Not good sitters (28 November 2025)

Marcus talks the Christchurch-Invercargill train propsal, and the looming summer fruit season.

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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.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome. Now are you going people? Welcome to
the end of spring? And that might sound controversial. Who
make spring shorter? It feels like it's dragging, and actually
pretty much and all in sundery, it feels like summer.
A lot of sport On tonight, we've got basketball and
we've got football, both at nine point thirty, so that's happening.

(00:36):
I have great hope for tonight. And I can also
tell you that got some cherries. Yeah, do you wash
your you're fan of washing your cheries. I don't know
if you're a grave you're supposed to wash them or not.

(00:58):
I've plenty of times I've gone picking them up the
ladder and just guzzled myself. So I'm not quite sure
if you're supposed to wash it anyway, just saying that
as a conversation start, I've got no idea if that's
a thing or not. Anyway anyway, anyway, anyway, So I
have some cherries tonight. I'm excited about that. This breaking

(01:18):
news tonight will cover that. However, I wonder if you're
out there worried I've got no topic, or you're just
wondering what my topic is going to be. Do you
think I've got a top or anything. I've got no topic,
quite a big topic. So what's happened today is that
they have said that there is going to be a

(01:40):
train between inver Cargo and christ Church called the Mainlander.
And boy, oh boy, is this problematic. Now You probably
expect me, being someone that's got association with trains and
to be living in in the Cargo or bluff, to

(02:00):
be cockerhoop about this, but boy oh boy, am I not.
All the press, all the articles are kind of oh
my goodness, huge wind passenger train to LinkedIn even in
christ Church. But if you drill down right, it's only
going to launch for three days, right, So you can

(02:26):
go from Invercargo to christ Church and back for three days.
There's only two dates. You leave in Vicargo on January
twenty first and you're turned on January third, twenty third.
So that's interesting. But what is even more interesting. If
you would catch the train from Invercargol to christ Church,

(02:48):
it would cost you three hundred and sixty eight dollars
one way. So we've got a problem, hoston, We've got
a problem. So three hundred and sixty eight dollars one
way would be seven hundred and thirty six dollars return

(03:11):
to go from Vicar go to christ Church if your
time's that by four for a family for four, because
I presume the kids will be an adult fair that's
normally the way it goes. That would be just shy
of three thousand dollars for a family of four to
get a train to christ Church for the weekend. And
of course what do you do on a train. You eat,

(03:31):
said another couple of hundred bucks in there, So it'll
be three and a half grand. That's for your transport,
and it's also going to cost you a day to
get there and a day to get back. And probably
what happens with the railway Musu is the lines will
get too hot, so there be speed restrictions, so your

(03:53):
weekend in christ Church will be one day. You'll be
a day getting there and a day getting home, whereas
you can fly there for forty minutes for Friday Bucks.
I think what we've got here as a disconnect between
people's idea of what rail and Zealand could look like

(04:16):
and what The reality is, what I think people want
is a cheap form of public transport that's trains, like
cheaper than a bus because you've got more people on
it and you've still got just one driver. But what
we've got here is something that's five times more expensive

(04:36):
than a plane. So I don't know why they've done it.
I don't know if it's just key we Rail appeasing
their shareholders, or if it's some sort of I've got
no idea what it is. If it's some sort of
feel good so they can do something weird with their
freight operation. But for a family of four to go

(04:56):
to Invercargo to christ Church for a weekend for three
and a half thousand dollars, is that how much I did?
It was unbelievable. And by the way, too, three thousand
dollars in Vicargo's not a wealthy place. They're teachers and
freezing workers and people that work at the smelter. They
get paid quite well. But it's not your dot com people,

(05:21):
it's not Queenstown, it's not Wahiki. So yeah so, and
everyone's saying they're cockahoop and excited about an exciting new
chapter for the wider region. Well, you look at the
numbers and I think, man, oh man, what they really
need to do with rail is not have some sort
of weekend away at three thousand dollars. What they need

(05:43):
to do or three and a half thousand dollars over
much is what they need.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
To do.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Is probably have some long term planning, start small and
slowly expand cheap passing your travel. Otherwise it's not going
to happen. And I've always said, what does a train
provide that a bus doesn't? And I can't think to
the answer to that. Both slow and inflexible and clearly

(06:12):
quite expensive. So yes, So I was amazed to see
that come out today and amazed to read it, and
amazed to realize that, you know, and I'd love to
be cocker hoop and excited with joy. I just can't
see it anyway. So if you want to comment on that,
you want to say anything to say about that's a
big topic to me because I don't want to be

(06:35):
Nigel Nigatron on this one. But yeah, I mean, passenger
ol could be great in this country, but this is
not it. And they're also saying that it's a spectacular
trip and unfortunately, going to comment on that too. New
Zealand's most spectacular rail trip is the Tairy Gorge to
knock out extraordinary engineering achievement, extraordinary railway trip with viaducts

(07:02):
and tunnels made by pick and shovel through shist mountains.
It's extraordinary. It should still go all the way the Cromwell,
they should have picked it up for the rail travel.
Oh well, they can still put a back. That's the
best rail trip of the country as far as a view,
closely followed by the Transalpine and then the one through Cauculda.

(07:22):
But the news flash, the train between Invert Cargil and
christ Church, apart from a little bit of tunneling and
some stuff around Port Charmers and Karatani, it's pretty boring.
So yeah, So I've looked at all the people in
the petitions, and I've read all the hype and stuff
like that, and I'm going to say, well, this is

(07:43):
going to be a flash in a pan and there's
going to be very little demand for it because just
not something people would do and doesn't fit in with
families budgets. And then once you get the family of
four to two christ Church your weekend, you're stuck out
in the suburbs with no car. What do you do?
Then do you walk into the city with those suitcases

(08:04):
on wheels and then you're stucku You've got a transport.
So I hate to say it, so I'm trying to
be a great booster for the region, but yeah, a slow,
expensive trains not the answer anyway. That's my rent over
And that's as big as a rant as I'll probably
have for a long time about trains because it's something
I am fairly well informed about. I know trains, and

(08:27):
I am in the market and am in the region.
So if you want to comment on that, if you
think I'm being unfair, let me know. Yeah, eight hundred eighty,
ten eighty and nine to nine two detects. You want
to get involved, looking forward to what you've got to say,
if you want to be a part of it, as
I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, we'll

(08:48):
also stalk talk stone fruit and anything else tonight and
breaking news when that happens. No doubt they're being more
news from that ghastly fire. I think they said earlier
on the news there were twenty five people that were
still in those apartments, which just sounds terrifying, but I
will keep you updated on that here till midnight to know.

(09:09):
If you want to be a part of the numbers
eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty and nine to knowne
to detect. If there is something else you want to mention,
feel free to come through and I'll be happy to
talk to you. But by the way, is the Friday.
Oh by the way. The other thing that I'm excited
about is why wearer the thermal parks north of Auckland.

(09:30):
That's getting a rejig. But it's not going to be
hydra slide and fun. It's going to be wellness. And
what wellness is like is like candles and tubs and stuff.
But yeah, it's not the it's not the way we're
that of old with those great slides. I think that's
kind of sad that it's I guess it's the only
way to make the money with it. But you know,

(09:51):
I'm a great fan of hot Pool's been for everyone.
I think the ones in Hamner do that for every
well But let's wait and see. Hopefully there will be
some slides of some sort anyway. Eighteen passed to live
eighteen past eight If you want to get involved in
the show here til Midnight at Texas says the train
ride for that amount is just greed. Well, they clearly

(10:13):
are not very efficient operators, but that's so much they're
going to charge. Marcus expecting my first delivery of pure
Otago cherries soon. Just a brilliant just the best, and
a brilliant service, Dave on great barrier. I haven't used
that service. I look into that. Marcus. The train story

(10:33):
just sums up the situation he's in and right now
regular folks stuck on the platform watching as the wealthy
pull away from the station to have a good time. Anyway,
it's eighteen past eight, looking forward to what you've got
to say, lines through twenty one past eight. If you
want to be a part of it, welcome hittle tow there.
I can go and go to Tahiti for E one
hundred and sixty return or would you want to go

(10:55):
in the cable? Christ did John a train? Riddle me
this evening? Mike, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus, good evening to you too. You know,
it's just a bit of a coincidence because I saw this.
I think it was either yesterday the day before on
social media, I just found I thought it was quite
intriguing what I was watching. But for starters, I'll say that,
I mean, is that fake news about the price from

(11:22):
in the cargo to christ Church? I mean that that
just seems was iculous.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's in the press release. An adult ticket will cost
one nine to nine for the dned in to christ
Ditch League and one six nine for dun in the cargo.
Add those together, that's three hundred and sixty eight dollars.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, okay, so well, yeah, it just seems that saw
was something that came from China. And I mean, I
don't know if that's this is fake news or not.
I mean, it's difficult to know what you can believe
on social media.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
But this is this is not this is not social media.
This is reported by stuff website and the ODT and
the New Zealand Herald and the Star paper, which is
a small paper out of christ Jute. So it's you know,
it's it's used papers with journalists. Okay, they'll'll be repeating

(12:21):
the press release, right.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
So, all the guy was saying is that if you
go from one city in China to another city, he said,
it's just far better to take the train. And so
he said, if you go to the airport and you're
waiting in queues for security, you have to get to
the airport, you have to board, you have to wait,
and by the time the plane flies and then you

(12:46):
land and you have to go through security and all
the rest of the drama that goes on with airflight.
All he said was that far better taking those bullet trains.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Trains, they've got it sorted out. And I think France
is the same. I think in France actually you can't
fly short distances if there's rail because they've kind of
given rail their heads up.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yeah, and probably in Sweden and you know, all around
Europe as well. Absolutely, And he said, like, well, that
how he was describing in China. He said, you've got
huge leg room, you can fold your chair out and sleep,
You've got free Wi Fi, you can do all your work.
And he said, pretty much it started an advantage in

(13:29):
times of in terms of speed to take the train.
It's about the same, but it's so much more comfortable
with a better you you're not looking at clouds, you're
looking at the countryside. But so anyway, so after what
you just said, I looked at on Google just now
an airfare cost from a city that I don't know

(13:52):
called win Zoo on the east coast of China to
another city on the east coast of China called Fujo
Fujau and to fly and this is this is exactly
opposite to what you've described in this South Island to
fly from from that one that from Wenshao to Fujao

(14:12):
would be two hundred and seventy two US dollars. However,
China's got it so worked out that if you took
the train and it would take the same time, it
would be twenty six US dollars. That's on the train,
twenty six US dollars compared to two hundred and seventy
two flying to get there in the same time. So yeah,

(14:36):
that's why. So, I mean, what's happening in the South Island.
That just seems ludicrous.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
And look, it's also ludicrous because there aren't the population
centers to support that. If you want to train transport
you go auk from Hamilton, Hamilton, Todong and that triangle
there where people want to go in Palmerston, North Wellington
because there's populations there. You know, in Vicago there's fifty
thousand people. It's not a big tourist hub. Most people
they went to Christich would take their car because they'd

(15:01):
want to go to Dressmart when they're up there to
buy themselves some new shoes for the kids for school,
but'd want to get a round while they're up there.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
Yeah, I personally i'd always drive the Priuses you to stop,
you to stop, you like.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
And Peter Prius there. But you you'd be up there.
You got your car, you take because you take your
sleeping met and all sorts of stuff in the yoga
met and things you have at all. You can't take
much stuff on the train, have your bike the lot.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well, I'll jeorge you greatly. Mike, thank you so much that.
By the way, there has been a fairly serious looking
stabbing an Adelaide. They are calling it. They are calling
it Black Friday bloodshed. So it's been stabbing the teenagers
fighting for his life. Another man has been seriously injured
after stabbing if pools of blood on the floor of
Vandelaide shopping Center during Black Friday sales. That's just come

(15:51):
through now. I'll get more details about that when I can.
We are talking about the rail train. That's that's been talking.
People have been talking about there for a long long time.
But yeah, but people at the the nostalgic you see,
someone said, your maths are out. I don't think my

(16:13):
maths are out. The cost is one nine to nine
for the Needin to christ Jurch and one six nine
Fordnedina in Vicago. Add those together three hundred and sixty
eight one way times that by two six hundred and
seventy four or something, So it's a lot. So you know,

(16:35):
my maths aren't out. But that's a lot of money. Now,
perhaps the children fair is less. I don't think it
would be half priced. It's half price on planes, but
there's potential that it could be that, but I don't
think that's the case. I was just staggered. But there

(16:57):
by the price he says seven three six return times
four for a family of four two nine hundred and
forty four shy of three thousand dollars, it's a lot
of money. You take your car tank a guess and
be a lot quicker. The train will be slow too,
because there'll be freight going on the line, a lot

(17:20):
of freight. You'd have to stop as that passes they'll
be passing loops and all sorts of things, and roadworks
and all not roadworks, track works. I guess you'd call that.
Get in touch if you want to talk here till twelve,
that and cherries and anything else you want to mention tonight.
There is sport. Oh, someone says, still hugely expensive. Thanks

(17:46):
for that, perps. A model similar to Uber ride share
could sustain a full time train between the Vacado and Crats.
There's just not the demand and the question you've got
to say, what can a train do that a bus
can't do? And the bus is fine actually, although they

(18:06):
do stop in Balcluther of forty five minutes, which seems
like a long time. You've spent forty five minutes in Balcluther.
It seems longer than it is. And I catch the
bus up and down quite often. Be in touch if
you want to talk, there's lines. They're free, oh eight
hundred eighty, ten eighty and nine to nine two text
so you want to come through. Anything else you want

(18:28):
to talk about tonight? Good breaking news, what it happens,
and good sport. Tonight basketball By the way, the intercity
trip between Invocado Krotis on the bus is sixty five dollars,
So that's one way sixty five up against three hundred

(18:48):
and sixty eight. So yeah, it's a big difference. Twenty
nine to nine. The number is, oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eight. If you want to text, it's nine
to two nine two. How much baggage handlers get paid
out of interest? Someone might have some information about that
in it's Marcus, good evening, good evening.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (19:08):
Ian listeners is a gold card cover with the old.

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Price on the train?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
No mention of that, and I just have another quick
look through that.

Speaker 8 (19:20):
It was nice to go down there, go down to
dine Eve and go for a swimming Morana pool.

Speaker 9 (19:24):
I'll be great to get the train for about jean Bach.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
From christ Church or from Timido somewhere christ du Oh yeah,
well that would be the answer.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
I mean, yeah, last century, last century, we're there.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Dollar is worth a dollar?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
How much is the dollar? How much the dollar with
now in?

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Oh, well we're zero?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Okay, I like that. Thank you, dB. This is Marcus
good eving and welcome.

Speaker 9 (19:53):
Oh sorry, I was just trying to pack my horse
and cart in the garage.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Very good.

Speaker 9 (20:01):
I understand where some of the pricings coming from on
this because here we our charges an absolute fortune for
you to use their railway track and they almost slit
out of spite as opposed to out of the goodness
of their heart. But I am.

Speaker 10 (20:21):
Absolutely with you.

Speaker 9 (20:23):
Why would you take two days to go from christ Church?
Turned with taggle and yeah, there's nothing wrong with than
the cadl ive down with your way, But why would
I spend two days in a train and comparing it
to the speed of a Chinese train, we're doing an
average speed of maybe fifty kilometers an hour except between

(20:45):
Timura and christ Jurche, where they've got some decent high
speed straight track. But the rest of these on the
railways is hit steep. Been the tunnel full railway, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
So just to explain the background, Dbe, you're a railway man.
You've worked in trek control, right.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
I'm thirty five year raway man here, I've driven trains,
controlled trains, timetable trains, so few as well.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
The average speed between Voicago and christ Church would be
fifty five k's did you say?

Speaker 9 (21:20):
I never drove down that area, but I would be
surprised if it was any higher. I'd have to get
a timetame louder that I can work.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It out instantly.

Speaker 9 (21:27):
But I'm going to work on fifty kilometers an hour,
So it's and.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
You'd have to stop, you'd have to stop to let
freight trains go past.

Speaker 9 (21:38):
Well, they'll probably prioritize you so that the freight trains
that we've pulled out for you. There's not a lot
of freight in daylight now anyway, so being a daylight train,
you'll probably get most of the trackage to yourself. Okay,
especially south of christ Church because south of Dneta, because
I lived next to the railway at a wayhole, so

(21:59):
there's only four trains in each direction a day, not
exactly pumping.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
So you make a good point. So this must be
a private operator. And what's happened is that key we
Rail are extorting how much they have to pay to
run as a private operator on that track. Is that
is that your understanding, that's looking at what it does.

Speaker 9 (22:20):
The operator is going to be a pace a group
called Mainland Rail which I think.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
They're going to yeah, and they're going to run the
They're going to run the trains to the Takaha Stadium.
Aren't they.

Speaker 9 (22:33):
Yeah, okay, and yeah I could see wedding specials up
to big gigs at christ it's ordinated out of the cargo,
But we don't have the infrastructure. We've got rid of
it all even in the cargo station would require massive
out of the money to bring it up to some

(22:55):
sort of passenger availability.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Which sort of closed off with chicken wire. Now you
can't get on the platform.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
And yeah, but I'd like to see railways do something.
But I am a realist, And all right, say somebody's
got the three thousand dollars for a return trip, they're
only going to do it once, and they're probably going
to say to their friends, oh, I think next time
I'll fly.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
And Kiwis aren't good for long trips. All they do
is eat, don't they. They sit down there and think, well,
there's a train that was doing here. I'll go get
a pie. Then they get a beer, then they get
another pie, then they get bored and walk around. I mean,
we're not good sitters, are we not?

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Really?

Speaker 9 (23:39):
In five hours of looking at the Pacific Ocean and
even the trends coastal up through kai Kura, that's interesting stuff.
And I've said in the front of the train doing that.
I used to drive that thing, and I felt for
my passages because after a couple of hours it's just

(24:01):
more scenery. But I agree with you about the the Transalpine.
That's that's spectacular stuff until you get to Arthur's Path
and then you know, get on a bus and go
and do a wine tour. I'm not down running down
to the West Coast, but by the time you get
through the o Tier Tunnel and into the West Coast,

(24:23):
now you're just looking at Familand and that looks the
same out of both windows.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
And then she got a less she got a pache
the spagna muss or something in rigod.

Speaker 9 (24:32):
Eyesight and cows up to their bellies and munch.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yes, sorry, we can't say that. Do you see Do
you see Gloria Veil from the trainer?

Speaker 4 (24:44):
No?

Speaker 9 (24:45):
No, Glory of Oils are a completely different valley set.
It's actually about thirty k's from Otira, but it's on
the side of it.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
I had visage of their raving to the tray like
Amish people, but it's not like that, is it.

Speaker 9 (24:58):
No, it's not like that.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
So yeah, you know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (25:04):
You know what gorgeous.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
It had up.

Speaker 9 (25:07):
Was one of our bigger ones that they're really struggling with.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Such a great trip and such great people. That's just spectacular.
Everyone should be throwing all their money at that because
that deserves to that deserves to be that is world class.

Speaker 9 (25:21):
Yeah, but the only money they can't get New Zealanders
on that they can see the best times when those
cruise lines.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
So you know, in America, if you're on passenger trains dB,
half the people are Amish, okay, because they can't travel.
They can go horse and cart or train. They've got
some weird religious thing that they can't go on modern conveniences,
so they're all on trains and dB rollerblading. Have you

(25:52):
googled that? No, google Amish rollerbladers. They're very good rollerbladers
because because they're allowed to do that. I'm going to God.
But it's been nice to talk that. If humored me, well,
thank you. I'll be in trouble as part of my
promotional arm for in vocaioll but still twenty two to nine,
twenty to nine Carlott's Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 12 (26:15):
Good evening. Just a couple of comments about this train. Firstly,
who are the prices geared towards the locals or of
a tourist, because these sound like tourist prices.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, and that's kind of and having listened to what
DV says, I can understand that it's an independent operator.
It's not Kiwi rails. That's kind of tempered my response
a bit because that'll just be people trying to do
something they thinks the demand for. But it's it's not
the movement for trains I thought was for families wanting
a cheap, easy way to get around the country. It's

(26:47):
or for backpackers, And it's not that, is it?

Speaker 12 (26:52):
Well? But I don't know. It depends on I guess
it depends on who they're gearing it towards, is tourists
or locals. Because the second comment that is going to
make is how many people are going to be on
the train, because surely it's better having like a cheaper
price to have more people on it their ridiculous price
and having like only two people on the train.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, because I guess that's the beauty of trains. You
can put extra carriages on, can't you if there's a
lot of demand to make it cheap and fill it
up and look, And I mean I don't necessarily know
a lot of people be coming from christ Church to
in vic Cargo because in the Cargo as a tourist
destination is probably still in its infancy. It's something that
people are trying to work on, but it's it's not

(27:32):
kind of it's not like everyone's must do yet, you know,
it's not a place everyone's desperate to get to. So
I'm not quite sure how that fits in either.

Speaker 12 (27:43):
Yes, because I remember quite a few years ago, have
you heard of the William C. Daldy.

Speaker 10 (27:48):
It was a.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, great great thing because quite a.

Speaker 12 (27:53):
Few years ago they had an event on I think
it was there's a train that went up to somewhere
up north country of exactly where it was, I think
where you get the boat to get to Great Charwell Island.
I think it went to.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Sandspit from Sandsport or up there.

Speaker 12 (28:14):
I think it went up there. Summary because you could
catch the steam train up well, yeah, because the steam
train went up and back again. But also the William C.
Dawdy went up by the harbor as well, so you
could go up by train and back or up by
train and back on the Dorby. Yeah, and also you
govern the Dorty and back on the steam trains, so

(28:35):
the two were running together on the special event. And
because I mem there's quite a few people on the train,
because I mean my parents that I caught the train
up to, I think it's sure it was fands, but
we went to and then we caught the Dordy back
again and it was a data ripened.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I've always they always seemed to yeah, is the is
the William Daughdy still around? Because I mean they're always
it seemed as though they had to work really hard
to make that viable from a cost port of it
didn't They could always look like it was kind of
a I mean, I guess ships and old steamships they're
exp have to maintain, aren't they.

Speaker 12 (29:08):
Yes. At one point I think it was moored at Devonport,
but that was quite a few years ago, and I'm
not sure if it ended up at the new Maritime
Museum they set up. I think around the Viaduct Harbor, okay,
But I can't remember exactly where it ended up because
and at one point I did see it at Devonport,

(29:29):
but I don't know if it's since been moved to
the viaduct.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (29:33):
I'm sure somebody else will be able to tell it's
exactly where it's gone, but it's years since I've been
on that.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Okay, well let's talk more about that. Cal Butt, thanks
so much. That's sixteen to nine.

Speaker 13 (29:46):
Do do Do Do Do Do Do Do do, get
in touch you want to talk Marcus till twelve, sixteen
to nine.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
And I guess what my my real not concerned, but
said the about this is that in time would be
fantastic to have a train between in Vert Cargol and
christ Church like they used to have. But you know,
if there's something like this that's a private operator is
expensive then and if it's not used. If it was,

(30:22):
they always tried it, but no one used it. You know,
I think with something like this HAPs to happen, it's
going to be planned a long time ahead, with commitment
from the government. So they've got the infrastructure on the platform,
so people get on with TODA and Gore and all
the other stations and you know, commit to it and

(30:43):
then build it over fifty years, so it becomes something
that's said and you know, that becomes part of infrastructure,
not tongue that it's occasionally on the weekend because and
occasional things not going to last. But yeah, you might
have your own comments, Diane, it's Marcus. Good evening, Yes.

Speaker 14 (30:59):
Good evening, Marcus. I've driven down there quite a few
times to my auntiece and that, and I always liked
to stop at Wahunga and they're lake there on the
other side of Duneden. Have a picnic there. Well, if
you're on the train, you can't do that, can't you?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
No places?

Speaker 14 (31:19):
And I saw the black Swans the last time I
went down there. Yeah, yeah, oh they're beautiful. Yeah, And
but I enjoyed my driving down there, And that's just
I haven't been down I was intending to go this year,
but with my health and that, I thought a bit

(31:41):
of stay pop.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
I think people I think now everyone's got their cars.
I think people love their cars. It's hard for people
to give up their cars on holiday because.

Speaker 14 (31:51):
I think you want to go and have a grounder.
Second hand shops shops and do them over with the
with you buy and they say, well you don't. You know,
they've got quite good ones down and op shops oh
very good.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I tell something about the op shops and the
cab but they got to they seen. They tend to
employ the over fifties. There's always extremely good staff, free,
attentive and very chatty. Love them.

Speaker 14 (32:24):
Yes, yes, that's what you do. The first shout to go.
The friendlier they are.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
That's always been like that, you know, not always dying,
but most of the time. Nice to talk to you.
Thank you. Ten to nine some great texts coming through.
I'll get to those.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Woo.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Yeah, eight hundred and eighty to eighty nine to nine
to text if you want to come through, feel free.
There's good sport from nine to thirty. New Zealand Basketball
New Zealand versus Australia and football New Zealand versus Australia.
Also so both matches, one's women's and one's men's. But
I think it's problematic when we keep saying we only

(33:07):
specify the sport when it's women, don't we We say
rugby or women's rugby, which is kind of a weird thing.
You'll notice that when you start listening for it. Not
quite sure all the way around that I don't like
names like soccer roos and jilarrouse and black Oh yeah,
I don't like all them nicknames for teams. But anyway
ten to nine, eight to nine a text here Marcus,

(33:28):
my friend and I look forward to going to Invicargo
and Bluff. We flew to in Vericago, a beautiful little city. However,
no way to buy a bottle of wine at a supermarket,
so each time we want a bottle of wine we
had to ring a taxi to go to a bottle
shop for purchase. Therefore each time ring a taxi. As
we were from Willington and did not think we would
need a car. Countdown was across the road from a hotel,

(33:49):
but due to drinking restrictions, it did not sell alcohol.
When we visited Bluff, it costs ten of dollars from
in Vericago return again as we had no car. Unfortunately,
the bus service was non existent. If any place need
to transport pick up, it is Invcago to Bluff. We
walked from the anchor which was shut. There were no
Bluff oysters and oyster season by the way, and as

(34:11):
I said, walked all the way to the Maritime Museum
during a taxi to get back to in Vericago. Such
pretty places are Bluff and in Vericago, but such a
disappointment as far as bus transport goes maybe the council
should look at updating services regarding transport. Otherwise, a lovely holiday,
albeit very expensive, but people in both towns were lovely

(34:31):
and Invercargo it's one of the cleanest towns I've ever
seen in New Zealand. Christ what a great text, and
so much there is true. In fact, it's all true
and so much to unpick, but there we go. Yeah,
but the news, as you had just heard it is
that they have agreed there is going to be a
train between christ Church and Invercago. But it's expensive three

(34:52):
hundred and sixty eight dollars one way, but you know
they're giving it a go, but seems to be fairly
pricey and I don't quite know who the market for
that would be. I'm not sure how many people want
to go from christ Church to Invercargo for the weekend

(35:13):
at those rates when you could probably go to Tahiti
and I don't want to. I mean, they're both great places.
But yeah, well it's a challenge with tourism. It could
well be for the seeing foreign people would like to

(35:33):
come here. I think the Feign people when they go
from Crojuts tend to go to Queenstown in Tiano or
to Milford Sound. So that's kind of the bucket list stuff,
not so much bluff, although they should. It's a spectacular place,
but it's it's Yeah. Anyway, if you've got texts about that,
you want to call about that, feel free to come
through tonight. The number is eight hundred eighty, ten eighty

(35:56):
and nine to nine to text anything else you want
to mention, I am here for that. Do get in touch. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty. By the way, it's Advent Calendar day.
We have got two. We've got a Cludo Advent calendar

(36:16):
and we've got a was Jig Advent calendar. Apparently I
said yes to it. I just wanted a sardine Advent calendar.
I've got no idea how there was Jig one works.
I'm pretty suspicious because how would a Jigsaw advent calendar?

(36:40):
And I have no idea how the Cludo one works.
I also know my children, and my children aren't going
to stick to opening one each day. They'll open them
all on the first day, and then the second day
they'll be bored of it and wanting something else. So yeah,
I've got to worry about that or maybe they're not,

(37:02):
maybe they won't. But we had Lego advent calendars for
a while and that just goes into the great chasm
of general Lego, doesn't it. Any who. I'll tell you
what's died, and that's elf on the shelf. What a
good thing that is? That nasty surveillance concept I've been watched.

(37:25):
Never really embrace that, and I think others are kind
of falling in line with that one. But be in
touch of you want to be a part of the
show tonight here till twelve o'clock. It's all on. I'll
by the way, the football, the soccer us versus the
jill Rouse versus I don't even know what they're called now,
the jill Use versus the White Sox, white ferns, all ferns.

(37:53):
That's not on TV. I'll find out where that is.
You've got to go. You've got to go online. So
FIFA plus and TV and Z plus, the Ford football
ferns forward as in the car brand, not as in Ford.

(38:18):
All do get in touch. You want to be part
of it, Hettle midnight anything else you want to mention
talk about good Always enjoy a train discussion. But in
an advent calendar and anything else you want to get
in with. Marcus. Still no news about the Air India crash.
That's right. I don't know what we're going to do

(38:40):
about that. There's no information, Marcus. I won't get the
train to christ Church return. I can drive the car
return for one point sixty for the whole family, also
my car to use when I get there. A train
is not practical nor cost effective. And if the aukn
Hamblin can't make a profit without government council council subs in,
this one hundred percent won't. And that's Johnny from Invera Cargol.

(39:04):
Thanks for that, Johnny, get in touch if you want to.
Greetings and welcome Head twelve. My name is Marcus.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Good evening.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
to text. I'll tell you something that's really exciting that
I've just discovered too, is that we seem to be
talking about things in the South tonight. And that's fine,
but I can tell you in I'm just looking online
Open Country, which is the dairy company down south. They

(39:37):
have just converted one of their milk tankers into a
giant cheese roll, which I think is extraordinary, so well
done them. And what I will do is I will
send a screenshot to my producer and he will put
some images of that if I can work how the

(40:00):
screenshot works onto the Facebook page, because I think you'll
enjoy that. It's a giant It's a giant cheese roll
in the form of a milk tanker. Very good. So yeah,
I'm seeing that to Dan now anyway. Not the slickert

(40:23):
show tonight, is it? And I've got a mouthful of
cherry pips, which is not good? Nicketts, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 8 (40:28):
Good evening, Mark, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Nick Hey.

Speaker 8 (40:32):
I've got an idea. I live in Tower, fly to
christ Shirt, take the train from christ Shirt to mccargoll,
go across to shut Island, see the kiwis and fly back.
I think that be a tremendous holiday. Wow, and I
have some black voices. Do it at the right time

(40:55):
of year?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Do you think you do it?

Speaker 8 (40:58):
I would like to do it.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yeah, can you do right? Can you fly directly Toto
at a christ Church?

Speaker 4 (41:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (41:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well I don't know. I'd like
to see the countryside from christ Church in the cargo
and then hop across the stut Island, spend two or
three nights there looking at the kiwi's, and then go

(41:25):
back to McArdle and I think i'd have to play
in the cargo aug from one night.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Have you been to the South Island before?

Speaker 8 (41:33):
Oh? Many many times I had to.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Ask that, because I would think probably if you drive,
if you if you transport yourself from christ Church to
in Vicago the first time, you'd be must much better
off going through the through the through the central part
of it. But yeah, that's fine, So train would work
for you, I guess.

Speaker 8 (41:50):
But when I love trains. I lived four months a
year in France and to go from Paris to Poitier,
which is where now I live, it cross sixty euros
and it takes two hours. Yes, and it's it's tremendous.
It's really comfortable, it's clean, it's beautiful. I have a

(42:11):
cup of coffee. As you say, you can eat. Well.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
The train from Christchurch and the Cargo will cost you
three hundred and sixty eight dollars and take between ten
and twelve hours.

Speaker 8 (42:22):
Well that's okay. I used to catch a train from
Parmasan north to Auckland all the time. And it was
an overnight train and if they did it probably and
had a big scenic window out the back.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
And be lovely.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Have you got a castle in France?

Speaker 8 (42:44):
I have a little house in Price Wow.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (42:48):
And I've already had four months there this year, so
I've already owned the stone stone fruit. And then I
get double whammy coming back to New Zealand and I
get all stone fruit again. Now it's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Living the dream. Nice to talk to you, Nick, Thank
you so much. I've bean correct on my pronunciation. Markets
pronounced was gidge. I don't think it is. I think
it's pronounced was gidged. Maybe it is. Ooh anyway, getting

(43:30):
touch you on a talk. A lot of texts, I'll
start reading these. Why am I reading those? Here's all
the texts. I have used the Gold card to take
the train from Auckland to Wellington. It was full of
tourists when I was younger. I remember buying the ticket
christ Church twin Ver cargo on the day at the station,

(43:51):
twenty one dollars one way. Only four rich tourists not
from using textpayers foreigners in our country Markers, Marcus, what
do you think is the classic Kei? Road trip over
three weeks, leaving Aukland to Wellington and to waken a
Greymouth to friends Joe to Like We're to nindu Armado
to Calculta to Dwellington to Topall back to Auckland. Forty

(44:12):
plus hours in the car. I'm wondering how much two
teenage boys are going to handle it. They'll be on
their phone right they the William Daaldi is still in
Auckland harbor. They're advertising volunteers today. Probably makes the Kingston
fire look cheap. Yes, William Dordy is alive. Went on

(44:35):
last year, left from Devonport, went out on the harbor
of Farewell, a huge cruise ship that was leaving Auckland
organized by the Waiawai Euthanasia oh Wawai Enthusiast Society, not
the Euthanasia Society. That's a different group. Made my Christmas
wish our Sander for a nice bocket cheese under the
Christmas tree. Trains will make a comeback after China invade

(44:57):
Taiwan and the fuel ship stopped coming here. Marc, I'm
still trying to make trains work for in Chicago. Throw
some money into putting christ Church like trams and trams
along in the Cargo's boulevard and gardens would be more
of a draw card than any intercity after well, that
was always my plan. We've got a tram, the Invercargo
tramer is in christ Church. It was my plan to
bring it back down. It would have been a great

(45:18):
plan and that would put something that would draw tourists. Marcus,
that bluff gin from down your way as the b's canies.
I priced the train for my husband because he loves trains,
two fifty from bled him to christ Church. Great Marcus

(45:40):
got an Advent calendar that has miniature gym bean bottles
in it. Well, if you are someone that can have
an Advent calendar with miniature gym bean bottles in and
if you get to the twenty fourth of December and
have just drunk one bottle each night, then I think
you've passed the test. I think you've passed the problem

(46:03):
drink because for a lot of people they would open
one and then probably the next night that opened too,
and probably on the third night they drink the rest.
Am I wrong? I don't think so. I think most people, no,
not most people, but a lot of people would struggle
with a gym Beam Advent calendar. There'd be my pick
on that one, Marcus. It must have been Luckxeon's idea

(46:28):
to sell the naming rights to Forward for the football
firns he does after a run the country like a business. Oh,
I think probably, well, well, I don't know. I think
probably women's football is probably looking for the money they
can get because you know, they want pay, parity and
all sorts of things, which is a good thing. Marcus.
The previous caller said that New Zidan didn't want to
take the Tady Gorge train. It was only used by
cruise ship passengers. That was because during COVID and afterwards

(46:51):
so recently that Eden City Council put the train into
hibernation and only ran it as a charter train, so
the general public couldn't ride the train even if they
wanted to. Recently, the train has been reopened to the
public and now runs daily scheduled services. The website has
been reactivated dub dub dub Dotdnton Railways dot co, dot
and z and the booking office at the railway station

(47:12):
has reopened. As this attraction is the duel in Dunedin's Crown,
It's reopening is a victory for common sense. And as
I say time and time again, that is the country's
greatest railway trip. The Taidy Gorge train is phenomenal. If
you want to do one train trip in your life

(47:34):
in New Zealand, it's that one. It's an absolute knockout.
It's fantastic. Unfortunately it's an up and back because it
doesn't always go to Middle March. Sometimes it goes to
another town. But yeah, it's a ripper, but it's an
up and back. So it's a longish day, but a

(47:55):
good longish day, not an unbelievably long longish day. Lines
free if you want to talk. If you've lost your
epytite for talking trains, I'm all happy about whatever you
want to talk about tonight. There's other stuff We've got it.
Advent calendars, gosh, how's the hype for Ikea? That's the
fourth of December that opens, man, and man, isn't it amazing?

(48:18):
And I'm not going to say this right, how would
you feel if you were a local furniture manufacture and
the whole country is I'm going to say the word prostrating.

(48:38):
I don't know if that's the used right or not.
And the whole country is prostrating itself with the excitement
of this overseas retailer coming to New Zealand. Is it
how far kind of back we've gone that we just yeah,
I mean, I know it probably sounds slightly dated in

(49:00):
my views, but it's amazing, isn't it that you know,
we're so given up on manufacturing anything locally that we
just get so excited, whether it be Popeye is Fried Chicken,
or Ikea or all these big stores coming here to
decimate the local retails. Anyway, I guess the word I'm

(49:23):
looking for is probably it might be a naive of me.
By the way, I've got the football up, it's quite
a good feed plus dot fefa dot com huge crowd
of course, Sam Kurr. This is the first game back
for the Socceros for a long time. We saw her
at the World Cup. I feel that was about three
years ago. Where's this played animal? Brisbania looks good, looks

(49:43):
really good. It might have been Cough's Harbor. Looking at
those those date palms a lot, I think it might be.
I think I might recognize the stadium. That I could
be wrong, but you say Brisbane's probably Brisbane It's be
a good game. Brisbane is Gosford. You I thought that Gosford.
I have seen this. There was a league match there once,
or maybe it was the Phoenix played there, but I

(50:06):
recognize those palms. Any eighteen past nine if you want
to be a part of the show or other stuff
I can tell you about. Also tonight, we've talked about
Passion the rail. We've talked about EDVK Caller as the
humpback Whales could be seen off Green Bay if you'd
seen those, good on you and drivers are expected to

(50:27):
expect delays. With it opens, we'll get the train and
by the way, credit card reward systems might be on
the way out. I've never had a credit card. It
sounded a bit smart, didn't it. But you've never been
one of those people that is into that balancing the
budgets or I've never had to work out the connection
between airport lounges and credit cards? What's all that about?

(50:52):
Never unders still dead either, But do come through. If
you got to be a part of the show tonight,
I'd like to hear from you. I'll keep you updated
on the score of the football, and that starts in
the basketball. So get in touch. All the lines after you.
If you want to be part of the show tonight,
I'd love to hear from you. How'd Black Friday go
for you? I avoided buying anything for Black Friday, although

(51:15):
I am going to do a purchase on itsy. What's
that about It'sy. I've found something I want to buy
on it'sy, but I've got no idea how it works
or how they make their money. You have never bought
anything on It's I've pronounce it. It's either East Style
or itsy. But yeah, the changing world. I'm quite excited

(51:35):
about what I found too. By the way, I'm not
going to tell you because it's only there's only one
left twenty past nine. If you want to be involved,
here Tel twelve one of us, Marcus Good Evening jellro
Is twenty two past nine. All the lines are free. People,
By the way, go to the Facebook page markets last night.
So I've put that outstanding picture of the open country
milk tanker that's become a cheese role. That is genius,
absolute genius. So go watch that and watch that, and

(51:59):
all the lines are free. If there's something else you
want to mention tonight, there are Christmas parades to tomorrow.
There's one in Auckland, or there's one at both ends
of the island. What I want to say about Christmas
parades quite like them. I don't even know what the

(52:23):
Auckland was. Once upon a time was the Farmer's Prey,
then it was the Whickers Prey. I don't even know
who's got naming rights for it now. I think probably
as a child, the greatest memories of those parades were
always the bagpipers. I don't know if there's any of
those marching bands as there is once now. I don't
know if that's still a thing, but yeah, for exciting
as a child. So I don't know how many people

(52:44):
would tune up for that in Auckland. I think probably
it'd be as big as crowd as you get with it.
Be a couple of hundred thousand would go for that anyway.
So that's happening as they go around the country. And
then next week we have the Bluff Christmas Parade, which
is pretty interesting. I've been in it and I've watched it,

(53:07):
and there's about half a dozen there's probably a dozen floats.
Well when there's a floats, there's the sea scouts that
the kids are in and then carrying a boat, and
then we're pulling a boat on a boat, and then
there's a couple of floats from the town parade a
week later. Then there's always steampunk. Those people always turn
up for everything these days, don't they with their teapot hats.

(53:30):
So yeah, then they have a big event afterwards, which
free ice cream for the kitchen stuff. That's always probably
a fairy big day for Bluff, So I'm looking forward
to that next weekend. I have the weather's good or
they've got a covered arena for that one. But look,
that's me talking to myselves a bit tonight. I don't
know what's going to get you going tonight, but if
there's something else you want to talk about, feel free. Oh,

(53:50):
someone wants to tell me how STI works? Salivating Marcus
cheers David Pista. Any Gorge trip best through the Middle March? Yeah,
I don't think. I think it goes to Middle March
once a week or something. It doesn't always go right through.
I don't fully know the situation there. Now. Wouldn't a

(54:18):
normal person open an advent calendar in the morning booze
for the breck he sounds great. Yeah, she wonder one.
They haven't banned the gym being Advent calendar, and I
guess you know, that's a little bit of marketing. I'm
not in favor of banning it, by the way, I'm
just saying that it's only what they would do. I'll
tell you what wasn't very successful last year was there
was a Cheese Advent calendar and it wasn't very successful

(54:42):
last year because I spoke to a guy that runs
a four square and he was doing the root Burned
track with tiny Cheeses because none of them had sold.
So I don't think we're going to see the Tiny
Cheeses Advent calendar this year in New Zealand because it
wasn't a great seller, which I found interesting. So anyway,

(55:04):
that's it for me. Oh, that's it for me for now.
If you want to be involved with the show here
till twelve would like your calls. You up be doing
something interesting tonight. You might be watching the sport. I've
got both screens on. The Kei We basketball team are
doing the Hacker and the key We football team are

(55:24):
doing their drills. Beautiful night in Gosford. Looks like there's
twenty to thirty thousand. It's capacity basketball not quite as many.
I wouldn't have said, but I'll be feeling free to
keep you updated with the scores, or as I say too,
there'll be an updated news throughout the course of the evening.
So that's happening. And get in touch if you want

(55:50):
to talk about that or anything else. As I say,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two to
text and be nice to hear from you. There has
been a fairly violent stebbing in a shopping mall in Australia.
Someone's fighting for their life, another serious injured. It was
a targeted stabbing and a busy Black Friday shopping center.

(56:13):
There were four people involved. This is an adelaide. There's
just news that's come throughout the last hour. And there's
more details to about that shark attack, the terrest that
was killed by sharkas he dive instruck. A boyfriend bravely
tried to save her life. And the tragic details have
been revealed about that unpatrolled waters. Although it's where the

(56:38):
sharks live, isn't it got to be a bit careful
about shark attacks. Yeah, twenty eight past nine, If you
want to talk. Yeah, Peter, it's Marcus. Thanks for calling,
and good evening to you. Good Peter.

Speaker 15 (56:56):
Hi, look up clad from Napier and I've just spent
the last five hours picked up well just opposite Marine Parade,
opposite the National Aquarium, throwing the suitcasting line here for
the first time, one for the very first time.

Speaker 4 (57:10):
Yeah you how many?

Speaker 15 (57:12):
I just jumped the car on the way home and
I heard about the football FIRS. I just wanted to
know what time it kicks off.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
It's about to kick off?

Speaker 15 (57:20):
Watch it at home. I don't have Sky. Am I
able to get at home and watch it on TV?
And did one?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Or you don't need Sky, right, you can watch it
on Have you got the internet?

Speaker 7 (57:32):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Dan? What does he do it? It's just it's just
TV in did plus or Thief for plus, it's just
a website. It's got. I'm watching it on free for Plus.
It's very good. There's no glitching or anything. Okay, you
got smart you're gonna smart TV?

Speaker 4 (57:48):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (57:50):
Well, the TV plus, the TV and did plus f
F on your TV would be the one to way
to watch it?

Speaker 11 (57:56):
Right?

Speaker 15 (57:56):
What time to kick off?

Speaker 3 (57:57):
A minute?

Speaker 15 (58:00):
Perfect on minutes from home and the fish weren't biting,
so that when I'm head at home.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Market was my next question. What's for dinner? Baked beans?
Is it?

Speaker 7 (58:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (58:09):
Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Okay, Nice to hear from you, anyway, get in touch.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty by the way, went
to the opening of the fish shop and tow today
the old kings has got a reappen King's fish which
was quite good too.

Speaker 9 (58:21):
So just.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Putting that out there. Anyway, are these old curse Sam curse?
She's on the field, love her love the time that
there was that Picchu in Vader's just shouldered him and
knocked him for six. Here's another call. Look at us
going from strength to strength now. So we've both got
the basketball and the foot. We were about start to
keep you up day with scores on those. I think

(58:44):
the one of friendly ones a qualifier for the maybe
the Olympics. Actually I should do some research about that.

Speaker 16 (58:50):
Auckland is a being asked to plan ahead for this weekend.
Santa Parade. Festivities kick off at midday on Sunday, with
up to two hundred thousand people expected to cheer on
Father Christmas as he makes his way through Auckland. CBD
Santa Parade chair Simon Bridges says this year's highlights include
the Enchanted Woodlands float and a visit from Bluey.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I'm not one that likes to put you on a spot,
but do you know what the enchanted Woodland is? No?

Speaker 16 (59:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Yeah, that's so you and I wouldn't we know blue wouldn't.
We wouldn't go in there to watch the enchanted Woodland
because I have no idea.

Speaker 16 (59:22):
I have heard of Bluey, I know blue but I
don't know the enchanted Woodland.

Speaker 10 (59:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (59:26):
Maybe encharted Woodland's float. Maybe that's just the theme of it,
you know, like looking like pine.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Bridges are saying that we should be excited about that
because it's got Bluey we know, and the enchanted Woodland.

Speaker 16 (59:37):
I'm not sure about that.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah, sorry, I can't.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
No, there's no that's fine. I'm just making sure I'm
not off piece with that one. And something like Nina, okay,
thank you, Okay, if you get twenty nine away from
ten Marcus till twelve, both matches are kicking off simultaneously
here till midnight. If you're not watching the sport on
both sides. But Frieda's free to ear sport. I'm all
in favor if so ione was it telling me about
it's the SD how that works? Anyone had a run

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with an Advent calendar, a gym Beam Edvent calendar, I'd
like to know how they it's going for you. There's
all sorts of warning signs there. If you want a text,
also come through nine to nine two. If you want
to email, you can do that also tonight, Marcus. Just

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a massive shout out to the person who handed my
wallet with the money in it to the Hornby police
station today. Made my day Merry Christmas, Glen. I don't
want to brag and be some sort of moral crusader.
I think I would always hand wallets and if there
was money in them. Yeah. So I always find it
surprised that people are surprised, because I would like to

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think that everyone would always do that. Marcus. The Gymbeam
calendar is Mini Chocolates is the gym Beam minute. Nelson's
sand to bread on Sunday usually around twenty three thousand O.
Because someone tell me what the enchanted Woodland is. I
thought I was across TV children's TV and things might

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have changed in the last three years since my children
were young TV. I mean it all, it was all
poor Patrol and Blaze in the Monster Machine. Maybe it's
changed with the Bluey and all of that. But be
in touch if you want to be a part of
the go around. To note Allan has text said Hello,
I apparently may have discovered a practical way to travel

(01:01:27):
tens of thousands of light years across the galaxy. It
is called how to differentiate space and time and an
object or the precise location of the universe, i e.
The object in space falling through time, the opposite of
the current space travel method. Oh yeah, I don't think
that's going to work for me.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Alan.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
It's a lot to differentiate from a text that one.
So my questions for you are it's C or SD,
how that works? And the enchanted Woodland. It's interested to
hear Simon Bridge's voice on the news again, isn't it?
Because only you hear that? I think, jeepest, creepers. I
remember that voice and it brings back a reaction, not

(01:02:03):
quite sure reaction, but certainly a reaction. Yeah, I do
you know what that's about?

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Go to the Facebook page Marcus slash Nights for the
giant cheese roll tanker. Very very good. You must see that.
Twenty six to ten. Any other break and news, I'll
bring that to you. And yes, do get in touch.
Death toll one hundred and twenty eight in those apartments

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in Hong Kong, two hundred missing. Unbelievable, literally unbelievable that
that could happen. Let's take a break and be back
with you soon. Twenty four to ten. JT. It's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:02:50):
Good evening, Good Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I've just got a few things to say about this train.
Like people will go on a train, just train trip,
just because it's their I mean, no one would ever
think of going from Adelaide to Darwin on a buff
but they'll pay like they play, like five thousand dollars.

Speaker 17 (01:03:13):
I've done it, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the train
has to run at a profit.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
You know, everything is so expensive in years, and I
think they've just costed, costed out what it takes to
run a train and you know, pay the staff and everything,
because I think it would cost about five thousand dollars
an hour to run a train, and you'd probably need
about seven staff and would the train carry about two
hundred people each trip?

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
I'd say there'd be forty a wagons. So five wagons, yeah,
I think they were I'm sorry, carriages, So five carriages, yeah,
I reckon that would be about right.

Speaker 15 (01:03:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
So you're looking at fifty thousand dollars to get down
there in about ten hours and then fifty thousand back,
So you need to be making probably thirty thousand on
top of that. So, but one of the things is
people don't realize how much it costs to run a
carp I mean, I've worked on it would cost five
hundred dollars to do that round trip in a car.

(01:04:12):
You know, people tend to just look at the fuel cost,
but you know, the fuel cost is only half the
cost of running a car. You know, you got wear
and care and tires and insurance and red Joe and sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
But some of those are some of them are fixed
costs if you're using it or not, aren't they. I
mean you've got the accountants head on.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
But there's also I think it mainly would be retired people.
If I think it my parents they are in their
late seventies. It's the sort of trip that they would do,
but yeah, they'd only do it once.

Speaker 17 (01:04:43):
Yes, and my mother is too well, she doesn't like
driving at one hundred kilometers in now on State Highway
won anymore. So there's a lot of people, probably women
by themselves, who wouldn't feel confident in taking a car
on such a lot on trip. I mean, it's five
hundred and sixty five kilometers. It's an all day trip

(01:05:04):
in a car even Yeah, and what else have I got?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
But I guess it's I guess, I guess. But are
you talk about people going christ Church and vocal or
people going the cable to christ Church both?

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
Because there's some people that just need to get to
that other city to visit relatives or something. Yes, or
it could be to see a show or I think yeah,
there's definitely a few things are doing in the cargo there.
It's a shame, there's no they need some bus mini
bus shooting out to Bluff.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
They certainly do that ticks.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
That you got from that woman that said she couldn't
buy a bottle of wine. She probably that was probably
before Uber made it in the car will so it
would be a lot cheaper.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
There are five Uber drivers. There are five Uber drivers now,
and I think you can get to Bluff return for
about one hundred and twenty. Now I think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Because you're looking at you, you're looking at least fifty
cents to killing me. They've run account of these people
that worked for Uber. They're not really factoring and the
full costs. You know, everything so expensive for New Zealand.
I mean a steake meal where you're looking at fifty
five dollars. Apparently it can a bear an awkward at
some of those events, is sixteen dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
It's a lot, isn't it. How much is a beer?
How much is a bear? How much is a jug?
These days.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
You're probably looking at about fourteen bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Oh it seems fair, did you see I think, JT.
Are you finished on the trains. I've got a question
for you, just last thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
I think it would only run in summer and you'd
probably do about twelve return trips each summer, you know,
and you'd have to make a profit. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
It doesn't sound like it's on the way. It sounds
like Italian the Cardland and Nina's where they've got the
use of the platforms and christ Church by the sound
of things.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Yeah, well you'd have to stop to give the staff
a bit of a rest. And you wouldn't if you
try to stop with every major town along the way,
it would just take too long, be too long a day.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Did you read about the farm sale next to Rolliston?

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
Did you see how many houses are going there?

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
So the farm for one hundred and sixty hectares.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
It's seen in.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Certain places where that where Rolliston can't expand because of
the noise contour zones for the airport okay, and then
on the south side of the town they can't expand
because of the dump dump that's there.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
That's two and a half two and a half thousand
houses going on that farm. It's a lot, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
Well, the latest population I've seen for Rolliston is thirty
four than one hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:07:51):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
So halfway through next year it'll probably just overtake Gisbone and.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
It will become well, then it will become the fourth
biggest city in the South Island.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Yeah, and fifth.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Aft in Vicago, christ Church, Duneda, Nelson in v Cargo, Rolliston, No,
timidly No, I'm Runo Ashburton.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Yeah, and I think it's the twenty first biggest urban
area in New Zealand at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Okay, city of the future.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Yeah, will you be in the future is now?

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
Will you be catching that train at No, but it's
on my bucket.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Maybe it's on my bucket list to do with Awkland
to Wellington and I wouldn't mind riding with CRL up
there as well. I've seen that completion next year has
been delayed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
It's it's late next year, which is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
We end up becoming an election issue.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Well, I've got a father that's ninety six and that's
his thing, that's what he wants to do. Well, he's
ninety five in ninety six next year, so in ninety
six this year, and he's desperate to get on the
Central rail loops. So yeah, it's they'll get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
It'll be quite good to do three or four rides
on one day, you know, say from Henderson.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Oh yeah, we'll have you'll have the grand kids up there.
Whether it'll be the full it'll be the full shooting match.
We can't wait. But yeah, I wished it was earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Yeah, I see that Jewelry Railway station is not even
going to be ready.

Speaker 12 (01:09:31):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
Oh, well, in a lot of the level crossings.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
JT, will you be up there? For the opening weekend.
I'd like to yeah, I like but to do a
hikoy for that. We'll get the train up. Nice to talk, JT.
Thank you for that's seventeen to ten, basketball score, seventeen twelve,
football school zero zero, seventeen twelve to the Boomers that
like calling the Boomers. Hold your horses, John with your

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soon if you're also watching the football as you're listening
to the Sam Cuz on the bench, which is a shame.
But she's been managed back into football. I don't know
if she'll get any game time tonight, but I'll keep
you posted. Hello John, A's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:10:09):
Yeah, Marcus in a good evening to use and all
your listeners. I just want to just remind people that,
you know, summer time and many years ago I was
in charge of the Shark Necks and sat Kilda and
Brighton and I've seen some massive ones out there, and
I think the way that Australia and the water is

(01:10:31):
heating up, and that people just got to be a
lot more awhere and that hey, it's there, it's there
part of the ocean. And yeah, that's what I'd like
to talk about, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
John, I'm hear from you. Could you tell me the history,
the success and the controversy of the shark necks that
sat Kildren Brighton. When was that?

Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Oh that was quite a few years ago, a very
long time ago, because the council stopped it because there
are massive nets that we put out there, and by god, Marcus,
I've seen machines and I'm telling machines a huge.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
This is this is the seventies.

Speaker 6 (01:11:16):
Yeah, it probably was about then. Yeah, I'm getting old now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
He was there much by catching the nets. Did they
kill a lot of animals?

Speaker 6 (01:11:24):
Nokay, no, no, it was It was very very good
for the system we had. We did get a basking
shark once. You know, they never hurt anybody, but unfortunately
it happened. And uh yeah, but there's some massifficition there.
I seen them and actually caught markers you saw what, sorry,

(01:11:50):
and absolutely caught to the big white sharks.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:55):
Yeah, they banded them mark markers. You're there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
There were some deaths that there were some death support.
There were some shark necks. One guy survived, didn't they
And there were some deaths as well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
Right, yes, many years ago. Yes, yeah, that's why they
put those shark gits out there. That was the council.
It was run through the councils. They were huge, Marcus,
can you hear me very clear?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Yeah, here we go out and pair and they'd go
right round, so the sharks couldn't will they just be
along the Did the sharknings actually close off the whole area?

Speaker 7 (01:12:30):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:12:30):
No, okay, no, yeah no, they didn't do that. They
were stretched out, but they were put in the areas
where for the surfboarders and things could be safe. Okay, yeah,
but that I'm just warning people that far waters the
way that things are heating up around New Zealand. People

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just got to be aware that these things are there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Nice to hear from you, John, thanks so much. That
ten to eleven, ten to ten, Australia the basketball leading
twenty seven twenty two, twelve seconds left in the first
quarter in the football at Gosford, Australia's eland zero zero. You'
said it now twenty four to twenty seven. And how

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you're going people? Exciting night, isn't It seems like all
the Christmas parades are on tomorrow or on Sunday. That's happening.
I don't know if you've got the interesting stories about
those you might have been on a float. Maybe not again.
Touch you want to be part of the show, if
you want to text to nine to nine, two to text,
if you want to come through eight from ten. Jim

(01:13:42):
steddenlong at midnight tonight. It's the way we roll. I
asked what the enchanted Woodland is. Got some very good texts,
Actually got some extremely good texts, Marcus. I'm sure that
christch and Viicargo train will be very popular amongst people

(01:14:04):
in a coma. Marcus. The best thing about the gym
Beam Advent calendar would be on the December eighth people
were able to say this ain't Jim Beam. I let
myself out, Marcus. My favorite Advent Calendar memory is a
little boy the soup Maac at Chicken with his mummy,
grabbed the advant calendar, ran outside in front of the
windows and start eating all the chocolate out of the calendar.

(01:14:25):
Priceless Sockerys have just scored easy goal to They've been
all over us. A twenty four our gold fuel station,
McDonald's and a KFC will replace the old Murphy's Bar.
The Jolly Farmer and Drury. According to the Franklin Times, well,
that's progress in it not the jolly. We lose a

(01:14:46):
great community institution to get a petrol station, McDonald's and
a KFC for goodness sake, boy, is this country broken?
Marcus always used to watch Blaze of the Monstership Machine
with my son a few years back, and used to
crack it when they would say they're famous tagline it's
blaze as they're about to plant a dooby and blazer up. Marcus,

(01:15:08):
I'm tucking into Marvel's more wild Berry Ambrosia ice cream delicious.
I wonder after last night if there's been a run
on it. Yes, a woman was beside herself with it. Marcus.
Our daughter Harlowe is twelve, wrote and narrated a Christmas
fairy tale officially for the Sander Parade, inspired by the
enchanted Woodland Float. I don't know what it is. If

(01:15:31):
someone could tell me, even town like Simon Bridges didn't
know what it was, I thought, would all be those despicables?
What are those people called dan on that thing? Minon?
It will be your minions on my job every two
years behind the zeitgeist, st is just another version of

(01:15:54):
tim we No, I don't think it is. I think
st is quite different. I think's will you sell your crafts.
I just don't know how the money flows. Marcus in
the early sixties of a guy called Liz Jaw been
killed by shark. It's a clear beach. That's everything for you.
People who want to join in the fray. My name
is Marcus Good. Evening one nill in the Football to

(01:16:16):
Australia twenty six, twenty seven. Wow, second quarter you've seeing
them behind by one and be in touch if you
want to be a part of the show. People dragging
you out tonight. I do feel that, And I don't

(01:16:39):
want to sound like I'm a fear amonger because I'm not.
And maybe it's one of those things that's because they've
got more publicity. But I think it's been a big
year for shark attacks because I think it's only ten

(01:17:03):
a year, but it feels like there's been ten in
Australia just this year. As of late twenty twenty five,
the edge number of fatal shark attacks is not yet final,
but early data in the Kates it will be lower
than average, about six worldwide per year, while they've been

(01:17:23):
around eight confirmed fatalities globally. Mid twenty twenty five and
four in Australia. The final yearly count depends on the
remaining months incidents garbage from zech GPT, but at least
we've got the basis of it, so yeah, it's normally
about eight. America's had no fatal attacks with sharks. Thats

(01:17:46):
I thought, that's quite interesting. And do come through you
want to talk on air tonight. Museum's in the league
down the basketball twenty nine to twenty seven. If you
wantach the basketball, that's on TV on channel sixty. If
you've got Sky, if you want to the football, you
go to TV and Z plus or FIEFA. It's on
their website. It's a very good stream seems to be

(01:18:09):
where sport belongs is streaming. It's so good, it's perfect,
it's not glitching at all. Seven past ten and just
to'll go to the basketball. First, New Zealand up by five.
This is a Fever qualifier, the basketball World Cup qualifier
and the scorer is New Zealand thirty nine, Australia thirty four,
four minutes left in the second quarter. With the football,

(01:18:35):
the soccer, who's home advantage that I don't know what
they're called, but they are all over New Zealand to Nil.
It's a situation. I think they're called the Matilda's, aren't they.
That's I remember that now they're too nil up over
New Zealand and that's just after not long at all.
So that's the situation there. Getting touching on talking them

(01:18:56):
name as Marcus welcome here on McNutt. We are talking
passenger rail in the South Old with an outsort of
a train between christ Jurgen and Vericago. We're also talking
about my stuff tonight. She it's an all manor of stuff.
I can't remember what we are talking about, but I'm
sure that will change as we perfect our topic. Good

(01:19:18):
evening markets, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
I sort i'd have a chat to you about summer
fruit this season.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:19:28):
So. I await this time of the year eagerly and
normally go for an apricot as a test for the season,
and always disappointed about this year like this is.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Like me talking to a mirror image of myself. I
thought they were good too. They're the first ones I tried.
I haven't done that. I've tried nectarines and apricots and cherries.
Today apricots I thought were really good.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
Bright orn until the red blush.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Yeah, but I'm a squeezy guy. I'm in there. I'm
not getting the hard ones. I want them straight away.
I'm not getting them to the top of the French
to wait a week. I want them now.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
No, exactly same. Yeah. So it's a good sign, you know,
because apricots are well, it's for me the grail and
of course they.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
What have you got a street a sneaky puet of
strawberries two weeks ago, just to knock those off as well?

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
Your daughter works at a strawberry farm out at Cleveland,
so get the goodies. They don't. They don't give her
any diskund or anything like that. But the excellent strawberries.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
Okay, we've got quite a lot in our tunnel house
at home. Makes you a real good size. I had
a big feed today, so yeah, I've gone strawberries, then
I've gone apricots, then I've gone nectarine, and I've gone
cherries tonight and a rock melon yesterday, which are delicious too,
but they're Australian mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
What about what about a Louisa plum?

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
I don't know that. Are they pear shaped? Yeah, it's
all gone pear shaped. I love those.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
Yeah, best plum.

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
Yeah, but Mark, I'm a bit of a a bit
of a lone, lone voice on this. My favorite stone fruit?
Where are you are? You're in Cleveden is a pluot?

Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
Oh yeah, yeah I know. Yeah, yeah, I've had a
Yeah did you wouldn't say yeah, I do. I wouldn't
say that my favorite, Like if I was going to
go for favorite peach, black boy peach?

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Yes, how do you feel about the black boy? Do
you think that's problematic? I'm not quite sure about that,
but yeah they are nice.

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
Yeah, yeah, like I think I think people are trying
to call them seguine peaches or something, these dudes.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Okay, Yeah, did you have a good plot, because you're
not raving about the plot?

Speaker 11 (01:21:47):
Was your one?

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
All right? You know it was good. It's the it's
the skin.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
I like the skin. I like the fact that it
was like an apricot with a shiny skin.

Speaker 11 (01:21:56):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Yeah. Yeah, so I like growing fruit as well and
in grasping fruits. I've got a big plum tree at
home and it's got three different varieties of plum and
apricot on it. So yeah, that's all. I just I
just wanted to get in there and wish you well
on your fruits.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
Have you had your first lot of you had your
first lot of cherries.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
I haven't seen any cherries in Auckland's.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Yet because someone from Great Barrier, right m hmm, is
raving about buying them online from a company that sends
them by courier, and he reckons they're fantastic. He's got
his already.

Speaker 4 (01:22:37):
So the one the ones that you had, they had
the pop when you're bidden to them.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
Yeah, they're all right there. I mean, we've got friends
in Cromwell who have got a cherry orchard, and I
have seen the ones that go to Korea. And once
you've seen those, we're not even looking. Those ones are
as big as an apricot. They are extraordinary. And then
when you've tried, when you see what we get and
what they get, it's just no comparison. But that's the

(01:23:03):
foreign dollar, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:04):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:23:06):
So if you probably really good, if you probably want
a really good cheery, you probably need to go to Korea.

Speaker 4 (01:23:12):
The yes, do you watch fruit videos on YouTube?

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
No, they're called pure they're called pure Otago cherries. The
crowd that do them by mail order anyway, Now what.

Speaker 4 (01:23:23):
Just sort of fun of it? Just watching fruit videos
on YouTube? Just fun?

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Are they people eating them or growing them?

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
Both?

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Wow? What do I what do I search up? Just
fruit videos?

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
Chinese fruit videos?

Speaker 3 (01:23:37):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
Do you like a real fruit? Do you like a
real fruit? Ice cream? That have those at the Strawberry Place?

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
Do they? I do? If I'm going to go for
an ice If I'm going to go from ice cream,
it's going to be a fijo. Sawbe liking that?

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Okay, don't get me started on fij hours thirteen past ten.
That's a good call. I'm liking that. Thank you. Eight
hundred and eighty to any Marcus till twelve. Anything goes,
but mainly about everything. And Chanted Woodland is tiny rabbit
toys with houses and furniture like the Petter Rabbit movie.
Girls like it, never heard of it. Even the sharks

(01:24:21):
don't want anything to do with the Americans. This is
a great text. And Charted Woodland is as it sounds,
toadstools and fairies. Think fairy tales and Christmas. Anyway, we
are too. And by the way, to the Jolly the
Jolly Farmers gone, it's going to be a gas station

(01:24:41):
to KFC and the McDonald's. I'm saying we're losing our identity.
Bearing in mind I am going to actually put on
the caveat that. I'm saying we're losing our identity. But
the Jolly Farmer was a Irish pub and a mock
teutor building, so it wasn't really us, if I can
say it that way. But lines for if you want

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to talk of enjoyed Mark, I'd like you to put
as much effort you call us put into his zest
to the point a little bit cheeky with it like
that A lot be a part of me want to
be hered on midnight. There's other stuff around also, I
don't know what it is. Some of you will be
coming up for your Christmas party. You wear Christmas party?
How was that? Some of you will getting ready for

(01:25:23):
the Christmas parade tomorrow the next day? How is that
going for you. I've been trying to get one of
the groups I've involved with to have a Christmas float,
but it's it's been slightly problematic. I'll inform you on
how that's going. Marcus. Have you tried to peach Yourene?
They are delicious. You can get them from the fruit
shop at the Escott Park race course, dive in. There

(01:25:47):
must be Escott Park and Auckland, I think. But if
you want to talk on air, that's the whole plan tonight.
Anyone doing anything interesting tonight? What have you got? Some
are fruit? If you're involved in the summer fruit industry,
if you could tell us whether it's going to be
a good season or not with your hail and your
frosts and stuff. I know that fruit are temperamental. Let

(01:26:09):
us know about that. And if you want to talk
on air about anything else, that's the whole plan. I
need your calls tonight. People. I don't want to do
too much of the heavy lifting myself. I mean I
can talk, but I love talking to someone by the way,
and to need in this weekend. The Takaha is there
and it's going to be open to the public over

(01:26:31):
the weekend. Guys, a kid, you always love going to
see a on a naval ship, don't you. It's a
great thing to do. That might be something you want
to talk about also tonight. Love a naval ship anyway,
that's what we're on about tonight, and get involved if
you want to forty five forty two yew Zealand over

(01:26:54):
Australia in the basketball to Neil, Australia over New Zealand
and the football at Gosford the Gussie and looking forward.
If you want to talk on air tonight, anything goes
here till twelve. I can't hear you his news talks.
He'd be crashed. I wonder where they are Macintosh Orchard,

(01:27:16):
Alexandra online orders for cherries. Thanks for that. I want
those giant ones. Good evening, Nick, This is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:27:28):
Yeah, good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
How are you good neck? What's up?

Speaker 18 (01:27:32):
Yeah? I just saw say you're talking about anything? I
have a kid to know that or stubile in bed
by now. But I've just finished an how I go
as a professional center?

Speaker 9 (01:27:41):
Were you?

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
Were you one that has previously been at Smith and Coey?
Is that correct?

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:27:46):
Yeah, I did Smith and Coees for many years until
last year. I did seventy gigs here last year.

Speaker 4 (01:27:50):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:27:51):
And and now it's Sky's City. Sky's City have taken
over there. They're set the whole all their it's all
much the same set up.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
Great, is that like? Is that not? Is that up
the Skytower at the base of the sky Tower.

Speaker 18 (01:28:07):
Well, no, it's actut the base of people are familiar
with the skytower. Just those legs that come out at
a little bit of an angle.

Speaker 5 (01:28:15):
Legs.

Speaker 18 (01:28:16):
It's probably about understanding in the pavement outside is you'll
see a bit of a surround of glass. I think
it looks like glass about five five meters above you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Yeah, and there right there.

Speaker 18 (01:28:34):
Yeah yeah, so so yeah, eyes on from one o'clock
to nine o'clock tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
It's a long shift. How the kids been anything different?
Have the kids? Have the kids changed from last year
with what they want to what they're talking about?

Speaker 10 (01:28:47):
Well, no, it.

Speaker 18 (01:28:49):
Has these no dramatic changes. It's the usual gills, scrash,
mellows and unicorns, boys as monster trucks and Lego. Lego
never ceases to amaze me year after year as Lego
both boys angles, boys angles.

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Yeah, it's become you become a parent and you probably
spend fifty dollars a week on Lego and click clack containers.
It's just a it's unbelievable how much you have to buy.

Speaker 18 (01:29:15):
Yeah, yeah, but no, it's it's it's interesting. Yeah, it's yeah,
it's we've got our usual twenty odd senses there on shifts.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
Yeah, so they all are they all? Are they all male?
I suppose they are? Are they?

Speaker 18 (01:29:34):
There's one thing, there's one thing so far that it's
still a prompt. Yeah, predominantly a male domain.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
So squish mellows and lego and what did you say?
The other thing for girls was.

Speaker 18 (01:29:48):
Unicorns and l O L dolls? L O L dolls?

Speaker 11 (01:29:51):
Unicorns?

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Yeah, do you know what? Do you know what l
because you need you need to know a bit a
bit about them too to have a conversation. Do you
know what an l O L dollar is? Well, I
I've never heard of that.

Speaker 18 (01:30:07):
Okay, these other dogs, but you'll learn it. You'll learn
as you go along. We we mind you when before
we start they send us the latest toys and stuff.
Later we we have got a bit of a finger.

Speaker 11 (01:30:23):
On the pulse.

Speaker 3 (01:30:25):
Any adurable children want, any durable children want nothing?

Speaker 18 (01:30:30):
Well, yeah, there's kids that don't know what they want.
These kids that just want just want happiness and stuff
like that. You know, the kids who want peace in
the world as your will that's to be asked, and yeah,
it's you know. And then it's strangely enough, and we've
had over the years, you get all sorts of I

(01:30:51):
mean they open up to Santa, right, they open up.

Speaker 15 (01:30:55):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:30:55):
Well, I've had kids say I just want mommy and
daddy to stop fighting. I just want mommy and daddy together.
I want I want Grandma back from heaven. I want
Grandma back.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
What is that?

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Do you say, Oh, that's not going to happen.

Speaker 18 (01:31:10):
Well, no, Grandma's in a very lovely face and just
keeping a good eye on you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Hey, yeah, you go, you get what carry on?

Speaker 18 (01:31:21):
You go, You get quite creative for what you say.

Speaker 3 (01:31:26):
Yeah, what percentage cry?

Speaker 18 (01:31:30):
Oh that's yeah, probably.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
I think every period's got a picture that every period's
got a picture the kid just an inconsolable teas with
the Christmas when they've kind of gone too young.

Speaker 18 (01:31:50):
I say to them, I say, make a good twenty
first photo. I mean you we've had some kids that
that in the pipe of ventuating. Yeah, yeah, really really
tormented and and and I said to the pier, you
better get the kid out of you. It's another center.
Me back here in twelve months.

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
Lovely to talk to you. Have take care. Thanks for
checking in twenty one past ten, twenty three past ten,
Thomas Marcus, thanks for hanging on there. Good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:32:21):
Good evening, Marcus. You can hear me like my fee
is going funny.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
No, it's good. I'm hearing you really well.

Speaker 7 (01:32:27):
Right, sir, unusual trees. I'll tell you that one was
no good and then two beauties. I bought about sixty
years ago, or longer i've been here, sixty three. I
bought a black mulberry. It grew to a huge tree,
but the berries were only white or pink, and the
birds when I went down the back to see what
was going on, and birds to take about five minutes

(01:32:49):
to fly away, and they really liked them. But currently,
it's really funny.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
It's really funny you mentioned that because I woke up
in the night and we had a mulberry tree planted
on our section Vanissas planted. I had no idea, So
we just yesterday planted a mulberry tree. What do you
say that yesterday we've planted a mulberry tree yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:33:10):
Oh right, you're at the wait a while, right, Well,
I planted one from mister traffic many a black mulberry,
and it did have mulberry's coming on to black, not
too much. But it was the birds with a problem.
That's the reasonable sort of a tree. But this year
we had a second crop for the last two or

(01:33:32):
three weeks, and there's thousands of berries. And if I
can wait long enough, the black ones are nice and
sweet like a raspberry. But the second crop this year,
the others, the birds beat me to them because it's
generally an autumn I think I remember, because it's never
much of a crop. But here's a good one. I've

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got a grape that ripens in January.

Speaker 3 (01:33:56):
Oh goodness, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:33:59):
Two months before the others. We never had much of
them because a bit dozy in January getting up. I'm
pretty old now, see, and I haven't I've heard that
ten years with mine and the birds used to get moss.
But I've got three cats now. I hope they choose

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the birds away. But they're very nice. The black manberry,
to surprise to me.

Speaker 3 (01:34:26):
Isn't any Is your grape at a tunnel house?

Speaker 7 (01:34:31):
No, it's just outside. It grows like a crippet. It
goes everywhere, all over the place. I said, cut it
in a bit shorter. I suppose that when you cut
a grape too late, they bleed to death.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
Okay, I'll enjoyed that, Thank you, Tom. Even Marcus. Welcome Evan.

Speaker 11 (01:34:54):
Oh yes, good evening evening.

Speaker 10 (01:34:57):
I didn't need you.

Speaker 11 (01:34:59):
So the snappers morning that brings the old Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Yep, does it?

Speaker 4 (01:35:04):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
You see many around here? Do you see many?

Speaker 11 (01:35:10):
Oh? There's one court in the marina at Halfman Bay
the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
A seven gillah.

Speaker 11 (01:35:17):
Yeah, I think of mine, but I'm not too sure
what it was. I just turned through the rumor that
there was a shark court in the.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Marina through the marina grapevine. Yeah, anything else?

Speaker 11 (01:35:29):
Uh no, not not at the stage. Hot today, not
as bad as yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
No, boy, they're going on about that twenty seven but
you all never gets that hot? Does it quite a
maritime climate, isn't it?

Speaker 14 (01:35:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:35:42):
Well yeah, it was just sort of a muggy I
think it was because I was running around trying to
get a warrant, you know, to get it. Oh no,
there's a big list.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Oh yeah, how long will that take to reck? Is
this for a car?

Speaker 11 (01:35:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
When you get when you get done by Christmas?

Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
Yeah yeah, if I can sort out some money.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Here, Okay, it's a mission. Nice to given. Thank you.
Twenty eight past ten welcome two nil news in and
over Australia to nil Australia over New Zealand. In the football,
m'll be halftime there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:14):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
It looks hot for the players too. They've got sweat on.
I gets that's football for you. In Gosford basketball, tell
you what the scor is when the score comes up.
It might be halftime. This might just be replays now.
But when that comes up, I'm with you for that one.
Keep those texts through if you want a text. Forty
eight News News any hit by six Marcus was a

(01:36:40):
nightee one seven sharp to night Summer fruits season. Expect
to be excellent this year. That is great. It's apparently
going to be the best in a long long time.
Someone said, cheeries for sale, Beck of Carr's High Street
lower heart signs of Christmas. John, Yeah, love a stone
fruit discussion. But that's good that it's going to be
a good season. Although it's the good stuff. I think,

(01:37:01):
let's make no mistake, the good stuff is all exported.
Then they pack all the stuff that's in a market.
Then they let retirement groups go through and pick all
the stuff that's left that sell those at markets as fundraisers.
They're the kind of the unpicked things. That's what that
stuff is. When you see all those people selling them
by the roadside, I realized they just let volunteers go

(01:37:26):
through as a fundraiser. I think, I guess it's I
guess the orchards don't mind because it's good to get
the crop out of there. But I think that's the
way it works. That's the tyranny. Now text if you
can nine two nine two to text is halftime in
the soccer to nil and three quarter time or half

(01:37:46):
time in the basketball? Half time in the basketball too,
halftime in both of them. That's a situation there. If
you've got breaking using us know what that is. All
the lines are freehead tilled twelve. Now, if you want
to be in touch, that would be great to hear
from you. You might wantry about Christmas sprays. Also, why
whether the hot springs they're going to transformed with fifty

(01:38:07):
million dollars. But it's gonna become like a wellness and
a treat, so not for kids and families, but just
for the bougie couples. If someone texts through, does anyone
preserve fruit and vegetables anymore? Not sure where to get
preserving jars and sealtops. Also, charity chops have re selective
what they sell nowadays. Well, I know where you get

(01:38:27):
preserving jars. You get them from miter ten. I've seen
boxes and boxes of them there, so yes, you don't
need to go to the charity shops. They are actually
available new. I think even what those resellable lives. Yes,
the ag ones, so you can get those new. I
don't know if there's I don't know initially living in

(01:38:52):
a Hawk's Bay and gisbon. If the fruit ever gets
cheap enough to warrant preserving, that would be my understanding
of that. And I don't think you'd be able to
preserve fruit cheaper than you'd buy ten fruit. But then again,
tinfruit's not what it was because most of it is
now from overseas, which is fine, but I think some

(01:39:13):
people are worried about sprays and things from overseas. Also
food security or whatever that buzzword is. I don't know
too much about that, but that could well be a thing.
So yeah, I mean I think it's probably more reference.
I mean, people got as much time these days have
they with open homes and ike openings and getting their haircut.

(01:39:33):
I think it's like once upon a time we are
in the country house, you spend your whole time doing preserves.
There's one TV channel, not much else to do. So yeah,
we're not as time rich as we once were. That's
my short snippet on preserving your own fruit, preserving vegetables.
I'll tell you what I like to watch. I like
to watch videos of people in Korea pickling their cabbage.

(01:39:58):
It's always good to watch. You ever watched those videos?
Pretty interesting because that's kind of a staple for them.
Very good to watch the old kim chi and yeah,
that's quite an effort they put into that. Wow, special
containers and everything. So I have watched some video. I'm

(01:40:20):
not going to start doing kim chi myself, but look
like temp me. The process looks quite fun. Fermented food
is always good anyway. Twenty seven away from eleven Mine
names Marcus. Welcome here on midnight. If you want to
be a part of it, join the challenge, Join the fun.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty beckon a bit twenty
five to eleven. Hello, Wendy, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:40:42):
Oh sounds very quick. I listen here. The stone fruit
may or may not be cheap enough to preserve. But
it's so much better flavor if you do it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
Yeah, although if you're a seasonless you probably just need
the stone fruit when they're ripe. Though. That's the thing too,
isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:41:01):
But if you get the babe, they are beautiful. If
you get the hawks Bays when they're write, they're beautiful.
You can preserve them and you can have them more water.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Have you that?

Speaker 7 (01:41:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:41:16):
I just spent time with my I've been with my
mother for twelve years and we have to do her
presision for her because she has stroke and and we've
got the beatricks and peaches and yeah, that's my It's
just you do.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
You preserve your own asparagus.

Speaker 19 (01:41:39):
I've never done that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
No, must that's a great thing. Don't. Don't over overlook
the asparagus.

Speaker 19 (01:41:46):
But we haven't grown enough asparagus to preserve.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
No, but you buy the other stuff you're buying the.

Speaker 19 (01:41:55):
Only I said, preaches only we go to Hawk's Day
and I love my apricots and my cheeriest.

Speaker 3 (01:42:02):
Maybe be hard to preserve cheeries, wouldn't it? Maybe something?
I think they always do that with some sort of girl.
They put them in vodka or something. Not mine, Jim. Hello,
Faulty Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:42:11):
Welcome evening, Marcus. How are you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
Good thing you Faulty? How are you?

Speaker 12 (01:42:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:42:16):
Good, Good evening from Medicona Beach.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Big your pardon.

Speaker 10 (01:42:21):
Good evening from Medicona Beach.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
How do you spell m A T A T O.

Speaker 10 (01:42:27):
A m A t A I k o in aa?
Just nors the Castle Point?

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
Oh? Yeah, which castle Point?

Speaker 10 (01:42:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Sorry, I've got one copy of that. I'm looking at
it now on Google Maps.

Speaker 10 (01:42:42):
Okay, up towards the Medicine and River mouse halfway between
Castle Point and the Medicona River Mouth.

Speaker 8 (01:42:49):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:42:51):
Hey, just a Christian for well information and I know
you'll be interested in this. So I'm recently retired a
couple of years into it, and I've decided to learn
about sea fishing.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
Okay, great.

Speaker 10 (01:43:07):
So I come into pretty ignorant but willing to learn
about the legalities and a couple of times four years
ago I spoke to the Fisheries Inspector and asked what
information they had, and he gave me a peck of

(01:43:29):
the regulations at that time on the beach, and just
recently of us twice with the inspectors for an information
pack because there's Europe where regulations changed from year to
year on some things, and they say to me, well,

(01:43:52):
they don't do that anymore. You have to look it
up on the map.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
Makes more sense.

Speaker 10 (01:43:58):
Yeah, okay, well that's fine, but I've looked on the
grid for thirty five years.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
Oh yeah, let's be a good excuse to the fishing officer.
Just I'm off the grid, made the then't know that.

Speaker 10 (01:44:07):
There is no excuse, which rolls me up because therefore
I'm ignorant of the laws in my situation. And I
can't be the only one that doesn't exiously doesn't have

(01:44:28):
the internet, doesn't have it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
I could look it up for what sort of fish
ay you're catching?

Speaker 10 (01:44:33):
Well, it's just and anything. I've just been given the
press spot for example, and that's on my bucket list.
I've never caught one. But now I've got to learn
the regulations. Now, I've got to pack AT's five six
years old. But that doesn't mean it's legal now. And
I can't get another one.

Speaker 12 (01:44:51):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:44:52):
The only way I can get information to stop breaking
laws have an APP. And if I don't have an.

Speaker 3 (01:45:00):
App, faulty they're not.

Speaker 10 (01:45:02):
I think I'm being set up and I'm about it faulty.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Yeah, you're sounding unreasonable, am I?

Speaker 4 (01:45:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
I think so. I always say you can change, You
can change the world or change yourself. Just find a
friend and ask what the new rigs are about crayfish pods.
I'll tell you. Anyone will tell you.

Speaker 10 (01:45:22):
Yeah, but sizes of fish.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
May say, I'm going to the crayfish. What's the new
size you can take?

Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:45:31):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
How are you going with your you get? How are
you going with your surf casting? You're catching anything?

Speaker 19 (01:45:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:45:38):
I caught one that. I asked a local what it
was and and and he told me a what a rockcord?

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
Oh yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 10 (01:45:49):
He didn't know what size was legal?

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
Y do you have me to find that?

Speaker 15 (01:45:54):
Job?

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
Me to find out? Did you did you need it?

Speaker 4 (01:45:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:45:57):
Yeah, that would help, thank you. I even took a
photo of it. People's next thing.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
The next thing? You tell me you haven't got a ruler,
Oh yeah, I have it here.

Speaker 10 (01:46:11):
I've got a steel ruler. And then I've got a
proper power thing that you go looking for that's got
a size thing on it too. That sort of stuff's
easier enough.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
Is a rock card, a red card or a blue cord.

Speaker 10 (01:46:25):
No, no, no, no, I know I have. I have
worked on ther commercial boat, and I know my fresh
sort of thing. But I mean I was talking in
the seventies when I was doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
So we need to work out what the other name
for rock card is, right.

Speaker 10 (01:46:47):
Yeah, yeah, that'd be real interesting for me. I'm sorry
if I sound ignorant.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
No, I think it's also known as a hake, a
southern bay. I don't know what the other word for
it is.

Speaker 10 (01:47:00):
It's sort of a blue color. You've got big scale
on it, big scales anyway. No, they's just for on
the same Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:47:12):
Yeah, did you take the rock cord? And did you
eat it?

Speaker 10 (01:47:17):
Oh? Yeah, yeah yeah, I drumb and pretty drummed and
needed it, and of course.

Speaker 3 (01:47:25):
Yeah, I can't think I can't find a limit for
rock cod. They don't. They don't recognize the name of it.
This blue cod and red cord, but not rock cod.

Speaker 10 (01:47:36):
Yep, Okay, something told me. I showed him the photo
of it. Next what he told me it needs a
local and he said it was a rock cord.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
So yeah, okay, I'll see if I get something. Someone
might take something through. But I think it's different parts
of the country. Someone said, I don't think rock cord
has a side limit. Someone else rockcord of rubbish, rock
cod or small blad blackish thing not much for eating.

(01:48:08):
And crayfish potsy to the owner's name or phone number
on the boy. Someone said it's butterfish. Marcus went to
Queenstown recent for the first time in fifteen years. Was horrible.
Felt like been on a big cruise ship that you
can take your car on. Perfect gems choose everywhere gross,
Phil Marcus. I preserved black boy peaches, stew them and

(01:48:29):
freeze them, and containers. Tell the person to ask about preserving.
To follow Catherine's Kitchen on Facebook. She's from christ Church.
He has many good tips and tricks around preserving and
winderby equipment, etc. Marcus. We drove from Hamilton to Auckland
today and there were seven electronic signs warning us about
the Itica opening. Unbelievable, so surprising and embarrassing that this

(01:48:55):
country is getting so excited about a throwing all our
money at an overseas furniture company. It's depressing, I think,
and surely we can aspire higher. And once upon a time,
Dark skimob It was one of the great New Zealand

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furniture manufacturers. We could do it all ourselves. The irony
is they're growing the wood in New Zealand. They've planted
heaps of wood in New Zealand ikea, so the wood
goes back. I don't know where. I presume it's not
made in scandin Avia's it anymore made in China and
sold back to us. I'll go for a lock, but cheapest.

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It's not a good thing. Butterfish. Yeah, change yourself or
change the world. You can sort of say, oh, well,
it's not going to do me because I'm not on
the internet. But just get on it. That's what I
want to say to people. Can't be much fun being
a fishering speaker. They're always out our place at the moment.

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I don't know where they spend the rest of the
time because there's not much coast and south and I
don't know if they come from Dunedin, but they're always hasting.
People out there get others. I think the people outside
outs are just getting Kenner, And I thought Kenner was
a bit of a pest. I thought the more that
went there was the better. Hang on, is are they
going to score here?

Speaker 4 (01:50:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
I'll be off side fifteen to eleven. Hittle twelve, one
hundred and twenty eight. The death toll in Hong Kong
two hundred missing. What a travesty and tragedy. Get in
touch if you want to hitt on midnight tonight fourteen
to eleven greetings. Greetings. Are also keen to know from

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someone that's brought anything on ISTI, the website that you
can buy crafts and stuff. Actually it's it'sy, it's pronounced itsy.
And here's a random question. Why do you never see
turkey eggs in the shop? Why is the one at
cook or eat turkey eggs? Is that a thing? Marcus

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Ikia draws crowds or whatever? Opens and Karen, what about
if it's in Scandinavia. Yep, it probably does. It's a
big thing. So that's happening. That's the fourth I think
they might be Thursday. They should have opened it in

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April would have been more considerate. I think what you
do is you get the train and your audio stuff,
then get it delivered. You want to drive to Sylvia
Park in December would be a nightmare. Although the Central
Rail Loop's not going to open till late nine twenty
twenty six. That's exciting. They're going to do a lot

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of testing. I don't quite know why that is. You
wouldn't think would be that complicated, but apparently it is.
I want to be a first dayer. I'm a lot
more excited about the rail loop than getting the train
to christ Church good Way. But if you want to

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talk on a NAMS Marcus welcome, oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine nine to text Turkey eggs? Why
can't you buy them in the shop? Why can you
not buy a dozen turkey eggs? I mean all those
turkey's week must lay, don't They must be on the layers,
they say. If you want to talk about that's something
that we could talk about also tonight, feel free to

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mention that. So basketball score sixty two, sixty four. It's
a great game. He's only hit by two. This is
for the World Basketball Goods, a qualifying match. So hopefully
win this. And in the football at Gosford, North of
Sydney to zero, the Matildas are up over Australia. I

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don't think Samkurr is on yet, and I don't think
Mary fowlers on it. I don't even think she's on
the bench, but Sam Kurr is on the bench. I
imagine I'll put her on for the last ten to
fifteen because they're just easing her back into football. I
think she's been injured. Don't quite fully know story. I
know there was court cases with her and the taxi driver.
But they's all blowing over. Great crowd at Gosford, all

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wearing the most wearing the yellow. Looks pretty much a
capesity crowd there. And New Zealand seems to have found
their former bit more on the second half. They're playing well,
they're a really good run. Now go and get that
ball in the egg the Netli's number twenty. If you've
run a bit late. Oh it was a good shot. No,
not quite got the spin, spin a bit wrong. Very

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good texts A night long way that continue. As far
as someone said, as far as IQ goes, Poland is
a major production hub along with Sweden, Germany and some
in China. And what about Turkey eggs, I've never come.

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I've never seen one. I presume they're biggish. I presume
the animals are bigger, with a big bots that where
does the egg come out of? Is it the kawaka.
Is that what it's called. It's a word I didn't
really know about until recently. Is it the kawaka? I

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should know that from a crossword background. Where does an
egg come out from? It's not Google? Don't you love Google?
Radio host's friend?

Speaker 11 (01:54:35):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Oh the kloaker? Of course,
the kloaker to begin crosswords, because it'll be an anagram
of something I'm not quite sure what at the stage,
Come on New Zealand, another good shot at goal. We're
already coming alive now, look like they're tired, the old
Matildas and you're here leading by two points in the basket.

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It's a great night of sport, of course it is.
Jim Steedden will be along from midnight people, and I'll
be here until twelve, So I'll be here for the
next hour and hopefully we'll get some I don't know
what we'll discuss in the last hour. Actually, I feel

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very much from today and yesterday that the Christmas kind
of you feel that that vibe just kicking in, don't
you feels a little bit more Christmas already. I think
that probably coming into decem will be the big scept
for that. That'll be Monday. I think I'll be here
for the next three weeks also too, after tonight, so
just say you know that's when I am heading away.

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The Christmas parades will be around the country. A lot
of them are on tomorrow, Nelson and Invert Cargo I think,
and then Auckland is on Sunday yep. So they're expecting
two hundred thousand in for that, so it's going to
be a big day. And yeah, if you want to

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mention that, if you got something to say about that, that
would be of interest. Also talking about the train that's
going to start running from Auckland to Invert Cargol Fish Limits,
anything else you want to talk about in the next hour,
feel free you want to spark it up. So that's

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the situation, but be in touch if you want to
detect Still two in the football, Australia over New Zealand
And sixty seven sixty four three seconds left in the
third quarter. New Zealand behind in the first quarter but
been pretty much ahead for the second and the third.
If you want to watch that match, that's on sixty

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If you want to watch the football, the New Zealand
team versus The Matilda's that's on FIFA dot Com. Very
good feed, it's free. It had also set it on
TVs Z Plus, so if that's your thing, go and
watch that. If you want to watch the last twenty
two minutes. Well though, here's Australia looking like they're going
to score again. It's an open goal. No if the

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shot too late, well done, well defended. So that's the situation.
That's what's going to happen. So yeah, no one's complaining
about the weather today. Marcus Monday will be decend with
the first and first day of sudden leading up to Christmas,
Christmas shopping and tis the season for car park rage.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
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