North Shore famous (17 February 2026)

Should we toll the Auckland Harbour Bridge to pay for a new Auckland Habour Bridge?

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be greetings, had welcome Marcus till midnight tonight. I
hope it's good we are. If it's not, I hope
it gets better in the next four hours. Anyway, how
are you. I hope you're not too wet, And if
you are wet, I hope well, I mean, I hope
you're not. But if you are wet, what can I say?
I hope things get better as the evening goes. Yeah,

(00:33):
I guess that's what I want to say. And we
will have team coverage of what's going on, so I
say tem coverage. But if you, if you, if you're
out and about and you've got breaking news, let's know
what that breaking newsers. It seems like the weather systems
moved down the country. Doesn't look good on Banks, Plincher Akaroa,

(00:55):
but it's certainly it's drizzly down the bottom of the country,
but it's not downpouring. It's a situation there. Cock. I
feel kind of cynical about cookie beer. I don't even
know why I mentioned it because it makes me cross,
but yeah, you know, I just think they're going for
virality to get people to try and keep stuff and
things like that. So yeah, I don't necessarily think that

(01:18):
that wasn't the plan all along. I don't know about that.
But the last few times I've had chocolate chip biscuits,
they have seen thin and palm kernely or palm corn oily,
and they haven't had a good mouth snap feel. They've
been neither crisp nor soft. They've been a weed in

(01:41):
between things. So yeah, I think it's done. Its dash,
the old cookie bear thing. Anyway, I was determined not
to mention it because even if I'm mentioning it, I'm
buying into the hype around that I don't know who
owns and be one of those giant companies that owns
every biscuit company. They won't really care about New Zealand.
They won't be aware of the tempest and the rain

(02:02):
that's going on. They'll just be in some big head
office somewhere. Anyway, that I hope you are good. The
more things change, the more things stay. The most exciting thing. Oh,
by the way, I keep your dead on the cricket.
We are playing the giant cricket nation of Canada. Don't
speak too soon. We might lose to them, but I'll

(02:23):
keep you updated on that. On this festival, the tournament
that goes forever, and we are just planning to get
in the top eight. Australia mightn't make it anyhow. The
more things change, the more things stay the same. As
excited to see the news today to see the thing
that they are talking about bringing back tolls on the

(02:44):
Harbor Bridge. Wow, we've done many nights on the Harbor
Bridge and tolls. In fact, there were some toll collectors
were so famous that they had their own name. I
think one guy was called Smiley. He was north Shore
famous for doing such a good job on the tolls.
Always happy, always had a smile. But what they are
saying now there will be a second half crossing because

(03:07):
both parties, both the major parties, are agreeing to it.
But what is even more exciting for us watered down
nostalgia hounds, is that when they build the new bridge,
and when they start building a new bridge, they will
probably put tolls on the old bridge. Otherwise everyone will
keep going on the old bridge because it's free, and
no one on the News Bridge on the new bridge.
So it's looking like tolls will be back on the

(03:30):
Harbor Bridge to the north Shore. I mean, jeepers, I
don't know how exciting. It won't be like the olden days.
There won't be booths, it'll be some electronic wizardry. But yeah,
if you are a north Shore person and I know
you're listening, how are you feeling about that? I just
love it because it seems something familiar and old. But
if you've got something to say about that, let me know.

(03:50):
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two
to text, love to hear from you? Good? Bad? Do
you have an opinion? Because I am certainly curious and
slightly excited. So yeah, tolls on the Harbor Bridge. I
imagine it'll be five dollars because I feel like twenty
cents feels like five dollars now. I feel the things

(04:11):
you could buy for twenty cents would cost five dollars.
That's how much it'll be. I would imagine probably cost
you ten dollars return. That's that it cost. If you're
living on the shoreminder you could get the bus with
the bus lane. But how are you feeling about that?
What are your reactions to that? The tolls back on
the Arbor bridge. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine two detext For those that don't

(04:32):
know the Harbor Bridge, it was four lanes in it
was six. They used to collect the toll one way. Sorry,
they used to colleck the toll both ways, but they
thought why not just collect it one way and charge
twice as much. It always amazed me they never thought
at that beginning makes such great sense. So if you've
got something to say about that the tolls, the people

(04:55):
of totong Are will be feeling good about that because
totong Are feels so overtold anyway. So, yeah, tolls on
the bridge, how would you feel about that, Aucklanders because
the only people's thrial to go to affect other north
shore riights because there would't be any p commuting from
Auckland to the shore. So yes, you'll comment on that
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two text tolls are coming back, And how do you

(05:18):
feel about that? When the logic makes perfect sense to me?
I mean the infrastructure we needed to be user pays
in some form so it can happen quicker. I think
it was actually infrastructure new Zealand suggestion, but the governments,
wanting advice, Infrastructure Commissioners suggested toll as high as nine dollars,

(05:39):
So nine dollars each way. It's ninety bucks a week,
so that's add an increase to live on the shore.
So new revenue would be used to fund the crossing
and they set a nine dollar toll on both you
and existing crossings could weighs between seven billion and nine billion,
depending on the tolling period. Yeah, so there you go.

(06:03):
Makes sense to me. Two shillings and sixpence went it
open in nineteen fifty nine, a figure the commission said
equaled about nine dollars and twenty twenty five. That's both ways.
Of course I think no, maybe it's one way. Doesn't
say this will be the biggest infrastructure program program using
has ever done the separate the second crossing, but we

(06:24):
got to do it. It is nine dollars per trip.
Act leader David Seymour and Auckland based MP said nine
dollars per trip added up to ninety dollars a week
for some people will already be trying to pay tough bills.
Got to pay for the bridge and tolls worked so
well last time. People were such a fond memory about that.
You want to text money what your calls about this?

(06:45):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. I don't know why
they're not just saying eighteen dollars one direction because that's
the way. Probably they will do it because I kind
of made you, Peter, go right right upper Harbor to
avoid the tolls. Text if you want to to nine
to nine two to text hit til midnight, so that
manamers Market's welcome. Someone says, tolls two fifty each way,

(07:07):
maximum cost per vehicle twenty bucks per week, all for it. Yes,
build roads, Yes, another harbor crossing, good topic, Lind. Their
infrastructure finding is a granity for New Zealand. Nine dollars
in and out of Bluff for upgrading is sensible. Well,
I hate to say it, but the road from Bluff
and the Cargo's built on a swamp. They repair it continually,

(07:27):
and it's continually smashed by heavy trucks back and forward,
back and forth to Southport. A lot of it should
be going on rail. The rail track is just there,
but tolls. That's the decision for tonight. New Zealand needs
one hundred and seventy four to win, they need eight
seventy per over. They're coming into bat now, So obviously
Canada got one seven to three crick info Dan, they're

(07:50):
telling us already, who's gonna what the chances are? Dan's
good on crick and foe. New Zealand sixty four percent
didn't get enough a Canada. Blame Canada. Marcus rough Day
and Mungalweka rising up about six and a half meters
usually one point five. Lots and lots of trees down
state Highay won open again at last. Power back on.

(08:11):
Thank goodness, thanks to all the workers who are cleaning
up the disasters. Yeah, I was surprised that I saw
a maide of mine who's living just out of Masterton,
and wow, yeah there were trees toppled right over like
we had down in South and South and those high
winds two or three months ago. So yeah, it must
have been. It's fairly few, you know. It's one of

(08:32):
those things that sometimes you don't see the images once
you see them. In jeep at creepers, there is some
damage there, some of says Marcus. Nine dollars might encourage
peeps to car pool or use public transport. I think
they'd be very much what they will do, and that
could be great as well too, because the real less
congestion is smoother ride. Seventeen past eight. If you want
to start the whole discussion tonight, would deadly welcome your calls. Oh,

(08:56):
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Also to Robert de
Val has died at a great age. He was ninety five.
Liked him like the way his headlocked, that kind of ageless,
kind of boulding pate. But yeah, you might want to
remember some of his great movies because it's always good

(09:17):
to reflect on someone's career. He was in plenty of them,
Western's and Vietnam films and all sorts of stuff. So yeah,
isn't gone in sixty seconds. Also, interestingly enough, eighteen past eight, Josh,

(09:38):
this is Marcus. Welcome and good.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Evening, Marcus. Yes, so what an announcement of a possible
fee for a new crossing. What are we getting in
as suggestions as the new crossing?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Look, so there's been so much noise about this. There's
been some discussions of another bridge, there's been some discussions
of a tunnel. Yeah, so I don't actually know. At
the stage I thought it was all going to be
a tunnel. And then Wayne Brown said he wanted another
bridge over Meola and he said it was almost down
already because you can just put the road down over

(10:15):
that lava flow.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Actually I looked at that. I even looked at the geology,
and I was trying to figure out where do you
come out on the north shore side? That that was
the mess I couldn't compute. But hey, I just want
to ask Marcus infrastructure bonds. We're not doing that anymore.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
I don't know, and we should think. I think we'll
try anything.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Because hey, look how many Kiwis would back because hey,
look we're going to have to pay something right to
cross the bridge eighteen bucks. If I had the choice
to take my Kewi saver and put it into infrastructure
bonds right now, I'll do that if I had that option.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, okay, do you know the last time we used
infrastructure bonds?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, you know what, I probably I probably wasn't accustomed
to that. I know we ended the banking bonds probably
fifteen years ago. I don't know if that was infrastructure bonds.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Just and I'm worry this is a topic pivot because
because I don't find bonds that interesting. I'm loving your
crickets in the background.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
What's happening there the well, Marcus. What I'm getting at
is we're talking about paying more charges.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes, I'm hearing you, and we've.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Got invested money sitting there, but it's not there for that,
if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
No, I tell you what the bit of information I
did want to impart to you, and I've checked on this.
It was information I knew Meola Reef. Right, if you
ever get a king low tide, you should walk out.
It's a fantastic thing to walk.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Right out, don't it.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Do you know where it came from?

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Reef?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, you mentioned lava flow?

Speaker 6 (12:03):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Do you know what the rich? Do you know what
volcanic cone came from?

Speaker 7 (12:09):
Ooh, you think one of the biggies you think would
be one of the biggies like Mount Albert or Mount
Eden or among a Kiki one tree Hill, wouldn't you?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
You'd think it was Mount Albert? Where where did it
come from?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Mount Saint John's.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Okay, I'd have to have a class.

Speaker 8 (12:25):
To look at that.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Come a long way and the other thing just where
I am me, ol Reef. I walked right to the
end of it right at a king Low tied just
by chance. And I looked down at it and there
were all these seen enemies and amazing stuff down between
the rocks that was like Fiji, the amount of coral there.
I went back about it. I went back about a
year later, after there'd been a big storm up the

(12:48):
harbor and all of it was silted, over all of
it had gone.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, I was going to ask you that because we
used to walk out from Points cher They We used
to walk around there and try and see how far
we could get before the tide started coming in. But
how long ago was your visit to me?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
It was probably ten years, ten to fifteen years ago,
I reckon, because ten years what feels like ten years
is always fifteen years, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I'm actually surprised that you still had it then, because
there hasn't been anything on the rocks at Point Shev
for probably twenty years.

Speaker 9 (13:23):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, we'll talk more, Josh, but thank you. Nice to
talk to you. Twenty two past eight. The tolls your
reaction to that back on the harbor bridge nine dollars
each way? Would it take the sheen off the shore?
My everyone works from home anyway these days, someone says
Marcus on the topic of space, what does your audience
think of Obama's comments about his thoughts that aliens exist?

(13:44):
Good snappers? Off Meola Reef. By the way, so good
snap is singular. I thought that it had then changed
his mind. But get in touch here till twelve, twenty
two past eight. What about the tolls? Are some good texts.
I'll get to those twenty five past eight. Hello, Kathy,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (14:02):
Yeah, Hi, I'm Marcus. I was curious about who would
be exempt from paying that nine dollar toll, because you'd have, say,
for instance, a tensi with the passenger pay or the company.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
I reckon that's a question that the audience could answer,
because I remember what it was like when we had
the tolls, and I think, I remember, do you remember,
because we had grandparents in tor Bay. We'd go off
and so we were going against the fly, but we'd
go that way and the old Pugio and yeah, and

(14:39):
oh of course we're working in the taxi.

Speaker 11 (14:41):
But nic.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
I remember when my mum and dad and my family
used to go and visit family members in Auckland many
many years ago. I can't remember the amount, But it
was coins that I wanted to ask you, like obviously
paramedics and police, et cetera. That'd be it, but you'd

(15:07):
have to have certain rules.

Speaker 5 (15:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Look, I would imagine if you're an emergency. Look, I
don't know how it would work. I don't know what
the exempt Well, someone will tell us. There'll be some
toll operators out there.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
Yeah, I'm just going to find out.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
To a point. Yeah, what were the I can I
wonder what they were, but yeah, Texis would have to pay,
but ye go straight on.

Speaker 10 (15:30):
Not the passenger. What would it be the passenger or
the taxi company?

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh, the company would pass the cost straight on. Yeah,
that'd be my understanding of that. But there might be
some There might be some old Keb's out there here,
remember it. I think we can probably find some toll exemptions. Yeah,
I don't know what they would have been. But if
anyone's got the information about that toll exemptions, I am

(15:57):
up for that discussion. Twenty seven past eight Z. It's
come after a good start in the cricket. We're twenty
five without loss of one point three overs. It's all
a hit and hope. Now it could someone who wants
to talk about Obama's comments too. I haven't really followed
those evening. Marcus lived up on the bar of Islands
for twelve years of the Youngster. Every time I went
to Auckland, it was a great joke. What we had

(16:20):
to pay to get into Auckland and leave. It's a
good thing and long overdue. Someone says, put tolls around schools.
I don't kind of get the logic there, but yeah,
get in touch. You want to talk about tolls. That's
a plan for tonight. On the Auckland harbor Bridge, Marcus
news talks. He'd be christ Church. The channel is crackling
and making noises. I listen on an online radio app,

(16:41):
do we That sounds like a guy that knows what
he's on about. Any else, anyone else having trouble with
their christ Church reception? That would senden me greatly if
the fine people of christ Church were struggling. If you
want to let me know, let me know. Oh eight
hundred and eighty eight, ten eighty and Robert Deval's movies
The Greats always good when someone dies. To reflect on

(17:01):
the films that I've actually disappointed, I didn't watch as
many as I thought I had Eager has landed, there'd
be one I saw at Film Club Apocalypse now did
about three movies every year. Days of Thunder, rambling rows
the paper just going through the list now actually always good.

(17:24):
But yeah, worked to a very late age. Also, wasn't
Jack Reacher in the beg breaking sports news too? The
Netball New Zealand Board has been fileted or gutted. Four
members are departing challenging period for the sport. The boss,

(17:45):
the chair winner, Ray is gone. Board members Peven Vs.
Stephen Kottrell and Alisha Staples all left Gomberger. So there
we go. That's a situation there. Twenty nine. Wonder if
the old watsonam will follow suit the Rugby Union twenty
nine to nine. Sandra, this is Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 12 (18:04):
Oh yes, good evening, Marcus. Yes, I'm just reporting in
because I heard because I'm I listened to z B
is my comfort, my therapy. Do you and everyone else?

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Can you just reach your radio and just turn that
right off?

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Well?

Speaker 12 (18:22):
No, the reason that I'm ringing is because there is
a noise. I just want you to hear it because
some lady said about beeping a clock, So just hang
on the reason that I'm ringing.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Hear a clock? There is a clique you hear, there's
certain clique?

Speaker 13 (18:49):
Can you hear that?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Soundra? You have been so helpful.

Speaker 12 (18:57):
Yeah, because some some darling lady spoke to you last
evening I think, and said that you got like it
was a clock chicking, and and I.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Said, and I said it was the death beetle or
electric fence, which was not helpful. And she pushed back
on that. But Soundra, where are you? I'm not coming around,
but where are you?

Speaker 12 (19:17):
Well, you can if you want, but it's a long
way from.

Speaker 8 (19:19):
Where you love exactly.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
I thought you were in christ Church.

Speaker 12 (19:24):
No, I'm definitely in Mungifi.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
It's the queerest click because it doesn't it sounds more
like someone. It sounds like someone hitting the fine china
with a teaspoon.

Speaker 12 (19:43):
Can you hear?

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Are you just doing it? Soundra to annoy me?

Speaker 12 (19:49):
Sounds before Oh, that's a good question. Okay, I'm on
a m.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
And and it's it.

Speaker 12 (20:06):
It just goes.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
When sorry, when did it start?

Speaker 12 (20:13):
Well, I'm only just sorry. I've been busy cleaning the
doing the dishes and stuff, and I've just put my
z B on and it's doing. It's doing that same noise.
It doesn't sound like that lady said. It sounds like
a clock, but it doesn't sound like it's just a

(20:34):
I can can you hear it?

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah, I can hear it really cleanly. But it's not
like it's not like it's not like any it's not
like an electronic thing.

Speaker 12 (20:42):
It's all like I can hear it.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
It's like someone's hitting someone's hitting a porcelain cup with
a chopstick.

Speaker 12 (20:55):
Oh, I don't know that a chopstick. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, it's not as it's not as it's not as
loud as a teaspoon. I'm thinking something slightly anyway.

Speaker 12 (21:04):
And it's and it's continuous.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
It's like it's in my men and it's regular, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (21:10):
It's it's it's it's not the first time.

Speaker 12 (21:13):
But I just I was only cossette lady.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
With what appliances. If you got on.

Speaker 12 (21:20):
A little bedside light, it's still it's still doing it.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Funny if it's stopped when you turn your bedside life off,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 15 (21:33):
Yeah, but that but that.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
I've never heard it. I've never heard and I've heard
some interference in my life, but never anything like that.
It soundra oh, it's kind of spooky. Yeah, you'll be
You'll be a Hall of Famer with that call, because
not often people can actually have the wherewithal to get
the phone call onto air. We might bring the heavy
hitters on that one. Yes, I'm listening on iHeart from

(21:57):
North Canterbury and the receptors of picking up very well tonight.
Even Nina is affected. I'm loving that. I'd be first
to go. Hopefully it might come as right, it might
be waterlight. What's the technical team said Dan, Yeah, so

(22:18):
z B. Yeah, and look, I'll tell you one thing
about this radio station. Right, oh god, this sounds boring.
It sounds like some sermon on the mount. But I've
worked a number of radio stations. But with this radio station,
they do take the quality of reception very very seriously,
and they will run logistics on that and probably what
one of the bosses will do is heal. Ever computer

(22:41):
could be a she, in this case, it's a he,
and they will be dialing and listening as you yourself
are hearing it, so they can dial and listen from
different places around the country. The other thought that was
remarkable too, so Yep, that's what's happening. Sorry, this is
an exciting thing. We will get a resolution for this
today and I imagine we will. They run logistics, but

(23:06):
they put it through chat GPT find something good on you.
We are talking about the tolls, and we are talking
about Robert Deval, but mainly the tolls and things that
affect radio reception. Anything else you want to talk about,
that's fine. I'm looking forward to what you want to
say tonight. And Obama and his comments on UFOs, well,

(23:29):
who doesn't love a discaschon on UFOs, He's seen the files,
He's clarified his view. Obama has clarified that the chances
Earth has been visited by aliens as low after comments
he made about extraterrestrial species caught attention online. They're real,

(23:49):
but I haven't seen them, he said during an interview
published on Saturday. They're not being kept in area fifty one.
There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy, and
they had it for the President of the United States.
He said. The comments were made in line with of
the speed round of questions. They were made during a

(24:11):
quick fire lightning round of questions, so it sounds like
Obama got too comfortable with the format and kind of
said something. Probably that was ill advised. I don't necessarily
think that there are aliens. There was a lovely shot
on the NBA. I don't know what it matched, the
Superstar the All Stars matched the other cut last couple
of days where the ball went out of court and

(24:34):
Obama off the courtner barber caught it. He was sidelined
with Michelle, and of course the Playgue goes to get
the ball and then sees it's a barber and does
the shaking howdies, and it was quite a nice moment. Anyway, Marcus,
I thought I heard a clock ticking this morning when
the woman was reading the news. It's a barber's aliens.

(24:54):
We have contact studio. Robert Deval's best performance wasn't Stalin
made a ninety two very good. She had a radio on,
which maybe doesn't help Lowell. We should have gone out
of delay for that act. Actually, probably damn we could
have done that. No, I just thought of that, Marcus story.
Blind musician Claude Papish insisted on driving himself over the bridge,
so I let him in the driver's seat. I was

(25:17):
steering from the passenger's seat, got to the toll booth,
clawed through coins towards the bucket, missed it. Operator could
only laugh cheers Frank. Yes, it's famous blind people going
across the Harbor bridge, but anyway lines they're free twenty
one away from nine o'clock Marcus till midnight, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty tolls on the bridge and the
second Harbor crossing I've got lost track of. I think

(25:38):
it's a tunnel, but then it's going to be a bridge.
Kricken Foe has the chance of New Zealand winning now
down to fifty six percent because both the openers have gone.
They went out and had a bit of a massive
slog and yeah they've gone cheaply. I think thirty nine

(25:58):
for two. Tim Seifert was lost for six and Finellen
love that name finale he sounds like, okay, Finellan a
few balls later for twenty one, Fanellen. It sounds like
a management consultancy firm. Don't they remember there was always
that one Booze Allen that was always Remember when Booze

(26:19):
Allen was always in the news. Do you remember that
management consultant company was always about Booze Allen. I think
that I even might have been in Muldoon's time, Old
dull Moon forty one foot two at the stage. Get
in touch if you want to talk. Lines are free.
There might be some other topic you want to entertain
us with tonight. I'm pretty happy to be talking about
the tolls and exemptions. What were the exemptions? I presume
that eminences and the emergency services didn't pay, But I've

(26:42):
got no idea how that worked, because yeah, I'm sure
there'd be all sorts of people. They wouldn't be sure
whether to put exempt I don't Haveugh Counselor's got exemptions.
I don't have the meer got exemption. Don't know how
it worked, but it's interesting that that it was nine
dollars each way. That seems quite a lot these days,
doesn't it? Because people already saying we'd go round. But
I suppose once upon a time could you go around.
I don't know when the Green Heights Bridge opened. I

(27:04):
suspect probably you could. I guess. Not hearing the click
ten eighty am in my car in Auckland, get your
boss to sort out why he reception? Oh, I see
tolls around schools a brilliant idea, school drop offs and
pick ups jams the street. I see what you're thinking.
It's a great idea. It's a great idea. It holds

(27:26):
around schools, Marcus. The only reason other species will visit
us for food to eat our animals and us Happy
New Year. Yeah, I'm of the firm belief. I was
doing the show a number of years ago and summer.
I think it was an ex politician that called it.
Might have been Wayne Mapp, but someone I remember for
that reason called I think it was him, and said,

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why would aliens come to Earth? Because they can get
all the information they know or want just from all
the information that's out there on the Internet or whatever.
They could just tap it and get the lot. They
wouldn't actually have to come here. The scenario was pretty
much the aliens, if you want the analogy these days,
probably are working from home. You don't need to go

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to another planet unless you're trying to mind that. But
why would you come to Earth and mind stuff when
all the other planets have got so much more stuff? So, yeah,
why would you buy the coming here? They're clearly more
advanced if they can come here, so why would they
that's where I am on the aliens, and I'm quite
happy with that. Why would they come here? What's what's
the gain? Probably nothing, because they can get all the information,

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just get a feed, work from home. There might be
a time delay. That's the way it's probably going to work.
Fifteen to nine, Marcus till twelve. There's something else you
want to talk about. Please get in touch. Remember the
Facebook Marcus slash night. You can continue the roundabout arguments there.
That's still going well, much discussion, Craig, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
How's it going good?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Thank you Craig. You are you working telecommunications?

Speaker 16 (29:01):
Do you?

Speaker 17 (29:03):
I work with telecom on you work for different other
places between repeaters and a whole lot of crossband top
things and all that of the year. So yeah, I'm
not just seeing what's with the Amre's that a lot
of things would be wrong with it. But we did
have a funny three years ago. We were sitting up
a FM radio station down Topo way and we had
a sort of lit funny clicking see only restofting going
across the radio and we pulled everything part couldn't figure

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what it was and what it was at the end
of the day was the reception is the boarder stuff
in your laptop and it was the plugged the switch
made past on laptop was in the office right above
the transmitters as causing the ticking sound. Wow, which is
like after spending hours trying to find anything replacing transmitters
and are amplifiers and everything and checking there, it's like, oh,
we finally checked it down to the laptop the only

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way we figured outs, which we went home for the
day clicking stopped.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Did you hear that that click didn't sound like an
electronic click? It sounded like something different. Did you hear
who click?

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (29:52):
It sounded like I mean, yeah, it's like normally it's
either electric fences or someone's got like a motor's flicking
on off, like electric motor. But it didn't really sound that.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
Like.

Speaker 17 (30:03):
The timing seemed to be a little bit not all time,
seemed to be a little bit of erratic.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
So that's right. Yeah, well you're the you're the expert,
because you would have had the ear that you were
hanging on that sounding a bit erratic, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:14):
And it was sort of a high pitch bit of
a tick. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (30:16):
Yeah, And normally if it's like indusperience, it's constant, constant time,
constant pitch and all that sort of stuff. But it
seemed to be a little bit up and down over
the place. I was like, I'm sort of leaning to
the fact that maybe it could be aliens.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Brilliant that's what we want to hear, Craig, I think
that was not positive. But thank you. Thirteen to nine Campbell,
This is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 17 (30:35):
You're just blowing my mind.

Speaker 15 (30:37):
Marcus, you're a genius.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Oh thanks about aliens.

Speaker 15 (30:42):
Yeah, I'm pretty open minded about stuff nowadays, and and
you know, look into all the Egyptian staff and who
built the Pyramids and all that sort of stuff, and yes,
just giving me an opacity, Like often when we speak
about aliens, we kind of assume that there's just one
other society, if you know what I mean, Like, well

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maybe I have. I've just always sort of thought, okay,
that's these other aliens. Then yeah, they're on a planet
somewhere and they're much more advanced than us. But when
you said why.

Speaker 18 (31:14):
Would they bother to visit us?

Speaker 15 (31:16):
I just all of a sudden went yeah, because wait,
if the universe is so massive as we know, there
could be so many aliens in societies out there. The
earth is just like a little rock in the middle
of the Pacific with one seagull on it. Why would
you want to visit?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
It's kind of get the self cended to think they
are visiting us. I've always thought.

Speaker 15 (31:42):
Your bloody Jenius market. I've really appreciated that. That's I've
added that to my filing cabinet.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Brilliant Campbell Clifford's Marcus good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 19 (31:54):
Yeah, just I'm sort of watching the cricket. But I've
just come back. I was listening to you in the
car talk about Robert Duval. Now I would put them
up there some of the finest. That guy has had
a great career, you know, like he got ended up
in the Korean War. He was a private in the

(32:15):
Korean War and then got into acting. He went to
acting school with a couple of big timers in Gene
Hackman and what was who was the other guy?

Speaker 11 (32:29):
I just what's his name?

Speaker 18 (32:32):
Yeah, well there was.

Speaker 19 (32:33):
Another guy there with him, James Kahan.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Oh, yep.

Speaker 5 (32:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (32:38):
And look he made some amazing movies. One of the
first movies I remember seeing him, he was in True
Grip with John Wayne Lucky ned Pepper, and he was
a class act in it. He was a bit funny,
even though it wasn't a funny movie, but he played
some great roles. He was in mash As the Mash Movie,

(33:00):
and he made movies right through his career, right from
the early sixties. Think he was with Gregory Pecket to
Kill a mocking Bird. He played a bit of it.
The town goober I called them, you call them, but yeah, Look,
he was a real top bill and he was right
right until a year or two ago he made this

(33:22):
last movie in his early nineties. He's up there with
with the Clint Eastwoods and the Gene Hackmans, who he
was a good mate of, Dustin Hoffman.

Speaker 14 (33:31):
They certainly they.

Speaker 19 (33:32):
Rolled out some great actors who were born in the
early thirties, guys like Paul Newman and read said, we've
lost a lot of class actors in the last few years.
The people that I, you know, at my age, I'm
in the sixties and who I watched these movies through
the sixties seventies. They were just they were just quality actors.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Leevedvid thanks so much to I agree and Tyley. Seven
Away from nine I'll tell you what. Every time someone
mentions Gregory pick it takes me all my energy not
to correct them and say, Gregory Pickery must be some
don't know where I've got that from, because of Pickery
is a type of pig. Graham, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (34:13):
Yeah, highly a Marcus. Love your show, just a quick one.
I grew up in Takapoona and I thought you, being
the historian that you are, I thought you'd like to
know that the man who was so animated collecting tolls
was mister Thomas, and there used to be a number

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of lanes open toll booths. He almost came out of us.
He was so animated, he almost sort of fell out
of his booth, you know. And I think when we
were I was I was only I was just a
baby when I was you know, taking over the bridge
when it first opened. But yeah, he was an amazing

(34:54):
guy and everybody loved him. I used to encourage my
dad to change lanes so we could get in to
see him in his booth.

Speaker 14 (35:00):
I thought you'd like to know that.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
And it was called Smiley was at his nickname or
mister Smiley.

Speaker 11 (35:05):
I don't remember the next but I just remember they
used to wear the badgers. So yes, it was mister Thomas.

Speaker 14 (35:11):
For sure.

Speaker 11 (35:11):
He was a fantastic guy.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yeah and yeah, and tough conditions in those days, with
lead fuel and all. It wouldn't be the world's healthiest
job sitting there day and night.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
But no, not the best.

Speaker 11 (35:23):
I think the toll started off at about five cents,
and then eventually, of course, it reached about twenty. That
was its maximum twenty cents, and I think that was Yeah,
it was just coming one way eventually, but kind of
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
You wonder why they never bothered during one way for them.
I'm always staggered by that that they bothered doing it
each way, because I mean, you're half your staff. I mean,
why wouldn't wouldn't someone not think of that?

Speaker 13 (35:47):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 11 (35:49):
I have a great night you two time, Graham.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
That's tremendous.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
I think Dan, you knew him. He was in your
childhood folklore, wasn't he was he called Smiley? Mister what's
called mister Smiley? People? Yes, mister Smiley. Oh what a shame.
It's all gone now. It's just a machine, isn't it.
Taking the tolls? Never quite the same.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Oh well, I don't know if that's a job that
people wanted, but mister Smiley certainly wanted six there and
the cricket. Looking at the board, New Zealand eighty for
two we did eighty eight ninety four runs off sevice
ups gone. It's just ninety four from seventy five crick
and faux chance to win eighty four percent, So we're
doing great guns. Come on the black Caps or the

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white Caps or whatever they call these days, ain't they're
the white Caps. Wait, my name is Marcus. Welcome. You
said in one o six from two for two. There's
a boundary there, so make that one twelve sixty two
for eighty nine. John, this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 20 (36:43):
But evening llo Marcus, Marcus. You were talking about tolls
on the Auckland Harbor Bridge earlier on am I correct.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Yes, yes, you were very much right on topic there.
That's the wheelhouse, yes, the car, the car string or stanner.

Speaker 20 (37:01):
I can remember when there was a toll on the
little t Road Tunnel. I remember it well because at
the time I had just purchased a farm from the
president of President the chairman of the Littleton Road Tunnel

(37:22):
authority who engineered the build it, and his name was
Ray Witzbrock, and I was boarding with him after I
purchased the farm from him for about six months and
every night the road tunnel people would ring in and

(37:46):
tell him how many cars had been through the tunnel
that day. It was quite a thing. He received this
phone call every evening and he would jot down. Knowing Ray,
he would probably jot it down on the back of
his tobacco packet as to how many cars had come

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through the tunnel that day.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
What a fascinating insight to think. Everything now these days
would be an email, but you'd ring up and say it,
he'd write it down four hundred and three.

Speaker 20 (38:15):
Yeah, it's amazing, Yes, yes, but those were my early
memories of people being charged for traveling on a on
a roadway in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, nineteen sixty two to nineteen seventy nine. Beautiful looking
tunnel designed by Peter Bevan. Tiles made by the Timid Pottery,
the same people that made the railway cups.

Speaker 20 (38:41):
And Peter Bevan's brother was farming next door to me.
And not that that's got anything to do with.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
It, but you're pretty much two degrees of separation your mother.

Speaker 20 (38:53):
Yeah, my mother and father were invited to the opening
of the Littleton Rail Tunnel road tunnel, mainly because we
were all farming extorter oal Ray and it was the Queen.
Mother was supposed to open it, but I think she

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was unwell and so I had to make do with
the Governor General.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
But did you go both ways, John, through the tunnel
and the openings? You walked through it and then walk
back or did they bring it back in a bus?

Speaker 9 (39:29):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (39:29):
God knows. I was only about eighteen. I can't remember
much about the actual mechanics of the thing, but.

Speaker 21 (39:39):
No, it was.

Speaker 20 (39:41):
Oh, it had probably been being used for a few days,
if not weeks before the official opening, with.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
The individual booths like on the Oakland Harbor Bridge.

Speaker 20 (39:54):
I think there was only the one booth because it
was from memory. I think it was just a one
road entering the tunnel, and it was certainly only one
way each way.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
The bloods it's a great tunnel. I think this might
might have been two booths each way.

Speaker 20 (40:13):
Well, you google it. I'm too old to google.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Never too never, too old to google. I wonder do
you remember any of the figures? He said, how many trains,
how many vehicles came through?

Speaker 20 (40:28):
Yeah, I think he used to get a breakdown. And
there were so many cars, and there's so many trucks,
and there were you know, half a dozen motor bikes
or something.

Speaker 9 (40:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (40:40):
I have no great recollection of numbers, but the stot the.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Tolls and seventy nine. I went from sixty two to
seventy nine the tolls, was it?

Speaker 20 (40:51):
Yeah? I also went Auckland harbor Bridge when I was
about nineteen with a couple of lads doing doing our
North Island trip.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (41:02):
We drank flag and sherry all the way.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
What sort of vehicle?

Speaker 20 (41:07):
It was a nineteen fifty two Vauxel smelt of leather
and was there.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
A mission to your trip or we're just going? Where
the car?

Speaker 3 (41:17):
We were?

Speaker 20 (41:19):
Well, there two lads we decided we would do a
tour of the North Island and then one of one
of the two said I've got a mate that's got
a car. So instead of doing it by trains and buses,
we hooked in the mate, Colin Johnson by name c J.

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Had yep, he had the car and we toured the
North Island for three weeks, all on one hundred pounds.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
What was the highlight, John?

Speaker 20 (41:54):
The most amusing part was as we were waiting for
our car to be loaded onto the ferry, as it
used to be loaded on with ropes and pulleys and
god knows what stays. We went to a chemist shop
in Littleton to buy the accouterments and instead of coming

(42:16):
out with the necessary I came out with a bottle
of bondy AND's Irish mosquers. I got cold feet.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Brilliant.

Speaker 20 (42:28):
Those were the days, Rucus.

Speaker 9 (42:30):
Those were the day.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Year we talking to the sixties.

Speaker 20 (42:34):
Earliesties I left scored fifty nine. We would be talking
sixty two, sixty three at the latest.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
What was the vessel.

Speaker 20 (42:51):
Now, that's a good question. It wouldn't be the Wogan
Wogan now that went to Australia, didn't No, No, it
might have been the Maworia.

Speaker 21 (43:03):
You might be right.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I'm going to run John, thank you. Fourteen past nine.
Why are we still paying the toll? We're going to
start paying the toll to pay for the new bridge.
But it's got to be on both bridges otherwise people
just use the old bridge. So that's interesting. Thanks John,
fifteen past nine. So this is Marcus good evening our
home Marcus.

Speaker 16 (43:24):
A very interesting topic, but I wanted to talk about
the Harbor Bridge. Prior to it being built, people had
to actually drive I think it was all around Westalk
and it was a very long route to get over there,
Talkland or else. They had to get the vehicular ferry

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across from Devonport. And in nineteen fifty nine I was
one who walked over it and then they had toll
booths this one and it was two shillings to cross
over each way. So yeah, that was how it was

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their name.

Speaker 9 (44:08):
But it was.

Speaker 16 (44:10):
Like there wouldn't have been anywhere near the traffic that
is now back in those days.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
How old were you when you walked across.

Speaker 9 (44:20):
I was a curd.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Do you remember it?

Speaker 16 (44:23):
Yeah, yeah, I do it.

Speaker 20 (44:24):
Actually it.

Speaker 16 (44:28):
Was scary, but you know the.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
Bridge was narrower then too, so it it almost feels
like it would feel more precarious.

Speaker 16 (44:36):
Yeah, fought it had four lanes, so put the the
outside once on later. I don't know why they didn't
do it at the time.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
But well I guess they couldn't. I guess they couldn't.

Speaker 8 (44:50):
They couldn't.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
How incredibly successful it was because it opened up all
that land that was quite quickly developed. So I guess
the yeah North Shore grew like topsy.

Speaker 16 (44:59):
Oh yeah, it's huge now, but I mean it's like
the East, the East co I suppose they didn't even
have sewds. They used to have the trap going around
with the kids. You know, all the kids would hold
the loos and run right hill pasta.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Wow, are you in your eighties seventies?

Speaker 16 (45:22):
No, I'm not far off.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Oh sounding good. Nice to hear from you, so thank you.
Seventeen past nine. It's tolls. It's all about tolls because
they're going to retoll the Auckland Harbor Bridge. I really
can make seven to nine billion dollars. I don't know
how much that would be a day. I'll find out
how many cars use the Orkland Harborridge every day, stand

(45:45):
by caller, because what a great amount of it was.
Basically the sure people out of it so much they'll
be happy to pay the nine dollars one hundred and
sixty thousand, that's nine that's one point three million dollars
every day. Oh that might be there and back carries.
More people use the Aukland Harbor Bridge. In the Sydney

(46:07):
Harbor Bridge, mind you there's tunnels there one hundred and
seventy two thousand every day. So yeah, like half a
billion a year twenty years is your ten billion boom.
It's built, user pays the way we should be doing it.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nineteen nine text twenty

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past nine, breaking news when that happens, Rosemary, this is Marcus. Welcome,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 16 (46:33):
Look, I just wanted to say I lived in Australia
for twenty seven years, and you know, we've got the
tunnel built under the harbor bridge. Whatever, why ever take
the toll off from our harbor bridge. We could have
had something something happened by now right.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
It's a really good point. I've got no idea why
they would have done. It shows a complete failure of
imagination and forward planning.

Speaker 16 (47:02):
Well, obviously we don't have much board planning here with
every council and everything that wants to put shoe boxes
up here, there and everywhere. But I just thought, in
my lifetime I'll never see another harbour crossing, and it's
it is quite sad, but we should have just kept

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that harbour crossing with a toll so that we could
have you know, Okay, Sam Sydney put up the you
know your things that you go when you get your
car registered and you go through and you pay your tolls.
We should have kept it going and we would have

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been in.

Speaker 20 (47:45):
A better place.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
It's staggering that they did stop. I wonder if it
was a political thing to win an election.

Speaker 16 (47:52):
Well do you know who took who? Was it Labor
or was it National that did it?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
I think it was nineteen eighty four, Okay, so do
that's Long East government unless it was the government before then,
which would have been Muldoon's government to win the election,
I don't know. The ANSWER's a really interesting political question
because it's had real Muldoon did it, and of course

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everything terrible, he's done.

Speaker 16 (48:29):
Well as it was. And I just remember sometimes and
this is a bit of fun when I go through
sometimes in the little slot to know, yeah, they had
things that you had to put your money in if

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you're not, I'm saying. And sometimes I'd go past and
the man would say, oh, that lovely man behind you,
he paid for you, so he might have put crazy
thing that happened. But if we'd kept the toll going

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like we had been Sydney and kept building it up
and building it up, and if we had these vision
cameras that sort of saw your camera and you can
go through like if you're going up north sometimes you
know you've got It's just been an absolute disaster.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
And it says from an article Rosary from two thousand
and nine, it says the Muldoon administration abolished the toll
in nineteen eighty four, arguably to help its general election chances.
So that's crazy, that's so shortsighted.

Speaker 16 (49:49):
Well exactly, thank you so much. And normally I don't
bother to pick up the phone and ring, but.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
I thought, oh, it's a really sallient point because of
all that money. I mean, with all that money, it
would have been you know, and then probably also the
road would have been congested because the Harbor Bridge would
probably functioned better because people probably would have carpled or
took public transport because I wouldn't. It would have been
a cache disincentive from riding the bridge exactly.

Speaker 16 (50:17):
And I know where you're coming from. And it's just
just to touch on another point which is quite different.
But I learned Takapuna but Lake Road to Devonport, forget it.

Speaker 13 (50:31):
What a disaster that is it's never going to be fixed.

Speaker 9 (50:36):
Never.

Speaker 16 (50:37):
They can't. There's so many schools, there's so many things.
I mean, I'm very lucky you we're I lived just
on the beach. But it's just a disaster and it
seems to be disaster after disaster, all these poor people
down south with all the floods and God helpers. I'm sorry.

(50:59):
I don't understand climate change. But anyway, I don't ring
very often, but I just yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
When you do, You've got a lot of good things
to say, Rosemary.

Speaker 16 (51:11):
Well, I do have a brid of I do have
a bit of a brain, darling. So thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I think that's a parent Rosebary, thank you. You've made
all our lives richer muldown eh, short term gains. That's
probably the metaphor for this country, get rid of the tolls.
Of course it didn't work. There's gon Burger twenty five
past nine. Hello Thomas Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (51:39):
Hi.

Speaker 14 (51:39):
Is that that means?

Speaker 8 (51:40):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Tom, how's a go? Thanks?

Speaker 5 (51:43):
Tom?

Speaker 22 (51:44):
Just just bringing up about the tolls, yep, wondering more
what it means for the little guy. Obviously, I'm no Rosemary,
and I'm not going to get any tolls paid for me.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
But where are you, Tom? Which which which city are
you in?

Speaker 22 (52:00):
Paca roller that my sister in law lives in takapoona wow.
And so we go up there and stay God every
other weekend and my wife and I like to go
on cycling trips around Mount Eden. One room was to
toll if I'm on a tandem bike, do I get
charged twice?

Speaker 2 (52:19):
You wouldn't be biking across the harbor bridge.

Speaker 14 (52:21):
Tom, Why not?

Speaker 22 (52:23):
I've done it before.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
You've done what before?

Speaker 22 (52:26):
I've been across the harbor Bridge in my tandem bike
before on.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Your ted, not in your bike. Yeah, idiot, Thanks Tom.
Marcus just went out to the car. Notice that there
are no lights on the wye door. Your master held
sip and the roads closed. What are you saying about that?
What's happening there? Marcus? The first road Tolling is in.
It was through a private farm from the top of
the Floris to Nelson down the ma Thai Valley. Visited
at eighty fifty eight years ago. The pillbox was still there.

(52:52):
I didn't know that. And funny enough, I was sharing
with the kids the other day when we're up there
that we walked as a young child. We did walk
from the Ploris to the Nelson via that road. It's
a very long long way for a twelve year old.
I was surprised. I didn't know it was a toll road.
So that's interesting. I'm going to fact check that because

(53:13):
I believe you're right, but didn't Maybe I didn't. Maybe
I wasn't as rigid, maybe I wasn't as interested in that.
But yeah, I didn't know that that was a situation
up the my tie. But I'll get confirmation of that.
I can't say anything about that yet, but we will
get more information. Now, keep those texts coming. Yeah, I'm thinking,

(53:34):
you build a bridge and people are paying to use it,
you may as well just keep them paying, wouldn't you,
Because I would imagine, I imagine really on there would
have started talking about a new harbour crossing. I think
probably that's been going as long as the heart since
the Harbor Bridge was capacity with its clipons. Although I
noticed that people don't call them the clipons anymore. I
don't know if that was an offensive term or not,

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but very successful bit of engineering up till now. Be
in touch if you want to be a part of
the show. Eight hundred and eighty ten, eighty and nine
to nine to text. I don't know when you zeal
whose toe world was toll road or toll booth? But oh,
by the way, cracket, I've forgotten about that one six

(54:16):
nine for two fourteen point five overs. They need five
of thirty bulls. Cracking thought it was on ninety nine percent,
would they not ninety nine point ninety four, So we
got this ninety nine point ninety four percent chance that
we will win it. Yep, lively crowd too. You don't

(54:37):
know how many there are. They seem to be enjoying it.
It's always a bonus, Marcus. The tolls were introduced specifically
to pay back the loans for its construction, with the
expectation the tolls would be removed once it was paid
for by nineteen eighty four. The cost of maintaining the
toll booths and the staff to ol way the revenue collected.
I don't believe that, because you make a fortune. But

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there we go. Removal seen as a Chutcault moved by
ro Of doing his election bride, addressing the increasing public
frustration with the cost of daily commuting. Well, I guess
he probably was worried the north Shore seats would go
to social credit. But that's when Gary Nappis was at
his prime. Was it of the Napster? But lock Lion's faith.
You want to talk on air O eight ten eighty

(55:25):
we are talking tolls. Agree with that woman can't understand
why the bridge toll was removed. Apparently is because it
was paid off. A bridge that goes through so many
maintenance is never paid off. Crazy. Get China in here.
They will build a new bridge in a week. I
think they'd be pressing it. Marcus. Can you recommend the

(55:46):
Taili Gorge train journey trip keen to do with the granddaughters?
Not only can I recommend it, I think probably the
greatest train trip in this country is the Taidi Gorge
to run by the Need and councilor that's had an
interrupt but that train trip, sorry, that train line from
Dunedin that they built to where did it go to? Gosh,

(56:08):
it went to Cromwell. That's got to be one of
the New Zealand's great engineering feats. And the change in
scenery from through that kind of desert landscape of central Otago,
it's fantastic. I mean, my wish and it's a it's
probably a lone wish would be that they would reput

(56:29):
the train lines down and go all the way back
to Clyde. Again, they can't go all the way because
of the lake that's there now because of the dam.
But yeah, I think it'd be a great thing to do.
But oh well, I think it's probably likely to happen.
But love that train trip. It's probably a longish day,
but not as long as getting the coastal Pacific back
and forward. And I think the prices are quite reasonable.

(56:51):
I mean, it's very much for locals, it's not some
sort of thing for overseas tourists. But there we go
twenty five to ten. We are talking about tolls, and
while they took the tolls off and funding roads, of course,
before long we're going to get which is the toll
road from the fung A Para Peninsula which is taken forever.

(57:13):
It seems to build and I don't know the fact
that it's called PenLink because it doesn't I've never really
quite sure what it doesn't sound like what it is,
so it's The Infrastructure Commission have recommended holding the existing
bridge as well as the new bridge or tunnel because
a toll on both could raise seven billion dollars, which
is no chump change. So that's we're thinking about a

(57:38):
lot of big infrastructure questions to think of twenty five
to ten. Also talk about UFOs and Barack Obama's comment
on those, and Robert de val and anything else that
takes your fancy tonight. It'd be nice to hear from
you if you've got breaking news, if you want to
talk about the weather. It's hard to know with so
much where the coverage how bad the storm has been.

(57:58):
I haven't heard, Well, you know, that's probably a weird
thing to say, but certainly Akaroa seems like it's been
really hammered down. I see Jordan luck they're a little
river surrounded by water. Marcus. I can remember as a child,
Dad picking me up for the week in arguing my
brother which one of us was going to drive get
which of us was going to give the man the
money at the toll booth. We must have been rich

(58:19):
because Dad got a concession card that needed to be clipped.
I think that was probably the budget thing to do
twenty four to ten. And for those who have missed
the memo with the whole infrastruct announcement. I think the
new proposal is for a tunnel, although others are saying
that the obvious solution is a bridge, but you could
debate that endlessly. I firstly in favor of a tunnel,
although I don't think it's quite as good as Sydney.

(58:41):
I think Sydney with that sandstone, is very easy to tunnel.
Think New Zealand's slightly more size oficly slightly more difficult
to do. But yeah, we haven't got any great tunnels
for a while. Probably do with a good new tunnel.
Get the boring machines over that. It's always good, isn't it?
Love a tunnel. So if you want to be in
touch with the show, Marcus Hador twelve o'clock, that to me,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to

(59:02):
nine two de text. There's something different you want to
mention tonight? Be my guest quite literally? Do we know
what that noise was? Dan to look it into it?
But Puddon, yes, yes, so there we go. Oh, by
the way, I've got no belief that the cookie bear
things to do with the backlash. They just wanted a
bit of free publicity. Very very cynical of those things.

(59:24):
By the way, they're also looking at potato yields. Potato
growers are putting yields could be down twenty percent. This
wanted you to bad weather. Some growers are harvesting early
varieties now, with the main harvest getting underwe in a
few weeks. The crop in the Mno. Or two was
looking good, but further north and Polka corhe growers had
had a lot of rain. So it looks like the

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yield to be down twenty percent. Imagine that means it
twenty percent more expensive, doesn't it. I mean that's the
way it's probably gonna work. So yeah, up beyond three
bucks a kilo for potatoes. Yep, that's a situation there,
twenty to ten here till twelve. If you want to
be a part of it. Good evening, JT. It's Marcus, welcome,

(01:00:05):
Good Mark.

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
I think Aucklanders need a replacement for the regional fuel tax,
so I vote that they get a new tax. Maybe
not a toll on the bridge, because it's probably an
affession way of collecting revenue.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Why do you think it's an efficient because of the cost.

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
Of collection, Yeah, and people not paying and that I think,
what's so great about the tax on petrol as you
can't avoid it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
I thought a toll on a bridge would be good
twofold because it would it would it would be a
seamless way to colleck revenue. But are also drive consumer
change like encouraging incentivising public transport and car pulling to
avoid that. I thought probably that would be one of
the drivers. Why that would be a good thing because

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then a congested bridge becomes freer.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
Yeah, it'll be a deterrent to some users. There was
a guy on the news that they talked to and
he said that he goes over to the north Shore,
but to buy stuff that he's picked up, stuff that
he's brought on trade me. I mean that's an efficient way.
I mean it would be headed to get the curry
or something to bring one hundred parcels, rather than one
hundred people drive to the north Shore clogging up the

(01:01:21):
bridge just to get their junk. But I knew harbor crossing.
I think it should be a bridge because at the
end of the day, bridges are cheaper than tunnels, and
tunnels have the risk of fire with private motor vehicles.
You know, a lot of the tunnels overseas are only
train tunnels.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
Yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 8 (01:01:42):
The bridge would need to be ken mains.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
I also don't understand, and this is probably a failure
of planning because I don't know how many people you've
got on the north Shore. Probably six seven hundred thousand
might be not that many. But it's failed to evolve
as a separate city where people that live on the
shore work on the shore. And you think there'd be
efficiencies in that, wouldn't you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
Yeah, But one thing is the traffic volumes is not
really increasing ever since that busway that seems to be
taking the extra people.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Bus lane, the bus lanes and the bus lanes of machine.
You can go to the bus stops and they're all
double decker buses and they're all full. It's just it's
just a it works extraordinarily.

Speaker 8 (01:02:23):
Well, yeah, it's probably not worth, do you reckon it's
worth changing it to rail. It's possibly not worth. It
might be better put the money into somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
I think they've got the rail corridor there because yeah, look, yeah,
I am. I mean the thing is in New Zealand infrastructure,
it's the most expensive place to do tunnel to roads
anywhere in the world. So yeah, so yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:02:47):
You know that you know that Meola Reef. Back in
the day they were talking about I think it was
that one or was it somewhere around there in the
fr To They were talking about a container shipping container
terminal there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Look, I also know and I know that you like
your transport. I think the ol of Reef originally was
planned to be the site of the airport.

Speaker 8 (01:03:10):
It's not a very good idea to build a crossing
it in the old of Reef because there's no road
exit that road network to tee into. I think the
next crossing, the next bridge, has to be alongside the
existing bridge, partly because apparently those nipon clipons are only
designed to last for eighty years.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
After that, Why would you agree to that?

Speaker 8 (01:03:34):
Because steel steel bridges are not known for their for
the longevity if you're enough, and because you remember, if
you remember back in the day, trucks used to be
and buses and stuff used to be able to use
the nipon clipons. But now they they put all the
heavy vehicles the middle two lanes. And I think it's

(01:03:57):
like like maybe vehicles like five tons, like because vehicles
have got heavy like forward ranges of that. You know,
there used to be a lot of private cars in
a day which were about thirteen hundred kilograms. Now the
average car is probably eighteen nineteen hundred. So and we'll
steel which had a lifestand because of the contraction and

(01:04:20):
everything was heated and yeah, heavy loads and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Well, yeah, so you're in front of the bridge rather
the tunnel because of the price. That makes sense, doesn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:29):
Yeah, And because of the risk of fire and a
tunnel and believed and a new bridge it's you know,
it's going to have to have four lanes for traffic,
two lanes for buses, maybe two lanes for trains or
two another two lanes for trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Does to talk JT thanks that fifteen to ten hit
till twelve T twenty. Yes, in a beat Canada by
eight wickets, so a fairly well, I guess it's a
fairly predictable victory. There A lot of people talk about tunnels.
The best thing about a tunnel is that won't have
to be closed in bad weather. Be nice to get

(01:05:07):
a tunnel through the brend Derwin. We have no companies
and use it. Incapable of building any large infrastructure projects. Well,
that's not surprising because there aren't. I mean, I guess
to build big projects, you've had to have built big projects.
You've had to have built them, and I guess all
that expertise goes overseas straight away. It's probably why it's
quite good to get into the habit of building infrastructure,

(01:05:27):
because the personnel and the equipment are here. Like I
think already they've talked about with the Central rail Loop
that most of those people with the knowledge that were
involved with that have now gone elsewhere. I think a
lot of them have gone to Ireland. Maybe they're doing
underground railway there or something. So you almost need to
have infrastructure projects and keep doing them, have one, then
the next and the next to take up that workforce.

(01:05:50):
But yeah, it seems as though, I mean, gosh, what
a depressing day of news. It seems as though all
the money of the country is going to be spent
the next couple of well forever, I suppose rebuilding roads
and bridges and things that get decimated by the weather.
It's not cheap, these floods, free damaging. Be involved. If
you want to talk here till twelve o'clock tonight, the

(01:06:10):
number is, oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty. There's something
else you want to mention tonight. I see they're talking
about the anniversary of the export of lamb. I think
eighteen eighty eight. They said, I'm not quite sure what
the hangar on that thing was. I think it's said
that people are still buying it. It's still popular overseas.

(01:06:34):
Don't know if it's good or a bad thing. Be nice.
It was cheaper here at least. I guess the sheep
farmers are doing all right. I think they've had a
good season. Yep eleven away from ten o'clock here till midnight.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. So that's the cricket one,
by the way, this day in nineteen ninety six, world

(01:06:54):
chess champion Garry Kasparov triumphed over IBM's Deep Blue. There's
a show on Netflix about the world's first female grand Master,
features kasprov good watch enjoyed it. Thought it was quite good, Trevor,
this is welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:07:08):
Thanking Marcus Monum ringing from Amberley. I like to tell
the people of Canterbury that on Sunday I'm running an
event to raise money for the Ambly Men Shed chaps
towards their new building and the event is a case
of car event open to all European and British cars,

(01:07:29):
which we hold annually, and the event is open to
the public as well as the owners. And the admission
fee is only a donation to the Embly Mindshed, so
that's how we're going to run it. It's not a
set fee. And there will be free bounty cars for
the children, and there will be food injury on site.

(01:07:53):
And the event is at the what they call the
Better Half Kitchen, an bar on the corner of State
Highway one and Ashworth Beach Road is Leaffield, which is
about midway between Salt Water and Pakicko Junction. So that's
an event that tracks a lot of attention each year.
So we're running that this Sunday. So thank you very

(01:08:16):
much for what did you say?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
What did you say would be on site? You said
bouncy castle, then something else? Did you say?

Speaker 18 (01:08:21):
Food and drink?

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Okay?

Speaker 23 (01:08:24):
And around about two hundred European made and British made vehicles.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Any Japanese vehicles, No, not this time.

Speaker 23 (01:08:34):
We run a Japanese Day in October, oh god, and
a four day in September.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
YEP.

Speaker 23 (01:08:40):
Last week we ran a Poland versus four day and
we're going to record turnout of about three hundred and
sixty cars.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Brilliant. Oh, it sounds like you're doing well, Trevor. Thank
you for that. Thank you for using our facility for
that eight away from ten o'clock. People are frustrated, Marcus.
I'm sitting at home with no power for the third
night due to Willington Electricity not having time to attend
the job putting a pole fuse in. I'm in the
lower hut we are and listening to you on a
battery powered radio. There was no outage in my area whatsoever,

(01:09:11):
and the problem caused by a falling tree on my
line to the house. But it was fixed lunchtime Monday.
So just need the pole fuse, which is a ten
minute job. I've been calling the power company all day,
but less hang up on me, so now here I
am sitting in the dark again. Marcus, did you fix
the beeping reported earlier? Just tuning in for bed. Thanks
Marcus on it. We should focus on our health system,

(01:09:34):
maintain our infrastructure, and we do not have the financial
ability to build new roads. We are being treated as
if we are a corporate business. Please just look after
the basics for our people without state of origin. I
think that's important with lux and saying us to get
permission a staup late to watch it. It's pretty interesting.
Be in touch if you want to be a part

(01:09:55):
of the show. Here till twelve o'clock, I am. The
good news is I haven't got much breaking weather news
to report. It seems as though it's gone quiet for now.
The the warnings have been lifted, but I think there's
still a bit of a situation in Banks Peninsula. Although
this is something I've never seen before. There is a
severe weather watch for the Chatham Islands, large waves and

(01:10:18):
dangerous sea conditions. So yeah, you never kind of we
haven't real experienced that. Plenty of the parks and Huanganui
are closed. Those massive winds just like in South and
trees just ripped up and folded over. It doesn't look
good at all. And amazing photos from Little River. A
lot of water there, brown water and State Hiways seventy

(01:10:44):
five between Ghebbe's Valley and Akia will remain closed overnight.
I'm not quite sure if people manage to get over
through at Akio, the roundabout way through Port Leve. I
haven't got the update on that, but by the way
they say in Otago the Tayei rivers are holding well. Welcome,

(01:11:05):
Good evening, Marcus or twelve. How are you're going? What's happening?
Eight past ten? I'll mention that because I haven't mentioned
it for a couple of days too. How are the
Winter Olympics going for you? I think it's all going
a bit quiet. I haven't kind of been that engaged with.
The only news I'm really seeing is all about the
cheating in the curling, which I'm not that into, but
that's fine. That seems to be what the proletariator commenting about.

(01:11:28):
But just saying that out there there might have been
something that you've watched. It's been amazing. I don't even
know where it's going to conclude. It feels like it's
concluded already. We are talking about the Auckland Harbor Bridge,
the car strangled spanner and what's going to place it
another tunnel or another bridge. But should they be tolling
the existing bridge to pay for the new bridge? And

(01:11:49):
should they be tolling both of them? It does make
perfect sense. In fact, you could probably make the claim
they should be tolling the Auckland Harbor Bridge now to
get the whole ball rolling your thoughts on that. They're
talking about nine dollars.

Speaker 14 (01:12:00):
Each way.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Eighty bucks a week to live. It's almost sounds to
me like an share tax because let's face that people
are going one way. They're going from the shore into town.
So I don't think it's going to collapse the housing bubble.
Well it's a lot of bubble, but I think it's
going to collapse the housing there. But your comment on
that too, or even two. We have been talking about
toll roads in general and the opening of the Littleton

(01:12:24):
Tunnel back in sixty two, and that's what we're on
about tonight. Orcan Football playing Sydney Football. Ork FC playing
Sydney FC. Halftime nil all. So that's the situation there.
I'll keep you updated on that. Thanks for the heads
up on that. That second place third. It's second place third,

(01:12:50):
so that should be a fairly good match. It's nine
past ten. All the lines are fair. There's something different
want to talk about. You might want talk about the weather, infrastructure.
You might have lost power and are frustrated. I'll be
keen to take calls on that also tonight, people, and
there might be something else should mention the price of
goods are going to go up, And yeah, the price

(01:13:12):
of potatoes and produce will go up because of the rain,
it seems, Jay says. Sydney Tunnel The Western Harbor Tunnel
is a major fourteen billion and twin tunnel road project
under construction Sidney, set to open in twenty twenty eight.
So the Western Harbor Tunnel is a major fourteen billion

(01:13:33):
plus twin tunnel road project under construction Sydney, said to
open twenty two. It will connect the rose Elle Interchange
to the Warringer Freeway with six point five kilometers of
three lane tunnels bypassing the CBD to relieve the Harbor Bridge.
Excavation is seventy six complete. Well, as I've said, with
that sandstone, I think tunneling's much much more easier over there.
So that's what ron about tonight. Get in touch if

(01:13:54):
you want to talk. Kettle twelve o'clock, eight hundred and eighty,
ten eighty So, yeah, it'd be nice to hear from
your ten past ten. Pete's Marcus, good evening they.

Speaker 4 (01:14:07):
Going there, Marks, We got a new Awkland Harbor Bridge
and everybody's struggling that. He just I don't know how
they have to work it around more fair. Some people
are working across there. You know that bridge has been
paid for. So maybe when they build a new bridge,
if you're going to knew that use that bridge to
go to work or whatever, there's going to be a

(01:14:28):
fear away. Otherwise it's gonna be another former tax. The
bridge has been paid for the old one. Do the
same again. If they're building another one, start putting a
toll on them, not before them, because it's just this
country is crazy, just whack taxes, and it's getting beyond
the joke.

Speaker 8 (01:14:44):
To be honest, I just.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Thought it made perfect seems to charge people to use
bridges and roads.

Speaker 4 (01:14:50):
No it once it's been paid for, the same one
at the Mount that's been paid for I don't know
how many times over, and they're still drawing off that
as well. When they build a new tunnel bridge, they
slap a toe on it there until it's paid off.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
But they probably they probably, they probably if they started
to kept the toll on, they could have all almost
paid for that new bridge.

Speaker 5 (01:15:08):
Well yeah, but.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
There's a limit on how much you can keep on
taxing people otherwise you know, I know it's a hard one,
but you know people are struggling. So I was working
across in the city of Auckland, now be working there
for years near the governor's councilor who decide to put
a toll on me? Do you think that's really fair?

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Well, funnily enough, no one from the North Shore seems
to be upset about the new proposal. They all seem
quite happy about it. For what I can consider from
tonight's show.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Well, maybe they're there rich. Maybe I'm not still not
saying that. Maybe they're a wealthy people. There's a lot
of people out there struggling yet, night cleaners and all
sorts of things they'll be working living in over the
North Shore. You can think they can have paid nine
dollars or whatever they for the two nexteen or twenty dollars. No,
you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
Well, they wouldn't have if there's charged on the harberage.
They wouldn't have an option, would they.

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
Well no, but.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Somehow they're going to work it around. You can't pick
you can't pink poor people that rugging the pay they
bulls now at another twenty bucks times yet by five,
you know, it just gets out of control.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
It'll be interesting interest to see whether it becomes a
political issue because I don't know how many political seats
around the north Shore. There's probably three or four there,
and they could swing on the back of tolls.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
Yeah, I think there's something these people, those poor people
on to talk about before they have there's somehow protest
that you can't ping a ass, you know, otherwise.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
I don't think. I don't think. I don't think north
Shore people protest.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Well, I don't know, but there's a load of people
who say pretty much who would have had jobs, you know,
for a long time in the city now they do that,
so that that's going to cost you whatever, one hundred
bucks one hundred and fifty dollars a week when they
start pinging those tolls on you, Well, that's a big
hucky head of your wage. And if you're just an
average worker.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Nice to hear from your pete, thanks for your points,
well made. Thirteen past ten, eight hundred and eighty the
tolls Robert Duvell and aliens tolling the have a bridge
totally agree, yep, do it now? Two dollars each crossing
all that product made as we'll get started, then increase
it every year by one dollar. Got to pay for
the bridge somehow, these ostridche callers, Where do I think
the money's coming from the money tree? Not a good

(01:17:15):
time for use it in terrible where the terrible infrastructure terrible, terrible, terrible. Yeah,
you get that feeling. Don't worry. Paul Eagle will sort
the chatthems. So would it be fine to toll the
road from Bluff to in the Cargol? I don't quite
understand what your point is there. No one's proposed that
there's just a bog standard road. There's nothing flash, it's

(01:17:35):
not a bridge. And I think about the Bluff road,
there is no alternative. It's certainly one road in, one
road out. But yeah, I think want you're trying to
personalize it and say what can we do? I don't know.
Get in touch Marcus till twelve oh, eight hundred and
eighty to out anything else you want to mention talk
about tonight there's been some discussion about the export of
lamb the anniversary of that. Yeah, and Canada have been

(01:17:59):
beaten dispatched by the black Caps. They are into the
next stage of the T twenty World Cup. We can
rest easy now. Didn't even realize they had food poisoning,
but that's something that's apparently what's happened for them. Captain
Michael Satiner, he had food poisoning. I missed that. If
there's other topics you've got you want to mention tonight too.

(01:18:19):
For a church, welcome to it. It'd be nice to
hear from you, Marcus. I think that woman at Mangawai
listening on the AM is picking up electric fence noise.
AM is best for hearing this noise. People should tune
into FM as it's better for canceling interference. People can
use AM radio tune between stations to find where electric
fences are shorting out. Didn't know that. Do you actually

(01:18:42):
walk down the line with your wow? Do you put
your radio between stations and walk along the length of
your fence. That's something I've been trying to find, as
electric fences that are grounding wrongly be in touch. You
want to talk about that. Oha eight one hundred and
eighty ten eighty Greg, this is Marcus. Welcome, good Thanks Greg.

Speaker 24 (01:19:05):
Wat I'm an Ausay. I'm over in New Zealand for
a little bit because I bought a boat and I'm
going to take home to Australia. But you guys are
talking about toll roads. Yeah, yes, yeah. My concern with
toll roads in Australia and here in New Zealand is

(01:19:25):
that we pay road tax and everything's supposed to foster
around that right to get from one side of Sidney
to the other becausally like forty five dollars a day
because all the toe roads it's criminal. You pay road tax,
when you registery your car, you pay rates, you pay

(01:19:48):
all these other infrastructure bills. So that's done. To put
a toll oakin.

Speaker 15 (01:19:56):
Is ridiculous.

Speaker 24 (01:19:58):
It's not fair income, it's not good.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
You think it's unfair, but isn't it the fairest thing
because this user pays, well, the.

Speaker 24 (01:20:06):
User does pay. You buy a car, you pay tax,
you use the roads, your registers. You can't over here
in New Zealand where we are at the moment, You
pay warrants and a part of that goes to the
infrastructure to maintain the roads. So if the government can't
budget to make that all fair and so that everybody

(01:20:30):
that uses the roads has got to pay. Again, you've
been taxed more than once for the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Are you saying Australia has more road tolls than here.

Speaker 24 (01:20:39):
Absolutely we do.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
But as a result they've got much better roads, haven't they?
Less congested it or moves quite smoothly, doesn't it?

Speaker 24 (01:20:47):
I disagree with that. Okay, I've been commund with you
for the last two years. I've brought a boat here
at tyry Mouse and and I'm on the South Island.
I haven't mentioned up to the North Island. But down
here the roads are fantastic. Is that traffic flow flow
is really good, except that pete awleer traffic. It gets

(01:21:08):
a bit slow, but it's nothing like what we experience
in Australia. But yet in Australia we've got to pay
tolls to make that quicker, and it still make quicker.
The fact that you've got to pay a toll to
use a road which you've already paid for is yeah,
I think it's criminal.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
Must be a fairly small boat if you're getting across
the bar.

Speaker 24 (01:21:32):
Well, she's only forty four foot, mate, But a launch
she's forty four foot. She's not a launch. She's not
a bad little boat. When are you going the window
of opportunity is February March. Originally I was going to
sell there you go. Yeah, Originally I was going to

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sell from Dusky across the Herbert but due to the
maritime New Zealand and maritime Australia laws against your customs
and make it a bit different, so I have to
lead from Nelson, which is a bit higher on the
South Island. And yeah, so at the end of the day,

(01:22:17):
I'm probably going to go from a place up on
the South Island which I forget the name of it now,
but then head from there to Three Kings and then
from there to the Lord Howe and then from Lord
Howe to Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
So you go up the east coast of South Island,
go to Nelson, get your papers down there, then go
up the east coast of North Island to the Three Kings,
then across.

Speaker 24 (01:22:41):
Correct, yes, on your own. Yeah, no, I've got a
mate this is going to come with me, or two
mates that were supposed to come with me, but one
of them was falled out. You thought that that was
a little bit small for a job, but yeah, she's
gorgeous about she's over one hundred year old.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Wow, what was it what was it? What was it originally?
It's always been a life as a chaser.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:23:08):
And she's yeah, I got the history from previous owners.
There's a fellow here, he's ninety seven years of age.
He used to use it as a commercial fishing vessel.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
I should be seaworthy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
Well.

Speaker 24 (01:23:24):
Currently she's at Kirie's Bay Marine Services. Oh yeah, those
boys there have done it. Exceptional job. They've stripped it
right back to the their bones so we can see
the structure and what she's like. We've got the boat
builders coming in on Monday. Tuesday. They're going to do
a little bit remedia work on the whole so she

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can make the trip. And yeah, she's a gorgeous little boat.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Okay, let us know before you go, Grig, nice to
talk to you. Twenty one past ten. We're talking about
road tolls and roads in general. With the infrastructure deficit
that we've got, we need to start building and we
need to start paying for it. And how's the way
to do that. Here's the texts. We need to keep
the infrastructure projects rolling on a fixed schedule for the
next thirty years so the workforce can move from job
to job, like the dams in the sixties. But the

(01:24:12):
future is not roads. It's mass public transport at schools,
it's hospital it's dams. Marcus. The cost registering a Karen
Ossie is way more than here. Tolls are great if
you want good quality roads shares. Karen still kind of
surprised that guy was commenting on traffic in New Zealand
when he's in taavy Mouth. Pretty quiet there, Marcus. Youve

(01:24:34):
roads at max capacity leading to and out of the bridge.
Adding more bridging capacity makes no difference. Marc's it's tomatow season.
Why are they still fording a ket at my local supermarket?
Steve A on Chrostchurch, Hi, Marcus, the bridge tolls should
never have been stopped, the emphasis on never. They gave revenue, jobs,
slowed and help control the bridge traffic, and we would

(01:24:55):
now have had funding for the new crossing. Just one
more dumb, short sighted decision by the people who claim
to run this Place's bas that was Muldoon, so you'll
thought thought's on the harbor crossing. That's the plan they
reckon when they start building the bridge though, well it's
not clear, but they'll toll the old bridge and the

(01:25:19):
new bridge. Otherwise you'll just disincentivize people to go back
on the old one, not the new one. Makes sense
to me. If you've got comments on this, that's what
we're about. Does it affect you? How do you feel
about that? They're seeking advice on whether they should bring
it back. The Infrastructure Commission is suggested a toll of
nine dollars, whereas the government's still trying to work out

(01:25:39):
whether we want a bridge or a second sorry, a
tunnel or a second bridge. So a nine dollars toll
on both new and existing roads could raise nine billion dollars.
Tell don't seem to be an unreasonable amount. ACTS for
Act's probably the only group that opposed to that. No
surprise is there. It's all about getting your name and

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headlines before the electional headlights Still no school. Sydney FC
versus Auckland FC in the prety lively kind of a match.
Not a huge crowd, don't know why, don't even know
what the stadium is, but there's a score I'll that
you know about that New Zealand has beaten Canada and
the cricket that's the t twenty twenty six past ten.

(01:26:20):
By the way, when you think everything's gone bad, chocolates
through the roof seven dollars for a block of chocolate
now gone up, well, got twenty percent. That's climate change.
It's olive oil and chocolate. They're not growing like they
once did, so they and coffee. I think they're three
of the things that have gone up in price because
of the warming. Chocolate, olive oil, and coffee. Next it'll

(01:26:41):
be hops. I don't think it will be hops, but
next to be some other luxury good. So there you go.
Chocolate through the roof up twenty point five percent, six
dollars eighty nine. Of course it will vary greatly within that,
depending on the flavors. Seventy one minute's gone in the
A League game too, so twenty minutes left. There're be
in touch if you've got lines, if you want to

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talk on air. So would that victory for New Zealand
and the cricket They have made the Super eight stage
of the tournament. They'll next play two thirty in the
morning Sunday, New Zealand time. Not many be watching that.
That's a terrible time. We don't know against who yet.
That will depend on the other results. But two thirty
in the morning is that game on Sunday morning. Not

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good for anyone. It's not early and it's not late.
It's just nowhere. But yeah, be in touch if you've
got something to say. I want to talk about tolls
to get to your texts before too long. Also, all
the lines are free. Obama's comments about UFOs, there's no roswell,
he said, there's nothing there. Happy New Year to you two.
If you're Chinese, Happy year, Chinese New Year. Today is

(01:27:46):
the year of the horse. Last year was last night
was New Year's eveither they were fireworks, So there we go.
It's the year of the horse. That's what's happening. So
big celebrations around the wolf. That even this is Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:28:00):
Yay, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
And listeners, harbabrick, that's nice to bring the listen. And yes,
the harbor bridge, yeah, worn out.

Speaker 14 (01:28:07):
In another twenty years or something, it's going to fall down.
If they said that, yeah, they said it's life spans
twenty three years left or something.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
So then we're not getting a second harbor crossing. We're
getting a replacement harbor crossing.

Speaker 14 (01:28:21):
Well that's why they stood start fixing it up so
it lasts longer than twenty odd years.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Yeah, that's going to be It's going to be a
disaster of data.

Speaker 14 (01:28:29):
Yeah, a big disaster. I've got a few good ideas,
but I'm not gonna Have you heard that you ever
enough out for this country?

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Have you heard it has got just got that long left?

Speaker 9 (01:28:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:28:40):
Yeah, it's been on your news for twenty four years
or something.

Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
Life left in it.

Speaker 14 (01:28:47):
So they need to start fixing it up before it
falls down. That would be a good start. And the
way this government operates, they won't do anything before it
falls down. I should say all, I should say all governments, actually,
because it's not just one.

Speaker 9 (01:29:00):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
I'm inclined to think you're right because we haven't even
got the planning stages started for the other crossing, because
the concending this and permission because of your protests and whatever,
that will take a long long time. Oh yeah, but
I just wasn't where there's only to be twenty more
years left in it?

Speaker 14 (01:29:15):
Yeah, twenty four I think I was told, Okay, she's
worn out, so we need to start foxing enough fox
another up.

Speaker 12 (01:29:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Guess how long? Guess how long it took to build.

Speaker 14 (01:29:26):
Give us I should know this five years was.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
It four seems pretty quick. Thousand people four years, it
seems pretty quick to me.

Speaker 5 (01:29:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:29:33):
No, they brought them people from overseas.

Speaker 8 (01:29:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:29:39):
It wasn't just straight Kiwi's.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Where are they from?

Speaker 14 (01:29:42):
I think they I think they had to bring in
an extra big barge to put the spans up too.

Speaker 21 (01:29:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
I know that people from Japan came to do the
old clip on, but I don't know. I didn't necessarily
know that it was an overseas workforce for the original bridge.
Someone will tell us. Yeah, okay, okay, donky even thanks
for that.

Speaker 18 (01:29:59):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
By the way, the clip Ons were just ten years later.

Speaker 9 (01:30:05):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
They didn't build it good at the beginning. Probably they
should have built it wider at the beginning, but they
penny pinched. So there's something there looked amazing when it
was just the four lanes.

Speaker 15 (01:30:15):
Yeh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
By the way, it wasn't a motorway all. The bridge
was designed as an oar terra road with a forty
mile an hour speed limit. It wasn't intended to be
a motorway. It's interesting, actually, I don't know if it
was a mistake with the planning and that I'm just
reading about that now. Despite the common opinion, the stage
expansion of the Auckland Harbor Bridge was not only more
cost effective overall, but also result in a bigger bridge

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with more capacity with more development of the city. The
tail of the Harbor Bridge is actually a parable for
the opposite of the commonly held view. It shows as
the value of transport development programs with successive expansions of
transport capacity and expenditure over time. Yeah, so it was
already planned as a four to one when they think
they're going to have a situation later on to expand it.

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But yep, line's free if you want to talk twenty
five away from eleven also UFOs also Robert de vallecs
ileven point Chevaliet. But I'm not against the bridge going
over Myola reef. My question is where all the southound
southbound traffic exit the bridge Miola Road question mark. There's
not enough room and space still nil all in the
football and looking forward to your calls tonight, Marcus till

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twelve let me sit up Tuesday, we'd around the country.
I don't know if the rains come down south yet,
was drizzling earlier? And why do I meant to talk
a bit more about live frozen meat exports. There were
some stories about Lamb Marcus. I don't think it's fair
to bring the tolls back into play, especially during these

(01:31:43):
current economic times. As for example, I'm a maintenance engineer.
I've always managed to get work via word of mouth
back ten years, but now work is very scarce since
I'm having to apply for jobs. The only thing that
I got word from mouth at the moment was working
as a trader assistant on a minimum wage, and the
job was on the North Shore. As you can imagine,
there'd be a lot of people in that situation at

(01:32:04):
the moment where they just don't have a choice about
where their job is and they're already living week to
week at the moment. Then if the toll comes into play,
it's going to make a lot more stresses. I used
to work on the bridge as a contractor back around
twenty twelve. Now, I remember seeing plans of the new
bridge on the walls of the engineering office. Whatever happened
to that. Why don't they go through with it? Why
don't they go through it back then? Dan new lista

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in the last week, Nice to have you with us,
Dan Oh, by the way, in Australia. It seems as
a sixty dollars weekly toll cap in place to provide
relief for motorists with high usage in Western Sydney. So
it's capped.

Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
New South Wales specific city is one of the most
told regions in the world, but they are capped and
they've got great roads. Twenty three to eleven. Hello, James,
It's Marcus. Welcome. Hi James, Yeah, Mark is here. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:33:09):
Well good. I sorry, I'm I'm actually cooking a brisket at.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
The moment, a biscuit or a brisket, brisket?

Speaker 18 (01:33:17):
Oh carrying it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
You're what?

Speaker 20 (01:33:20):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Is it a brisket or a biscuit? B or just
be obsessed now brisket, brisket or biscuit. You're still there.
I think he's kind of still there, is he? Do
you just want to see if you can get him
back on back on point there, Dan, I've never really
quite worked out where a brisket is low and slow
the way for the brisket, it's the lower chest or

(01:33:45):
the breast. We'll get him back. He's on about Deval.
I'd like to talk to you about the bridge in
de Val or anything else you want to talk about.
Didn't realize it's a smart idea about a toll cap
that makes sense. Twenty two to eleven. And if you've
got text or calls, that's the point tonight. Oh, eight
hundred eighty eight. Let's see if we get this guy

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back up twenty one to eleven, nineteen to eleven. People
welcome here till twelve o'clock tonight. Anything interesting happening in
your well? Do let us know bridges and tolls. Tim
Beveridge from Midnight tonight, I did ask you how you
finding the Winter Olympics. Seems Oh, there's a goal too
in the football. I've just seen that on the TV.

(01:34:29):
So that's Sydney are on one. They'll fairly good goal
through isamic static that's in the eighty third minutes. Are
hard for Auckland to pull that one back. Now they
might do it free. Remarkable goal. Actually just waiting for
the replay to heaven and I look at it. They
just caught it at the corner of my eye. Might
have been from a corner kick, went wide of the goal,
right to the other side. Then a great cross kick

(01:34:51):
and I think no, it's been dribbled through and in
and then a remarkable header into the net completely bet
the goalkeeper. So there's that. By the way, the wind warnings,
most of the wind warnings and where the warnings have
gone any heavy rain for the east to the south
and the Chatham Islands, and it obviously is Chinese New Year.

(01:35:12):
It's random act of Kindness day kind of gone with
that one. Also, Cabbage Day. I don't know if anyone's
got an exciting cabbage story. You're supposed to eat cabbage
for Cabbage Day. Yep, Cabbage off an associate with the
Irish dish corned beef and cabbage for Saint Patrick's Day.
Nutritionally sound low calories. One cup of cabbage has fifteen calories.

(01:35:36):
You'd burn more that than chewing it. And Babe Ruth
used to wear a cabbage leaf under his baseball cap
during each game for luck. I don't know why that
would be superstitious. Maybe you could try some kim chi.
That might be the answer for celebrating. That's seventeen away
from eleven. If you've got anything to add, welcome Manamer's Marcus.
But even we're talking about bringing the tolls back on

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the Harbor Bridge because when they start building the new
bridge or tunnel, they'll be tolding the old one. Also
great idea for revenue, and some say, plenty of said
it was crazy for Mauldoon stop to stop the tolls
at eighty four. They had a fortune eighty four sixteen
forty years, one hundred thousand cars a day for forty years.

(01:36:19):
A lot of money makes sense, doesn't it? So yep,
But there was a desperate bid to win the election
in nineteen eighty four when it all bent bad for
Maldoing in this step election and members of his party
crossing the house and things like that, you'll remember that.
It's a bit of the history. Therefore, there is something
different you want to talk about tonight. I'm not died
in the word about this topic, but if there's something
else you want to we haven't quite worked out what

(01:36:41):
the mystery noises. But how's all of yours reception going?
I hope it's fine, because it's been a few complaints
and we've kind of delved into them. Some of it's
weather related, some sounds like electric fences, but some of
course could be radios off tune or local interference and
stuff like. I don't know too well about that. Normally
I'd say the reception and frequencies pretty well or pretty

(01:37:01):
good or debster sent through breaking news. Two toll roads
and Todonga one has speed reduced to seventy because of
major roads. But that for months doesn't seem fair. Yeah,
you don't want to pay money. If it's a dodgy road,
there'd be my you'd want it, you'd want the full noise.

(01:37:23):
Jesse Jackson has died. The US civil rights leader who
ran for president has died, aged eighty four. I'll bring
you more information about that. That's Jesse Jackson. Thanks for
the person that just text me about that. So that's
information that's just through Derek. This is Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Welcome, Hi bugus, thank you, and I just stall let
you know. The Americans have built the Sydney Habit Bridge
before our one, and then they came out to see
the governments of New Zealand and they said, look, godly
a gear here. We'll come and build you an eight
lane bridge. We'll take the tolls for twenty years, and
then we'll give you the bridge from usen Well and

(01:38:04):
the goverment of they said, I will never need an
eight later and they've turned it down. Isn't that unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Is that fact or is that just a rumor?

Speaker 8 (01:38:15):
I didn't make that up.

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
No, no, Well often you hear these things like the
Americans we're going to build a motor up the length
of the country and stuff. I always think it's curious
to know I haven't heard it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:24):
Oh well, yeah, well I've heard it from a good source.

Speaker 8 (01:38:26):
But anyway, you can check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Hey, so who did build it? Did overseas workers come
here for that?

Speaker 24 (01:38:34):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (01:38:34):
Who built in the end, But.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
I'll check that one out, Derek, Thanks for that. We're
going to promise to build it for free. Here are
a lot of stories like that, don't you They say, Oh, well,
it's too good opportunity. I haven't heard that story. We'll
see if we can look into that one. But yeah,
get in touch. Hittle twelve fourteen away from eleven. If

(01:38:59):
you want to go and partake in the roundabout debate,
you can go to Marcus slash Nights on the Facebook
page there Shanghai maneuver and also how many degrees angle
you turn around? Much debate on that. Not much time
left in the football For minutes left, I think an
extra time Sydney needs aukand one at zero shot on

(01:39:20):
goal there, but denied James. It's Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:39:23):
Good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Hello, are you making biscuit or brisket?

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
Ah? It is meat.

Speaker 18 (01:39:30):
No briskets for their meat. I've cut it in half
and it's a sheep. I'll cut it in half and
I'm carrying it. Yeah, very nice. Anyway, about poor mister Devall.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
What an extraordinary career.

Speaker 18 (01:39:47):
Oh, unbelievable. And I shouldn't say poor mister de Vall,
I should say poor all of his fans, because we're
going to miss someone that's I mean, I think he
gave up doing movies a while back, but wow, I've
got a library here, and I've got about probably ten
of us the movies. I can't name them all. He's

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been in so many. Fantastic guy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
And the amazing thing about him he had that distinctive
head and that building lock.

Speaker 5 (01:40:21):
But no matter.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
You could check him in a Western, you could check
him in Vietnam, you could check him in a hippy movie.
He always looked like he never he was. He just
looked exactly the same, but always fitted in.

Speaker 18 (01:40:32):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent correct here. One of his
best roles was in Geronimo. Yes, absolutely fantastic as the
In fact, I'm watching the extended version of King Kong
at the moment and cooking a brisket. Wow, and King
Kong's pretty fucking good.

Speaker 2 (01:40:53):
I've got a real excuse me, just he's back on
the language.

Speaker 18 (01:40:57):
Yeah, sorry about that, mate, Sorry, sorry everyone. Yeah, it's
got thirty minutes extra minutes of movie time. It's a
deluxe version, very very good.

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
But night.

Speaker 18 (01:41:15):
He also, I'm going to watch it. He's excellent.

Speaker 2 (01:41:18):
He also worked as a mime with Marcel Marsau. That's
pretty surprising, isn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:41:23):
Yes, yep, something about that. I've yeah, I did know
who he did, something like get on the stage. I
heard he got found by a well, he got criticized
in the critics, and the people that read the critics
obviously thought me to going never look at him, and

(01:41:44):
he got That's how he got started.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Can I just revisit, James? Can I just revisit what
you're cooking? Are you cooking a biscuit or a brisket?

Speaker 18 (01:41:54):
Brisket?

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
The meat b I s c u I T.

Speaker 18 (01:42:00):
Yeah, brisket off the sheep. It's part of the rib
cage and the meat that's rounds it a little bit,
but that's basically what it is. Otherwise it gets thrown out.
But I'm carrying mine and I'm looking at it now
and I've got onions, potatoes and carrots in there, and

(01:42:20):
it's bubbling away. It's above the the cook line. But
it'll rejuice down and it'll be delicious. Yeah, get three
meals out.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
I hate, I hate to come back to you, but
is there a cut of a sheep called a biscuit?

Speaker 18 (01:42:36):
No, only a brisket.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Br it's a brisket for robots. Oh okay, that's where
I revisited about for I thought you keep saying biscuit.
I've never heard of a sheep biscuit. Well, I have
a shirt like a sheep.

Speaker 18 (01:42:46):
Okay, yeah, you get them off a cow or camel,
any any bloody thing instead of rib cage?

Speaker 2 (01:42:52):
Mate, know about a brisket? Have you got your movies
on VHS or DVD?

Speaker 18 (01:42:57):
DVD VHS? When I was using VHS, I watched them
so many times the tape actually wore out.

Speaker 8 (01:43:09):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:43:09):
Then lean DVD's came out. I've got four DVD players, sorry,
three DVD players and a Blu ray.

Speaker 8 (01:43:17):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
I like you what part of the country are you
and James?

Speaker 18 (01:43:21):
I'm in Livin. Oh yeah, greatest town. I call it
Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
I wouldn't even know what Levin kind of stands for.

Speaker 18 (01:43:32):
That's just yeah. If you're driving a fifty K and
you get all the lights and there's no traffic, you'd
be through it in sety seconds, really breakdown. It's a
beautiful town.

Speaker 14 (01:43:44):
Liv In.

Speaker 25 (01:43:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
What makes it go?

Speaker 5 (01:43:48):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:43:48):
Everything's when you're looking at the shops. Everything's there. You
don't have hendy Yeah, I'm five minutes away walking from
the supermarket, and from the supermarket there's just everything there
is basic within a minute minute thirty walking because I

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don't have a vehicle, you see.

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:44:13):
Yeah, no, I don't want one.

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
And you where'd you get your sheep from?

Speaker 18 (01:44:17):
That's off my landlord. Yeah, he's a great guy. I'll
plug his name, shall I?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
No, I don't worry about that. He might want he
might want, he might want the name publicized.

Speaker 18 (01:44:28):
True exactly. Yeah, but you know, my landlord is a
very very nice man and his wife. They're great. They're
good to me. They charged me a bloody fortune, but
I've been here for fourteen years. Yeah, and he's he's
pretty bloody good.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Yep, So you're going to carry the brisket?

Speaker 8 (01:44:49):
Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:44:51):
It's in the pot right now. I'm going to lift
up the lid and have a look, and yep, she's
bubbling away beautifully. Will he'll be on the stove for
what's the time of living? Will be I'll turn that
off at two?

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
Will you stay up?

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
Will you eat it?

Speaker 10 (01:45:04):
Then?

Speaker 18 (01:45:04):
Yeah, I'm a bit of a night owl.

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Brilliant. It's nice to hear from you, James. By the way,
the Auckland City scored an equalizer in the ninety fifth minute.
I didn't see it. I was, but he's trying to
work out whether his biscuit or brisket. The Sydney coach
doesn't look that happy with it. But he had two
late goals there, so well done them. Free lively kind
of a match. I'm just heading up towards the three
quarter stretch. People. Interesting how the rugby league over the weekend,

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the Maori versus the Indigenous had four to twenty minute quarters.
I quite like that. I guess it was because of
the heat and because they're not not as fit beginning
of the summer. So I thought that was good. Now
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and get in touch
of you on a talk he til twelve o'clock. Anything

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else you want to mention, get in touch tolls, Robert
de Val, anything else you mentioned tonight. So that's the plan.
But the idea is for the tolls back on the
Harbor Bridge, even when they build a new one or
go on the old bridge. Didn't think that's coming to
see that. I think it was crazy that we didn't
have it not there the whole time. So oh eight

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hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to
text Tim Beverage along after midnight tonight. Think it was
pretty interesting in coming out of the tavy with that.
They couldn't quite work out what that ship was. That
what I don't know if the way that was, Yeah,
he's going to say, it must have been a yacht
with a mast, So I gathered. I don't know if
that's what you got the idea you got from it
or not. No breaking weather news tonight. It doesn't appear

(01:46:37):
as though there is more upset for the country, and
that's probably a good thing, because hell, what a start
it's been. In fact, not a start, it's been the
whole four months, those storms in November down south and
now all this unbelievable eight past eleven leven away. I'll
keep your company till twelve o'clock and then Tim Beverage

(01:46:59):
will belong then, looking forward to what you've got to say.
Talk about tolls, Nott to talk about tolls. No, that's fine.
No one seems angry about it. But they're just suggesting
that tolls might come back sooner rather than later when
we build a new bridge. They have tolls on the
old bridge, Marcus. It was a combination of American money,
machinery and labor which built the Littleton Road Tunnel in
nineteen sixty two. The Littleton Tunnel was very expensive to

(01:47:20):
build as a stand in tunnel boring machining in convinctional
techniques are in effectually against volcanic rock all the way through, Marcus.
Is that correct about Muldoon taking the tolls on the
Harbor Bridge? I thought it was one Gary Nap who
was the driving force pun getting them removed. I could
be wrong. Off topic? Or when was smoking band in pubs?

(01:47:41):
I think smoking was banned in pubs summer end of
two thousand and three, start of two thousand and four.
Someone will tell me more about that, but you might
want to affect you. Hey, Gilbert, it's Marcus. Good evening, Hello, Marcus,
is Gilbert here?

Speaker 9 (01:47:57):
Miss a moment. I'm an eighty two year old old
Rodure here and I've been around for a little while,
and I wanted to say in short that one of
my favorite artists in the early days, apart from you know,
all the really famous ones, was Elvis and Alvis. You know,

(01:48:19):
he was reputed to have died in nineteen seventy seven,
and I was very upset about that, as a lot
of people were. And anyway, I've been doing some research
in the last four four four of her years. And
in Arkansas, there's a pastor called Bob Jewyce, so you

(01:48:43):
could look that up on Google if you wanted to.
His name is Pastor Bob Jowyce, and he has finally
admitted after four or five years that he was Elvis Presley.
So that's very interesting. He is still alive. He's eighty
nine now, and he said he wanted to be honest

(01:49:06):
with the public and also honest with the board because
he's very religious. He's got his own church in Arkansas,
and yeah, so that's something that is public now in
the public arena on Google. So I just thought I

(01:49:26):
wanted to inform you about that and other people that
might be listening that might have been very very upset
as I was when he was reputed to have died
in nineteen seventy seven. So yeah, that's just been an
interesting thing to discuss one day and to look it up.

Speaker 8 (01:49:45):
Look it up.

Speaker 2 (01:49:46):
Yeah, we're just jumping in there, right.

Speaker 9 (01:49:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
You say you've been doing some research. Good on you.
What's that research involved?

Speaker 9 (01:49:55):
The research involved extensive Google articles and.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
Also, okay, so you you've been on the internet to
some to some cons three years now, but it would
it wouldn't take that long on the internet to google
you just google Elvis still alive. You'd find it in
five minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:50:16):
Yeah, well that's quite true. But for about the last
two or three years, he denied that he was that
he was Elvis, and he kept on saying that he
was Bob Joyce. But he said that he over the
last couple of years he's become quite sick, and he
said he wanted to, you know, to be honest with

(01:50:37):
the Lord as he as he put it, and also
with with anybody that with a lot of people that
already knew, because there was quite a few really famous
people that didn't know but kept it quiet. And he
lived upstairs in Gracelands and of course no one was
allowed up there, so he could live up there quite peacefully.

(01:50:59):
But yeah, and he was seen at his daughter's general
as well. So if you if that's if you do
just a little bit research on that, because it's all
been condensed now it's actually there and he's admitted he's
had a road test and all that, and he is
confirmed as Elvis as the oldest.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
I don't think he has taken a dnaightiest.

Speaker 9 (01:51:23):
Well have said that he did.

Speaker 2 (01:51:25):
No, it doesn't. It says that he hasn't done it.

Speaker 9 (01:51:27):
Okay, Well, the similarities are just too great to dispel
because he did have a twin brother, but they died
at a very young age. And they recently also exhumed
his his plot at grace Lands, And yeah, I haven't

(01:51:50):
quite gotten right into that and got all the facts
of that yet, but he apparently when they came to
view h in nineteen seventy seven, a lot of people
said that that was a watch dummy. Oh yeah, I
just sort of put it in.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Gilbert, have you sent him any money? Sorry, have you
sent this guy any money?

Speaker 9 (01:52:13):
No? Never, no, no no never, No. This is research.
This is actually suck that Elvis has admitted himself as
passor Bob Jewyce. So it needs to be researched under
that name and then you'll see all the facts will
be there.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
So why would Elvis stain his own death and then
become a pastor.

Speaker 9 (01:52:34):
Because he had the Matthew behind him for a city,
He had the Matthew chosen him down for starting that
they were going to kill him, and he also wanted
to get away from the colonel that was controlling him.
He was slowly killing him, putting him on the stage
three four hours a day, more or less. And there
were that when he bludgers around taking his money, and
that's all they were interested in. He just wanted to

(01:52:56):
put an end to it and pursued a thing that
he always wanted to do. Because he came from a
religious family.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
He could have just done that. He could have just
done it anyway.

Speaker 9 (01:53:04):
Though, well, he could have just done that anyway, as
you say, but there's just too many facts have come
out for it not to be true. Like what Well,
the fact that you know that if you look it up,
you'll see the likeness there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
That's not a fact, you said, there's too many facts.
That's not a fact. That's just something that looks like him.
He's trying to make money by pretending to be him.

Speaker 9 (01:53:32):
Well, that's what a lot of people say. But with
the research that I've done, and I've done a fair
bit of research, it seems to be quite true because
a lot of people, famous people knew Nicholas Cage knew
from the beginning because yet he had a lot of
good friends in Hollywood and they kept a secret for
a very long time. But when his old wife, Priscilla

(01:53:55):
was talking to that famous Negro lady that's got her
own business, I forget her name now, she actually dropped
a clanger and said at Elvis was still alive. And
that came from Priscilla, who's x yea. So that's all
documented on Google. So just something that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Needs to be I'd only say something's documented on Google
and it's just someone. Yeah, I mean, I actually I
find it kind of said what, I find it quite
sad that you believe he's still alive.

Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
Yeah, I do, But you know, I've done the research,
and I'm not one that that easily. But yeah, I'm
not having a look into.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
I don't want to sound dismissive, but what you're doing
is not research. What you are doing is just going
down the rabbit hole of garbage conspiracy theories.

Speaker 9 (01:54:49):
Well you're right in a way, You're right and away,
but I've I've kicked that that church does exist in Arkansas,
and also that there is a pastor, Bob Jewyce, and
that he's been around for a while. He's actually been
seen in the ground grounds of Graceland as well, in

(01:55:09):
a disguised manner, attending his daughter general. So yeah, I mean,
you know, there's just too much there for people to say, no,
that's not him, you know. But if you get a
chance and you spare time, not so much on the program,
but when you get home and just look on Google
and look for yourself, you might see a few things

(01:55:33):
that I've missed. So anyway, yeah, I just sort of
get on this first time I've ever been on to
speak to you, Marcus, and I'm police that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:40):
I have, ye know, I'm for the police. I mean,
I like your sincerity. You clearly believe it.

Speaker 9 (01:55:47):
It's been mind you. What you say is correct. It's
been a conspiracy for many years because he kept it
secret for so long. But he wanted to get away
from the mafia and all the controlling people that were
sucking his money off and put them on the stage,
because it was quite obvious that when he was performing,
you know, at that Fame Club and wherever it was.

(01:56:08):
I mean you could see the man were dying, you
know exactly. He's the reason why he wanted to get
out of it, and the colonel wouldn't let him go.
So this was the reason why he looked in the
top half of Gilbert.

Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
You said, Gilbert, you just said it yourself. You could
see the man was dying.

Speaker 9 (01:56:25):
Yeah, at the time he was. He was when you
look at him, he did well, that's what they say. Yeah,
they say that, Well you could see it. Yeah, you
could see that he was dying. That's that's quite true.
But I mean people could make a comeback from being
like that when they get out of the pressures that

(01:56:46):
the little under. But anyway, I just thought of put it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:49):
Well, I've enjoyed you very much, s Gilbert, thank you
so much for that. There we go eighteen past eleven.
I don't know what to say about that. Yeah, get
in touch welcome Hittle twelve oh, eight hundred eighty eighty. Oh,

(01:57:10):
I wonder why people want to believe that Get in
Touch of you on Talk eight hundred and eighty ten
eight nine text we were a likable bloke, but cheapers.
I mean, these are people that probably never really experience
the Internet. Now they're finding stuff and they see words
printed and it well, that's fact. Someone said. The only

(01:57:30):
thing that makes it interesting was that Bob Joyce attended
Lisa Marie Presley's funeral. This bloke might officially do me,
someone said, word as he's won the Nigerian lottery eleven
twenty one high Christasis Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:57:46):
Okay Marcus, how you doing tonight? Of Thanks good man.
I just turned you talking to the chap from Levin
and I tend to chuckle to myself. So he's doing
a curried briskit, I believe, yep.

Speaker 4 (01:57:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:57:59):
So I've just come back with a bunch of livin
chaps from the Mighty Bert Monroe Toorcycle event down down
in in Vericago.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
Oh yeah, wow.

Speaker 11 (01:58:11):
I didn't know who these living lads were, and I
was a bit suspect when I first heard about them,
but I'll tell you what fantastic guys. I want to
have a bit of a shout out to Lez on
his Triumph Speed four hundred and Dave on his Kawasaki
Versus six fifty fine lines on that motorbike which he
told us about many times. Richard, who's a schoolmate of

(01:58:34):
mine from Fielding on his Yamaha FJR. Fantastic bike, and
also went over with a couple of a few Danny
Birt chaps from over this region, Big Andy and Dave,
the Canadians. We had basically big big bike Harley's and
another fellow Kiwi on a motigovie. So we spent probably
about eleven or twelve days with his living chaps down

(01:58:57):
in in Vicago. We're traveling too in Vicagoo and again
and had a fantastic time, wonderful event.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
Where are you from, Chris, I'm a film BLD boy.
Oh and what was the highlight of the Bert Monroe?

Speaker 11 (01:59:10):
Many highlights, but I think the racing on the beach
was just epic. The museums down there are just incredible.
There's a motorbike museum that just you can spend hours
and had a fantastic huge sort of truck and you
name it, vehicle fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:59:31):
Who'd you stay, Chris?

Speaker 11 (01:59:33):
We started in motor camps and cabins all the way
down we are. On our trip down, we stopped in
Venim barely and then down to Vicago, so that those
were a head of rides and on the way back
half westports and then picked them before shooting over across
back on the ferry. So had a terrific time, had

(01:59:56):
about eleven or twelve days down there, and really enjoyed
the company of these of the living boys and the
Canadians from danny Verte.

Speaker 2 (02:00:04):
And did you camp at the camp headquarters and in
Chicago at the at the event?

Speaker 11 (02:00:10):
We didn't camp at the event, but we're out there
every just about every day.

Speaker 2 (02:00:15):
Did you stay? Did you stay one of the local
camping grounds in in Vicago?

Speaker 8 (02:00:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:00:20):
Yeah, in the central part of in Chicago. And really
enjoyed in Voicago. Actually it was an interesting city. So
as Bluff Bluff was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Bluff is fantastic. Hmm. You should have on the hill climb.
Did you compete?

Speaker 5 (02:00:33):
I didn't do that.

Speaker 11 (02:00:34):
I wouldn't compete, not on my big Hali. No, no,
but what's the four wheelers and the other the other
vehicles race up?

Speaker 9 (02:00:45):
Was?

Speaker 11 (02:00:45):
That was a fantastic day too, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
How was the other How are the other trucks and
cars driving around? Where they consider it and aware?

Speaker 11 (02:00:54):
They're pretty good? I mean there are inundated with motorbikes.
There were motorbikes everywhere. I've never seen so many motor
bikes before. And that was my first mon Roe, but Monroe,
and really enjoyed it. But yeah, the drivers down there
and the people down there were really friendly as well.

Speaker 2 (02:01:12):
Would yeah, just would you come back next year?

Speaker 11 (02:01:15):
I'm not so sure. I'm not sure if I'll be
here next year, but if I am here, I'd probably
be sorely tempted because it was great fun. We only
had one hot, horrific ride down and it was when
they had that terrible weather on I think it was
a Tuesday last week. We were in the rain from
basically blend Him to Feely. It was pretty cold and

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it was pretty windy and it was raining all that time.

Speaker 2 (02:01:39):
Pretty powerful thing to say, you're not sure if you're
here by next year. I hope you are, but I'll.

Speaker 11 (02:01:43):
Leave, but I might not be in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:01:46):
Oh, cheefers, creepers, Chris, I thought you. I thought you're
gonna say you're terminal. You were tuminal.

Speaker 11 (02:01:51):
Nothing terminal, not that I'm aware of it.

Speaker 2 (02:01:53):
Cheers, screepers were the picked and terminal. Ok, that's all right, Chris,
thank you that well. Cheepers, creeper it's a bucket. Oh
it's on his last legs anyway. That's You're nice to talk, Chris.
Good on you. Elvis there, Elvis and Bert Monroe. What
have you got to say people in the final hour
for to me Marcus. A shame that Pastor Bob Joyce

(02:02:18):
has repeatedly denied the rumors that he is Elvis Presley.
While he has a deep baritone voice some of Elvis,
he also has a document history and family that predates
the death of Elvis, which wouldn't align with the secret
Identist which in nineteen seventy seven Elvis was born thirty five.
Pastor Bob nineteen fifty three, Elvis alive and arkansor no

(02:02:46):
not the montanam or like it. He's there with Roy
Orbison and Glenn Campbell. Someone says, is it Sunday night already. Yeah,
I don't know that what the psychology of believing in
Elvis is still alive is. I don't know about that,
because what are the people they think is still alive?
Pretty well, no one on Michael Jackson occasion, No roundabout

(02:03:08):
chat tonight, but pleently happening online. A lot happening on
Facebook about that on the Facebook page about how many
degrees is to go around and roundabout and that's a
good discussion that one. Now, come on, you might be
driving up the country, might be doing something interesting. Would
love to hear from you. A couple of stories that

(02:03:30):
you might be following internationally. I can't work out what's
happened to that newsreader's mother. I'm seeing very little information
about that. I can't rely understand that you might have
been doing deep dives on that. The other stories that
Paul about that missing kid in Australia, it seems as
though they think one of the grandparents must have done that,
and now they're looking at a recently cemented outhouse, which

(02:03:52):
just sounds ghastly. So you might have spent some of
your time looking into those stories. I don't have much
more about that. Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights campaigner,
has died at eighty four. There's just news that's through
this hour or the last actually, but yes, eight hundred eighty,
ten eighty and nine to nine to the text. And Melbourne, Australia,

(02:04:15):
they are outraged at ten dollars eighty for a nice coffee.
Probably cost that much in New Zealand, I would think
twenty seven away from twelve. If you want to be
a part of it, do get in touch. And yes,
the Phoenix, sorry not the Phoenix. Auckland City drew with Sydney,
Orkan FC drew with Sydney FC, and New Zealand has

(02:04:38):
beaten Canada easily in the T twenty. They were a
banana skin team. If they call them that they were
going to tip up, but no, we saw them off. Todd,
this is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 21 (02:04:50):
Hi are Mark you how you're doing good?

Speaker 2 (02:04:51):
Thank you Todd good.

Speaker 17 (02:04:53):
I'm just calling you about tolls.

Speaker 21 (02:04:55):
I've just had a text from my son who just
returned from Sydney and he had a bill from the
rental car company. He was only driving through Sydney two
days when he arrived from Arlington. Just at the end
of last month. On the thirtieth, he went up to
the Blue Mountains from the airport, then drove up north
and then just drove the car back through the other

(02:05:16):
day to drop it off. And his total tolls for
two days in Sydney was one hundred and forty three dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:05:22):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (02:05:23):
Wow, unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (02:05:26):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (02:05:26):
I mean, I've heard it's bad. I used to live
in Sydney and it was nothing like that. But I've
got friends there from previous when and I've worked there
and they said, if you work from they live in
sort of Neutral Bay sort of thing.

Speaker 14 (02:05:39):
And her husband at.

Speaker 21 (02:05:40):
One point was working in the west of Sydney and
I can't remember that. The tolls a week was just phenomenal.
It was just eating into the salary.

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
I can't believe. I mean every days of tolls. And yeah,
well every time I've been there, it's just been public
transport because it's so good. But yeah, I could see
that's even more of a reason to use it, isn't it.

Speaker 21 (02:05:57):
Well, And funnily enough, we had told and so he
spent five days there. So after he dropped off the
rental car, he had five days. He said, I'm so
glad you told me. Just to loop use of public
transport because it's so good.

Speaker 2 (02:06:08):
I mean, it is a spiral. I've never thought of
someone getting to Sydney and hiring a car straight away.
That's quite quaint.

Speaker 21 (02:06:16):
Well he no, he took it up to the gold
Case and it was his grandmother and all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 17 (02:06:22):
But yeah, he was going to hang on to it.

Speaker 21 (02:06:24):
And Sydney, I said, parking, even when we lived there
twenty one years ago, was just im meant.

Speaker 2 (02:06:29):
So no, it's not that.

Speaker 21 (02:06:32):
I mean I lived to carry on.

Speaker 2 (02:06:35):
You go, got a car, but you go.

Speaker 15 (02:06:36):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (02:06:38):
I was just going to say, I lived in Auckland
for four years and and I'll tell you what a
city at one point five million or whatever it is
now compared to five million in Sydney, and the and
the traffic was better in Sydney, and the transport just
ten times.

Speaker 16 (02:06:51):
You know.

Speaker 21 (02:06:51):
I just what a difference. You know, I just used
to get the train in to work or you know,
it was just a mile of difference. And that's all
about infrastructure. But I guess they pay for it by tolls.
I mean, it's just a nominal. I just couldn't believe that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:04):
And you might you might have heard earlier, Todd, but
someone has sent me in information that if you are
a regular commuter in Sydney, it's capped at sixty bucks.
So if you're doing it, you know each week that
you limits to sixty bucks, you limit, So that makes
it quite fair. And I can see how that works
that way, doesn't it, Because you know, that seems quite
the visitors and people that don't know get told a lot.
But if you're doing it each day, that's good.

Speaker 22 (02:07:25):
I mean, that's fair.

Speaker 21 (02:07:26):
It's a bit like the transport, you know, using public
transport in London, you have a weekly cap I think
in zone well I don't know what zone it is,
but it was eighty pounds or something, so you know,
to do that for the tolls. I think that's a
great idea.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
Nice to talk, Todd. Thanks so much, Helen. This is Marcus.
Good evening, Yeah, dreaming.

Speaker 6 (02:07:44):
Catherine Roman interviewed Priscilla Presley recently. Priscilla has written a book.
Sounds a really interesting woman. Now, she didn't mention anything
about Elvis still being alive, so I think Priscilla has
been misquoted somewhere along the line. Now, the other thing
was about that creaking norse since I've never heard an

(02:08:05):
electric sense sounds like that, and I'm just wondering if
it might be something to do with the transmission lines
or something to do after the stormy weather, something's come loose,
or it sounded almost like wind kind of blowing something,
but you wouldn't get this kind of repetitive thing. But
I do agree with that man from Spark who said

(02:08:29):
that he pointed out that it was sort of rather
a regular beat.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
I thought I thought it was regular.

Speaker 6 (02:08:38):
Well, well I didn't think it was quite regular. But anyway, yeah, so,
but it's intriguing, intriguing, and I'm just spending it's something
to do with the stormy weather and something become a
bit loose somewhere that's picking it up.

Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
Your reception's fine, Yep, good as gold. Okay, thanks Helen.
Any words from the text about what that noise was, Dan,
Did they analyze it? Still waiting, still waiting on the
word from the head biscuit. What's going to happen? Yeah,
they are trying to get more details. We chase up.
Take that seriously. I promise you that people the old

(02:09:15):
Google research of the same place all these vaccine experts
come from very good. The Kalangahackey Gorge needs major repairs.
Another storm might close it. Bit of a concern. They
are just working out how and when they're going to
fix it. Marcus, nobody would still be crazy about Elvis.
The angle of the roundabout depends on the alignment of

(02:09:36):
the road. Here's a great text, Marcus. You're incredible. You
allow someone to talk conspiracy about Elvis for ten minutes,
but when you get sent real footage of restrange lights
flying across Aukland, you close your mind and don't want
to know about it. Maybe it's news you can't cope with.
I've got no response. I never looked at the footage
because was at work when it arrived. If Elvis was

(02:10:00):
still alive, so as lady dies, she had way more
reasons to fake her own death. Anyone seen her.

Speaker 9 (02:10:06):
Loll.

Speaker 2 (02:10:07):
You don't hear about who's still being alive. You hear
occasionally about Steve Irwin's still being alive, do you.

Speaker 5 (02:10:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:16):
How remarkable the fame that family's generated from a fairly
sketchy zoo. He's a text from Nicole from Sydney. Hi, Marcus,
I pay tolls and because I am a rep. I
choose to claim it back on my tax at the
end of the year instead of a company toll tag.
My bill is usually around eleven hundred a year. However,

(02:10:39):
up until this year it meant as part of this revenue,
I got my regio and third party insurance free, which
is around one thousand dollars. They have just stopped it.
My tolls in Melbourne were two thousand a year and
they had no incentible caps go the transport of heading
to town on the north Shore drive of going west.

(02:10:59):
Good evening, Liz, this is Marcus. Welcome, Hello Mas.

Speaker 25 (02:11:03):
I'm just wanting to run through because I'm being rather real,
because I am real. I'm just thinking, do these people
like the previous schooler over Elvis? Do they think that
they know things that no one else knows? So in

(02:11:24):
a way they're quite special, you see, except for how
they work. I make sure so because for me, I
fear for the fact that their mother or father die,
so or to think somebody unless they go and hope them,
they wouldn't believe it, because it seems to me as

(02:11:44):
though they like Saint Thomas, they need to put the
hand of the side because really the rat now beside
at all is highly unbelievable. But people who have a
brain that's quite rational.

Speaker 2 (02:12:00):
I mean, something's going on for them.

Speaker 25 (02:12:02):
It is I'm not holding it again, so they can
be that way. But it's a sad thing to actually
hear the belief system they have when we live in
a world that that really is quite unbelievable to most
rational people.

Speaker 2 (02:12:19):
I think it's nice that people have different beliefs, I
guess in some ways. I mean, it's not damaging anyone.

Speaker 25 (02:12:25):
Well maybe not. It's true we all have different beliefs,
where Buddhist or Catholics. But if it's such a belief
that they can't move from it, then in a way,
it's sad for them to be stuck in that place,
because we all have to move through life for our

(02:12:46):
own benefits, and it's not doing them much good.

Speaker 21 (02:12:49):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:50):
And they must have really loved him when he was singing, well, we.

Speaker 25 (02:12:53):
All love everybody. We love the appearance that they.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
All die a good points good thing.

Speaker 25 (02:12:58):
He said that much wist that she died, I can't
go and have her exoomed. In fact of the matters,
we can't for everything in life. Okay, yes, and it
makes you. I can listen, but there's a big tinge
of sadness to this this.

Speaker 13 (02:13:17):
Thank you, Hello, Doug Marcus, Marcus, Sorry, I haven't been
listening all night. Hey, this clicking noise. I've got a
brother in law who's got cattle and they have that
system instead of electric fences. So there's a signal and
there's a thing that put around the cow's necks and

(02:13:38):
like a halter. Yeah, yeah, I wonder if it could
be related to that. I don't know if the people
are in rural areas or not. I haven't really picked.

Speaker 21 (02:13:46):
Up on that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
Do they click?

Speaker 13 (02:13:49):
I don't, Well they going to pair to click, but
I mean they're quite new, and I haven't heard of
them clicking, to be honest, No, why haven't even there's
obviously a signal though, going between something on the ground
and something on the kettle.

Speaker 2 (02:14:04):
Well, it didn't sound that the original click to sound
like it didn't tell electric fence click No.

Speaker 13 (02:14:09):
But's this news systems all totally digital? It's not the
old sort of electrical electric fence pul syntme.

Speaker 2 (02:14:18):
I think that's what happens, not if people just have
the station not on properly. That's what I think it is,
but yeah, no, no worries, Doug. Thanks for coming through.

Speaker 1 (02:14:25):
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