It's a big carrot (14 May 2026)

Marcus talks the local characters of your town, why Mark hates the most recent change to the layout of his local paper, and the possible history making football in Scotland this weekend!

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Friday Light, otherwise known as Thursday. I hope it's good. Well,
I hope you are good. Welcome to a hitdle twelve
o'clock tonight. Three topic nights to know that would be
my thoughts. But if there's something else that you want
to talk about, good, I can handle that. Be in
touch if you want to, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
I'll keep you on Dinna with news when that happens
for the next three hours fifty three minutes. I don't

(00:38):
know what will happen, but Trump's in China and also
to there's stuff happening in England with the Prime ministership,
so we'll be across that also tonight. Yeah, So be
in touch if you want to be feel free to
call if you'll want to. The number is oh, eight

(00:59):
hundred eighty ten eighty. If you want to text, it's
ninety two ninety two. Anything else, get in touch, as
I say, oh eight hundred eight and to text. I've
enjoyed reading today about Gareth Shivers. He's a man from Nelson.
He's known as the Bottle man. He's the bottle man.

(01:30):
And what he's done right, This is the guy, the
bottle man. He's over the last eighteen months has taken
to balancing a large drink bottle on his head on
his daily walk and sometimes on his daily run. He
says it's practical. One day he was carrying his water bottle,
thought why did I practice by balancing while I'm doing it?

(01:52):
And now he can do tins of beans and all
sort of stuff or balanced on his head. He's known
as the bottle Man on social media, got a lot
of nicknames. One of his favorites is the balancer. These
are great things, he said. Both those nick names were
better than the man who called me a fing w
and this isn't the circus. Wow. So this guy is

(02:13):
a guy that's walking around now with a bottle on
the head and getting abused, and that kind of cemented
it for him. And he's all into that. Now he's
balanced milk and water. He's also balanced on his head
a freshly purchased watermelon and a pumpkin and four canto

(02:34):
stacked on. I want to do all this. I really
like the challenges about loarning to feel calm in a
tricky situation and learning to dance with gravity. Good on him.
So he's a balancer. Got a love of balancing anyway,
I don't know where the talkback in this is. The
talkback is have you got any local eccentrics in your

(02:54):
community and what do they do? Because a guy to
walk around with a balancing water I mean, how would
you balance a watermelon on your head? You do a
rock melon because the surface is kind of corrugated and
that might have more purchase on your head, but a watermelon.
Even in some of those anthropology documentary, I've never seen
anyone in any of those cultures prone to balancing things

(03:17):
on their heads balancing a watermelon. So yes, call me
about that. If you've got interesting people in your community
and what is their eccentric thing they do or that
you might do. The trouble is eccentrics. They never realize
they're eccentric, but you might be one. And what is
your eccentric thing that you would do it to? Great
thing though, because you see these people walking around with
bottles of water, why not balance them on your head?

(03:39):
That's the starter for tonight. Are you an eccentric or
who are the eccentrics in your community and what are
they doing. I guess the fine line though sometimes went
eccentric and someone that's fallen between the cracks. So when
I say this, I don't want to do this in
a mean spirited way. If we're doing that at all,
Oh eight hundred and eighty in you Goo Sharks are

(03:59):
up fifty seven over forty eight. They're playing the Tourtaro.
This is the south and basketball team. Got that on
the background. Be in touch, I reckon, christ you are
the most eccentrics. It seems to be where they not
prosper but are embraced big enough but not too big.
But yes, your eccentrics and balancing, these are the topics

(04:21):
for the next four hours. I can promise you that
would be good to hear from you about that. Local characters, Yes,
who are the local characters in your community? So discussion
so far, Ivan Bruce, it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Welcome, good Marcus.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
When I was a younger man, I remember that this.
When I was at university, there was a guy in
my community and Hawks Bay, who excelled at paddiddling, which
was spinning things on your finger. So he would spin
spin small tables any object. He'd spin them and you know,

(04:58):
spin them around so they were balanced on his finger.
He'd walk around and he used to call it diddling.
I don't know after that was a sufficial aim or not.
He was he was quite an eccentric guy. It's a
very interesting guy. Every year he used to write to
the Central District Cricket Selectors, once again making himself unavailable

(05:18):
for selections. He used to play. He used to play
for a social cricket team called the East Clive Cuts
Car Club ECCC, and he used to write every year
saying unfortunately he would have to make himself unavailable for selection.
I'm sure they'd wonder who the hell this guy was,

(05:41):
But anyway, he was adiddler. That was his eccentricity.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And he'd spin like tables, on little.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Little tables, anything that would sit within an arm's length.
He he'd kind of wind him around until I was
spinning fast enough that he'd that'd be he'd be in
the middle of the spinning object. He'd spin all sorts
of things, anything that was flat, you know, he pick
up hell record c LPs and and any and then

(06:12):
just worker's way around objects that were flat and spin.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, what do you do this in the public domain.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
Yeah, he'd be at a party or be at the
pub and he'd start diddling bastels.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
You hadn't thought of him from a while?

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (06:33):
Why?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Is that the joy?

Speaker 8 (06:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
What's happened to him?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Do you know? Well, yeah he did. I think it
was in Wellington. Now. The other thing was he used
to used to be a bit of a smoke and
I used to give him a heart creat smoking and
he said, well, you can't criticize smoking till you've tried it.
So he made me smoke a packet a girl a
day for about three weeks of never being so sick

(06:56):
of my life. But anyway, he built his own canamaran too,
which was a great failure. He spent a whole summer
building this care Moran and it shdded a part on
the series day he took it out.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Like it a lot. This is a good topic. Thank
you for that. Fifteen past eight oh wait hundred eighty
Tenadian nine two nine to the text you want to
come through be in touch if you want to get
in touch. Yeah, there's a guy on westportter rides his

(07:32):
bicycle with no hands which uses to drink his cup
of tea. What's interesting. There's a bit of antennasm towards
the eccentrics on the texts, Oh, this is a fine thing.
The variety is the spice of life. These are good people.
Get in touch if you want to come through. Eight

(07:52):
hundred eighty Tenaightian nine two nine to the text. You
want to be a part of it. Oh, eight hundred
eighty tony and nine two nine to the text, looking
forward to what you've got to say. But yeah, the local,
Well you might yourself have itdent resting skill and might
walk round with a bottle of water on your head.
But yes, so much antagonism from the texters. Oh this

(08:13):
is stuff to be admired. You got to live life
for yourself. You can't live life for what people will think.
Marcus carrot men in Melbourne inspired me to make huge
paper mache carrots for Easter. Look him up. He carries
a huge carrot round spreading a bit of fun and conversation.

(08:34):
Been around for years. It's interesting text because the word
carrot was admitted be a good thing to do. It's
a big carrot looks like quite a straight guy who's
got a papier mashe carrot, so that's a good thing. Anyway.
He's a local legend, so you're sent your town's eccentrics

(08:58):
or your village's eccentrics. Marcus, I quite often balanced things
on my chin, shovels and brooms, and just about every
day I juggle as a Transalpine train comes through. Dobson.
This is a guy that's tying my story with international news.

(09:18):
That guy sounds amazing, Marcus. He should be in China
with Trump. Could well be a great balancing act. Hello, Carol,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 9 (09:28):
No, that's not right, evening, Ye evening. There's a man
that lives in nine to eye and he is what
we call the rainbow Man. And his clothes are all
different colors, as shoes, outfit, whatever bag, it's all bright
and he's quite well known as the rainbow Man, and

(09:51):
that's quite unique.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Now.

Speaker 9 (09:53):
The other thing is we've got a craft market coming
up at Rimatuk Baptist. It's on the corner of Akitara
Road on Saturday from ten till two. Is a warm
welcome to everybody.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Is he a runner?

Speaker 9 (10:12):
I think he might?

Speaker 10 (10:13):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (10:16):
Have you seen him?

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, I'm just googling The Rainbow Man from nine to
A and A is a running addict. Yeah righty marathons.
He oh, he should be an inspiration.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
What I think he is?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Goodness?

Speaker 11 (10:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (10:38):
You cotton under that will?

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Oh yeah, that's I'm king of the cotton on. That's
what well I wanted, I thought, because you say something
in the Rainbow Man, I'm thinking cheap. It's so he's
ordering to tie die in chickpant, doesn't he?

Speaker 9 (10:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's got to be rainbow colors.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Now that damn market of yours? What did you say?

Speaker 9 (10:55):
It is a craft market on Saturday Rheumata Baptist which
is on the corner of Akita Road. We have about
fourteen stalls open between ten and two. There's a warm
welm and we have morning tea or lunch to buy,
and we'll have fresh homemade baking because I'm doing it,

(11:19):
and Jams and the other people all have their own
individual crass for sale. So we'd like to see a
good number turn up and enjoy the time.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Brilliant stuff. And that's just there the brown our fisheries. Okay,
I know where you are, Carol. Copy that.

Speaker 12 (11:36):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Twenty past eight eccentrics, Local eccentrics, eccentrics. They'd celebrate that.
The better I mean coach we are it? Is it
becoming a bland world? Marcus? I was going to text
about the rainbow man. He walks ducks. How could you
walk a duck? Because often what I think is probably
something I've just thought of? Is it now? A lot

(12:00):
of the attention seeking and eccentricity has moved online. Well,
that's not the place for it, because you can't be
that for followers. He feeds his ducks, otherwise known as
the walking duck Rainbow Goodness a twenty four deb It's
markets Welcome, good Evening.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
I used to have a bus company owner who used
to play tubular steel chairs.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Oh, oh okay, you used to say, I need to
You used to have a bus company owners, so you'd
work as for you'd work for a guy who owned
a bus company. And this was the guy that would
play tubular cheers.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Yeah, that was one of his drivers for a while.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, this is a great thing to do. How long
are you there before he reveals this skill?

Speaker 6 (12:54):
I didn't they should have been there that long. I
shouldn't believable chair, He puts a trumpet, enough piece of
money into this he had, I think a funnel, but
it's stick in one of the outgoing offices, and went.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Okay, so how does the conversation start? You're there chicking
out to pick up the bus for the day or
what happens?

Speaker 6 (13:17):
I can't remember how that once started. I mean, I'm
usually I'm just as outland as as the rest of them.

Speaker 13 (13:23):
He was.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
I think he was giving me a hip talk on
how to entertain your passengers. You've got to keep your
passage and entertaining them. I play a chair and I went.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Did he have did he have finger holes?

Speaker 2 (13:43):
No?

Speaker 4 (13:43):
I think you just paid like a bugle.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Like a bugles like a bugle. Yeah, okay, wow, And
so it's a it's a chair has four holes obviously,
and a mouthpiece them up.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
I can't it was a while ago now.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
And a mouthpiece went on one and a funnel wind
on the other to amplify.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Yeah, and I was a weirdness, said he saw.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
I used to get a lot of laughs for us.
So unfortunately we lost him on Christmas Eve, so it died. Yeah,
canby slugger?

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Do you know what Tuney played?

Speaker 6 (14:24):
I bet he played Kelonel Bogie. I just just just
see them. I don't think he would be nicety enough
to play the last post. He was well known for
playing the last post for the RSA on a on
a proper bugle. But yeah, I would have waded. He
had a few tunes up as upper sleeve to just
give the general idea.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Was he from like a bass brass band? Bet, because
I would require it'd be complicated, wouldn't it.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah, he was ex Boys Brigade, of course he was.
And he was within for many many years with Colin
Simpson of tai Bay.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Oh yeah, it was it his bus company, Yes.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
To Tahiba, tills the charters and it was one of
the first bus companies that I went to see going
for goodness, So I was.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Just you know, but Tai Bay didn't have its own
bus routes, did it.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
It was just a charter game, no, he No, there
was a charter company that then. That's where we lived.
So yeah, like out of Tahiba, I went all over
the onom half of the North Island on various occasions,
took uh well, I had secondary school up to the

(15:38):
mountains of about three different occasions up to.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Yeah, overplace not a lot of videos online of people
playing cheers.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
All right, I've never thought to look it up.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well that's thought. I thought you were the king of
the pre research.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
You know, I've just never thought of look at him.
At that stage, I was still working for Metro and
one afternoon we had a bit of a stuff up going.
So I'm putting passengers onto a bus where my trans
Metro units uniform saying so much the bus. I then

(16:18):
went to my car, changed jerseys and drove the bus. Wow.
And this is the sort of outlanders things that I
was get up to because it was either my shift
on the platform and we you know, we needed to
move passengers, so I just threw both jobs.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Goodness, were you prompted to try and play the chair?

Speaker 6 (16:39):
No, I've got no musical ability whatsoever. I can't even
hold a tune by humming with regret, much regret. I'd
sell parts of my body to be able to make music,
but I can't, So I don't.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Nice to talk to me.

Speaker 13 (16:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
This is one of the things you don't have you
really wanted, don't youse music. I've got the gift. I
haven't got the gift of music. I'm just looking at
the text someone that texted through. What a load of rubbish?
This person three weeks ago texted never been to an
Indian restaurant? Paid extra for rice? It's interesting that night
the whole Would you pay extra for rice? Would you
play a cheer? I'm sure that's probably once upon a well,

(17:17):
and I don't know what that is. Actually, what is that?
Be in touch if you want to hit till twelve.
Welcome people. We are talking about eccentrics, or your neighborhood
characters that make your life more interesting or perhaps less interesting.
Is this such a thing as an irritating eccentric? Probably,
but I don't know what that is. So we're talking
about the Yeah, this has been a rich territory to

(17:41):
mine so far. If you think you can add to
this discussion. But this guy, I mean the thing about eccentricity,
It helps to be original. When a guy walking around
Nelson with a two liter water bottle on his head,
that's good because I've never seen that and it would
make my day brighter. Oh there's the guy in particular.
If I went to down Oh that's bottle guy. I mean,
be nothing. Best thing go to Nelson and seeing that, Ah,

(18:04):
that's that guy with a bottle on his head. He
is your stories from your community. Can you play a cheer?
You might want to talk about interesting talents you have,
what are those talents? But mainly it's about your neighborhood, accent,
eccentrics and eccentricity. How did I say tonight? Then you
had to mentioned get in touch. I'll get to the
text before too long. If anything's happening in the world,

(18:26):
I bring you up to that with Trump's ezy thing stupid. Well,
anything happens in the wilde wide world, with the virus
and the war and the English election, so across all
of that for the potential English election. Oh wait, one
way to get in touch or a broad church I'm
looking forward to what you've got to say tonight. And

(18:47):
if I say, oh weight one hundred and nine to texts,
you want to be a part of it, Marcus. Now
we all say good morning, good after and good evening.
What should we say when it's nighttime. It's a very
good question. So there's a good morning, and there's good afternoon,
and there's good evening, But what about night because you
can't say good night, but it's like a farewell I

(19:08):
have no idea, but I need to know all this
and more. Marcus the rainbow Man from nine I loves
to feed the ducks. At certain times, the ducks all
make the trek from the stream to his house. The
nine Eye Road right a street roundabout is often blocked
by huge lines of ducks crossing. This is a great story.

(19:28):
So we're about tonight, yes, because I think it's much
better ben a centric in real life than an online one,
which is all about the follows and monetization. The genuine
ones don't really care. They're beyond the system. Here till midnight,
people looking forward to you and put anything else you
want to mention, good good, good good. Oh wait e
one hundred and eighty today. I'll keep you up there

(19:49):
with news. Also, Luke Metcalf's gone. Saint George Ellawara Dragons
have confirmed Metcalf has joined the club on a three
year deal. Saint George Lawara are useless. They don't want
to match this year, although they have got Scott drink
Waters joining them in eighteen months, I think. And now

(20:11):
they've got Luke Metcalf so they could become It's hard
to rebuild a team. M one point one mill per season.
That's nine hundred. There we go, that's what's happening with that.
So that was I thought web made some good comments
about that. Respect. The guy treat the girl with respect.
He's been a great team man. That's last from the Warriors,

(20:32):
or that's the last from Legue. I guess I should
say be in touch of you want to talk about
the eccentrics in your community or historically. Someone has emailed also, right, right, Dan?
Who did who did dB say? Was a guy that
played the chair? What was his name? I think someone
sent me a photo of him playing the chair. It's

(20:54):
a great thing to do. It's what your music teacher
at schools should be doing. Isn't playing a cheer that
would be fun. Why are cupboards called cupboards? That's not
my question. Yeah, that's this picture. Thank you for that,
Thank you Titahi, Thank you Janet. I appreciate that it's

(21:14):
an Instagram shot from his passing death. I'll tell you
what's always boring, always media releases about which town won
the world's best tasting water. It was desperate for interviews.
I'll tell you one thing, and this is a propos nothing.

(21:35):
The water in the cargo is extremely good tasting. I
don't know what comes out of the river. I don't
know what. It's very good water twenty three to nine.
If you want to be a part of it, it's characters.
It's character Thursday twenty one away from nine. Oh wait,
lancets Marcus, good evening, I'm welcome.

Speaker 13 (21:54):
Two things. Remember the wizard from christ Church.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Yes, it was a bit of a character and he
stayed with it so he didn't tap out. He was
he was a lifer.

Speaker 13 (22:04):
Well, I think he's a lawyer, WI preferred.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I think it was a philosophy lecture or something. Is
it did crop up not too long ago. He was
it was banging on about something, some reason why he
had been overlooked. What was it about? He was complaining
about something and no one wants to ward it to complain,
But I think he felt like he'd been marginalized by something.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
And another character was up an awful years ago called
Sir Dove Maya Robinson. He was the mayor out here
and he used to travel around in an all limo
or an old Rolls Royce the shirt on all the time.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Yeah, I was familiar, but yeah, it's.

Speaker 13 (22:40):
Probably going back. Maybe seventy's maybe also I.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Think he was a bit of a I think it's
a bit of a self promoter. Yeah, okay, yes.

Speaker 13 (22:48):
In England, Keir Starmer's lost Tom one hundred councils. What
does that all mean for labor?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Weird how it's so involved with local body elections, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (22:57):
Well?

Speaker 13 (22:58):
How could you lose twelve hundred councils? Don't know what
it all means for labor? Or kiss Farmer?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Yeah, well that's.

Speaker 13 (23:07):
Anyone. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Who was the last prime minister that lasted a long
time in the UK? We've had Risish, We've had Rishi Sunak,
We've had Liz Trust, We've had who was the woman
that danced? Who was the woman that danced in Africa?

Speaker 13 (23:24):
Who was a dick in.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Theresa May? Then before that Borrow? They all get they
all get pushed out. No one seems to last.

Speaker 13 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know anyway besides his days and
number two and it's onn't have been any about twelve
months as prime min anyway, good program. It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Is a bit of a dry unit though, isn't it.
Lan It's nice to talk to you, thank you for that.
Nineteen to nine. How are you people? What's happening? South
and Sharks ninety had orkand t Atara eighty three? Family
are at that tonight? That looks like it's going all right?
Be in touch, Dean as Marcus.

Speaker 8 (24:04):
Good evening and welcome, says it going with the two
beat texture of predictable delay over talking.

Speaker 14 (24:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (24:17):
I think it was seven in the last four years
for UK prime ministers.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, and there's such a yeah, that's you'll be right.
I just can't remember. Do you remember Rishi Sunak when
he came out to resign and announcing the election of
me dressed and it rained and there was some of
that lek tune. It was a terrible looking thing.

Speaker 8 (24:38):
It was visually wonderful.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yeah, but he kin'd have.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Been resigning because he didn't resigns.

Speaker 8 (24:45):
A sunny day with no.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
That's right, good point.

Speaker 8 (24:49):
And I think the other thing was like good morning,
good afternoon, good evening and good night if you're greeting someone.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, but when you ring up and say you wouldn't
ring me up and say good night, because that's like
a fair well, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (25:07):
No?

Speaker 13 (25:07):
I used to say good night, well, better be if
you were cutting me off or something.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, but it would be easy to tune that because
what is the evening? Is just the beginning of night,
isn't it.

Speaker 8 (25:19):
I think evening's anything up to midnight?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh do you okay?

Speaker 8 (25:22):
So you're fine now?

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Evenings five pm to ten pm according to AI, and
evening is a period of the day between the end
of the afternoon and the time you go to bed.
So people that ring me after ten should say good night, Marcus,
how are you good?

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Good night to you, sir.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
That's right eccentric.

Speaker 8 (25:46):
Isn't a couple a couple just a board for the cups?

Speaker 15 (25:50):
What?

Speaker 14 (25:50):
Sorry, a cupboard?

Speaker 8 (25:53):
Oh okay, isn't there just a board that the caps
sit on?

Speaker 13 (25:57):
This happens to be covered a cabin, is it?

Speaker 6 (25:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Okay, so covet is a cap. It's like a mug tree,
isn't it? Which is not a tree?

Speaker 8 (26:04):
I did have a mug tree. I think you'd have
to have a high rotation a months though, because otherwords
they'd get the dust.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, like a bug wheel. So the new one comes
to the top. That would be the thing to do,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
He wants to get on to TM that one.

Speaker 13 (26:22):
I'll t that.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yep, I'm gonna go deep because I can't handle that
delay today. It's terrible. But thank you so much for
your call. Marcus. What's the best filling to put into
croissant other than sour cream, jam and pineapple? I think
you will stop eating a croissant when you realize how
much butter is in one. If you put into Google
what percentage of a croissant is butter, you'd be surprised.

(26:45):
Oh what about Robbie Williams too. The government's paid three
million to bring him here. He's been here forever, but
now Wayne Brown has announced the amount. And this is
not a guy that's at the peak of his performance.
Well here was the peak of his performance with take

(27:08):
that was he? Or Angels? Am an angels? Anyway? And
don't I think tickets sales are sluggish? Well, there's a surprise,
fifty five percent butter as a croissant. Oh, here we go.

(27:29):
A lot of texts haven't got to them. Someone's put
someone sent this text. Mark a sure a bit older
than me, so you should know what's Jenny's number? What
does that mean? Massive house fire and motor hoo Christ
Jewish Whitehall Street, big police presence in the area, lot
not any people up the street, but you can see
the glow from far away. Anyone else got any updates

(27:53):
on the fire? Please in christ Church if you've got
any information about that, get in touch asat please await
text big police presence. I'm not seeing anything online about
that yet, but if you've got the information, being touch
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to

(28:15):
text be in touch. Oh let me get back to
the text too. By the way, sh sh what is
the evening when you work night shift? When is the
evening when you work night shift? Exactly? Marcus twenty years
ago there's a man of roscill, South Hillsborough who walked
around carrying a huge four x six foot wooden cross

(28:35):
on his back from time to time. I saw it
was Easter and thought he was going to church, and
I saw him again weekly. Everyone caught him Jesus. Because
I live at the end of State Highway one at Bluff,
there's often people walking the length of the country carrying across.
There's a guy who've seen twice with a cross, and

(28:57):
people do that as a form of devotion. I think
he had quite little wheels on it. But yes, I
think there's a number of people that dragged crosses around.
That's the thing I'm looking for. Croissant suggestions Marcus shoplifting
down in Greymouth after life sized cardboard coducts of police
officers put outside supermarkets an interesting cheap way to fix

(29:18):
a problem. It's pretty sad reflection on the people of
well the criminals of Greymouth, or they'll be scared of
a cardboard figure. After the guy that walked around Nelson
where the water bottle on his head. We are talking
talking about your local eccentrics. Someone emailed mens it's thirty
years today that they stopped getting their milk delivered. Where

(29:39):
did milk get stop getting delivered in New Zealand? I
think in Orkard was probably a lot earlier than that.
We've got any details on that, please? Good Win for
the South and Sharks one three eight nine against the
Auckland to Atara one in the clock down. Now that's
a good one, brilliant well done them ted away from
nine nine from nine twenty five years since Fast the
Furious was a released. Long time, isn't it. They're being

(30:02):
a big thing at carn for that. The retrospective. I
think Paul Walker's daughter there is there with a diesel.
I don't know he had a daughter, but there we go.
Of course, Paul Walker. Amazing they managed to continue the
franchise without him, but they did, and they did it well.
He certainly was a screen presence. I don't know. Yes,
someone's emailed me about Jenny's number. I don't really know

(30:23):
the song about Jenny's number. Someone might know about that.
Hey also, milk delivery thirty years ago that finished, but
I think probably was finishing at different times in different days.
If there's some old Milco's out there, let me know.
I don't think we've kill that called them Milko's. And
the other thing I'm curious about tonight is Scottish football.

(30:46):
If anyone followed the drama today with Hearts be could
they let me know about that, because I'm not across
Scottish football, but I've seen a lot about that today.
If you are a Heart supporter, it's been sixty years.
But yeah, I don't think it's not the fact that
they lost. I think the fact that Celtic did something untoward.
But you've got some information. Could that to me? Because

(31:07):
I'm not fully o Fay not fulio Faye, Cross saw
Al Saman Salmon and crossaw amman Ahman, both to die for,
Marcus the late Great Radio Roll and the Birdman, both
of christ Church. Well, that's certainly right. In the bread
Basket Radio on Extraordinary had a milk run in the nineties.
Best job I had fit as a fiddle. I don't

(31:27):
think evening does go to midnight. I think evening's till
ten PM and normal usage good evening as a salutation
up to midnight. Just because Google says something doesn't make
it true.

Speaker 13 (31:38):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 16 (31:40):
Well?

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Fancy that? So all the reading I've done said, including Wikipedia,
said that evening finishes at nine o'clock or sometimes ten.
The word evening is divined from the Old English af
un g, meaning the coming of sunset, the time around sunset,

(32:03):
so it means sunset evening is six pm or sunset
whatever is earlier. So we do say good morning, we
do say good after, we do say good evening. But
there is no word to say hello to people after
nine pm, which is staggering. I'm staggered. You're staggering or
all staggered IFO knows what the word is, because I'm

(32:25):
not hearing you text me in great numbers. What is
the hello term at eleven pm? I think I'm gonna
get any response to that, because.

Speaker 6 (32:38):
So what is that?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
What's the greeting at night? You never got the answer
to that? Is it good post evening? Good after evening?
No good after evening? Top milk and tied at home
deliveries until two thousand and seven they sold one leg
of milk and plastic bags. Goodness. Someone is texting, and

(33:01):
I think they're probably right, Marcus. Evening. Correct wording is evening.
Bro there we go someone that you're supposed to be
having bedtill there's no greeting. We say good morning for
the whole twelve hour sweep between midnight and noon. No
problem is saying good evening from sunset till midnight. Oh
I don't know about that anyway, Get in touch. We're

(33:26):
talking about eccentrics and Robbie Williams with a government playing
three million for him to play, but yes money. And
also if you want to about Hearts and the football
match this morning, I mentioned that, but people are screaming
blue murderer that on. If there's something else you want
to mention to all the lines are free, and the
home delivery of milk, and when that was stopped, that

(33:47):
might be something that's in your bread basket. It might
be back in some areas. I don't know which ones.
That's something you can mention. Also tonight, Oh eight hundred
and eighty telly nine to nine to text. Anything goes
Marcus till twelve. Yes, so get in touch if you
got anything to say. But I'll be as I say,
I'll be here till twelve o'clock tonight. So yet looking
forward to what you've got to say. And if there's

(34:10):
something entirely different you want to mention. Always up for
some new discussions tonight. Oh yeah, let me be hearing
from you fine people. Oh eight hundred eighty ten and
nine nine to detect if you've got to be a
part of it, and if you've got anything else the more.
The Merrier state of Origin for women is on tonight. Also,

(34:30):
I'll keep you updated with that. First one was a creer.
They've got Magic round all weekend three games, two games,
three games, four games or something. It's going to be
a big event. Ten past nine, Hello, Mark, this is Marcus. Welcome, Yes, sir,
good evening, evening.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yeah, just hang on about it. Can you still hear me?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, loud and clear receiving yep.

Speaker 17 (34:54):
All right.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Over the last week or so, the christ Churche Press,
which is the morning newspaper, has decided it long, we're
going to publish a daily weather forecast. We'd like to
know why why they've decided.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
M sure, Well, I guess for a status, I guess
for statuds. They can do what they want. I suppose.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Well not everyone's got a smart alect phone or or
a computer where they's they keep saying, oh, get it online,
get it online, get it online.

Speaker 6 (35:38):
Well, this.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Getting to be a bit irritating. There's nothing like picking
up printed material and looking at the at the forecast
and just and using their eyes to read it. So
apparently they've discontinued printing it. And what they've done is

(36:04):
enlarged the puzzles.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Page love mecedoko.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
With more shudoco and cross words and and sort of
silly code words, all that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
That's what you need to fight the dementia. You need
all those Yeah, guess what they say? Now you call
it a smart electphone, Well that's my nickname for did
you think yourself. I love that. Yeah, but you could
buy a smarter elect phone for a lot cheaper than

(36:41):
you could get the post delivered to you for a year.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Oh I suppose so. But and then things like batteries
going flat, and then the uh uh cell phone providers decided,
oh we're going up to five G or sixty or

(37:08):
seven G and then you all have to go and
buy yourself a new phone. Keep up with the keep
up with the Joneses.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
It's the weather on the cell phones. Is the weather
prediction is extremely good?

Speaker 13 (37:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:26):
Well, I think it's nice to see a map of
the of the area that you're living in with with
the printed hector pascals and iso bars and occluded fronts
and tide times and all that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
If you're loving that stuff, the internet would blow your mind. Yeah,
is that much? There's that much weather on it? I
think you'd love it.

Speaker 14 (37:55):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Anyway, I just wondered if if all the other newspapers
around the New Zealand are doing the same thing.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
The newspapers will be gone in five years, Mark. It's
the death rattle for them. They're not going to be
around much longer.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah, I suppose so, but it's as far as I'm pursued,
the press is. It's going to be replaced with five
pages of of Hardy or Harvey Norman selling laptops and
Bloody and Fridgers and god knows what everything else, and

(38:38):
then there's ten blank pages and then at the last
two pages will be the hatch match and dispatch department
and all the crosswords and puzzle pages, and that'll be
your newspaper.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Yeah, pretty much. And there's been no journalists.

Speaker 13 (38:58):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
You know why all this is happening, don't you. Yeah,
it's because all the advertising money, all the advertising money
has gone to Facebook. Yeah, so there's no they're not
employing any journalists, is nothing.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Well, I use some library computers and I tried to
get on to the Facebook, and then this plumbing icon
keeps coming up and saying asking me if I'm a
robot the very fire, and then I have to identify

(39:39):
all these photographs which says how many motorbikes are in there,
or how many bicycles or how many road crossings are
in it. So you've got to.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
If it's a nerve to me, because I could even
get those right, because when it sees the light posts,
the traffic lights. I always include the posts as well,
and when it sees the motorbikes, I include the driver
and I never get those right.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Now there's bloody And why do they want to know
if you're a robot? And of of course you're not
a robot because you're a human being using the damn thing.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Well, I want if you're not a rob exactly why
do they want to know if you're robot? Question? Not
a robot? Of course I'm not a robot? With's that button?
Fifteen past nine eccentrics the pension? When do people stop
working because they're told to at sixty five? How did
your retirement work? Did you decide that set at sixty
five when you think I want to work a bit longer?

(40:40):
Or could you not wigit?

Speaker 8 (40:41):
That?

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Why? Finally I can afford to no longer work. Totally
agree with the guy ringing about the christ Press. Thisscund
do the whole weather page. We read the press every
day and get it eleven. We also get the ODT
and we have two. We have a description to time
to cut the press. We think funny enough. My headri
Is today told me she's canceled press of scriptures. They've
stopped publishing the weather. She's younger too. I don't believe you.

(41:05):
How would that cushing? How with a headresser? How are
you going, what's oh yeah, that's something that would come up.
That's just not a believable conversation with the head dresser.
Many or two standards discontinue the weather. I agree with
that call it. I like the weather three million for
Robbie Williams and know you're not racing for Orck and

(41:27):
want to potential economic return or loss. Marcause I spoke
to you about twenty years ago about light reclad, flat
fat old boys taking up the whole road. You thought
you were hilarious by asking me for cyclists stole my
girlfriend Lowell twenty years ago? Did they? Heart's look up
corruption in Scottish football? Lots of it as conspiracy theory stuff,

(41:47):
but it's been hard to ignore this year. Heart should
have won the league by now, but all the contentious
referees decisions have gone against them and others, and for
Celtic this morning was just the absolute tip of the
terrible iceberg. The SFA just don't want to team outside
Glasgow to in the league, and they especially want Celtic
to win. To disgrace explained Scottish football to me, where's hearts?

(42:09):
Where are they from? Tell me more about that. It's
scott to go to the World Cup. David's Marcus, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (42:17):
One of the life's simple, simple pleasures was having the
glass bottles delivered, the silver top, popping the silver top
and sip of the cream. It was for me, you know,
I think it was a great We've done ourselves a
great disservice buy all that plastic bottling now and costing jobs,

(42:38):
et cetera. Now the greeting that.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
Was the milk cold when it arrived.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
No, I didn't care.

Speaker 18 (42:47):
I remember the flavored milk in the schools too, and
I didn't care about I liked it. I was the
strawberry or the chocolate. I didn't care the little glass
milk bottles or flavored flavored milk.

Speaker 13 (43:00):
I thought it was a joy for me.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Have been a joy.

Speaker 18 (43:03):
Yes, greetings in the evening.

Speaker 19 (43:05):
I can remember that eating.

Speaker 18 (43:06):
I wasn't greet him whether that is what he does,
I say, late soney, Yeah, good.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Any length, nice to talk, Thank you. Dave Gimmet's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
High Marcus look Tarner has got a rich history of
the centric god God. Now some of them go back
a few years. But the first one, he was a
shell shocked from World War two and he was called
dinga Ling. He used to ride up and down Cameron
Road and on his bike and ringing a bell all

(43:42):
the time. He's well known to all the pupils. You know,
have that era sixty seventies.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Okay, and so he would just ride around and ring
his ring. Okay, wow, yeah, that does out of it,
hero Wing, but I'm hearing it. Yeah, okay right.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
The second one, probably the most famous, was had a
nickname spring Hill Jack. His actual name was Michael Hodgkins
and he was actually the nephew of the well known
New Zealand artist France podgegar Oh yes, yes, Now he
was a brilliant He dressed like a tramp, lived in
a hut without any power, but he was an absolute

(44:15):
expert on botany and a lot of the local schools.
She used to invite him to the parks and he'd
tell the people, you know, part of their nature study curriculum.
He'd know all about all the native trees you know,
in the various parks, around Taram, so you know he was.
He died in nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
What was his name again, then Jim his proper name.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
You can look him up near Michael Hodgkins. But he
was better known as Spring hiel Jack, partly because the
way he dressed like a tramp and he had a
sort of a funny gait.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Did you think very well known Spring?

Speaker 4 (44:50):
What helped Spring Spring heel Jack? That was his nickname. Yeah,
if you google it, you'll you'll find information about him. Now,
I just briefly. The third one was a real lover
of classical music. His name was Ellen Thompson. Now in
the eighties he was the first person in New Zealand
to be charged into the Noise Control Act for playing

(45:12):
classical music. You know, just kind of laugh. You know,
most young fellas were there, you know, hip hop and
all the rest of it. You know, people bring the
noise control. But yeah, out on main history, New Zealand history,
real center.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
I just keep going.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Yeah, just one more, but a real brilliant friend called
Alan Alan Greeg was his name. For about forty years.
He used to write a letter to the editor about
once a week, to the bath many times, you know,
the local Towering of papers, and he never posted them.
He always he was the bane of the editor's lives.

(45:54):
He used to hand the liver them and I used
to joke with him, Look, Alan, there's only one person
in Taroing who reads your leedits.

Speaker 13 (46:01):
That's you.

Speaker 6 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:05):
Actually for years he used to remsend be quite a
few years ago now, but he was a real expert
on New Zealand earthquakes. He could could reel off every
fatal earthquake in New Zealand. He could give you the magnitude,
the depth, and the deathole. It was just absolutely amazing.

(46:25):
And he had a lot of other interests and he
had quite a following. He used to ring mainly, you
know from midnight till dawn, you know, on the old
Radio Pacific. And also of course was what was his
radio name, well Allan. He just el Allen the Towering
the year so.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
And he would he would have extraordinary recall of earthquakes.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Unbelievable that a person like him, he just had this
encyclopedic knowledge on the whole range of subjects, all exploration,
you name it. He was just amazing.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
As it is to the Edison, normally about a lot
to do with politics.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
He had a big run in with the mayor of
Bob Barnes many many years ago about how dangerous it
was to build the Harvard Bridge, you know, from tearing
it to the mountain Monganui.

Speaker 14 (47:23):
Yeah, and all sorts.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
And he would have been aware of that because he
would have been aware of the volcano of the earthquake
seismology too.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
Absolutely, yeah, he had. He had a stand up argument
at a meeting, you know, prior to the bridge being built.
You know, he was only a pension I didn't have
a penny to his name. And after the meeting of
the mayor at that time, Bob Barnes walked up to
him and said, mister Greg, I'm going to sue you
for fifty thousand dollars. Allan looked at the mayor in
the iron, he said, Pennylus Allen looked the mayor Bob

(47:55):
in the iron. He said, well, soon be and find out. Well,
the total eccentric or more a character, you know, rather
than the centric.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
What springhel and has living without power? Does he live
in the urban and does he live in Todonger itself?

Speaker 11 (48:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Cool and parked right by the Inner Harbor. He lived
there for years, well, from about nineteen forty to nineteen
sixty five until he died. Okay, and he actually actually
had quite a quite a few of his his Auntie's paintings.
You know, they would be.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Worth a fortune now, absolute fortune.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Francis Hodge. Hodge is one of the most famous New
Zealand artus severn or.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Painters certainly, and he just never got up to there
was an old house. He never had the power put on.
Is that the way it worked?

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Yeah, oh exactly, yeah, yeah, No, real eccentric came.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Well that's a very that's a that's a very good
rundown of all of them.

Speaker 13 (48:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
I find the letters because the Letters Theater was almost
like slow talk pack, wasn't it. I mean I don't
I don't even know where the excitement from Betters Theater
would be. But people people get into it, don't they.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Oh, back back in the seventies eighties. But you know,
everything's done online now, you know, people don't bother writing.
Oh there's still a few published in on some of
the newspapers, but it's sort of a thing of the past. Really,
you know, we're taken by technology and.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
I think they're much more considered than a lot of
go for a break, a lot more considered than a
lot of Facebook comments that seem to be yeah, I'm
going to go for I've got to go for commercials.
But love you talk Jim the State of Origins on
too if you want to go with Women's State of
Origin twenty five past nine, great call, thanks Jim nine

(49:32):
seven David's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (49:35):
Yeah, good even Marcus p Cedric people. I was running
Marason's about seventeen years ago and there was a guy
called Me and Mike who was closing in on five
hundred rabus.

Speaker 13 (49:52):
Wow, jeez.

Speaker 11 (49:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (49:55):
The rumor was that he in New Zealand just fire
around the.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Country for free.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
That's a lot to do withn't it It is?

Speaker 14 (50:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (50:05):
It is another Is he still is he still going?

Speaker 12 (50:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 15 (50:10):
Like I said, I haven't haven't done marathons for seventeen years.
There's another guy, Albie Jane from Taranaki. He's got two
artificial hits and he's just run the right of a
marathon at the beginning of the month, and you know
he's done one hundred plus marathons.

Speaker 16 (50:35):
Which the other guy in taran Ross Steel.

Speaker 15 (50:40):
He's done his hundred parathons, but he runs in a
tutu or walks days.

Speaker 11 (50:45):
But there.

Speaker 16 (50:47):
Very well respected real estate salesperson. But that's his olver ego.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Yeah, I guess. I guess marathons generate obsession, don't they.
And that sort of almost leads to it's in tricity.

Speaker 11 (51:08):
Yes.

Speaker 16 (51:10):
As for the day.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Yeah, nice stuff, Dave, Thanks for that. Like your phone
line to twenty nine pass, don't hold your horses if
I'll get to you before too long. Here to the end,
the bitter end. Marcus in the United he was a
milk boyn old dady, putting milk empty on the front door.
It was raining. I slipped on the wet steps. My
hand went through the glass bottle cut my tendon. If

(51:36):
if this old funny Day does have a clue about phones,
unbelievab luddite. There's nothing to have got tapping, scolling and
expanding with two fingers. Five minutes you're on your way,
so frustrating. I don't know her computer because there's what
my phone is. He needs to grant it to give
him one and a quick lessen. Oh, by the way,
to an invert Cargo says Southland was Saturday was the
last day for the weather in the South and Times.

(51:57):
I've yet to find my copy might be up a tree. Yeah,
I hadn't heard of that, and I thought I was
across what was happening in Southend, but no more weather.
Appreciate that. Thanks for that. It's been a arsince. I've
seen the Southland Crimes. Got the South and Express on
my desk. Because the guy that does the classics shows
in here in the daytime he leaves it, I can

(52:19):
see underlying what he's talked about. Oh yeah, got to mention,
that's what you want anyway, get in touch if you
want to talk. Here till twelve o'clock eight hundred and
eighty Tenadian nine two nine to de text todd AND's Marcus.
Good evening, Welcome, Hi Todd.

Speaker 6 (52:34):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 20 (52:35):
I am off tomorrow to Brisbane. Pretty excited if you
share that MM and he picks who you're following the
league of course, I.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Think, I think how much of tickets a day?

Speaker 20 (52:51):
One day part Well, there's gold, diamond, gold, silver, bronze
in the stadium, so one day, one day passing He's
it's like fifty ninetysongs.

Speaker 6 (53:00):
We're down to twenty one eighty one forty sort of things.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Because where my thoughts are most times at the Aries
have played recently in the Brisbania, it's been like a
home advantage because they've been so many you know, the
of the key we's here of coming to pull them.
I don't know if they'll be there for the for
the Magic round though, I don't know if the Warriors
will get the support they'll need.

Speaker 20 (53:21):
Well, we'll be there Sunday, Sunday mid day.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
We're on form, on form, we should beat we should
beat the Brisbane I would hope, and they were dreadful
last week.

Speaker 20 (53:36):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, we're backing the Warriors. But
we'll be there. We're there for a game tomorrow, a couple.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
Of games that day and the big one on Sunday,
So looking forward to that.

Speaker 20 (53:44):
We'll give a little sort of an update report and
help Brisbane turned it on.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Sharks Sharks were one revenues or one seagulls or one roosters?
Will one Heels storm more one nights or more one? Yeah,
we're there on the there against there against the Eels.

Speaker 20 (54:02):
Yeah, but the well they're riding high after last week.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Yeah, but they're still.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
I reckon, yeah, look.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
The way.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah, okay, but they're both bottom at the table, aren't they.
What's your commodations and panthers?

Speaker 8 (54:20):
Yeah, accommodation was through the roof. But I mean there's
five of us.

Speaker 20 (54:23):
But it is like double triple most hotels and Airbnb.
As you know, you could put the your dates either
side of this weekend to get a idea of what
the fighting is, and then you you put in this
is about three months ago, put in the dates of
this weekend. Honestly, double triple point all accommodations.

Speaker 13 (54:43):
Well, I don't know how.

Speaker 8 (54:46):
I think it's a little bit.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
So how many nights? How many nights you over there?

Speaker 20 (54:49):
Todd three nights Friday, satdays only?

Speaker 3 (54:51):
And how are you paying? Five hundred? How much you're
paying for the three nights?

Speaker 14 (54:58):
Just you your share of it the accommodations.

Speaker 20 (55:01):
Yeah, okay, we're staying in a nice service department near
the room in the city center, about two people, well
not even from the stadium.

Speaker 8 (55:10):
And it looks very nice, right, very nice.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
And this five of you and this five of you
five us, right.

Speaker 20 (55:16):
You're sitting down, there's five us. We're paying just under
five hundred new Zealand dollars each per night, per night,
I know, and we searched, and I mean we could
have gone out there.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
So it's two and a half, it's two thousand and.

Speaker 13 (55:34):
Five.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Is it five bedroom?

Speaker 20 (55:35):
It's got four bedrooms. I mean, we could have found
something together.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
But the boys don't want to, you know, some of
the some of the guys don't want to share a
king deer with another guy, which I mean, I.

Speaker 20 (55:44):
Said, look for we're going to say if we can't
down the bed.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Room, we're going to see yeah, And I mean if
you having a good time, you mon't be back at
the room much anyway. Would you'd rather spend the night
on it? I'd rather spend the money on the party
around town. That would be the way to do it.

Speaker 20 (56:01):
A two bedroom over half the price and you sleep
on the council exactly.

Speaker 8 (56:06):
Some of the boys want their own beds.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
It sounds like your traveling mate to too. Well, how
old are they these people that need their own beds?

Speaker 6 (56:15):
Them a little bit precious?

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Okay, report back, Todd. I can't wait to hear more
about that. And thank you for your honesty. By the way,
I said the state of origin was about to head started.
It's just about to start too. This is the Woman's One.
Hold your horse and Angela jort to be with you
soon twenty five to ten. Be in touch if you
want to be a part of the show, Marcus or twelve.
Hello Angela, good evening.

Speaker 10 (56:34):
Oh hi Marcus. When I was I'm an old lady.
When I was a young girl, I lived on Myhiki
and there was an elderly man you might remember him,
Bill Lord, who had one arm years and he ride
rode his bike and played his corner at the at

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the market at Ostend.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Yeah, he probably played a what did he what did
he play? What was that thing?

Speaker 19 (57:04):
He was corner corner?

Speaker 10 (57:06):
Yes, yeah, he used to play it at I think
you know my parents screw up on the island tour
and that my dad said he got his arm shot
off during the Second World War. Yeah, and he lived
sort of near Junction Road and my mom used to
send my sister and I would have gone clean his house.

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And he had like about twenty five moas in his
In his house, he used to do up people's motor
mOsm old ones that he used to find in the
backs of abandoned places. And he used to shoot the
rabbits on the island. And he used to bike around

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the island on a Friday morning and he'd have a
gunny a sack over his back tied with string and
he had to have the rabbits in them. And he
used to bring us a rabbit every Friday. And they
remember it was ten shillings for a rabbit.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (58:03):
But he he used to shoot the rabbits. And he
used to mix his own shot because I remember, you
know again, as a child, stood are going around and
all these cartridges lined up against along his windows, fill
in the kitchen, him pouring pouring the shot into these cartridges. Yeah,

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and he used to shoot the rabbits with his one arm.

Speaker 13 (58:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I want you wonder how you do because yeah, it
would be no mean feat riding a bicycle around the
island with one arm.

Speaker 10 (58:32):
Are they know you know how ely it is?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (58:37):
And when I was a child, you know, not all
the roads were tars sealed. They was needled.

Speaker 13 (58:43):
Now I was.

Speaker 10 (58:44):
And it was a lovely man.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Now, just correct me if I'm confused. He wasn't the
same guy that would build all the old yachts out
of the junk at the was it somewhere. That was
another person that was sort of interesting as well, wasn't it.

Speaker 10 (58:55):
Yeah, he was oh gosh down at Ostend there.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Lord would hang around the dump too, did he is
that rabbits?

Speaker 20 (59:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (59:05):
Yeah, and I think he got a lot of on
stony batter. You know, he sort of used to trample
over the place.

Speaker 14 (59:12):
But yeah, he used to.

Speaker 10 (59:15):
He was a lovely man, A lovely man, but very
you know, when I think back, he must have had
ps pt pt audience.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
I'm yeah, but he was a lovely man.

Speaker 10 (59:27):
Did you ever remember him?

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, very much so. Yeah, yes, he's certainly always always
at the markets. Did your mother did your mother volunteer
you to clean his house? Is that what you said happen?

Speaker 10 (59:37):
Yes, she volunteered us to clean lots of old people's You.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Were volunteer old I love that. Was he quite happy
for that? I think?

Speaker 8 (59:49):
I think so.

Speaker 10 (59:50):
I don't think he said. I mean, you know, I
was only about ten or twelve. You don't just do
what your mother told you? Yeah, I know, I remember
you always just have milk that was bond stale and
rotten and stinky and in them bottles and yeah, but
all these all these motis and you could literally not

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move in his house.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
But that's one of the great things about I mean,
he was always a great community with that for and
I guess in some ways it's still why he gets
find it all its fault. It's still you know, it's
still would tolerted most people, wouldn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:26):
Yes, Yes, And he used to play I think I
don't know what happened, but he used to play a
tin whistle, you know, that's that one used to.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
I'm familiar with a moving thing to change the pest
that like.

Speaker 10 (01:00:41):
And you could just hear him in the background going whoa.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Which is pretty much which is pretty much what it sounded.

Speaker 13 (01:00:49):
Like, isn't it?

Speaker 10 (01:00:51):
Yes, it was pretty much. Oh yeah bill here, yeah.
Used to have he used to have like a little
blanket with all the junk that he'd found in the dump.
You know that he'd sort of cleaned up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
All it Wasn't it a terrible thing that we got
rid of dumps because that was pretty much recycling action
find great stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:01:11):
Houses, And he would he would, he would have signed
all sorts of things because you know that by that time,
it was about the seventies when people were ready start
rediscovering wahiki and and sort of chucking everything out of
these old houses would have been and he would clean
up and fixed barameters and encompasses and and he was,

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you know, anything kind of little kind of machinery, gadgety
type things he would clean up. And my dad used
to help and sometimes tell you to take this around
to Bill's place. You'll need it for such or such,
you know, tiny little screws and things.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
And yeah, he was.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Was he on Belgium?

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Where was he was?

Speaker 10 (01:01:50):
What was he that Belgians?

Speaker 12 (01:01:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:01:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Are you still on the island Angela?

Speaker 10 (01:02:00):
Oh, my sisters still live there? No, no, no, And
I was back there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Despite everything, there's nice birds, there's nice bush and it's
it's there's great walking tracks, and it's a good you know,
it's certainly got liverability. It might have a few tos,
but certainly it's it's really easy to get around.

Speaker 10 (01:02:23):
Yeah, well, I mean it's it's nice to go back,
you know, it's nice to go for the weekend or
during the week when all the tourists are up there,
you know, and go to where my parents and great
grandparents lived and because yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
No, Well, we were down there. We're down that Christmas
house sitting. We're house sitting a dog and a frog.
Now we're a house sitting a dog and a tadpole,
and that's the tadpole. The dog was fine and the
tadpole was challenging because it became a frog. But anyway,
we went down the far end of the island for
a drive. We had it borrowed a last day down

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to where those vineyards are.

Speaker 20 (01:03:02):
And that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
That's pretty full on, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Flash down, couldn't get out of there quick enough?

Speaker 10 (01:03:09):
Wow, and dodging the dodging the ring. You were attractors, nudging.

Speaker 3 (01:03:14):
People from the past life. I've been a run. Ange's
a bit nice to talk. Thank you for that. Sixteen
to ten eccentrics and the weather. So all the newspapers
are getting rid of the weather. How do you feel
about that. I've never looked. It's for twenty years since
I want to look at a weather map. Get in touch.
Fifteen to ten, twelve to ten, Joshua, it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:03:38):
Very markets here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
You are good things, Joshua, good good.

Speaker 19 (01:03:42):
Oh, just what's the point of getting the weather in
the paper. Anyway, when the weather's already changed by the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Time it gets to it exactly, it's twelve hours old.

Speaker 13 (01:03:52):
Exactly.

Speaker 19 (01:03:54):
Yeah, I think it's time to just, you know, put
on the big boy pants and get with the times,
you know, because I could.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
I was surprised at people because it was always it
was always about five words of what the weather was.
It was never very where is my paper gone? It
was ever informative.

Speaker 19 (01:04:12):
No, no, no, it was well what you got up
to five days in advance of the weather, and then
by the time you got to the second day, it
was already changed. The complete other way around them.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Surprised people still were into it all.

Speaker 19 (01:04:26):
So some people find change hard to deal with. Then,
you know, as it changes, they're just like, oh, well.

Speaker 6 (01:04:32):
That's the weather.

Speaker 19 (01:04:33):
You can't trust the newspaper, it's unreliable, but they'll still
hold their tradition.

Speaker 6 (01:04:38):
Ac do you want to call it that?

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
What does surprise me is how bad the the obsession
with weather on the TV one news. They spent about
twenty minutes. And who wants to know to be told
what the weather did your day because you've already experienced
it makes no sense to me.

Speaker 19 (01:04:54):
Well, that's exactly right. I suppose maybe if you're traveling
away you can see the ground conditions potentially leaves it.
Apart from that, I can't see anything right side to it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Or no, I can't. I can even find them with
it anyway, No, yeah, no, I wouldn't. Yeah, and I
need to know whether I've got We've got it. We've
got a clothesline and no dryer, so I need to
know what the weather's like every hour because I've got
to bring Washington and out with my mega pigs. So yeah,
it's daily casts not good enough anymore.

Speaker 19 (01:05:27):
I'll tell you what is brilliant, and said Bloody rain Rader.
You know, yes, such a percent of the time it's unreliable,
but it does give you a considerable indication.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yep, I agree, Josh, Thanks so much for that. Ten
Away from ten Marcus till twelve. Another reason paper media
is dying. I don't exactly read them, but we'll flip through.
I miss Tamati on The Old Reckfast Show with Mark Henry.
What does it even mean? The reason newspapers are dying
is because they survived on advertising, and the advertising has

(01:05:58):
all gone to Facebook and YouTube. So that's what's happened.
Radio slightly better. And why that is is because I
don't know the reasons. May do advertise seems to be
quite robust, but print anyhow, it's ten from ten and
let me just have a quick look to see what's
happening in England. We're talking about eccentrics. We're talking about

(01:06:21):
etcentric because of a man in Nelson that walks around
with a two letter bottle on his head. Now, what
a brilliant thing to do, and people abuse him. I
wonder to what I yell at him, because I mean,
if you can get yell something funny, it's probably cool
because he's probably heard most things. But yeah, and then interesting,
it's for his whole time. He's just got bored and
not started carrying a water bottle. I'm going to bounced

(01:06:41):
on my head and he's bounced a watermelon and a
pumpkin and four tins of beans. Goodness, how would you
bounce a watermelon on your head? I mean that is
literally spherical and he hasn't got an odd shaped head. Goodness. Anyway,
something to practice tomorrow, be in touch headle twelve seems

(01:07:01):
we've very serious far and christ Church, I've got word
from the lane Todd christ Church sch Metroy recommander, who
says emergency service are attending a house foreign Whitehall Street
in christ Church tonight eight twenty five reports have made
a house but on fire with people unaccounted for. Two
people have suffered critical injuries. We are working to determine
how many people remain outstanding. Police are on the scene

(01:07:23):
with cordons and place in Whitehall Street and Hills Road.
Members of the public are advised to avoid the area
as emergency services work at the scene. Further information will
be released when it becomes available. I imagine not tonight though.
Hills Road is the one that goes into too. That's
a situation there Whitehall's Street, I think it is Motahoe

(01:07:46):
would be the sabberb I guess that would or st
Alban's that the situation I've got there for you people.
Any other news that you've got to Thanks for the
updates on that too. And a ship's been seized in
the Strait of Hormuz a ship anng were not quite
the straight but up the a ship anchored off the
east coast of the United Arab m has been seized

(01:08:07):
and is heading towards I Rany and Territorial Waters receive
reports the vessel was taken by unauthorized personnel well anchored
near the Strait of hor Moves, so no one quite
saying where the ship is from or who's responsible. So
that seems to be an escalation. So that's just happened.

(01:08:29):
That's what we've got for you tonight. We in touch people.
If you want to be a part of the show,
here til twelve o'clock tonight. Oh eight hundred eighty nine
nine to text. Never mentioned the Strait of hor Moves
for a while, haven't even checked on brinquid it'll be
one hundred and six. It seems we were at debt.
But yep, if you want to be a part of
the show, that's the plan. We in touch. Get those
texts through. Oh, get in touch far away from ten

(01:08:53):
o'clock and I'll be with you right through twelve. Yes,
so yeah, be a part of it as you want
to be, get in touch. But yes, I've got no
breaking news for the Sermon's texted me too that the
that they've opened the betting on the betting odds. Thanks
Gary and last hours. Overseas betting agencies are taking big

(01:09:16):
bets on Angela Rainer at two dollars fifty to be
the next UK Prime minister. Regards Gary, that would be
the case. The both leader of the Conservative Leader of
Labor party would both be women, of course, though they're
not the major parties too, because Farag's party is doing
quite well. That could be flesh in the pen. You
never quite know about that one. And yes, that is it.

(01:09:36):
If you want to join the discussion after the news,
feel free, looking forward to your input tonight.

Speaker 20 (01:09:43):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
The other thing too, is there's been a no, that's
the same story. There was also a car crash in
christ Chitch too, but I'll get some more information about that.
So there we have it. Looking forward to you and
put if you want to partake after the news. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, we are talking eccentrics.
Does your town have an eccentric?

Speaker 20 (01:10:01):
What do they do?

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
I'm not sure about the people that run a lot
run on a mayera. I don't know if that's eccentric
or a fitness obsession. Probably a bit of both. Hoked
on the endorphin high of running, and that's probably not
a bad thing to get hooked on. And what harm
is that going to cause anyone. Ten oh seven, Good
evening and welcome hettil midnight tonight by the way too
for those people that follow history. And this is not

(01:10:24):
something I am that aware of. But today, in nineteen
forty one was the sinking of the mind sweeper the
hm is Pureri, which happened up near there's a memorial.
Five sailors killed. The memorial for that is at Breamhead

(01:10:49):
and fang Are the ahead of mine, eight miles northeast
of Breamhead. Nineteen forty one. Five people killed Lieutenant black Laws,
petty Officer Mattson, Abel, Seaman Perkin, Stewart Hobbley, Stuart Richardson.
People did survive. Rocked when it had of mine, I believe,

(01:11:16):
and sank so quickly that no lifeboats could be launched.
Twenty six survivors, five of them injured, were rescued by
from the waters by the gale. So I didn't realize this.
But why this is history interesting history. This was the
only naval loss in using waters during the Second World War.

(01:11:39):
That's something that I am not cognizant of. To there
we go. That's the wreck of the sinking of the Perdity.
I don't know if the ship was recovered or the
wreck is still there, any of those details. But if
you are a maritime time history might have some more
information on that never physically salvaged. The wreck is one

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hundred and ten meters deep. It's the other thing. The
other thing that I've asked out, just a bit of
a speculator because I'm in the learning mode tonight. There
is a situation around football in Scotland because it's become
a big story today with the Scottish team Hearts, which
I don't know anything about. People have told me that

(01:12:21):
Scottish football is all based around Glasgow, so if anyone,
as a follower of Scottish football can tell me the story,
would love to hear from you. It's called the Heart
of Midlothian Football Club currently known as Hearts, and they're
based in Edinburgh. So yep, if you've got to know
anything about that, that's good. And we're also talking about eccentrics.

(01:12:43):
But basically it's a bit of anything. Tonight. It's a
Friday light free for all we call Thursday Friday Light.
But yes, being touched you want to be part of
the show. My name is Marcus. Welcome oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to to text.
They haven't run a premiership for a long long time.
Hearts not since nineteen sixty. I don't know who their
famous supporters are, there will be plenty, but yeah, that

(01:13:05):
might be something you want to talk about, so yeah,
get in touch. You want to be part of the show.
Also talking about milk deliveries and because it ended some
say thirty years ago today, I don't know if that's
the truth, because I think it probably ended at different
places around different areas. I do believe when I first
moved to Bluff there was a milk delivery there. I'm
sure of that. Actually, Well their memory is a funny thing,

(01:13:25):
isn't it. But yeah, that was twenty five, twenty three,
twenty four years ago, So yeah, that's something you might
want to talk about also. But yeah, Blines are free
to be nice to hear from you. You want to
get involved. There's something else you want to mention. I
can handle it, so be in touch. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine to two detext.
There's anything different than you want to talk about, be
my guest. A lot happening today, but anyway, that's the

(01:13:49):
situation with the puddy that was sunk this day in
nineteen forty one. By the way, it's not looking great
for the second Harbor crossing already. The fighting has started
on that. Wayne Brown's not going to be pushed around.
He's also justifiably stirring the pot as far as our
government paying three million for Robbie Williams to come, which

(01:14:10):
is I've got no idea what that's about. That's some
other stuff you might want to talk about. Oh, eight
hundred and eighty Teddy. Oh, by the way, the digital
driver's licenses are on their way. You've got any thoughts
about digital driver's licenses. They've just asked to pill a
bill to help those become a thing. It will be
an option alternative. I don't know where my driver's license is.

(01:14:32):
I'm pretty sure I've got a copy on my phone,
but I don't know where my actual license is. I
don't know if having a copy on your phone is
good enough. I asked by Wallert about three months ago,
and I can't work up where it is because I'm
sure if anyone's found it, they would have handed it
back to me. Had three cards in it. So yes,
I've got no idea where it is. So if you're
a clear avoidant type person, if you do some work
around that, that'd help. Thirteen past ten. By the way,

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New South Wales eight and then scored twice against Queensland.
This is women's state of origin. I think New South
Wales one last time they send to be the stronger team.
Looking at it tonight, Hamela, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:15:08):
Yes, hello, Marcus. You mentioned recently a ship that was
sunk by a mine and the only one you thought
that was sunk in New Zealand Waters. I'm not sure
whether you would regard the Tasmancy as New Zealand waters
because I have to mention to you the sinking of

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the merchants the Turaquina.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Yes, what the point I made? It was the only
members of the New Zealand Navy that were killed during
World War One, and New Zealand Waters a New Zealand.

Speaker 21 (01:15:46):
Maybe that's rather different than Yeah, yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:49):
The thing too, because I believe there were a number
of But tell me about the Turquina anyway, because I'm
kind of interested in that.

Speaker 11 (01:15:55):
Well.

Speaker 21 (01:15:55):
I happen to be the daughter in law of Captain
James led My husband died some years ago, but Turaquina
was sunk on the tree twentieth of August nineteen forty
in the Tasman Sea by the German rader the Orion.
I can only tell you a little bit more that

(01:16:17):
after the war, the commander of the ran got in
touch with the New Zealand Shipping Company and commented on
the bravery of Captain Laird and putting up a defiant
fight with just one small gun on the stern of
the Turukena. So it's all a very dramatic story which

(01:16:41):
anyone can pick up online. Turuquina was the fourth in
the line of Turuqunas and so I'll tell you the
whole story.

Speaker 3 (01:16:53):
So that was a vessel that was trading goods between
New Zealand and England.

Speaker 14 (01:16:56):
Is that right?

Speaker 21 (01:16:58):
That's the one.

Speaker 14 (01:16:59):
Yes.

Speaker 21 (01:17:00):
Captain Laird was very well known and partecretly in Omoru,
where the med a great interest in him, and I
think they had some rather interesting on shore parties whenever
the Turikina was in port.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
And just to get this right, there were no survivors.

Speaker 21 (01:17:20):
There were survivors. I couldn't tell you exactly how many
there were, probably in the region of twenty seven, maybe
in the early thirties. One of those survivors has actually
written a book about his experience. As I recalled, the
orion took the as many people out of the sea

(01:17:42):
as they could possibly find, and they were taken up
I think, to an island in the Pacific and offloaded there.
Obviously they couldn't see and look after an extra load
of seamen on board the Iran, so they were put
ashore there. So that's another interesting aspect about it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
I have some vague recollections of talking about the story
a number of years ago, but yeah, that certainly rings
the bell when they were I mean, there are amazing stories,
those New Zealand stories, and with the German mind shifts
down there and how they would actually you know, even
with that ship that came across from the Chathams that
was that was attacked and all those people went on board,
and you know, and then of course you've you know,

(01:18:27):
what do you do with the survivors. You can't bring
them back to New Zealand because you yourself would be
it would be impounded. So you've got to find some
strange Pacific island to drop them on.

Speaker 21 (01:18:40):
Yes, I've forgotten the name of the island now, but eventually,
of course there was mostly taken impact in Britain, were
they were originally from, so.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Most most of the queue would have most of the
crew would have been from Britain, Is that right?

Speaker 21 (01:18:55):
Yes, it was a New Zealand shipping company ship to Routina. Yeah,
but they were based in Britain and therefore most of
the Crewe I.

Speaker 10 (01:19:06):
Think would have been from there.

Speaker 21 (01:19:08):
But James led the captain. He went down with the Turkeena,
sadly leaving five children. So it is quite a sad
outcome for the family.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Oh yes, because that's what my questions were, because you
explained that I wasn't sure about that. There's a heartbreaking
thing for the family, Absolutely heartbreaking.

Speaker 21 (01:19:31):
It was, indeed, and worse of all, they didn't know
about it because they're on holiday on the Isle of
Arm off the coast of Scotland, and they read it
in the newspaper, so all things were rather difficult than
those days.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Wow, yes, to keep it and I'm sure once the orion,
well yeah, I'm not quite sure how the communications would
have gone. You know, do you know what the name
of the book was, That of any chance similar.

Speaker 21 (01:20:01):
It was something like Black Raiders or yes, I can't
remember a decade. There was another little aspect of this
many many years later. The call sign, which I think
was normally carved in wood above the Sparky's cabin, washed

(01:20:23):
up ashore somewhere near New Plymouth, and I believe that.

Speaker 6 (01:20:28):
Well it was.

Speaker 21 (01:20:30):
I think my husband was approached about that, and he
suggested that it go into the museum, the Navy museum,
I think it's in Auckland, and there was further information
in that naval museum there too, the photographs until.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
More about it.

Speaker 21 (01:20:50):
But that's about as much as I can tell you
about us.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
I really appreciate it. That's fascinating himla, I really appreciate that.
Thank you so much for coming through with that. If
you've got more to say about that, do come through.
People we are talking about. Yeah, it's quite often's interesting
when we mention what's gone on with today in history,
and we've already gone from the sinking of the Perii
to the sinking of the Turacina two hund sixty miles
from Cape egmont YEP. The orion opened far on the

(01:21:17):
Turacina and within twenty minutes half of the fifty six
crew were dead or injured, and she was sinking by
the stern. A second torpedo stammed to the ship while
the crew were abandoning her, causing more depth than delivering
her final blow to the steamer that sank less than
two minutes later. Captain Lead and thirty four of his
offices and men died on what was termed a gallant
effort in the fine tradition of the British Merchant Navy.

(01:21:39):
During the fight, the Turacina had kept the Iran a
distance with its single gun and it made least one
successful hit on the raider. The Oriyon picked up twenty
one survivors excuse me, one severely injured. Satah later died
assisted by a flying boat. The eighth gimes Achilles went
full speed to the location given by the Turrecina, but

(01:22:00):
the search was unsuccessful. It was carrying frozen meat for England.
It was also that shot the boat, along with a
comet that got rid of the homewood and the Rangatani.
I'm not familiar with what island the people were dropped,
and I can't get the information. Maybe you do know.
Also twenty past ten, I'm looking forward to your input
tonight and your calls. Twenty three past ten, with you

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till twelve. I hope it's good where you are.

Speaker 6 (01:22:26):
People.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
We are looking for the more time appropriate word than
good evening. Haven't come up with that what that is yet?
Roman will be along after midnight tonight. Good evening, Helen,
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:22:38):
Yes, well, I've got the book kept in castaways about
the thinking of a homeward breach, sure from the Second
Little War.

Speaker 5 (01:22:50):
Yeah, I am.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
That was the one that came from the Chathams, wasn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:22:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:22:55):
It was only about two and a half hours out
loaded with people and about the seven sheep in the
horse in the covert the Cumberland. The German raiders were
painted in black and yellow Japanese colors, so the captain
of the homewood wasn't particularly worried when he saw them,

(01:23:19):
but they were undercover. They told them to have radio
silence or they'd seen them, so they did, and they
took the people aboard and killed a few sheeps from mud,
and then torpedoed the ship and sunk it. And they
were kind to the people. They sunk about six more

(01:23:41):
ships on the way up between Australia and New Zealand,
and they put them on Emaara Island and they came back.
The people came back through Australia down the East coast
on a train back home.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
Could you show me the name of the island again,
I are a you. Yeah, I'm just trying to work
out which that one is. Oh, yes, it's island Papu
New Guinea.

Speaker 17 (01:24:13):
Yeah, and they were I'll just read it again recently.
And they were on the ship for about six weeks
on abe Island. They stopped there. They were hoping that
was the one that they were going to be put on,
but no, they went on for either they were starting
to run out of food, rice and not much food,

(01:24:36):
but enough to survive on.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
You have a friend of mine, an invert Cargol called Lindley,
who's who was either on the ship or a mother
was on the ship. I forget the details, but yeah,
it's I've spoken to her about that. It did so,
and it must be amazing too. Imagine if you're running
a German mind, you know, a German ship like that,
and you're destroying and shooting down vessels and then you're

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having to then you're having to rescue them and look
after them and accommodate them having killed half the crew
and stuff, I mean, war cheap as creepers. It must
have been unbelievable.

Speaker 17 (01:25:11):
It was pointless doing that. It was like they were
on holiday and just having fun thinking ships because they
were no threat to Germany and England where the war was.
Well what what what?

Speaker 13 (01:25:25):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:25:25):
What was the thinking of the of those ships down
here trying to I mean, what was the what was
the point of targeting New Zealand's I guess it was
all going to I guess it was lamb and stuff
going to the UK. I guess they thought they could
it were it were Yeah, I could can't even work
it out.

Speaker 17 (01:25:45):
No, it was just having fun, I think, just pointless,
having something to do. They were told to patrol the
Pacific and think the ships that they came across. It
was a big job painting these ships and black and
yellow Japanese colors. You know, it would be huge, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Wouldn't Yes, absolutely, but I would have been terrifying for
the people on the ships like the Turraquina as well,
to be you know, there's a big crew on that
big crew on that ship too, to to you know,
to to tract that and sink it, I mean, and
then have to shoot half of them and actually have
to rescue the survivors and accommodate them.

Speaker 13 (01:26:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:26:27):
Well they didn't uh chill any of the crew. They
took them on board and looked after them really good.
But just to get rid of the actual vessel.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Yeah, what's theme with that book? What's with the books
you've got?

Speaker 17 (01:26:45):
Helen Captives and Castaways by Winifred Owen DIARYA one of
the mothers of board the ship that was through the
eyes and the way of a young girl that was too.
Family were moving up from their chaverns to New Zealand
and wanted to take her pony, and she was really

(01:27:08):
upsets that she couldn't, but she was glad in the
end that she didn't poke it because they had to
shoot the horse with the sheep.

Speaker 3 (01:27:18):
Okay, thanks for coming through Helim we're talking. People say
it sort of it's been treasuically forgotten too. There's not
enough attention. But the Turricuna, which I kind of agree with.
Thirty five men lost their lives and twenty one survivors
were taken prisoner of war. So we will talk about
that I'm always interested talking about New Zealand's shipping during

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World War Two. So get in touch if you on
a partake, Oh, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty anything
else that's happening, to stay in touch also too. Nine
two nine was the text number. It'd be nice to
hear from you. Also talking about eccentrics. With the guy
that balances the water bottle on his head that's been
walking around Nelson for the last couple of years, good
on them. Seems to be a live wire. But yeah,

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what have you got? Who have you in your town
that's doing some interesting things? Even it's Marcus hanging on
the good evening, Welcome Haven.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Good evening, good night, Yeah, good night, Evan. Between Terry
and the Noisies, they had a whole pile of mines.
Is it winky?

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
With a nagara went down.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
I'm not, I'm not. I don't think anybody got sunk
by them. But between Terry, Terry and the noisies, it
was for me to keep the submarines out. Apparently back
in the day, kind of story, the old man told
me that let's forgot the concrete blocks there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
It was a big thing when there's that mine base
that there was. It was a big thing mine, the
mining of the harbor and the prevention of mind and
doing all that sort of stuff. I mean it was
really affected Auckland I think during World War two.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Yeah, well I'm surprised nothing got hurt by them or something,
you know, just accidentally there was that many out there,
like they call it the blocks between terry and the noise.
So they just cut all the chains off. They didn't
actually look the concrete blocks that were holding them there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
I don't know how long after I don't know how
long after the conflicts stopped that they were still It
took them to make the harvest safe.

Speaker 13 (01:29:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Well we used to fish the blocks and it was
like a natural man made reef. Yeah, unnatural. Yeah, it
just sort of quite interesting that nothing actually.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Got So what were the actual blocks for Evan.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
I'd hold the mines in place.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Okay, So with the would the mine would the German
mind ships? Would they these are the minds of Germans.
Later the mine the kiwis laid.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Kiewey's laid them to get the submarines out.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
Yeah, copy that, thanks, Evan, I kneel It's Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:29:55):
Welcome Oh yeah, So New Zealand was the food bottle,
and it's a fake for things like netsa snus that
went to the first eighth and ninth fleets that were
involved in ireland hopping campaign towards Hipan So that finished
up at Okinawa. And of course these fleets all together

(01:30:22):
contained over one hundred aircraft carriers, so it took role
of food from New Zealand to supply the various citizen
on those on those ships in World War two.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
So that again.

Speaker 22 (01:30:41):
It was a major logious exercise because you know, towards
end it was at Okinawa or two is.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Just south of Japan.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Sorry, what was the.

Speaker 22 (01:30:54):
Fifth, eighth and ninth US specific fleets over one hundred
aircraft carriers.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
To supply food for yeah, okay, wow.

Speaker 22 (01:31:09):
Yeah, it was sort of towards the end. It was
like a tiffy shoot. Actually, there was only one threat
way way into the end the end of the war,
when the Yamoto, the large largest pettleship ever built, supposedly impregnable,
broke free from a port in southern Japan and headed

(01:31:30):
towards over an hour to supply savors to fight consinue
the fight on the island and it didn't expect it
to make it that fine. Sure enough it didn't. It
got swamped by ninety five hellcats and one hundred and
twenty two torpedo bombers.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
Nice to hear from Neil, thanks so much. That twenty
six away from eleven o'clock. By the way, for those
looking at I just did that information about the mines.
Four hundred and thirty four mines were laid in the
defensive mindfot on the Hoaki Gulf. Both fields were sweet
to nineteen forty four to caounty for all except two mines,
which were known to have broken a drift. And that's

(01:32:13):
a pretty amazing I'll tell you what's good. That's that
Naval museum at Devonport. That's a great place to go do.
It's a fantastic museum if you ever get a chance.
We've got a pretty good website too, to a Pete o'
bay in. But there's a fantastic photo because there was
netting in the net boom also that was everywhere too that.
But yeah, anyway, we are talking about the Mechant Navy

(01:32:37):
and also the wreck of the Pudity that happened this
day in nineteen forty one. The only members of New
Zealand Navy killed within New Zealand waters during World War Two,
and there's a memorial to them off bream Head, which
I wasn't aware of. I'm normally pretty good on my shipwrecks.
That's a new one to me. We're also talking eccentrics

(01:32:58):
and anything else you want to talk about tonight. So yeah,
getting through always like a bit of a history. I
always like I like history. Marcus the said person we
having an Eshburton as Goldberg. He has a green mobility,
screwed addresses and green to support the mid Canery Rugby Club,
and wears bullhorns on his head. All the truck drivers
took to them. Just google Goldberg. Ash Burton marks you

(01:33:20):
have a gorgeous older woman who wears fluo orange and
Gisbon brilliant and a lot of shout outs to Joan
Butcher and Joan Butcher. I didn't know so well, but
she was very famous in death. She was I think
it happened during COVID, but she was an extremely well
known Dunedin celebrity. I don't really know too much about her,
but those that came across her said she was unforgettable.

(01:33:44):
And I kind of wish I had anyway welcome people
twenty three to eleven and talking about any manner of stuff.
Good evening, Marcus. National government also put moneys into the
Lincoln Park continent and the Robbie Williams content coming up.
It's a pity their priorities went better, eg. Primoring services, etc.
He's some surprised that's news today because I mean, I

(01:34:07):
guess what Wayne Brown has done is said the amount
I mean Robbie Williams was coming anyway, but it seems
advised to me. And also at the same time all
these festivals are going broke. That probably really did drive
local inbound tourism twenty three to eleven. They didn't get
stut of origin. I think that fund was used to
get stut of origin to Eden Park should have gone

(01:34:28):
to christ Church. I'm not quite sure if that's good
all bad, but yes, if you want to add and
discuss this good, good evening, Marcus, hope you're doing well.
F Yi am one of a two district council Fielding
is one using his best tasting drinking water testa though
the WOG conference tonight. Great things come out of friendly

(01:34:48):
fielding from your longtime friend John in Auckland. Thank you, John.
I didn't mention that earlier. I think the Aussies won
the Ultimate award, But wouldn't the water taste the same
every year? I can't work out, well they have it
every year. As I was saying earlier in Forcargo and
Bluff water, it's fantastic taste. I mean, it's just a

(01:35:08):
great water. It's out of the river, but boy, it's good.
Twenty two away from eleven. Welcome people, it's nineteen to eleven.
I hope it's good.

Speaker 13 (01:35:16):
We you are.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
The line's free. If you want to come through tonight,
looking forward to your calls, if you want to be
a part of it. That's the spirit people. There might
be something else you want to mention, to talk about something,
Oh the other story tonight? That yeah, and I'm very
happy to keep talking about World War two and ships
that got sunk and use it in waters. But the
other thing I will mention too, is that there has
been some talk tonight from people upset they're upset about

(01:35:43):
They're upset about the fact that local papers are no
longer printing the weather map. That's something you'd be upset about.
We don't get the pay. We've got the pay for
a long time. Why would you Last time we tried
to get it that was delivered some frequently, there was
no point. It just became a we had all the

(01:36:05):
best intentions, but it became something that became too difficult.
So whether they couldn't get deliveries or it just it
seemed as though they were our heart, wasn't it it?
And I believe with the regional papers, I think probably
it's all online anyway, then you never situation subscribes them
online because you want to read something, then you can't unsubscribe.
By the way, Brent Crude one oh five seven three,

(01:36:27):
so still well above one hundred dollars a barrel. It's
not coming down anytime soon. But that's a situation. That's
what I can tell you. But yeah, how's you said?
What's happening for you tonight? People? Let me know what's
going on this Thursday. It's the Thursday free for all.
But get in touch of you on talk on here.
That's the plan to night nineteen to eleven. Embrace your calls,
looking forward to what you've got to say. Yeah, thank

(01:36:49):
you Rob for this story. Oh it's the last year
sturb like it. Yeah, nurse saved sixty thousand dollars having
robotic hip surgery in India, says New Zealand's health system
is third world and nurse need a double hip replacement
to wait years or pay eighty thousand New Zealand instead
robotics robotics surgery India for twenty thousand. She's hospitals there

(01:37:10):
are more advanced in our third world system. Goodness, you
know what you want to say about that, but I'm
up for it. Some of the other stuff that people
are saying to Look what else people are saying tonight
state of origin Queensland six, New South Wales eight. That's
the women's state of origin. I don't know if we
have to make that distinction. Never watch one news them

(01:37:30):
or never international rubbish one. If anyone else feels the change,
goodbye six pm news. And I'm nearly sixty, so there's
a clear shift. I think most people gave up watching
the six o'lot news a long time ago because it
takes too long. The bullets and only ever should have
been half an hour, but they wanted to make it
an hour because the advertising around it. But most of
it is Ford teasing and the weather. I always thought

(01:37:53):
it's of very inefficient spending of an hour. It's time
sixteen to eleven, yes, oh, fourteen away from eleven o'clock.
If you want to be a part of it's Marcus.
Greetings and good evening and welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:38:10):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. I'd like to tell you a
story about Niagara.

Speaker 3 (01:38:16):
Oh great, thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:38:18):
We owned men I till just recently, and she was
the very first rescue boat when the Niagara sent out
a may day to say that she had been mined
near the Mocha he nails and needed help. Achilly stood
off and also another passenger vessel, which escapes me at

(01:38:39):
the moment. But it was really quite amazing because men
I towed four life rafts from the Niagara and had
twenty eight people on board. Each life raft towed them
over to the waiting Achilles, and the other vessel put
the passengers aboard the other vessel and towed the life

(01:39:03):
raft to Achilles. Acclese was a busy boat in nose cases.
Now the interesting thing. The interesting thing is one of
the people that were rescued was the first officer of
the Niagara, and when he was a board men I.
He used a chart and put a pin brick through

(01:39:25):
the chart to say where the Niagara went down, and
they used that towards the end of the year to
rescue the gold. Because niagara was carrying over two million
dollars in today's value of gold bars as a gold bullion,
as well as passengers. They were heading towards Canada. Why

(01:39:47):
they were taking the gold to Canada, God only knows.
I don't be safe.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Yes, I have read books and been confused about all
of that with the gold. And of course they say
some gold unaccounted for and all sorts of stuff, don't.

Speaker 10 (01:39:59):
They Only five bars were missing. They got all of
it except for five bars.

Speaker 3 (01:40:06):
But they don't think those five bars are still down there,
do they?

Speaker 13 (01:40:09):
I mean.

Speaker 10 (01:40:11):
Probably in somebody's hip pocket.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
So that's the vessel you're talking about. How's that spelled?

Speaker 10 (01:40:18):
Me a I men i And what it was named?

Speaker 21 (01:40:24):
She was named it?

Speaker 10 (01:40:25):
Sorry. She was built for a fellow in fommer Ray,
and he and his wife had visited England where her
family came from, which was the Isle of Anglesey that's
between and the straight the water between the Isle of
Anglesea and Wales called the Straits of Meni, and she

(01:40:47):
was absolutely fascinated by the area and said, can we
call our new boat men I. So that's how she
got her name.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
And during World War Two she was just a recreational launch,
is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:41:01):
She was a recreational launch up until the Niagara incident.
Then after that she was commandeered.

Speaker 13 (01:41:08):
By the.

Speaker 10 (01:41:10):
Not the Home Guard.

Speaker 11 (01:41:11):
What do they call the.

Speaker 10 (01:41:16):
Not It is a branch of the Navy, but it's
a bit like the Home Guard was, but it's Home Navy.
I'm sorry the name escapes me right now.

Speaker 13 (01:41:26):
And she was in that.

Speaker 10 (01:41:28):
Situation for until the end of the war. And her
skipper at that her owner didn't want to be part
of it. But a fellow called Arnold Baldwin, who owned
Better Business for many years, a very large business directory company.
He was her skipper because he was a merchant navy

(01:41:51):
auxiliary person and he actually bought me and I at
the end.

Speaker 12 (01:41:56):
Of the war.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
And when did you have her from Sheerleienne?

Speaker 10 (01:41:59):
We had her from twenty twenty one until last year,
roughly about November last year, twenty five four years.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
And where was she where? Where did you have her?
In the white of Matar?

Speaker 20 (01:42:11):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:42:12):
Or she's in she still is in the heritage Landing
Silo Marina.

Speaker 9 (01:42:17):
Ah.

Speaker 10 (01:42:17):
Okay, she's one of the classic wooden boats.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Yeah, just beautiful. Thanks so much for your call. I've
got to run for commercial Shirleire, but I appreciate that.
Nine away from eleven. Keep your calls coming through. We're
on to ships, which I'm happy about. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to de text
six minutes from eleven. People welcome a Hittel twelve. Obviously
it's my job. Get in touch if you want to

(01:42:41):
be a part of it. We're discussing the weather prints
in the paper and we're onto the record the Niagara
as well too. It's been a quick a quick discussion
of the wrecks from the Pudai that was sunk this
day in nineteen forty one off breem Head, then too
the Tilaquina was sunk by the German destroyer the Oriyan

(01:43:02):
off New Plymouth, and then talking about the record of
the night, which was a big I'm always surprised how
big a ship. The Niagara was had all the gold
on it. The gold was going to the United States
to pay for arms. I think that's what happened. Five
five U ninety gold bars from South Africa I valued

(01:43:22):
at quarter of a million pounds in those days, a
payment from the United Kingdom to the then neutral United
States for munitions. I don't know how the gold had
got to New Zealand. It was a big ship the era.
It was a big ship, the Niagara, it wasn't you know.
I've always visualized them something and now they're worried about
the fuel getting out of it. Hundred sixty meters long,

(01:43:46):
which makes us think how long was the Titanic. It's
always the thing we go back to two to six,
so longer than the Titanic. Titanic was till in sixty
nine meters. But yeah, that's what we are talking about tonight.
So if you've got anything to add about this far
away from eleven here till twelve o'clock tonight, oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. And also eccent towns, and

(01:44:07):
they're eccentrics. I don't know if there's more or less
of them. I guess probably a lot of them are
online now searching for followers. Not quite the same thing,
is it? And I've said this a couple of times.
But I'm desperate tonight to hear from our Hearts football
supporter from Scotland because i know it's been a really
big day for them and a really big season for them.

(01:44:29):
Everyone's talking about conspiracy and everyone's trying to support the
Glasgow team, So if you want to talk about that,
that would be of interest. There's a nickname for the
Hearts football team. I forget what it is, but yeah,
if you want to mention that, that's if you're a
football if you're a Scottish football expert. The jam Tarts

(01:44:50):
obviously with Hearts or the Jambos taken one step further
and as I've said, Roman will be along at midnight.
He'll help you through, help you through the night. So
that's what we've got tonight. In the Australian State of
Origin Women's State of Origin, twenty minutes left its close.
Although every time I've looked up, New South Wales seemed

(01:45:12):
to have had their run of it or the rub
of it. I think, as Tony would say, once upon
a time, it's fourteen ten to New South Wales. So
I'm surprised that whether that fullback for Queensin's always good,
she's phenomenal anyway, that's what's happening at the moment. So
nineteen minutes left to go there, New South Wales leading
Queensland fourteen to ten. So be in touch if you

(01:45:37):
want to partake in the show tonight. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Marcus I got physiotherapy from Nigeria
and recently he also recognized that his health system was
third world. I stopped watching TV about fifteen years. I
couldn't stand the ads. Got rid of Sky around the
same time. They spent a third of the show advertising
their own show and a third rehashing what just happened

(01:45:58):
in the last segment. No time, I think we're talking
about the news, they're not Sky or those Sky.

Speaker 13 (01:46:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
I think probably Sky's pro get a bit too much,
don't they? Finally our for me, Greetings and welcome. I
encourage your input. We are talking about exctually about Auckland
and the naval activity during World War two. On the
back of the thinking of the HMS poodity that happened
this day in nineteen forty one. Only people from the
use of the navy that were killed during World War

(01:46:26):
Two in New Zealand, I said World War Two tonight.
The only people that were killed during World War Two
in New Zealand and that was yeah, nineteen forty one
on the Niagara and there's a memorial for them at Breamhead.
It's like as a recent memorial, but it's one of those.
I guess a lot of those tragedies during World War
two were not well known because corodict things were happening

(01:46:49):
as soon as a number of years ago now. But anyway,
that's what we are talking about tonight. And we're also
talking about football and the Hearts football team because there's
been a lot of discussion today about the fact that
they I think they are number one in the league.
They haven't won the league for a number of years,
but they go against Celtic, who they well, I think
it went confidence Celtics and beat them because they reckon.

(01:47:12):
It's all rigged. That's kind of what the bistory is,
I think. George, it's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 14 (01:47:18):
Yeah, how are you Marcus good things?

Speaker 19 (01:47:20):
George.

Speaker 14 (01:47:21):
I used to support the Hearts team and from the
age of ten until sixteen I went to the Mattress
but we were never allowed to go to the match.
When the Celtic was playing. Of course they used to
throw bottles from everything all around. They're a bunch of
a bunch of animals. But anyway, what the story is

(01:47:44):
the one point ahead now and they play on Saturday
against Celtic at Celtic. So then it's thirty years had
the chance to win the league and they don't think
they'll beat Celtic. But I hope they do.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
Tell me something, George. Hell, how long is the drive
from Edinburgh to Glasgow?

Speaker 4 (01:48:10):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:48:11):
Just now?

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
So they're quite they're quite close. They're not They're not
miles not.

Speaker 14 (01:48:18):
Far away, you know, Glasgow and just not very practical there.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
Yeah, who have always how many? How many top teams
are in Edinburgh? Is it just hats?

Speaker 8 (01:48:30):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:48:31):
Their names are there too.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
That's what I thought I've always And they're not.

Speaker 14 (01:48:34):
They're not in the mix this year, No they're they're Yeah,
well these they're a Catholic team. Catholic team and a
Protestant teeth.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
Okay, so there's a lot. There's a lot more than
just football. There's there's religious rivalries and town rivalries and
how many how many teams? Is Glasgow got the Rangers?

Speaker 14 (01:48:59):
Rangers there?

Speaker 13 (01:49:01):
Okay? So they are.

Speaker 3 (01:49:03):
So those four teams are the top four teams right,
Oh no.

Speaker 14 (01:49:06):
Not necessarily. Dundee United has been playing quite well and
Dundee plays quite well Aberdeen as well. The boy that's
playing for Auckland's he signed up for Aberdeen. No, no,
they're quite they it's not quite as strong as the
English League, I don't think, but I mean a lot

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of these teams are made up of foreigners. Rangers. Rangers
is a very good team. They train, they take a
lot of their boys from the school, give them quite
a period of time playing to see if they're any good.
So they develop a lot of players. Where Celtics a
team that buy all the players. Then normally I think

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I'm ninety two. So you said, imagine how long ago
all that was?

Speaker 3 (01:50:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:50:03):
Yeah, I went to where I was ten. I was sixteen.
Then I got interested in the girls and went to
the dancing.

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Yeah good. And I think you guys are at the
at the Football work Scotland at the Football World Cup this.

Speaker 19 (01:50:15):
Year, are they?

Speaker 6 (01:50:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:50:16):
Oh yeah, I'm not sure. No, I'm not sure I've
made it. Yes they are, Yeah, I had. I came
to New Zealand in nineteen fifty two, so I had
a garage and the boys the last time New Zealand
played Scotland in the World Cup, and all the boys

(01:50:38):
you know, wanted to date with me on it. So anyway,
what happened was that New Zealand scored the first goal.
I think I said no, just just wait a wee
while and I won. I won six pies.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
That's great. And can you can you watch the metch
Does it broadcast in New Zealand? Are you able to
watch that?

Speaker 13 (01:51:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:51:03):
I don't know if you kind of not.

Speaker 8 (01:51:05):
No.

Speaker 14 (01:51:05):
My grands sat and dragged me the other day and
he said, you wouldn't believe it, granddad. But Hearts are
leading the league. So they he says, they're eight points clear.
This was a couple of months ago, but now there
are only one point clear. They've got seventy nine and
Celtics got seventy eight, so if it's a draw, Hearts

(01:51:27):
will still win.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
Yeah, but everyone says it's all corrupt, don't they that
the football the whole football organization is run by Glasgow
and non evil it Hearts one is that. That's what
I'm reading today in that.

Speaker 14 (01:51:39):
I don't But there's always you know, a Catholic, he
begains purchasant. There's those those bad feeling in there. But ah,
they're a terrible team. Once they threw a bottle and.

Speaker 4 (01:51:54):
One of the.

Speaker 14 (01:51:56):
One of the players on the head and he was
a Scottish goalkeeper and they never played a game. They're
a tough lot of bees. Couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
I went.

Speaker 14 (01:52:07):
I didn't go back for forty years, but I went
back and my son in law took me to Hamden
to see the Scottish team play, and honestly, it was unbelievable.
It was like sixth slay one in the role when
they swore the referee. If you time you were so

(01:52:30):
you've got six swears. I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 8 (01:52:32):
Oh the change, and it was, Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
We've made my night. George, thank you so much for calling.
I enjoyed that immensely. It's the backgrounder I needed, so
thank you so much that Tamsons Marcus good.

Speaker 23 (01:52:45):
Evening, good evening, Mark, say you're getting on good thanks.
Hamish just want to live a bit of a chain,
a bit of the Scottish football. Yes, so, uh, long
time glaz go around your spain here. So I'm going
to say, I'd a bit bored, but yes, Scottish football
is corrupt to the core markers.

Speaker 24 (01:53:04):
Okay, so that's match Celtic versus Mother will yes five
minutes of added time.

Speaker 13 (01:53:11):
I saw it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
It was the ninety seventh decision. Was the worst VII ever.

Speaker 24 (01:53:17):
They're saying penalty in the ninety ninth minute, ninety five
minutes I mean of aaded time and it stretches out
to an extra five until Celtic score.

Speaker 23 (01:53:29):
All I'm going to say, Marcus, it's corrupt to the
core mate. And I really hope as a Rangers fan,
I really hope the gem Taps can get it over
the line this weekend and I'll be backing them one
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Why would it be corrupt, Well, I think it's the.

Speaker 23 (01:53:44):
Whole Catholic Protestant thing, and there seems to be some
tie between the Scottish Football Association and Celtic and they
always favor them any decision that's made. You're watching your
Rangers and Celtic game and you'll see the majority of
decisions go towards Celtic. The most recent old firm game,
Celtic twenty five fels yellow cards. There should have been

(01:54:07):
at least to read in there. But once again, like
I say, it's corrupt and I've got some more.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Gital I've got some more general questions for you, Hamish.
Is this cultural for you? I don't mean that, are you?

Speaker 6 (01:54:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:54:20):
My father Squares Regions. Also my grandfather played for Rangers,
so you've sort of got no choice in the matter.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
And are you watching the matches all right now? With
the internet?

Speaker 23 (01:54:31):
Yeah, I'm able to access the matches, yes, and I
subscribe to Rangers TV, which gives me excess to it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
And could you say in subways it's more enjoyable than
the English League because of the passion. Is that what
you Because it seems to be a lot more on
it rivalries and religious rivalries. It seems like it's God
at all.

Speaker 23 (01:54:50):
Yes, I mean there's strong ties there and I guess
that's just the Scottish heritage. And yeah, I enjoyed watching it. Yeah,
I just wanted to make my.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
God and across the World Cup. And is it many
of your team in the World Cup too?

Speaker 24 (01:55:04):
Many of Glasgow and there Scotlander and the World Cup
and he's Zealander and the World Cup.

Speaker 23 (01:55:11):
I'll be I'll be following both teams and really looking
forward to it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
I think last time we went we were pretty proud
that no one scored any goals against us, but we
didn't get us very far, did it. We want to
We actually want to win Sam this time.

Speaker 23 (01:55:23):
That's right. I mean, I'm sure we can sneak it
when in there somewhere along the line. So we're actually
playing Ran, which will be quite interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
You'd be wanting to swap a Jowsey with Iran if
you're playing for the All Whites, wouldn't you, because.

Speaker 23 (01:55:36):
That would be a nice, nice take home, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
They've got that old guy that thirty six because they said,
what did they say about the thirty six year old time?
They said, he's a he's a Did you follow that story?

Speaker 23 (01:55:47):
No, no, I'm not aware of that one.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
Well, so the guy's thirty six Tobby Smith, right, yes.

Speaker 23 (01:55:53):
Tommy Smith as played for Aukland, you see.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
Yeah, And they've got him and he's made the squad.
And the coach said that it wasn't a word that
I could understand what he was talking about, but he
said that he's a.

Speaker 13 (01:56:11):
A.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
I can't find the actual he said, he's like a
he's got because it sounds to me like they should
have made him. They should have made him the coach
because he's going across there, not to play. He's going
across because he can jolly up the team. But anyway, I.

Speaker 23 (01:56:25):
Haven't followed it yet, but no they I'll get across
it somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
Good on your Hamish thanks so much that I forget
what the quote was. Anyway, it was an unusual expression
he used for him and now I can't find it.
Of course, Oh, cultural, he's a cultural architect, whatever that is, Janie,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:56:43):
Good evening, Good evening. I'm in New Zealander, but I
lived in Edinburgh for four decades and the team that
my family supported was the Jambos and they're based off
Easter Road in the central of Edinburgh. Yes, and as said, Protestant,
and they wear maroon. And Hibernians are based down in

(01:57:07):
Leath and they wear green. So one of the things
I can't comment on the games. I'm not a great
follower of football, but what I can say with Hearts
is that they had a youth academy and at the
age of five, my son came through the youth academy
where they it was the school holidays. Through that my
son became a player. He then became a coach. He

(01:57:30):
moved out here to New Zealand. He has taken a
team in christ Church as a coach, manager and player
up through the divisions and has been refereeing up to
FEASA level for the last few years. And it's all
thanks to the Hearts Academy. Also, my son in law

(01:57:51):
was one of the somebody talked before about the taking
in young people with a view to training them up
for the team and my son in law was in
matt until he did his acl Okay, so they really
do foster a lot of interest for children, which is
why football is so prominent.

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
Now tell me something. We're the Hearts. What's the name
of their of their home venue in tyne Castle? Tyne Castle?

Speaker 7 (01:58:23):
Yeah, tyne Castle.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
And how many people would how many? What would be
the capacity there? Do they get big crowds? Would be messive?
Would it?

Speaker 17 (01:58:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:58:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:58:31):
Yeah, pretty pretty break. I couldn't um no, I couldn't
tell you how many. It's thousands, it's big a probably
almost a sizeor to kaha.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
Okay, okay, brilliant, okay, nice to hear from you. Genis
thanks so much that twenty past eleven we're talking football
as we should and looking forward to your calls. There's
been a couple of poles out I see, I think
I saw that Winston was getting up. There has been
as popular as Luxon for preferred Prime Minister. So I

(01:59:05):
don't know what that says about anything. I forget what
the actual numbers were. I look at the preferred prime
minister numbers.

Speaker 14 (01:59:19):
So to do.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
So Preferred Prime Minister Winston Peters is on seventeen and
Christopher Luxon is on twenty percent. Other respondents included Green
co leader Chloe Strawbrook ten percent, Act leader David seem
was seven percent, and to Party Maori co leader Rowity

(01:59:47):
who Wadititi on three percent. Twelve percent of responds didn't
name anyone. Yeah, So that polling period was from the
May the one to May the tenth. May the first
to May the tenth. That's the situation there. Not quite
your how fuel supplies are going, but no one's run out,

(02:00:09):
so farm just looking at today in history. Also tonight
we've paid three million dollars for Robbie Williams to come
to New Zealand. Also that's something that's what the government
has phoned up that cash for now. Wayne Brown has
said that was three million dollars this day in nineteen

(02:00:36):
ninety eight. The last episode of Seinfeld screened this day.
In eighteen seventy, the first game of rugby was played
in New Zealand. Now that is controversial because I think
the first game of rugby and New Zealand was in
Whanganui and that's only a recent discovery. It was supposedly

(02:01:00):
a Nelson. But I remember discussing this and I do
think one of the sports historians has found out that
actually the first match was there. Iron Polenski was involved

(02:01:23):
with that. The first game of football News and Planet
a rugby rules. It may have been a match between
fang and Nui and Country at suburban Aramaho on Saturday,
nineteenth June eighteen sixty nine, no scool when darkness fell
after two hours hard kicking, so the game was completed
the following Saturday. It was supposed to be Charlie Munroe

(02:01:50):
and Nelson in the fourteenth May eighteen seventy, and they
have said that earlier matches may still come to light.
So what do you make of that? Oh, that's history
for you. Isn't it. You find the old newspaper the evidence.
Hey Jared, this is Marcus. Good evening and welcome. Thanks

(02:02:11):
for calling.

Speaker 12 (02:02:13):
It's taking my call, Marcus. You know, I just wanted
to mention about Wangano rugby and look, there's a store
water of Wangano rugby guy Linux. He white baits at
the place for a white bait. I won't mention where
out of respect for the people that white bait there,
But he's a Look, he coached Wanganu rugby team to

(02:02:37):
a couple of titles, national titles, and that he's Look,
he's a very understated, humble guy. He needs a bit
of a ship.

Speaker 23 (02:02:47):
I'm just giving a little.

Speaker 12 (02:02:49):
Bit of shout out from my humble opinion. And he
is one of the store water of the recent rugby
times in the success of the Wanganuo rugby Wanganu rugby side.

Speaker 3 (02:03:03):
I don't even know I'm going to say. I hate
to say it, ignorant. Is there a lot of white
baiting there?

Speaker 12 (02:03:10):
Oh? Yes, markets yes, Look, I know it's not the
West coast mecca all down your way Riverton.

Speaker 3 (02:03:19):
But mainly up the mainly up the river.

Speaker 14 (02:03:21):
Is it.

Speaker 12 (02:03:22):
Look, I tell you a story and it look, a
lot of white batterers tell lies that I caught ten
kilos one morning in twenty and fifteen. I was there,
I've got I've got my own the quarry at the time.
With my well now late father and my manager at
the time. I got him started and he decided, oh look.

(02:03:45):
He woke me up on a Sunday at six o'clock
and he had the bug as you do. And we
went down to this river. And there's a creek off
the river that were a name nameless, and I fostered
them in, gave him my good gear at the front.
But this day up, oh bugger it. I'll have the
good gear, and I'll grab the good spot and in it.

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And I got five kilos in the incoming tide. And
he left, he had to go. His kids were busy
with sport and stuff and the other things. And I
got five kilos in the outgoing tide. I wrung my
father and he came and turned up from long Burn
and Parmeerson. He said, white bait tax, white bait tax,

(02:04:27):
And he took the first five kilos and I never
saw it again.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Are they white bating stands up the river?

Speaker 12 (02:04:37):
Oh no, not white bating stands. It's very torritory on
this place. I've been going since five I've been going
twenty one years, never missed a season. Look one time
when the white bating was the first of August and
it was snowing at my quarry, I shut the quarry
because the ramp down into the quarry was icy. Anyway,

(02:04:58):
So the first of August, I think it was oh no,
I wit. I went down to this river and down
to this creek. There were two guys. Their last name
was how and they said, what the hell are you
doing here, Nicholson? Anyway, I said, as crazy as what
you are. I had half a foot of snow on

(02:05:18):
my bonnet. We had a snow fight at sea level.
It was still light snow coming down, true story. Anyway,
they said, they said where do you want to go?
And I said, well, you tell me you were here first.
And they said, right, you go in the middle of me.
And I got three pound. And it was a whole
of sticks that came in a roaring, bloody tide and

(02:05:38):
up this creek and on this river, and they got
two and a half pound each, and they shot their heads.
When we had a way up at the end of
the bloody tide and they couldn't believe that I'd outfished them,
and they put me in the middle of them.

Speaker 3 (02:05:52):
Is it a road in quarry?

Speaker 9 (02:05:54):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (02:05:54):
Yes, it was shell rock, shell rock limestone.

Speaker 3 (02:05:58):
Brilliant, Jared, thanks so much that. Georgia's Marcus.

Speaker 13 (02:06:01):
Good evening, Marcaus.

Speaker 11 (02:06:03):
I'm just wondering why you would give all the also
round in your preferred prime mister poul and not the
one that got highest. Hipkins got twenty three percent more
than any of the others.

Speaker 3 (02:06:19):
Yeah, good, okay, thanks for that. Yeah, what what are
you sensing, George? I think you're sensing something that's not there, probably, George,
but you've hung up. But yes, don't say that. Don't

(02:06:40):
see the conspiracy where it isn't it's what, That's what.
That's what I'd say to you.

Speaker 10 (02:06:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:06:49):
I think probably when people were expecting Hipkins to have
been leader, that to have been leading that I think
the story is probably more that that Luxon is still
haunted by his coalition agreement and the fact that he

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made Winston deputy Prime Minister, and that he has done
everything he can to use that to cannibalize the National
Party vote. And I think that's pretty much the story
of that poll and the story of that term.

Speaker 1 (02:07:24):
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