's bolted onto the manifold of my man's to too.
I had to take a bit of the motor apart
to get it to fit.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
So what were they normally in a truck?

Speaker 25 (58:27):
I would no, obviously run off a year, and I
want those big Mac trucks of having a pretty meaty
sort of exhaust manifold on them. That is, it takes
twenty minutes to boil.

Speaker 9 (58:42):
Side of water.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
A manifold's a pipe. It's a pipe in your car
where the water goes around and cools your engine.

Speaker 16 (58:46):
Is that right?

Speaker 25 (58:47):
No, A manifold is a part with the exhaust pipe
runs out the exhaust manifold the hot part.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Okay, so this oven is on top of that.

Speaker 25 (58:58):
No, it's sitting on the floor behind the driver's seat.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
And your car and my car is on top of
the exhaust menifold. No, there's a there's a like a
little reservoir exchange from the exhausted exchange.

Speaker 25 (59:15):
It's full of gly coal to the manifold off that
there's a little copper pipe that goes to a switch.
I've got I can turn it on or off by
the GEI stick a run it under the carpet, through
the firewall, under the carpet out to the behind the

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trover's feet sitting on the floor.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
So if you're driving to Hamilton, you're also cooking a chicken.

Speaker 25 (59:42):
Yeah, I can either cook a small chicken or a
lamb shank. Takes about an hour, and you've got the
munchies by the time I'll get the hamal.

Speaker 19 (59:54):
Why why.

Speaker 25 (59:58):
Oh, I don't know. Well, as I say, it boils
two a better pipe, wo, a little boil and three
minutes you want a cup of tea hot cup of tea?

Speaker 20 (01:00:10):
You have you have?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
You used it to cook a chicken or a lamb shank,
as you've.

Speaker 25 (01:00:14):
Gone to Hamilton done a lamb shank. And I did
a staffed chicken with all the other stage and onion
staffing and all that. Put it in the oven, and
from Thames to Hamilton it wasn't quite cooked, but it
was getting near there. And halfway home we hid the
mounchies made of mine and there we pulled over and

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put the picnic basket out and cleaned up a chicken,
hot chicken.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It sounds like it's a great thing.

Speaker 25 (01:00:45):
Yeah, I think it's pretty old. I don't think. I'm
not sure kneeko. I don't know how when the firm
went out of building. Is it in e CO in
E COO it says and on the label it says
of Henrows and then it's got Auckland, New Zealand under

(01:01:07):
so it must have been an export thing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
No.

Speaker 25 (01:01:10):
Normally, you know, if you're making something in New Zealand,
you don't normally put made in New Zealand sort of
thing that. It just works off the heat heat exchanger.
That's I've worked out how to get it onto the
source manifolds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
It's not in e CEO, it's in ECO e C
mit CO. Okay, I've loved that, everything about that. Twenty
two away from ten Thank you. Nineteen from ten Hello Rob,
this is Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:01:42):
Welcome good anything markets there?

Speaker 15 (01:01:45):
Are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 29 (01:01:48):
I hop A couple of interesting small facts about aviation.
You're quite right, Richard Piers did not achieve control flight.
Our first control flight in New Zealand was achieved one
of the Welsh Brothers and the Door Violet in nineteen
eleven using a Wright Brothers byplane and they flew to

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a height of four hundred meters. And the first flight
of a plane built and designed by a new Zillada was.

Speaker 13 (01:02:22):
By Herbert J. Piffer in the Cargol in nineteen ten.

Speaker 17 (01:02:31):
RITI beach, that's exactly right.

Speaker 13 (01:02:36):
And it was actually the first steel framed aircraft built.

Speaker 20 (01:02:40):
In the world.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
And there was a replica of that made I'm pretty sure,
wasn't there.

Speaker 13 (01:02:48):
Yeah, Middle March.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
I believed Mandeville. I think Mandival is it, yeah, because
I had done a documentary on the Pither plane. But
I thought that they were ahead of the I thought
they were ahead of Welsh Brothers.

Speaker 20 (01:03:13):
They were.

Speaker 13 (01:03:14):
Yeah, the Welsh Brothers flew in nineteen eleven, but it
was on a right byplane.

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:03:20):
And huber Jocus flew in nineteen ten.

Speaker 14 (01:03:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Okay, so he was the first of the country, wasn't
he basically first.

Speaker 13 (01:03:28):
Control flight in the country. And yeah, I noticed that's
family relatives.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
What I was surprised by, having read more about it,
is how unhappy the rest of Richard Pearce's life was, Oh, totally,
he pretty much he pretty much went He pretty much
went mad and modern parlance, but it wasn't good was it.

Speaker 13 (01:03:57):
No, No, he was from Tmucat, I believe, yeah, and
he then lived in christ Church. We actually know someone
that's lived in a house, but he's built in why
only a christ and he's built the whole house without
the use of a tape measure.

Speaker 20 (01:04:22):
Was quite enough?

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Yeah, okay, I thought it. Yeah, okay, good to hear
from you, Rob, Thank you. Seventeen to ten Rory, good evening.

Speaker 30 (01:04:33):
Hi Rory, Hey Mark, I say again, good, thank you.

Speaker 31 (01:04:37):
I just heard your previous caller. I'm just curious about
that because Richard Pearce was nineteen oh three, right, yeah,
whereas the guy you were just talking about before it
was nineteen eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Yeah, it's a lot earlier.

Speaker 31 (01:04:51):
That wasn't what I wanted to talk about. I was
just going to mention how fascinating Timaru was. Did you
mention Colin Munroe, the guy that invented the tranquilizer gun
and the child say Liz for medicine bottles?

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Someone had mentioned that, Yes, oh cool, all right? And
then he was a chemist, is that right?

Speaker 28 (01:05:11):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 31 (01:05:12):
And then there was another chemist that supposedly was famous
for daving Richie Benno's spin bowling career. I think was
called Ivan James, but Richie Beno said that he went
through Timaru and this chemist fixed his hand injury basically.
But yeah, it's just a random useless facts about Timorrow,

(01:05:35):
Like there seems to be a load of talented individuals
that came out of Timorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Was it one of those health remedies invented there as well?

Speaker 31 (01:05:44):
Would be I'm not sure what what remedy it is,
but I know definitely Richie Beno reckoned and this is
his life that it was if it wasn't for this
Timary pharmacist who had never been able to carry on
playing career. And Monroe definitely did the tranquilize again. And
then you've also got the Hamilton Jet from South Canterbury.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
I thought Lane's and most but Lane tomulsion was water.
So that's yeah, a nixt town down are you? Is
it where you are?

Speaker 20 (01:06:11):
Rory?

Speaker 31 (01:06:12):
No, I'm actually calling from Nature. I grew up in
South Canbury.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Proud Town.

Speaker 29 (01:06:17):
Eh, yeah very much.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Fifteen to ten, Thank you, Daniel, This is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:06:26):
How's it going good?

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Thank you?

Speaker 32 (01:06:29):
So I want to talk about this button thing because
I was just thinking you post this question about thirty
minutes ago, and we've gone soft topic. We've talked about
heat transfer whatever that guy's rambling on about.

Speaker 33 (01:06:44):
But h I asked you the question what button would
you press?

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
So I didn't explain it.

Speaker 10 (01:06:52):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Are you familiar with us on the internet?

Speaker 19 (01:06:56):
I lot?

Speaker 33 (01:06:57):
But I think you explained it perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
No, I didn't explain that.

Speaker 11 (01:07:00):
Well, could you re explain it?

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Okay, everyone in the world has to take a private
vote by pressing a button, a red or blue button.
If more than fifty percent of people press the blue button,
everyone survives. If less than fifty percent of people press
the blue button, only people who press the red button survive.

Speaker 32 (01:07:27):
You know, that's what you said the first time.

Speaker 23 (01:07:29):
I reckon, Yeah, you probably.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
I don't have the picture of I go blue.

Speaker 34 (01:07:37):
On anyone that clicks red. I reckon, it's a truck question, psychopathic.
And if you press the red button, you just die,
because that's that's like the most selfish thing a person
can do, is press that red button.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 33 (01:07:56):
Anyway, so now that we've ticked that off.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
The they as they asked check GPT, they didn't handle
it that well. Oh really, what they say, Dan, I
think that I think on GROCK they said, you push
the red button.

Speaker 33 (01:08:12):
Oh well, I mean who was Grock?

Speaker 19 (01:08:14):
That's elon night.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
It explains everything I have.

Speaker 13 (01:08:20):
I have an observation to me.

Speaker 33 (01:08:23):
I've been listening to your show for this car right.
Do you ever watch those videos of like like random
city council, like community consultation things and a question is posed,
like what do you think about this bridge that's going
over here?

Speaker 19 (01:08:42):
And some person will come up and talk about how
they went to this to their hometown school for five
years and then started doing a heat transfer, cooking a roast,
checking on a heat transfer thing for however long?

Speaker 33 (01:09:01):
How many times have you smashed your head into your deck?

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
I was still trying to work my way around the buttons. Daniel,
why would most people push blue? Dan push red? It
says more people wou push red because most people would
push red to guarantee safety for themselves. I'm with Daniel.
Nine to ten evening, Robert, this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
I think I may have the first time called it.
I was just wanting to correct the surname of the gentlemen.
Two voices ago, the name of the tranquil either gun
inventor was called Colin Murdoch.

Speaker 7 (01:09:43):
Murdoch.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
I worked for him in Timorrow as a chemist, and
he was making the guns and modifying them while I
was there, and it's quite a lot. Then I moved on.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Yeah, I appreciate that you coming through and correcting that too, Robert.
So thank you for coming through in such an esteemed
occasion like that and correcting that.

Speaker 14 (01:10:05):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Brilliant Russet Smarck is gleaming.

Speaker 30 (01:10:09):
Yeah, Marcus, I've just heard your comments about Richard Pears.
And I was over in the States about twenty eighteen,
I think it was, and I went to the National
Air and Space Museum and was I think it was
in Washington, and they've got a really really good display
about the Right Brothers and again a big mock up

(01:10:32):
of his aircraft and that sort of stuff. But on
the wall they also acknowledge other early pioneers of flight,
and Richard Pears is one of the people that they mentioned.

Speaker 20 (01:10:44):
Wow.

Speaker 30 (01:10:45):
Yeah, which is really I was fascinated because I was
with an American friend of mine and I was delighted
to see that his name was on the wall there.
I actually took a photo of the little display, but
I'd have to pull out an old camera and find it.
But the intriguing thing was that I think the reason
was the reason that the right brothers got it because
it was a even though it was I think a
year later, was because of the definition that they put

(01:11:07):
into it, which was a controlled flight, and of course
Richard Pearce crashed his aircraft, so by definition it you know,
wasn't really controlled flight because he didn't get it back
to the ground again safely.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
So I think that was the bruce. Was this that
the Smithsonian or where was this an esteem? This is
the Aviation Museums. A fairly serious kind of a deal.

Speaker 22 (01:11:28):
Isn't it.

Speaker 30 (01:11:29):
Oh it's huge, just the National Air and Space Faith
and all that sort of shit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
I'm impressed with that that they've acknowledged him. Were there people?
Were there a large number of people that are acknowledging
or just two or three?

Speaker 30 (01:11:43):
I think there was about three. There was a French
guy obviously the name I don't remember. I'm sure there
was like three. But it was great to see Richard
Pess because it would only been about a year since
I saw his model, you know, the model of an
aircraft replica that's you know, inland from timrou in that
little valley where he you know, supposed where he flew,

(01:12:05):
you'd know about that little place, I.

Speaker 14 (01:12:06):
Suppose, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:12:10):
So it was it was really good to But I
have to say that when you saw the history of
the Right brothers and all of the gliders and everything
that they sort of practiced on before they got their
aircraft off off the ground, their aircraft looked like it
could really fly, whereas going to have to say, Richard
Pearce is one it was pretty rudimentary. I mean, I've
no doubt that it did actually fly. But then it

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was an incredible a feat so so long ago when
there was no information being shared the way it's shared
these days.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
It's it's not the interident you've got. You've got no
idea what anyone else is doing or if it's possible,
And that is an extraordinary leap of faith. Have that
confidence to do that well.

Speaker 30 (01:12:50):
Absolutely, And also he made his own engine. He was
basically a one man band, whereas the Wright brothers had
quite a significant organization behind them because there was the family,
and you know, it was a it was quite a
production going from a whole bunch of you know, getting
more sophisticated than gliders before they before they made that
incredible machine that you know, actually was the given the

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title of the you know, the first powered flight, controlled
powered flight.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
And they were bikes. They're all bike builders in those days,
weren't there it seems to be where you're coming from,
Like Pertha was a bike builder. That guy in on
eat Beach.

Speaker 30 (01:13:24):
So yeah. But and you could see it with all
the rigging and everything in their in their in their
little aircraft. It was incredible plane. But it was great
just to see that that peace was credited in the
National Air and Space Museum in the States.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
Brilliant. I think that means much the Kiwis and city
much to the people of Timudu and Tamuka too.

Speaker 10 (01:13:40):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Oh yeah, mis to eet you welcome. Six past ten
here till twelve. Chris, good evening. It's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:13:48):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:13:51):
Just on the subject of Timaru. I that there are
a lot of people thinking, well, you've actually overlooked probably
the most significant verse in Timaru. That would be a
household name in more New Zealand homes than many others.

Speaker 7 (01:14:05):
And that's.

Speaker 15 (01:14:08):
Yes, fourth of October nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
And I think it's recognized as you drive through it
isn't it. It's got the home of far Lap written there.
I think that's a situation, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:14:20):
Well, there's also Bob Fitzsimmons, who was the first New
Zealand as a holder world heavyweight World Boxing Championship, wasn't
heavyweight And.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
There's a statue of him down there. They're down by
the railway, isn't there.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
Yes, well, it's.

Speaker 15 (01:14:35):
Sort of in the center of town and one of
the corners there donated by the late Bob Jones. But
far Lap was I think you know, if you talked
took a poll around New Zealand homes, it'd be more
people remember far Lap than than any human being. Unfortunately,

(01:14:56):
Now where is far Lap?

Speaker 19 (01:14:57):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
That's an interesting story, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:14:59):
Well?

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
I think his.

Speaker 15 (01:15:01):
Skin is in one of the Australian museums and his
his his skeleton is in might be the Auckland Museum
or so. I mean we shared him with I think.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
I think it has I think his stuffed skins it too, Papa.
I think his the rest of him in Melbourne. I'm
not quite sure where his heart is.

Speaker 15 (01:15:21):
Well, that's probably still into Marou but.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
Very good.

Speaker 15 (01:15:29):
Don't forget the the Americans poisoned him, so yes, and
his earnings through his career actually not as high given
given the profile that he had. He won sixty seven
thousand pounds, which is in today's money is two million dollars.

Speaker 7 (01:15:47):
Well, you know, some of the.

Speaker 15 (01:15:50):
What do they call them Grade one horses today? What
have you have won significantly more than that. So, but
he was just outstanding in his time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Are you a racehorse man, Chris, No, No, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:16:02):
Just sort of you know, you don't forget things like
far Lap, you don't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
By the way, his heart is in the National Museum
of Australia and Canberra.

Speaker 15 (01:16:13):
Well that would be the biggest heart in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Yeah, that would be the biggest heart. And his stuffed
body is at Melbourne Museum and the hide and skeleton
are at Tipapa.

Speaker 15 (01:16:25):
Ah right, Okay, they'll be tucked away there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
I don't I don't know what between a stuffed body
and your hide and scale. I thought the hide and skeleton.
I thought the stuffed body was the hide.

Speaker 7 (01:16:36):
But anyway, they've obviously copied it, so there you are.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
I just wonder if people like they talk about the
best rugby teams of all time if people do try
and work out the best racesources of all time and
where he would fit in or is it too complicated
to do that? But you don't know because you're not
a you'd.

Speaker 15 (01:16:55):
Probably do it on times over a mile, wouldn't you, Yeah,
the entire you know, I wouldn't have a clue where
he stands on times. But but he certainly, I mean
in terms of adoration and what have you. I mean,
you know, he drew a huge crowd to any racecourse
in Australasia that he went to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:14):
He's a life size bronze statue of him at Flemington
and Melbourne. There's also a live size statue of him
at the racecourse there at the Farlap Raceway at Washdyke.
So yeah, it's a good point, Chris, you make. Thank you.
If someone can tell me more about how you could
have someone that the stuffed you have two versions of him,
I don't quite know how that works out any who.

(01:17:36):
Ten past ten, Chris, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 35 (01:17:38):
Welcome, it's another Chris.

Speaker 28 (01:17:41):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Yes? Welcome Chris good, thank you?

Speaker 35 (01:17:44):
Good well well. Talking about being buried, I heard that
Richard Pierce got buried with his cello because he was
a cellist and as far as I know that he
got buried with his well. I had a couple of
Richard Pierre stories. One was the fact that he had
he didn't land, but he took off on his own,

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whereas the right brothers had a ramp that they used
to take off. Yeah, it was far as I know.
The other thing was the writer and I was doing
this song. I had a song about Richard Pearce and
I was playing it down and Geraldine last year and
after the show, we got invited back to the Peers

(01:18:27):
family farm in Hytee by Jeff and Trisha, I think,
the great nephew of Richard, and so we had tea
ands gones overlooking the beautiful belly that the farm looked overlooks.
And Jeff had a few other stories, and one was
that they had a pet chimpanzee that they must have

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come out of a circus, and it used to wander
around the farm smoking a cigar, and everywhere exactly and
everywhere the chimpanzee went, there was a rooster that loved
the chimpanzee and it used to follow it all over
the place. And I'm sort of think that's a pretty
interistic upbringing the Richard have. Of course, I couldn't put

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that in the song because nobody would believe me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
No, what a mad old tom that you'd actually think
of having. I mean, it's a mad step to think
you're gonna have a pit chimps, you think, why not
a teacher to.

Speaker 35 (01:19:23):
So anyway, I thought that was worth sharing with you anyway, And.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Chris just before we go, because I probably spoke disparagingly
about it. But he did was he did he spend
his rest of his life in a hospital after that?

Speaker 28 (01:19:36):
Is that right?

Speaker 35 (01:19:37):
Was he kind of when he ended up in Sunnyside
Hospital lunatic asylum in those days, And it was because
he sort of became quite delusional about everybody stealing his
So this is only as far as I know. And
and yeah, when he when he died, apparently because the

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whole family played instruments. There's a photo of the family
and this pianist and a harpist and and Richard standing.

Speaker 16 (01:20:07):
Here was his.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Okay, so he went paranoid. He was paranoid about things
at the end.

Speaker 35 (01:20:13):
But from from what I know anyway, Yeah, and so
he was in the Sunny Side.

Speaker 14 (01:20:17):
When he died.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Fancy having a chimpanzee. Yeah anyway, yeah, very good, Yeah,
lovely Chris, thank you very very much for that so
under fire Lap and Richard Pearce. It's funny, isn't it.
Well you've got a chimpanzee that can do humorous things.

(01:20:39):
What else are you going to get to do? The rubics?
I mean, what you know, smoke cigar. It's very funny. Julie,
this is Marcus. Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:20:49):
It's me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
He's Julie. Welcome.

Speaker 36 (01:20:51):
Oh very good and thank you. Thank you for having
always very interesting program. I loved the last story that was.
That was hilarious.

Speaker 26 (01:21:00):
Good.

Speaker 36 (01:21:01):
Just imagine a chimpanzee smoking a cigar, a little one
the rooster following it around.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
It was probably wearing I could sort of picture it
wearing a tuxedo or something, as they dressed up animals
in those days, no doubt.

Speaker 36 (01:21:12):
Oh goodness me, yes, now, Farlap.

Speaker 34 (01:21:15):
I saw him.

Speaker 36 (01:21:17):
His skin was in the Melbourne Museum and he was
his coat is in such impeccable order you could expect
him just to walk out of the big glass case
that he was in. That's where I saw him and
that's quite a few years ago. His skeleton was in
the Wellington Museum for many years, and I did belong

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to the racing conference for some time, but I know
that they had a special dinner at the Overseas Terminal
and they decided to shift far Laps skeleton as it
was then to the to the Overseas Terminal and they
put it in a horse flade. Imagine wandering along behind

(01:22:04):
that float and thinking, my god, that horse has treen.

Speaker 27 (01:22:08):
In there a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Wow.

Speaker 36 (01:22:11):
So that's where he was, but he wasn't poisoned by
the Americans. The book I've got says there was a
number of factors that led to the horse's death. Mostly
it was colic, but he had oats were shipped to
him from from New Zealand, and it probably was a
little bit fund decided by the time it got there.

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He was put in a paddock near an orchard, and
they think that the fruit trees might have been sprayed,
but they did.

Speaker 25 (01:22:44):
There was no in those days.

Speaker 36 (01:22:48):
There was no absolute one hundred percent poisoning of the
horse as as such, but there was always a series
that the Americans didn't like him and they poison him.
But it's never been really one hundred percent of course
many years ago. Now there's no evidence, but yeah, what

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a what a jolly shame.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
I mentioned there's some story about race fixing in the mafia,
would there be? Is that what the motivation was?

Speaker 36 (01:23:18):
Well, yeah it could have been. It could have been that,
but not the footage of the race can be seen,
but yeah it was. I've got the book is on
his whole life story.

Speaker 25 (01:23:35):
And then there's the movie, of course, which was started.

Speaker 36 (01:23:38):
Rather dramatically of the horse dying and then it got
into the movie. But just one of New Zealand's iconic
items that have gone over to Australia. And yeah, tim
Aroo I think was very was born. So yeah, thank
you very much for whoever.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Yeah, that's good information too, Jenny, thank you. He's a
dear friend of mine called Killie. Maury wrote a book
called Daylight Second, which is a fictionalized again which I
haven't read. I should have. She died last year too,
tragically too, but that was one. She's got a new
book coming up posthumously.

Speaker 7 (01:24:14):
But her.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Her book was raved about and it's a novel form
of the story. It's called Daylight Second from Kelly Anna
Maury if you want to read that well received, I
must read that. So I don't know how we happen
to get the I don't know how it happens to
be the skeleton because it's just the skeleton of to Papa.

(01:24:37):
I think it might just be the skeleton that's to Papa.
So yeah, but its heart is at the Nationalistit of
anatomy in Canberra, extremely large and farlapp is Farlap is
a Thai word from Thailand meaning lightning. You might have

(01:24:59):
known that maybe it should go on the quiz. It's
pretty interesting. Hittel twelve of you talk, eighteen past ten, Helen,
good evening, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 24 (01:25:09):
Yeah, hi, technology, that's not very good. I've been trying
for the last two days, maybe three days to get
a connection to my cell phone, and tonight I get
this connection. There's no logic to it. Nowhere you can
actually ring to complain what happened tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Did you say?

Speaker 24 (01:25:29):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
What did you say? Tonight? Happened?

Speaker 24 (01:25:32):
I managed to get a connection, and you know, you
can't say that there's a tree in the way otherwise,
you know, why why do I go for all this
time not be able to get a connection. Then you
can get a connection and there's no logic to it.
And the weather's been beautiful, clear days, so it's really disappointing.

(01:25:55):
If I drive two kilometers down the road, I can
get a connection there or up the road a bit.
You know, this is here. We are, you know, two
thousand and two six with this technology that's really essential.

Speaker 21 (01:26:11):
To to help Helen.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
You need a landline.

Speaker 24 (01:26:14):
I have got a landline. I'm ringing you on that now,
the lord, this is why.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
I have a land Why have you got a cell
phone if you're in a dodgy area.

Speaker 24 (01:26:23):
Because the cell phone's very convenient, as you know, cell
phones are very convenient.

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
Well not if it doesn't work.

Speaker 24 (01:26:29):
Well, you know, I do get text messages and things
on it, you know, to confirm appointments. But you know
this is this technology is you know here we are
well into this technology, and it's it's so unsatisfactory. Anyway,

(01:26:50):
that's my gripe, you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Know, please you gripe that, the happy griping Helen, thank
you for that. I'm stuck on Stephen with his oven.
Fancy cooking your chicken as you drive, and then fancy
getting the munch He's having to does sound hysteric so
much that he should be. That guy's a lot moreing
a lot of the social media influences. He should be
doing that with his oven. I more than Jay Mango

(01:27:13):
over that guy. As it's going all around the country.
I think all libraries and usuers you have two deep
cycle batteries. A solar panel of starlink for when there's
a rather emergency would cost this in five thousand and
one year to keep going. Thank you. In twenty ten,
there was a reunion of Far Lapse Remains in Melbourne
to celebrate the horse's ninetieth birthday. The horse didn't end
up traveling because it was the heart didn't end up

(01:27:33):
traveling because it was too fragile. Yes, quite the horse,
the wonder Horse. Queensland leading six nell, state of origin,
forty seconds left in the first half. Queensland scored early
full house it McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle. I don't know

(01:27:55):
what price petrol's doing. That's going up and down.

Speaker 19 (01:27:59):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
But get in touch if you on to twenty five
past ten, get in touch if you want to be
a part of it. Ah, what was I going to say?
Where was I I was going oh yeah. With commuting
times getting longer and longer and people spending longer in
their cars, how useful do you think a car oven

(01:28:22):
would be? Because I reckon it'll be real useful. I'm
planning to go away this weekend with one of the kids,
maybe before rugby starts, and yeah, it'd been quite fun.
When you go camping to get the road the chicken
cooked as you arrive, which speaks the question. Apart from
truck drivers or maybe even truck drivers, have any of

(01:28:44):
you got a car oven because you know where you'd
buy them? Ay Tibu, I'm sure the Chinese are into
car ovens. But I like the fact that it goes
on your manifold. That's the beauty of it. I think
if it's not on your manifolder, it's just something you
plug into your cigarette lighter. It's not the same. That's

(01:29:06):
I take on that. But do come through if you
want to talk Hentil twelve o'clock tonight, if there's something
else you want to mention. Oh yeah, people are mentioning
the oil has surged, but I think it's the price
is down. The speaker of Iran's parliament said, one forty
dollars is the next stop. So yep, it's looking like

(01:29:27):
it's going to be a tricky second half to twenty
twenty six. And how can you plan not knowing if
there's going to be any petrol? And I see that
in US in and what's their bill for Their bill
for fuel has got up? Eight million a week, four
hundred million a year?

Speaker 15 (01:29:44):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Seems like a lot, doesn't it? Get in touch if
you want to talk Marcus. I went to the Smithsonian
National Air and Space VIUSIC in Washington. The Right brothers
made eleven hundred flights with a right flour at Kitty
Hawk before the medium took any real notice of what
they were doing. You think it would have gone viral.
And yes, there is still the hill in the outer banks.
Rights rolled down before we took off in the area

(01:30:09):
where land it is marked out. I have photos of
the kids with far lap. Wow, the real horse or
the stuffed horse? More about that that would be of
interest to me. People, free cold down south tonight. We're
going down to two degrees. Can't wait love a cold night.
We are talking about the piece of technology that you

(01:30:29):
find the most disappointing, Like, where are we still with
kettles that are slow and toasters that aren't good. We're
also celebrating Timodou that now calling it the rivera of
the South. I think it's had a I think it's
had a tough time. I think all the places, some
of the places, a lot of the places perhaps further
north of that have actually grown like this Noga out.

(01:30:50):
I think Timodou seems to have stagnated a bit. I
don't know if that's the case, but that's probably why
the jobs are not the jobs. The houses are affordable.
So but we are celebrating so many great people that
have come from there. So that's something that we are
talking about. Far Lapp and the boxer, Fitzsimmons and the

(01:31:12):
guy that invented the dart, all that and more. Kevin Smith,
of course he was from there, the actor and musician. Gosh,
he was young when he died. Wasn't he twenty nine?
If I got that right, I think I might have.
I know that sorry has thirty eight when he died.

(01:31:34):
Those and also who's the other comedian from there? It
will come to me, but get in touch if you
want to talk. Twenty out the way from eleven o'clock, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ninety detect. If you want to
talk about this or anything else tonight, you might have
another go around Oil Josh Thompson. I think he's team
to do as well. So yeah, that's the plans stand.

(01:31:58):
I've enjoyed tonight. If people have been very good with
your calls as of an hour ago, Oil is one,
twin three or barrel? Well, I'll tell you why I'm
finding mixed details about that. Margie's most informations. I thought, yeah,
Billet's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:32:14):
So I just turned on when the lady was talking
to you about far Lap And you know how it
mysteriously died, you know, in America when it was traveling
from one destination to another to have another race in
New Zealand. For years New Zealand, as being so romantic, etc.

(01:32:35):
As far as history are concerned, always were led to
believe that he was poisoned by the mafia or whatever.
But the true story was that the driver there was
either his part owner and trainer Telford the or the
foreman and a strapper who stopped the cars somewhere in

(01:32:59):
the country just for a release stop, I suppose, and
took far Lap over to the field, you know too
feel to.

Speaker 25 (01:33:08):
Just sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:33:09):
Relax, and anyway, it's believed that it was actually the
land had been sprayed with some something anyway, and he
ate the grass there and he later died that night

(01:33:30):
from something else. But for years and years the papers
went crazy, you know, about another New Zealander sort of
dying early in America, because they'd had boxes and other
people who had gone to America when they were young
and unfortunately sort of died of this disease or another.

(01:33:54):
I actually spent a lot of time studying phar Lamp
and my father went to the Melbourne cover nineteen thirty.
I think he took with him one of our best
jockey's Bill Broughton, and someone else to see Farloe, and

(01:34:14):
the years until he died, he just couldn't stop talking
about him. He said parlat was the best horse he
had ever seen, and Kindergarten in the forties second best,
and main Brace nineteen fifty third best. But the jockeys,
we used to have a lot of visits from jockey's
stab racing when I was living in Newtown in the

(01:34:37):
nineteen fifties, when I was a kid, and they all
said that there was nothing better, no one better than him.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Well, how long did he race the New Zealand four
before he went to Australia? And how long was he
there before he went to America? Just give us a
quick summation as we are talking about him.

Speaker 3 (01:34:52):
Right, he did. He didn't race here, He.

Speaker 21 (01:34:57):
Never raced here, but he track trialed here.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
And they knew then he was sensation, all right, Yeah,
he knew.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
He did Quarantine Hill on the way to America from
Sydney and they all the politicians primanently there's a famous
photograph of all the politicians lined up with them at
the on the wharf in Wellington, you know, to get
their photographs taken for So.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
His first grace was in Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
Yeah, in Australia. Now, I actually appeared on television some
years ago as a farther expert, etc. Talking about him.
I was doing this on behalf of the racing clubs.
And because there was a move to have his skeleton
taken from te parper and put somewhere else because it

(01:35:53):
was felt, you know, people weren't interested in them. Well,
for God's sake, you know, when he was in the
Old Dominion Museum, in the front door. He was the
first and most famous exhibit in the Dominion Museum and
willing you know, until it moved to Ti Parper. He
was the greatest, well you put him down as a sportsman,

(01:36:14):
the greatest sort of sports idol that New Zealand's ever had.
And in Australia today they still compare their horses with
far Lap.

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Sorry I just need to get but did he race
in America?

Speaker 3 (01:36:30):
He raced once against the best horse in America at
Santa Ina, just across the border, you know, in Mexico,
and he famous racing harband. Any Way, he beat them easily.
He had a huge stride in things like that. But
the incredible thing about him is that he nearly went

(01:36:54):
to a Willington buyer called mister Riddifford, a well known
pastoralist and businessman who but he was beaten at the auction.
You mentioned the heart. Now a few years ago a
friend of mine, Jerry Morris, it was in charge of
promoting a New Zealand the far Lapp I think it

(01:37:16):
was two thousand and five or something, and he arranged
for the heart to be brought across from Canberra to
Wellington for the thing they ensured the heart for twenty
million dollars. That's what the Australians wanted and unfortunately the

(01:37:36):
Airways at the last moment couldn't guarantee that the heart
wouldn't fall apart, you know in the air at structure.
So definition of a few things now they wanted to.

(01:37:57):
As I said, I went on TV at this time
and earlier on I'd been on the front page of
the Evening Post in Wellington. They called me in Melbourne
racing enthusiast when I complained about Farlapp being taken down
and put in a put in storage under Taranaki Street,
you know, from the old museum, and it sort of

(01:38:18):
made national news when Sir Peter Gosh Hogan Patrick Cogan
arranged for him to or paid for him to go
to the Willington Racing Club, you know, to be as
an exhibit. And then he came back to Willington you
know for Ti Parper. But John Howard and I finished

(01:38:39):
with this. John Howard told he was with John Howard
was with Helen Clark and Willington when the great cricketer
Don Bradman died, you know, early this century, and he
told her that John Howard told Helen Clark that Australia
is Kingsford, Smith, Don, Bradman and Farlap.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Well, just that's what I'm interested in. When Farlotte went
to America, had it moved there? Was it going to
race there permanently or was it just having a few
meets and then coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
So we take only taken for a few races, three
or four races there, and it's going to come back
to Australia again.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Okay. Is the footage of that foot Is the footage
of that race in Tijuana?

Speaker 7 (01:39:28):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
There is in black and white. Yes, I'd like to
look at that. It comes up and you can probably
go to the New Zealand Racing Conference to try and
arrange to see it.

Speaker 16 (01:39:44):
I'll google.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Well, thank you so much for having to run for commercials,
but for god. Twenty twleven, eighteen minutes from eleven o'clock. Welcome,
good evening. My name is Marcus. I hope it's good
where you are and if you want to be in touch,
that's the plans stand eight hundred eighty eighty and nine text.

(01:40:05):
We started talking about technology that we end u talking
about Timido as well, but you could talk about any
of this stuff. Ah other notable South Cabrian's Richard Taylor
he was the runner, is the runner, Dick Taylor, Michael Houston,
he's the penist. Jordan Luck, he's the musician. Norman Kirk

(01:40:27):
our great leader from Waymatty. Someone said around Supreme Leader
has just released an interesting statement. I shall look at
that and I'll see how interesting that is. But thank
you for the heads up on that one. And thanks
to Google News Search, I should be able to find

(01:40:47):
what that was. I can't see what that particular latest
thing is, so you might have some use that I
haven't got, but I'll keep searching one two six a barrel.
I can't see anything from the Leader, and I'll keep
searching for that sixteen to eleven evening, Paul, this is Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
Welcome m H gooday markets.

Speaker 14 (01:41:08):
How are you mate, I'm good, Thank you, Paul, excellent.
I wanted to touch on a couple of things that
you mentioned when you're on the other night, and one
of them was the home brewing thing, which technologies advanced
significantly and it's a good thing to get into and

(01:41:29):
save a lot of money. Good hobby.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
Would you say the technology? Are you still talking about
buying those kits at the supermarket or going full noise.

Speaker 14 (01:41:39):
Well, I mean, you know, prices varies obviously, and I
don't think i'll buy one from necessarily from the supermarket.
I think there's still potentially a couple of brewing shops
still around, yeah, because you can buy like flavoring and
stuff for you know, turning your vodka for example, into

(01:42:02):
bird so forth.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
So as when you're talking about home brewing up talking
about just about be it talk about alcohol as well
with stills and things.

Speaker 7 (01:42:11):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 14 (01:42:13):
Getting well, the sediment in the bottom, you can you
can get stuff now where you don't.

Speaker 21 (01:42:20):
End up with that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
With a machine or a chemical.

Speaker 14 (01:42:26):
No, everything's done pretty much the way that it used
to be, but the I think the product has sort
of advanced somewhat. It's still natural, but you don't end
up with with a lot of horrid sediment as you
used to back.

Speaker 7 (01:42:44):
In the day.

Speaker 14 (01:42:46):
You can end up with a really clean, uh really
fresh crisp beer for example, with no sediment.

Speaker 7 (01:42:54):
What's the weather?

Speaker 14 (01:42:55):
So yeah, and you we're talking about Anzac Day and
every year, you know, around that weekend, either watch a
documentary you were, an old war movie or something and
I come across a docco about a New Zealand guy
pertains to World War Two, Sydney Ross.

Speaker 5 (01:43:18):
Have you ever heard of him?

Speaker 7 (01:43:19):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:43:20):
Okay, he got out of prison. He's a con man
and he got out of prison. I think it was
in nineteen forty two, and he came up with a
coln and he got an audience was the Prime Minister
at that time, and convinced the Prime Minister and also
the Security Intelligence Bureau that he had been approached by

(01:43:44):
potential Nazi spies. And it correlated right at a time
when Australia was having issues with the Darwin bombing and
there was rumors pertaining to Nazi agents getting around. So
he went the whole hole with this thing and suck

(01:44:07):
the military and the government, had quite a lot of
money and a car and went on this unhinged colm
and I thought thought it was a good story.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
I've never heard of that. There was a documentary. I
understand you made it too, a documentary or or a podcast.

Speaker 14 (01:44:27):
No, a documentary. It was well kind of these two
things I found. One was the doc the other one
was a movie in his zone made movie about this guy,
and I like, I thought it was sort of a
bit of humor, like tongue in cheek, but it actually
did happen.

Speaker 20 (01:44:45):
It was.

Speaker 14 (01:44:47):
Basically called the Great World War two Northland Hoax, and
he had everyone convinced that Nazi spies were were trapsing
all around the North Island and they just about went
to Marshal War. It wasn't called that. There was another
name that he has some heads willed over that. It

(01:45:10):
was quite incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:45:13):
I'm seeing something on the US on screen websites it
called spies and Lies.

Speaker 27 (01:45:17):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (01:45:19):
I think so.

Speaker 14 (01:45:20):
Anthony Starr played in the lead in the movie. That
they had another documentary on YouTube and.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
Linel Muffin's John Lee's on it as well. Looks good.

Speaker 14 (01:45:30):
Yeah, yeah, but it just really blew me away that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
He was in prison with his mate and Waikera and
they dreamed up the scheme and what was the actual scheme.

Speaker 14 (01:45:40):
Basically, he went to the he wrung up a quite
a high up minister and then got an audience with
the Prime Minister at that time and basically said that
he had been approached at a small train station in
northern somewhere by a German spy and he had managed

(01:46:04):
to infiltrate this ring, and he wanted to do his
you know, it's beast for King and country and basically
annihilate this the spy ring by working with the Security
Intelligence Bureau and so forth. And they believed and took
him seriously, gave him a heap of cash a car.

(01:46:29):
They also gave him a false identity and had him
in a uniform as a captain in the Merchant Navy.
And this went on for a few months anyway, and
he got found out in the end. I sort of
got covered over because you know, it was quite serious.

(01:46:49):
Some heads rolled, particularly in the hierarchy with the Security
Intelligence Bureau on that, and I don't think the government
want the embarrassment. Yeah, pretty crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
Died of TB at thirty seven.

Speaker 14 (01:47:07):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
Was a bit said, really sad.

Speaker 14 (01:47:11):
Yeah, and I wanted to also say I missed the
old Nightline days.

Speaker 7 (01:47:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Good yeah, good on you, Paul. Nice to hear from you.
Thank you for that turn away from eleven o'clock. State
of Origin six all twenty three minutes left in that one,
nine away from eleven, when we hit a text from someone,
When will technology find a better way to toever expressive
expensive assets. Rather the feeble way. We tow trailers with

(01:47:40):
a collar clip hooked to a short chain onto a towball.
And why anyone with the drivers as can tow a
trainer without training practice or a special permit tag. Get
in touch if you want.

Speaker 7 (01:47:54):
To mention that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
I don't know what you'd say. Oh, eight hundred and eighty, Yeah,
that's called trailer technology, but yes it is. How are
you going? People far away from eleven o'clock head on midnight?
Right through? It's been a good hour. Actually, Oh wait,
one hundred eighty, ten eighty, get in touch you on
a talk? Oh, let me think what else I've got

(01:48:22):
to do for the next hour? People? Let me think? Oh,
someone said that the Iranian leader had made an interesting speech.
I can't find that anywhere. It's certainly not been reported.
And I'm just cautious that there might be people that,
when the markets are finally trickled to what's happened, they've

(01:48:43):
been spooked. Guesses up to one, two six, and I
can't see that going down anytime soon. I don't know
how you feel about that.

Speaker 7 (01:48:51):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
I see someone's already booking their holiday on the INTERRL
and ferry and that's much much more expensive now. But
there's that mark. Is something else that needs to be
technologically overhoored and more universal. Are car seats for kids.
They should be bolted into the car like in some
Australian states. Are there. I mean, gosh, the the best
reason I have children would be because they're fairing around

(01:49:14):
with car seats. They're a disaster. Terrible good evening, vow,
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 37 (01:49:20):
Yeah, hi Marcus. I just wanted to talk about the
motorbikes that go round the roundabout. And I mean I've
been living in this place for thirteen years and never
once seen a motorbike come around there. It just seemed
to whisk around in anyway. I hadn't seen it, and
I went out and well, I'd better hurry up and

(01:49:40):
get through because I can't stop. There might be someone
behind me. And then I'm getting a warning for doing that.
And I think these motorbikes as the black and they're
going to zoom up quickly. They need to have a
viz on them, those bright colored jackets.

Speaker 16 (01:49:55):
What do you vow?

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
There's a lot of details missing from your story. Did
you get a traffic fighter?

Speaker 37 (01:50:00):
No, I didn't get a fine. I got a warning.
I'm quite old and I got a warning. So and
they wanted to talk to me explain that when I
go into the roundabout, I have to sort of be
prepared to stop. Well, I didn't actually see the bike
because it was black and it seemed to be quite
close to the outside of the edge. So when I
actually saw him, it was clear before you know, and

(01:50:22):
I just thought, well, I'll go and the next thing
he's suddenly there.

Speaker 6 (01:50:25):
So that was okay.

Speaker 37 (01:50:26):
The policeman was very nice about everything, and did he check.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Your license, check your site? Make you blow on the day?

Speaker 37 (01:50:33):
Only second time my whole life I've been visualized. He
was nice about it. Apparently they have to and they
have to. Yeah, no, I was bit of a shock, really,
but you had you been drinking? No, it was the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
Okay, sorry? If me to ask Cherylotte's Marcus, good evening, Good.

Speaker 28 (01:50:53):
Evening, Marcus. I've been listening about far lad yep, and
I would like to know who was the starion and
mayor that he was bred from and how did he
get's name?

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
Yeah, okay, I don't know the answer that I could
tell you who I could tell you who is bred from? Right,
You're not going to know that. It was in nineteen
twenty six he was born. Yes, Yes, sire was night Raide,
right and the dame was Entreaty. Night Raide was from
Great night Grade was from Great Britain, right and what.

Speaker 28 (01:51:30):
Was the may's name?

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
Entreaty.

Speaker 28 (01:51:33):
It's an unusual name.

Speaker 23 (01:51:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:35):
She was signed by Winkie and prayer Wheel.

Speaker 28 (01:51:39):
Oh, well that's I've known about Silah. I'm in my
eighties and I've never heard who the sire and them with?

Speaker 19 (01:51:51):
Have you?

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
Do you know many horses from that era?

Speaker 28 (01:51:55):
No, not really, I can tell you all.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
I can tell you all. The grandparents were Doncaster, Rouge Rose,
Donovan Aira Carbine. Well that's a famous horse.

Speaker 28 (01:52:04):
You know Carbine No a New Zealand horses.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Oh, Carbine is a very famous horse.

Speaker 28 (01:52:10):
Never heard of them?

Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
Right, Oh, you must know about Carbine. Carbine was at
Sylvia Park. You know it's a more It used to
be a stud.

Speaker 25 (01:52:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
I didn't realize there was a connection between Carbine and
far lap Hi. Hey, Carbine Carbine one raised forty three
times in one thirty three?

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
Right?

Speaker 28 (01:52:32):
And Parlat I'm golded y.

Speaker 23 (01:52:41):
That's a good one.

Speaker 37 (01:52:42):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
I'll google that.

Speaker 28 (01:52:45):
You'll google that. Like I haven't got the Intonesia or
anything like that, so I can't do things. So that's
what I thought I'd ring is Farling.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
Was a gelding. Right, thank you, my pleasure. We're about toky.
We're about to you, Chryl.

Speaker 28 (01:53:02):
I'm a new plumber.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Best place in the world. Nice to talk. Thank you, Roberts, Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:53:08):
How are you, Marcus?

Speaker 2 (01:53:09):
Pretty good? Thank you?

Speaker 17 (01:53:10):
Rob good good. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:53:12):
I think that night Raid his sire had only a
few starts in Sydney, and I think he did win
one race and then he came out here and yeah,
he served that mayor.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
So Rob, I'm just going to jump in here because
you know more than me. Night Raide it says Great Britain.
Would it have bring me here all the way from
Great Britain?

Speaker 7 (01:53:39):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Really?

Speaker 11 (01:53:41):
Yeah to Australia. Yes. Well, well, because it was very
colonial Australia, so yeah, yea. And horse racing was very
big in those early days. It was huge in Australia,
and I think it didn't show much here, but I
think it won one race and then it was bought

(01:54:01):
yeh by the studmaster and timru.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
So horses would come by ship which would take six
months for the purpose for the purpose of breeding.

Speaker 11 (01:54:12):
Yes, and racing. But I remember distinctively reading about Far
Left when when he traveled from New Zealand bought whatever
he was bought for a hundred guineas and traveled to Australia.
He was in terrible condition. He was in shocking yeah, yeah,
just yeh.

Speaker 2 (01:54:32):
He looked awful and he didn't He didn't do every
well in his first year either.

Speaker 11 (01:54:37):
Well, no, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
He got fourth, eighth, fourth, second. Then he started winning.

Speaker 11 (01:54:42):
Yeah, and then he started winning and he just became
a champion yere And in those days they went from
a maiden class and they rose quite quickly through the ranks.
But interestingly, Marcus I traveled through Timaru one day I
stopped in a tub there and it had a picture
of Far Left on the wall, and there was this

(01:55:04):
lady sitting at the bar there, and I said, well,
you know, even though far Leap is a famous horse,
from here to Maru, there was another horse that was
quite famous, and it was a washed Ike.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
Wonder okay, gray Way, what time were we talking about?
Gray Way?

Speaker 11 (01:55:22):
Seventies and I think he had about one hundred and
fifty four well one hundreds could have been one hundred
and sixty starts, and he won fifty four races. He
was he was a real champion. But I'm just on
my way home, Marcus. Look, I sponsored a race tonight,
a trotting race. Now that the money were two harless meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Yeah, how'd that go tonight?

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:55:46):
It was?

Speaker 7 (01:55:46):
It was.

Speaker 11 (01:55:46):
It was the last meeting of the season. They had
seventeen meetings over the whole season, and it was the
last big night tonight. And yeah, my business sponsored one
of the races.

Speaker 2 (01:55:59):
And you know, do you know much about do you know?
You know a lot about horse racing?

Speaker 11 (01:56:04):
Well, look, i'd have to say I don't know a lot, Marcus.
I've had an interest, you know, more than me.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
So a horse like Farlap, right, Yes, I thought the
way handicapping worked, they'd be carrying Farlatt would be carrying
more and more weight the whole time. How would it
manage to win every race?

Speaker 11 (01:56:23):
Well on cheer ability, because not not it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
Must have been good, but it must have been continually
improving to outflank the handicappers.

Speaker 11 (01:56:33):
Well, well, he was a champion of that era. And
there were other great horses at that time, you know
there weren't you know, there weren't mugs racing. And he
he performed above expectations. He had a giant heart, magnificent animal.

(01:56:55):
But they raced them into the ground a lot there.
He was always heavily bandaged, and that the train, the
trainer didn't have a great reputation for looking at the horse.
I think it was a mister Telford, Harry Telford, was it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:11):
I see the strapper?

Speaker 11 (01:57:12):
Yeah, yeah, and owned by a businessman. Mister Davis owned
the horse, yea. And they race race the guts out
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Is there any is there any reason that there would
not be another race horse that would cover along, that
would dominate racing like Farlire? Is that something that.

Speaker 11 (01:57:32):
Look yeah, look at I really don't think you can
you can compare errors that were quite different track conditions,
were quite different preparations, training methods. It's very hard to to, yeah,
to measure horses from different eras. I mean, you've got

(01:57:54):
you've got great horses racing in this era. Winks Black
Cavier and there's a horse spread very close to where
I live in Martin and it's rated as the highest
rated horse from the world and that's the horse called
Kiang Rising. And it was it was bred here in
New Zealand and sold after one trial here in New Zealand.

(01:58:18):
It was sold to Hong Kong clients. And it's the
champion horse of the world. Now, yes, now it was bred.
It was bred by a trainer and his wife and Martin.
I think his name was Fraser All Rhett and And
if you look up Kyang Rising, he's the world's highest

(01:58:38):
ever rated horse sprinter. Wow, he wins everything. He's come
down to Australia, beaten the best there. He's unbeaten. I
think he's on a twenty twenty wind stretch.

Speaker 7 (01:58:50):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
I'm checking everything you said Wikipedia. You're spot on with
a lot of it.

Speaker 11 (01:58:54):
Yes. Look look I'm not an expert on the racing,
but I've had an interest ince I was a young man.

Speaker 14 (01:59:01):
Good on you.

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
It's been very interesting to talk Rob. I appreciate that
to go to the races at least two it's I
got out at Riverton, Yeah, went back with more money
than I arrived with. And that's always an interesting day.
I bought something to what I buy it was the
white bad fritter. I can't remember, Kathy. It's Marcus, good evening, good,

(01:59:23):
thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
Kathy's about horses, right. My late son used to drive
crosses for I and Purdin. Then the wind as my
oldest daughter went with horses and the cousin drove out
of out and you're doing about I don't know whether

(01:59:47):
you remember a horse called bone Crusher.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
Yes, Man of War no sea biscuit, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:59:58):
Yes, I followed the horses with my kids, so I
thought that would that would be a little.

Speaker 14 (02:00:04):
Bit of news for very good.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
Thank you, Kathy. You read a very good book about seabisct.
It was a good read, very much of it. Now
what a horse, Darren, Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (02:00:19):
Hey straight away.

Speaker 2 (02:00:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, well you know we'll get you straight
on here the heavy.

Speaker 12 (02:00:24):
Hitters, I file it mate, exactly. I've been there and
seen that statue. It's in the middle of nowhere. Really
it's just to pat it and you wouldn't believe it. See,
but it's quite cool. But anyway, I went to Tipperary
racist with a kind of old boys and ahead this
big a lot, half a wall of filet. This is

(02:00:48):
massive frame of does fire at there, and he ended
up winning something like two hundred and sixty or two
hundred and eighty thousand pounds back then. And I said
to the offer, I said a lot in. One of
the old boys said, you could have bought to mentioned
for three thousand Paan Batman.

Speaker 16 (02:01:07):
So ended up.

Speaker 12 (02:01:10):
That's incredible three per pounds for a mentioned mcmen. So
that's how good he was.

Speaker 2 (02:01:19):
What's your hometown Cross?

Speaker 19 (02:01:22):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (02:01:22):
Yeah, what do you think?

Speaker 7 (02:01:24):
What do you think?

Speaker 16 (02:01:25):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (02:01:26):
The name of the barber is, what do you think?
The name of the hair stylist is on Farlep Road.
It's called far It's called far Out Cuts spelled p
h a R, which is quite good.

Speaker 12 (02:01:40):
I thought, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:01:45):
How's the sky, how's your sky going?

Speaker 12 (02:01:48):
Well, I've had Sheers Trout, a famous guy for over
forty years.

Speaker 11 (02:01:54):
Forty over forty Well, I brought it for my family.

Speaker 12 (02:01:59):
Well, my mom and dad with a fuse came here,
so obviously be poud for it him since but I've
got their new route at the end of day, because
I'm you're not mercury and I'm fifty bucks, are going
to give it to me for fifty backs a month.
Or two years blah blah, bah blah. So I've got
the new router, and you five minutes to see that,
you'll be good. I'm fourteen days in and my WiFi

(02:02:22):
is still too duf and I can't watch anythink I
can't use my phone in the fourteen days of talking
to these people if they still haven't got it working
for hopeless and that. And then remote control, like you
said that, if they've got a son, don't use it
remote control, use your little finger.

Speaker 16 (02:02:42):
It's till I'm hearing.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
It, darre not to talk, Richie Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (02:02:48):
Hi, good, isn't it. I'm so fortunate to grow up
in the horse in the street. What are excited? What
lovely people?

Speaker 28 (02:02:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
Good, be passionate.

Speaker 7 (02:03:01):
Just there, that's a great word. That's him. Wonderful people
who so many of them, wonderful ones that had passed on,
And that's that's marvelous.

Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
Don't disagree.

Speaker 7 (02:03:12):
I mean I grew up in yeldest and the pub
was always, as they called it, the Legion out West
or something. But a lot, a lot of a lot
of a lot of horse people drink themselves into early grades.
There's a lot of people have.

Speaker 2 (02:03:26):
Why is that why a horse people like to drink? Well,
you know we're thirsty.

Speaker 7 (02:03:35):
That's a good idea. Yeah. Now the I think times
it changed, but now haven't they.

Speaker 2 (02:03:41):
I don't know that pretty rank. When I went at
the Riverton of the young people getting onto it, I thought, yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:03:46):
Thing to be a place I stopped drinking.

Speaker 2 (02:03:49):
Have you when you what time you start on?

Speaker 7 (02:03:51):
Fifty eight fifty eight? So I stopped at fifty ja,
I stopped horses. But I say, fortunately I was twelve
years old and didn't go to school that day. It
was a listen to Saturday and I got to leave
Blue Sage where mister Joe Kacker Williams Kecker Williams got

(02:04:13):
to leave Blue Sage into the Bank's Palinsula Cup and
she won paid like sixteen dollars, and there was so
marvelous with Jay bringing back to scale and he goes,
I'm taking her own next week because it was the
New Zealand Cup, and she finished third from him the
cup page seven bucks a third who won so desper

(02:04:38):
petty viver such and brought down desper and of all
places for him to stay, he stayed at Kacker Williams place.
He stayed at Joe Williams place. He brought both it
less down. She won all three days of the wreck
of the meeting.

Speaker 2 (02:04:52):
Do your memory your memories good, Richie.

Speaker 7 (02:04:54):
Oh well, I got brought up in the best industry
at twelve. Other other kids were doing paper runs before fifteen.
I'll tell you who.

Speaker 14 (02:05:02):
Were much you talk?

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
Thank you? Twelve two to twelve. Very cold night. Tonight
be a very clear, beautiful day in the south tomorrow.
If you're visiting tomorrow, you are going to be blessed
with tremendous weather. It's gonna be one of those autumnal days,
which is good because I've got a lot to do
with my real work, so I'll report back on that.

(02:05:26):
I'm looking forward to that. What is the temperature? Oh yes,
you're gonna be a cracker of a day. Two degrees
at seven am with the second frost of the year.
But more important, if you want to talk on here tonight,
that's oh we've got someone there.

Speaker 21 (02:05:43):
I'll go.

Speaker 2 (02:05:43):
This guy could be good for ten minutes, amish.

Speaker 9 (02:05:49):
I don't know if I can do ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:05:52):
Oh well, I reckon the way. You've got an interesting mind,
I reckon. Oh cheers, Old tangent tim.

Speaker 9 (02:06:00):
Yeah, I just wanted to keep on the same topic though.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
Oh god, oh you do that too, that's even better.

Speaker 9 (02:06:07):
No, I just wanted to keep with tech.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
Yeah, god, excellent.

Speaker 9 (02:06:12):
It's unfortunate that we're stuck in the way of old.
Like the internal combustion engine. It's a lot of weight
to carry around.

Speaker 2 (02:06:21):
You know, I should make it out a bolser.

Speaker 7 (02:06:25):
Well, it's the same.

Speaker 9 (02:06:25):
Problem with evs. It's just that you know you're carrying
a lot of batteries.

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
I'll bet it's getting much cheaper, la much lighter.

Speaker 9 (02:06:35):
Which is good, and light is good. And do you
remember the trams in Wellington?

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
Wasn't a part of my era?

Speaker 9 (02:06:44):
Aren't they?

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
Well when you say, okay, what year was the last
tram nineteen fifty.

Speaker 9 (02:06:48):
Or something, well you might know they're better than me.

Speaker 2 (02:06:51):
No, But when you say do you remember the last
trams in Wellington? I think do you think I'm a.

Speaker 9 (02:06:55):
Hundred two years old as you are?

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
And do you do you remember them?

Speaker 7 (02:07:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:07:04):
May the second nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 9 (02:07:08):
Well, then there must be something wrong. I'm not that old.

Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
You might be remembering the trolley buses, are you?

Speaker 9 (02:07:14):
And I'd like to bring something like that back, like
a trolley bus because yeah, you know, like bumper cars didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:07:22):
Need a lot of you know, what's the what's the
point of overhead WHI is when you can just have a.

Speaker 9 (02:07:27):
Battery because it means you're carrying less weight and that
means that the cost of transport is less. It means
that individuals can get out there and go and do
that what they want.

Speaker 25 (02:07:42):
I mean, I know, we like.

Speaker 9 (02:07:47):
The ways that things have already been done. It's like
the planes. You know, they're trying to make electric planes
and I'm like, why would you carry that much weight?
Why not do swing shots like they have on those
What are the boats that carry all the airplanes.

Speaker 2 (02:08:06):
Aircraft carriers?

Speaker 9 (02:08:08):
Yeah, you know how they swing shot?

Speaker 2 (02:08:11):
No, they're just cables. Oh they do too. Yeah, okay,
you're all good questions. Thank you, Thanks Hamish Richard Is
Marcus good evening.

Speaker 38 (02:08:22):
Good evening, Marcus. Hey, I thought i'll give you a call.
You mentioned before. David Astenburgh. What's happening for his one
hundredth birthday? Yeah, yeah, yes, I'm traveling throughout the UK
and on the breakfast the other day they said that
there's a special performance happening at the Royal Albert Hall
in London or next Friday, and it's I think it's

(02:08:44):
got either the London Philharmonic or some big orchestra there
and they're going to show footage from some of his
original film.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
And some of the most What a great idea, What
a great idea.

Speaker 38 (02:08:57):
Yeah, it's today I come home. So it's unfortunate because
I would have loved to have gone through experience. That
will be part of his one hundredth birthday.

Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
So yeah, here do you know anything about I don't
even know much about. It was just I mean, he
was a TV presenter that got into natural history. Have
I got that right?

Speaker 7 (02:09:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 38 (02:09:18):
I think I watched a documentary years ago about how
he counted the BBC saying I want to do a
natural documentary and in the end I think they just
gave in and sent him away with a camera crew.

Speaker 7 (02:09:30):
And that's how it really started.

Speaker 38 (02:09:33):
And people were fascinated because they were seeing chimpanzees and
other things that they'd never seen on television were in
their life. And of course it's just grown from that
and we still see things that we don't see.

Speaker 2 (02:09:45):
And I imagine the early days with the BBC, they
would have led the world because it would have I
mean they'd been making up as they go, because no
one would have done stuff like that.

Speaker 38 (02:09:54):
Before completely as they were going into the jungle or
going into rainforests and everything. No one had been there
from the BBC or from our part of the world anyway,
just just explorers that would write things or draw things
in the past. But yeah, the beautiful sunny day here
in the UK. I'm traveling up to up north along

(02:10:16):
the M six right through the Yorkshire Dales. At the moment,
there's not a cloud in the sky. There's just a
few jet streams behind. Some of the big aeroplanes are
flying above us. Absolutely stunning and it's eighteen degrees outside.

Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
Were you headed for Richard.

Speaker 38 (02:10:32):
Carlisle on the border of England and Scotland.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
Wow, that's it. That's a town that intrigues me. What's
the point of going to Carlisle.

Speaker 7 (02:10:46):
Family?

Speaker 2 (02:10:47):
Wow?

Speaker 38 (02:10:49):
So yeah, it's a beautiful drive up here. It's a
great way to travel and we're having a good time.
But it's a very historic town too, because of all
the fighting and the wars between Scotland and England over
the years. Is our big old castle everything there because
it was the border.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
At how fuss does the border actually go through it
or it's just south of the border.

Speaker 38 (02:11:12):
It's just slightly south of the border. The border itself
is you've probably heard of Gretna Green. Yes, people would
run away from England to get married. Yes, yeah, so
that's just on the northern side of the border and
just into Scotland where the English would run away to
get married because the lords were different, and then they'll
run back to England married.

Speaker 2 (02:11:32):
Yeah, so where are you now?

Speaker 9 (02:11:35):
We got married.

Speaker 38 (02:11:37):
We got married in Scotland because the lords are different.
So yeah, it's the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful place.

Speaker 7 (02:11:42):
So why not?

Speaker 2 (02:11:43):
Have you been through t Bay? We're about say you
at the moment, we've been through Thrimby.

Speaker 38 (02:11:53):
I don't remember seeing that tune off, but coming think
them about forty kilometers away from Carlisle.

Speaker 2 (02:12:01):
Have you been through Penrith?

Speaker 38 (02:12:04):
Yeah, I've been through being past Penrith.

Speaker 2 (02:12:06):
Yeah, oh your home and host.

Speaker 38 (02:12:09):
I'll far off now not far off.

Speaker 7 (02:12:11):
Hey.

Speaker 38 (02:12:11):
Also, the breakfast this morning, they were talking about the
airlines and petrol over here and how it's affecting them.
But the interesting thing they said was that no flights
from the UK. It's been canceled wow, which I thought
was really interesting because reading is putting the news back home.
Innuasaland have canceled a whole and more flights own of.

Speaker 7 (02:12:33):
Town and different places.

Speaker 38 (02:12:34):
And it's like, yeah, yeah, they haven't canceled any yet.
They've got plenty of jet fuels still available and they're
sourcing it from other places. Yeah, they're saying that prices
aren't going up for flights in the future, but they're
not canceling anything yet. So it's different to see how
things are handled in different parts of the world.

Speaker 2 (02:12:53):
I'll think about that one Richard, nice to talk to you.
Thank you for every much that It's nine to twelve.

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