It's a crime against the game (30 October 2024)

Marcus is pretty sure Halloween is on the way out in New Zealand, and goes back to one of the most infamous radio broadcasts of all time.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be Wednesday, feels like Tuesday, feels like Thursday. Good evening,
greetings one time, as Marcus. I hope it's good where
you are here till midnight, that's right, that's my job.
And I hope by the end of well, by the
time midnight comes around, if you're struggling or things, things
aren't quite ticklar boo, then by the time midnight comes around,
I hope things are better. We have learnt something. So

(00:34):
there you go. That's what I'm not about tonight. Get
in touch if you want to. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two is the
text number. That's all you need to know. If you
at work and can't see the net bull, I'll be
giving you updates on that. That's something I will do.
Speaking of the days of the week, I know because
it was Yeah, Vanessa pot both. Vanessa is normally quite

(00:58):
good with public holiday She always knows after a long
weekend the rubbish bin moves one day down the week.
Does she take the rubbish because Nomal, I take it
out when I get home and oh, well, it's not
a rubbish day today because in fact, it's a long
weekend and Wednesday becomes Thursday. She got caught out by that,
brilliant So there we go, because that's always what happens

(01:20):
if you're one of those community Facebook pages. The first
thing people always say is, oh, could someone please tell
me what day rubbish day is? Today? Or this week? Anyway,
It's not often she would get caught out by the way. Concerts.
Travis Scott is on tonight. He's currently performing at Eden Park.
Now I don't say this in a judgment away. I've
got no idea about him, what his songs are or anything.

(01:43):
But there's been a bit of there's been a bit
of all discussion about that concert because it changed the date.
No one knows why, and then people couldn't go, so
try to sell tickets, and tickets became quite cheap. You've
got any interesting Travis Scott information, I wouldn't mind hearing
from you about that. But quite a bit consert. I
think it's quite a few cars there. I'll be a

(02:04):
bit of disruption around Mount Eden or Eden Park or
Cabbage Tree Swamp as it was once called, where they
put the park that is Eden, so that's happening tonight also,
and there is the netball clean sweep the men didn't
do so well and the netbule I see they've just

(02:24):
been beaten by Australia. But I presume that was the match.
I presume that wasn't a pre record seventy one thirty nine.
But the women will play tonight and I'll keep you
updated with that. I think it's fantastic. I feel good
about netball. I'm back into it. It would have suddenly
become extremely good at it. I'll by the way, first
question of if you've got some Travis Scott information, I

(02:46):
would be interested in that, just there might be someone
driving home with something that's of interest.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Secondly, my thoughts, and I don't know whether this is
going to ring true with any of you or not.
I've got some things to say about Halloween. Now, Halloween's
a great thing for talkback because people go and say,
what's hey, it's not our culture. And people get freaked
out by Halloween for all sorts of reasons. They get

(03:14):
freaked out about it because there's people coming onto their
property dressed up, but they don't quite know the etiquet
YadA YadA. Yeah, it feels not very New Zealand. But
it feels that there's all sorts of personal bubbles, and
personal space has been invaded, and things that are happening
that we didn't sign up for in life. Hang about.
That's not my upbringing, that's not my children. It's new Well,

(03:37):
it's new Wish. And the supermarket is full of plastic
junk next week's landfall like you wouldn't believe. I mean, goodness,
gracious me, surely the world's got enough plastic pumpkins anyway,
that's not my point. Or sure the world's got enough
bad candy, and that's not my point. My point is this,

(03:59):
tell me if I'm wrong. I sense watch out insert
grand state here. I sense that as a event from
where I said, I don't reckon it's catching on? Am
I right? I reckon? Kind of we gave after you know,

(04:23):
we got free trade with China, and we got the
warehouse and Briscoes and Kmart and the one dollar stores
and they've filled up with this stuff. But I reckon
the holidays. Probably we're not the Holloway occasion. It doesn't
seem to be that big might have got the wrong.
Let me know I just feel I know there's one
street in Auckland and Long Bay or tor Bay that

(04:45):
goes crazy for it, but I think everywhere else I'm
seeing it as been kind of a bit of a dunt,
a bit of a fizzer. I don't think anyone's going
around knocking on doors randomly, which is good and bad.
I think for most communities they have a Facebook page
and say, oh, we're not really into this, but we've
got to go to houses on three seven twelve. The
only people ever find now that they're enthusiastic about Halloween

(05:08):
of people that used to go to America on sort
of a American field scholarship and found it transformative and
been banging that drum for the last twenty years. Anyway,
I'm just curious to know if you think it's something
that's happening or not. I don't think it is. Must
be hearing from you about that. I reckon it's done
its dash, but might be wrong. And that's why I'm

(05:32):
floating that, because I don't know. Because sometimes with things
one hundred and eighty degrees wrong, like way wrong. I
don't think this is the case this time. But let
me know about that. I'd be curious to hear from you. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty eight Teddy and nine two nine
two detect Marcus still twelve. There's all sorts of other

(05:52):
topics we could talk about tonight, and I will mention
those as time goes on. If you want to be
in touch, just feel free to get those buttons going
if there's something else you want to talk about. Nine
to nine two. So your gut feeling of Halloween, I
don't think it's going to last, but correct me if
I'm wrong. I mean, Christmas seems to be hanging around
for a while, doesn't it. Now that people can cover

(06:13):
their houses and lights and stuff like that. Guy Fawk's well,
she's probably got ten years left. I would think for
all that one's done. And I think the reason Guy
Fawks will kind of disappear is not because of the animals.
I think any government wants to start banning stuff it
never looks good. I don't think it's about that. I
don't think the Guy Fawkes banning is going to be

(06:34):
about cruelty. I think what's going to happen is that
people haven't got backyards. And for Guy Fawks to really
function is that you need a backyard that you can
go to because over time, councils will ban fireworks everywhere.

(06:54):
They've banned fireworks on the volcanic cones on the Manga
and Auckland are for good reason because every year they
catch fire, particularly Mount Wellington. So I think what will
happen is that people just won't have anywhere to go
to commemorate, celebrate, do whatever you called, and it's going
to fade It's going to fade out. It's not my plan,
it's not what I want, but I think that's what's

(07:17):
going to happen. Yeah, that's my take on that one. Anyway,
get in touch, Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine to nine two six. The netball
has started. I'll keep you updated with that, or you
might want to go and watch Hurdle twelve. No problems
with getting touch. But Halloween, gut feeling. Are you going

(07:40):
to gut feeling? It's on it to way out? That's me.
I just don't. I mean, the kids aren't that fizzed
about it. That's the thing that I'm taking a lead
from Marcus. Tomorrow is Halloween and Dewali one is the
Festival of Darkness. The other is the Festival of the Light.
Oh you come out, even Marcus. Traffic around Eden Park

(08:02):
is gridlocked. It's bumping and bump on all the feeders
along Dominion Road. Donna. Those poor residents with their drafty villas.
Godness me, there they are in the swamp and I
can't even get in and out because of concerts endlessly
in their back door. Jeepest, creepers, major congestion. Auckland bottom

(08:24):
end of CBD towards Custom Street. What's that about, Scott Marcus? Welcome, Hey, Scott.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Alstery Sean Willam in west Auckland, and Halloween's always been
really good out here. I'm not going to get out
of the bag, but yeah, I think we've still got
a Halloween community as such, people sending together and still
have little street parties. And yeah, it's quite good, obviously,
depending on the whether more summary.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
So how long has it been growing? Foreign? Is it
still growing as an occasion and it's.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Getting less year by year?

Speaker 5 (09:04):
Is that?

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yeah, I think it is. I think you are right
on that aspect. But we'rest Auckland's.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
Still pretty good when.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
It comes to Halloween. A lot of a lot of
street especially why tackles from the area around there.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
God, Okay, so it's yeah, so you'd agree that in
some ways it hasn't really taken hold of New Zealand.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
I think it does depend what say you live in. Yeah,
Auckland's always Auckland's always been pretty good. I think even
when you're a kid back in the days and they
used to be an Auckland boy. But you know, I
think the training was a pretty cool thing to do.
I mean, I've got an eleven year old and a
fourteen year old and they're still pretty much keen into it.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, look at when I was younger was the thing Scott,
It's it's sort of after my time. I've got to
be quite clear about that. I've never yeah, I've had
no involvement. Whether it's not something I know anything about
really right.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
It's interesting though, and you're saying it it's it's a
pretty Americans thing, but I think it's it's a good
opportunity for people in the streets sort of meet and
greet and hands bitt of the ketch have a few
wines while the kids sort of do something and cleat
lollies and have a good night.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Nice to hear from. Scott just made the bold statement.
I think probably that Halloween's dying on the vine in
this country. Challenge me if I'm wrong. I just suspect that,
like five ten years ago, fifteen years, people are hyping
it up. There's no tomorrow. But I don't sense that anymore.
I sense that people maybe have thought PEPs. It's doesn't
that resonate with us. I don't know why that is.

(10:41):
It seems little bit to full on the Aussies who in,
But maybe they are. And I reckon that because the
kmart and warehouse are all in. It's just because you know,
the reps sell them all the stuff. This is what
you need. You need plastic pumpkins. We actually don't may
we need real pumpkins. I was reading an article about
professional people that grow giant pumpkins. Right, they reckon there

(11:05):
is no a limit to how big those pumpkins are
going to get. In the last ten years, their size
is doubled appd about six hundred kilograms, an edible but
heavy Alice Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
I'm Marcus. I told my friend Alice another Alice. Ay,
I know that Celtic. It came from Celtic and this
Halloween isn't American. It came from Ireland and the reason
it got to America was because of the salmine in

(11:43):
eighteen forty. It was actually a festival in Ireland to
after the harvest.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
So with the paper with the pumpkin, with the potato famine,
it caused the diaspora and they took Halloween with them.
Is that saying?

Speaker 8 (11:58):
That's right? And then the Americans got into the pumpkins.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Okay, oh, so there go. They didn't have ppkins in Ireland.

Speaker 8 (12:08):
No, they didn't, but the Irish with the salmon, took
the potatoes to America and the Americans took the Halloween on.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Wow. So the Irish people starve, they dire sporate around
the world. They go to America, they say, this time
of the year we celebrate Halloween. What did they used
to do pre the potato blight?

Speaker 8 (12:35):
I have no idea. I think they actually had food. Okay, anyway,
it's Irish.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, and god, I don't want to don't want to
grill you too much. Else that's excellent.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I don't know the origin of hallowing the pumpkin, but
I'm all in for that. Got a pumpkin at home.
I've got to work out what to do with So
I'm planning so I'm not going to carve it. I'm
going to eat it hard vegetable or pumpkin hard to cut,
hard to hard to make taste any good pumpkin soup?

(13:09):
You know how you know how good pumpkin souper is?
I know, I go on about this. I've worked out
the equations. You know how often a year pumpkin soup
is good? Once you have it a second thing, actually
once a year. It's one of those once a year
dishes pumpkin soup. Do you think all I can live

(13:30):
on that in the winter? Next year you can't. It
becomes too much or deeal to eat swimming away through
bowls of pumpkin soup. Eight twenty four to twenty four
past eight. My name is Marcus Hittle. Midnight. It's all
about Halloween tonight. I'd love for you if you hate
it or just think it's I mean, I've got no
opinion on it. I don't partake nothing, but I just

(13:52):
suspect from my sense and bearing in mind when I
say I sense from my vibes and what I'm getting
that I live in a tiny town at the bottom
of the country. But I spend time on social media.
I see what other peop are up to. So you know,
my vibe might be completely cocker skew wiff. But if

(14:15):
you're in the same community for years and years and years,
you might let me know what's happened with the last
twenty years. I think the kids are given up on it.
Seems more like adults have parties, Halloween parties kind of
like the like the sort of replicating the Kandeshians Marcus,
Halloween is a big deal in Wellington. It seems to

(14:37):
be getting bigger each year with large groups of kids
and children on the street. Can't see it disappearing anytime soon.
Less Patrick, less plastic would be great, Peter Marcus. I
sent my boy out Halloween one Halloween with a sheet
over him and two eye holes. Told me was a
ghost and hind say he looked like the Grand Wizard.

(14:57):
It's KKK. What a mistake to make, that is, Mike,
what do you do a pointed head on it? If
you want to go Caspie want the rounded head? Is
Halloween even a cultural thing? Can we look at it
just like an event that we can choose to take
bad or not. If one doesn't want to participate, then
don't put decorations and kids won't know you are not

(15:18):
to be bothered. Yes, that's where people freak out. They
freak out with the protocol of it, the etiquette. Marcus.
I wonder if there are any fireworks doomsday preppers out
there with a massive arsenals of fireworks stopped up with
weaponry from the last sixty years. There must be some

(15:39):
of those fun time heroes out there, Marcus. We're going
to take the kids out for Halloween. However, we are
not buying all that stuff we'd usually buy due to
cost of living. The kids love it. We did get
some costumes off Temu for the kids. It's not getting bigger,
but not getting smaller. It's just some people don't have
money this year. Haybish. It'd be pretty organized to get

(16:05):
the stuff off, didn't you. Yeah, I thought you'd be
making your own costumes. I've always thought if you buy
your costumes, that's a.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
Bit of a.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
I think you have the panic as the kids say,
what's hello when you've got to sort of sculpt something
out of a cardboard box. But yeah, no parent wants
that panic pre event Panic twenty seven past a head twelve.
My name is Marcus. Marcus best bitch ever steamed or roasted.
We grow it, eat it and love it. Marcus further

(16:42):
or Coller stating it's from Ireland. It was originally called
sam Haine. I pronounce that right a m h ai
n the Celtic people who believe this. At the time
of year, the veil between the world's living the dead
was its thinnest, an ideal time to honor their deceased
ancestors and loved ones and celebrate the harvest. Then, of

(17:07):
course it's been commercialized and diluted over the years. But
we'll look into the pumpkin origin. Yes, I think according
to Wikipedia, they used to use They used to carve turnips,

(17:29):
and of course, once you realize you get to America,
the pumpkin has a lot better to carve than a turnip,
because a turnip you haven't got much. She's a bit
of a dud. The old turnip beck catcher heavily, and Marcus,
till midnight if you are heading home quickly early from Trevis,

(17:49):
Scotty know about that. Marcus. I don't know why, but
there is always fireworks all the time out in Papakuda.
If anyone knows why the reason, I'll be grateful to hear.
How do you mean always like all year? Marcus Pumpkins
tirty four to ninety nine at Pribleton Supermarket. Wow, will

(18:13):
they be imported cheapers? That's expensive Pumpkin. I guess it's
too early, right, I guess they're imported. We've got one.
Goodness me, my god, how you're going eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty By the way, big change in Australia

(18:34):
for Chemist Warehouse. It's set to introduce a QR code
payment for its customers. The new payment allows customers to
scan a QR code, which links them directly to a
payment prompt for entering their bank details. Don't thing any
pisky shoe chargers pay by bank so you don't even

(19:02):
have to go to a cashier. Now you just go
and to Chemist Warehouse, scan the QR code, push yes
and you're good to go. Pay by bank. So yeah,
So that's yet another move towards the keshless society in

(19:25):
Australia or all in on this by the way, when
I say this is another move to the keshless society.
I myself am not sitting here saying that we need
to have a cashless society. That's what some people think.
You have your own opinions, and it will be difficult
for some people that don't have cash, that had that
trauma during the quake and stuff like that. Just put

(19:47):
it out there. It's what Chemist Warehouse is doing. They
seem to be able of a retail leader. Jack o
Lantern's come from an Irish fable. A man named Jack
tried to trick the devil, but the crafty devil discovered
the trick and curse Jack of a pumpkinhead and walk
the youth. Well, surely it was a turnip head because

(20:10):
it was to no swedes, I say swedes, or it
was turnips used to be turnips, carved turnips. Yeah, so
I never know you have. When I said turnip, I
was visualizing as visualizing as swede. So I can't imagine
you did carve a turnip. It's a very narrow looking

(20:32):
kind of a thing, isn't it. Oh yeah. In fact,
I've got some pictures of carve turnment, so I put
those on the Facebook page. It look quite good. Bet
at your calls three lines free. How are you? What's happening?
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine to the text one nam is Marcus welcome hitdle
twelve And I made the original statement, so I'm going

(20:56):
to say it again. I think probably it's my impression
that Halloween is kind of dying on the vine in
this country. Do you agree? It just doesn't seem having
any momentum to a one of those days it's come
across and taken the country by storm, not like Fortnite

(21:16):
or Married at First Sight or around the base when
it first started, remember around the bay suddenly probably one
hundred thousand people want to run together. Goodness, Nation of Sheep.
The carved turnips look really good. Ben Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
You get at Marcus Playboy QR code. I've been around
for a few years. You know, like the after paying
paying that they all use that, you know, you scan
it at the checkout and then you scan the QR
code and then make the payment. And then I'm also

(22:03):
the online if costs were instead of punching in your
credit card details, you can just top and you're using
it and pass through and the if you think account
and secure server and it will take you to the
and you can pay. So and then there's a new
Waitomo guest station that's around everywhere now and you just
pay by the at and your car. You don't even know.

(22:25):
You don't even get out of your car to pay.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
So is it QR? Is it QR code?

Speaker 11 (22:31):
Thyugh?

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Been?

Speaker 7 (22:32):
No?

Speaker 10 (22:32):
No, only the only the after pay and pay.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
But the after pay. You go to a supermarket to
buy your goods and then you got to scan qu They.

Speaker 10 (22:42):
Don't they don't use the same market. They don't do
a super market. They do it like you know, like
the house and super cheats.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Okay, so you to you go to the warehouse and
you get your goods and then do you pay by
scanning a QR code? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (22:55):
Yeah, So they're scanning the check out and then you
creates a QR code on your phone through the air
and then they just scan your act on you know,
on the computer, and then it will come up on
on your phone and you just go pay and it
pays it. So that's different.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
That's different. That's different from double clicking. That's different from
payway or that went on your cell phone.

Speaker 10 (23:19):
No, no, it's not a payWave. So it's done online.
It's either done through your creatit cad or the bank
account details you know, the debit card or the bank
account details. It's not Okaywave. So yeah, there's a few
different different things around. I haven't heard of that one
executive that you're talking about. It's new, but I'm seeing

(23:39):
quite a few of the britshawants in it and Queenstain
have started doing something somewhere as well.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay, nice, if we've been thank you. I just think, yeah, well,
I mean it's interesting for two ways. Interesting because it
means that people can pick up stuff a lot quicker
from the chemist warehouse, but also means perhaps that people
get more freaked out as we go cashless. Do I
get freaked out by going cashless?

Speaker 10 (23:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (24:01):
I couldn't be less freaked out by going cashless. However,
I'm imagining there's times I'll need cash, like a roadside stool.
I was going to say for a cheap car park
outside a concert, but I think most of those people
have payWave now, don't they. Oh wait, one hundred eighties
had to get to the texts Marcus loving the show

(24:21):
will need to get if H'm ready in my lounge beats.
The emergency programs on TV at the moment makes me squeamish. Yeah,
you want to be carving a turnip? The calf tuneups
look amazing, much scarier than the carve pumpkin. I don't
know how they preserve the ones of the Smithsonian. Oh wait,

(24:43):
one hundred eighties heading in nine two nine to text. Oh,
by the way, it's a plaster cast. I think we're
going to see a lot more about Raygun. She's back
on the old promotional circuit. Still feel real uneasy about her.
I think she kind of got it wrong and continues
to get it wrong anyway, Get in Touched, Marcus Till

(25:05):
Midnight eight hundred and eighty tenadean nine two nine two
to text. I don't even know how I'm going to
measure that, the fact that Halloween is kind of disappearing.
It's just the vibe I get, and hopefully, hopefully I've
got people saying, oh, there's people knocking at my house
or peeking through the curtains. Freaks people out my constituency, Marcus,

(25:32):
Halloween has a dud, but Guy Fawkes is the bomb.
Why till the Beach? Everyone gets up Driftwood makes huge
bomb fire and sets on the fireworks incoming tide put
out the far at the end of the night. That
sounds like a good night, Well beach, the driftwood, the tide,
or one of those West coast beaches the hot sand.

(25:52):
Unbelieve it's what you want. Brilliant all about it here
on midnight mina, Miss Marcus, welcome eight hundred and eighty
ten eightean nine two nine two to text. Do we
net blog of your highlights when that starts, hulf parts
nine for a good baseball today too, by the way,
was very good because what happened is they one guy

(26:14):
hit this ball that went right out to the outfit.
This is the New York Yankees versus the LA Dodgers
and Mookie Betts, who's one of the great fielders. Shortish
looks short, mind you. The others might be giants. He
might be six ' four, who know, I'd say is
about five to eight. He goes running out and he
puts his arm over the fence and catches the ball.

(26:39):
But then there's Yankee supporters in the audience that try
and grab his glove and grab the ball off him
to deny the dodge is the home run that the
way it worked. Yeah, that's brilliant and they got evicted anyway,
lines were free. Just back aatches some of the stuff

(26:59):
that's happening up all Blacks. End of year two England.
This Sunday morning, four a m. That's Sunday, four in
the morning, live coverage on z Being News Talk ZBI
Heart Right, it's four in the morning Sunday. Had wondered
about that. That's the time the Wali is on tomorrow.
You might want to tell me what you're doing in

(27:20):
the preparation. What's the first people think people do for Dewali?
It's tomorrow from I don't know what time I presume sunrise.
Have I got that right? Someone wants to give me
a primer on de Wali? It's always of interest thirty
first to the second and are their events pan around
the country of the next few weeks? So, but a
flexibility there. Guy Forks sets Tuesday, fifth November. Guy Fawks

(27:42):
five weeks will go on sale on the second, which
is Sunday, So you got three days including Guy Fawkes Sunday,
Monday Tuesday. It won't be a big one because of
the weather and because it's early in the week when
Guy Fawks really gets busy. It's a Friday or a
Saturday or Thursday, Thursday. People hold over. Friday's big anyway,

(28:03):
it's the weekend, Saturdays big, Tuesday will be a damp web.
Six days to the US election. There you go, one
hundred and twenty three days to the start of the NRL.
That's the Warriors in Vegas this day. In nineteen thirty eight,
Awson Wells's radio dramatization of H. G. Wells War of
the Word Worlds was broadcast. But by the way, what

(28:26):
a great album matters? Do you want to listen to
that from time to time? That's a stunner cheapers, anyone
want to talk about that? Also too? By the way,
everything's on everything's on topic. I love that. I don't
even know anything of the history about it, don't know

(28:47):
much about it all. I just know that once in
a while I listened to it and love it unbelievably good.
Nineteen seventy eight, Jeff Wayne's musical vision of the War
of the World one of the great concept albums of
all time. Trippy is all get out and kind of

(29:08):
pompous and strange as well. I'm sure some hate it
not me, though, I think it's quite good seventeen to nine.
If you want to be a part of it. Hittel Midnight.
My name is Marcus. Welcome Travis Scott car Carnage near
Edend Park. Marcus wants at a minion road light rail

(29:28):
to the airport opens Auckland will be sweet be a
while before it opens. I think very successful in Sydney
the light rail unbelievably successful. Just talking to someone about
that yesterday, how transformative that had been. Anyway, get in touch.
My name is Marcus. Welcome, Welcome to Wednesday feels like Tuesday,

(29:49):
also feels like Thursday or the other thing that I'll
mentioned since some in a mentioning frame of mind, Dunedin
has launched a version of Dunedin Monopoly. Can I just

(30:13):
say that I think these local versions of Monopoly, I'm
not going to say they're sad or misguided, but they're
kind of crazy because what happens with New Zealand Monopoly
and South or in Vicalgo Monopoly, Anda Monopoly they put

(30:34):
on I always thought the things with Monopoly you put
on properties that you're supposed to buy and sell. But
these days they got things like Cape Rianga and Mount Hut.
But they're not going to be well Mount Cook. They
are going to be things that people have for sale.
I think you're going to do versions of Monopoly. You've

(30:55):
got to be legit. They've got to be things that
you could buy and sell, not just general kind of
sites around town. Yeah, I mean do it by all
means like Denean botanic gardens. We can't buy those that
never come for sale, so clear there's challenges. They can't

(31:19):
get individual houses be put Larnix Castle on that'd be
the top one. But you have things that you can sell,
not just rubbish like Brighton Beach it's a beach, not
a house, like Tunnel Beach, crazy like Forsyth Bar stadium,

(31:39):
like Middle March, like King's High School. Whole thing needs
a reach ink. So I got myself quite weecked up
about that. Oh we've got local Monopoly, yeah, but to
crime against the game. And then in the UK with Monopoly,
the Hour was saying that if you play Monopoly in
the UK, if you are of a I don't know

(32:00):
how to say this because because it will trigger you sheep. Yes,
Now how do I say this? How do I say
this without freaking you all out. In the UK, councils
have advised that when white children are playing monopoly, they

(32:26):
should be given more money and less jail time to
teach racism, racism and privilege. There you go, to get
the mid Dawn's show going for hours. That one that's
a ripper Marcus. Callers from Hamilton should call him with

(32:49):
a review of the new bridge that opened eight weeks
ago at Peacocks. What is that? I've got a new
bridge review from Hamilton. We do never know what Peacock.
Can someone explain that to me? Peacocks. I'm presiding it's
not a typo bridge. I love a new bridge, and

(33:09):
that one is kind of oh okay, let's have look
at it. It's a utter picker pecker. I think we
had a guy that was fixated on that bridge a
number of years back, but I haven't heard from him
for a while, which means that either and he was

(33:30):
fairly full on about one of the counselors that was
involved with funding. It looks pretty good. There you go.
I think Peacock might be a suburb. I don't not
fully I fade with that, but you might know when
we talk best about the when we talk best about Hamilton.
We talk about the tornado that hit there, one of
my great knights of talkback. Yeah, no one's happy with Newman,

(33:53):
with New Hallo, new Monopoly being twisted in all different forms.
Marcus setne Seatoon goes all out at Halloween. It's like
entering an American sitcom. Family groups all decked out in
Halloween costumes, decrat of houses, bussloads from other suburbs join
the throng community. Please keep a close watch, especially as
night falls and teenagers congregate. I first experienced Halloween and

(34:16):
Browns by eighty seven. Two girls knocked at the door.
Now no Adulton Site didn't know them. We lived up
a long driveway for could sec They got short shrift
their periods of retrusting. I always teach my class some
of the editions around Halloween, so understand why they are
going trickle treating, as one pupil was convinced they were
doing Jenny and It's trickles in cold trickle. Oh, by

(34:38):
the way too, This is something I've discussed a number
of times over the years, and it's a story that
never resolves itself. But it seems as though after ninety
five years at Western Springs Speedway is finally moving to
way Karaka Park an Aorni hunger. So that's been voted

(35:00):
on today. Orton councilors voted eleven to wait to spend
eleven million upgrading way Karaka Park, which has always been
the home of stock cars to host speedway. Make of
that what you will? They get to crime against Western Springs,
but yeah, people have strong views of it. I thought
they're going to move it to a park down way.

(35:22):
I don't know what happens to people with stock cars
if they're going to go there as well. It's going
to be a koshier nivel. Marcus welcome, Yeah, Marcus is
near here.

Speaker 6 (35:33):
Yeah, listen, you brought up about Leonax Castle. I went
there years and years ago. I was in a sharing
gang and h raid shearing and that, and we went
down there and we saw the sheep at the Leonax
Castle and of course we had a good look right

(35:55):
through there. And everything's going to advise anyone still if
they're hidden that way Crogie gets call in and see it.
It's nervous, you know. Yeah, it was really really good
sure all round n f Any. You'll know a lot
of these sense because you're from the aren't you.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Well, no, it's from walk By eleven Bluff.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll
be sure and rein Philly Middle March Lee Stream. Yeah done,
sandal quirky dis Ah.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
How many sheep they have at the castle?

Speaker 6 (36:33):
I think they had a bit or probably twenty thousand.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Sheep, many sheep at Larins Castle.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Yes, said yeah, they had a lot of not to
know in the castle. They had a lot of it
up the booming hill behind it.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, I had no idea. Nivel troopers just coming out
of there's innational anthems too for the nipple. Go you guys,
make it a clean sweep. That's on at the moment too. Marcus.
We used to listen to War the Worlds on cassette
in the car when seventeen or eighteen. It was our
go to brilliant. When you say at the beach at
night on the West Coast, everyone would enjoy that, Marcus.

(37:12):
New Monopoly news inand does need to get with the times.
Queen Street and Victoria Street are the premium properly in
the game. You land on these and you win. Queen
Street and Victoria Street now in reality are run down
with social housing, clothes shops with a lot of homeless.
Monopoly news in at present should have Key Street as
premier property regards, Paul, wouldn't you put parasite drive or

(37:35):
something up there or houses on that? But some great
War of the World's texts coming through also keep those
going beautiful and things. I feel quite strongly about the
fact that Halloween's not gaining traction, the fact that d'wali's
on tomorrow morning. How does that start the fact that
all these New Zeland versions of Monopoly are pretty much

(37:58):
destroying the game because Monopoly is not about buying parks
and mountains, It's about buying and selling property. Can I
also say, as an adult with young children, and as
a parent with children, you play a lot of board games,

(38:23):
and without a share of a doubt that Monopoly by
a country mile is the very worst. I don't know
what happens when you're a child. If you plan as
an adult, you just go from dice roll to dice roll,
terrified that the end's about to happen and you're going

(38:43):
to be bankrupt. It's harrowing, it's not fun at all.
There's no strategy there's no fun. There's just doom and
impending doom the whole time. Anyway, tell me what you're
really thinks. That's me. We are so all talking about
The War of the Worlds, which was released today, the

(39:08):
original one or the original there's so many iterations of it,
but the original radio play, not H. G. Wells's book,
but the dramatization of nineteen thirty eight of that book
was broadcast. What I want to talk about, which I
think resonates really well with this audience, I hope, is

(39:30):
the concept double album that was released in nineteen seventy
eight that was unbelievable and still sounds really good. Jeff
Wayne's musical vision of the War of the World's Listen
to that. That's an absolute barn stormer. If you never
heard that, go and check out immediately. It's trippy in

(39:54):
ways you couldn't imagine. So yeah, go you and go.
Anyone that wants to talk about that unbelievable love it
to the end of the earth. She's a ripper, progressive, groundbreaking,
cutting edge seminal, so all that and more so. That's that.
Very happy to talk about the War of the world

(40:15):
Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the World's
Marcus Forever Autumn by Justin Haywood from the War of
the World's is superb. Terry, Thank you, Terry, Marcus. Mum
and dad introduced me to Jeff Wayne's World the World
when I was seven, and I do go back to
it probably every twelve months. I knew it was from
a radio broadcast Hops in thirty eight where people actually
thought we'd been invaded two weeks ago, broadcast on YouTube,

(40:37):
and while those guys were so ahead of their time
and must have scared their hand of people listening enjoy Marcus.
I got the Game of Life when I was about
nine and hated it. Very American. I don't think we
ever finished a game. Don't like Monopoly much either. We
took Risk on a holiday once with three couples. Everyone
just argued constantly. One couple was on divorce the brink

(40:59):
of divorce. Never played it again. Cheers Gilly. Now my
advice to you with Risk, the game of Risk, you
can get involved with very long dice battles that involves
rolling dice about twenty times to see who wins the battle.
What I did to play Risk, I downloaded a dice

(41:21):
rolling app on my cell phone. He just put how
many troops on each side and it comes up with
the result. I think it's a better way to do it.
Mind you saying that we still we still finished the game,
that's risk for you. I don't think anyone's ever finished it.

(41:42):
Marcus listened to The War of the World It's Scott
based nineteen eighty one middle of the Night while on Firewatch.
Loved it. Listen to it several times. Pete Marcus has
been a moden remake of a modern remake of the
opening track of Jeff Wayne's Vision of The War of
the World by a Canadian band called TWRP, an extremely
good version. Chris, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, man, I discovered War of the World when I
was about thirteen. I think, wow.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
One of my stor of years.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Chris, Yeah, it was on it was the original album.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I'm vinyl.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Yeah, I've actually got it on vinyl, but it was
my uncle I was saying at my grandparents house and
one of the there's a couple of things about it.
I was fascinated by it.

Speaker 6 (42:45):
But one of the.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Good things about it is I learned Richard Burton had
one of the coolest voices ever known to man.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Unbelievable audio, unbelievable audio performance from how he nails it.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
It was just freaked me out, not not freaking me out,
but he was just outstanding. Yeah, I mean I know
he was when I got older, and know he married
Elizabeth Taylor I think and all that, but his voice

(43:30):
man unbelievable and the original Jeff Wayne version is just, yeah, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
And then they came to Willington or did they? Did
you go see the show? That was my next question actually.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
But yeah, they did a show in Willington and they
had sort of a I think that they were trying
to do a sort of I can't believe with the
word for it. What it's sort of like a hologram
was Burden's head?

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Oh wow, like a hologram. I think a hologram is
the word. Yeah. And did you find that?

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, But I mean I wasn't really watching that, but
I was just listened to it. But it was outstanding.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
It was.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
But I'm a bit of a fan.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
How long How long ago was that that it performed
in Wellington?

Speaker 12 (44:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Probably the.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Maybe ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Maybe I'm going to that. Did people dress up.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Not that I saw, but it was like, it's just
one of my when I was a little kid. It
was just one of those things that it was my
first discoveries as a child.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Okay, nice to hear from Chris, Thank you, David's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (45:05):
Yeah, I just can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Okay, yeah it got You're really good. Thanks for asking.
Dave've got a clear line. That's great.

Speaker 13 (45:11):
Oh, nice one, nice one. Hey, I think I might
be but that last call your hand, I'm guessing he might.
I had an older brother and sister too, and because
I did, and so I was exposed to yeah, stuff
like War of the Worlds at the young age, and yeah,
I brings back lots of fond memories of sitting that
makes places in the dark, you know, standup and stand

(45:31):
at the friend's place in dark weekend or for the night,
and having that playing and being genuinely frightened.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, I feel it's the same Saveria progressing to a
it a pink Floyd as things as we're sort of
got that kind of those long concept concept albums, you know,
three double albums. That's that's your night done pretty much,
isn't that?

Speaker 13 (45:52):
Well? As I recall I think it was late seventies
when I when I heard it, which which is possibly
I don't know when it came out, but it.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Came out seventy eight, Dave, So you're right on to it.

Speaker 13 (46:02):
Yeah, yep, that's right, that's right, because I also because
it's funny, you know, my three works in a musical way.
When I think of woral Worlds, I also think.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
Of that of.

Speaker 13 (46:13):
Jennifer Warns, not Jennifer Warnson, Kim Karen Yes, and Betty
David Size and Yes, I think that might have been
a couple of years later, but just certain songs. I'm
only making plans for Nigel Yes, another song that was
out at the same time. But yeah, you know, I
also bought the album. I don't know if the same
album people are talking about, but I know they did

(46:34):
like a twentieth anniversary album in the late nineties, and
I bought it. Was it might have been a twenty first,
and to be honest, Ie, it was. It was kind
of like I almost felt like it missed the market,
but because the first is so good that any alterations
just kind of sounded a bit strange to me. Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Probably had it on DV on CD, and I can't
think which version it was on CD, but of course
I've thrown those all out now and I fit. But yeah,
I mean, I guess it's all just on you all
on Spotify now. I listened to it occasionally, but I
don't even know what version, but just quite like it
goes back and there's the refrain that kind of refers
to the ulia bits the whole way through it. I

(47:17):
like about it. It's got that classic it's got that.
It's clever, it sure is.

Speaker 13 (47:23):
It's great storytelling it and it's you know that the
bricks are so good at that they're just and it's true. Sure,
I mean, Richard Burton's voice is fantastic, but it's some
of all part his voice, and then that music. You
know that that music just creeps at you, you know,
and the gradual unfolding of the story and eventually when
you you know that the first instance, when those when
those Martians are unscrewing their lids and you're hearing that,

(47:48):
you know, that music's creeping and Richard Burton even you know,
and on the fourth day down on the Village Green,
it's just it's just magnificently told. It's got your edge
of the seat from from from scar and and I'm
on like some of the older people, I'll put it
only be now and then. And it still works for me,
you know, I still get I still get those hairs
up on the back of the neck and it's it's great.

(48:10):
And actually, so just one last thing interesting. I'm sure
you're aware of this, but for anybody else, it's really
interesting history behind that story. You know, those old riders
by jewels doing h too wells. I had to stay
to where where I couldn't help myself. I just I
just went on a binge and started reading all their books,
and my god, they're fantastic. Just it's a great read too.
It really is a good read, especially considering it was

(48:30):
written so long ago. And it is it is it
Oscar wild that did the radio shelve it that shut
down parts in New York because people thought it was real.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
No, it's not Oscar Wilde is of course awesome, awesome.

Speaker 13 (48:46):
Yeah, jee, I got my eyes up. Yeah, I mean,
And and you know, there's there's a little there's some
interesting interviews about that. And to get that sound they
actually tried so to get that unscrewing of the you know,
of the space at the Martians door or you know
they I've heard an interview that they took an old

(49:11):
you know, the old plate you take when you go camping,
remember what. Yep, they dropped one of those into the
into the toilet face down and then just turn it
to get the unscrewing off the lift. There's a really
neat interview where they talk about how they how they
conjured up the days to create those sounds. And obviously
it was pretty convincing because apparently.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Is there a documentary on the making of it? Do
you know, No, I haven't seen anything. Yeah there is.

Speaker 13 (49:38):
Years ago, but yeah there is. If you you know,
you go to good on Google, you'll you'll be able
to find an interview. And I'm pretty sure it's worth awesome.
We I was talking through how they came up with
ideas for those sounds that they'd be needing, and yet
that's the one I took away, the old the unscrewing
of that door.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Nice to hear from you, Dave, Thank you so very much.
Twenty five past time, we're talking about the War of
the World the seventy at jif Wayne's version which is great.
Keep those going, keep your texts coming through, Marcus. What's
hot this fellow? What's hot this Halloween? Are skull drones.
They have red laser eyes a devil's tail. They make
horrific sounds and drop hundreds of glow in the dark

(50:17):
small rubbery spiders onto any target. I've had mine drop
spiders on the roof of a six story building. It's terrifying,
but also kind of called THEO? Where would you buy those? THEO?
I'll text them because it's interesting. Aviac could like to
see one and be could like to be warned about one.
Where would you buy one of those? Where would you

(50:40):
buy one of those?

Speaker 12 (50:41):
THEO?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Marcus discovered Raw of the World on Violent age eighteen,
sitting between speakers while Stone was both exhilarating and a
wee bit frightened. Full line it stands out as like
a huge, thin Lizzie fan, not the Soon Paul version.
It's still an outstanding experience worth getting good sound system for.
I don't think there's a DVD with visuals, is there?
Because normally people like the visual are like a live performance.

(51:05):
You might have one of those anyway, Get in touch,
Marcus or twelve twenty three, twenty one. It's close. The
Aussies are a bit of a tear. They've scored about
twelve of the last fifteen points. I understood that Grafford
correctly looking at the skull drone looks good. I asked
THEO where he got it? One word, TIMU, how terrifying?

(51:26):
Does skull drone sound? Very terrifying? Marcus Roberts, Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 12 (51:34):
Good evening, Marcus. Jeff Wayne more of the words. As
you've been discussing, has was a pretty good album. But
I had the fortune or misfortune to meet Jeff Wayne
many many years ago when he lived in the UK.
He actually, which may you may know, he bought a

(51:58):
house in a little place called Schenley in North London
stroke Hartfordshire borders, and it was a house that was
previously owned by Graham Hill and his wife. And prior
to that, which we may or may not be interested in,
I used to deliver newspapers to Graham.

Speaker 9 (52:18):
Hill and that's.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
It's a good side, yes, thank you for that year.

Speaker 12 (52:24):
A little bit different anyway. But Jeff Mayne I did
meet him, and he wasn't a particularly pleasant guy at
the time. Anyway, but that won't He was a bit
of his own backside.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
I thought he was like a self pathologizer, okay, arrogant.

Speaker 12 (52:44):
Yeah, yeah, close enough. But he also at one stage
was trying to produce a I believe a stage show
of War of the Worlds. Well, I'm not sure whether
it actually came to fruition, but a friend of mine
was also in that side of business at the time,

(53:05):
and the ended up owing this friend of mine quite
a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
So yeah, but by the bye, you know, and it
was a miracle. It was a miracle. And why did
they end up? But why did he end up in
the UK?

Speaker 12 (53:20):
I don't know, I really don't know. Possibly from the
record production point of view, it might have been better
to be there than back in the States. But yeah,
I mean I lived fairly close by there at the time,
and so I left the UK and games to New
Zealand fifteen years ago.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
That's the age of the question that do you judge?
Do you judge? Do you judge a flawed person's great
product by the fact that they are a flawed person?
I guess that the conundrum, isn't it. There's plenty of those, Yeah,
I think.

Speaker 12 (53:57):
Yeah, well, I mean we can all possibly fall into
that category one way or the other. Yeah again, Yeah,
but yeah, it's just inded. It was a very good
album and Richard Burton's voice I think was very good.
I mean it was at the time it was quite
a groundbreaking thing. And going back to the awesome Worlds
radio program before that, which I never heard, but I've

(54:19):
heard excerpts from it equally as captivating.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Nice to hear from you, Rob, Thanks very much of that.
Thirty two to twenty six Australia head by six at
half times, our heart nodding. I don't know, we might
come back. Yep. Someone sent me an email which is
quite interesting about the baseball They reckon, probably the Dodgers

(54:47):
through the match today to get a sixth onety three four,
to get a fifth match. Mind, if you're having fifty
thousand people tune up to an event and tickets to
two thousand dollars each, that's one hundred million dollars just
for each event, just from the gate takings, let alone

(55:07):
the broadcast rights or the hot dogs or the advertising
around it. So yeah, I can understand that they wanted
to go a bit longer, whether the Dodgers would throw
a match. How do you throw a baseball match? If
you're all got to be in on it? Was just
the picture got to be in on it. I don't

(55:31):
know if you can throw sport convincingly?

Speaker 7 (55:32):
Can you?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
And I guess you'd never know if anyone's throwing matches?
And this they told you in a deathbed confession. Marcus
re War of the World. I have the original nine
in City, that album never played, plus double cassette and CD.
There was a STEVD release of Roar of the World's
tribute live show. Plus I have on CD Rong the
original broadcast of Raw of the World USA. Awesome music,

(56:00):
awesome songs. Can never get sick of it, Devout Devo.
I'd say you might be a super fan. By the way,
I know. I've been going on about the weather down south.
It's still shocking, absolutely absolutely shocking. We're so weird. It's
wayne for three months. It feels like sixteen to ten. JT. Marcus,

(56:23):
welcome you, Marcus.

Speaker 14 (56:26):
I see those population stats come out on Friday.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Oh what did they? What do they come? What's what
do they google? Google out as.

Speaker 14 (56:36):
Well. I've been able to digest them over the last
few days.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
What do they what are they under? What's the heading
for that?

Speaker 14 (56:44):
That's New Zealand sub national I think it is is
a PDL well PDF or whatever they are.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
M yep, got it. It's a snapshot for thirtieth of
June twenty twenty four, but came out five days ago. Right,
you're twenty fifth October yep.

Speaker 14 (57:07):
Yeah, estimated populations. It's mainly to do with the territorial
authority areas. Yes, now the fastest growing city is Hamilton
really up to one one hundred and ninety two thousand,
and it will actually overtake Wellington in about three years
time and become New Zealand's third largest city. So this

(57:31):
is just the Wellington Territorial Authority area.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Which is which is not upper which is not the
hot and upper Hut and not the compital taste right yep? Okay,
copy yep.

Speaker 14 (57:42):
And there's five towns in the South Island that have
doubled their population in the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
Rollston yep, Queenstown yep, ring Eura No, Lincoln yep. I'm
three from four. It's a great question. I'm loving it. Cromwell, No,

(58:19):
just for what towns did you say five towns towns Wonica, yep, Wonica, Queenstown, Lincoln, Rolliston.
It's not Alexandra. It's one around Canterbury. It's not it's

(58:40):
not Kyapoi.

Speaker 8 (58:43):
No.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Oh, it's a good question, JT. This is this is
This is why I like a geographical question. It's not Blenham.
Is it in Canterbury? Or is the Tago?

Speaker 10 (58:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:54):
In Canterbury, Lincoln, Roliston, not Ringing or not kayapoy. I'll
tap on the last one.

Speaker 14 (59:09):
Yeah, Prebleton.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Oh, I don't know Prebleton at all.

Speaker 14 (59:12):
But the fastest growing town in New Zealand in the
last ten years is in North Island town. It's actually
increased tenfold in the last ten years.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
It's increased what sorry, it's.

Speaker 14 (59:28):
Increased tenfold in the last ten years. Although from in
the middle small base.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
It's not Munga Pi.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
No.

Speaker 14 (59:40):
I haven't seen any stats on that, Okay, Pocono. I've
gone from six hundred to six and a half thousand
and in this case eleven years.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
So can you just talk to me about the order
from biggest to smallest in the South Island it goes
still christ Church, Dunedin, Nelson and Vicago. Is that right,
or is Roliston sneak in there somewhere.

Speaker 14 (01:00:09):
Nelson in the cargo and then Rollingston is on thirty
one thousand, six hundred okay wow, then Queenstown thirty one thousand,
lend him thirty one thousand, okay?

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
And what are the New Zealand cities in order of
decreasing populations. It's Auckland, christ Church, Wellington, Hamilton, Thendonedin.

Speaker 14 (01:00:35):
Towerong, the Lower Heart Thandonneden so Dunedan's gone from the
fourth largest city to the seventh largest city.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
It's in trouble. And Hamilton's two hundred thousand. Did you
say what's totrong? Is that like one hundred and forty
Towero is.

Speaker 14 (01:00:51):
One hundred and sixty one and Hamilton's one hundred and
ninety two. Hamilton. Hamilton's added six thousand people in the
last year. That new suburb Peacocks with the new bridge,
apparently there's need to be ten thousand people living there,
but there's only been one hundred houses built and it's

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all all the buildings stopped because of the you know,
the downturn with you know, no doubt things will take
up in the next year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
What's the West coast doing population wise, west coast of
the South.

Speaker 14 (01:01:24):
Island, it's pretty much stagnant.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Because something cropped up on my Facebook feed of a
massive brand new sub vision out around Carter's Beach, which
I couldn't, like, a massive thing like a beensive sections.
I couldn't work out who that was intended for.

Speaker 14 (01:01:46):
That's probably land. That was the old networks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:48):
Yeah, something like that, that seems to be and I
don't know who would be moving there because you can't
fly an out or anything. Okay, Oh that's fascinating. Okay,
So Rolliston and how is Rolliston is thirty one thousand?

Speaker 14 (01:01:58):
It was thirty one thousand, six hundred, up from twenty
nine six hundred. The other thing about Hamilton is it's
getting the new international the airport's getting those international flights
and if the population keeps growing at six thousand a year,
it's only a matter of time before they have flights
to Melbourne, answered me, as well as the Gold Coast,

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which is starting shortly.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
Okay, there's a brilliant synopsis.

Speaker 11 (01:02:23):
JT.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
I appreciate that I couldn't men haven't managed to open
that myself, but thank you very much for that. Find
that fascinating. It's big Hamilton. Wow. It always seems about
eighty thousand, but over two hundred, so far from the sea.
Rossett's Marcus, Hello, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:02:45):
Hi Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Thank you, Russ. How are you you going all right?

Speaker 15 (01:02:49):
Yeah, not too shabby, can't complain, Thank you, und seldom
might like to know that many, many years ago I
worked with Aucean. Well, well, tell me more about that
I've photographed. I was a cinematographer back in the seventies.
We went off to Hollywood to do a Nashua Copier

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commercial and my summation of the man was obviously a
very interesting man, but he was also extremely interested what
everybody else did.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Wow, I was.

Speaker 15 (01:03:25):
I was bouncing light off polystyre in back through big
silk scrims. And he walked over and looked at it all,
studied it from every angle. And he came here. He said,
why do you do that? And I said, I'll stand
where you were and you can have a look. And
it was a very beautiful soft light. And he was
a vast man, a big vast man dressed in black.

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He never troubled by a plane. We got to talk
and trouble by boat and train.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Makes sense.

Speaker 15 (01:03:59):
Yeah, yeah, he had. But this is this is long
a while ago now and I still have great memories
of him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
So what year did you say that was nineteen seventy?

Speaker 15 (01:04:13):
Did you say it was in the seventies year?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
And what?

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
And you copy?

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
How's that spelled in a sh.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
U A?

Speaker 11 (01:04:24):
That's sure?

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Yeah, it's not a name I record. So he would
he would still right to the end. He would still
direct commercials. He would have private clients.

Speaker 6 (01:04:33):
Right.

Speaker 15 (01:04:34):
No, he wasn't directing. He was the talent.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I'm clear. I asked, okay, he was the actor. Actor, Okay,
and did the did the commercial turned out good?

Speaker 7 (01:04:50):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (01:04:50):
It did? Yeah? Yeah, the agency were Have you with
him back in Australia?

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Okay? So you were you based? Were you based in Australia,
England or New Zealand? Then when that happened, I left here.

Speaker 15 (01:05:02):
He used to work for the Aukland Star and I
left here when I was fifteen and went I went
to a struggle like people are doing today and I
was there for forty odd years. Wow, got into the
school industry. My sister stayed here.

Speaker 11 (01:05:16):
She was a radio announcer.

Speaker 15 (01:05:18):
Talk about Lady Nearer of.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
Course, of course, of course, of course there to nicols.
Yet there we go. Okay, Wow, he got a small
small world, really small world. I never thought I'd imagine
anyone that would have that would have met awesome because
I thought he I have some idea that he would
have that he wouldn't have been around for that long
because it was such a big unit. But obviously he was.

Speaker 15 (01:05:41):
He was huge and what he did he was I
don't know where he passed away, somewhere in Europe, I
think I can't recall. But he was a wonderful. He
was a lovely man.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Oh that's nice to Did you say you were doing lighting?
Is that what you were doing for the commercial?

Speaker 15 (01:05:57):
I was a cinematographer.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Yeah, I can understand.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (01:06:04):
And he was just an interesting human being. He's interested
in everybody, in everything, never missed a trick.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Now.

Speaker 15 (01:06:12):
I was also elected to take his newspapers into him in.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
The Morning's Wing and ross. Was he playing a role
or was he just playing himself? And the is just
finding it as himself?

Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
Was he?

Speaker 15 (01:06:26):
He was just a big man in black speaking with
that wonderful worse being himself brilliant. I remember the dialogue
for thest No, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Probably there on YouTube if you looked at up.

Speaker 15 (01:06:38):
No, I haven't. There's a lot of other stuff that
I've done there. You did millions of two his commercials
as well well well the entities. But he was good. Okay,
that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
Ross, thank you so much for coming. And that's very
interesting to hear that living passed in and we are
talking Allston Wells because today are nineteen thirty will come
to me that War of the Worlds was released, well,
there has radio play was released. Actually, it's slightly more
complicated that. The book, of course was by HG. Wells,
and then he turned into a radio play that was

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played sort of unannounced nineteen thirty eight, and when it
was broadcast people thought it was for real, which was
of interest. And then of course we have been talking
about the remake of that, which was the concept album
from the seventies, nineteen seventy eight that was the War
of the World so I think it was a double album.

(01:07:33):
So we'll also talk about that also tonight. So yes,
the topics have asked. Also talked about Halloween and Monopoly
now that every town's putting out their own old versions
of Monopoly, which I think is a little bit. I'm
not that into it, but you might want to mention
that also tonight and Halloween that will be tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:07:56):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:07:59):
So get in touch of you on talk about any
of these things. Eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nine
nine two text anything else you want to talk about tonight,
be happy to hear from you. Get in touch. By
the way, Oh, they've narrowed this down. Australia fifty one,
New Zealand forty four. Marcus, you can find the ad

(01:08:24):
on YouTube. It's cool chairs. Thank you for that, Marcus.
We got rid of manual gearbox and plastic bags. Isn't
it time to do the same with hideous plastic hubcaps?
Once they crack? Its landfull for them? Does someone want
to tell me what the point of hubcaps is? Have
they got any aerodynamic purpose or are they just for locks?

(01:08:50):
Because not only are they landfall and terribly fragile if
you lose one, they're a total rought to replaces. Of
course you can buy them on TIMU nineteen fifty nine.
As a fifteen year old, our family shifted from Ashburton

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population ten thousand define r A then thirty one thousand.
Dunedin was ninety eight thousand and remained so for decades. Barry, Yes,
I think Denedan had the gold Rush and then everyone
moved there and then it's kind of kind of lost
its prominence ever since. Marcus Good Evening. The original radio

(01:09:34):
play of The Roar of the World was October thirty,
nineteen thirty eight, and was voiced over by the incomparable
Aweson Wells. It caused national pandic in the USA, as
people thought it was for real just saying love your show. Cheers,
Chris and Joplin. Hi Pete, Marcus Good Evening, Marcus Pete.

Speaker 15 (01:09:52):
Hud cats.

Speaker 11 (01:09:53):
The reason why card hubcats on the cheaper than the
putting alloyds and cost a lot more for the car manufactors,
so they put normal press metal hubs on your hubs
on cars and hardcaps are fine. All you do is
you don't lose, and you put cable tires one two
of them on where they hit a bump or they

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don't come after.

Speaker 6 (01:10:15):
You.

Speaker 11 (01:10:15):
Look at car dealers, they always put ties on them.
You're going to car yard, you'll find most of the
car dealers they always have cable ties, two cable ties
on the ones they are selling second hand cars, so
they they hit a bump or whatever, they don't fall off.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
The point I was asking, right, Yeah, what's their purpose.

Speaker 15 (01:10:37):
Hardcaps?

Speaker 11 (01:10:38):
Well, they look nicer, didn't They didn't have hard caps on.
The car looked cheap and nasty. I think it's just
I think it's just a like a it's like you
got off on the records or something, bruce the car.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
They're saving metal on the wheel by not having them flush,
and they just fill that in. But they've got no
aerodynamic purpose.

Speaker 11 (01:11:04):
No, basically, it's just a cosmetic thing. It mass makes
the makes the room tidy if it wasn't that didn't
have the head keps on. They look cheap. They look
like they've you got it from a city, you got
You've got the car from from a cheap the car
dealer or something.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Okay, because they're always of a messal for a long time,
wouldn't they.

Speaker 11 (01:11:27):
Yeah, they always always Oh yeah, I can't recur how
far back, But that's that's the reason why they have
them on you or anyway experuenced them. And they are
expensive if you do lose original say a Toyota had
kept you looking at fifty sixty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
For one oh I think no, I think. I think
I bought had caps that are worth three or four
hundred dollars.

Speaker 11 (01:11:47):
Yeah, yeah, oh that came to year some for whatever
the cow and said by Ferrari or whatever. They probably are.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
There, but I don't drive a Ferrari. This will just
be yeah, and I won't say what I.

Speaker 11 (01:12:00):
But most people what they do if they do lose one,
they end up going the super cheap or rip. They
buy a set of four or anything from thirty to
sixty dollars or depends that are on special. You know,
the whole seat of four of them.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
You're getting on TIMO, wouldn't you.

Speaker 11 (01:12:19):
I don't know. I haven't locked on Tavy. I don't
know if it's so many different all your rooms on
your cars, they are thirty inch, they're forty inch, the
fifteen inches, the sixteen inch. So there's a variation of
tires diameter tiers on the bigger the car, the bigger
the diameter of the tire. So they say there's a
lot of different size hud caps of different sized vehicles, tires, jew.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Anything you want to grizzle about tonight, Anything you want
to grizzle about tonight.

Speaker 11 (01:12:49):
Pete Ah I'm always happy, Marc.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
You know me cheap, tell your face, tell your voice,
getting touched. Mark is still twelve o eight, one hundred
and eighteen eighty three minutes left fifty nine forty nine.
You saree the be the clean sweep. Hasn't been the
day for clean sweeps. Welcome people here till twelve inter

(01:13:13):
sitting hearing about nearer to Nichols too. She was a
radio host, but I'm pretty sure she was radio eye.
I'm just waiting for someone to confirmed. I couldn't google
that up and find that. I'm pretty sure that was
the case. You might have some more information about that
if you didn't text that through the War of the
worlds we are talking about, Marcus. Another great Halloween movie

(01:13:35):
is Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. I didn't know we
were talking Halloween movies, but that's not a bad thing,
Thank you, Gavin of Canterbury Catchy show Tunes. Great story
of the kidnap of Sandy Klaus. Yeah, I don't like
a Christmas movie. I don't like a Halloween movie, but
I don't think I've ever watched a Halloween movie, to

(01:13:55):
be fair, so that sums me up, doesn't it, Marcus.
I've paid four hundred for a set of hubcapes for
a twenty six They to pre us from Toyota. What's
slowly disappearing are aerodynamic spoilers they made any vehicle on

(01:14:16):
slightly ghastly. They didn't work. Will they work on Formula one?
This is just finishing now, two seconds left to go six.
It's over sixty three fifty. That's a netball. We won three,
they won one. The Aussies look ecstatic, the Kiwis look calm,

(01:14:47):
but yeah, it means something to Australians. They seem pretty
happy with that victory. Worked hard for that. They led
from the second quarter sixty three fifty. But the silver
wounds of silver fans have won the Constellation Cup series
three to one and they'll be very happy people. Then
I forgot seen off by England quite convincingly. They're all

(01:15:11):
in a circle now, both teams. It's a nice thing
to do, isn't it, and doing the shake and Houdies.
I guess they're thinking each other. Well done them for that,
Wade Marcus, welcome, hey.

Speaker 7 (01:15:22):
Mate, I've got I just spout the War of the Worlds.
I've got the double LP album with it's got an
amazing bloody booklet and side that's called the pictures of
all the drawings? Have he done?

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Okay, I don't think i've seen the booklet.

Speaker 7 (01:15:43):
Oh, have a look like Google.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
I only had it on CD, so I don't know
what I hit the booklet.

Speaker 7 (01:15:53):
Oh probably, I'm not sure on CD, but I know
that the LP definitely did.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
Yeah, original drawings by whom?

Speaker 7 (01:16:05):
Not sure, but it would have been whoever done the artwork? Okay, sorry,
that's not a very good answer.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
No, it's not a bad answer because because I'm looking
at it now, there was quite because there was an
amazing artwork on the cover with that big creature, right,
so it's clearly someone it's clearly quite famous artwork.

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
Yeah. Yeah. And then in the booklet is because it
was a twenty four page booklet, and it would some
of the chapters, like the drawings would be for like
a vision for that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:39):
Like that song.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Yes, yes, yeah, I think the guy's name was Keith
Simisson that did the artwork for it. He's obviously a phey,
a stude illustrator. Yeah, okay, yeah, do you give it
a spin very often?

Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:16:56):
Even now? And then I'll get it there, but you
know I try not to, but well only because my daughter.
I'll put I'll put it on and my daughter's like,
oh look let's go touch it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Oh I see, I see viny. Of course, next thing
got the you got the needles, scraping and all sorts
of stuff. Do you remember when you do you remember
why you bought it? Wade?

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
I brought it from a record shop. I'm about I
was eight years ago and I bought it for five dollars. Yes,
and I was like, yes, I'm going to have that
because I used to have on like the double CD yep.
And then over time I lost it from flatting and stuff.
And then as soon as I've seen it online, I
was like, yes, I'm having that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
I think Plenty would have had it on cassette and
threshed it as well.

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
Well, that'd be amazing on cassette.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Yeah, well you haven't the car you see, you get
one of those old higher cars with a cassette player.
Brilliant that I take, Wade. Nice to hear from me,
Thank you. I've got an email here. I don't know
if it's true. Emails and farming circles across New Zealand
a lot of communities come together to judge each other's

(01:18:13):
winter feed crops. In the evening, everyone meets together at
the local community hall and kids do Swede and turnip
carving quite common throughout New Zealand. I don't know if
it's common or not. I've never seen swede or turnip carving,
but I've never been to event where we judge each
other's winter feed crops. I did once go to a

(01:18:36):
charity hay bale auction out West and South and were
each farmer donated a bale of hay that was auctioned.
I'm pretty sure how that went, and the auctioneer was

(01:18:57):
a local minister from the congregation of a church that
was slightlye and that memory has stayed with me.

Speaker 9 (01:19:11):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
I won't say the name of the town. You might
have some other random thought. You've got so thoughts on
Halloween on its way out. That's my prediction, but I'm
not invested in it. I don't care either way. I
know some people are wildly passionate about Halloween. Some people
are furious about it. I know I'll get calls tomorrow

(01:19:32):
night saying these people at my gate. But there's also
drones now it's so perhaps people will terrify your house
with drones that scream and drop glowing spiders. That'll happen. Marcus.

(01:20:01):
What freaks you out about the Haybale auction? What freaked
me out? As everyone belonged to the same church. I've
got one small community in the minister seemed to have
a hold over them. He had a certain charisma. This
is in two thousand and two, two thousand and one.
It was small town charisma, but it was big charisma.

(01:20:25):
I don't know what small town charisma is actually, what
is small town charisma? Good evening, Halgar, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:20:37):
Oh hi, I wanted to talk about something else, like
you suggested something else.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Yes, great, you've got the idea. That's good. Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:20:45):
Well.

Speaker 9 (01:20:46):
I'm ringing about a seat at the bus stop at
Point Chevalier. Since January, I've been living in Abondale and
I'd seen the seat nearly outside the colonels, you know, KFC,
and all the pensioners would sit there. And this last

(01:21:07):
week I went to the bus stop and all these
pieces were standing and they'd taken the seat away. We
don't know why they took it away. Okay, and another
reason I'm concerned. I've built on the corner of Point
Shev Road there used to be selling in village. I've

(01:21:28):
built on the whole heap of flats for people over
fifty five. So imagine if they need to sit at
the bus stop. There's heaps of flats there housing New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
I'm trying to see that. Where is the where is
the KFC point chief?

Speaker 9 (01:21:48):
It's ah KFC is it's the Colonel's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Yeah, I found it. I found it.

Speaker 8 (01:21:59):
Now.

Speaker 9 (01:22:00):
Yeah, do you think I should ring the mayor?

Speaker 13 (01:22:04):
Certainly, Yeah, okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 9 (01:22:07):
But I thought i'd bring it up because they've got
to think of people pension, especially.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
Because only because there was a guy called j George Sheen.
Have you lived in Auckland a long time? There was
a guy in the in the late eighties in the
nineties called George Scherney. I think it was an old builder,
remarkable guy right, always were a suit and tie. I
think he was originally British and he got browned off

(01:22:34):
with them. It be no seats for people on buses,
so he just went and built a hole lot himself.
He was a remarkable guy. Because there is enough seats.
So are you talking on the same side as KFC
on the other.

Speaker 9 (01:22:45):
Side, Yeah, the same time as k There's a flash
bus stop shelter seat there on the opposite side, but
not on the k of Sea side.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
And the US there used to be a seat there.

Speaker 9 (01:23:00):
Yeah, there was a seat there until a week ago.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Outride out outside the chargrilled Lamb Shoulder barbecue place. Yeah,
I've seen it and I can't imagine why that look
it looked like it was in good condition.

Speaker 9 (01:23:14):
Yeah, it was, and I don't know why they took
it away. So I thought i'd ring up to men.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
Yeah, no, do that and hopefully and there'd be a
local community board as well, won't there Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:23:24):
Probably, I'll I'll have a look find out from the
point sheet shop.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Yeah, get in touch with us, Helg, because I'd like
to stay. I'd like to keep updated about that, because
I mean, yeah, it looks like you'd want to sit
down there. Thank you, Helga. How can hell can get
the seat brought back? Suppose you go sit in the
cas then you miss your bus. Very busy with people
walking around even from Google Maps anyway, evening Marcus, the

(01:23:56):
Council's removing public seats aroout the city to reduce maintenance cost.
There is another one gone from Point Jevlier Road. No
one's mentioned the War of the World's two thousand I'm
something like Mark. No one's mentioned the War of the
World's two thousand and five films. Spielberg did Tom Cruise,
Decata Fanning, Miranda on O, Tim Robbins didn't see that.
Morgan Freeman narrates any good, didn't see any oscar buzz

(01:24:22):
around it? Did Mi Nority report? Then did that? Marcus?
In nineteen seventy nine we reenacted War of the World
in our class fight the good old OHP. The overhead projector.
This is a great text. I was eight. We're a
student teacher at dean Well Primary and Hamilton and showed
everything together. We made all the things to go on
the glass plate, the opening cylinders. I was in charge

(01:24:45):
of that, the boats and scary stalking aliens. It got
cast onto the whiteboard. I'll never forget it. Fond memories. Wow,
because I did a performance on the overhead projector that
didn't go well at all, and it's taunted me to
this day. So it's harder than it seemed. Yes, I
kind of tried to put one. It was a bit

(01:25:06):
of a anyway, Marcus, I'm what you call a young
buck twenty two my entire life. Haven't done anything for
Halloween match. Never too young to start, Mitch, chuck the
sheet on. Go out tomorrow. Get one of those scared drones.

(01:25:28):
They sound fantastic. I'll tell you one thing about the
men's netball team. At least they gave singing the anthem
I good whack good on them all you the words
will sing it beautifully. I think more teams could copy that.
Got strong opinions tonight. Monopoly worst game ever.

Speaker 6 (01:25:49):
Not?

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Is it terrible? Those local versions of it make a
mockery of the game, buying and telling parks and mountains.
It's just not credible anyway, Because I think about Monopoly.
The thing that made Monopoly okay was it was a
fairly good kind of condemnation of the capitalist system with

(01:26:12):
buying and selling houses and renting them to people. When
you start buying lighthouses and stuff for goodness sake, Halloween
not going anywhere. It's run out of steam in this country.
That's my version. Got young kids here about ten Every
year there's been less kind of I don't know. No,

(01:26:34):
it's on no one's radar. I don't know if that's
your sense of it. But most of it seemed to
be just marketing, didn't it. Ooh, Halloween sale, get down
to brisk goes, Ooh, scary prices, frightening deals. Marcus, I'm

(01:26:59):
pretty sure it's just not us key with Our local
hotel has got cheap spiderweb stuff all around the bar.
It sticks to you by weight. My mate's wife saw
light gray hair on his collar when he got home.
Try and tell who he hasn't been with some old
witch move McLean's Island, Marcus, can you tell me please?
To the Silver Ferns win tonight? I missed it. The

(01:27:19):
Silver Ferns lost and the New Zealand Men's detbull team lost.
They both lost, but they played well and they won
the Constant. They won the Constellation Cup. They just lost
one match. Marcus. I agree. I hate Monopoly. I abandoned
in my house many years ago. Terrible game. But we

(01:27:44):
are talking about the War of the Worlds and Halloween
and Monopoly now they are just suggested topics. But I've
gone to a fairly good beating tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:28:03):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Oh, here we go. Here we go, Here we go.
We've got someone that's livid. Hello, Marcus Holloa, where's my
my headphones? Headphone's not turned in? That's he's he's a
livid email Hello Marcus. I live two streets over from

(01:28:26):
eden Park and had to go out tonight. Unfortunately I
am arriving at home, surely, but it's taken sixty minutes
to get from Ponsonby Road to one street from Eden Park.
Traffic on all sides is just about a sandstill. Bond
Street is closed going south. This is so ridiculous. The
biggest stadium and it affects parking traffic. Surely, to God

(01:28:49):
there must be a plan in place to do a
central stadium. What makes it worse is I've used all
my fast data so am on slow speed now that
it's almost impossible to use at the moment. Not that
now that it's almost impossible to use at the moment.
With the amount of people here, it's timing out. I'm
literally having right now. It's just not Cricket needs to
be addressed.

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
If they had the light rail down do Minion Road,
it could get everyone away very very quickly. That would
be my take on that. And once the traffic loop,
the train loop gets going, it could be better off.
You might be stuck in traffic hitting home from the concert,
Travis Scott. You might give a review of the can
thanks reminding me of that too. By the way, the
news rooms looking at reports through social media, there have

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been some set to's at the Travis Scott concert. There's
been reports of fights or video posted of fights, but
always got any more from That's not, i suppose, not
particularly unexpected from a good concert like that young people.
But that's something so on a school night. So that's
Travis Scott. If you are around Eden Park and want
to tell us if the traffic's kind of resumed, Marcus,

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this is about cars. The real question is how many
private motor vehicles are still being driven without wafts and Ridgio's.
Maybe people just can't afford to buy cars so close
to Christmas and New Years. That's from Mac. So that's
the situation with car dealers and cars. But look, all
the lines are free. I'd like to hear from you tonight.
I'd like a final flurry from you. There might be

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something different you want to mention. I'll throw on the
lot at you tonight, including Monopoly, Halloween and War of
the World and anybody use car stuff and some other
stuff in there. But if you want to talk about
these things or add to them, and a review of

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the Travis Scott concert that would be of interest. They
shifted the day, which was inconvenient for people. The book,
tickets from christ Church and stuff. I hope Coldplay don't
do that. I'm not going to Coldplay, Marcus. Cars are
been running to the ground prior to buying an Evy

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or hybrid in several years time. If why are you
can only see two hub gaps any one time? Did
you hear about the guy that got arrested after his
hub kep came off charged with driving with nuts exposed? Surprised?
I read that not because it's Laura. I just I

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don't know how funny it is. Nicola Marcus, Welcome, Hi.

Speaker 7 (01:31:28):
Marcus Nicholas.

Speaker 5 (01:31:30):
Hello, let's just still away because I've just got back
from Trevis Scott concert with two thirteen year old boys.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
I appreciate you ringing, okay, thank you? Was it their
first concert?

Speaker 5 (01:31:42):
It was one of their first concerts.

Speaker 2 (01:31:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
The other one had been to Macklemott, so yeah, chose
to sit in the actual arena and seated knock down
in the GA because.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
I thought that would be wise.

Speaker 5 (01:31:54):
And I did see the fight and in defense of
I guess the kids down there. There was no music
and no warm up. There was a fifteen minute warm
so we walked down at probably seven, thinking that the
warm up back would be on it to the seven thirty.
There's a DJ that came on at eight for fifteen

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minutes and then he went off, and then Trevis Scott
came out at nine.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
Oh it's crazy, So that's that's that's there. Yeah, sorry,
that's madness. Oh.

Speaker 5 (01:32:27):
There was not even music playing through the speakers. It
was a great concept and when Trevis came on it
was awesome. This you're into his music and the boys
loved it. But you know, from an event manager point
of view, which not even music playing. Those kids have
been in there since five five thirty when gates opened.
They're all, you know, and and they've just got they
haven't even got music playing through the speakers. They had

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a fifteen minute djos Are said, so yeah, I think
there could be some that's one side.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
Another side of that, it's a good insight. We no
weed in park, so was this seating on the field,
Is it how it works?

Speaker 10 (01:33:01):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:33:01):
No, there was two lots of standing on the field,
areas right up in the front or in the heat
of security, and there were gates that you couldn't get
through if you'd paid for the back part, and then
all the seeding around the outside. Same set up as pink.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
So the seating at the beck is just in the
stands are on the field as well.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
No, not on the field, just around the stand as
though as though you're watching a rugby game. So the
whole field, whole rugby field, was understanding only.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
What was the song you played from?

Speaker 14 (01:33:29):
W W?

Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
No idea I played at all.

Speaker 2 (01:33:34):
I'm just I'm just looking at Twitter to drug some
understanding because it's not something that I would go to.
I'm not saying there's not a worthy artist, but I've
just looked to what people I think if it was
By the way, was the fight bad?

Speaker 5 (01:33:47):
The fight bad?

Speaker 13 (01:33:47):
Did you say?

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
Do people get injured?

Speaker 5 (01:33:50):
I don't know if there were any major injuries. They
did go on for quite some time and the security
guards couldn't really get there to break it up because
they al sort of made a circle and a couple
of times it was the end of their concert. But yeah,
I'm not I'm not sure there was sort of any
blood or broken bones or anything.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
The new song that's premiered is called Mexico City. That
was the one people were posting about. But I don't
know how that goes, Okay, Well you wouldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
You wouldn't know how it went even if you went
to the concert. I couldn't understand the words it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Okay. So is he on stage on his own most
of the time, or there's others on stage with him?

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
Just he got two guys up from the crowd for
one of the songs, which was quite fun. But no,
just him and a DJ off.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
To the side, and the kids do most of his music.

Speaker 7 (01:34:36):
The kids?

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Do you most of the music? Did they?

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
The kids loved it?

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Yeah, okay, And that's about the it's teenagers money that
were there?

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:34:47):
There was hot There was a range, but mostly teenagers
and probably older than thirteen really, But then I went
up to go to the bathroom. At one point there's
just all these parents sitting there eating hot chips, not
even in the stadium watching the teenagers.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
It all seems like everyone holds their cell phones up
to that's annoying as it. Why would you? Why would you?
Why do they have to film me for I suppose
they're live streaming to day.

Speaker 5 (01:35:11):
Oh, they were probably young twenty year olds in front
of me, and I don't even know if they are
live streaming it. They've just recorded every song.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
That'd be dancing and then they'd sort of be sealthy mode,
so they'd be dancing, and then they had and yeah,
I couldn't quite work it out whether you go back
and watch that.

Speaker 6 (01:35:28):
The next time?

Speaker 2 (01:35:29):
Why would you you would? Okay, this is my real
interesting questions in Nicola, where did you park?

Speaker 5 (01:35:35):
Well, I don't think the trains were running afterwards, Marcut.

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
What if they were, I would.

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
Don't quote me on it, but I don't think they were.
I have I have a sister in Laura and Mount Albert.
So we walked to the Mount Albert train station, caught
the train in, and then we were told that they
weren't running afterwards. And I actually had intended to walk
anyway because the trains were in right there after Pink,
because I took.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
The door right I was sitting here talking to the
people after to pick up so you park at your
sisters in Mount Albert, and you get the train from
Mount Albert to kings And station and you walk down
and the fan zoe then after then after it, you
walk to your sisters in Mount Albert.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
Yeah, yeah, it talk about twenty five minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:36:16):
And they'd be good for the lads as a boy
and a girl or two boys, two.

Speaker 5 (01:36:20):
Boys, and they ended up finding a line scooter.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
And so okay, okay, so, and they'd be good for
them to let off some energy after this song too, okay.
And then you get to your sisters. She's still up,
she says, how was the concert? You get your car
and she's in bed.

Speaker 13 (01:36:34):
She's in bed.

Speaker 5 (01:36:35):
Everyone's asleep with the dog starts back and so we've
broken the grown up and we live in Talpo. So
we say goodness and wow, yeah, the will travel home
again tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Well, there would be many from the school have come
up for that, would they would? There be?

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
Not many from Little Saint Patrick's Catholic School and top.

Speaker 8 (01:36:52):
Up at.

Speaker 2 (01:36:54):
Goodness, they had one there. Oh look, I.

Speaker 5 (01:36:58):
Tell you, I think we might have been the only ones.
But there were quite a few empty seats and they
were saying it was sold out. So I think the
date change either they lied and it wasn't sold out,
or the date change affected so many people. And they've
got refunds and haven't gone.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
And we don't quite know why there was a date change.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
Do we still don't know why?

Speaker 8 (01:37:16):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
We may never And.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
What's it like being mother of the year?

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
An honor that's comfortably on your shoulders? Because you've done
pretty well well, I.

Speaker 5 (01:37:29):
Think I might be in the running.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
So drive up today, absolutely, and to work out the
train to take an all you need the hot card
to do the limes Skar, I think you've done unbelievably well.
What about what about the snacks? You would have packed
your own?

Speaker 6 (01:37:45):
What you know? Me?

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
Well, I didn't know if I was to be able
to take them in, so I had burgers before we went,
homemade burgers, got hot chips there and then thought they
might need a peanut slab on the way home.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Brilliant. Okay, And they've got the day of school to wry.
What did you tell them that They said they've got
infection or something? Is that right? Or you've got permission
to be at school?

Speaker 5 (01:38:08):
I said, we're going to the Trevor Scott concert.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Wow, I suppose anything. I suppose. It's a nice looking
school too. Who designed that. It's a bizarre looking school,
isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:38:20):
Yeah, it's got the big church in the front and
then acute little Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
Beautiful, beautiful looking church.

Speaker 5 (01:38:26):
Yeah, no it is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Okay. That's got me, Thanks Nicola. I had no idea
Mother of the not every day you get to talk
to mother of the year. Mind Joe, you're doing other
thing while she's doing all that. Take the kids to
the concert jeepers. Wow, I'm not gonna say. I'm going
to say, am I I feel scared now? Fourteen to twelve?
Well that was been than I thought it would be.

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So the fight because the kids were bored. That's the answer.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
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