Just a lot of people these days are intolerant (4 June 2025)

While struggling with a croaky voice, Marcus talks nose bleeds, cheese, POW marches, and covers the band of very heavy rain sweeping down the North Island.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Night's podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Greeting's Welcome, Locked and Loaded, Marcus Head or Midnight Tonight.
I hope it's good where you are people. If it's
not good, I hope it gets better by the time
midnight comes around. My voice is shot too, so yeah,
let's just not mention that it's worse than it sounds.
So it should be fine. So yeah, get in touch
and anyway we'll see if we can get the Dunkirk
spirit and all of that onwards and upwards. Oh eight

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hundred and eighty ten eighty. Now that big thunderstorm is
just happening in the north as well. If you've got
some updates on that, let me know that sort of
active that's active currently actually actually so you might want
to comment on that also too, if you've got breaking
news or flooding, well that is dark. You probably can't
tell the flooding of this time in the night Beard.
But it's like I mentioned about that there's a National
Cheese Day top three. I like that one with cardam

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and seeds in it. I don't know what it's called,
but anyway, there we go. So lots to talk about tonight.
I'll check some stuff for you. You can check some stuff
at me. We'll see where we end up. A there'd
be some breaking news note down in the next four
hours too, so I will keep you all across that people.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. We might have had
a bit of the We might have had a bit

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of the discussion about the ship, the two E that
burnt down. I suspect there's been a slight bit of
information about the history of that ship. Just I'm putting
it out there if anyone knows a bit more about it.
I suspect they just put the masts on it. Anyway,
you might have some specific knowledge about that ship boat,
whatever it's called. I do know a little bit about that.
But anyway, do get in touch you on I talk

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Marcus till twelve. It could be quite good fun. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine to
two detext Ellen, it's Marcus. Good evening, and welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm sorry you've always going on.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
We won't mention Ellen up. Be fine, We'll just struggle.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
On with you.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
I'll just carry on, shall I? Yeah, absolutely, pow eighty
eighty years since the release of the Allied prisoners of
war across Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
June fourth, forty five, Say again, June fourth, forty five
or June.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Third, that's right, yes, yes, the one you've got it
now as important to New Zealand is because of a
whole swagger kiwis up there coming out of Poland, Germany
and elsewhere and marching across Europe ready to be airlifted
back to the UK. And they came across in mid

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to late May, and by now they would be on repatriation,
even preparing to return to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Okay, could you just paint a bit for those people
just tuning in, Could you paint a bit more of
a backgrounder about how that day came across.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yes, I could. My father was there, of course he was.
He had been in Poland since nineteen forty three, working
in coal mines and railway yards and the rest of it.
And then in January nineteen forty five they opened the
camps and force marched the men, thousands and thousands and
thousands of them across Europe in the middle of winter,

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until finally they arrived in West Germany and elsewhere just
as spring was breaking. And then for my father's case,
he was airlifted from a little airstrip at a German
city called Landshut and flown back to the UK to
go into hospital.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
So it's a hugely significant day to the world and
to your family when he.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Was in, for my family, when for my family when
he was also because when my father came home, he
started talking about this and eventually it became a book.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Can we just go back to when they were marched?
So they were marched to West Germany from Poland?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Right, Yeah, they were marched to various.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
So had the camps already been liberated by the stage No?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, the American Army and others were going the other way,
heading for the camps, but they met the prisoners coming
towards them.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
So what was the action that meant that those people
working towards Germany because they had that, they surely hadn't
surrendered by then, had they?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Well, nobody had surrendered much. The West Germany surrendered around
about the fifth of May, but other parts of Germany,
and you know Hitler and his web, they didn't surrender
until some time later. It was a it was a
stage surrender. So the war was still going on, and
at Regensburg the column my father was and was bombed

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by an Allied aircraft. They thought they were the Germans
on the move, and several men were killed, thrown into
the into the Danube River and had to be recovered.
So it wasn't it wasn't a friendly welcome at all.
And there were all sorts of casualties. They had been starved,
they had been forced marched, they had been milk maltreated,
and many prisoners had died on that long march.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
How far did your father march?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
From hundred kilometers over how long? Seventeen hundred kilometers over
what time frame? Over three months?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
It's a lot, it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
So from the nineteenth of January until the fifth of
there were stops along the way. They were billeted in
barns and camps and people's homes and whatnot, or just
in the open air under the trees. But when they
got exhausted but with nothing to eat, they fended for themselves.
For the most part, the Red Cross didn't know where

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they were, couldn't catch up with them with food parcels
until they came closer to Regensburg.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
How many were in his how many people were in
the prison war camp that were marching with him.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Well, there were the camps, usually arranged in size from
about fifty to five hundred. In my father's case, there
were three hundred New Zealanders in the camp that he
was in alone, and they all left in a heap.
They picked up other prisoners along the way, and the
column that he was in was consisted of two four
hundred men by the time they got to Landshut in Germany.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's extraordinary, an extraordinary story.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Huge, And of course there were three main columns, and northern,
a central, and a southern column, all.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Heading for the same place.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
I presumed, all heading for freedom, but they had no
idea where that was. In my father's case, they were
actually headed for Austria. They were going to become hostages
for the peace deal. When the Nazis struck a peace deal,
they intended to have hostages that they could bargain with.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
So it was it was it like a happy march anyway,
because it was.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Not a joyous experience. There was no sense of freedom
about it. There was no liberty at all. When my
father got news that, you know, the Germans had surrendered,
he said it didn't feel much like it.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
And then he got flowing from West Germany to the UK.
Did you say that he did?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
They were airlifted in two stages. In his case, they
were flowing to Rems in France by in DC three's
and then loaded onto Lancaster's and flown in his case
into the UK.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, And he was near death or he was okay,
he was hospital No, he was not well.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
He was not well at all in body mind or spirit.
He was not well, but he was. He had been
injured or you know, a long time previously, back in
the Battle of North Africa, and that that never healed.
But then the male treatment in the coal mines and
so on. He had developed all sorts of terrible conditions
from that, and then the march itself didn't help. So

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they were all seriously ill men in body mind and spirit.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
He was married.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
He was not. He was a single man in his
early thirties and his mother was waiting back here in
Dunedin for him to come home. And he had brothers
and sisters and whatnot. He didn't marry until nineteen forty.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Nine, and he was hospitalized for a while.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
He was hospitalized. They had opened up hospitals across the
UK where these men could be treated for their conditions
as best they could. And then they were granted six
weeks leave pretty much to get them away from the
coast and to wait for ships to come and take
them home. And my father came home in July in
nineteen forty five.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Wow, it's a great story. Was his book a good rate?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
His book is an excellent read. I have to say
that because I'm the author.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Okay, but is it like a hobbyist on the internet book,
the one that's you see in books.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no, it's a serious book.
It's what happened was he told his story and then
he wrote it down, and then it was recorded, and
I got hold of the record of it and transcribed
it into a book. And then in twenty eighteen I
went to Poland to find out where he'd got to.
Had he been went to the camp?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Had he been back.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
No, he had never been back. But he had made
contact with the Polish family who had been he had
been friends with. While he was there, he spoke to
the son of the man he knew in the camp,
and you know, there was quite a strong relationship Christmas cards,
Birthday cards, Easter cards and some one were exchanged. So
there was quite a connection with Poland. It was it

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was always a place that was dominant in his mind.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
And your book was successful. Was he got published?

Speaker 3 (09:16):
I published in twenty twenty one and it's been selling
ever since. It's called it's called Without the Nasty Bits,
a Soldier's Story.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yeah, okay, I'd like to read that, thank you. And
when he came back he found a career. He had
a career before he had gone because he was old.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
He was a trade he was a tradesman before he left.
He was he was a brass molder and iron molder. Yeah,
he came back and of course the foundry had kept
the job open for him, but he eventually had other
small jobs and then he moved from Dunedin to the
little town of Lawrence that you may know, yes, And
there he had to find more work and eventually he

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settled with the railways, yes, and stayed with them until
he retired on the West coast.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Wow, it's interesting he came back and that you said
he talked about.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
That, well, he did. My earliest memories there are of
stories he told around the farm. You know, don't ever
tell you about this time, and about the man who
fell on the snow and we had to carry him
back to the camp. About the men who ran off
into the snow and then they got chased back by
the wolves. There were funny little stories that were good
for kids done to hear. There were nothing scary or
nasty about them. And that's where the title comes from.

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He would always premise his little stories by saying, there'll
be no nasty bits, nothing for heir to worry about
her upset mum.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Was he captured in Poland?

Speaker 3 (10:36):
No, he was captured at a place called City was
Zig in Libya and on the first of December nineteen
forty one, and there was the Battle of City Razig
was part of Operation Crusader. Listeners may know that is
that a big.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Is there a lot of bodies of works of people
writing stories about those matches, because I presume a lot
of people did it, as you've said.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, I'm not aware of others, but many people have
written their family story incorporating the pow experience or incorporating
you know, their grandfather's or father's experience during wartime. What
I've got special about this book is that you've got
two stories and one my father's verbatim story of his

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World War II experience and then my story of going
to find out where he got to.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
No, it's just a good thing to tie it together,
isn't it and meet the same sort of families and
stuff like that. Okay, well that's an extremely interesting history lesson, Alan,
I appreciate for starting you for starting us off so
well tonight too, So hopefully that spurs something in some people,
So I thank you for that. A Texas here, my
father was a PMW who was a Lambsdorf. He was
also on the forced march off it to carry one

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of his best friends later his father. Later his friend
was a father and kidd apee and became my honorary uncle.
That's from Roger. And he's talk and it's pouring hard
hair already, lots of road water. Be careful everyone. Yeah,
I imagine too. It's it is reuvery wet. So yeah,
I mean, I know you've got to drive to the conditions.

(12:11):
But that kind of goes without saying, Marcus, did I
hear write a soldier's story? It's a bit more than
that as a soldier story without the nasty bits. I'll
get the actual title and chapter in verse for that. Also,
if you want to mention something about that, I didn't
know it was such a day. I forget what he said.
The day was like like prisoner freedom March Day or

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something like that. I'll find something more interesting well that
resonates better for that all. SOO anyway, oh, eight hundred
eighty twenty and nine two nine two detects. If you've
got breaking news or anything like that letter without the
nasty bits, A soldier's story, A huge downpourse of expector hit
Auckland tonight. That's the story. So if there's flooding, I
don't know if we'll know about it, but if we will,

(12:57):
well we'll know about it here. Maybe that's the situation too,
So do get in touch, as I say, Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine to nine two detect seems
to be there in World War One, and he sent
me a link to the book too, so thanks to
the text. Doll wants to know how to spot a
skimming machine on aty. You might have no idea. I
think you've got that green little sleeve you put your

(13:17):
card in that looks a bit Wobbi, you've probably been skimmed.
I think the banks will cover you. They won't they
David's Market's welcome and good evening.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Hi, how's it going good?

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Thanks Dave.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
So I had a cousin who was captured in Egypt
by Romnell and then he was put on that death
March you were talking about. But he escaped on death March.
He was out eating herved and grass for food and

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he was spotted and they started shooting at him. So
he took off into the bush and he got back
to England and back to New Yell. But he had
a very successful farming life back here in New john
But he eventually took the faithual air flight to Erebus.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh for goodness sake.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, yeah, So he had a good he always had
a good sense of humor. But I think it was
lucky man out on that day. Yeah, And it.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Must have taken him a while once he left the
march to get to England.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Yeah, I got no information on that at all. Well,
I know they started shooting at him and he just
took off into the bush. But he must have gone
the underground somewhere. Another story about Poland. I had a
friend who is Polish. He immigranted New Joeran. But he

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was stood before a fire and squad and and and
the guns didn't go off. Gee, that's a that's an
amazing story.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Is there a code if the if the guns don't
go off, you get to know that, you get to
go free? Is that like?

Speaker 6 (15:16):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Is that something part of the Geneva convention or something.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
I'm not to sure, but anyhow, the guns didn't go off.
But but Matthew, it can make you very hardened. Manday
oh flip, I could imagine going through those experiences. Yeah,
I can, I mention, so humanity is very cool.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
I've often done stories on the show about the people
that died in Erebus, and all the stories are extraordinary.
They stay with me, those stories with it. But young
school teachers wanted to inspire them. A gold miner from
upper Men of Burn that just just mind his whole
days on his own decide to go to Erabus. There's
all sorts of amazing stories. How many people were killed,

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the two fifty one or something, but each of them
had an amazing story to tell.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but Hew, yeah, So he came
back from the war, he got married. How if you
Jordan and his wife died, he got married again, and
then the second one died, so he got married again,
and then he goes on with the erebus flight and

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that was the end of it.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
With do he take his new missus on the flight?

Speaker 5 (16:30):
No? No, no, and yes. So he had been through
a lot, but saying that he always had a good
sense of humor.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Have to he wouldn't you to survive?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Yeah, absolutely survive all those things. You'd have to have
a good sense of humor.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (16:47):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, So that's my story.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Good on your Dave thinks that we are talking about
the ill just give a bit of a background for
you where we are. I just can't find him hang about.
What we are talking about is the March. I don't
know if it just comes back today. The Fourth March
is during the final stage of the Second World War.
I think what was happening is the I think the

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Soviets were advancing, and the Soviets thought, well, they thought, well,
the Soviets are going to be here soon, so we
may as well free them. Anyway, I guess that was
the plan. I'm not quite fully sure about the politics
of it. So today is mentioned as the day that
they commemorate that. That's not something I've talked about before,
but I'm certainly up for the discussion. I don't quite

(17:34):
know if it hangs on today, So it might be
the fourth of May rather than the fourth of June,
isn't it anyway? Do get in touch you want to
talk about that? Those stories always up for them. Discussion
on that eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two
nine two detect Marcus, I think you need to ever
what irks me night? I can kick it off with
food delivery drivers pushing in front of me while I'm
being served. Some of these people are very rude. Why

(17:57):
don't thin they're making much money? The delivery drivers? I
think probably it's just kind of a bit of desperation,
I'm afraid, yeah, when they're not getting rich off their
in politeness and Marcus. The book Trows to Freedom by
Simon Tanker, a new book on our local library. Harby
is reading right now. But the true story of the
Medieval Trials Trails used by Anzac POW's to escape Italy

(18:19):
in nineteen forty three nineteen forty four New Zealand book.
But the book we've been talking about without the Nasty
Bits by Alan Wilson, A Soldier's Story I am. I
have a mixed relationship with war stories. I see my

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elder boys reading some of them as well. They must
get them from school. But all those ones in the
prison of war camps, I mean, I read them all as
a child, and I still find them so heroing. But
I do like a Walk to Freedom story. I just
don't like the one. I just don't like any of that.
Those ones in the prison of war camps, I find
them just too heroing. But I'll certainly give that one

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to read if you want to talk something about that.
That's as good as a theme as I've got for
tonight without the Nasty Bit to Soldiers three, we are
talking about that someone wants or what irks me night.
I always think the challenge about things that irk you
is fine a reason not to get irked when I've
spent a day on planes today. And I'll tell you what,

(19:23):
and this sounds like bad stand up comedy material. And
they always come up with that with their own planes.
But geese, some people are slow getting their bags out
of the overhead lock. Ah man, they wait for if
we want to get off in front of the thing. Oh,
I might slowly put my jacket on now, honestly, And
we couldn't get off the back because it was too
It was torrential, but cheapest creepers during a flight of

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like to go around. So let's if we can set
a record to get off this plane, and let's say
if we can do it quite quickly. It is cheese Day,
International Cheese Day. I don't everyone's got anything specially, everyone's
got a special cheese story. People still making their own cheese?
Did we do that for a while? Was it a
covid thing? This day ninety four breast brings the em

(20:09):
relays born in the USA. This day in forty three
the Hide railway disaster tragic, no matter how you look
at it. And this day in thirty seven, the world's
first shopping cart for introduced a Humpty Dumby's grace. We
still in Oklahoma City. I think what happened with the
first shopping trolleys. They had to get people to just

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pretend to go around shopping with them because no one
wanted to be seen with them. It took a while
for people to adopt to shopping trolleys. They thought they
took look too ridiculous or too lazy. Two things were
going already the things that are irking you. Someone once
a night on things at irk you. And also to
the prisoner's March. Today is the day we're hanging on

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that one. The prisoners from World War two when the
camps were liberated, I presume because the Soviet troops were advancing.
I'm not quite sure what the plan was to release them,
but someone will explain that with the great subtlety. And
already a couple of good stories about that too. So
come through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus to

(21:17):
the York person. I do delivery driving, and our app
tells us to skip the line. We don't earn any
extra money for waiting an extra five minutes per pick up.
That you all do very well, don't it. I haven't
quite worked out why food delivery is such a big thing.
Now let me just let me just moderate that it

(21:38):
seems like most people prefer to eat in their motels
or hotels watching TV, rather than out in pleasant surroundings.
Always find that surprising. The rubbish. The old containers the
return prisons of war were flown to England any available
aircraft including Lancaster bombers. This has shown in many of

(22:00):
the World War Two serviceman files that I read while
writing their histories. When an events defense personnel brand Peter, well,
Peter will take you as the authority, brilliant. So there
we go. They did go to Lancaster bombers. Brilliant, there
we go. It's amazing. I love me, and don't you.

(22:21):
They've got all these great stories, but find about what
planes they were. It's that the railway people evening glennerscase
thee every rain where you are, glenis where is there
me rain?

Speaker 8 (22:33):
I'm in the house in court block and looking at
my garden, which is a courtyard right quite close to
my front door, and I'm upstairs that I can't even
see the garden of myself or next door. It's flooded.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Is it an area is it near you that's prone
to flooding?

Speaker 8 (22:48):
Yeah? Well, all the other houses are sort of low
high up. My neighbor and my three neighbors we've got
skips going down with sor they're down underground. But I
made a trench in my garden so that the grass
would just it won't rise up over the grass. But
it's still level with the grass, and I mean quite
quite flooded looking at.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
It now, glenis, when did you make the trench?

Speaker 8 (23:12):
I made it the other day. So because I'm looking
out the other I'll just go to my other right
hand window here and look out the window from the
top here. Yeah, I made the trench, which, oh my god,
it's nearly level with the with the foot path. But uh,
seeing it like it is, it's not going to because

(23:33):
we've got sort of like in the steps. We've got
sort of a great a drain in the in the
steps there where the rain runs through the drains and
built into the steps.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
It's broadened out, Glinnis, because I'm loving your little scenario
where you are with your trench and stuff. Will people
be getting flooded around Auckland tonight?

Speaker 8 (23:49):
I think? So?

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Okay, Wow, you called it.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
To cut me straight down. It's not sort of side.

Speaker 9 (23:56):
Year.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's the stuff that penetrates and.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
The water's gone all brown from the.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Des Did you buy a spade?

Speaker 8 (24:04):
No, I did it myself with it with a but
yeah with the spade, I did it myself. So therefore
the water can't rise up because I've made what they
call like an army trench between the garden and the well.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
My TV has just gone off with you. Have you
got sky?

Speaker 5 (24:21):
No?

Speaker 4 (24:22):
I haven't.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
No, Well, it's just all gone because of rain fades.
So I'm an.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Awkward I have an electrical storm man.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Have you got Have you got thunder? And lightning there
as well?

Speaker 8 (24:29):
Glinners not at the moment, but I think it's going
to come.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
You don't go, Glenners. If there is lightning, don't go
back out with the shovel, will you?

Speaker 6 (24:37):
No?

Speaker 8 (24:38):
I would not going out side.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Killer.

Speaker 8 (24:42):
No, no, no, tomorrow will be a better day.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Chucking it down, chucking it down in the big smoke,
the ow nine. Oh my gosh. You the emergency alarm
in my head by myself. What does that mean? Is
there an emergency alarm yet? I reckon that there's going
to be one tonight. I reckon. What happens is nothing
with the emergency alarm. Then they get trigger happy. Marcus,

(25:07):
my uncle was a pow shot down over at Denmark.
He wrote his own dossi on his experience. It was
on the March toward the end of the war. His
dossi includes the telegrams and letters sent back to his
mum Minana in New Zealand. These are rather sobering when
you realize that the only news that family's got as
the of their kin's fate. The book The Last Escape

(25:28):
by Nicholan Reynold is a great book on the March's regards.
Graham Marcus could have been a Bristol liberator. You sound like,
oh yeah, that's right. Love to in your family, love
to hear from your nolm apr Marcus. The most difficult
aspect of flying is waiting for passagers to embark. The
worst type is the person who stands in the aisle
waiting for one in front of them, together their luggage

(25:50):
and put their jacket while holding up the three. Exactly
what you do is you look and you think, well,
actually that person's getting ready. It's going to be my
turn soon. Self involved people, aren't they? But you know
small things? I mean, goodness, gracious me. It's better than walking,
isn't And how can we complain about flying when these
people walk for days and days and days twenty k's

(26:11):
a day for three months, Marcus? What irks me as
lack of critical thinking. Of course, the Lancaster bomber could
easily be reconfigured to take passages on webbing canvas seating
of course too. I would imagine when we talk the
fog of war and chaos and liberation and all that,

(26:34):
you know, we're not going to get we're not going
to get well curated honors stories because it's chaotic. Some
of these stories took years from to trickle out. So
I guess that's why the books are important. Also that
people sit there and you know, like I really called
it there to go and research the whole stuff and
write that down lines free if you want to get involved.

(26:55):
Seventeen we're back in World War Two, which I quite enjoyed,
and the prisoner of war marches during the end of
World War Two. Apparently this happened this day eighty years
ago in nineteen forty five. I'm not entirely sure what
the fourth of Juna's but it doesn't matter. Who needs
a good day when you've got good stories. I mean,
you don't need an axtull day to hang it on.

(27:18):
Because there's that band of thunder and lightning working down
the country. By the way, bad bus crash in south
and two seventeen people on a bus. I don't know
that was a school bus or in Milford. I think
we would have heard if it was a school bus,
might have been a Milford sound bus. That was my
initial impression with that one. I'll see ever get some

(27:38):
more information about that too. Marcus, you have a picture
of what the first shopping trolleys were like, presume the
a metal I look into that. What's it called the
Goody Goody game drops. We're looking into that. We'll post
it if we find something like that. Marcus. I'm in
central Taranaki. I've never seen rain and wouldn't like it.
It would have to be one hundred k horizontal ring chairs. Brian,

(28:00):
curious enough, Brian, where are you central Taranaki? Is that
like on the Stratford line? You're in the straight for
the Kahakuri line. That's kind of where I'm visualizing. But yes,
if anyone's got the other weather updates to be nice
to hear from you about that or anything else you
want to talk about tonight. I'm pretty chilled out about it.
But the things we've got is the weather and what

(28:20):
irks you? And cheese day. No one made cheese. I
think it's quite a lot of pilav at making cheese.
I wouldn't have. And by the way, I've got no
experience about that whatsoever. And it's Marcus, welcome and good evening,
Hi Aenne welcome?

Speaker 10 (28:44):
Is that Marcus?

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Hi Aenne?

Speaker 10 (28:47):
I just wondered if anybody could tell me how to stop.
I know he's bleeding. It's not huge, but it just
won't stop. I thought if somebody could give me an
idea what to do.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Are you okay? Anne? Are you okay?

Speaker 10 (29:04):
Yes, I'm okay, but it's a bit nicey.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
How long has it been going? I mean, I don't
like these discussions because they freaked me out. How long
has it been going for?

Speaker 10 (29:15):
N Oh, not long?

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Five minutes or an hour?

Speaker 10 (29:20):
Oh, ten minutes? No, not a long one. I don't
know why it started, but I've got my head tipped back.
But I just, you know, I didn't want to be
left in the middle of the night and not have.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Anybody to No, that's no, that sounds that sounds not ideal.
You've got the radio on.

Speaker 10 (29:44):
I haven't at the moment.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
No, Well turn the can you get to the radio
suit on sea? You can hear what people can say.

Speaker 10 (29:52):
I've got it done now.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I can hear that. I can hear me hello, Marcus's
what people can say, I've got.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
It done, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I want to see hear me say hello to myself.
Keep everyone got any experience for I think that's I
think that's quite heartfelt. I mean, she's there her own
with the blood. Should shouldn't you find a health line?
And that's the that's the that's the that's a terrible thing.
Now about the social about the health service there rather

(30:25):
than talk bag, well, check GPT. If anyone's got any
solutions for what? I can't imagine what you do, Marcus.
Parts of Monaco Road and Broadway, new Market underwater, Green
Lane Road intersection almost completely covered and water Green Lane

(30:46):
Road intersection. Parts of Monaco. That's that five roads come together.
Monico and Broadway, Green Lane Road intersection almost completely in
the wall. I don't know which greenland that must be
the Yeah, Pete, Marcus, pistol, Pete. Welcome again, Marcus, be.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Going and bleeding nose and sometimes I get them down
again too, So to lie down.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
If you can, And then quite what I do, I
just I just pull the paper up there and just
push it up your nostrils and seem to stop after
a while, and.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
That just ceases the bleeding. Okay, Pete, appreciate that, Rosebary.
It's Marcus. Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 12 (31:25):
I have a lot of blood noses frequently, and I
have to go and have blood transfusions. So the lady
that had the blood noses that she just needs to
kind of get a bit of a pig or a
clamp on it.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
But mine go on for ages and I have to go.

Speaker 12 (31:49):
But she she just needs to breathe in properly.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Say a pig, Yeah, a peg. Well I heard it
all now, of course that's to say the last thing
you needs a pig. But hello wreck.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah good Marca.

Speaker 14 (32:10):
Uh teas burners sugar and.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
In the nose or in the mouth, in the mouth,
what does it do? What does it do?

Speaker 14 (32:21):
I've got no idea. Someone will know that. I just
remember having a nose blade of sculp and the nurse
in the stick bag game is teaspoon sugar and it's
straight almost instant.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Okay, makes sense. I like that, Thank you, Linda, Hi.

Speaker 9 (32:42):
Hi you Macao. Good. Basically, trustad is you took your
head back and you pinched the top of the bridge
of your nose, and you hold that until the bleeding stopped.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
If I did it in my first aid. Sorry, I
don't know if I did it in my first aid,
but I did first aid recently.

Speaker 9 (33:03):
Oh okay, yeah, well I did first shade and red
cross and all of that, and you know that's what
we were taught, Linda.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I appreciate that. By the way, I've got a new
storm warning, severe thunderstorms. This warning affects people in the
following local government areas. This is straight off the press.
I I got time to milk It Rodney, Gulf kaiper
Auckland City, Jaka to Paco, Franklin and Albany. The weather
Radiar detective line of Savere thunderstorm's line from Manga Toroto

(33:32):
where the Brethrens are, to Albany into Bombay. This line
of severe thunderstorms is moving towards the east southeast and
expect to lie from Tiari to Wahiki Island and Madra
Madua at nine to fifteen PM and from Omaha to
Porni Island to Keihedi at nine forty five. These thunderstorms
expect to be accompanied by torrential rain. Torrential rank can
called surface end or flesh floodings. About streams, gullies and

(33:54):
urban areas and make driving conditions extremely hazardous. Good evening, gale,
it's Marcus and welcome.

Speaker 15 (34:02):
Oh hello as my brady a laugh, No.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
It's beautiful. I can't even hear it.

Speaker 15 (34:07):
Oh fbulous, my partner.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
That's no good now that you're turning it off, that
you just stood it there gone, that one goes off the.

Speaker 16 (34:19):
Right yet yeah, okay? Is it better? Yeah?

Speaker 15 (34:26):
Okay. So my partner who loves dairy and everything else
that is allergic to cheese. Every time he has cheese
under his eyes swells up and goes quite read really
and he breaks out in a profuse sweet.

Speaker 9 (34:48):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (34:49):
He loves cheese, And if I cook make our only cheese,
or if he has make our only cheese or lasagna
or something like that, he won't he won't not eat us.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
And even though he knows he's going to put break out.

Speaker 15 (35:04):
Yeah yeah, because he loves.

Speaker 16 (35:08):
And like.

Speaker 15 (35:12):
I'll make a sandwich to a roll with bree cheese,
He'll eat it even though he knows it's from there,
because he loves cheese, he'll break out.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
He sounds like it's own. Wisday enemy? How long did
the symptoms last?

Speaker 15 (35:26):
Four oh, only about twenty minutes up an hour, So
I think he feels that.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
It's worth it.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
He is writing goats cheese or something different.

Speaker 15 (35:38):
Well, well, funnily enough, I had a goat and I
used to milk her. And because my daughter had extreme X.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Men, Yep, that'll do it.

Speaker 9 (35:49):
Now.

Speaker 15 (35:50):
Goat smoke as the best things the body constitutes effect differently.

Speaker 7 (36:00):
All of that.

Speaker 15 (36:00):
When they say don't have dairy, goat smoke is fabulous.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Is it easy to get?

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (36:09):
Yeah, if you've got to go, I had a gat.

Speaker 16 (36:14):
It was easy for me.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
So have you got your partner with the goat cheese
and ended that work?

Speaker 15 (36:20):
Well, he had that. You know, he would always have
goat milk and the coffee. Yes, and you know he
he sort of couldn't really taste the difference, except I
could taste the grassy taste.

Speaker 13 (36:39):
In the milk.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yet. Did he get the iPad?

Speaker 10 (36:43):
No?

Speaker 15 (36:44):
No, not at all.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (36:49):
Yeah, So it's just how your body reacts to certain things.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Have you ever met anyone else with a cheese it's
used to be that seems weird today?

Speaker 15 (36:59):
No, no, because he ate it anyway, even though he
knows he's going to react, and he just you know,
fluts around for a half hour afterwards, and then he's right.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
If I was someone who have a cheese day once
a week and get it all over.

Speaker 15 (37:14):
And done with, Yeah, exactly, Yep, it's about it.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Okay, we might even pivot to interesting energies, Gail, thank
you for that the big cheese. By the way, they
are saying, the amount of rain falling will be half
that fell in the Anniversary Day floods, So it's a
lot of rain right. By the way, it's snowing in
the South Island Lake Takapau. It's snowing there also, so yep,

(37:44):
she's three seasons in one. They're saying, with a nosebleed,
do not tip your head back, but ring healthlight. If
it's still going after twenty minutes, breathe through your mouth
so I read this sentence, gently, cough out any blood
that's drained down your throat rather than swallowing it. It's

(38:05):
pretty grim, isn't it. But squeamish around that sort of
stuff because you imagine that blood going to the back
of your neck. Carn jo Oh. Anyway, people looking forward
to your inputs. We've broadened it. But no, but here
we go here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
here we go. This is in my bread basket. The
intersection of Ordarchy Road, Shore Road and Upland Road will

(38:28):
be flooded very soon. Half the water and more is
flowing down rapidly. Best avoided as it's a flood prime area, Mari.
I would imagine the end of Portland Road would be
flooded as well. That's par for the course. But that
opposite the garden center, Ordarchy Road, Shore Road and Upland Road. Well,
I don't know that person's seen it. Mine of those

(38:49):
boat sheds will be flooded too soon, won't they? There
are anything around the water like the two million dollar
boat sheds, Marcus. The blood vessels to the nose mostly
originate from the lower forehead. A nice pack to the
forehead down to between the eyes is often re effective.
Raining vereheard and Hamilton at the moment, Marcus, I'm also

(39:09):
allergic to cheese, Dave, the cheese allergen. To be allergic
to cheese, what's your weirdest allergy? What about a two cheese? Marcus.
Goats milk and cow's milk have ninety four percent cross reactivity,

(39:33):
So if allergic to cows wilk pretty risky. But lectose
intolerance is different to allergy. I understand about lectose intolerant.
I rekon. There's a lot of people the say's just intolerant.
Power out in parts of top or Marcus listening to
you on iHeart wind is terrible and rearranging the garden furniture.

(39:55):
Now here's something. Once upon a time, if they said
the weather was terrible in Topal and the power was out,
the first thing I'd be worried about was that island
hit the golf ball too in the lake. But now
I'm worried about the dinosaur. Hope that's fine. I'm sure
it is because it looks pretty robustly built. But there
we go. Isn't interesting? Something like that, something like something

(40:16):
like that, and then that's the first thing you think of, Marcus.
Cheese makes me sneeze, as does coffee and chocolate. Welcome
people here, allergies, nosebleeds, cheese irks, it's the full show. People. Oh,
I'm mainly about that. It's about the floods, because yeah,
it's it's throwing it down in Auckland. At the moment,

(40:38):
we will rebuild. What I don't like is It's hard
to get the details this time of night because everyone's
kind of you know, daytime you get to storm me
in a million people. Oh here we are nighttime but trickier.
So I'm just gathering all the information I can for you.

(40:59):
Ten five Lisa Marcus, welcome, good Eveninghi Lisa.

Speaker 17 (41:04):
Oh hi yahmen Auckland Mission Bay.

Speaker 18 (41:07):
Yes, the rain here is just it's reminded me of
the anniversary blood weeks. Well, I would hate to be
in a blood plain. There will be some very nervous
people here tonight, I think.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Well, that's that seems to be what the met servers
is saying. I think they're saying it's it's half the
rainfall in the in the anniversary weekend flood. But if
the ground's already soaked anyway, that still could pose a problem.

Speaker 18 (41:38):
Well, I expect it will be more than half. Yeah,
Like we've got guttering overflowing here, which doesn't normally do that.
If you can hear at all, How long is it?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
How long has it been running intensely for least like
an hour or less than that?

Speaker 18 (41:55):
It's about five to nine, I think, okay, it.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Now that half an hour with the thunder and the
thunder and lightning, or just has it had thunder and lightning,
or just the rainfall, just constant rain.

Speaker 18 (42:09):
But that was that was what it was like in
the Anniversary weekend.

Speaker 17 (42:12):
It just sort of parked south above us and didn't move,
just poured torentially for about I think it was a
good hour or more. I wasn't sure because I wasn't
the work and stuff, and it didn't wasn't sure when
it started.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
The indications I'm getting from the response I'm getting would
indicate that it's probably quite serious.

Speaker 18 (42:35):
Yeah, it's just not moving on, you know, it's just constant.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Have you managed to click clear the guttering?

Speaker 8 (42:43):
What?

Speaker 18 (42:43):
I live in a rental, so I don't let my
landlord worry about that, and I don't think it's a
particular concern. We don't have big trees around us or anything.

Speaker 17 (42:53):
We're actually quite stealty because we're quite high up.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (42:56):
Sure, and we will find that the book and Anniversary weekend,
so I assume.

Speaker 18 (43:02):
So I said, okay, we'll be all right, and pretty
much in your.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Scenario, Lisa, I've got a new rain warning, So thank
you for coming through, and I'll bring that to the
group shortly when I bring that one up, is the
top one or the second one?

Speaker 19 (43:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
This is at nine to seventeen. Save Thunderstorm Warning top
priority of immediate broadcast valid till ten oh seven. It's
come through at nine seventeen. The following effects. The warning
effects people in the following local government areas. We don't
have time before the headg Yes Southa, Hoki, Matata, Piaco,
Hamilton City, whitetom Or Topor franken Ua peer who met

(43:42):
service weather radar detected line of severe thunderstorms lying from
Bombay to Naradawahia to Tihui. The line of severe thunderstorm
is expected is moving towards the southeast. Is expected to
lie from Wayringa to Matangi to Topor at nine thirty
seven and from Parti Tonga to Tito the iwita He

(44:06):
at ten oh seven. Texasys i'm and Lower Hutton. It's
not even raining. The others there must be confusing flooding
for a puddle. Oh, that was in the reports. They've
closed the road there, so it's not someone that's rung
that through. It's a police report about a road closure
because of flooding there. So is it funny how people
get also defensive of the suburb when there is flooding.

(44:27):
I'll seend you the link if you like, but get
in touch byname's Marcus. Welcome hit at twelve o'clock, Grant,
good evening.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
Hello. I've heard a few comments about the role of
the Lancaster obomba well at the end of the war.
Of course they took home hundreds and hundreds of POWs,
probably left some of the crew at back in England,
like the three gunners. They probably stayed home, might have
been able to bring twelve to fifteen POW's per flight,

(45:00):
and also they delivered hundreds of tons of food. The
that's people who are on the verge of starvation. It
shows photographs with people on the ground waving as the

(45:23):
packages are coming down on parachute. Can I can I
just move on to.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Just grunt with the Lancaster bombers. Grunt. Was most of
the interior space taken up by bombs? Is that's what
most of it was? Rex of bombs? Is that what
most the internal space was taken up by.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
No hardly any In fact, that the bombay was underneath
the floor of the plane. But they're surprisingly small, so I.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Thought they always seemed huge. I thought they could take
a lot more than fifteen po ws.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Well they might have. That's only a rough guess. I
imagine about four of them could sit on the wing
star through the plane and pats An the dozen or
so behind the Wingstar. But in front of the Wingstar
there was a very little room. You had your pilot,
you navigate, a wireless operator, and a front person who

(46:19):
was a bomb aimer or front gunner. And those four
were in front of the the wingspan the main star.
I grabbed my book called Let's Play Doctor by doctor
Goel Wallach and locked up nosebleed and he reckons it's

(46:41):
a lack of vitamin K, lack of vitamin C and
and kelsey and magnesium. I could. I could send that
thing into you the photocopy of that, and it says
vitamin K is made Indian testines. If you take acidopolis

(47:06):
it that does does the right thing in your intestine,
the bacteria create vitamin K.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
Okay, I guess that's probably more to stop ever having
nose bleeds rather than stop the months they've started. That
would be right, wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
Yeah? Yeah, get the fundamentals right and you don't have
nose bleeds.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
No, I think there was more that she was mid
bleed there. Grant that woman that rang up, But yeah,
I do appreciate that things for that ten away from
ten if you do want to come through the evacuation
or the march of the of the po ws. Also
two nose bleeds. Pretty grim top of that one, though,
isn't it. And the floods and the floods that seem
to be passing quite quickly over New Zealand rain coming

(47:49):
and going in your plymouth also in Graymouth, good evening.
Brucett's Marcus, welcome Saturn, bothers flew over, Bruce, It's Marcus here.
You've just come in mid sentence welcome.

Speaker 16 (48:05):
We oh.

Speaker 12 (48:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (48:10):
We were in England a while ago, a couple of
years ago, and we were on that London eye on
the big wheel.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Oh yeah, yep, yep, yep, copy and all.

Speaker 20 (48:19):
Of a sudden I heard worried was the hell of well?
I think it was going to fall over? And we
looked up and there was three leg testers of bombers
flew over. Wow, And the first one that flew over
dropped the whole bomb note of bread poppies because it
was the seventy fifth anniversary of the twenty fifth Bombers Squadron.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
I think.

Speaker 20 (48:43):
And there was two others flew along behind it, And
I've still got a photo looking up through the London
Eye through the bars and as a leg Yester bomber
in the middle.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Well, I guess the good thing is to know at
least there's three Blancaster bombers still operational, which is kind
of remarkable, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (48:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be born now.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
I don't think it meaning likely to be more, but yeah,
there could be less, but there could be more. I
guess you're right.

Speaker 20 (49:08):
But that've got They've got four rolls Royce viel And
engines on each on each plane. They make a lot
of noise.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
Did you just happen to be on the London Eye
by chance when they came up?

Speaker 20 (49:22):
That's right, we did. We didn't know anything about it.
We just heard the noise when they came home. We
looked up and here was his three bombers flag over.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
Remarkable story, Bruce, Thank you for that. I do appreciate that.
By the way, too. An update, someone's taken a screenshot
from a Facebook page Facebook community page. Purana Road outside
the Glenfield peck and Save is flooded. It goes on

(49:53):
to say, already cars, I can't just see what that
word says. Already cars are stuck. By the way, Trump
said that China Jujing ping free hard to deal with.
Isn't that Trump's whole thing dealing with difficult people? Is

(50:14):
that that's Isn't that literally his stick? So there we go,
the art of the deal, but not looking good at all.
Literally his thing? Anyway. Someone said tree down State hi
Wan blocking the north lane. Police and attendance. It's a

(50:36):
big highway State hi Wan. Could you tell me we're
in statehai Wan? It is down please number innings. Oh
that's in Topor did you ask them? Yep, that's in Topal.
That's with the power outages. So it's gonna be a
slow drive into Topor tonight. How are you going people?
Marcus Nile Road on Auckland's north shore has flooded again.

(50:58):
Saw people out checking storm drain levels. Don't imagine it's
a bad time for flooding. Also too with some of
the deciduous lead. Those flame trees and things they plant
will cause the amount of flooding this time of the year,
so yeah, it could well the least rain. It could
be as bad as the other floods. But we'll keep
you updated too. You've got more information phone that through

(51:19):
eight hundred and Laureate's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
Yeah, hi though, Marcus, yeah, yeah. With in regard to that,
you know, the prisoner of War day, I'm not too
sure none of them has mentioned anything about the the
prisoners of war that the Japanese held in building the
Burmer and Sign or the Thailand railways well particularly horrific

(51:50):
as well. I'm not saying anything should be better than another,
but it's it hadn't cropped up on the plight of
those poor buggers. I just happened to be reading. I
had an old Survey magazine from about nineteen forty I
had to pick up a while ago, and there was
a guy at from I think he's from originally from

(52:11):
Dned and mister Pi Garden had been an engineer who
had been working in Malaya at the time of the
invasion and then he was incarcerated and put to work
for the whole of the of the show. And yeah,
I mean that's just terrific. But strange enough, the way

(52:34):
he wrote that particular article, he was just from the
engineer's point of view, just saying here, inefficient the Japanese
were in so far as just by the sheer ill
treatment and the sort of tools they provided, they could
have got a far better outcome. The railroad built a

(52:55):
hell a lot quicker with you know, just a little
bit better treatment of the staff, I mean, of the
what they had there. They were losing not only the
the soldiers that they'd captured from the various you know,
the Australian, British and New Zealand, but also the locals

(53:16):
that are forced into labor and tens of thousands of them,
you know, sort of just dying. I think I think
he put the Cooley deaths between one hundred and fifty
two hundred thousand, and it's what everyone messiated the majority
disease and with friends dying daily, thinking could bring no relief.

(53:41):
In Reason met its last frustration in asking why the
enemy should want to destroy the labor force they needed
so urgently. But anyway, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
If about it, Laurie was there was the railway something
they desperately needed, or was it more something that they
gave them a focus to get the prisoners of war
to build.

Speaker 7 (54:02):
No, it was for a purpose, but in their you know,
invasion and h I just shifting of the materials around.
Apparently they the army at different times, but or the
Japanese army were quite getting pretty excited and and but apparently,

(54:25):
you know, he said, it was just they went off
in the wrong direction. Quite often they would force them
get uh, very hard work for quite a while, you know,
violently harassing people. And then they would realize that that
going in the wrong direction, sitting mountain and have to

(54:46):
you know, come back and pull stuff up again. You know,
it was just a yeah, but you know, I mean obviously,
uh if in the in the flight, the poor buggers
were But even then as an injury, he was sitting
back and thinking, you know, at least it wasn't they
had no, it didn't seem to have any real the purpose. Yeah,

(55:08):
but anyway, it seems that yeah, I mean a small
they lost a hell of a lot of them, but uh,
certain a number of them got home all right. But
so considering the guys, obviously the guys marched across Europe
from Poland. It was one type flight but I guess, yeah,
the Malaysian they calling it Siam in those days. A railway,

(55:35):
yeah it was. It was a one meter gauge apparently,
treacle bridges and that sort of stuff, And yeah, I mean,
he he, he had a lot of criticism of the
different types of treasure bridges they were using that he
could have approved that.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Well, we'll broaden our brief what we're talking about. Laurie's
so thanks for mentioning that too. I do appreciate that, Richard.
It's Marcus welcome, doing good. Thanks Richard, Yeah good.

Speaker 11 (56:02):
I just got past that pick and Slave and Glenfield there,
and yeah, the covert seems to be handing the water
pretty well. There's a little bit of water spitting across
the Parana Road and the police have blocked off the
entrance way to Peck and Save, but nothing like the
previous players a couple of years ago. And the rain's
pretty about stop now, so I think she's she's all

(56:22):
over over. But yeah, certainly a lot of the colt's
got a lot of water going through, but it's about
probably about just under a meter from below the spilling over.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
So it's.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Limits appreciate that, Richard. Thanks for the open. Let's put
on a rave and Linfield. That's where near the peck
and save where the flooding was last time. That's the
situation there. It's just we look at the Google maps.
Are I seeing it now? Okay? Thanks sir Richard. Keep
it going, guys, you want to talk fourteen past ten Marcus.
Wouldn't it be great to see in here has stuck

(56:56):
a dive bomb with it's so and on dive bomb
in the crowds and our e shows such as the
warnuka Ebood Show. But I don't think there's any operation
in the world now she is Charlie Well. I often
think about restoring military aircraft and it's an impossibly hard

(57:18):
task because where's your where's the cash? Model doesn't make
any financial sense at all. I mean it's different restoring
old railway locomotives because you can have enthusiast trip and
you can do trips and all sorts of stuff. But

(57:39):
military aircraft, I mean you need some. I guess it's
fortunate we've got people like Peter Jackson that have put
the money to put into those because you're not only
you've got to restore them, but then you've got to
actually have pilots that can still fly them, and you've
got to have them keep the air operational, which requires
a large number of hours in the sky. Be a

(57:59):
very very complicated thing to do. I think we're probably
lucky with the ones we've got. Actually, I'm not quite
sure what more I want to say about that, but
I just say, yes, well that's probably Yeah, it'd be
good to have some more, but yeah, it would just
be a incredibly expensive situation. I don't know. And I
know in the UK, with old buildings and stuff, they

(58:21):
have a lot of like Loto money goes towards den
I'm not quite sure if it goes to restoring their
air fleet. Maybe someone does know about that. Marcus. Speaking
of Trump, something that's been bugging me since Trump announced
he wanted Canada be the fifty fifth state. Doesn't USA
already have fifty two states, even though there's only fifty
stars on the flag. So if Hawaii is a fiftieth state,

(58:44):
where does Alaska come in? And if he did get
the Greenland too, where he's going to add three extra
stars on their flag and we'll stay at fifty two states.
Mac A lot to unpick there, Mac. There's fifty states
in the US, and they used to call them the
lower forty eight because that was before Hawaii became a state.

(59:05):
So now Alaska and Hawaii and the Lower fortyero that
makes fifty altogether, and there's just one state. That's just
one syllable main By the way, I was on the
plane today and there was a glitch in their news
in inquiz and one of the questions said, what has
four fingers and a thumb? But is not an animal? Well,

(59:27):
it's not alive, I can't wear And then the question
they went to was a question for another answer. So
I never found out what that answer was. What has
four fingers and a thumb? I'm not going to google it,
but I just threw it out there because I've been
wondering about that all day. Interesting. People don't know how
many states in America that would is a concern, But

(59:49):
there we go. Yes, the lower forty eight. Back catch
your people. You don't want to talk on any one
of his Marcus welcome, as I say, oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty in nineteen ninety two to text
if you want to come through. Apologize about sounding slightly croaky,
but as I say, it's much worse than it sounds.
So don't be too concerned about that nine two nine

(01:00:11):
two detect if you don't want to come through talking
about the marches president of war marches after the war,
from Poland and everywhere to West Germany. You know, on
no food, day after day after day after day. I
think that's about three thousand kilometers that the guy said

(01:00:31):
that earlier, written in his book about his father's experience.
So that's something you want to talk about. Ned to
be good to hear from your people, So hold your horses,
people with your now, so I get in touch. You
want to talk on it, as I say, oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to de text.
And also you might have information about the weather. It's

(01:00:53):
always good to hear that sort of stuff too, So
come through with that stuff too. Twenty two minutes past
ten o'clock here to on midnight tonight. People. Obviously, no
surprise is there. It's what I do. So get in touch.
You do want to talk as I say, oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two de text. Janet's Marcus, welcoming,
good evening. Hang on, jan Marcus, welcome good evening, are

(01:01:16):
you right, Yes, good.

Speaker 13 (01:01:17):
Jen, Oh good, yes. I was wanting to mention my
uncle Jim, who was a prisoner of war in Japan
during the war. And when they got rescued by the navy,
the ship brought them back to New Zealand, and then

(01:01:38):
they all had to jump off the ship into the
water and swim to shore. And unfortunately, as to go
through all that and getting rescued, when they got unloaded
on the beach or out in the sea, the tide
was going out and a lot of them drowned, and

(01:02:02):
my uncle was told, just treadwater, try and swim in
against the tide and wait for the tide to turn
and then we can swim in. But they lost a
lot from that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Why would they have done that, just not even could
the ship not be diparate?

Speaker 13 (01:02:22):
No, I don't know which beach, but they were desperate
to get home and.

Speaker 21 (01:02:30):
Get back to the land, and so they all started swimming.
Of course, they're rolls stoved.

Speaker 13 (01:02:37):
Didn't have the strength to swim in against the tide.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
And do you know where in New Zealand that was?

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
No, I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:02:45):
Anymore about it. That's all he'd say about it. But
he taught me and armed combat before I went over seas. Wow,
I appreciated and he told me that story.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
What was the what was the armed combat?

Speaker 13 (01:03:04):
Well? How to protect myself when I that? See to yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Is he like a death grip or something? In case
I come across you?

Speaker 10 (01:03:16):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:03:17):
How to drop them?

Speaker 13 (01:03:19):
You know, all different sorts of things.

Speaker 21 (01:03:21):
We're to hurt them, and we put your knee and
all those things.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Did it come in useful?

Speaker 21 (01:03:29):
Never had to use it? Yeah, until I return home.
I had to drop a man on the dance floor.
That's a small you know you could train it.

Speaker 19 (01:03:45):
Wow, that's the call karate?

Speaker 21 (01:03:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
What did he do? What did he do for to
deserve to be dropped?

Speaker 21 (01:03:55):
I was trying to get me into the side room
on my own, woll I wouldn't go, So I dropped them.

Speaker 11 (01:04:06):
Me yet.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
At what age?

Speaker 16 (01:04:11):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:04:12):
In my twenties?

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
No, it's brilliant.

Speaker 11 (01:04:15):
Yes, he stayed clear of you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
Does he stay clear of you after that?

Speaker 15 (01:04:19):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (01:04:20):
They altered, couldn't get invited to any more dances.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Jesus Christ.

Speaker 21 (01:04:28):
Worried about me.

Speaker 13 (01:04:30):
What am I to do to them? I didn't want
to go anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Good story, Jen, Thank you for that four fingers and
a thumb obviously a glove. I appreciate the people that
sent that through. I feel stupid I didn't get that myself.
Someone said, this is a good question, Marcus. What his
four fingers and a thumb? Could it be a Marina birth?

Speaker 5 (01:04:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Wow, good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:04:57):
J D.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:05:03):
I hope you're get better and you managed to finish
this evening. Marcus, you were mentioning the buses painted and
the police colors. I haven't seen them, but what I

(01:05:24):
have seen recently on new electric double decker buses. I
think Transurban is the company which operates them, and they
run on the north Western Motorway from the city Auckland

(01:05:46):
City to the Northwestern center on the northwestern fringes of
the city along the motorway. These are very new buses.
I think some are probably not more than a few
weeks old, and they are one hundred percent in electric.

(01:06:08):
I was amazed at how quickly they operate, I mean
how quickly they run along the motorway, and of course
they run with no vibration and of course no changing
of gears because they're electric, much quieter than or gus.

(01:06:29):
But I was very impressed with them. Oh, by the way,
they have two TV sets on the top deck and
one on the bottom deck, and the TV sets show
pastoral scenes of mountains and valleys and rivers, and the

(01:06:53):
ones upstairs on a little bit off set. So on
the one TV set you see a mountain and a river,
and a little bit later you'll see the same scene
moving scene on the screen to the right. Just an
interesting feature they do that.

Speaker 19 (01:07:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 22 (01:07:15):
I was supposed to keep people from.

Speaker 19 (01:07:19):
Just interested dispose.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
I guess. I guess if I'm just getting the technology
ready before they start showing commercials.

Speaker 22 (01:07:27):
Yes, probably you're right. They're no commercials, just the same scenes.
I mean, they're all set by ten or twenty seconds,
and clearly they must be a cycle that goes through
the cycle.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Can you see the battery?

Speaker 22 (01:07:46):
No, you know, on single deck buses, single deck electric buses,
the battery seem to be on the roofs. Yeah, they're
not on the roofs. If you towards the rear of
the bus, there are compartments which are marked battery one

(01:08:06):
or battery A and battery B, so you can just
see these compartments.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Uh, how cursed how much the how the battery bank
would be for double deger electric.

Speaker 22 (01:08:20):
Yes, they must be very big. I should imagine, as
I said Marcus Lake, these buses they really motor I
would say they do perhaps eighty or ninety kilometers an
hour along the motorway, so they must have a significant range.

(01:08:40):
You know that that the bus can can go as
far up. In fact, I saw one of them today
at the Albany Northern Bus through are station. But normally
they are not used by the richies who seem to

(01:09:00):
have the monopoly on the northern double decker diesel verses.
And it's Truant Urban the operators of these electric verses,
and I think that occasionally they do run one, but

(01:09:21):
it doesn't it doesn't go to Britain Market. It's its
origins are somewhere else in in the city.

Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Yeah, so you have it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
I appreciate I appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
Jo.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
You keep the conversation going there for a while. So
thank you so much for that evening. Stewart's Marcus welcome, Marc.

Speaker 19 (01:09:48):
Yeah, good good. Hey make a sad one, not a
one offer. It's probably a lot of it's got a
young girl with a trucking company and she's got into
a little bit of difficulty with rock you know your knowledge,
and she made an arrangement with VT and Z to

(01:10:11):
get it all sort. And she's been paying like a
thousand dollars a month for this amount of money. I
don't know how much it is she owes, but they
came and took her, told her she's she can't move,
can't move her trucks until she pays the full amount,
like I s, I don't know the full amount. But

(01:10:33):
I actually helped this girl into one of her trucks.
She's fifty five years, I've got four young kids, and
and they've pushed her right into a corner.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
I just I can't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
How long doesn't it?

Speaker 19 (01:10:47):
It's bloody wrong. It's just not right. Where does she
go to get help?

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
Is she still a contract for a business.

Speaker 19 (01:10:57):
She's got a very very good business. She takes staging
all over New Zealand, all the staging for the concerts.
This school can workmate. She's she's got a nice big
Argacy truck and trailer and so about three of them,
and a Kenworth and great little business. She's had a
bit of a cup with her partner who's got a

(01:11:19):
bit wayward with the drugs and he's out of it now,
but she's trying to repair the mess. And you know,
I look at all this, and you know, like I've
had farms and workers and stuff like that, and unfortunately
you can't get key. We used to work with this
school can bloody work. And I thought I'll get behind
her and help her, which I did, and now we
run into this problem, you know, And I just said, well, look,

(01:11:42):
I don't know where you go from here, but we
need to go to someone high up to find out
what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Did she break the terms of her agreement with.

Speaker 19 (01:11:54):
No, She's done everything exactly how it should be and
how it was meant to be. And they just came
along and basically sopped her in her tracks and said,
the trucks are sitting in the yard. I'm actually sitting
at the ferry terminal now and I'm taking down a
bit of gear for her now down to the South Island,
just to keep things going.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
What's the amount of money that's owed to do well?

Speaker 19 (01:12:20):
It might be it might be ten year or fifteen thousand,
but she's made an arrangement and they agreed on the
arrangement and then two ladies came out and saw her
from Tao Mudu and said, we're gonna we're stopping your trucks.
They're not going anywhere. And I think, you know, like
here we are, we're trying to get these kids to work.

(01:12:41):
I mean, I'm seventy mate, I've done my thing, but
I've got four boys there. They all you know, got
farms and working. But you know, at the end of
the day, we want to try and keep these people
in work. And she's say, she's got four young kids,
so baby, she's cart around that's probably done fifty thousand
kilometers and they've stopped her in the tracks.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
And it's not a misunderstanding from those two women that
came out there, is it.

Speaker 19 (01:13:11):
No, No, not at all, No, not at all.

Speaker 10 (01:13:14):
No.

Speaker 19 (01:13:14):
They brutally took it off. And one of the one
of the guys that she knows quite quite well, visy
inz he was he was disgusted as he walked away.
They sort of well murmured that maybe they've done the
wrong thing. Now, you know, I don't know who's given

(01:13:35):
them the power to do this, but I think someone
needs to look right over the top of it and
get the sort of out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Yeah, I don't know who you suggest those should be
sorting it out.

Speaker 19 (01:13:47):
I thought you might know you know a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Well people might know and see if we can find
out someone to help this do. So all I can
do is see if other people can come through on
that one. So I appreciate it. Thank you. Good evening, Jimmy.
It's Marcus welcome. You know here, Jimmy. Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:14:05):
Or the reports he's being windy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
And now raining and heavily. I would imagine no.

Speaker 19 (01:14:15):
One gusty reign at the moment, but the sort of
I don't know if this guy's going, but certainly not
say of moisture.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
You're even much about the thunder or the lightning.

Speaker 19 (01:14:29):
That has been of late, has been flickering, but it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Might still be coming your way that way.

Speaker 19 (01:14:35):
Yeah, oh bloody, still twenty degrees thirty on the side
of the coaster.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Woman, I thank you, Yes, Roger, that see, Jimmy, let's
take a break. Good evening, Jeff. It's Marcus welcome. Hi, Jeff.

Speaker 18 (01:15:00):
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
I can hear you radio, Jeff, I can't hear you.

Speaker 22 (01:15:08):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
Yes, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:15:11):
Yeah, hike, Jeff.

Speaker 20 (01:15:13):
I'm just saying let's kind of say that pepper Ma
and b plenty is just getting absolutely mad with rain
and lightning.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Is there any concerns for buildings or anything?

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
Was that?

Speaker 16 (01:15:27):
Sorry? The rains so heavy?

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Do you reckon there's going to be any flooding or damage?

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
I would say, so, there's a.

Speaker 20 (01:15:35):
Good chance that'll be flooding.

Speaker 16 (01:15:38):
At the element, I would.

Speaker 22 (01:15:41):
Say for me to get outside, I to put my
gum boots on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
I think pepper my way is quite good sort of
flood run off areas, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:51):
Yeah, well it would be nice of the rye lp
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Keep in touch anyway, Anthony, it's Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:15:59):
Welcome you know, marked you how you feeling were recovering?

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Mate?

Speaker 16 (01:16:04):
Yeah, don't place. But look I've I've just come out
of the Dave Dobbin concert it the town Hall tonight,
and seriously, mate, it was just unbelievable.

Speaker 15 (01:16:17):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:16:17):
I took a friend of mine and we were talking
to ourselves, thinking one off, Dave's still got that voice,
but seriously, he his his range was just incredible and
he never he never took a drink of water. It
was two hours of that set. The town hall was
packed and the sound was brilliant. The harmonies and boy,

(01:16:42):
it was just something else, you know, just so great.
I got to experience that tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
Did it with a seven piece band with a horn section.
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:16:51):
He had a saxophone and a trumpet player and you know,
the bassis and the bass and the support guitarist. The
harmonies with Dave was just Pitt's perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
And I heard him talking to dude, I don't know
what station boots on these days, but talking about the
and saying he's going to do some rarities and stuff
like that. What sort of stuff did he do?

Speaker 16 (01:17:16):
He kind of he started with Belltower and then he
went through a couple of sets with us with songs
that I look, to be honest, bugus, I wasn't too familiar,
but I could tell that he represented something pretty important
to him in terms of, you know, decades in his life.
And he did make mention to a period there where

(01:17:38):
he was, you know, finding his faith and what have you,
and that came through in the lyrics, but it kind
of found a little bit melancholic at one point. But then,
you know, towards the end, he started he started playing
some of his bangers, and my friend and I we
were just laughing to us. I was thinking, Wow, this
is just like you know, someone taking us at a

(01:17:58):
time warp.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:17:59):
He went back to nineteen eighty six and and you know,
just played the songs that eron all the words, and yeah,
I'm just so happy for Dave, which John towards the
end there he well, well, just before he did his Uncle,
he did Welcome Home, and he brought on a couple
of singers and wow, there wasn't a dry eye in

(01:18:21):
the house, you know, yeah, pretty amazing. Back to d
D Smash days and sorry, I'm just trying to the songs. Well,
he didn't do the pub song, but he did. He
did a couple of a couple of dude songs, not

(01:18:43):
that many, and d D smash songs definitely, and then
he did the oh the the soundtrack to foot Rock Flats.
When he did sure You Ought to Be in Love? What,
Oh my god, I said to him, mate, listen, I
should have been here to not my girlfriend. It was just,
you know, everyone had everyone you could just see was

(01:19:03):
just really touched, you know by the way Dave was
just really pouring his you know, his soul into the
way he was singing and it did feel like he was,
you know, just accepting the fact that, well, hey, let's
hope he plays for many more years to come.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Yeah, just because I missed Anthony. What was the backstory
to the tour? Is he is? It's not a retirement tour.

Speaker 16 (01:19:29):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:19:30):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:19:31):
No, sorry, I'm not saying that, but I did see
he did. There was a there was a short program
about a week or so ago I saw with I
think it was Jesse Mulligan. Is that the name girl
with the radio New Zealand, And he did a little thing.
But he made mention about, you know, just just being

(01:19:51):
on blessed by a time so to speak, because of
his you know, the ensuing Parkinson's. But boy, you know,
he didn't take one drop of water. He was sweating
quite a bit, just be obviously with the house lights
and that, and he had to read the lyrics and
he said he got a little bit foggy. But you know,
that day's been totally honest. And the way he had

(01:20:11):
the crowd just you know, working along with him and
just encouraging him. It really felt truly interactive.

Speaker 9 (01:20:19):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:20):
Yeah, did you say he had Parkinson's.

Speaker 16 (01:20:24):
Well that's my understanding and forgive.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
So, yeah, okay, that was that's interesting.

Speaker 23 (01:20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:20:32):
Yeah, look, he's well he's put he put it out
there public, and he's he's on a journey at the moment,
and you know, with them on the mental side, but
he and I know he's doing boxing training as part
of his rehab, which he says has worked a treat
for him.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
It's funny. It's funny that Welcome Home works so well
because it kind of came from nowhere. And yes, just
the way that first the first lines of it kick in,
it's kind of quite it's quite understated and simple.

Speaker 16 (01:21:05):
Yeah, yeah, heart of the look he you know, he
kept moving between acoustic guitar, played the piano, played, lead guitar,
went to electric guitar, and he didn't miss a beat,
like and his you know, his dexterity in that and
the way he played those instruments. You know, you just

(01:21:25):
had to just while I was standing just stand there
in awe, you know, and just listen to him play
like like there was nothing, you know, like he was
absolutely on a high, you know, and I was so
happy for is.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Is he doing a number of contents and all for Anthony?

Speaker 16 (01:21:43):
I don't know, but I was told that that's the
first time he's ever played at the town Hall, which
doesn't seem right. But you know, Marcus, the thing that
makes me laugh is nineteen one of the eighties, you remember,
had Queen Street Riots, you know, and I had I
had a laugh to myself during one of his songs, thinking,
oh my god, he played that song out tears Square
and that's when the night ball came to Custard, you know,

(01:22:05):
And here we are, and I know, I know this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
It was a very big deal for him to get
to get pardoned for that, because you know, for a
long time there was blame lumped on him, and you
know what sort of guy he is. He's a very sensitive,
sort of deep thinking person and that didn't go down
at all well with him. So it took him a
long time to clear his name from that.

Speaker 16 (01:22:29):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. But I guess I guess for Dave,
like like you know, many news though, they go through
different iterations of reinventing themselves, and he's certainly done that
because he's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Kept doing it and got better and better, and people
just quietly, you know, people just fell in love with him.
And I don't know if I loved I don't know
if I loved the stuff from foot Rock Flats, but
you know, welcome Home and some of those anthems, I
mean there.

Speaker 16 (01:22:55):
Are Yeah, I think you'd be surprise Marcus the next
time you well, hopefully you do get to hear him live,
you'll play some songs and it it does have just
unlocks memories of a season time in your own life,
you know, And that's what I've experienced to night my mates.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Well, i mean he's been when was when were the
dudes around late seventies? Oh yeah, yeah, it's been he's
almost been around sixty years. It's a long time to
be performing. Yeah, well.

Speaker 16 (01:23:28):
Yeah, yeah, I'll let you go. Makes but hey, if
you ever get the video of tonight, you'll you'll see
just youw on form. He absolutely was, And yeah, I
hope he carries on.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Thank you. If I've been fortunate enough to see Dave
Dodd perform a number of times, but probably he doesn't
come to U Vocago that off in these days, quite
often perform at functions. Also, he's done a lot of
it anyway twenty five past and never got those like
Coco Gofho's won. She's signing Giant tennis balls good we
had away from twelve. I haven't mentioned it all night.
Now may as well now I've got some spare time.

(01:24:01):
The Chase, the New Zealand version of the Chase, Well,
what are your reckon?

Speaker 9 (01:24:07):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
I mean it's a fairly rum kind of a deal.
They're doing four shows and they'refore New Zealanders that are
living in Australia, so it doesn't really feel much like
New Zealand Chase anyway. When it's filmed in Australia and
the contestants are living in Australia or have got their
own way there and it's only four shows, how could

(01:24:30):
you get excited about that? But I think what they
should have done they are going to be If there
is going to be a Chase, they just got Bradley
Welsh to do it. He's beloved in this country. He's
probably the greatest person that's eiver on a Quish show
ever because his manner and Pat twyres so effortless. I'm

(01:24:55):
sure that would have been the perfect thing, And I
don't know why they didn't do it. I don't know
who's hoping hosting the Aussie version, but that's what I
would have done. A vote with them anyway, twenty eight
away from twelve. You might want to comment about that.
My name is Marc good evening, oh wea eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus. I went to Dave
don tonight. He was excellent. The voice was exquisite and perfect,
brilliant gig lots of love for the Kiwi icon that Davis.

(01:25:17):
Thank you, Emma. The other good thing about Dave he
always says considered things. He's not unlikable. I can't help
but think these days we have in our midst a
lot of people who the easiest way to describe them
would be unlikable. Yeah, Marcus, the ship too. We have

(01:25:47):
a fond memory of wandering on to it one day
and missus Talton greeted us and made us coffee and
dessert the desert because of every beautiful thing, every sweet
thing you could lay your hands on, very generous. The
gems were beautiful, so sad they were stolen. Lately the
toy was looking very sad with lots of wooden wooden side,
rotten wood would side. But the fire was even more

(01:26:08):
sad considering it was getting restored. I think get better soon,
and thank you an. Yes, that's the ex Chelsea Sugar
work lighter. That the cat Well barge that became the
Tui which was a shipwreck museum in the Bad Iron
that burnt to an unsalgeable state overnight. I think is

(01:26:31):
the situation. Good evening, June. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:26:36):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:26:37):
How are you good?

Speaker 22 (01:26:38):
June?

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (01:26:40):
That's good. Listen. I'm a little bit behind the times,
but I saw on Facebook.

Speaker 7 (01:26:49):
You had.

Speaker 6 (01:26:53):
That's going up saying that you heard land hand for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
Yeah a mutton Ham.

Speaker 6 (01:27:00):
Yes, yeah, where did you get it?

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
I don't think we actually had one ourselves, but I
think you can widely get them. We're about to see you.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
I'm in lower hat you really, I haven't had len
hand for since said and with the boys, and I'd
rather have it than hand.

Speaker 9 (01:27:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Well, I will see if I can find out where
you can get it. I think we had quite a
few people in Wellington that had something.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Oh okay, well I really really would appreciate that, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
I'll see what I can do for you. Okay, So
you want to get hold of the mum, you want
to go mutt and Ham whatever, Yeah, okay, we'll see
what we can find out for you. You thank you
for that.

Speaker 16 (01:27:55):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Good evening, Helga. Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:28:00):
Oh hi MICUs, how are you good?

Speaker 5 (01:28:01):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Helga.

Speaker 23 (01:28:03):
Well, I went to the movies tonight. It's the Capitol
and Dominion Roads. And when we came out, we got
the bus to come back to our point chiev and
they said on the radio was flooded. It's intellias really
bad and a lot of rain on Dominion Road. So
pretty wet night up here, and they're expecting thunderstorm warning

(01:28:25):
too up here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
I wonder why they're telling you it was felling intot
Helly's when you were going the other way.

Speaker 23 (01:28:31):
No, it's on the radio, boss radio, Yeah, warning the
driver to take different ways around there. So it's going
to be a bit of a rough night movie.

Speaker 9 (01:28:43):
What was it?

Speaker 23 (01:28:44):
It was called the Stolen Paint Stolen Painting in the
French Film Festival.

Speaker 15 (01:28:50):
Any good, I'm a bit slow.

Speaker 23 (01:28:54):
A bit boring. Not that good. I saw about Marlon Williams.

Speaker 11 (01:28:58):
That was a better movie.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
If you know what a great talent he is, what
a fantastica.

Speaker 23 (01:29:04):
Great movie, real key.

Speaker 16 (01:29:05):
We have your know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
But what pipe is he's going? I can't wait to
see him perform.

Speaker 23 (01:29:10):
It'll be great. Is he coming to him the cargo?

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
He's going right, he's touring everywhere. I think he's doing
a fitty thorough tour.

Speaker 23 (01:29:17):
Yeah, let's grip anyway. You have a good night and
it's good to have you back.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Thanks Elga. Marcus. We are in Papakuda, down the end
of a no exit street. Our drain on the street
outside is blocked. Our driveway and carport has flooded about
to our knees. However, our house is quite high, so
a little way to go and stop rating her fingers crossed.
Very windy here, hopefully no more rain. The water is

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covering the top of my car ties at the stage,
but think that's the worst of it. My husband is
always clearing the drain on the street as we are
low down at our end. The council never clears it.
Thanks Sharon, lovely to hear from his Sharon, I hope
the flood waters don't come up any further.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
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