It's got a nice furry texture (21 October 2025)

Marcus wraps the nasty weather in the middle of the country, and talks to folks who've got themselves prepared for more wild weather with generators.

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

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Greetings and welcome. How are you, Marcus till twelve. A
lot of weather, A lot of weather. I am. I
feel like I'm broadcasting from the eye of the storm.
The weather in Bluff today was extraordinary. I went out
walking and the hail in the wind, it was just
you couldn't actually head off into it. Then the power

(00:35):
lines got blind over. They they did a bush fix
and we had a power cut a town power cup
between four and seven. So I drove into town about then.
Two of the power lines were on leans. They're replacing those.
There was a horse trailer from Kennid's Higher that had
actually gone into the Who would have taken that down empty?
I don't know. There's no sign of the car, but

(00:55):
the Fieries rout I presume that's where they were. Shimmozzle
so incredibly strong ones. The winds coming up the country
now are strong the ones. The winds have been up
there a day or two ago. So look, a lot
of weather information that you will have to impart with us.
So let's be hearing from you. It was windy last night.
I think it's going to be windy coming up Thursday.
Apparently it's already going to hit the hay. Don't know

(01:17):
that this expression. I'm looking at Candbry Highway and Weather
Information website. It says, and this is good. Anyone wanting
to travel north just stay at home. The Lewis has stuffed,
the Sheddin Dara has flooded. The reefed inside of Greymouth
has flooded. And the big one is State Higway won
around Cakulda. It's closed at Clarence River for trees down.
There's a fire north of town, and I've heard reports

(01:38):
of a fire on the inland Road. Cambra. Vans have
tipped and there's rumors that a truck has rolled. Emergency
suitician roading crews will be absolutely stretched in that region.
So it's Candbry Highway and Weather Information. You might have
some Facebook pages you can tell us about. Also too,
are the Lewis passed roads half washed away. The road

(02:01):
is completely right literally to the median line has gone.
So it's going to be road closed. I reckon I
wouldn't mind getting it. I wouldn't be surprised when I
get some sort of email from old Waka Katahi telling
us what's going on. If you've got weather information for us,
that's what I want to cover off for the first
part of the show. This power cuts, these fires, it's
like the Fall of Rome. I know there wouldn't have

(02:23):
been fires in the Fall of Rome, were there or
power cuts? Nothing like the Fall of Rome. But it's
pretty sketchy people. So if you've got some information to
someone's been killed by a tree in Mount Victory, you'll
be across that. There's trees down in the wided upper
one on Riversdale. So that's what we are on about today.

(02:44):
If you want to talk eight hundred and eighty today
and the wided up of thousands of properties are still
without power this evening. Hundreds of Hut Valley properties have
also been affected. A wider apper lines company Power Cost
said some households would remain without power overnight. You wouldn't
want the old linesman out and about the nights like tonight,
would you, because I'll just fall frey challenging conditions. That

(03:10):
seems to be the thing now, if you've got a
power cut and strong winds, it will stay off overnight
because they won't seeing the people up the polls. By
the way, too. We are talking about this. There's a
fire in Caculder. In fact, there's six fires in CA
Coulder fanned by strong winds. I don't know what you
think about this, but I clicked on some article on

(03:31):
the z Only Herald website about someone that got blown
into the street that shouldn't have been on the website.
That was disturbing to watch, and she could have been
hit by a car. It was terrible. I felt trauma. So, yeah,
you gotta watch what you post now. I think just
because you got a video, it doesn't mean you put
it up. That's my thoughts on that one. Keep those

(03:53):
texts coming. Also, a lot of people are without power,
so there's fires and there's wind, So yeah, what would
you say if there's if it's blowing and it's burning,
you wouldn't say it's like the fall of Rome? What
would you say? It's like to use an analogy or
a metaphor PEPs an exaggerated one. Here's a great email,

(04:17):
Thanks James good A Marcus first time emailer. Truck driver
James here, I've spent all day in my truck in
said in due to road conditions enclosures. My run is
from picked into in Vacago. I want to give a
big shout out to the Cozy Corner Cafe in Seddin
for keeping the hot coffee and lovely scones. Coming. Looks
like I'm sleeping in my truck tonight, truck driver, James,

(04:40):
that's a very good email, the human touch with the
Cozy Corner Cafe. I'll be going there next holiday and
also sleeping in the truck. We'd identify with that. He said,
what he does, he's driving picked into in Vacago. That's
a long time. He's in Seadin all day. If you've
got calls or weather updates, that's what we're about, certainly
for the first hour. I want to hear it all

(05:01):
because yet we've got a situation. It's like the fall
of Rome. If the fall of Rome was involving fire.
Get in touch, Heitill twelve. What have you got eight
hundred and eighty any weather updates about those? I will
keep you updated with the Waka Katahi ins into your
website because it was only a it was this time
last week that the heile of around Taranaki was all

(05:21):
cut off. Cheap has talked about the equinox. Nothing will
be ensurable.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
The way.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
We're going get in touch if you want to talk
about this. I will look at the state highways through
Canterbury that seems to have been slammed at the most recently.
Oh boy, oh boy, it's just a sea of red.
Fallen tree. State High one has closed in both there
exes between Harpukal and Row and Ward Road. User advised

(05:47):
to delay the that'll be you old said and Steve
Yep multiple fires. The sex of State Hi one has
closed that ca Cola between Pooh Pooh Road and Mill Road.
I don't think there's diversions there. And the other one
fallen tree due to a fallen tree blocking inland Roots seventy.

(06:07):
This local road is closed between Wyau and Pake. Consider
the laying your journey or using an alternate route a
different pronunciation of route there, just to keep it interesting
for myself. The Lewis Judah flooding closed from Hamner to
Springs Junction. Avoid the area Graymouth Judah flooding. State Hiway

(06:31):
seven is closed from Dobson to Nahidi. Please avoid the
era of delay your journey. We've got listers on that
State Highway seven because she's emailed me, not Stateway seven
State Hiway seventy. Anyway, if you've got weather updates to
let us know what's happening your neck of the woods.
Chris Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Oh, yes, high Marcus.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm out at Riversdale Beach in the yes, Copy.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
Haven't even been able to open the door. You can't
open the door to get out.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Fight that's so, where where's the wooden? Coming from.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
The north west? But I haven't left the house all
day apart from to go to the shop to get
some water because we're on gas. And of course if
you haven't got a hot water cylinder, you got no water.
So with no water and no power. And I've had

(07:28):
two messages, one from Power Co and one from Genesis
Energy to say that will be without power overnight.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
So this is your community? Is the beach at the beach?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (07:42):
I live at the beach.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
How many people would be there? Looking like about three
or four hundred? Would that be correct? I would say, so, yeah,
everyone coping.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
But my neighbor actually he works in town. He's he
had to go to town.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
This morning and is Marterton. Yes, yep, Copy, sorry sorry,
And he.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Said when he came home at six o'clock. The power
lines were still down on the road. So, yeah, it's
been pretty nasty.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, as in much damage, your trees down or stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Awful lot, there's an awful lot down. Yeah, a tree,
if I heard a coward tree. Unfortunately it had to
be one of them. Came down on my car today. Wow,
but only it only.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
Hit the side of it.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
And it doesn't look like there's too much damage. But
me living on my own, I hope to find someone
with a Jane's order or remove it.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Have you got a coal range for you got able
to cook and stay?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I've got I've got a little Guess burner. Oh yeah, No,
I'm not worried about that. The only thing that's annoying
is not having any water.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, that's worried.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
So when I lived, when I lived before I shifted
out here, I actually had electricity for my hot water,
and if there was ever a power cut, which he
always was, we had all the water in the hot
water cylinder. But you don't have that with Guess. If
the power goes off and the pump cart go you've

(09:26):
got no water.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
You don't want you don't want to be drinking the
water out of the toilet system. I know that some
people can do that, but I wouldn't yaged.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
So the people were far worse off for.

Speaker 7 (09:40):
Me, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
And you've clearly got batteries in your radio.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, I've got batteries and I've got them talking to
you on my cell phone.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
I charged that up in the car, of course.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
You did, that would fine? Yeah, okay, Well, well we'll
be aware of you. Chris, you'll be in our thoughts
and updates. Marcus went, somebody, it's another hut setting off
fireworks last night, I mean with really strong winds. He
Metania Beach howling gale ten has come off the roof,
no TV listening to z'b phone line has pulled off

(10:10):
the pylon, clipping corners of the garage. Power still on.
That would be a concern. Yeah, I'd be worried about that.
Don't go anywhere near there. We are talking about it's
weather coverage tonight, because it seems as though everywhere has
been slammed. But certainly there's more strong ones coming up
the country bluffs of every windy place. But today was

(10:33):
that the house was making noises and moving in ways
it had never moved before. It's a house that's probably
been around for one hundred years. But wow, by the way,
if anyone's an eyewitness for that car park fire at
fanga A, that seemed bizarre, didn't it. It even seemed
to be a didn't even seem to be a battery cars.

(10:57):
I don't know why there's a number of fires in Calcutta.
What's happened there? Is that just poor timing or what
And you might have been up in the air today
flying around because it'd be sketchy. It's what we're on
about tonight, eight hundred eighty eight. There's also a fins
Fire Emergencies and Advisors. There is two large fires in

(11:20):
the Porranga Hoo area which are producing a large amount
of smoke. Closure doors, closure doors like the lights were
staying in tonight. And there's a large vegetation fire there
a plant a plant pine plantation and Mangarapa Hawkes Bay
thirty hectares inside. Vehicles have been blown over in Hiranui. Wow,

(11:43):
that's getting slammed currently. Jeepers hell And this is Marcus.
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 9 (11:51):
I'm concerned about the water tanks that have got no
tap on them for occasions like this, So oh.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
You must have a tamp. That's a great idea.

Speaker 9 (11:59):
Well, that's right, I've got I've got concrete water tanks
and they've all got I've had taps put in them
so that i can always to get water. I know
some councils won't let you actually have taps because it
got to do with the regulation of the draining the
store water system of.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
Some of the roof.

Speaker 9 (12:16):
But when you when you've got tank that you can
actually have a tap in the side, get your plumber
out to to drill a hole in and put and
reinforce it and put a tap there so that you're
never going to be short of water.

Speaker 11 (12:30):
That's just.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
That's Helen. Why did you say councils would be opposed
to something which seems just like common sense? Runner one?
What's their thinking?

Speaker 9 (12:38):
I heard something the other day. It's to do with, say,
want want the water to drain out of the water
tanks at the certain rate, or something to do with
their store water system. But if you have you even
you had a small a small.

Speaker 12 (12:54):
You know.

Speaker 9 (12:57):
You know something that something well, you wouldn't want to
you wouldn't want the water to scale. But I don't
see why you can't actually have water coming out that
you can actually access by just having a tap. Get
the plumber to come out and put install. I think
it's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
I think it's essential.

Speaker 9 (13:14):
Thank you Marcus.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
You'd even have a you could even have a side
pipe from the pipe that's coming out of the tank.
It's what most people would have, wouldn't it us Farmers
by the way, Measles one, Work two and Nelson three
new cases. This is not going away. It's mainly born
from overseas. Nice looking place, Old Riversdale Beach, lovely looking place.

(13:37):
Actually there's story to the settlement there. I forget what
it was. Some guy set it all out and away
he went. Someone says, this is the time a six
hundred generator from Bunnings. It's worth its weight in gold,
twenty tens of guests and you're set for twenty four
hours or twenty buck ten of guests. Best to be
safe than sorry. Yes, I went to the four square
and bluff. It was all dark, but everything was working.

(13:58):
The self scanning was working. Are they waiting for the
jenny to kick? And I thought, well that's smart. I
want to kick in the kickcock the kids. Anything at
home because the power is out. Fortunately they said the
power would go out at four to repair the lines.
While watching the Blue Jays now and it was the

(14:18):
second last innings and it was four o'clock, but fortunately
it went off at about five past four. It was
a very good game of baseball that the Toronto Blue
Jays were playing Seattle to go to the final, to
go to the World Series. They haven't been there for
thirty years. I think they're behind three to one. I
came in at the top of the third. They're behind
three to one, I think, and they got one on
I think one walk to base one. Then I hit

(14:39):
to base two on our bunt to base two, and
then their home run guy came in don't know, sort
of a lively looking rooster Springer and wasn't a walk
off home run, but certainly got three himself in the
two others home with a home run extraordinary. I think
that was at the top of the eighth, and then
the Seattle. They pitched the Seattle out twice. I think

(15:02):
there was one walk, but exciting finish. Sort of have
been away from baseball, being too busy in the day,
but this will be good. So the Canadians the only
Canadian team will go against the Dodgers LA who they're
number one. I mean they have Shahir Tani, who's the
greatest baseball I ever because he pictures and bats, He's
a home run specialist and a probably the top pitcher

(15:25):
on the roster. So oh, we've got a good result
in the basketball. I see. I'm just texting the family
one for bluff. I've got just seeing who were they playing.
It's late for the kids to be playing baseball basketball.
Help us seven. So we are talking about the weather
also tonight, come through if we've got something to say

(15:47):
about that. Twenty three past eight. She's all on, it's
the weather weather talk back tonight. It's about time we
need it.

Speaker 13 (15:54):
Well.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I like about James Is. He's emailed twice. That's good.
But if you've got any more information about what's happening
with the weather, because it's not good, and I reckon
there's worse stuff coming. I went off well, when I
went off from my walk today, I was fighting sheets
of il. I was having to put bricks on to
keep them just around the streets, keep them in place.

(16:16):
She you wouldn't want to get hit by a random
piece of Tin. It's one of my nightmares. High flying
Tin or low flying Tin Tintin text if you've got
the man called Hettel twelve o'clock. But mainly it's the way.
If you've got any Facebook pages, go to those and
text me what's happening on those. Also, as far as
updates on the weather, I think we might have underreported

(16:37):
this yesterday. That's why I feel quite bad. Yeah, but yeah,
I don't know why there's so many fires in Calcutta
as why they must have misjudged the weather doing burned
out in this weather. And you go to the stuff website,
there's the obligatory shots of wrecked trampolines, because what happens
with those They end up acting like a win, They

(16:58):
get a tilt and then they take off.

Speaker 7 (17:01):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I think it's Bernoulli's equation or something like that. Referential
different Marcus shout out to the legends at pace paronair.
Got my cow shed back up and running with a
shining new JCB generator. Every farmer needs one. Legend. Someone
said the weather is like using a netball. What does
that mean? Of course everyone's talking about knitball, aren't they.

(17:22):
It's sort of got people people are kind of freaked
out by that name. Willie Jackson's talk about in parliament
or from parliament our win today in the Hudnui won
thirty k's bracing for one sixty on Thursday. It's died
down now, but it was very hard to walk anywhere
in it. Thank you for that. Yes, since someone set

(17:44):
the article of the person getting blind to the traffic,
I don't think they should have posted that. I thought
that was disturbing to watch. They're now looking that there
might be community transmission of measles, and seems we mainly
brought back by people that have been overseas. I don't
quite know how you what you do to stop that happening.

(18:08):
Just put that out there as a backtopic. People on
the twenty first of October be about eight weeks to Christmas.
It's not long, not long at all. By the way
to Thursday night is the next match in the Women's
One Day International NETS against India ten thirty The start YEP.

Speaker 14 (18:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
The other thing I can tell you is the weather warning.
A front preceded by a restrong and a humid northwest
flow moves over the central New Zealand today. Another front
also preceded by a restrong and humid northwest flow move
over southern and central New Zealand during Thursday is International
Day of the Nacho today. Some of you who remember

(18:55):
when Nacho's first arrived in New Zealand, wasn't that long
ago to say, it'll be the mid eighties. So if
you've got an information about the weather, let us know
what's going on. Old Massey was named after William Massey.
Very good. That's the suburban west Auckland and the university

(19:17):
Mackenzie Country named after Thomas Mackenzie. Not looking good for
Thursday's Mega strike. Bad weather on its way, that's from
Ben Probably good weather from Mega strike. Can we claim
Helensville as a town named after Helen Clark? Yes, you could.

(19:38):
I don't know why it's called Helensville. Someone might let
us know you were were our recent names for towns
like a Shipleyville? Oh that's right, it was dix Headon
who Saidden is named after dix Headon. That's right, Richard,
Richard Seddon. Oh, by the way, comes if you've got

(20:01):
those calls for us too. I saw a recipe today
I thought looked good. Well I put there it I'm
not going to be one for the recipes. I thought
this one looked special. Here, where are we with this?
Ear fryer custard stuffed crumpets? Three ingredients? Oh yeah, how's
that sound, eir fryer. Custard stuffed crumpets look cheapest. Creepers,

(20:28):
you want to know about that? I haven't got near
f I haven't done it, but jeepers, I'm not a
fan of custard, American custard and crumpets. Like a mouth party,
like a little mouth party. All lot going on there
in the mouth, jeepers. Three ingredients, custard crumpet, golden syrup.

(20:51):
The syrup of sin is the golden syrup? Greg? Good, evening?

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Good?

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Greg.

Speaker 15 (20:59):
I thought I was driving home from an interesting topic
about place names where they came from. So, as a
moment of just clarification, I'm an Auckland boy, but I
moved to Christchitch around twenty five years ago, and when
I got here there were some interesting place names, which

(21:20):
I've always had my own little internal joke about because
I'm not sure if the locals would like it. So
we have a called Suley. Yeah, and just to add
to that, we've got the Shurley Boys High School and
oh my goodness, where did that come from?

Speaker 16 (21:39):
So who's Shirley?

Speaker 14 (21:41):
I'd like to know?

Speaker 2 (21:42):
And I think there was how how old are you?

Speaker 13 (21:46):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (21:49):
There was also a Billy Bragg song called Shirley, which
I always think overy time I hear that suburb. Oh no,
that might be it because it's funny. When you go
it won't be because but because it's funny. It's like
it's like the town Rodney that everyone always makes fun
of too, Rodney and Shirley. I mean they're straight, they
don't sound serious. Have to be a name for a
town or a suburb.

Speaker 17 (22:10):
They don't.

Speaker 15 (22:11):
And then you know, you know, Adam, Shirley Boys, you know,
like you know it's a big strapping first.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yes, yes, I'm hearing you with that one, Shurley Boys.
It's like Nancy Boys or something, isn't it. It's sort
of you always think about the same thing.

Speaker 15 (22:28):
Yeah, it's just like I'm sure you know it's all unintended,
but it's just it's amusing at the same time for
people who have never quite grown.

Speaker 18 (22:35):
Up like me.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
But you've got to be careful speaking suburbs in christ
because they'll defend suburbs, won't they They're quite suburban as
a as a a lot of people they they put
they put a lot into that. There's a lot of
suburbs carry a lot of importance.

Speaker 15 (22:52):
Well interesting you should say that again, as having been
an Auckland, I think that's an Auckland that's more the case.
But in Christ it's definitely about which school did you
go to? So that's that's often the question that gets
asked when you first get in used to people and
cross it's just what scook.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
Did you go to?

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Unbelievable, Greg, nice to talk, Thank you. Market's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
Welcome oday, Marcus. Three ingredient dishes. I had an encounter
with the one recently that changed my completely changed my
idea of what this dish could be.

Speaker 19 (23:27):
Now.

Speaker 8 (23:27):
I like a corn fritter. I've always made a corn
fridd with corn kernels.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
From the Edmunds cockpit, right. That was always a go to,
wasn't it.

Speaker 7 (23:36):
Yep?

Speaker 8 (23:37):
You know, just absolutely. I saw this recipe use cream corn,
what and I was like, You've got to be joking,
cream corn and a fritter. It'll just be it'll be
a slush.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah on Marcus slush it won't.

Speaker 20 (23:55):
Yeah, how wrong was I?

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Isn't it good that we can get to the age
where we're wrong about things with our fixed ideas? Mark
you and I that we could say, actually, why was
I so invested in kernels of corn when the cream
corn is so much better?

Speaker 20 (24:10):
It is so much better, It is so much taste here,
It is light years ahead. It's just two eggs a
can of Actually, the best one I've found is the
home brand from Woolworths cream Corn, which is like a
dollar forty and a bit of self raising flour.

Speaker 17 (24:31):
Is that it?

Speaker 2 (24:33):
It's fidget spinner. That's not much. Two eggs can of corn,
self righteous flour, and you're going off to go.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
And your seasons of taste? And I see them with
South after I cooked the first lot and they were exceptional,
I said, right, I'm gonna do ham. I'm gonna do
I really slice your dice, only really small pieces fragments
of ham, and you can put bacon bits in there.
There is no end to what you could have.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Are you using that as a space now? Aren't you
using that as a vehicle for the sorts of things?
You got white bait in there and stuff?

Speaker 8 (25:06):
Oh no, I'm on a white bait for it, a fanatic.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
You just be white baiting the eggs, right, oh you mate? Yeah,
occasionally Mark.

Speaker 17 (25:19):
Introduce the kids.

Speaker 8 (25:20):
Sorry us testing you, thank you, mate, thank.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
You, thank you.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
You put bacon and maple syrup with those corn fritters.

Speaker 8 (25:32):
Yeah, definitely, and and banana.

Speaker 21 (25:35):
So now we're talking.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now we're talking.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 (25:39):
It actually says in the recipe breakfast for lunch, doesn't
say dinner.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Where's this recipe?

Speaker 8 (25:46):
You believe this? It's a it's with a Facebook ad
for Finish for Finish powerball tablets for your dishwasher. And
I thought, really, that's why I was reluctant, But I said,
it's come up so many times, I'm going to give.

Speaker 22 (26:01):
It a go.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
You never know in this modern world where genius is
going to hit you. I mean, like for an ad
for a dishwashing liquid on dish washing capture on social media,
and they've got a three recipe.

Speaker 8 (26:11):
Of the mother load and you're off to the races.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Gone, two eggs, love it, A ton of a ton
of cream corn, how much self righteous flour? Two tablespoons.

Speaker 8 (26:25):
Sprinkled the taste. You're sticking it up as you like it.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Wow, and you put that on your smeg pan. You
got one of the digit one of those.

Speaker 21 (26:33):
N I never got one of those, mate.

Speaker 8 (26:37):
It gives me I've got the other bits that I've
never used to.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
You never got you never got the brace What was
it called the brazier the breeze? Never got the brazier,
did you?

Speaker 8 (26:48):
I used to call it the brazier in honor of
our great men.

Speaker 7 (26:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta bench for sure.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
My man. Yeah, hey, I hope he will. The lady
wore a wrapper out on the coast. Stay strong yet there.
I hope you're okay. Get that cap sorted. And to
everybody else he had dead man, I hype you're okay.
The batteries or whatever you doing.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
And Mike, I think when we start converting all our
talkback calls to AI will use you as the template.
You always come through well with enthusiasm. So long way
that last. Yeah, we'll get him processed better. It's Marcus
good evening.

Speaker 14 (27:25):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus, how am I good?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Better?

Speaker 14 (27:29):
First of all, it's Richard John Seddon and he was
a premier of New Zealand. He lived in Tomaraw, which
is interesting.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yes, and so I think the original thing did say
premiere or prime ministers, So you're right, well that good.

Speaker 14 (27:42):
Yeah, he was the premiere until he went to the
UK and I met other people that call themselves prime minister,
and that's how we ended up with a prime minister.
But anyway, that's not why I rang. Name was Richard
John Seddon. Yep, he was the first thing they said premiere,

(28:04):
but I mean that sounds like a lot. But anyway,
the fifteenth premiere became the Prime Minister from Kamara, which
I thought was kind of cool. Actually, yeah, anyway, so
I went to I went to Mawana to work today,
which is the Lake Runner on the West coast, and

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it was horrendous. Road blocked at Jackson's for a slip,
got over the bridge, bridges, out rivers run across the
road and then a curtain side is skidded across the
road about two hundred meters in front of me, which
was interesting. About eight o'clock this morning. Wow, anything in it, well,

(28:46):
the curtain side, as everything moves to the side of
the curtain, which I've probably presumed why he was off
the road. I stopped and a farmer had stopped and
he was okay. So I carried on to work and
it was gone when I came back tonight. But the
road was a mess. There's logs and trees everywhere, and
there was contractors. So I gave up work at two o'clock.
The rain was coming off the ground harder that was

(29:07):
coming out of the sky.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
So that's to do with flooding. Ain't not the wind.
It's not trees. It's rivers up, is it.

Speaker 14 (29:13):
Oh yeah, that's the wind. But driving over here, so
around Lake Linden, which is the top of Porters passed,
the wind was that hard. I had to drive hard
into the wind to keep straight. It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
You had some days sometimes right there on the bluff road.
Today you really had to keep both hands on the still.
You didn't want to sort of go into the into
some of those showers sort of without both hands on
the wheel because it was gee. The side was unbelievable.

Speaker 19 (29:41):
No, it was.

Speaker 14 (29:42):
It was amazing. But I've got back to Kennery to
I and it's still and warm and flat. It's quite amazing.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
So when stopped, has.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
It yeah, dropped, it's dead still quite warm.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
President, Thanks Bester, I appreciate that. Ten away from nine.
The other town named after a premiere, of course, is
Coatsville after Coats Dave Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 7 (30:06):
Market.

Speaker 21 (30:06):
Yes, yes, calmed here in christ it's been two hours ago.

Speaker 17 (30:13):
Yes, yes, but it was Blower Yes.

Speaker 21 (30:15):
Now. Shirley Boys was originally on the by Dudley Creek
North and north Haven Road. Had a very good first thirteen.
I played two theasons first and for Shirley Club. Very
good sporting score and a good first fifteen as well.
That was back in the day, but now, of course
it's by a Kiwi two. I had me egg omelet

(30:38):
for tea and that's double lined in the basket in
the air fryer with bacon paper, two eggs, mozzarella cheese,
and I diced up the chicken bacon and to pieces
and added some whole kernel corn. Excellent for twelve minutes
on one eighty.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you like the chicken bacon beautiful?

Speaker 21 (30:59):
Yep, very lean and it goes well in my It
would go well on a bacon egg pot as well.
You can at corn or peas tinnot corn or peas excellent.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
You seem to be an early adopter with the chicken bacon.
I haven't heard of it so much.

Speaker 21 (31:17):
Yes, I am, well, I'm a convert now I buy
it when over I see it at Peck and Save.
You can't get about six rashes, I suppose, And I
reckon a couple of rashes diced up, cut up and
put into me omelet just goes a treat.

Speaker 19 (31:32):
It's excellent. It's very quid.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Is it in the bacon section or the chicken section?

Speaker 21 (31:37):
Bacon section Marcus in a black wrapper type of with
a clear to john with chicken rashes?

Speaker 19 (31:48):
Ye?

Speaker 21 (31:51):
Yeah, and it goes well. And I had the mozzarella
cheese and that went even good. The only thing is
I sort of give it a bit of a shush up,
bit of a stir up halfway through so that the
cheese and the egg doesn't stick on the baking paper.
So they sort of folded in and put a bit
of curry powder and heavily would walk the white pepper.

Speaker 17 (32:12):
And I highly recommend it.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Nice cool dape. Thanks so much for that. Four from nine.
Quite a few fireworks going off here in Monaco City tonight.
It's Indian celebrating Diwali. Happy Diwali everyone, Wow, Marcus. Sweetcorn
fritters are on the Edmund's book. I've been making them
since the semon. That's why I said, I said to
him the Edmunds, I've word and restaurants in the day

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and they always use that as their recipe for the
bacon and corn fritters. Yeah, it's this industry standard. Marcus,
get yourself one of those new Ninja ice cream machines.
They are bloody fantastic. Just had mine a week. We're
going to hospital and come across people from all over
New Zealand. If someone says they come from christ Church,

(32:55):
I'm from Shirley, I'll say home brand cream corn contains
twenty percent tapioca. That's what I'll make it so good,
Tap tap tapiocre. He's interesting, but a trivia invert. Cargoll
has both a Joseph and Ward Street parallel to each other.

(33:17):
I like a themed street on our ENDUS recipes for
three ingredient SCons, and there was always Ewan Stevens's standard
when he was doing the talk back on the radio
was always three ingredient SCons. We are talking towns and
places named after prime ministers or premieres. It's very interesting.

(33:40):
I've got texts about that. Also very interesting. There was
Henry Sewell nothing anything's named after him. There was the
Right Honorable Sir William Fox. That'll be Foxton. He was
in the bang Tik. He was probably Colonial secretary. There

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was Stafford, the right Honorable, don't know what's named after him.
There was Alfred Domit. Is there a suburb named Domit.
Then there's a Frederic Weld. I think there's a town
called Weld. Then there was George Waterhouse not much named
after him. Then there was Julia's Vogel. There's Vogel Town
in New Plymouth the suburb, and there's Vogel House, and

(34:28):
there's in Wellington and there's Vogel Bread named after him.
Then there's Atkinson. I think there's roads named up. Then
there's George Gray Graymouth, Graytown. Then there's Robert Stout. Don't
a thing named after him. Then there's Balance. I think
there was a town called Balance in the wired up?

(34:50):
Am I right? Or is it tick? Then there's Set
and there's a town named after Seddon. Then there's Ward,
the town where there's Messy, the university and the suburb.
Then there's coats with Coatsville. Yeah, Peter Fraser didn't a
savage has got nothing named after him. Fraser's got nothing. Holland. Well,

(35:13):
there's a whole country named after him, but not in
this country. I think we stopped after Savage, after Forbes.
There you go, Marcus Gratcher is always huge winds in Shirley.
Me and the wife stayed indoors. Huge blow Roger Upham.
Don't forget Balance, which is a town in Tarao are

(35:33):
named after John Balance, also home of the largest wind
farm in New Zealand. I was up the back of
the farm today, saw some rabbits and the wind farm
was all turned off. I went to my shed but
it was too windy to open the door. Sheep looked
quite happy. They got down behind the tussocks. I like

(35:55):
it behind the tussocks. Took them up some feed, just
to make sure they are okay. I'm slightly angry with
them because they haven't reproduced. Yeah, anyway, that's the old
lot of the farmer, neither of the sheep, so I
don't know what's going on there. Every time I climbed

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the farmers expecting to hear that sort of the cries
of the young lamb wasn't to be Our Stout and
Balanced streets are in Wellington, CBD. Domit is just south
of Cheviot, which is about an hour and a half
north of christ Church. Yes, Dormitt was a train station
also named after the premiere. We're talking about the weather

(36:37):
updates three ress. Oh, by the way, these air fryer
custed stuff crumpets. What you do is you get a crumpet, right,
You won't need to write this down because you remember it.
You get a crumpet and you pour two tablespoons vanilla

(37:01):
custed on the top of each crumpet, and you spread
with a knife and slowly press the custard into the
crumpet holes. I think we can already get the kids
to do that. And you put the crumpets in the
air fry basket, cook at one eighty for ten minutes
until they're golden. Then you cut in half and you
stack on a serving plate and you drizzle with golden syrup.
That's it. That's literally it. That's worth buying the air

(37:27):
fryer for. Just be delicious, wouldn't it If you got
a knight on the old Source, if you've got a
night on the tiles and you come home or on
the old Wacky Becky, those are just boy, oh boy,
would they be good cheapers now not often a five

(37:53):
A five word text will give you a laugh. Your
sheep must be gay good. I was born in Sedonville,
north of Westport. Thank you for that, Noel said. I
live in Sir Robert Stout's house in stout Gate, Dunedin.

(38:15):
So we're talking about interesting names of streets and towns
named after premieres or whatever, and I do get in touch.
You want to talk about that? What we're on about tonight.
A lot of people texting and disbelieve their name of
blow for bread after Julia's Vogel. Well, he was the
guy that got our whole railways, brought a huge amount

(38:38):
of money and just changed his country forever with the
railway system. He had the foresight, well lack of foresight
or foresight, to build a railway system far and beyond
what the country required, bearing in mind there were no
cars or roads in those days, eighteen sixty six or something.

(38:59):
He started. Good evening, Tim, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Because you will.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yes, good, Thank you, Tim.

Speaker 7 (39:09):
I lived in Seddon Street in Tippuki, oh Well, named
after named after Richard Seddon.

Speaker 21 (39:18):
There.

Speaker 7 (39:21):
I think he's like the maybe the fourteenth fifteenth Prime
Minister of New Zealand.

Speaker 5 (39:29):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (39:31):
Uh, about early eight eighteen ninety three. Yep. And as
he died in office. Say that's a bit in Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Yeah, it's really interesting. Not many lately have died in office.

Speaker 13 (39:45):
Have they?

Speaker 7 (39:47):
No, Well, the only one I can recall, and the
kid was ig normal. Yeah. I think I was about
four years old, and I remember watching the ceremony and
it didn't really you know, dropping, but I do remember
watching it. Yeah, just a thought on those crumpets, you know,

(40:12):
say one had been out, as you say on the
Devil's letters, Ye, would you actually get to put the
custard on the crumpets or would you just sort of
up ended?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
I don't know that.

Speaker 10 (40:27):
Story.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
I couldn't quite work out the actual the perfect circumstances
where that would seem like a brilliant idea. I don't
think I've really sold the scenario. But imagine to be
a set of circumstances where a very simple recipe like
that would just hit the spot.

Speaker 7 (40:45):
Well, that would be one of them where that would
likely rise to the top of the decisions, you know,
or we got three components, it's really only two.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
It's really only two components and the and the golden
syrups just a bit of garnish at the end.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
Yeah, exactly. A jeez, I almost kicked off my type
two thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Yeah, yeah, you almost could think you're into type two
with that. And could I just confess I've never brought
brought custard. I don't like custard, but I reckon in
that I lead a custard square. I reckon custard in
the holes of the crumpet in an air fry would
be delicious.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
Yeah, I ain't funnily enough. I detest custard, but as
you are explaining it, I could see how that might
all come together, particularly if you know you're a bit affected.
Maybe I'm not a big.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Fan of custard at all, but that in a custard square,
all within that, because it'd be a mouth sensation to
be the Christmas of the crumpet and the forgivingness of
the custard. It would just be remarkable.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
This is it, you'd like, like you say, it'd almost
be invisible custard.

Speaker 14 (41:57):
Ah.

Speaker 7 (41:58):
Anyway, I could have moved on at that point because
I'm just.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I'll go to down Seddon Street to like and swell
the rather Custard and there we have a meal waiting.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
Yeah, well, I won't give it the executive dress, but
you're always welcome, and I would get some crumpets and
cust in you and.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
It's the perfect thing to have. You got guests in
a hurry. Oh, hang on, Blue's guards only what we'll do.
We'll do the old Custard. It needs a better name though.
It needs to be called the Crumpet Surprise or the
what would you call something crumpets and and fused with custard,
you'd call it? Oh, would you call it Custard's last stand?

(42:41):
Or would you call it I'm feeling there's a kind
of almost a cludo clue in there was it mister
Custard and the pludo? Oh this Colonel Mustard, not not
misac Custard, Colonel Custard. There'd be some name there. Yeah,
what would you call it Custard's last stand? Or we

(43:06):
cut the better name than that. I wonder if I'll
be able to buy a if I get to if
I get to Kmart by the time the commercials finish
at midnight, I could buy one. I don't know what
the custard thing to call it would be, I don't reckon,
I reckon. You can actually push the butter. You wouldn't

(43:26):
need the golden syrup. You could do other stuff. Yeah,
as they say, when life gives you lemon, dad custard
check GPT, you reconds, we should call the crumpets vanilla pillows. Actually,
check GPT was quite taken by them, said they sound
delicious and seen a smiley emoji Matt Marcus.

Speaker 7 (43:50):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 12 (43:53):
I'd call them disgusted.

Speaker 10 (43:57):
At all.

Speaker 23 (43:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (44:00):
I never liked it since we used have there's like
a forced puddings.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
No one likes it from our generation, but sometimes it
can be used. Have you had a custard square?

Speaker 12 (44:12):
No, I just haven't been an hour to go near Inno, since.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
I even think a custard hater would love a custard square.

Speaker 12 (44:21):
I might let the icing, but I've given the rest
of the dogs. He been fun in the curtain side
of today, between parmy and willing to stide down with
it now. But I did see one truck coming along,
not like I had ribbons sleigh at the top or
that's unusual. And when I passed it, he tied his

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curtain's back with the stretch to the back wall, which
is a trick truckies do when you're empty. So the
wind blows through, you know, and knocked around like a sailboat.
But it's like as roof was gone and there was
the stebricks flipping around. I thought, what the hell? I

(45:07):
don't know what happened there, But.

Speaker 17 (45:09):
Did you give him a seat?

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Did did you give a sneaky signal to say it
wasn't good out the back?

Speaker 12 (45:15):
I did, but we're he was already in town right timing.
I knew he wasn't far from his face, so he
would have found it pretty soon. But apparently the wind
could lift the roof up out of the poles, you know,
because there's no tension on it. So yeah, I just
thought that was interesting and never become a presentable.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, it would there be wind strong enough. You wouldn't
go out in the curtains, sider, would you.

Speaker 12 (45:48):
Well, a lot of us are on the road today.
I've got kind of sore arms from fighting it earlier
in the day. Slowly down it, you know, and yeah
it's good weight on. But yeah, there was a couple
of trucks blowing over for us.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
On the Bluff Road. Someone had picked up a you know,
a like a horse, a horse flight from Kinnard's and
that was in the ditch. So I imagine that would
have made the car tip as well. If that was
blood over, wouldn't it the car would go with it,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 12 (46:24):
Maybe decide that the trailer rollover yesterday?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Right, appreciate that, Matte. Yeah, the far is is the
alarm went off, so I presume that's what they were for.
Wisley Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (46:44):
Hey Marcus.

Speaker 6 (46:45):
Speaking of strong winds, Wellington has had really bad wins today,
including three branches taking someone's life, a lot of wind
related damage in the city, and Met Service has put
us at a moderate rest for Thursday for upgrading to
a red weather warning due to the wind forecast to

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be one hundred and forty k's an hour and due
to the pre existing damage. I wouldn't be surprised if
we do go under a red warning on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
What was the peak win today, wis lady.

Speaker 6 (47:23):
You know, an excess of one hundred and thirty Okay,
that's exactly where.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
So that's eight percent higher than that. Okay, that's a
big increase.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Yeah, but there's a lot of wind damage already in
the city and we won't. We only have forty eight
hours before the next weather warning as active.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Done relenting.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
How Islington is expected. Wellington is expecting to host the
main strike protests that Parliament on Thursday. I hope the
organizers take keed of the weather warning that forecasted and
be prepared to cancel on short notice.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Good advice, Wesley, Thank you Waka katah he has just
got in touch with me. A stretch of State Highway
two south of Hastings remain closed over night after strong
winds toppled trees and caused a truck to overturn. Crews
will assess reassess the road at first light ahead of
recovering and removing the truck from side at nine pm AM.
In the meantime, State Highway fifty's closed between Maria Kakahor

(48:36):
and on Oner in central Hawks Bay. The highway is
closed with the intersection of Bridge Street and and Kirdado
Road in Marai Kakahor. A details and place plan for delays. Meanwhile,
stretch of State Highway to the Takapo Planes will be
reduced to one lane for a few hours tomorrow night

(48:58):
during their single lane closure cruise. We're moving a truck
which crashed off the highway earlier today. Cheap doesn't rain
at pause, Marcus. A cold custard square with the iceing
removed as beautiful, Marcus. You wouldn't like French with her
ice cream either, since it's got custard in it. I

(49:20):
don't like French with her ice cream. My ice cream.
If I've got any, I don't know it. Often, if
it's just a bog standard chip, chop or walls or
whatever it is, I'll go chocolate chip, banana chocolate chip,
chocolate metropolitan, or goody goody gum drops. I think chocolate

(49:46):
chips might go to or banana chocolate chip. I like
it's got sort of a nice fairy texture, and metropolitan
as long as easy, as long as no one's sort
of raspberry ripple, Marcus. It could be called a cusp,
but that's right. You need that portmanteau. Don't you like
a cronut? Or what's the Either you go a cusp

(50:09):
it or a crumb tard. I couldn't call it crumb tard,
could you? Sounds wrong, doesn't it? But that would be
custard crump. Yeah, it would be a cuspet or a
crumb tard or crump ted. He'd call it. Oh chet
GPT thought they could be called stuff and fluff, crump opolyps, custard,

(50:34):
called crumpets, or vanilla pillows. I like vanilla pillows. Rossett's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (50:42):
Yeah, I'm Marcus.

Speaker 25 (50:43):
I'm driving just out of top and calm with a
bit of no major wind at all. And in terms
of Fraser phrases, got Fraser Town out of.

Speaker 12 (50:56):
The river named after him.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Oh yeah, I've never been there, is it. What's that like?
It's a tough kind of a town, is it.

Speaker 18 (51:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:03):
No, Fraser Town.

Speaker 25 (51:06):
Frame the town on the other side of the river.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Yeah, it's just on the other side of the river.
Copy that I have been there, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 25 (51:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (51:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (51:14):
So that's just an update.

Speaker 25 (51:16):
And I said it all calm and clear, and why
can't I have driven back from Hamilton and no major dramas.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Good on your US. Good update, Thank you for that, Perry, Marcus.

Speaker 11 (51:26):
Welcome hery Marcus think home runners good Perry, just giving
it up.

Speaker 10 (51:32):
They were up the back of the wrapper, Mate, putting
in generators for sales sites. We're just to the last
RCG site for the night, and it is howling. Mate.
We've got them up on the mountain with about five
hours and you should hear them sing, mate. I haven't
had them this world for a quarter a while.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
So just let me talk this through. The powers out
and you take Genny's to each thing and then they
can get them up and running again. Is it the
way it works?

Speaker 10 (51:59):
Yeah, it's like the woman that was talking to you
from Riversdale before. Yeah, she where the boys were out
there today they could hardly even get out of the trucks.
What we do as soon as the power goes out,
we have to we go down. We had a big
meeting in Runnington. We get everybody we can in the
coms industry, like, give as many Gennies as we can,
and we head to all the cell sites because our

(52:19):
customers selles. Sites will probably last depending on how much
how busy there, Marcus, probably eight hours and then they'll
then they'll die, mate. So we go out, we get
the jennies, pull them up, head up in the bush
and we'll get we should get through the night. We've
got they've got battery backup oversea, but the batteries will
only depending on you know, eight to ten hours depending

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on the road to tail Scott.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
So you just please you get it. You just plug
them into there. There's a thing to plug them into
the tower, is there.

Speaker 10 (52:50):
Yeah, there's like a three phase power call of what
happens in the cabinets where we've got the cords ready
to go. So when we come up for the Jennies,
we bring the Jenny in, just the cord, pull a
cabinet at the bottom of the cabinet out, plug her in,
set the rector fires up, and then the way we
go plug the geny in and pile them up. Mate,
and we do that. We've got extra tents and stuff
that we can get to the tower. We're at the moment.

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There's an RCG tower, which is a rural Communications group
out in the middle of nowhere, and it's up on
top of it. So this tower, but there's a two
other towns bounce off it. So if this tower goes down,
then we lose Cooper's Creek and then we'll lose another
one down on the coast. So this one's one of
our main links. So we keep that going and then

(53:32):
the other two will keep going, you know.

Speaker 7 (53:33):
What I mean.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
How much fuel can you put on them? How how
long could the genies run for?

Speaker 10 (53:39):
We've got like we're actually with Gabriel when we did that,
we had little seven kDa Honda Genies, which are really nice,
but of gear. We were on getting four or five
hours on a busy site. So we actually went to
I think it was a bloody boat company and they
gave us stays next, you know, the boat pull teams,
and yeah, we've got those that we'll sit them on

(54:01):
top and they give us they'll give us like probably
an eight hours on the normal load, so we'll get
us through the morning. So we come zoom back up
and get up here first thing and fill them up again.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
You know, there's a lot of windfall, a lot of
trees across the roads up and up on these mountain sides.

Speaker 10 (54:16):
Just tell we came in because we come. This one's
up at the back of the admiral when you can't
really see. It's pretty steep getting up here. And when
I came, a kid just came around the corner and
the tree across the road. I slid straight into it,
full noise, and because I couldn't stop, and you mate
behind me with the genuine and the trailer he was
he couldn't see where he was going either because it
was just a massive amount of dust.

Speaker 17 (54:36):
But we know we went.

Speaker 10 (54:37):
We managed to climb over it, get up the hill
and then on the way home, now we're goting to
head down and we're hipping pull it off the road.
I've got a winch on my truck, so we'll pull
it off of the road all the way home.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
What do you drive, Pierry.

Speaker 10 (54:50):
Good Night using DMX. It's got winches on it, all
full nug grip tires. Because most of the like these sites.
We wouldn't usually come to this out of the night
markers because the health and safety issues, but because it's
pretty drawing up and make the winds, you know, the
wind's there to control. But yeah, we can get up
here if we don't, if we have any issues. We

(55:10):
usually how I saw besides and day to side. Yeah,
but that's here. They're not but you have no Yeah,
it's just they've all got full mud toys on them
and we'll only have experienced drivers. You're not going out
for these sort of jobs at night because there's way
too much risk of helping safety's But you know, you're
not helping Saety's walk man. So you're right the t mix, Yeah,

(55:31):
Wilson truck man, I've had I've just heard everything, Marcus.
I've been doing this for a long time, Australian. He's
yelling popping new Guinea rogue the place man and it's
the first team mix i've head. And it's they've got
they've got a real steep bon it on them so
they so you can see when you're in the steep
stuff to finding the truck. Yeah, but now that's a
nice truck man's. But you know, everything's there's a lot

(55:53):
of ret good trucks out they now may.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Day probably valuable to sleep. But that's the too good report.
Tremendous report, Perry, tremendous report. Back at your people. HITDL
twelve by the way, that's sight Hway fifty. I read
there before Straight highway too. It's been upside State Huway
fifty remain closed. You're on top of that, Nina. Too
good work from that. And how about the custom Marcus

(56:16):
just back came from still Water to our head his
state Howay seven road closed and went the long way
blear Block, Deep Creek, Nelson Creek. But they said the
road would be open when we head back. It's heading
back now, fire State Hiway seven. Just watching an Auckland
plane of chrost Church playing trying to land at Napier
Airport and we trying for some time. Wind gusts are big,
thanks Hi, blowing a gale and Todonger Marcus driving a

(56:41):
fifty eight ton tanker up to Molesbourne wind blowing me
all over the road. Be careful out There must be
a milk tanker Osbourn is it? What else would it
be going up that way Molesbourn, just to the wester
Lumston on the way to Tiana. Wow, that's all happening tonight.

Speaker 26 (56:58):
In it.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
From me?

Speaker 2 (57:01):
His report from Perr, isn't it. He's the real deal.
He's no arm check Albert. He's out there doing it.
All the lines are free people nine ten to ten.
These other stuff you want to talk about tonight, you
are more than welcome. We are only talking about the
weather and vanilla pillows, which are crumpets filled with custard
cooked in the air fryer. I mean, why is where

(57:26):
we were there? What's Why's Wilworth not got that giant
inflatable custard inflatable crumpets stand next to the custard and
just actually that, I mean, they'd sell themselves. I'd like
to run a supermarket for a day. I do things
a bit differently, I'll tell you that now. I don't
quite know what I do differently. For a start, annoys me.
When you go to the super ba, you're to go right.

(57:48):
You can only got it one way. You can't walk
through the oars. You're going to go right past the
fruit and veges. They should be more flexible with where
people enter. That's just me, though, I'm sure there's good
reasons for it. I'll buy the way. Today is quite
famous and movie history because it's on October the twenty first,

(58:13):
in twenty fifteen, that the DeLorean arrived in the future. Yeah,
so what year was the movie made? Well, what year
was it set? But anyway, it was when I arrived
at the future, it was October twenty one, twenty fifteen,

(58:36):
at four twenty nine. So today is called back to
the Future day. Find that quite interesting.

Speaker 17 (58:42):
Evan Marcus and listeners. I was just so concerned about
that last coller. Actually, how what happens if there's a
tree down and you can get back to field it up.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
Yeah, it's a good point.

Speaker 17 (59:01):
Pretty mucky mouse.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
If you asked me, it'd.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Ever changed her in the Dmax, wouldn't he?

Speaker 17 (59:08):
Well, they probably have to.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
You have the whole, You have the whole. I mean
they live for that stuff, those sort of people.

Speaker 17 (59:17):
But what if the whole road slipped out? That's what
I'm getting at. You know that. You think they'd have
a system set up there, all under lock and key
where they just push the button, mate and the diesel
Jenny starts up.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
You'd think so, wouldn't you, Even this day and age, this.

Speaker 17 (59:34):
Is pretty serious stuff. I people to be as to
get contact with each other.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Why aren't they? Why aren't they just Genny's a switch
on old. I think we've got them all radio stations
they just kick in exactly.

Speaker 17 (59:47):
Hospitals right here are hospital Mickey Mouse. Mackey Mouse to me,
this is our country as but it's I mean we're not.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
I mean we're getting extreme weather, we're not coping well
with it.

Speaker 17 (01:00:02):
I'm not trying to blame the guy that's just been talking.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
No, if we respect full of him, Evan And yeah,
if anything, you've called out of out of the goodness
of your heart and a fear amount of concern.

Speaker 17 (01:00:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty serious. Yeah, I think road slipped
it up in the morning, can't get back up. They
are sorry, cell phone tails down.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
I've never owned a generator and I don't think I will.

Speaker 17 (01:00:28):
Oh, they can be quite high hand, I'm sure they can.

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
But do you want to be the guy that you
want to be kept in cautious and owned generator icon?
It's probably someone that's got an over inflated sense of
disaster if you always try to start at you oh hearing.

Speaker 17 (01:00:42):
No, we'll go for the solar panels and a couple
of batteries.

Speaker 26 (01:00:46):
Then you might do that.

Speaker 17 (01:00:48):
That's what I'm running off.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
You're still living on a boat. Yeah, you'd be all
those pop up laundromets to be handy for you. Have
you washed your clothes bunch even?

Speaker 17 (01:01:03):
Yeah, I've done go about a hand washing over the
last three years. Going to mention, there's a laundry mat
not far away from here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
I was just following on YouTube these two young women
from Britain. They just rode from Peru to Australia. Took
them six months, but boy, oh boy, they were cheerful
the whole way, no grizzling nothing.

Speaker 17 (01:01:20):
I've seen a touch of that on the YouTube.

Speaker 11 (01:01:22):
Literally it's a huge boat.

Speaker 13 (01:01:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
I mean it must it tend hundreds of kilograms of
food in it. But I guess once you get it moving,
you go along.

Speaker 17 (01:01:29):
All right. I say, if you're not punching onto it,
I well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I don't you just check out the drug. If you're
punching into it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:36):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Is that what they call it? Sancha drove? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they were. It was an extreme and they they kind
of hit offshore winds as so as they came to
ken so they're supposed to arrive at a certain time,
but took them about extra twelve hours. But it was
it was a health and achievement. And as someone else said,
and I'll do their comments, and I've read all the

(01:01:57):
books though, hide out all those people, A lot of them.
They spend their time moaning. These people have been moaned.
Just the lights by the way that fire is still raging.
Their team to it. I hang a tartar, hot start
and drift would take and hold. She's all on people.
Six crews there finds all over it. But she's a biggie.
Watch the space stuff you've got any more intel, Pete Marcus,
welcome you got in there, Marcus.

Speaker 27 (01:02:20):
Generators, you've set a lot of construction in that. And
to buy those generator they cost thousands of dollars. And
if they're sitting out they're not being used, they also
go back. So i'd say what they would do, they
probably budget budget that in their costing for the year.
The odd time they have to get out a generator
in a state of something breaks down or whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
It's just part of it.

Speaker 27 (01:02:43):
You just can't keep on buying gear for the amount
of times you may use it.

Speaker 17 (01:02:47):
It's like a car.

Speaker 27 (01:02:49):
You only replace your tires on your car when you
only due to replace them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
It's free sensible stuff.

Speaker 27 (01:02:55):
You're saying, Yeah, that's true, that big dollars those things.
Hospitals in that year they need them, of course, and
places like that supermarket they're going to help them. But
in a case like that, like transmitters or whatever, whatever,
they just get those. They'll take the gamble where they
have a bad storm, We'll just get a generator up there,

(01:03:17):
so they already got it hooked into the facility. All
they'll do it was this down whatever, and they'll just
get a generator up there, transport one up there, tailed
up there, and they plug it and away it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I guess choppers are no goodness? Whether are? They can't
chop with them and you've got to go up? What
else you got, dear old?

Speaker 27 (01:03:35):
Oh he's looking good for Taranaki. I see on the
for the exploration around here. The Australians first to apply
for the all expor just ridden it now on the
post exploration permanent for TARANICKI since ban repealed. So it
looks like they're obviously hope they're going to be coming
down and hope it's drill some guests about the situation

(01:03:56):
they we're in gerld.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Roll drill peak. Thanks for that, Dave Marcus, welcome, How.

Speaker 28 (01:04:01):
Are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Good day? Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:04:03):
I couldn't work out our white people.

Speaker 28 (01:04:06):
We using petrol generators that only had a four hour
tank life running. So I converted one to LPG and
I could get a whole week out of it. Wow,
and buying it took me ages to do it. I
had to learn how to program a PLC so that
the stupid thing would start automatically, because I needed it

(01:04:27):
to start remotely. So but once they cracked it. It's
it's brain dead easy. And you can buy parallel import
good quality generators, five KBA generators for only five hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
What was your need is a remote property or something?
What was you want? What was you what were you
wanting it for?

Speaker 28 (01:04:47):
To power an LED sign on the side of the
road on a trailer. So the solar powered LED signs
can only do words, but you need a generator to
do pictures because they consume more power. Well, and I
also supported a school where we got no youth camp,
where we got quoted, you know, fifty thousand or one

(01:05:09):
hundred thousand to put a three phase piesel generator in there.
And I got the spar key to separate out the essentials,
just the lighting and the microwave and the hot water.
We put one of these three and a half KBA
generators under the deck and use it once a year,
twice a year is whenever you need. But in the
cell phone tower situation, the PLC will start remotely from

(01:05:32):
a cell phone or from an automatic power loss. As
soon as the power switches off, it goes over to
the generator, which then starts itself. So I think that
the owners of the infrastructure just aren't aware of the
progression and technology. And for a couple of grand or
five grand, you can have a probably a thirty six

(01:05:52):
month solution. You are right, you've got to change the
oil or you've got to have a look at it,
but probably only once every three years on a part
time use situation.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Love you to talk, Dave. Thanks so much for that evening, Trevor.

Speaker 16 (01:06:06):
Yeah, good evening, Marches.

Speaker 13 (01:06:09):
How are you good things trimming?

Speaker 16 (01:06:11):
Oh good, yeah, first on.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Caller, but oh nice to hear from you, Treamer.

Speaker 26 (01:06:15):
Oh lovely.

Speaker 21 (01:06:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:06:17):
I just, you know, listening to all the people talking
about these high wounds, I can I can see how
scary it was. I was went on going back to Vietnam.
I went years hunting down the year where was the
cord man it was? And I was out and the
White Huggers when cyclone bowler hit nighty eight and hit me.
Two dogs with me and by gee, it was one

(01:06:40):
of the scariest knights I've had. My dogs retryed us
nuddled in the mid ent, and you know, the possums
and the more folks went quiet.

Speaker 25 (01:06:51):
It was.

Speaker 16 (01:06:52):
It was quite eerie, actually, Bugus and I was listening
to these guys with the heavy windsday and the light,
and it is pretty scary, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Yeah, did your tend stay put driver?

Speaker 25 (01:07:04):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:07:05):
No, no, no over markets and I couldn't get out
for two weeks before the Wick cruise came in and
cleared all the roads. Because fortunately I shall aw cover
deer and dogs and I a pretty meat to eat.
But gee, it was a scary nightmare. It was pretty

(01:07:25):
terrified in that scone bowl. And when I woke up
in the morning, away out to the plateau and looked
like a whole chain and gone right through the plateau,
lowered these giant writers and metrocarp or ireguous. It was flattened, mate,
it was. It was very scary.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Got to go for news. But thanks so much TV
to call again. Nice to talk to you. Just coming
up to the headlines people certainly roads the closer little
bit of a re recap of that the next time
in the next segment of the show. It's near Politan,
not Metropolitan. O Is that right? Go figure, Marcus love

(01:08:07):
you show. You can turn left, it countdown when you
ent if you don't want to walk through the Veg's.

Speaker 11 (01:08:13):
Lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I wasn't work. They part of my back fence fell
down twice in the world wind and I nearly rang
the fibrigaate for help with the gloves, white colors and
some fencing wire security got soaked twice, laughing and crusy
because I did a job done for the meantime. On
another note, how do listeners have their crumpets in the morning?
Comes a bit saucy that ah, can you Lee? Please?

(01:08:37):
Let Dave let us know where you can get the
five color generator from Jay Marcus. Never say never regenerator
cyclone Gabriel five days without Parrot Park. The generator saved
the day wouldn't be without it. What's something on flight radar?
Oh USC Force Sclobe Masters just landing in christ Church

(01:08:57):
for McMurdo. I'm staying in the back of Ragged at
Harbor on the West Coast's blowing a gale with stripe
on gusts of wenbekfully one jeez, Jared Boodard Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:09:11):
G Marcus. We had all We've got a little caravan
and we've been touring around North and South Islands and
I have used it about or I would say five
or six times at various stages of our tripping. We
were a podokey once and the power went off. The

(01:09:33):
apparently the power lions or the power feeds for a
podokey come from Gisbon around around the East Cape. I
didn't know that, but that was something that we found out.
And we were in christ Church for the earthquake in
the caravan. The power went off and I went to

(01:09:54):
the main office of the motor camp where we were
staying and I said that they need a generator. They
said no, they're all set. So I sat by generator
going and there was quite a number of other tourists
in the motor camp and they came over and I
asked if they could charge their cell phones. There were
foreign visitors, so I ended up with about six or

(01:10:16):
seven mobile phones charging on my caravan bench. So, yeah,
it was good. And by the time we were right
down in French Joseph and the power went off and yeah,
we just started up the generator and just gives you
a little bit of light and actually went after the

(01:10:38):
Chrostia's earthquake, we actually had the TV going as well,
and the tourists were standing outside the caravan looking and
through the window watching what was going on in the
CBD at Chrosh. Yet it was quite an interesting exercise.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
So were were you during the quake?

Speaker 13 (01:10:58):
Actually we were in the Antarctic Center out at the airport.
But we'd been there a week and we've been to
the cathedral.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
We've been to the Were you staying at the Antarctic Center?

Speaker 13 (01:11:10):
No, No, we were staying in the Top ten I
think it's the top ten motor camp, but in just
between the city and the airport one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Yeah, but but thank you, Hi, Jamie, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:11:27):
Marcus here you going. You're talking about generators.

Speaker 7 (01:11:30):
Is this your reckon?

Speaker 14 (01:11:31):
You'd love a generator? I reckon?

Speaker 23 (01:11:35):
You know you can when you see the storm coming,
you get it out started up, give your neighbor on
each side of power corner and.

Speaker 14 (01:11:44):
You're the king of the block.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Yeah, I guess so, yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:11:54):
Is that right up?

Speaker 10 (01:11:55):
Ellie?

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Are they all kind of right for wet weather? Are
they all kind of ground and insulated and stuff?

Speaker 14 (01:12:04):
Yeah, we just put on the side of our house.
This is when we had a lot of big storm
in Queensland. And then yeah, I had both neighbors running
off to three k it ran both of their fridges
and charged to their phone and it did all the
stuff we needed. It was a good round on petrol
lifted going twenty four hours because they can't complain if
they're using it. And the one we got is real

(01:12:25):
loud too, probably louder than a lawnmole really Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:12:29):
And then yeah, yeah, it's just a super cheap auto one.
There's a couple of years old. Now it's not very good.
I mean it's good, it makes good power, but it's
just loud on the box and season's quiet, but it's
fast from quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Now, what's that with you? Jamie?

Speaker 14 (01:12:46):
Getting made redundant at the end of the month. So
that's a bit sad.

Speaker 23 (01:12:51):
But at the moment, Yeah, the little company I worked
for their selling on their trucks and getting out of trucking.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
Is it the economy in Australia what's causing there?

Speaker 21 (01:13:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:13:05):
According to up Lost, the freight rates have dropped because
there's not much work, so everyone's just doing it cheaper
and cheaper, to the point where companies that are paying
properly are doing all the amazements and stuff as they
should aren't really sustainable anymore. So yeah, so the other
players have come in and undercut it, and yeah they

(01:13:28):
don't pay They probably pay twenty below the award here
and so yeah, so middle companies like this can't compete.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
You'd you'd get into another driving job pretty easy, wouldn't you.

Speaker 14 (01:13:43):
Yeah, I've already got one, yeah, on the third. So
we get our redundancy pay on the thirty first, and
then I get another start.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
On the surf and same same deal, same same, same
mileage rate.

Speaker 23 (01:13:58):
Ah yeah, this is the hourly rate, so yeah, it
should be pretty good instead a kilometer rate.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
How yeah, I wonder how that's going to be. I
wonder how the hourly rate is going to be different.

Speaker 23 (01:14:09):
Yeah, it works, probably be better money because it's up
near the fifty bucks an hour yep. But yeah, food
and they'll pay you for food and a half hout
hours a day, so yeah, it'll end up being pretty
similar to what I'm on now. But yeah, we have
a lot of downtime we don't get paid for on
a kilometer, so which that will be all hourly So

(01:14:32):
to work.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Out, all right, will you be going the same distances?

Speaker 23 (01:14:37):
Yeah, I'll be just doing North Queensland. It's all mining stuff.
So the company I applied and got the job for
They just do mining parts like cataminal parts into mines
and stuff, So very different to any trucking I've done.

Speaker 14 (01:14:52):
But it'll be good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Oh you'll You're getting some good parts of the outback,
won't you.

Speaker 17 (01:14:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:14:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:14:58):
So that's what I've sort of. I kind of went
after this company because I wanted to do something different.
So yeah's one phone call, pretty mu it's got the
job that all the medical self and the team of
work going. It's just that little companies can't compete.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Are you picky about what sort of truck you drive?

Speaker 9 (01:15:17):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (01:15:18):
The older, the longer I do it, the more picky
about the jobs like you search on Seek and I'm
Brisbane is seven hundred and five mc line hall drivers
Libel jobs sorry, and scrolling through them, I'm like, not
going to do that, not going to do that. So
it took me three days of scrolling to try and

(01:15:39):
work out one that I wanted to do.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
And what sort of truck will you be in Jamie?

Speaker 23 (01:15:44):
Do you know?

Speaker 17 (01:15:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:15:47):
I think it might.

Speaker 23 (01:15:48):
I think it'll be a B double, but B double
or a road train. I haven't done any road train
work really, so that'll be another thing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
To how hard could it be.

Speaker 14 (01:15:59):
I think it's pretty easy, probably just as easy as
to be double. No, nothing to it. There's a.

Speaker 12 (01:16:06):
Train driver.

Speaker 23 (01:16:07):
They're a different breed, don't want to tell you, like
a pilot. You know, they got out of their own
trains and they've got to tell everyone so amazed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
They'd be hard to tune around and park though.

Speaker 14 (01:16:19):
Yeah it's they actually tracked pretty good, so they're but yeah,
it's not. I'll do it. That's sort of something.

Speaker 23 (01:16:27):
I haven't really chased the four because I haven't felt
the need and the money without the same.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
So I'll get in touch before your first job, Jamie, please,
they'd be nice to hear from you. Ben Ats Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:16:40):
You get to make see I've got a three till
the old generator. It's been my life. Say that had
poor power cuts this year already it's you said us. Well,
we brought it off the New Brighton Surf Club. They've
got it given a whole lot after the earthquake, so
it's about ten years old or so. But brought three
hundred bucks off them. And yeah, I think as long

(01:17:00):
as you start it once a month for ten minutes,
just to let it run yeah, it works great.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
So see the power cuts you go straight away. You
got that going straight.

Speaker 19 (01:17:10):
Away, just sits in the sheet out the back and
you just run a lead to the house and normally
power the lamp and the heater if it's you know
a winter, which normally his when the power goes out,
and charge the phones, runs the internet mode and the
TV and the fridge. And yeah, if I want to
run the jug, I've got to turn the heater off

(01:17:31):
and put the jug in because you can't run both
at once because they will overloaded. But yeah, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
Change it charged with it?

Speaker 14 (01:17:40):
Is it?

Speaker 19 (01:17:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
I suppose it's no use because it's direct direct power.

Speaker 19 (01:17:43):
A yeah, yeah, what we normally get a power cut
it early last a few hours, so it's not a piggie.
But yeah, it's great. I've I've had the neighbor bringing
your phones over and charged them off there and so
I think you know, you can pick them up. You
can pick up a cheap little one from Bunnings for
about yeah six hundred bucks, so it's well worth, well

(01:18:04):
worth an investment. It's not so when you use all
the time, but when you need it, you need it,
and swell.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
With it not to hear from your ben. Thanks so much.
We might see Jamien outback truck are a when he
gets all wet and stuck there in the big country.
Be exciting though, wouldn't it going through the desert to
the mining towns.

Speaker 13 (01:18:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
I wonder how they get all that stuff delivered. I guess. Yeah,
it's all got to be on a fleet of trucks.
A hettel twelve. You ought to be a part of it,
you've got any more weather updates to come through. We're
talking generators and custard crumpets, these other topics. But it's
all been a bit of a blur tonight, which is good.
We've got all different directions, which is what you want
to do on this kind of a show.

Speaker 26 (01:18:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
If you want to add to the chaos, good, I
say it's it's not with chaos. But you know what
else do I say, add to the add to the discussion.
I embrace your calls if you do want to come
through eight hundred eighty eighty nine to nine texts, if
you want to be a part of it, anything else, Yeah,

(01:19:09):
that's the way, Tim Beverige from twelve and I'll be
until then. But there if you're trying to get through
now there's lines available. Be nice to hear from you.
Keep those textgg our emails when you can too. Boy

(01:19:30):
oh boy, let me think what else I need to
tell you. Six kilo what generated twelve hundred at trade test.
It has saved us from four power cuts this year.
Best money is spent. I live sixteen k's west of Mosbourne.
There's not a breath of air. Chicken pies are better,
you can tell the text. You can buy a five

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kilo what generator from Pace Power and Air. They stop
good quality gear at affordable prices. Whilst on the apollen
ice cream, nothing is worse than the persony scrapes down
the side to not across the flavors here here get
in touch markets till twelve mark good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:20:08):
Market.

Speaker 11 (01:20:10):
I want to tell you about the weather and will income. Yes,
I was driven down from Tapo, got here about half
an hour ago and there's not a breath of wind outside.
Really yeah it did come and and I don't I
don't know what I've been hearing tailor about people being

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killed by branches and and and all the things getting
blown around, and why I can there's no wind here
at all, so you're.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
In Wellington and there's no wind yep? Well yeah, I don't.
I don't get you. There was terrible wind in wedding today.
We all saw that and that person got killed by
a falling branch and someone got blown off and it
was very serious.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
Yeah it was that.

Speaker 11 (01:20:56):
Yeah, actually said that must have been a while ago,
was it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
I don't really is that really?

Speaker 23 (01:21:03):
What was it?

Speaker 12 (01:21:04):
Was it?

Speaker 11 (01:21:05):
Today? They get the Serason got killed? Yes, okay, all right, okay,
well I just got to let you know that we've
got this. Did came here now?

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Yeah? Oh no, I mean we're the changes. But I
think people are aware of that and they can they
can comprehend that Marcus mail to mail plugs are illegal
and dangerous, not recommended. I still think that Neapolitan's the
Italian flag off topic. We debated this at work. We
downloaded and upload apscal law for every description onto our phone.

(01:21:36):
So why can't we get our supermaket kmart receipts from
self checkouts to phones. It's got time we got rid
of Shiney for receipt and eventually fade and we are
talking about Neapolitan ice cream. Neil good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):
Marcus Good Neil to the road tonight, mau Chuck Jars.
I've just been up to our to do much what Yeah,
and betting shaft from the down to tire happy down
the deviation, overtaken him by a little Suzuki line and

(01:22:22):
again uh from Niki coming up there by the calf
stead and overtaking the agains by another Suzuki Wow w line.
I don't understand what they're therefore, do they?

Speaker 23 (01:22:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:22:44):
That sounds pretty skitchy to me. And you're not going
to last long as Suzuki if you get.

Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Ahead, No, especially first by a ton truck and trailer units.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
Are we are we talking Suzuki swift?

Speaker 25 (01:22:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Okay? Do you start to last, Neil? Do you start
triple five anyone? Or do you look at your desh
cam to get the ridgio?

Speaker 26 (01:23:10):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
Yeah, but in your feet?

Speaker 13 (01:23:13):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:23:14):
Are they think it's tough?

Speaker 7 (01:23:19):
I probably?

Speaker 12 (01:23:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:23:21):
You've got a wonder, don't Joe. Yeah, they're prepared to
risks just trying to maneuver on Brian Cauler's you know
you're going to start wondering it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Good advice, Neil, Thanks for that. Thanks for your service
to and your driving hit'll twelve if you want to
be a part of it. Marcus till Midnight eight hundred
and eighty eight, enjoying the text. Keep those going through brilliant. Yeah,
but Thursday is not much better or all accounts. Never
heard of mail to mail plugs. I don't know what

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they mean, but yeah, that sounds dangerous to me. I
can't fully work out why. But you might want to
comment on that also, I for you're a sparky eighteen
to eleven. Any help me around the water? Keep you
informed of that? People just checking it out? What else
we're going to talk about tonight?

Speaker 23 (01:24:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
You know, I do get in touch if you want
to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty nine nine two
de text. We are talking in the weather and generators
and air fries and crumpets and custard and three ingredient recipes.
Three seems to be the minimum, does it? There an't
many two ingredient recipes? Well, I guess there's one ingredient recipes.

(01:24:42):
But that's pretty much just opening a peck or eating
something as it comes off the tree. It's not really
a recipe, is that? That's just grazing or hunter gathering?

Speaker 13 (01:24:53):
Ha ha.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
Mail to mail is called a suicide plug. Touch it
and you die. Neapolitan ice cream is actually German. I
don't know the history of Neapolitan ice cream. Someone will know.
I've always thought it was a bit of a compromise.
Three flavors. What's good about that? I think it goes
back to Larus gst guess dron nomique. Yep, goes back

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tobout the eighteen seventies. The Neapolitan. In Australia, Neapolitan cake
or marble cake is made with the same three colors
of neopolod ice cream swelled through in a marble pattern.
You haven't heard of. That sounds like a unique Aussie twist.
Oh wait eighteen ty nineteen ninety six, fourteen from eleven

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Good Evening, Lourie.

Speaker 18 (01:25:44):
Yeah, hid Marcus, are you just thinking back? You know
during Gabriel, I think was there a lot of trouble
with people stealing the generators from the round the self line.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Yeah, that was one of the big problems.

Speaker 21 (01:25:55):
Yeah that.

Speaker 18 (01:25:59):
That Yeah, I mean that complicated the whole issue with
all sorts of flow on problems too with But yeah,
I funny I had a generator I sold it.

Speaker 13 (01:26:12):
Year or two back. It was.

Speaker 18 (01:26:14):
It was only a better one killer what one. But
it was really quite quiet, just a Bridge and Stratton
engine McCulloch. It had a big flywheel on it and
pumped away, you know, pretty quietly.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
It sounds it sounds, it sounds ancient.

Speaker 13 (01:26:26):
Was it.

Speaker 18 (01:26:27):
Yeah, it was quite old. It was an old Lands
and survoy. You can take it round on the sometimes
take it around on the trailer. And it was enough
to run, you know, a cano hammer and things like that. Yeah,
a little bit more grunt, but quite efficient, you know,
and an economical Yeah. I put put a bit of
put aviation gas and that sort of those sort of

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things sort of run better and looks after the rubber seals,
but quite interested, you know. The guy in Wonnington saying
there was no wind that you know when you actually
look on the old wind station around the town or
even at the airport. I think still it was probably
relatively only about twenty six kilometers an hour, I suppose.
But the great thing I don't know if you if

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you look on windy dot com and and you change
the altitude just see to have the color, or you
know how the wooden speeders and two or three thousand
feet assume velocity, especially around through the menu were too here,
it's sort of and particularly over on the wire Wrapper

(01:27:33):
coast where they have been having problems, it really does
escalate just that and the rotal effect. It's flying down
over the hills that down your end of the country,
but you're getting it a straight westley. Just looking on that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Seemed almost as southerly it was coming at the back
of our property. I couldn't work it out. Yeah, okay,
oh no, no, probably what did you say it was
a wisterley. Yeah, yeah, well sort of south because because
we've got Bluff Hill is such a massive thing, it
sort of kind of funnels around the hill in some ways.
And since you come from.

Speaker 18 (01:28:06):
Alder Yeah, but yeah, just the visual thing with with Wendy,
with the color, it's the most impressive just having that
topography in there, and you can really pick up the
dangerus places. Was the lady was at Riversdale, she was
having problems with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it's all

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along there and down and around. You know. Normally it
used to be quite often you'd hear that the Castle
point was, you know, the highest with the wind speed around.
But I think that was often quoted because that just
happened to be where the winner station was or the anemometer,
you know, where's Riversdale and that that's not that far away.

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All those places, uh, right along that water repast really
getting nailed.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
Has there been windy where you are today?

Speaker 18 (01:28:58):
It's not that bad, you know, gusty. I mean, I'm
a reef, a sheltered part of parmy. But you know,
it depends just if you're up on a bit of
an elevation. I mean, our power hasn't gone off or
anything like that. But but funny, just earlier in the evening,
there's a lot of skyrockets going off, you know, Steve Whyley,
and there's must be a number of you know the year,

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and the people are sort of uh setting that stuff off.

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
And I don't quite know how the Wyley works. I
don't know if it always kicks in just before guy forks.
It seems to for the last couple of years.

Speaker 18 (01:29:32):
Yeah, it does. And it carries on to with the
Chinese type celebration that goes on. It seems to be that,
you know, continuous skyrockets and venus which.

Speaker 2 (01:29:47):
People don't like. People could just cope with guy fawks,
but now you've got Chinese New Year and d Warley
and stuff and people really yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:29:55):
And they seem to hold a lot back. And then
you know, you get to Christmas in your year and
that's still seemed to be plenty of it going off
around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
And they're quite a powerful force. The anti the anti
Guy Fawkes people. They boy that takes they take it seriously.
Ah well, I mean, yeah, I don't know what to
say about them because they get wound up quite easily.

Speaker 18 (01:30:11):
But now now you say, with the Wiley, it's all
quite cultural. Now basically what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
Like, I'd say that Guy Fawkes wasn't really cultural, was it.

Speaker 18 (01:30:20):
Yeah, well, you know, it's it depends if you really
looked at the I know, the the there was a
religious twist to it. You know at certain times, you know,
in the days of Protestants and Catholics, when there's a
bit of bigotry around it, there was a time for taunting, uh,

(01:30:41):
the Catholics a bit.

Speaker 8 (01:30:42):
I think.

Speaker 18 (01:30:44):
The woman that uh Guy Fawkes was aligned or supposedly.

Speaker 2 (01:30:50):
Yeah, and then and they talked him so badly. His
his signature was unrecognizab which always thinks about grim.

Speaker 18 (01:30:58):
Yeah, Yeah, and they eventually caught up with a couple
of the his priests were involved with that as well.
And yeah, that which they skinned them alive torture.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Yeah, that's the way it goes. Groom goes groom quickly.
Guy falk sanks eight to eleven. Marcus the forecast for
wild wins for Thursday, make create have it for former
promise at gim Bulger's funeral at the Big Catholic Church
in eleven PM. I am every type security will be
there obviously, Matthew. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:31:29):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
I just want to make a suggestion. You've had a
lot of people call out and they've got generators and
just my suggestion, I went on Team Note and you
get these I'm looking at them now. They're all over
my house that strip lights the USB. They come with
remotes and they change color. They can be discover or
one color and they let out a lot of light.

(01:31:52):
They're extremely cheap to buy it on Temo. So just
a suggestion, you know people are having power cuts, go
on Team and buy yourself a whole lot of strip
lights that run on oh gosh, power free.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Basically could explain to me how they run with you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
Well, my ones that got remote, I can have from
having drinks. I can turn my house into a disco party.
But then I can change it to one white color
or a gold color. And so yeah, my one obviously
plugs into a plug, and the plug would plug into
a generator. Some generators would have us be on them.

(01:32:34):
They yeah, they are bright, and they use less power
than an AA battery like even And so I was
told I don't know too much about yeah, but here no,
I it's.

Speaker 2 (01:32:49):
A really methodn't even run when the powers off.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
I've got well, other people have got big generators that
these lights would plug into. But on TU too, I
broughably solo power in the sunshine, and I get free
electricity through solar power. These solar powers are brought off

(01:33:16):
team and in daytime, I've got light inside the house
as well for free charge. So the lights on my feelings,
I don't use them. They're sixty what and these lights
that I've purchased run less than a you know, the
batteries that go in your airphone, you hearing aids.

Speaker 11 (01:33:37):
They're cheap.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
They are so cheap to run.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
What's your.

Speaker 11 (01:33:46):
Power bill?

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
What's your what's your interior decorating vibe you're going with.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
I'm moving into a new house, so depending the size
of the house, I'm going to buy more strip lights
to light the house. And I like lights on in daytime,
so I get free light. What these little solo powered
charges of to?

Speaker 21 (01:34:09):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
So you got strip lights everywhere?

Speaker 12 (01:34:12):
Have you?

Speaker 18 (01:34:13):
I do you know?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
If I'm having a party, sometimes it's like a disco.
It's like a night club. It's just so strange, it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:34:22):
Nice to talk. Matthew Textas says would Prince Andrew's survive
want to generate a great question over in Sydney currently
whether it's so bizarre We had thirty nine yesterday, only
twenty four land tomorrow, possibly up to forty out towards Parametta.
So humid and unbearable. Peter Jackson filmed Lord of the
Rings up Hawkins Hill. Thank you for that, Marcus. I'm

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in an exposed corner in Vericado and our bins often
get blown over. Our council advertised rubber lips clad rubber
lid clips, one free for each. But they're brilliant. Yes,
we've got all those at our but and we brought
them from some fundraiser. But you need too. I think
they are very good. Those rubber things are a great invention. Hello, met,
this is Marcus. Good evening, Marcus, how mate.

Speaker 24 (01:35:12):
Good good? How about their weather up and the top
of the South Island there very windy?

Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
Yeah, I reckon we'll free windy down south of the
South End as well to that was unbelievably windy.

Speaker 13 (01:35:24):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (01:35:25):
No, We drove up to Nelson this morning, managed to
get through the Lewest Path before they closed the river
but close the Stay Highway. Ye, there was at least
a foot of water over the road multiple places, you know,
rivers over the road. Was like pretty much really decided

(01:35:46):
that we couldn't go that way home. So we went
to go down State Hiway one and got all the
way to Ward and we were there about two o'clock
when they went and shut the road.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Okay, so you went to Nelson via Lewis Is that
the quickest way anyway?

Speaker 13 (01:36:01):
Is it?

Speaker 24 (01:36:07):
I say to drive back as my friends both.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Ill just even you can come back into reception because
I'm interested in what you've got to say. Matt, just
I'll keep d just want to see if he's going
to come back into reception. Oh yeah, sure, Sorr. Yep,
you will get him, get him back, so he must have.
You normally go to Nelson. I would have thought up
State Hiway one, wouldn't you. What is the quickest way

(01:36:34):
christ toch to Nelson? Oh, that makes more sense if
they went that Lewis passway. Maybe you go Springs Junction Murchison.
Is that quicker? Probably is? Okay? So went up there,
then I got closing, came around the other way. They
got stuck at Ward. We'll even get him back. I
think there was a bit of a text about that earlier.
I didn't really understand. We're just trying to work. So Matt,

(01:37:04):
if you go to Nelson, you go via Lewis and
is that the way?

Speaker 19 (01:37:08):
Normal?

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
Is that the quickest way?

Speaker 13 (01:37:09):
Is it?

Speaker 18 (01:37:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:37:10):
That's from Crosshair, it's definitely yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
Yeah, okay, So you went that way and then you
found out that the Lewis was closed. It didn't come
back that way?

Speaker 28 (01:37:16):
Is that right?

Speaker 24 (01:37:18):
Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, So that they stayed they shut
the Lewis Pass up to the road fell away. Yeah,
and then our year we got round to Ward and
they hut the road here at about two o'clock.

Speaker 13 (01:37:33):
So, so what did you do.

Speaker 22 (01:37:36):
We hung around til about eight thirty nine o'clock when
they officially shut it for the whole night. And we're
now driving through towards Saint Arnad to go through a
pass to get back to Christus on a seven hour trip.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Was it just
a day trip?

Speaker 24 (01:37:55):
Yeah, driving up to buy a vehicle for a friend. Yeah, yeah,
shared of it's been great.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
So you've got to go to You've got to go
Ward Blenham now Wilson Murchison, gray Mouth and then cross
across the Arthur's par Kumara or Mowanay had cut across
even the Arthur's pas.

Speaker 21 (01:38:18):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:38:19):
Yeah, and all the way back and our way through
into kaiboy Tooth are on the other side of the
bluddy city.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
So there's two of you. You've bought a castle, your
mates and the carry board is that right?

Speaker 13 (01:38:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:38:28):
He's driving behind me. He may be listening.

Speaker 2 (01:38:33):
How long did you wait at Ward four?

Speaker 24 (01:38:36):
A good four hours? Five hours. I thought that we
were hopeful that it might open up, but we decided
to just turn around. Now we needn't get back to dude.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
Has it been food and snacks and fun on the
way or has it been hard work?

Speaker 24 (01:38:51):
I know there was a big McDonald's. Stop it where
and Lena and McDonald's and then off to the mobile
station and get some snickers bars and managed drinks and
we're away.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
Will you get guests on the way where the guests
stay is open? Because seven and a half hours you'll
need a reefull, won't you.

Speaker 24 (01:39:10):
No, I'm sitting on three quarters of a tank at
the moment I reckon, I'll get it there in the car.

Speaker 17 (01:39:15):
I've got seven hundred to go.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
Okay, and the car you makee port's going all right?
Or have you got the new car?

Speaker 25 (01:39:21):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:39:21):
No, he's got the new car. So far, so good,
So focus cross day.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
I wonder what the lesson in this is. Maybe you
could have checked the weather full cast. But don't think
anyone knew it was going to be the spare, did they?

Speaker 25 (01:39:32):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:39:33):
When we drove through the lowest pass, we decided that
we weren't going that way home anyway, just for the weighs,
their conditions. And then who thought he was going to
be a caravans? Power lines and buyers Downstate Highway one?

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Yeah, because it's right water was a caravan? Was it
off the side of the road. Did the fires later on?
Is that right?

Speaker 21 (01:39:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:39:50):
Correct? So when we got there, the officer had said
that there was two caravans splits and power lines with
trees down. Why they stopped it closed the road originally,
and then the buyers started laughing. At about an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Or two, a lot of trucks backed up.

Speaker 24 (01:40:08):
Yeah. It is at least fifty to one hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
Cheapest creepers, okay.

Speaker 24 (01:40:12):
And they just packed up everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
What's your what's your expected time of arrival?

Speaker 24 (01:40:19):
Just darted five o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Have you got work? Have you got work tomorrow or anything?

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:40:28):
But my boss thinks it is funny too. So I've
been on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Okay, you got the energy drinks, You have no problems
staying awake?

Speaker 24 (01:40:37):
No, And I know it will be good. We might
stop a little bit later on before we get towards
the west coast and all over for a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:40:43):
Of ane, but we need to Okay, nice update, thanks
so much, Matt. All clear to me. Now, Wow, that's
a that's a that's a mission. That's a hell of
a mission. That's the total tour of the North Islands
to at the top of the South Island flip. Okay,
that's the BES story I've heard tonight. Oh someone know
what sort of car does make by? I guess what

(01:41:04):
it would be. Text me let me know what your
mate bought. That chap sounds like the sort of free
to help you bury your body, top bloke. What happens
when the Wheely company comes to collect your bind if
you have clips on the bin? Does the driver have
to get out of the truck and under the clip? No,

(01:41:24):
they're a rubber clip. They're quite an interesting design. There
are a rubber clip and when it's upside down, the
weight of the bin lid and what's in it will
disengage the clip. They work very well because we've got
extreme weather and bluff and they're very good because you
don't want to put your bit out if it's windy,
because we're just across the road from the harbor, and

(01:41:47):
the harbor empties out for every quickly, so all en
up inside whales and stuff, all your plastic bags and everything.
So yeah, it's not good. So you do need to
have the because otherwise it's just rubbish. You everywhere Here's
or midnight if you want to partake mina miss Marcus
Good Evening eight hundred eighty nine nine to text if

(01:42:08):
you want to be a part of it. Anything else,
let's be hearing from your twenty five past eleven loving
that story. Can you text them down? Ask what Gary
brought his mate bought? Someone says, I think Metchad seriously.
Thing about staying and Blendham Road's not good on the
West coast, slips, trees and flooding. I think the roads

(01:42:29):
are clear now though, don't text them while he's driving.
Good good advice. But I think we probably have Why
don't they have late newsual that's going on even quarter
our own chair? Look, look, I said, it's something about
the media. That's why I kick them when it comes
to the weather. I think it's important the TV newses
a share of itself. They haven't got the reporters. There's

(01:42:52):
probably one report on the South Island, or there might
be more, but they're probably tied up with the Telly's case.
So what happens is that there's no pictures, nothing. Yeah,
once in a while they've seen the reporter to the
airport at Wellington to commentate on some but really where
the stories are there's no coverage. So it's almost like
it's not happening except for those people that are actually

(01:43:13):
experiencing it. Yeah, we've got a problem with that. There's
not enough media. May good evening, welcome.

Speaker 29 (01:43:19):
Yeah, hi, I'll give you an update on the Nottawak Valley.
We went to town this morning, came home and we've
got a third flooding on this farm again.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
Oh hell, I hadn't because you guys had it twice.
Are you guys in the in the in the hit
zone again?

Speaker 29 (01:43:37):
Yeah, it's come through.

Speaker 13 (01:43:40):
Surface.

Speaker 29 (01:43:41):
But the Wonga Peaker flooded and that brought the river
and it was really high across the Alexander Bluff Bridge
running through there. I got home and I said, oh, bugger,
here we go again. So the ditches were dug yesterday
and that all that soil is now gone, that's been

(01:44:02):
washed away, all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
So hey, hey, yeah, So where about you are in
the Motweka Valley? Is it where you are? You further down?

Speaker 29 (01:44:14):
I'm right in them really, probably in the middle of
the Motreka Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:44:18):
Okay, Poker, Aura, Yeah, copy that, okay.

Speaker 29 (01:44:23):
Okay, Marcus, So is it is it?

Speaker 13 (01:44:26):
Is it something?

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
Is it subsiding?

Speaker 21 (01:44:30):
Yes?

Speaker 29 (01:44:30):
Said, we'll probably hopefully it'll be okay tomorrow, but then
we get another big burst on Thursday and it's blowing.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
You get the most Okay, I'm going to ask you
you got the winds with that?

Speaker 21 (01:44:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:44:42):
Not good?

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Okay, appreciate that, mate, Thanks for the update. There we
go half past it. I think that's where Noel Edmonds
has got his deaf, is it? I think so? He
was near there, Scott, this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:44:55):
Yea, Marcus is calling to tell you about my experiences
driving in the wind this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Yeah, where were you?

Speaker 28 (01:45:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:45:03):
I went from a PS to Palmerston Or and I
knew it was looking at the forecast. For me, it
looked like it was going to get bad after lunch.
But I'll do it early as early as I can.
Actually went Talpone, Naper pumps than north and I left
Napier at about nine o'clock and by about ten o'clock
kind of heading east.

Speaker 13 (01:45:22):
It was what did you go?

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
What did you go that way? Did you have something
to do with Napier?

Speaker 18 (01:45:28):
Uh?

Speaker 26 (01:45:28):
Yeah, I had to pick up something.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, okay, yeah, because yep, yep, you
understand yep. Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 26 (01:45:34):
But I was driving a box truck, which was like
trying to drive a you know, trying to control a
yacht in the winter today. And I got to I
forget the name of the place, about thirty k's east
of Cenever, and there was a curse insider on its side,
which I've seen in the Herald later on. And because

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it was obviously was on a side, and there are
a couple of fireings there and a couple of fieries,
and so the chaffic was backed up, you know, for
one hundred meters or two hundred meters, so they were
kind of doing letting people go one lane at a time.
But where we were stops was obviously a really really
gusty spot because you know, because that's where the truck
had been blown over. And I was just sitting there rocking,

(01:46:17):
and I just I had basically had accepted that any
minute now I.

Speaker 24 (01:46:21):
Was going to flow onto my side.

Speaker 2 (01:46:24):
You're gonna want sorry anything like that.

Speaker 26 (01:46:26):
Oh then I was going to be blowing over onto
my side.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
What truck did you say you had, Scott, did you
say a box struck or a fox strike?

Speaker 26 (01:46:35):
A box struck? Like three ton box struck.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
Okay, I don't know what they look like, but that's like, okay,
just the.

Speaker 26 (01:46:41):
Average kind of size that you can drive on a
car light, you know.

Speaker 14 (01:46:46):
But it was just, yeah, it was a oh yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:46:51):
The fieries were out, you know. One of them was
out in front of me with the stop ghost line
and he could be you know, he was having trouble
standing up.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
So you could feel yourself blow. It was it hard
to keep your box struck on your side of the road.

Speaker 26 (01:47:08):
When I was so when we got the worst part
was when we just stopped there for ten minutes because
obviously just rocking back and forth.

Speaker 21 (01:47:15):
And then.

Speaker 26 (01:47:18):
Yeah, once once we got moving again, you know, I
was on a stream of traffic and you know, it
was one hundred k zone, but I couldn't do more
than about fifty because, you know, just because I was
having trouble, you know, pushing against the winds, and it
looks like, you know, it looks like everyone was having
the same kind of problems of being extra cautious. But

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I was basically just driving almost on the edge of
the road because I thought if I go over, which
is a pretty good chance, they will at least that
way I'll land on the grass instead of on the road,
and I won't be obstructing everyone else. But I've never
seen anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:55):
Were there many extants on the streets.

Speaker 26 (01:47:59):
That was the only one I saw was the curtain
sider go over, which you know, I'm not surprising because
they're so massive. But I ended up once I finally
got into Danovik, just pulling up for an hour, basically
partic park. I think to the front door of an
old brick church, just so I was out of the
wind for a bit. But I know there was I
know in Danovik there were there was a roof for

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a toper building and things like that. It was all
you know at the start of the Wizard of Oz
when when the house blows away, and it was honestly
like that, seeing like seeing the fire, the fire person
trying to trying to stand up, and it was unreal.
Got some arms, No, the arms aren't too bad. It

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was just for the ten minutes when I was sitting there.
When we went moving, I just thought, right, any minute now,
I'm going to go over. So I thought, all right,
the engines off, so you know, so it doesn't go up.
But when I do flip. I've got my phone in
my pocket, I've got my backpack. I was just thinking
of how can I evacuate, you know what once it
goes over, because I thought it was going to How

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am I going to be able to go out get
out easily with the stuff I need?

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
Did you have a heavy load or were.

Speaker 13 (01:49:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:49:13):
I did, the truck was The truck was pretty full,
and I think that's the only reason it didn't go over.
I don't know, maybe the curtains lader was empty.

Speaker 2 (01:49:20):
Yeah, that's what I That was my next question. It
wasn't stuff strewn across the road for the curtain side.

Speaker 13 (01:49:24):
It was there.

Speaker 26 (01:49:26):
No, not, I mean I couldn't really see. It was
in the ditch and we were going we were going west,
and so the wind was coming from the driver's side,
so I kind of, you know, it pushed you off
straight off your lane, and you know, and it pushed
it basically straight off the left hand lane, well obviously
the left hand lane to the left, you know, instead

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of going across the traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
Yeah, oh good update. We're heading to out driving tomorrow.
Hopefully the wind will be gone by then.

Speaker 26 (01:49:58):
No, I'm nearly back, and then I'm done. It was
just a one off trip luckily this week.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
Okay, nice to talk Scott, thank you for that update.
That's it for me. People. Tim's along after me. Appreciate
all your kind messages tonight too. So yeah, I'll be
back tomorrow from eight pm. Enjoy your Wednesday. It feels
like Thursday is a slow week. Is this a slow week?
I don't know if it's slow week or not. It
feels like a slow week. But yeah, I'll see you
from tomorrow from eight pm. If you need to email me,

(01:50:26):
feel free to do that. Marcus at Newstalk ZB dot
co dot inzi the inzid inzid. But yeah, that's the story.
Several roads are closed and three fires still going. So look,
probably Tim will update you, but if you want to
be sure, just check the n zed Ta website. There's
probably your best bit the n zed Ta website. Walka
katah and because yeah there is difficulty with roads, put

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you on the top of the South Island and also
in the Widded Upper there's road closures in both those places.
Good night.

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