Once they get sick of Labubu (21 August 2025)

Marcus is being counted, cassettes are coming back, and Drury is losing a classic drinking establishment.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, welcome, My names Marcus Hittil Midnight Tonight, the hobby Broadcaster.
I can tell you south and they're an arm wrestle.
This is a stag six seven. They're behind against Bay
of Peny down by one point. Second half has just
started six seven a Bay of Penny seven South and six.
That's the situation too. I can tell you also to
on the Facebook, on the New Zealand Herald Facebook page,

(00:35):
it's going off subway. They have the new subway Sandwidge
sandwich twenty bucks twenty that's causing outrage. It's the chicken pepperoni.
Is it worth the price? Most people would say nothing
that much subway is worth anything. So comment's going strong

(00:56):
on this one. So poor old subway. For a while
it was six or seven dollars a suddenly it's crept
up to twenty. Of course, I always have heard the
image problem since the guy wasn't it Jared Foe went
to jail. He was the fronts person. Turned out to
be a bad person anyway, a wrongin he was he
went to jail. Subway has never been the same. But anyway,
twenty dollars twenty for a chicken, pepperoni, chicken strips, mozzarella, marinara, sauce, spinach,

(01:22):
tomato onions looks pretty standard to me. Of course, I
always had that bad experience with having been spent the
day walking, arrived in Moscow and had the plane roll
with a packet of chips. How much did it cost me?

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Down?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Thirteen dollars ten, I think, which seemed a lot at
the time. Was it thirteen ten? I think now it
seems like a bargain. It was my own fault. I
should have gone to the dairy or the supermarket, but
I just went to Subway and looked so the cheese
looked invited. I I want a chip, sandwich, one plane
roll and a bag of chips thirteen ten. I've got

(02:01):
the receipt. The photo somewhere of it is that how
much it was?

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Dan's looking? What are are you googling? Subway? Anyway, I've
got the receipt. I can find the seat on my
phone receipt. I'll do a map search on my phone. Anyway,
it's not important. There's a couple of other things I
want to do By the way I am head on
midnight tonight. If you want to be how much I
got a coffee as well? When I still it was

(02:25):
nineteen dollars twenty How much the coffee was six? Was
it thirteen twenty four? Fifty for the coffee? Got a
good coffee? Eleven eighty for so they charged me eleven
dollars eighty for a plane roll. Still a couple of
head office haven't gone back to me on that one
and two ninety for the chips. What year was it
four years ago? No, I think that's where I said

(02:46):
it to. I think was not earlier than that. Yeah,
it'll be on the receipt the date anyway. The other
thing that I could tell you right about tonight on
social media today, someone has posted on Twitter or x

(03:11):
and a reply to an article about the ZB radio ratings,
which are available to everyone. If you want to look
at those, you just go to RBA, dot co dot
nz and they are publicly accessible. But there was a
comment on the radio ratings and there was a text
from news Talk ZB and there is a reply to

(03:34):
that that tweet. One of the ladies at Mum's retirement
village bought one of the little click counters off Temu.
She was telling her the other night that Marcus Slush
said sixty seven times anyway forty three times and on
eighteeny occasions went into seven sec dead air delays. Reckon

(03:58):
he gets money for jam wow, lot to unpick in
that particular tweet. First off, who would need a counter
to count ums when you wouldn't buy something off Timu? Surely?
And what would that clicker look like? And would have

(04:18):
three different things that could you count arms and anyways?
And deared there on the same counter. It's extraordinary, So
he has a lot to unpick there, And why would
you tell everyone? And why would you keep listening? And
of all the things you buy off Timu, what would
you buy would be? Could just find a click counter
dan for me? That will get one of those myself.

(04:39):
So anyway, that's what someone has done. They brought a
click counter off Timu and they've counted the number of times.
Our host says, um doesn't say how long it was on.
And by the way, I don't think I've ever had
seven second dead air delays in this hobby career, because
I think if you if you're off here for seven seconds,
the default music would kick in. But I'm pleased that

(05:01):
someone is listening to the show so assiduously. If that's
even the word's assiduously, the word the right word, it
might well be there for that. But fancy they're sitting
there and anyway, I'll try not to say those words
that have been said. Yeah, it's a weird thing to
have brought, isn't it. It's like one of those things
they have when they're counting crowds, isn't it. She probably

(05:22):
the person the rest is probably under there in the
bed at night with the clicker click, click, click, he
said click anyway, anyway, so that was interesting. I thought,
that's they're on social media. Meck reckons he gets money
for jam Oh well doesn't say what retirement village. But

(05:43):
why would you buy a click counteroff? Temu? Well just
had and I think I said sixty seven times. That
seems to stretch, But at least it's given this person
and their mother someone took something to talk about. At
visiting time. One of the ladies at mum's retirement village
brought one a little click counters off Timu brilliant. It's
good people are buying exciting things off Timmy by the way.

(06:05):
South's in the lead our thirteen seven South in the head.
There's league tonight, but the real league kicks off tomorrow tomorrow.
I think it's one versus five and two versus three.
It's the greatest day of league in the years. Tomorrow night, anyway,
thirteen past eight. How you're going? People welcome, feel free
to join the show anything. Tonight is the Thursday free
for all. It's like a Friday free for all, but
not quite as loose, but kind of loose. Anyway, boom

(06:29):
and away we go, Marcus. Why is everyone worried about
the price of subway? Have they not seen the price
of smokes? And Cody's how much you play for Cody?
Eight percent? Now brilliant? Thanks for all the score updates
about Southland. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to de text.

(06:51):
Whoo a counter? We could do a and anyway sweepstake
one night, everyone with their counters. If you're listening to
the person with the count, I'd like to talk to
you how you manage to get to count three different things?
Did you get three counters? Or do it in three
different nights? I'm all right about the arms. I hate

(07:13):
saying the anyway, so I'll do my best to not
say that tonight. I should wire myself up and people
could electrocute me or something of a bit of aversion
therapy or diversion therapy anyway. Oh gosh, I've just said it,
haven't I sorry. There's a for a while. Then when
you become aware of something, it takes you a while
to actually deprogram yourself. So bear with me tonight, but

(07:34):
don't hesitate to point it out. Get in touch. Marcus
Till twelve, eight hundred and eighty Taddy nine nine, fourteen
past eight. Anything goes the Thursday free for all, looking
forward to what you have to say? Is that click
counter from Timu Dan? How much is it? It's ninety

(07:55):
three cents sh shaes. They should give you them to
you when you get to the retirement home to count
your arms. I'll be meetings where I've counted your nose.
I won't say what sort of meetings does your head
and if you start if you start fixating on someone's
bed vocal patterns, yeah, it makes for a long meeting

(08:19):
if you're counting your nose and only counts up to nine,
nine hundred and ninety nine brilliant. Well, that's the best
positive story I've heard ninety nine cents. By the way,
this day in nineteen eighty seven, Dirty Dancing was released.
It's a film that wouldn't be made now obviously because

(08:40):
of the material that was involved with pregnancies and terminations,
with every famous speech at the end, nobody puts baby
in the corner. That happened this day in nineteen eighty seven.
They've tried to remake it a couple of times, not
that successfully. They did Dirty Dancing Havana Knights, I think,

(09:01):
but yes, a great movie at the time, although she
didn't get Jennifer Grade didn't do much afterwards, an episode
of Friends, and I think that was it done and dusted.
Oh may be something on Netflix later on this day.
In nineteen fifty nine, Hawaii became the fiftieth US state.
Of course, Alaska was the forty ninth. That's right, I
think we've got that one sust And this day in

(09:22):
nineteen fifty eight, Auckland pedestrians begin the Barns dance That was,
as we know in our family as dagonal crossing. And
I don't know how many places still have dagonal crossing.
I think it's back in Queen Street and Auckland. A
lot of places don't. That was a great believe in
it because it showed that the pedestrians were king. They
had to shut down while the cars had to shut down,

(09:43):
while people would walk any direction they liked. Of re
exciting thing that there's probably three crossings on Queen Street
that are now the Barns Dance. But yeah, you might
want to comment on that. Also, that's a situation for
thirteen seven South and over the Bay of Plenty. They've
already run one could be our season, but get in
touch with you on to start the chat tonight that

(10:04):
we could be in for an entertaining show. Actually yea,
oh wait one hundred. I don't think seven seconds. You
could pause for Hi, Marcus. My mother's also retirement home.
She's a team of clickers listening to your show. I
can hear them ament click click click click. Anyway, by

(10:25):
the way, it sounds what did you say, Dan, Oh, yes,
there we go again. Hey, it sounds like we've brought
these incredibly expensive planes just to get our balance of
trade up so they take the tariffs off. I'd rather
have a boat. I'd rather a big ferry. By the way,
we're all over that story with the old plane. We
won't we jeep ascreepers was everywhere today, the story about

(10:49):
the giant plane, the plane, the plane again. Touch you
on Talk eighteen past eight, Marcus. Perfectly happy with you
and anyways and deed here listening to you, always enduable, entertained, offering, free,
helpful with situations around the country. Don't try and second
guess yourself. Ooh ooh, hi Marcus, utterly true that I

(11:14):
turned you down. Just before to call Subway northward christ
Church to ask how much catering back is. Want to
give something nice to my wonderful vet and team at
avon side one norn e vet cler to thank them
for the wonderful care of our dog. It was seventy dollars,
but was all too confusing, so enranged to go in
the morning to check it out. Hung up, tune up
the radio when you heard about subway, trust you more.

(11:36):
Won't be going now. Timing unbelievable. We'll go to plan
ba B Marcus. Perhaps they could count how many times
Christopher Luxon says, actually on Mike's show on Monday morning,
I gapped up trying. There are so many many day
or crossings and sunny Dunedin aid and Dunedin thank you

(11:56):
for they hold your horses with you soon. Twenty two
past eight, eight hundred and eighty. Today we're talking about
counting and buying clickers. I think as a child, you'd
always sort of see someone countering crowds as a clickers.
That'd be something that would be quite fun to have.
But I don't know that i'd said his retirement hobby,
Terry Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, Hi Marcus. The only person when you mentioned in
meetings people saying, you know, the only person I can
think of who makes who makes you know sound cool
every time he said it was Bill Withers. And because
there was a documentary called The American Songbook which is

(12:42):
on a few years back and talking to Bill and
his daughter was singing his songs. This would be pre.

Speaker 7 (12:49):
COVID, only a few years before COVID.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
And here whenever he said it, it just sounded so cool.
I mean he could have said it over and over again.
So yeah, so he and as far as the actually
this text that came through saying, oh, Prime Minister, there's
actually quite a lot I thought when I was young,
I thought, oh, that was a really cool word. You know,
it sounds like you were educated. And I would say

(13:15):
it all the time, and I wasn't. I just sounded
really stupid. And but I mean, who cares how many
times you say?

Speaker 8 (13:25):
Nobody cares?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Exactly, But I certainly don't care. I think it's hilarious.
So you just so you know, Yeah, anyway.

Speaker 6 (13:33):
Yeah, I look quickly before I took off. I it
was Jennifer Great. The worst thing she ever did was
get her nose cruse. She didn't look like anything like her.
She didn't need to get it. She looked perfectly fine.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
And she was fantastic and that and got a nose job.
I never acted again.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
Well, I think she was in this awful well I
didn't see it, but Peter Montgomery got a star around,
you know, with his voice, with a movie, for goodness sake,
called Winder's Cup. And I thought I was calling a
movie's act about the American.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Was she in an American cup movie?

Speaker 6 (14:15):
It was called wind? And I think I'm trying to
think of the guy actor, Okay, Matthew Modine. I might
be wrong about it.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Anyway, he was good, is this, I know, okay.

Speaker 6 (14:28):
But I didn't see it, but I just read about it.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, I can't imagine nineteen ninety two Wind an Americans. Yes, God,
you're right, it's a terrible name from hadn't the thought
of that, But that is terrible. Yes, I might say
if I'm find it on YouTube tonight after We're nice
to hear from your Terry. Keep it going. Twenty five

(14:52):
past eight, The Trouble Naming a movie Wind. It also
looks like Wind. It's the same word, isn't it? Wind?
And Wind? Welcome to it? Hitdle twelve, The Show About
Anything Tonight, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty oh, Definite
day for cancer. Thank you. The bar Dance was introduced

(15:13):
by Jim Barnes, a mayor of Denet in the sixties.
I might buy a click at account the number who
use it according to history. I think Barnes was an
American man. That's just from my research notes. I don't
want to say that you're wrong about that, but I
think that's the situation with the bar dance. I can

(15:38):
tell you more about it. Quite a fun thing when
it happened. US traffic engineer Henry Barnes Denver, Baltimore, and
New York City. Despite dire prediction's local newspapers were soon
admitting that it worked. Well, that's what the Barns Dance is.

(16:00):
Get in touch if you want to be part of
the show. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to text.
I can't believe the government is buying airbus jets. I
would have thought the Trump administration would demanded they purchased
Boeing's there we go. It's all recomplicated with this balance
of payments. Jamie Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 9 (16:21):
You're talking about things you say on the radio. Yes,
it got me thinking. General and Benning must have been
on the podcast years ago when they run me up.
See how many times they can get get your name
in a conversation. The weaated by how many times you
say your name and a night.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah, that's right, and it's funny when there's a yeah,
there's a number of times. Probably there have been situations.
There was a radio competition once for the station the Edge,
and the competition because there's only one talkback station now
it's pretty easy pickings. But you had to wring up
the eating talkback show and you hit you had to

(17:05):
say the edge often as you could, so people ringing up,
And one child wrote, as she said, she sounded young
for a talkback caller, but she was ringing up about
the expansion of Auckland and and how that there's seem
to be a lot of houses at the very edge
of Auckland. Just this conversation that sort of came out
of nowhere had nothing to do with it. And I'm
thinking about this, thinking, why would someone who sounds about

(17:28):
seventeen be so fixated on town planning and there was
such a poor grasp of it, and be obsessed with
planning at the edge. But obviously it was that was
part of the competition as well. So yeah, you've always
got to be very weary of that because you're you're
never quite sure what's going to happen. Hey, by the way, Jamie,
where are you at the moment, just.

Speaker 9 (17:45):
Heading home to wed? Yeah, I've got home to an Ago,
I got my I got six days off.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now is it raining? Is it raining in Queensland?

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (17:57):
It was raining very heavy down the Gold Coast today.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I heard that that's throwing it down. But the weather
sounds terrible with the rain.

Speaker 9 (18:05):
You guys again, think Oh yeah, you never seem to
stop raining on the Gold Coast. I was just thinking
as I was driving before getting out of it, and
I was thinking, that's a new world order we're in. Yeah,
because Australia is just always raining now because.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
You guys are in a hundred year drought and now
it seems like you're in a hundred year flood.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:25):
Well, I came through Sydney yesterday and it was it
was bucking in it, sucking it down pretty much all
the way up on the East Coast as well, so
around Tarree and stuff. I wouldn't be surprised I haven't
stopped raining or not, but that might flood again soon.
I wouldn't be a surprised.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Do you drive through Mudgy.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Mudgie?

Speaker 9 (18:48):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
You don't know Mudgie Mudge's where the league is throw.
I was just curious where that was. But Jamie, nice
to hear from you. Thank you keep your calls and
texts coming through people here on midnight tonight. I hope
it's good where you are. The twenty backs subway and
the clickers Coo'd buy a clicker to count amazing thing.
Oh it looks like Southam has just gone over beautiful,

(19:11):
this exciting game. It was nineteen thirteen to the Bay
of plenty Southam's just scored the guy with the mo
so that would make it eighteen nineteen. Is it kick
to come? Yes, nineteen eighteen kick to come. It's out wide,
I think, but they might get that. I like when
they score they make the antlers with their hands tradition

(19:32):
twenty nine away from jeez that or they've got encouraging
a price. Well, goodness me, it sounds lame? Does it?
Get in touch? If you want to talk tonight, Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
de dexts. We are talking about pedestrian crossings and the
bar dance. Eden still has them. Subway's gone twenty dollars
with the later subway twenty dollars twenty so subway has

(19:53):
become top range. Anything else you want to mention tonight?
Get in touch here till midnight tonight, looking forward to it.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two dext And if you have you brought clickers off?
TIMU seems to be what people are doing these days.

Speaker 11 (20:11):
Oh what?

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Oh kickbreen over two twenty nineteen. That's good, that's excellent, beautiful.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine
two detect markets. If you want to come and pack,
you might be out there doing something interesting tonight. By
the way, they are saying that the cassette might be
making a comeback. I see that Taylor Swift's putting a
new album out on cassette. The only times I've ever

(20:33):
bought cassettes is when I've hired a budget higher car,
one of those ones with no band expanders, so you
can only get up to eighty nine to ninety on
the dial, and a cassette deck. And of course when
you get one of those, the first thing you've got
to do is go to the nearest sin vinie shop

(20:54):
and get every cassette they've got, and enjoy that and
leave them in the car out the next person. But
that would be five, probably five ten years ago I've
bought a cassette. I don't know what people play them on.
Of course, cassettes were once the most common way to
listen to music. They overtook vinyl in the nineteen eighties,

(21:14):
then surpassed by CDs, and they thought it was an
artifact of the past. But in twenty twenty three, almost
half million cassettes were sold the United States, which is
down from four hundred and forty million in the eighties.
It is a revival. It's an online store called tape

(21:36):
head City. People like having something you can hold and keep.
There we go. What I always found about now, don't
judge me with this. What I always found about tape
decks and tapes was recomplicated to flip them over and

(21:56):
work out. There were songs you couldn't find. There were
songs that would disappear. You try fast forwarding, you try
flipping it over. Incredibly confusing from times, but artists seemed
to have been now releasing music on cassettes. I don't
know if anybody wants to tell me when they last
brought a cassette, if it brought one than the last week,

(22:17):
I'm very curious to know. I did like those ghetto
blasters that had the double cassette packs in them that
you could tape to tape and you could make mix
tapes and you could dub and stuff like that. They're
quite exciting. I imagine they'll be the next thing that
people want to buy once they get sick of La
Boo boos Adult Toys twenty six away from ten. If

(22:39):
you want to be part of the show, my name
is Marcus Httle twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine nine to text. Can you tell me about Mudgie?
So what is it?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Name?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Il Id Joy saying best juice for click counters. Keep
kunt of how many fish you've got the chili? But
it's a busy day on the water. Don't disagree. My
dad uses cassettes and the tractor on our farm when
what he listens to probably Dolly and Kenny, is it?
But yeah, tell you what. You go to some of
those funny shops, you get like a bag of cassettes

(23:10):
for like a dollar, and when they get eaten up
by the cassette, you know, by the cassette play, which
happens from time to time. Just give him the old HEAVO.
I listened to the Eagles, Of course he does. I
can see him now in the farm in the tractor
on a cool da is it.

Speaker 12 (23:29):
You?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Eagles? Is good tract of music? I reckon not even
know if most tractors would have a cassette play. It's
been a long time since I've been an attractor eggs.
I'm catching myself lying. I don't think I've ever been
in a tractor. I've been on attractive, but not in one.
Michelle Marcus, Welcome, Hi.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
How you doing good?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Michelle. You've bought a cassette recently?

Speaker 13 (23:54):
No, No, I haven't bought it at.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
The time when when I brought house.

Speaker 13 (23:58):
For the other day and I've still.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
What was it in my house?

Speaker 13 (24:02):
It's a whole recording of it of a tall actually
and who yeah, but in my house, I've got tape player.
I've got a still DVD post and VHS player and
an old CRT TV to play those ons for old
time of stakes. But yeah, you're talking about the tapes
and bringing back memories of recording souls off the radio

(24:27):
waiting for your favorite song to come on.

Speaker 14 (24:30):
It was Love Changes Everything by.

Speaker 13 (24:32):
Climie Fisher for me. But the jolly radio announce.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
It always talk over thero.

Speaker 13 (24:41):
And the last bit and run it.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
I'll tell you something interesting, Michelle. For me, when I
first moved to in Vicago or moved to Bluff and
worked on FAVO Radio, which is just a poor community,
a small community station, private station, a small city and
we had this offices in an old, old hotel. You

(25:05):
walk up these stairs to front desk, and almost daily
people would walk up the stairs and ask for cassettes
of songs for funerals. So I guess in the days
before they had any sort of download. You know, you'd
be organizing your family's funeral and you'd want to have
stairway to here. I'll pop up to the radio and

(25:25):
get it. It was all the time people coming to
get cassettes of songs to plant funerals, which was quite morbid.
It's where, isn't it? Yeah? Because these are of course sorry,
of course you have to do it because someone had
just died. So you'd be in there running off tapes
to give to people for the funerals.

Speaker 15 (25:45):
Yes, yeah, when I think my husband he made me
a reck.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Wow. Have you still got it?

Speaker 16 (25:55):
Probably somewhere?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, do you know what was on it?

Speaker 10 (26:00):
They weren't.

Speaker 14 (26:01):
They usually listened to.

Speaker 16 (26:02):
But it was like.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
Old the water that you.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Leave really really, if you take a bath, I'll drink
the water. Who's that.

Speaker 15 (26:21):
One of those yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh stone table pilots.

Speaker 15 (26:24):
Yeah that's right, okay in the Nirvana gems.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
You're still with him?

Speaker 13 (26:34):
No, we brought we walked out three years ago, a
long last.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
So you won't still drink the water there we God, Michelle,
thank you. Oh gosh, I shouldn't have asked that. By
the way, the trektor driving the eagles and the tractor
on the tape dick he brought us tape deck off
Tim makes you wonder how the retailers can survive if
people are buying that stuff off Tim cheap? Is Steve Marcus? Welcome? Hello,

(27:04):
Hi Steve Marcus.

Speaker 17 (27:05):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening. Well I went through the
fantastic stage, and then I went through the tape stage.
The one thing I remember about hates you had eight
track and you had the normal one. The one thing
I remember always got screwed up.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Had eaten, wouldn't they?

Speaker 17 (27:27):
Yeah, just eating alive?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
God, why did that happen?

Speaker 17 (27:33):
Well, you stretched traight through heat. I mean I presume
through the heat through the tape deck. It got warm and.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Would and then would stick and then would stick to
our stretch. Okay, yeah, okay.

Speaker 17 (27:48):
But the one good thing about tape decks was you
could make your own mix, which you couldn't obviously do
with records. Then we went over to see D and
now we're on.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
But to making your own mix was quite difficult. You
need a pie three in one with a turntable. You'd
make your own mix off the radio, which was sketchy
because you didn't know what song was coming up.

Speaker 17 (28:12):
Well, yeah, you get used to what was playing, wouldn't you.
Although you had the top Top forty American Top forty,
you would come on yes, back in the day. Yeah,
you just like knock it down. And you could also
you could also takee deck off of tapes, so you'd

(28:33):
make your own mixes.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
If you had a tape to tape.

Speaker 17 (28:37):
Yeah, well yeah, there was a lot of those around.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
It's quite fun when you find in secondhand shops people's
personalized tapes because it can give you it's quite fun
to listen to.

Speaker 17 (28:51):
Yeah, it's all, it's all, it's history. It's absolutely fantastic,
the way that you know, you just embrace technology and
get on with life.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Have you still have you yourself still got cassettes? Have
you still got the means to play them?

Speaker 18 (29:04):
No?

Speaker 19 (29:04):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
I could.

Speaker 17 (29:06):
I mean it's pretty simple to get.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Him to buy one. I'm not doubting that Steve or
we all buy one. I think I like get that. Actually, yeah,
the kids, one of the kids would be interested in cassettes.
I don't think they would be it. Yeah, we talked
about the walk, but not so long ago. Oh, by
the way, someone had said, this is an interesting text.
Now you tell me. We're in a fluster trying to

(29:30):
get a recording for dad's funeral thirty years ago. I
text back, what was the song, Widest Shade of Pale?
What a gorgeous funeral song? It was just a gorgeous
I don't even know it's got death in it, gorgeous song.
Oh wait, who was that? I just spoke to Dan
brilliant Doug Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (29:52):
Hey Marcus. Yes, I've got a mission pressage a bit
like a Honda about just two thousand and six. It's
got a mini displayer reinstalled in the dashboard. Yeah, it's
the only car I've ever seen on it.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
That How many discs still a thing?

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Ah?

Speaker 20 (30:19):
Twenty years ago?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Maybe can you buy them you now online?

Speaker 20 (30:26):
I never said I've got a few somewhere, but it
would take me probably a couple of weeks to find them.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Well, they should be in the glove box of your car,
shouldn't they well, I've.

Speaker 20 (30:36):
Only had this thing for a couple of years. Yeah,
but I've stunned to see that it's got a CD
player as well. It's got duel whatever you ought to
call it on the dashboard.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Oh that sounds britt Is it a JEP import, Yeah.

Speaker 20 (30:55):
JEP import the whole they've got that. They're weird.

Speaker 17 (30:58):
They've got this.

Speaker 20 (30:58):
Sort of strange console in the middle and the gear
levers on top, and it's it's a really nice car.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
What would they get what would it be on top.

Speaker 20 (31:08):
Of there was a CD player on top of it,
and then they oh, they're weird. They've got No, there's
nothing in the middle between the front seats, front wheel waves,
and there's this big space there. I've got some sort

(31:29):
of wooden shelves in there.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
In your car. It wouldn't what not being having wooden shoves?
What's the car corner? And what's it called?

Speaker 20 (31:40):
I put the shelves in a bit of a building
and handy press out p R E. S age.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Did you put hond did you put? Did you put
wooden shelves in your car?

Speaker 10 (31:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (31:53):
Well there's a big gap and if your brows have
a lot of dunk with me, wow, yeah, but it doesn't.
But in a between in front of the shelves is
the like dash with the men. You just player under
the seat and the CD player still works.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I'm just trying to look at the interior. Oh, it's
a weird looking car inside, isn't it not a space?

Speaker 16 (32:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (32:17):
And the gear levers all weird too, because I'm going
to like look for the gear leader.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
The gear level looks like it's part of it's part
of the radio. It just comes down sixth down like that.

Speaker 9 (32:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Where the wooden shelves.

Speaker 20 (32:34):
Oh, just in that gap between the seats. There was
a drinkholder there, but that's all there was.

Speaker 17 (32:40):
I don't.

Speaker 20 (32:40):
I think maybe some of them had a bank sheet,
but maybe they didn't sell them. And and hell a
what uh that bank sheet?

Speaker 3 (32:48):
You know, like a yeah copy that? You know why
years in broadcasts, I've never ever spoken to anyone that's
built wooden shelves in their car. I reckon, I'm not
like to speak to anyone again. Actually, Wow, looks like
Southam's won this thirty twenty two twenty two ticket seconds
over time. I think he's just they've got a free kick.
Just kick it out, mate. They lost they yeah, wow,

(33:11):
boy boy, this is the story of the year South End.
They might be two from three?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Are they?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Maybe two from four? I think they went out and
lost to Northend unfortunately eleven away from nine. Sophie Marcus welcome. Hello, Yeah, Hi,
Sophie welcome.

Speaker 15 (33:30):
Oh sorry. I my granddaughters one twelve and one thirteen
asked me to take them shopping the other day looking
for a CD player, but just about as hard as
anything wow to find. And they both came back to
my place and I got my old CD player out

(33:53):
and got all my old CDs because I've kept all
my CDs, and they went through them all and found
quite a few. They liked talking here, So.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Do they Is that how they want? I suppose they're
having not phones? Is that what this is it? How
they want to listen to music?

Speaker 15 (34:08):
No, they've not something so they can listen to the music.
But they've just decided they really like they want to
buy a record and they want to buy a CD.
And we had to go to JB High five.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
And they did they have CD players?

Speaker 15 (34:22):
No, No, they've never had them. They're just really excited
about music.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Apparently Camart you can get CD players.

Speaker 15 (34:31):
Yeah, I didn't end up going to say came out
because they ended up giving them my one because I.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Never used what else? What they get? Talking heads? What else?

Speaker 15 (34:42):
Moody Blues.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Love the Moody Blues.

Speaker 21 (34:46):
Yeah so do I.

Speaker 15 (34:48):
That's so I got them, No, just anything. They just
took it all. They took about ten CDs away with
them to go and listen to them. Oh, Lizets was
one of them, and the older ones said, yes, I
like them. You know, she just was playing what she
liked and I was just going further.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
How old are they not? The CDs? The Children.

Speaker 15 (35:13):
Twelve and thirteen, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Great ages, Sophie Nice to Talk, nine Away from nine,
Welcome cept your texts coming through a talking cassettes, Marcus
is every Night dig you Man scored a Pioneer Steer
and a garage sale in tim and six months ago
it got turned table and twin cassette decks Wharfedale speakers
played one twenty I'm Living, Kait Tired Now Pumping the
Reggae Love Old School Shoot, Patty Goower's hand out a

(35:38):
chat and Katie Peckinsave Nice Guy Tanks, Tony Legend, Oh Wait,
one hundred and eighty ten, eighty gosh that time already night,
It's almost over six to nine. Welcome talking cassettes. Remember
my first cassette Mel and Kim Reckon. After three gins,

(35:59):
I could put out the dance through team my friends
and I made up We'll give it a go. You
might be a TikTok star. I found Gez this is
Christ Superstar CD for two dollars this week and shop.
The original price was still not twenty nine to ninety five.
Goes well in my car CD. What's the buzz? Tell
me what's happening. We used to dub music off the radio,
or if you had a twin deck cassette, you could
dub music cassettes Metallica or Iron Maiden, et cetera. Another

(36:27):
text apparently this is the last week for the Jolly
Farmer Pub as it will make way for the new
city suburb of Drury and will eventually become the third
Spaghetti Junction. Cheapest. Wow, I didn't know the old Jolly
Farmers not so jolly anymore was a country pub for
a long time. AH, get in touch. So we've got

(36:54):
the big upgrade for the military Seahawks. Helicop five Seahawk
helicopters two, Airbus A three twenty x l R aircraft
which they're calling once in a generation investment. I'd be
more inclined to be excited about a once in a
generation and to Ryland ferry. So it seems weird to me.

(37:20):
You'd be wanted buying drones, wouldn't you? When it comes
to ear defense In as far as sescheting, the leaders
around the country just send them on commercial airlines, wouldn't you.
Is it not practical? We don't need air Force one?

(37:40):
Who Oh, I'm looking with South and Al. They've won
two from four, but there's still one two three. I
don't know why there must be that must be the
top half of the letter. Oh yes, there's a whole
lot below them. Wellington one of two North and Auckland counties.
Moneyic our North Harbor cheapest are in the top half.
Beck after the break, looking forward to what you've got
to say? See after the news Catcher night. I wait,

(38:03):
welcome people. My name is Marcus. Here till twelve we
are talking cassettes. They're having a comeback. Although I don't
know when someone would buy a cassette. I've never seen
them for sale. I guess it might all happen online.
Are you a cassette consumer? When was the last time
you've bought one? I'll talk about audio cassettes. Are there
other cassettes? Let you get cassettes for your caravan? Can

(38:24):
you do? You know what I'm saying? I wait one
hundred and eighty twenty nine to nine two to tixt
Let me know if you've got a clicker in you're
counting how that's going for you. I think JB High
Fight might sell cassettes. It's an interesting shop, JB High Fight.
It's not for me. I'm surprised what a big range

(38:44):
of stuff they have. They have got cassettes. I'm looking
out their prices, taking a long time to buffer. Looks
like cassettes cost about twenty seven dollars. Although these might
be games now I'm looking at it. It's hard for
you to work it out. Now, it's hard for you
to work out what it's games and what's cassettes. There

(39:05):
are bands I haven't heard actually who knows what they are?
Which I never looked? H there we go three feet
high and rising dealer sol. I know that that's thirty dollars.
It's reasonably priced I suppose. So there you go through
the cassette market. I want to a pine about that.
You've got some nostalgia that's to be hearing from you.

(39:25):
You might know something more about the pub that's about
to close. Oh this is a nice text, Meredith Hi Marcus.
A clip of Bluff School Kappahaka at the Polyfest appeared
on my Facebook timeline. What a wonderful performance and experience
those children won't forget real TeamWorks supporting. Those lovely children
looked so much fun. Please they got you. It was

(39:47):
a nice video. I thought that one was. And my
boy Denver, he's up the comes up the front towards
the end and he's one of the leaders, but would
be the shortest of the leaders. He's there in the middle.
You'll see that it's giving it. Yeah, it was a
good day there. Actually, it's extraordinary, extraordinary even in a

(40:08):
place like I shouldn't even in a place like South
because I've Bluff's got a very strong career in Cuppahucker,
but a place like South. I mean there was a
school on stage I think was Riversdale, and that's like
Dairy Country Center. It's a long way from town. It's
probably an hour's half drive from inver Cargo, and I

(40:30):
think there must have been over one hundred kids on.
I had no idea that Riversdale and they're fantastic and
all their parents were there. Seems almost that the whole
seems actually from everything you do at primary school, it's
when Polyfest and Cuppahucker that seems to be the one
event where all parents will take the day off work
and come to town to watch their kids perform. Nothing
like that else happens, and it wasn't like this ten

(40:52):
years ago or twenty years wouldn't have kids twenty years ago,
but I imagine it's a jet was fantastic. So pleased
that video has been circulating because the the play the
for young kids from the Maria they came and the
child Key Center they were in there performing as well.
All of Bluff was there. Everyone, every single person of

(41:14):
Bluff with kids there had come to town to support that.
Fantastic So anyway, thanks, I'm glad you saw that. Yeah,
they do well. The teachers now to take up the
videos and show the kids getting on the bus and
doing all that was a brilliant thing to be involved with. Anyway,
we are talking our thanks for that. I enjoyed that
email there, Meredith, So get in touch if you want
to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and

(41:36):
nine to nine, we're talking cassettes, but I also want
to talk about this pub that's closing.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
I just have forgotten the email that the guys sent
me to say it's it's called the Jolly I'm never
quite sure it's a Jolly Farmer or the Jolly Poacher.
It's a Jolly Farmer. But your parently is closing because
of the new suburbs and dreary. That's something else you
might It was at one of those great pubs that
was always sort of a country pub. Then I a

(42:06):
pub right on the edge of town, and I don't
know what it's been recently, but yeah, they've had all
sorts of events there. That might be something you want
to remember too, So get in touch if you're doing
to talk. Twelve past nine oh eight hundred and eighty
to eighty nineteen nine to text. Keep those texts coming
through enduring the build up too to the Women's Rugby

(42:27):
World Cup. They've sold four hundred thousand tickets. I see
that the favorites are England and Canada, then New Zealand,
Hyler Renna here. I still have my tapes. I used
to make my own mix tunes off other tapes because
singles were a tape of just one song. Usually favorite
would have two to four recordings of the same song
with words and just with instrumentals, et cetera. Thank you

(42:48):
for that, troubles where you find I'm surprised that Kmart's
held tape decks. I thought there would be no demand
for them. How's the counting going? How's the counting going
on the temu clicker? Oh got a text here? Oh yeah,
I'll read that. That's actually a text of a phone,
not to the hon Air but Harry's of Riverdale. It

(43:11):
sells heaps of cassette tapes, older generations buying up country
music for their tape players and their cars. Pierce Riversdale
is an hour from in Vocago. I said in there,
and I was wondering, I see that, how long it
would be. It's been a while since I've done the
back roads. Fourteen past nine eight hundred eighty ten eighty
and nine nine two to text again in touch. If
there's something different you want to talk about tonight, Feel
free when we get stuck on I've got stuck on

(43:34):
the not stuck on the erebus memorial. Quite enjoyed that discussion.
I enjoyed the thought that had gone to some of
those calls too. So you missed it. That was in
the last hour, people just discussing whether that should have
been in christ Church or in Auckland. And yeah, I
certainly think it should be an Auckland. But you've probably

(43:55):
heard my views about that last night. So that's what
we're on about tonight. By the way, there's Rugby League tonight.
It's not the good games are tomorrow night, but there
is some NRL on tonight. I'll keep you updated with that,
or go and watch it if that's what you want
to do. It's two of the teams playing that haven't
got a chance of getting into the final late tonight,

(44:15):
the Rabbino's on fifteenth and the Dragons on twelfth. Neither
of her chants Laurie Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (44:24):
Ches.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Hey.

Speaker 22 (44:25):
Yeah, the I don't know if you get the Joker
catalogs down and down there, but top gifts for Father's
Day for the tech tech loving dads. You've got a
retro boom box with bluetooth and radio fifty.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Nine ninety She seems read well, of course we haven't
got a letter box, so we don't get junk mail,
but retro boom box Jacob Jacer.

Speaker 22 (44:50):
Yeah, save twenty four dollars on special.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
You would what sort of conditions in making things that
cheaply and retro boombox Jaca. It takes cassettes.

Speaker 22 (45:02):
Cassettes, your cassette and radio and bluetooth, so maybe there's
a way of sending music through and recording both ways.

Speaker 11 (45:11):
Preps.

Speaker 10 (45:12):
Yeah, I just I'm just.

Speaker 22 (45:15):
Looking on the top of my cassette box. Here, got
a cassette. You may remember George Baker selection. Do you
do you remember baby Blue?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Oh? Vaguely.

Speaker 22 (45:29):
There was a big one from when women were up
in Samow. I was playing all the bars anyway, endlessly
baby Blue.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
There would be the sixties, wouldn't it, seventies, seventies and eighties,
And I think I think they're still playing it up
there too.

Speaker 22 (45:50):
Yeah, yeah, they just talking about your stabs. I thought
there were some similarities. I watched that game. You know,
they come back and they beat the old turbos, Yes,
they did.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
They came from behind, they come from behind this time
as well, and.

Speaker 22 (46:06):
They some guys with some real speed there and the
Stags you know what they're doing. You'd get a turnover.
I mean, once they started getting their game together, they'd
turn over the ball and they'd give it a boot
down the paddock and they were running winning the race
to get the ball. And they did that several times.
And that was sort of similar to what the how

(46:27):
the Wallabies dealt to the spring box, you know the
night after that. It was just that they really you know,
there was a sheer speed of the back three that
sort of did it. But I surprised just how fast
though some of those Stag guys were. They were just
winning the race. Yeah. So and if they had another

(46:48):
good win tonight, well it's looking good.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
Nice to hear, Larry Yes. And I guess it's all
about the coach with a I mean, rugby changes so much.
It's getting the right game plan and getting the players
that can fit in with that game plan. Sean Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (47:02):
Yes, you're talking about Jody Farmer. Yes, it was a
good pub and that was just by coincidence where I
had my first beer.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Oh what wow.

Speaker 8 (47:18):
It's got to be any seventy five years ago.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
And why did you? Let's go back in time and
we're talking nineteen well, nineteen fifty. How are you now.

Speaker 8 (47:32):
Ninety one?

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Wow? So where were you living when the jolly? When
the jolly? Is it poetry? Or farmer?

Speaker 8 (47:41):
Jolly farmer?

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Where were you living that? The jolly farmer was the
closest option.

Speaker 8 (47:47):
Just about a quarter of a mile away, Okay, on
Drury Road, Desmond Road.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
And that would have been really rural in those days,
would it?

Speaker 8 (47:59):
Yeah? It was the dairy fat he was still are yes?
And in the we surprised that factory milk and twenty
gallon canned. Wow, and they made butter and cheese.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
And are you still in that area, Sean?

Speaker 8 (48:24):
No, I'm quikering now, Okay.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
And do you remember what your first beer was?

Speaker 12 (48:30):
No?

Speaker 8 (48:31):
But I was very much underage to get in to
it was a bit cheeky.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Well, I would have thought those I thought the country
pub on those days. They probably wouldn't have. They wouldn't have.
They wouldn't have really worried, would they.

Speaker 12 (48:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (48:46):
I didn't.

Speaker 10 (48:47):
No.

Speaker 8 (48:48):
I think the legal age was twenty one at that time, probably.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Right, Gosh, that's six years too young well, well, thanks
for coming through, Seul. Nice to hear from you. Twenty
one past nine, Susie Marcus.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Hello, Bhi Marcus.

Speaker 22 (49:02):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Susie? Thank you Marcus.

Speaker 14 (49:05):
I live for my music that I absolutely love it.
I've got a Pioneer stereo and it's got twin tape.
You can play two tapes.

Speaker 18 (49:12):
Now.

Speaker 14 (49:12):
I've got a heap of tapes that I've taped on
over the years, off CD's radio, other tapes. I've got
a big case of Neil Diamond ones because he's my
favorite artist. And that taller that you were talking to
a week while ago. I've got three CDs of George Baker.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Oh yes, okay, well now why don't that Why don't
you have Neil Diamond on CD?

Speaker 14 (49:33):
I have got Neil Diamond on CDs. I don't listen
to those tapes much of his.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
So do you need the Do you have the takes
in the car and.

Speaker 14 (49:41):
I haven't got a car. I've got them in the cupboard.
I may even take those up to the habitat because
I've got all his CDs. He's he's oh, he's tremendous.
He's my favorite artist. But now I've got a lot
of tapes, and I used to have Walkman's but I
got rid of them.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Why did you get rid of them?

Speaker 17 (49:59):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (49:59):
Well, I don't know, Marcus, because I've got Spotify now. Yeah,
and if I want to play a tape, I just
put it a mysterio A.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, that's well, wonder because most
people gave throughout all the cassettes the turn of the century.

Speaker 11 (50:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (50:17):
Well, I saw a couple of cassettes advertised in the
shop window about two weeks ago, but I can't remember
where it was.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Marcus, you can't remember what was.

Speaker 14 (50:27):
I saw a couple of tapes at Cassette Tapes that
you could buy a blank in the shop window, but
I don't know where, what the name of the shop was.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
You probably buy them. You probably buy the very cheapy online.

Speaker 14 (50:39):
You were j B L High Fire quite good because
they had a CDs that I wanted. And I think
they may coming back into the Monk I heard. So
they are going to be on the market again, I think, Marcus, who.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
Is the tape they are?

Speaker 22 (50:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (50:55):
Yeah, But it was a shame the warehouse stopped selling
CDs and stuff because everyone was download and stuff.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
They stopped selling fruit and veggies as well.

Speaker 14 (51:05):
Did you know h No, I didn't, Mark as I
was only in there the other day. I didn't notice
that when was there?

Speaker 3 (51:12):
Well, someone it takes me. I was in the South
and one in Chicago the other day. It's not sold
there either, so they're on their way out. So anyway,
some of them are there to tell me about that. Yeah,
there's nothing. There's a little lego. Peter Marcus, welcome here.

Speaker 11 (51:28):
Good? How are you good?

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Peter?

Speaker 17 (51:30):
Heah.

Speaker 11 (51:31):
The back in the sixties, I used to have adreach
at the Jolly Farmer coming home from an Elsley Racers.
And prior to that, a number of years prior to that,
there was a nice Simpson was a manager and he
was flying an aircraft called a Whitney straight to rot

(51:54):
Uba and he buried it up in the Memica. Well,
some day, some days later I actually found a refugeon
he was being too. Yeah, it's a little bit of
history that I have on the on the place where
were you living.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
When you'd go to WELLESLEYE? Okay, that's that would that
would break the journey on the way home?

Speaker 19 (52:22):
Right?

Speaker 11 (52:23):
Yeah, Well, I used to be shocking many years ago.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
And I guess it was a famous pub because it
was right on. It was right bag. I mean it
was always pretty much on the main highway, was it.

Speaker 11 (52:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a lot of racing people used to stop.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Even as someone that grew up in that well, and
it always struck me as I mean, it's seems to
be an incredibly famous pub. It's a pub that you know,
there was always adds in the paper for such and
such was on at that pub. There was always promoting
that such and such was on the Jolly Farmer, or
this was happening or that was happening. Seemed to be
a very busy pub.

Speaker 11 (52:59):
Yeah, yeah, it certainly was, yeah, very popular. But here
we should call. I mean, we didn't stave on and
we always stopped there. You know. I've had a couple
of them, yeah, father driving.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
I suppose to after If you're a jockey, after races,
you probably want a few beers because you can got
to kick back for a while, can't you. You're not
so worried.

Speaker 11 (53:22):
About your weight, Yeah, well I did because I always
each I always try to starting or dying at first.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
My dear Peter, thank you, cal Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 23 (53:35):
I just a comment about these new planes. I just
find it fascinating that when Nationals and opposition sort of
they seem to think it's the government should be flying
in New Zealand. But as soon as National became government,
I know, flying in New Zealand suddenly no longer good enough.

(53:59):
They've got to get all these new planes.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
I don't think that. I don't think it's the Air
Force's job to ferry people around the camp. I think
it's crazy to spend all that. But I mean a fairy,
a decent theory is much much important than planes to
carry our prime minister around. I just think it's mad.

Speaker 23 (54:16):
Exactly when, because I remember what they said about these series.

Speaker 5 (54:20):
It's like, oh, white paper for the Ferrari.

Speaker 23 (54:23):
When a Toyota coroll is sufficient, and it's like, well,
the same lodge. It should a play for these planes.
Why they get in the Ferraris instead of the Toyota Corollas.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
They're not necessary at all. I don't think there's I
don't think helicopters are necessary. I think where it's all going.
You just look at the Ukraine War, it's all going drones.

Speaker 23 (54:40):
Well, helicopters can be useful for search and rescue, but
what they really need is a decent helicopter carrying ship
that the Navy could use. That that would be far
more useful than like these antex frigates ver were getting.
So that way is like any kind of natural disaster,

(55:04):
they can easily take out supplies. And how about the
and they need to I think.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
We have got we have got ships that carry choppers though,
haven't we?

Speaker 23 (55:15):
Yeah, but well the frigates can only carry like one
or two proper they need like a proper helicopter carrying ship.
That's what they really need.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
How many would you carry on a proper helicopter carrying ship,
like six or seven?

Speaker 23 (55:32):
Try twenty or thirty?

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Oh really? Okay, are you talking something real big?

Speaker 14 (55:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (55:37):
So I go like the like there can then be
Russian amphibious assault ships. That's what that's what they needed.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Where would we be going with twenty or thirty helicopters.

Speaker 23 (55:51):
Well, like if he's a natural disaster in one of
the islands, that they can easily instead of sending a
couple of frigates oven plus all the supply ships, just
in the whole assault ship Oven and you can easily
carry all the supplies you need, all the personnel and
just fly straight off the ship.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Okay, so what.

Speaker 23 (56:07):
Quicker end for to take one helicopter off a frigate?

Speaker 3 (56:11):
You clean, you clean, you clear know a lot about it.
What are the ships called that would carry twenty twenty helicopters?
What are they called?

Speaker 23 (56:19):
And sobs assault ships?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
I'm going to look that up. Actually, do the Yanks
have many of them?

Speaker 5 (56:27):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (56:28):
And I think the company Sega Tower, I think it's
one of them, and they think and co't me over
the name of the other one was. And also like
the Russian cure of sort of the that's a helicopter carried,
that's that's by sport. You we needed something like that.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
Okay, I'm gonna look into that. Cal thank you keep
your texts, people, there's room for texts. You can text
if you want to. It's a good song, Baby Bloy
just went back and listen to it during that other call.
I'll go around fifty tapes. I got the eighties and nineties.
I got rid of my walk, but as I got
too old to walk. JVM ninety is considered the King

(57:11):
of Gellow blasts over sharp g xaliate. It's a heavyweight
weighs seventy CAGs without the batteries. Brilliant. I'll google that
jv CM ninety. I'm surprised how cheap the tape decks
are at j CAR for a reasonable jv CM. I'll

(57:33):
look it up. Oh yeah, pretty retro looking. Looks great.
King of the Boombox, the biggest, the badest. That's what
we want here. On Midnight eight hundred eighty ten eighty
nine text The Jolly Farmer was the local watering hole
for the n Z s a S where they were
based in Papa Guda. Good to know, Bob Marcus, welcome, Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
A couple of quick things. One the Fruit and Bites
at All for sale and the Blenham Warehouse.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Oh god, okay, it's good to know.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
Secondly, I couldn't believe when I heard them spending three
billion dollars on the defense course when that would have
paid for the faeries.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
And the third one was when you're talking about pubs,
was a pub called you'd probably know it called the
Green Forest and Tapanui.

Speaker 19 (58:22):
Uh yeah, okay, well it was in the days.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
When the single men's quarters were running at Congngo Halls. Yes,
and what happened was I went down there and the
cop came in that night and he said, oh, what's
what's what's the beginning? What's happening in here tonight? I said,
I've had my twenty first birthday. I said, all the
boys have coming down from the single men's quarters. He
said that you've been coming here for a couple of years.

(58:48):
I said, you never asked me my age?

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Where?

Speaker 5 (58:54):
Where?

Speaker 3 (58:54):
Where were you at?

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Bob Congos, Tapanui? You know what quarters?

Speaker 7 (59:00):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
A big forestry place? Was it?

Speaker 19 (59:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Yeah, huge one. It was one of the biggest New
Zealand and sterilid Now, yes.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
I've driven past it. What the heck did they do there?

Speaker 10 (59:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (59:10):
We had a big saw mill. When you were made
unemployed in those days, you didn't get the doll given
to you. You've got a bus ticket given to you.
And I didn't have any work at the time, and
they gave me a bus ticket and sent me to
Connor Girls. And when the way the hell I was going?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
And where and where had you been? Where were you?
Where were you not working before you got sent there?

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I was underneath and I went to the unemployment office
in there whatever they used to call it and he said, oh,
here's a ticket, catch a bus tomorrow and make sure
we've got a pair of steel cap boots.

Speaker 7 (59:37):
And I was on my way.

Speaker 11 (59:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
So it wasn't a bad place to work. I mean
it was a bit rugget, but.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
We need And they had a lot of planted exotics,
is that right?

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Oh yeah, and a lot of pines.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Okay, yep.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
It was when the Labor government brought over the first
lot of the Fijian Indians. They come and work there too,
big big strong, scrapping leaves overre Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Where what year we talked? Are we talking sixties or seventies?

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Well seventies yea, And how did he just quickly? There
was a guy coming out and he used to he
was a German guy and he used to run the
gantry train at night, but he was always drunk and
he was on call. And they come over one night
and I said, well, you're not climbing up the ladder
there to drive the crane. And that stayed with me
underneath the lodge when he grabbed me and threw me
in the gantry pond.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Old there's an old school in that drinking it with
all the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Things and of course you couldn't complain because we got
the other guys can get on you. So yeah, and
there was.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
A there was a railway siding there as well.

Speaker 17 (01:00:36):
Was there correct?

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Oh yeah, it was one of the bigger ones in Joy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yes, yes, no, it's a hell of a player. I
think I actually might have seen it on the markets and
big land there. I think there might be. They kind
of haven't worked out to do what to do with
it since so had they planted a lot of trees
there before? Prior to that, had they?

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Yeah, a lot of pines, mainly pines, but you could
also mine the natives too, so you know there was
a few natives, but not as many.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
How many years did you do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
About three years there?

Speaker 20 (01:01:04):
There was a doctor used to be the doctor and yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
It was the old tip andy flu guy, wasn't he.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Yeah, well he came in there and the guys were
on on on the old booze and one of them
had ant but of course he couldn't couldn't operate. I
couldn't do anything more because Quinton had been drinking. One
guy grabbed the doctor and stepped him in the face
of the fork and he sits your own face up
it was all big lines on the paper. Wow, you
know doctor snow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Well that's oh that's good. That's good stuff. That's brilliant.
You often wondered about what was going on. There are
tips get in touch. Welcome Hill twelve. Wait two hundred
eighty eight. You know the risk, Deine Marcus good evening
you there, Dean.

Speaker 19 (01:01:49):
Oh, Y're sorry, yeah right here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Yeah, welcome Marcus lady.

Speaker 19 (01:01:53):
It was bringing up about availability of CDs and the Yeah,
I love my music and I go regularly and they
can importland for anywhere around the world. I go to
mar Bick's and Queen's k.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
The Barbik's Yeah, always good, and you can just ask them.

Speaker 19 (01:02:09):
They will import any any America England. They're really really good.
They'd probably about the only independent store like that nowadays.
To Roger, they've been there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
For years and still family owned.

Speaker 19 (01:02:20):
Day the Sun was there, right, yeah, Roger marbeck Hones
and it's in the Queen's Arcade.

Speaker 24 (01:02:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:02:25):
Shut.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
I've shopped there, offered, and they're very good for advice.
Often when I was driving between Auckland and Bluff quite
often i'd just go in there and I'd say, oh,
give us you know what's the new music, and i'd purchase,
you know.

Speaker 19 (01:02:39):
Regularly if we go ones from England or wherever one's
from the past, and they just order them in. They
caught the imports and they ain't charge extra.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
No, okay.

Speaker 19 (01:02:48):
And the other thing about the boom box is actually boomboxes.
I've got one. Actually. The sound is perfectly good from
Kmart a few weeks back, just as like sits on
a little portaball coffee table, and there are as cheap
as forty dollars would.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
You believe cheapest creepers?

Speaker 19 (01:03:04):
Well, okay, and there's nothing of the sound. You don't
need to spend the fortune.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Brilliant deem, Thanks cheapest creepers. I've never been so brudely
interrupted during run of my anecdotes anyway, that's all right.
Must have been important to put a Curry Warehouse stops
selling bag fresh figs two weeks ago, but they've still
got the cheapest the eggs trays at thirteen compared to eight,
and everywhere else and insects and the district. The attractors
liked what happens to then when the light's going at

(01:03:29):
midnight dead on everyone else's properties. An Esh Burton warehouse
yesterday fruit and Vegi's gone. Was told they're too much waste.
She'll get some pigs instead of sponsoring the USA. What
a funder you use it and based drone manufacturing facility
they called the naval military capability via arming fishing drawlers.

(01:03:51):
Someone's thinking, you, Neel, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:03:58):
Then you make just staged it again?

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Yes, yes, two from four is it?

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

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
They come to it sort of, well not so much
from behind. They were slightly but they'd been ahead at
different times too. But the fact a bad thing to
scored what we thought the next when you try and
then self them just came up for the time, up
and just over they went.

Speaker 11 (01:04:23):
And it's just broke.

Speaker 7 (01:04:24):
I've got. They seem to have a whole new sense
of self belief this time, and Sawn with his captaincy
it just seems to be making good candas.

Speaker 11 (01:04:37):
Oh it's brilliant.

Speaker 7 (01:04:38):
Yes, so good to see the boys up again, the
mighty Steamers and and away from the crowd this time
away from home. But wake out her next week?

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
When's the next home match? Is that next week?

Speaker 12 (01:04:56):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:04:56):
I think they are way to Hamilton next week. I
think I'm not sure that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
I think there's two more home games, and there's two
more liking it during the weekend. But yeah, good on
your Neil. Thanks for that going people eight hundred and eighty,
ten eighty. Keep those texts coming through. Oh, someone's seen
a text that's his HP sauce. What do you think
that's referred to? Is it someone listening on you know,
what would be HP sauce? What would that be a
text for?

Speaker 7 (01:05:19):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I keep the calls coming through. Twenty away from ten
d N. It's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:05:25):
Eating Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:05:26):
Not too pingpong around the topics too much, but I
wanted to briefly talk about cassettes, if it's all right perfect.

Speaker 18 (01:05:34):
I do remember around sort of the mid twenty tens
there was a trained people coming to DJ with me sets.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:05:46):
It was often stuff that had never been best to file.
It's a bit of an ante sort of final DJ.

Speaker 26 (01:05:56):
That meant that people just had taps, And I do
remember going to a couple of gigs like that where
you could hear the warmth of the tape coming through
when it's on a big speaker.

Speaker 18 (01:06:07):
It was a very beautiful and quite nostalgic sort of sound.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Yeah, I'm just trying to I mentionine that because it
certainly got a distinctive sound, hasn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:06:20):
The warmth of the tape?

Speaker 25 (01:06:21):
And it's actually it's quite a low quite a low
frequency medium.

Speaker 11 (01:06:28):
The tapes, I think, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
And then they sort of nice to hear, yeah, and
then back again. Obviously. I think it's probably one of
those things that's never really gone away. There's all forms
of audio. There's always obsessives for obsessives for isn't there.

Speaker 24 (01:06:44):
I think there was, But I think tapes got forgotten
for a bit and then and then they came back,
So that was that was kind of night.

Speaker 25 (01:06:53):
I don't own any myself, do you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
No, But I don't have anything to play them on either.
Although I still think the Walkman is a bit of
technologies as good as anything. I think there's something nice
to a Walkman and tapes than actually putting something on spot.
I don't, I don't know. It just all seems a
bit there's no struggle now with music, and that's that
to me, seems unfair.

Speaker 18 (01:07:16):
Tapes definitely, and with the Walkmen.

Speaker 25 (01:07:18):
I mean, I don't know if you ever remember that
clip Richard music video Power from the needle to the
plastic am FM.

Speaker 18 (01:07:26):
I feel so ecstatic now. Yep, yep, that was that
was really the I don't know it's Sony paid for
that music video, but they should have.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Nice to hear from you than thanks very much. Seventeen
away from ten eight hundred was on WhatsApp. The songe
quality wasn't as good. I don't know what was happening
to you, Dan, it wasn't good.

Speaker 19 (01:07:44):
Was it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:48):
Mighty Bluetooth the headphones? Yeah, okay, appreciate that's always good
to keep going with that with the Wi Fi seventeen
to ten, Thanksteen. Oh eight hundred eighty, ten eighty, get out,
get out at people if you want to talk. It's
good to get a ship out to the Marbecks. I

(01:08:09):
see this? Is there some mystery thing in this? Anyone
see that story? Mystery object in space is the one
followed that today. I don't click on any everything, but yeah,
I meant to follow that one up, the mystery object
in Space. I want to read that story today. Anybody,
anybody Bula welcome people, Hurdle twelve if you want to

(01:08:31):
come through. I can't find the article about it now
I've googled mystery object in space. There's no shortage of there'
one hundreds of them. Get in touch, hit till twelve
with your taboo counter. How's the counting going, sixteen to ten?

(01:08:53):
Have you got anything to add? That's the plan tonight people,
Oh yeah, thanks for that getting touched. Which there is
an alien object in space, A mysterious comet is shooting
through our Solar system. Three eye slash Atlas, this really

(01:09:18):
faced space fun space rock is only the third interstellar
object to be observed. That's right, because we had ah
Mo and MOA in twenty seventeen that no one could
work out how it was propelled. So three what three
eye slash atlas I means interstellar? Three is the third

(01:09:40):
object I missed the second one I knew about, oh
more and more weird widely about didn't know there was
a two eye slash borrows of They say it's probably
a comet, and oh more and more they checked for
radio signals in case it was alien craft. It wasn't. See.
There's no evidence to point towards three eye slash Atlas

(01:10:01):
being anything other than a really fun space rock that
came from outside the Solar system, which, to be honest,
is cool enough, it's going to brighten as it approaches
the sun will appear like a smudge on amateur telescopes.
Can't wait. Talking cassettes and the return of cassettes, which

(01:10:23):
I think is probably talked up a bit more than
it's actually going to happen. I don't know if there's
any desire for them, apart from when you hire a
car with no radio and you want to quickly buy
cassettes for long journeys. But the reason is because Taylor
Swift is releasing Showgirls or Showgirl Life of a Showgirl
on cassette. I guess that's probably more for publicity. Leading

(01:10:50):
the trend of these tapes are super fans, who account
for eighty percent of music listeners. Super Fans engage with
their favorite artists in at least five different ways, streaming concerts,
physically purchasing their music. Also, they spend three nine per
month of those purchases, one hundred and five percent more
than the average fan. These hyper engaged fans are mostly

(01:11:13):
gen Z, with the tops of the cassettes out of
twenty twenty five coming from Top forty. Others like Chappelle
Row and Sabrina Carpender Charlie xcx I presient it's how
you pronounce it. Nine percent have purchased a cassette within
the past year. Gen Y are all looking for more

(01:11:34):
opportunities to put their phone down and direct with music
in a way that doesn't require streaming. Although like the
fact that you've got to listen to the whole album
in order the tangial experience. I only listened to an
album all the way through is a nice reprieve from
the perfect curation of a stream playlist. So it's a
complimentary component there you go. Makes sense to me. Respecting

(01:12:02):
the music, it's more reverential. Ten from ten be a
part of it. You want to interact with talkback, which
is probably pretty old school, isn't it. Cassettes are horrible.
They go bad no matter how they are stored.

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

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
Think with cassettes. You always had to tap them about
four times to loosen them up because I'd get tight.
That was never good. Marcus will wonder if pencil sales
will go up so you can rewind the tape or
what am I having to repeair the take in sticking
it together was always good, or breaking the bits off

(01:12:43):
so no one could tape over it was always pretty
dressedicay one of the drinking the bath water tape was
had those are raised yep nine to ten. Welcome HITDLE twelve.
It's cassettes. And now that subway, the bigger subways, the
more expensive subways are over twenty bucks cheaper. Would you

(01:13:05):
pay twenty bus for subway sandwiches? Some pretty interesting comments
on that on Facebook. Mind you, the Facebook audience is
a pretty volatile one, isn't it cheapest? I think it's
people just want to be heard. I'll see what people
are saying on that. Also, Ah the Galaxy, the Super

(01:13:34):
Galaxy Winter take Off DWN tomorrow eleven am tomorrow. It's
taking off. You want to go look at it, don't
know which direction it's going, Get in touch, you want
to talk. That's what they say about subway for quick
and easy food. There quickly and easily pricing themselves off

(01:13:56):
the market, stupidly priced. There you go. Subway once was
good quality and good. Are you no longer good? Or
could buy four ham or chicken wraps full of salad
vegis at Copeland's Bakery the seventy percent of that subway price. Wow,

(01:14:18):
the Jolly Pub two if you want to talk about that.
That's something else you might want to mention to the
jolly farmer. Why am I confusing that with a jolly poachers?
There's jolly poacher in New Zealand as well, or did'nt
overseas thing? Ah? Why have I got those two confused?
I know there's one in Christian she always there's a
jolly poacher at Auckland also, someone might clarify that for me,

(01:14:42):
good old christ Jay with a jolly poacher. I'll welcome
people Hitdle twelve if you want to come and be
a part of it. And that's the plan tonight. The
league's on, but it's just the South, the rabbits versus
the dragons. So I'll keep you undated. A someone anyone

(01:15:03):
bulah love it? Just saw Mary the Birth of Fregginstone.
All Con Theater played Wail of a Driver written by
Es to just say, if we go to the theater
over twenty years, this is one of the best pieces
I've ever seen. Will be a complete sell out to
just dog listens get tickets. That I had the opportunity
to meet the playwright just afterwards. What a phenomenal talent
and so young gives me so much confidence of the
talent that we produce in New Zealand. A birth of Frankenstein.

(01:15:29):
Anyone know how to fix tear and an ear mattress
when you don't have a proper fixed kit, I'll just
say Geffer tape. But someone else might know. Anyone else
don't know how to fix an air mattress without the kit?
Ah oh in pencil sales going up with people rewinding tapes. Yes,

(01:15:54):
nothing else, And there can't be a round pencil. It's
got to be the hexagonal. Is that hexagonal? How many
sides with a pencil at six? Isn't it the octagonal?

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
I agree? Do you get in touch? You got to
be a part of it, with it till midnight? Anything
else you want to go on about? Good looking? To
welcome you to the show. About that iconic Australian bakery
facing trouble. Brumbi's Bakery has been sold off. So Brumbi's

(01:16:27):
up against it. They were everywhere. They're like the Australian
version of Baker's Beyond am I right there? Who's the
one that does the VIGI might scroll Baker's Delight? So yeah,
Brumby's a good value Bakery. Oh well CCB Convenience Cafe Bakery,

(01:16:47):
that was their segment. Didn't even they had a name
for it CCB. Oh, these are all up in arms
about that ketch as soon as you want to talk
here all midnight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty center.
We're talking about the Jolly Farmer pub which is about
to close. Someone has texted me the Jolly Poacher, which
is different, was in Monadywa that has now closed. The
Jolly Poacher and the Jolly Farmer. I think the Jolly Fair.

(01:17:09):
I don't know if they're related. They might have been
sister pubs. Roman As Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:17:13):
Welcome, Hey, Marcus are going yeah good, Just for your
listeners and Nelson to stay away from Tarawai Street in
the city center. Really huge fire going on. Yeah, but
how do tra a cup there?

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
How do you spell Tarwai Street?

Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:17:36):
Ki k a w copy, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Carwai Street, Okay, sart riders in the middle of Nelson.
Is it by the hospital?

Speaker 11 (01:17:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:17:45):
Yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
Have you got the idea how long the fire has
been involved in? What it is that's on.

Speaker 21 (01:17:51):
Fire literally eight minutes ago?

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
So yeah, sorry, what were you saying.

Speaker 21 (01:18:00):
Literally about eight minutes ago, I just yeah, just saw it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Okay. And it's a else it's a residential property, is it?

Speaker 21 (01:18:08):
Yeah, yeah, it's fully involved.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Okay, appreciate that too, Roman, thanks so much for that.
No worries got more information about that. That's uh, that
is the road that leads to the hospital. I'm just
trying to get my bearings where we are up the valley,
but two from the city and the port. I'm not
great on the suburbs and Nelson, So why don't I

(01:18:34):
know where that is? Anyway, those that will know that,
we'll know. So, yeah, Corway Street, you've got any more information,
let me know eight hundred and eighty Tenadian nine two detects.
If you've got some more information about that, and we
are talking about those pubs or anything else you want
to talk about tonight, too, be lovely to hear from

(01:18:55):
you talk about cassettes. Oh, the Jolly Farmer was Drewy,
the Jolly Poach wasn't Marno? Their way? And the Jolly
Potter and Tumuka Marcus that seventy percent Copeland's text from
one of Yours is comparing subway sandwiches prices that lie
no individual sub sandwich on their menus over twenty dollars.

(01:19:17):
But if you decided by a twelve inch sub individually
via ubrets or preaches a twelve inch subway combo with
biscuits and drinks, then and only then will a subway
meal cost over twenty dollars will According to the news,
there any herald that prices are incon inconsistent between franchises,
and someone has played twenty dollars twenty at the Russell

(01:19:38):
Street Subway and Hastings pray chicken pepperoni which sounds like
a pizza, although allklad costs nineteen ninety so I don't
know why they're charging thirty cents more, and Hastings seems
wrong to me. Do I ever tell you about my

(01:20:00):
plain role I brought there for thirteen dollars? How dare
they there is a suo that goes with it. Would
you pay twenty dollars for a foot long from subway?
Eighty nine percent said no, and four thousand people have voted.
There's even a photo of the gyurnast eating it. It

(01:20:20):
does say key. We have a long history of raging
about subway prices. Subway and twenty ten subway. Foot long
sandwiches were about seven or eight dollars. Now they're a out. Yeah,
so they've gone up there the sky of the price
is rocketed yep, so now twenty bucks? Do you think

(01:20:45):
I should send them about my role? I brought in
moscowle That cost me thirty dollars just for a plain
bit of a plane role with nothing in it. How outrageous.
Move on, Marcus, move on. Twelve past ten. The Jolly Poacher,
the Jolly Farmer, the Jolly potter. But the Jolly Farmers
closing next week. I've seen no articles about that. You
think they'd have some sort of everything there didn't. There's

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always bands and sort of skimpy t shirt competitions. They
tried everything, pub quizzers probably Jingo probably, so you might
want to mention that, got no articles about it closing.
Nothing I can see there, Marcus. The upside of all

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the heavy rain this winter is it's flushing quite out
of gold into the rivers, things like goldie box work.
Pretty well, I wouldn't had the heavy rain, though it's
been quite dry down south. Someone wants to know how
to fix the air mattress. I presume they're on it.
Tonight without a punch or a pair kit. If anyone
can help, My only suggestion was Geffer tape or hot wax.
Maybe I don't know if hot wax is gonna work.

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I don't really know what's gonna work. But jump in
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty six Snills South Rabbidos
ever since George, the lightest player in the NRL, kicked
it over seventy four kilos by the ways as Jolly
Roger and picton. Of course, there is amongst the people
who want to talk, my name is Marcus. Welcome Hitdle twelve.

(01:22:18):
There's other stuff we can talk about. I mean, basically
we talk about everything. Keep it fresh, bright, tight and real.
It is Poets Day and Burger Day. This day. In
eighty seven, Dity Dancing was released in the movies. This day.
In fifty nine, Hawaii became the fiftieth US state. Of course,

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Alaska was the forty ninth. And this day. In nineteen
fifty eight, Auckland became Auckland Pedestrians Auckland's pedestrians. What happened
this day, ninety fifty eight and Auckland was that they
introduced dagon or crossing at traffic lights, which was a

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very big deal. And then it's winter and then it's gone.
Now I think it's come back again. But yeah, I
think Wellington's got daggonal well he's Wellington got danionald crossing.

Speaker 22 (01:23:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
Wellington is a little bit sketchy, don't they have. Actually,
we'll watch out for busses the whole time. That's some
of the stuff we have talked about Tonight. There is
a new viral ice cream everyone is talking about. They
are called Hong Qui Sweet Twreats Mango, peach strawberry. They're

(01:23:39):
from China. They're shaped like the fruit itself. If anyone's
tried one of those, pecked individually in their own containing
the ice cream sits under a plastic dime, they are
a packaging crime. They should be outlawed for the amount
of plastic in them. The ice cream sticks six below

(01:24:01):
a plastic stand, so you put the domeback on it
and put it back in the fridge. They are a
triumph of packaging. They look pricey but slightly taste. If
you've tried, well, let me know. I'm watching someone on
TikTok open them. You kind of tear a tear around
the base. But they've got four bits of plastic and

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them they're extremely plastic. The woman, anyone should be shamed
of herself with a waste for the environment. Well, he
seems to be quite enjoying it. Fifteen Pasteen David Marcus, Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 27 (01:24:40):
Oh oh hi, marguess, that was what got to be.
Now we're just talking about the NRL and I have
been backing the breast fine broncos.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
Oh yep, you will leave lost your money, haven't you?

Speaker 27 (01:24:59):
Because what I've been doing is for them to make
the top eight, and so they've only been paying like
about a dollar three or a five or something like that.
And I've been doing it over months and so now
I've got one thousand dollars coming up. Oh goodness, yeah, yes,
because I use the tab like a savings account.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
So how much of you how much have you spent
on the speed?

Speaker 27 (01:25:25):
Well, I mean, you know, the profit is probably fifty
bucks from a thousand, but it doesn't matter because I'm
getting it all back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Well, you might be they're gonna still drop out of
they lose the next three, couldn't they?

Speaker 10 (01:25:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:25:36):
No, No, Now with the lady at the pub said, Oh, no,
I can't give you a thousand dollars, so we might
better put it into your account or something like that,
you know. And but it's just I don't know why
I come up with us. It's just a different method
of like savings money that I come up with.

Speaker 3 (01:25:57):
So each week, do you know, each week do you
beg them to be in the top eight?

Speaker 27 (01:26:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
With what with how many twenty bucks?

Speaker 27 (01:26:07):
Yeah, well normally I'd put like asily to one hundred
on there every week, okay, and or whatever, very much
sort of everything. But and and they couldn't understand why
would you do that? Well, you know, now they understand
because you're getting it all back.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
What was it paying to be the top eight at
the beginning of the year.

Speaker 27 (01:26:33):
Well, they were starting very you know, a dollar ken,
dollar five or something like that, okay, And and it
that fluctuate a but it went up right tourned a
dollar twenty or something like that through the season. But
there've always been you know, the broncos. Of course they
will always you would hope to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
They're an unlikable bunch of people, though, aren't they.

Speaker 27 (01:26:59):
Well, and I live in parapar David, Yeah, and there's
another guy who he's as strictly warriors of course.

Speaker 3 (01:27:10):
Yes, So when are you going to get your thousand dollars?

Speaker 27 (01:27:17):
Well, well, where it comes in, we said, a couple
of weeks away, isn't it from the topic?

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
Yeah, I thought they might give you next week because
then they could probably not possibly get out of the
top eight.

Speaker 27 (01:27:27):
Mm hmmm. Yeah. Well anyway, I talked to the lady
and the pub and he said, no, I'm not giving
you a thousand dollars David.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Okay, what pubs this?

Speaker 5 (01:27:36):
This is a stag bar and.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
It's called the stag Bart.

Speaker 27 (01:27:41):
Yes and yes, any good? Well yeah, no, yeah, I
don't really go to the public match. But the problem is,
you know, what are you going to do with all
of us?

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
Mm hmmm, well with all the money?

Speaker 27 (01:28:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Is it called the is it called the flexed egg?

Speaker 27 (01:28:09):
The right stay?

Speaker 9 (01:28:09):
That's one.

Speaker 27 (01:28:11):
Now we were I was talking to a friend of
mine here. He said, well, we're talking about gold in
that you know before as an investment.

Speaker 18 (01:28:18):
Yes, but but you.

Speaker 27 (01:28:20):
Don't get back. Are all gold for a thousand dollars?
These days? You're going to have three thousand? Now if
you've ever done it a while ago, it would have
been all right.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
You're the time time. Maybe you should put into gold.

Speaker 27 (01:28:33):
Mm hmmm, quarter one out?

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
I think, yeah, why don't you.

Speaker 27 (01:28:39):
M's better than a person.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
Yeah, well, well that's up to your's your decision.

Speaker 18 (01:28:44):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Yeah, but you say you don't go to the pubats
you drink at home?

Speaker 27 (01:28:50):
Yeah, because I live in a boarding house and all it.

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
I know.

Speaker 27 (01:28:54):
I think I've talked to you before. Marcus. My brother
in law, Well, hang by the mother of my children's
y brother is Martin Devron.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Oh goodness, well where's Marty these days? He's on the sound.
Is he doing breakfast?

Speaker 27 (01:29:19):
I'm not sure to be honest, Oh okay, yeah, but
I know. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
Oh small world, mate, Dave, nice to talk, Thank you.
Twenty past ten. Welcome people, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty the nicky seriously Lowell Marcus saving out for a
few weeks. What are they called? Yes, full of plastic
that's TikTok's latest trend. Yummy though, how much are they?
Dan Marcus? Do you remember the cassette singles with just

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one or two songs on them, or a longer version
of that song Ivan They weren't called cassette singles. I
think they were called kass singles Marcus. In the fifties
eighty sixties. The Jolly Farmer Drew was also a top
off point pie, sandwich, cup of tea. As we're places
like the Merser railway station, there we go how to
pat this is the more important text. How to patch

(01:30:09):
up an air bed without a repair pit, super glue,
a piece of balloon over the puncture, or any small
patch of rubber can be used. Liking that that's practical,
So it's about how to fix an air bed and
subway that's getting too expensive. And cassettes Marcus. I've been

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to that jolly bar and picked it into the barrow,
and three men sitting at the end of the bar,
all had their dye, all had dyed black hair. I
did not hang around, as the heir was too much
and they were not friendly folk. The new Jolly Poacher
and Chrost used only last a couple of months and
the site is for less again. Seems to be a
Jinx name. The ice blocks are called hong Ky, apparently

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about seven dollars at dairies or supermarkets. A lot of packaging.
Though someone said there was a Jolly mother pub and
umu thank you for that about pub's name, Jolly Stephanie,
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:31:07):
That's good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
Subway.

Speaker 28 (01:31:10):
I've been getting a foot long subway and a six
hundred bottle of drink for about eighteen dollars in the
last two weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Yeah sure, yeah, but I think it's it's the chicken
pepperoni one. That's pricey.

Speaker 28 (01:31:26):
Okay, okay, you're going to pull the pork ribblet.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Oh yeah, that's a heated one, is it?

Speaker 28 (01:31:32):
You haven't heated or cold?

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
So haven't got the They haven't got the bones, and
obviously have they no.

Speaker 28 (01:31:40):
Bones, just just the meat. Quite nice.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Every time I reckon with subway, my check is to
keep it for you simple. Otherwise you get too many
tastes to get it gets too confusing.

Speaker 28 (01:31:52):
Yeah yeah, I just get the pork riblet, lenus, tomato,
onion and carrot.

Speaker 3 (01:31:59):
Would you eat that on the track, Stephani.

Speaker 28 (01:32:04):
I've got a six inch one in the truck with
me tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
Okay. I wouldn't want.

Speaker 7 (01:32:10):
I wouldn't want.

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
I wouldn't want. Poor riblet sauce dripping down.

Speaker 28 (01:32:14):
No no, no, no no no no no no sauce
on them.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
Oh okay, understand, Yeah, okay, I haven't really I haven't
really visualized it. I don't think.

Speaker 28 (01:32:23):
Yeah, I just get a little bit of sault. No, no,
no greetings, No swaters.

Speaker 21 (01:32:31):
That's way.

Speaker 28 (01:32:31):
That way is nice and easy to eat, nothing dripping.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Is there a one? There is there one with a
drive through for trucks. No, okay, nice to hear from you.
Definitely thank you. Twenty six paste by the way, the
Invocagle Subways drive through. There aren't many drive through ones.
And funny enough, someone escaped from the in Vacago prison
yesterday because right in the middle of town. They're only

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out for half an hour. You quite often see you
quite often see the people in their windows, and you
see people driving down and waving to them. But yeah,
I don't know how they got out. Looks difficult, don't they?
Where where they would have run to? Wight have been
trying to check out the new Popeyes. I think that's
opened yet, but it must be a day or two.
Probably help me on Friday. I would think I'll drive

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past it later on and see what's happening there. Twelve
zero South's up up over Saint George Elaora. They're both
not top eight teams anyway, Oh Shivers, shouldn't say that
word with a person with a team who counter counting
how many times I say it and then sharing it

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at at the breakfast at the rest home for goodness sake?
Whatever next? Now, thank you, Rob, I'm just reading what
you've sent in. Yes, get in touch if you want

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to talk. One names Marcus, Marcus, this nikki can you
tell my hobby even yes, that you did comment on
the TikTok comment, I said, loll, what does that even mean?
This nicky? Oh, this nikky, can you please tell my
hobby Gavin the yessue did comment on the TikTok comment,
I said, loll. The original comment was that this nicky

(01:34:23):
seriously loll Marcus, they have been out for a few weeks. Yes,
full of plastic, that's the TikTok letters tree and they
yummy though, well, where's the punctuation? Marcus? One of the
dyed heir pub owner's nickname was black Beard. Good to
hear Stephanie's laugh for the night. What actually what did

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they yeah? Anyway? Getting touched Hitdill twelve twenty eight past
ten oh eight hundred and eighty ten eight nine nine
two de text anything else you want to mention? Oh,
Jolly Miller Pub. There's a Jolly Miller pub and para
para umu. Thank you go the Stags. They have won
tonight to add a four. That's pretty good for the

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They went a whole about three season without winning a match.
So this is big stuff, very big stuff. The person
that was refused entry to the pub in Woollongong, he
was a former NRL player. Wasn't that in for his
tar mukel He's loud in one night but not the

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other night. Watched the Space So there we go. Be
a big story in Australia. Email if you can and
if there's anything else you do want to talk about?
Yuddy yuddy yeah, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

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what's the story of ninety five year old former North
Korean soldier spent decades imprisoned in the South will continuous
campaign to return to the North? Wow? Pretty extreme as
a ninety five year old. And Brumby's Bakery in Australia
looks like that's in trouble. It's kind of tough when
bakries aren't doing well. You think bakeries would be a

(01:36:15):
fairly successful kind of a formula, wouldn't you. I guess
it all depends in Australia deals for malls and things
like that and margins. Get in touch if you want
to be a part of it Hittel twelve o'clock tonight
If you want to email Marcus Atnewstalk zb dot Co
dot Nz twenty nine from eleven if you want to

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be in touch with the show good All the lines
are available for tonight. Embracing and looking forward to your
contributions cassettes. We have talked about the Jolly Farmer pub
and subway, which used to be very cheaper now seems
to be anything. But I see therese one hundred and
forty two proposed jobs to go with that. Tasmin sawmill closing.

(01:36:59):
You've got any insight there that would be of interest
Carter Holt Harvey's e Valleys sawmill. The international price for
logs would be good, would it not?

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
I think with logs it all depends on the Northern
Hemisphere summer and how much stuff they're milling. It's quite complicated.
I think the pricing of that. We've talked about those
viral ice creams and cassettes and doctors may have found
a cure for excessive sleepiness. Do I know what it is?

(01:37:32):
It's not an arcalepsi, it's hypersomnia. Will you keep drifting off?
They say the metabolite tara amine as a factor. Yeah,
I don't fully know what the solution is. It might
be caused by too much overripe food, age, cheese, smoked meat,

(01:37:56):
and some alcohol. Whtch these foods adopt a diet of seeds, nuts,
nuts and vegetable oil. Yeah, it all sound well. Have
you tried nuts and vegetable oil as a diet? Probably
it's samey, samey. Get in touch if you want to
be a part of it. My name is Marcus. Welcome.

(01:38:16):
Then you know Roman's going to be along at twelve.
In fact, that guy that rang about the fire and Nelson,
his name was Roman, wasn't it. We took all my
desperate to call them Roman. But he's Roman. I don't know.
We're in the robe anyway. Hello, Brenda, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 29 (01:38:33):
Just regarding the Jolly Farmer Pub, it will always be
affectionately known as the Jolly.

Speaker 3 (01:38:39):
Oh it's a great thing.

Speaker 29 (01:38:41):
Yeah, it's had its name changed over the last decade
or so. What was Murphy's law Now I'm Malley's. I
got a group of girls together. In the seventies. We
used to play netball for the pub called the Jolly
Farmer Girls. The Dreary Rugby Club used to drink there

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Saturday afternoons. You couldn't move in there, yes, and the
young mixed with the old. The bands were playing as
a net or team. We used to put on gigs
through the week and charge a door cover fee to

(01:39:29):
get money together for our yearly trip to Rotaua where
we played up. But it was a great place, always packed,
saved a bit of food, you know, yabistro food. But
later on it's the main bar became more restaurant. It's

(01:39:56):
a terrible shame to lose that iconic building.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
I'm just looking at it because I think you always
used to drive past it, but then the motorway change
is that. But it's it was sort of that.

Speaker 29 (01:40:07):
It's an old great south round and it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
Was a Tudor style, wasn't it that you could it was.

Speaker 29 (01:40:16):
It's beautiful building. The guy that owns it now I
know he spent a lot of money on it. Lovely,
big covered garden bar. He's kept it in tip top condition.
I'm just devastated that it's going to be bold.

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
Do you know that as anyone can. I mean, it
was only me that said it, but if someone had texted.

Speaker 29 (01:40:41):
Me, well, I've heard the rumor, okay, the maths, and
I was hoping it was only a rumor. They're doing
so much infrastructure out there, for the railway and everything,
I just hoped it would be saved.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
Tell me something. Are you still in that area, Brenda?

Speaker 29 (01:41:04):
Yes, I remember seventies there.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Okay? So with the pub, right, was it a city
pub or was the country pub? Where did the people
come from? The drunk there.

Speaker 29 (01:41:17):
Mainly Peppercura locals, Coraka. We if anybody called in on
a Saturday afternoon from out of town, they'd be back
there the next week.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Is that good?

Speaker 19 (01:41:31):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Wow?

Speaker 29 (01:41:33):
It was. We just had some great times. I still
keep in touch with a lot of the friends I
met there.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
So how did you get involved? You got involved there
only with years going regularly and they involved with sports teams.

Speaker 29 (01:41:49):
Well, some of us girls decided to go out there
once and then we got talking to the publican and
we said, how did you feel about get the netball
team together. He said, yes, sure, culture wow, and so
we didn't. We used to have games against the boys

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and we'd come off second best with elbows in their
eyes and because that wouldn't stick to any rules. But
it was a fun place.

Speaker 3 (01:42:24):
And Brenda, how many years do you think that you're
involved there?

Speaker 29 (01:42:28):
Probably about ten?

Speaker 19 (01:42:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Yeah, case, it's quite a long time. And is it
about ten or twenty years ago? Is it?

Speaker 29 (01:42:36):
Was it mainly in the seventies, okay, and then of course, Oliver,
the twenties, mid to late twenties. Then you start thinking
about a family, and then the children come along and
they go Yeah. Although I played a bit of sport,

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never got back into the jolly. It was run by
a great crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
Because it looks like before long that's going to be
the it'll live quite a big residential area. There's huge
developments across the motorway from there and just south of there.
So oh you want to go along for a final pint?
I go.

Speaker 29 (01:43:18):
I go out there regularly. I haven't been to the pub,
but my doctor's out there past it every time I
go out, and I think, God, I hope those rumors
aren't true. I must go in and take some photos.

Speaker 3 (01:43:33):
It's a big place with a big upstairs. Is there
accommodation up the top?

Speaker 29 (01:43:37):
I think they used to be many many years ago,
and then one of the managers many years ago. I
used to live up there, But I don't know what
it was used for in the end. Perhaps they just
had one of the mar managers or something staying up there.

(01:44:00):
I don't know, because most of the owners had their
own places they lived.

Speaker 3 (01:44:06):
And I guess the food was probably pretty good.

Speaker 11 (01:44:08):
Was it?

Speaker 29 (01:44:09):
Yeah? I mean in the seventies it was just a
little mistro in the public bar. I mean, the public
bar was always choker with trade es. He got rained
out and didn't want to go back to work. But
Tuesday Friday said day night you couldn't move in the

(01:44:32):
place still closing time.

Speaker 3 (01:44:34):
Brilliant. Oh we lovely to hear from your Breny. You
brought the place alive. Don't say that often. He's a text.
Marcus I was the host for the annual Jolly Farmer
Wet t Shirt competition in the early nineties. The security
was run by a guy called Tiny was about six
foot six and but like a concrete latrine. Great pub
and lovely locals Cheers Roger. His eye too had been

(01:44:55):
involved in comparing a event there also which didn't seem
on brand for the radio station we were with, but
was a contracted a previous format of the station. Yeah,
it was all happening at the Jolly Farmer. And yeah,
I too knew tiny also. It wasn't tiny either. I

(01:45:16):
presume there's only one security guy called Tinyness. There was
all sorts of people called tiny I feel I want
to go there now. Jolly Farm was our stop on
the way to the mount. Cheers, Frank. I missed the
days of hearing cassette on record pause, waiting for your
favorite sold to the radio to add to a mixtape.
Making a Spotify playlist easy, but nowhere near as much fun.

(01:45:39):
That's right, there's got to be struggle with music. Do
you know how much struggle there was with music for
most of us? I mean, the music we wanted you
couldn't hear on the radio because the radio just played
the top forty. Yet get records and ported, yet to
buy records from overseas, Yet to buy postal notes or
post of extremely complicating, get any form of music. Now

(01:46:00):
it's all on Spotify. There's no challenge so yeah, cassettes
were a big part of that. People heading around cassettes
of new songs, and before there were memes and viral things,
there would be songs sort of humorous things on cassette
that you would be passed from person to person. Oh,
very very significant things in their day. Cassettes extremely significant.

(01:46:23):
I still have someway box of cassettes. So many talk
shows and things. Yeah, you tape stuff, your tape stuff
for radio awards and things on cassettes. I actually think
when you said when I first did radio, you'd have
to run a cassette over your show to take along

(01:46:45):
to your station manager or your program director for an
air check. I'll run a tape over the show, would you?
Lushy and long? There's nothing more humiliating than a air check,
because then you're going to have a listen to yourself
on the right that no one wants to do. And fortunately,
thanks to an alignment of the stars, I don't think

(01:47:07):
I would have had an ee check for thirty years.
I think my ear chick days are over and verty
much take take me as I am these days, I'm
the ones dancing pony where humiliating thing? So yes, but
you have to bring a check to you know, you're
doing a mid dawn host, you have to take a
run a tape over your show and take it into

(01:47:28):
the program director to rip apart. They're not going to
tell you anything you don't know, are they were going
to hear it clear as day. We're listening to it.
Cheapers got PTSD. But the Jolly Farmer, I've been fancy
who going on for a directors get a netball team?

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Which she met her husband there too, Do you reckon?
The only thing I don't like about is the palms
out in the front of it, those nasty Californian palms
that never really suit. Oh I love that place. Ah copy,
get in touch, Marcus Still. Twelve sixteen nil Rabbits over

(01:48:09):
the Dragons halftime in the Rugby League. Goodwin for South
and two on the well, not yes, two on the
trot went back to back. It is twelve from eleven
Romance at midnight in the meantime, I'm embracing your contributions tonight,
The Jolly Farmer Drury. Can I just say what a

(01:48:32):
dreadful name for suburb Drury is? You get depressed even
saying it. Drury, I don't know where the name's from.
I look that up because that would be of interest.
Drury the least inspiring name for named after Commander Brian Drury,
captain of the Pandora, who surveyed the Monaco Harbor. Well

(01:48:53):
that's better than a lot of town than named are
a good seaman. I don't know the HMS Pandora to
brig she should be hard work surveying the money, Cooe,
wouldn't it He's spent half your time up on sandbanks.
Oh there we go, Pendora run aground at Monaco whilst

(01:49:15):
departing for only Hunger, also surveyed the Avon Hithcott history.
Of course it did. Please they've named the town after
survey I put that in the quiz Dan, How many
questions we got?

Speaker 19 (01:49:33):
Who?

Speaker 3 (01:49:35):
What was Drury named after? Kittain?

Speaker 7 (01:49:39):
Drury?

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
Lyele, Welcome, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:49:44):
I'd just like to say that I used to work
at the Mary Mary Power Station back in the round
about nineteen to sixty nine. Yes, Jolly Farmer was always
a favorite place about. Yes, and we used to sort
of be entertained by that iconic duo of Lew of Simon.

Speaker 18 (01:50:01):
Oh wow, And we was.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
There were you would you live at the our station
when you were there or what happened?

Speaker 10 (01:50:09):
Absolutely lived at the power station.

Speaker 3 (01:50:11):
Okay, So was that your local?

Speaker 10 (01:50:15):
No, not really. Our main local, of course was Mercer.
We had had a big night out. We would go
to the Red Fox at Maramura, oh wow. Other times
we would go to Rangerey. If we're venture into Orphan,
we'd always stop at the Jolly Farmer on the way home.
And clearly remember being the home of Lou and Simon.

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
Now that would be that's Lou Klausen and Simon me
Hannatt there before my time. Yeah, but they were quite
the thing, were they?

Speaker 10 (01:50:51):
Well they were they were sort of around the Howard
Morrison era I think. I mean, I'm talking nineteen sixty
nine to around about nineteen seventy two. I think when
I left Mary Mary and they were pretty big at
the time, and they seemed to I mean, I have
no I can't even remember any of these songs, to
be quite frank, But.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Back in the day they were comedy duo too. That's funny.
That's sort of the funny sort of Maori PUCKI ha guy.
But are toing and froing?

Speaker 10 (01:51:19):
Is that right? Absolutely? Earlier here really, James.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Yeah, yeah, I think they had a song called a
multi carr as well too, to the tune of America.
So yeah, okay, that sounds funny.

Speaker 10 (01:51:29):
Okay, yeah, great time. It's great times.

Speaker 3 (01:51:34):
Yeah, oh well you might are you still around that
you might have to go one final visit Lyle.

Speaker 10 (01:51:40):
Well, No, I moved from Marry Mary power station down
here to New Plymouth, and that's where I remained, okay,
I think at the time down here, but that's subsequently
closed down but retired now of course. But good times.

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
Nice to hear from here, I think, actually one of them.
I'm just reading on Audio Culture about Lewin Simon. It
says the peer fast spitting fifty seven on stage of
the Multi Committee said on Financial Street in the Victoria Park,
that was a place where molded you to the city
socialized of the fifties. The venue's concert and talent shows
were legendary. Mahana often performed there as a member of
the teenage band the Hawaiian Swingsters. One night Jack Kitchen,

(01:52:20):
the sener's manager said they had a parking hour book
that he wanted Mahana's band to back him. It was
lou Clauson, a visiting singer from Drury, So it seems
like Lou. Not only that, did Lew and Simon sing
at the Jolly Farmer, looks like Clawsonet or Lou actually
came from there. So there we go. Someone might know

(01:52:40):
about them as well. For a different topic, a lot
of texts about the Farmer. Marcus. Remember when we were kids,
we had a cassette player that would record voice would
host our own radio shows with songs record off the radio.
Druris expected to be the size of NAPI when completed.
Mill Road the backway between Monico and Papakure is under
construction and will be the next motorway through to Drury

(01:53:02):
and Spagga dejunction number three Hallo Hamilton Auklude is getting
closer and closer to you and fast. Lull fun fact
that Jolly Farmer and Drury was the location for television
ad back in the eighties. He had for sizzlers bacon
flavored corn snacks. At the end the pigs flew into
the air. Did even remember it? The Jolly Farmer was built.

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The long way round the back was the main entrance
as its face. The railway line trained to walker would
stop there and refuel and water, and passengers would jump
on carts and go for a bear. I think that
text moment improved with a comma or a pre reading
from me. Hi, Marcus Commer. I went to the Woods
Show on Willington Show Buildings around eighteen eighty two. Sony

(01:53:46):
had a stand there promoting the Sony Walkman. There were
about ten Walkmans to try with Cliff Richards wired for
sound on repeat, red in color from memory and media
radio built in groundbreaking cheers, Tim Pittoni. The Walkman gave
so many people their freedom. Was what you could do

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with a woman. You could take your music with you.
The paper run was never the same again. I don't
know if that jolly farmer did back onto the railway.
Oh no, you might be hang on just looking at
the rear the wail where the railway is. I've lost
the damn pub again. Get in touch if you want

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to be a part of it. My name is Marcus Welcome.
Oh there it is. Yeah, I don't know if it's
on the back of the railway.

Speaker 29 (01:54:33):
Is it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
That I can see? Although I've lost the railway now? Oh, yes,
there it is. Yes, you might be kind of right, yes, yes, okay,
I'm seeing what you're saying now. Yes, the railway was
behind it. Okay, I'm glad I've solved that across a panic.
Mind you how we're just coming up to the three

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quarter stretch.

Speaker 22 (01:54:58):
People.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
We're talking about cassettes and the Jolly Farmer. That's an
Auckland tomic topic. Christ one of your pub's closes down,
will talk. But that also, Marcus, anyone know the Stephenson girls.
There'd be only seventies now and looking younger than ever.
Jolly Farmer drags and gosh is old music on records.
Sounds like the whole thing should be taking apart by

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Pitt and re established it. To Papa, it sounds like
one of the legendary pubs of all time. And the
Stephenson's girls, goodness, are they from the Quarrying family. Perhaps
they might be trumps up and already on social media
tweeting or social media ring invective, but that's what he does.

(01:55:48):
We are talking about tapes and cassettes and the Jolly
Farmer pub which appears to be closing, although I can't
see much about it. I presume it's still up and running. Now, Marcus,
you're talking about a check cassettes. I worked at four
XO in the mid eighties, and I am familiar with
them and what you are saying. Just have to go
to the p d's office on Fridays. He would blood

(01:56:08):
cigarettes off me and critique my show. I still have
those cassettes. Great time at Iconic Radio station, Steve. Thank you, Steve.
Get in touch if you want to talk about this. Hello, Ellis,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:56:23):
Why Marcus hi Alis. I worked with your mum at Barbara's.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
On Goodness in the eighties.

Speaker 29 (01:56:37):
Ama.

Speaker 7 (01:56:39):
She was a very interesting woman.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
That'd be right, Yes, goodness? And what have you rung
to tell me? Besides as well as that.

Speaker 6 (01:56:56):
Oh it's my introduction.

Speaker 3 (01:56:58):
That's a nice introduction.

Speaker 7 (01:57:00):
Because great.

Speaker 27 (01:57:06):
Yeah yeah, mm hm.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
Did you want to talk about the Jolly Farmer Pub?

Speaker 18 (01:57:15):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:57:16):
Yis I'm I'm I'm the siventh generation.

Speaker 6 (01:57:21):
We'll carry it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:22):
Oh, cheapest creepers and would put a cowey people go
to the dreary pub the Jolly Farmer. I guess they would,
of course they did.

Speaker 21 (01:57:30):
Okay, yes, it's an icon.

Speaker 20 (01:57:36):
Been pulled down.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
Well, I'll just trying to confirm that. I'm trying to
find out Alice to keep listening. I'll see what I
can find out. Thank you. Jason, Hello, this is Marcus
welcome j Yes, yeah yeah mate, good.

Speaker 4 (01:57:53):
Thanks yeah hey yeah yeah up in rows or just
next seah sure Becking Swimmings and ladies.

Speaker 9 (01:58:06):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
They used to have the used to have a tagle
war team team most of the pumps around Pepper Curve money.
The Jolly had one more men used to coach the
tagle whar team sar team they had because the biggest,

(01:58:28):
one of the biggest employers is Stevie's Worrying still going,
founded by being Stevenson. Yeah, so that they were a big,
big employer. So yeah, a lot of guys, uh yeah,
ended up with Johnny. They called it the Jolly and
still open. Markets still going. I'm not sure what when

(01:58:53):
when when the action dats when they're they're getting out there.
But there's a lot of shops all along on the
same side. It's the mobile there now all going as well.
So all those buildings on that side where Dolly is,
they are all being demolished, but they haven't really come

(01:59:13):
up with a date, not that I've seen. They've got
a library, they've got the Jerry Rugby club being around
for a few years, probably over hundred years, i'd take,
which is behind the Johnny Barner. It is a lot
of history there. It's probably is going to be all gone.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
Did you, Jason, did you go to the pub batch?

Speaker 4 (01:59:35):
It was a young mate. Yeah, I'm about fusty eight,
so I know it came back to Auckland back in
two thousand and seven. But yeah, it's changed since then.
But I grew up here, went to Rosal College and
you know in pitt Crew there and he had brought
up well brought up.

Speaker 3 (01:59:59):
It was a classic pub with a lounge bar and
a public bar. Is that the way it would have worked?

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
Yeah, it's it's actually accommodation ups sure as well back
then and the other place that's been there before we
will as Jury tires down officially that's been here for
for a long there's quite a bit of his street
down there and Jury. But yeah, it's all.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
Someone's told me. You just cut out there. But Jason,
someone's told me that it's closing suit has been purchased
by wool Words and will become a supermarket and it's
ninety eight years old. Does that ring true with what
you've heard?

Speaker 23 (02:00:39):
Then?

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
A long going around there too. Somewhere they built him
big costcos and so but he I'm just do the cats. Yeah,
just sort of bringing back a few memories with the
old six. I used to work in the Freezing Works
when I when I look down South and we used

(02:01:04):
to you couldn't give reception inside the freezing works. Yeah,
and they had a they had a transmitter were yeah,
you're hopped up to you had the old am hit
them radio and then you're hopped up to that. But
a lot of people couldn't water. But everyone used to

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bring the old tapes of.

Speaker 3 (02:01:26):
The warpman's you know, that would be quite good. And
the works, Yeah, what works were you at? What works
were you at? Jason in the South Island for.

Speaker 28 (02:01:35):
Curie and uh.

Speaker 3 (02:01:37):
Oh yeah copy that yep, yep, yep yep.

Speaker 4 (02:01:40):
Freezing Boks year. But we used to we used to
swap your seats, you know, uh you know five or
six six, Yeah, you do it nine now a day
on the chain and then you just you know, everyone
would swap their music around, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:01:56):
We were you allowed to wear Walkman on the chain?

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, you're allowed to wear I
actually treat speed down to the boning room. Uh made,
and I was operating the sword the band saw yeah,
and you weren't allowed with them digs lost a couple

(02:02:23):
of digits.

Speaker 3 (02:02:24):
Yeah, okay, you would be allowed. Hey hey, Jason, what year?
What year are we talking?

Speaker 4 (02:02:32):
Had the Freezing Works?

Speaker 20 (02:02:33):
Yeah, I lived there.

Speaker 4 (02:02:36):
I was there about eighty seven eighty seven, and then
I left at ninety five, I think.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
So my next question, what were the most sought after
all the most popular cassettes?

Speaker 4 (02:02:55):
What the music you mean?

Speaker 3 (02:02:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
The music are traveling Woolbury.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, got a regay you know, die straight, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:03:08):
All that sort of you know, back in the on
of air.

Speaker 23 (02:03:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:03:14):
But there was just another little little story I'll tell
you when at school we used to have the old
blasts and we used to we used to do used
to be able to record on off the radio with
the tape to set, but it just sets on the

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on the bottom side of them. They had little like
a little divot on each side where they you couldn't
if there was there was a little piece of those
divots that you couldn't record, you know what I mean.
So you jam jam some some paper inside it so

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that you'd be able to dose those tapes to record
off the radio, you know, you know.

Speaker 10 (02:04:07):
What I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:04:08):
I know, I know exactly what you mean. And the
other times you have mixtapes, should break those things off
so no one could tape over it.

Speaker 4 (02:04:15):
The other thing was with with the walkman, okay, the Wars,
because they used to use the old double A batteries
right just you know, you'd be always buying batteries to
you know, keep your walking does. So what we used
to do at smoker time is put the factories inside

(02:04:39):
the warmer and you put them in there, but you
wouldn't want to kick them the too long, you know,
And then I'll give you just a little bit more power,
you know, to finish your day off, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
Nice cool Jason, Thank you service. It's brilliant.

Speaker 10 (02:04:57):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
Barbara's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 12 (02:05:01):
Oh gleasening. Marcus now unfortunately fortunate enough to have an
original black and white ink drawing of the very original
building of as it is known in this as Ye

(02:05:21):
Jolly farma In is written here. It was done by
a Robert f.

Speaker 5 (02:05:29):
Way.

Speaker 4 (02:05:30):
Now.

Speaker 12 (02:05:31):
The story goes that at one time when my family,
my mother and father. Grandfather arrived in New Zealand back
in about nineteen twenty something from Scotland. And why we
have this in our position. Apparently my grandfather at one

(02:05:52):
stage was a manager there. But this is the most Oh,
I've always loved it. I mean, this has been in
my family for many, many years. And then a few
years ago before my mother passed the way, she actually
said I could have it because I loved it. You know,
it's the real old English style. This is just the

(02:06:17):
original building before it was added onto, and it's you know,
it's as I say, I just love it and I've
taken it off the world to come and you know,
tell you about it. But it's written here in our

(02:06:39):
old English. What do you call that calligraphy? Yes, ye
jolly farma. And then this Robert f Way, who has
signed it in pencil, has written ye jolly farma in drury.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
Thanks so much for coming through that, Bob. That's great
to have that information. I appreciate that someone says twenty
eighth of August is the last day for the jolly. Oh,
that's a sad day for that. My wife and I
were there in our wedding day. My wife was in
full wedding dress, myself in full Scottish regalia. We were

(02:07:21):
not sure of drinks bought for us nineteen ninety seven.
I frequented it well back in the day, but not
so much now as logistics don't allow. It's called Murphy's
now marks. This is the t Rex and my Sony Walkman.
Every day. I had lots of cassettes. That sound is
so clear, Chris Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (02:07:38):
Oh good ay Marcus. To do with cassettes, it's a
little bit of a twist on cassette. There's an iPhone
app has just come out like about a week ago,
and it's called Cassette c A S S E TT.

(02:08:00):
So that's not quite the old cassette type of things,
but it's it's it helps you to view your your
videos that you take on your phone, and it sort
of looks a bit like the old VHS cassettes. So

(02:08:24):
you know how when you look you take phones and
videos and photos and that sort of thing on your
phone and then you've got to sort of scramble through
and try to find your video. This thing just plays videos,
so it ignores all your photos and it loads them
up like a cassette. It's got old fashioned writing and.

Speaker 8 (02:08:47):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (02:08:50):
Have you used it'll be interested in that.

Speaker 16 (02:08:51):
Christ it is actually it only it's only an iPhone
thing and not as or pop ups, no ads at all,
no no ads. It's it looks like it's got a
a simple free version which you hit the button and
it just sort of keeps playing and playing and playing.

Speaker 10 (02:09:15):
That you can pay.

Speaker 16 (02:09:16):
I think it's fourteen or fourteen ninety nine, and you
get the swept up version where you can I'm not
I haven't actually bought the new version because you know,
the other one's doing all right for me. But yeah,
the new version, I think you can pick and choose
a wee bit, but it categorizes you all your videos

(02:09:37):
into years like twenty twenty five, twenty twenty four, twenty
twenty three, whatever's on your phone. You can just view
your videos quick and easy.

Speaker 6 (02:09:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:09:47):
I've quite quite enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (02:09:50):
How do you find out about it?

Speaker 16 (02:09:52):
Well, my son in law he's a programmer and he
works on it, so.

Speaker 3 (02:10:01):
Oh that's interesting, and you just you just type and
cassette and your appstore and that's what it's called.

Speaker 16 (02:10:05):
Yeah, exactly, Yeah, go to that store to set Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:10:09):
Really interesting, Chris, thank you. I'll try that. Twenty four
past eleven, Brian Marcus.

Speaker 5 (02:10:14):
Welcome Marcus, Brian. Here, I am in Hamilton talking about
the Jolly Farmer in jury. I like to tell you
that my dad he met my mom. She was a
cook in the kitchen back of nineteen thirty five, thirty seven. Wow,

(02:10:42):
we were dad like. We had a farm in jury
and five kids. We were brought up on the farm,
went to the jury school. Petronie well, Dad, patron I
the jolly farmer. Until we were old enough. We used

(02:11:06):
to well I worked in the cheese factory at Drury
and we used to patronize the pub there. Quite often
we were kicked out because we were underage.

Speaker 3 (02:11:21):
Yes, you know I'm talking and the age would have
been twenty one in those days, were twenty one.

Speaker 5 (02:11:27):
Yeah, I'm talking the early sixties. Yes, And I invited
the proprietor to my twenty first and he's a young bugger.
He said, I thought you're already twenty one. That's funny,
but anyway, yes, jolly farmer. We used to the locals

(02:11:56):
the public bar. It was always Choker. There was a big,
long round bar back then. You walked in the door.
You couldn't see the guy there on the other end
because of the smoke. There's so many smokers.

Speaker 3 (02:12:11):
And was it was it farmers and quarryman and railway mean?
Is that who were there?

Speaker 5 (02:12:15):
Yep? Yep, well the railway I heard you mention the
railway before railway line had the rugby field between that
and the pub. Yeah, and played rugby there in the stress.

Speaker 12 (02:12:37):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:12:39):
Yeah, as I was saying, the public bar was always
always full. There was six o'clock closing then and ten
to six of belve would go and everywhere the locals
would be standing there with an empty juke yeah, to
get filled. And it was quarter past six sheet to

(02:13:00):
be off the premises, So everyone used to wander outside
and finish here drinks until the police came in the
gateway and everyone just tipped tipped the empty the judge
into their cards and off home.

Speaker 3 (02:13:22):
That and Brian Auckland must have seen miles away, did it?

Speaker 19 (02:13:27):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:13:28):
Definitely? It was an hour hour from Drury to Auckland
on the bus in those days. Bloody old radold raydle
traps we used to call them. Yeah, So it was
it was.

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
Would pook at Kobe been the closest. Was that your
big shopping if you had to go? So, oh would
you go there to pook it work?

Speaker 5 (02:13:46):
Where would you get?

Speaker 4 (02:13:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:13:50):
There was about five five miles. Yeah, and I went
to Drury School. There was about three hundred yards north
of the pub and then travel me and lew and Simon. Well,
uh Lou lived a couple of hundred meters past the school.

Speaker 3 (02:14:14):
Okay, so he was really he was really bluff. He
was really the the Yeah, he was the local starlo oh.

Speaker 5 (02:14:23):
Yeah Lou and Simon. Yeah, yeah, they had a milk
bar and peppercure. Of course it was well patronized. Yep.
And now brilliant. They were a brilliant couple.

Speaker 4 (02:14:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:14:39):
Lou's wife, she is teachers at Sunday School. Kids.

Speaker 3 (02:14:48):
Have you been up there lately? Because it's all a
bit of a mess, isn't it. She's all growing quite now.

Speaker 5 (02:14:54):
We've got a solid book, Holly. But that's as far
north as we down there. We you know, even Dury
is not that far away. But we've got no re
to go there now.

Speaker 12 (02:15:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15:09):
Well, doesn't feel like a it doesn't feel like a
place now. It just feels like a road and it
feels like the sort of city is kind of kind
of spilling over there really.

Speaker 5 (02:15:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, right out from Auckland, you know, well
right down to Hamilton. Yep. You know, the smaller areas
are spreading out, and you know they're getting closer. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:15:33):
Oh, but you didn't tell us about what was your
dad doing when you met your mother?

Speaker 23 (02:15:38):
All the farm?

Speaker 3 (02:15:39):
Okay, And she was and she was working at the
Jolly Farmer in the kitchen right.

Speaker 5 (02:15:44):
Yep, yep. And she came out from Auckland. And then
the war broke out, so dead at the stale on
the farm, and and then five kids we worked on

(02:16:09):
the farm. There was always work to be done when
you know, as we got older.

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
Did they have the wedding reception at the pub? Who
you know your parents around?

Speaker 10 (02:16:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:16:27):
I wasn't there, but today wife and I got married.
We called into the pub after the wedding service, and yeah,
they shared us a drink and then we went on
down to the jewry hall the heavy or reception.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
Well, I've loved talking to you, brother. That's really put
the nice flavor to the whole thing. So I appreciate
that greatly. Thank you so much for that. Twenty nine
to twelve. We're talking the Jolly Farmer just got a
weaklift to go.

Speaker 11 (02:16:59):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:17:00):
That's a shame, isn't it. Well it's now called the
Grady's or Molly's, got some daft Irish name, but it'll
still be the Jolly to most of us. Oh, for
goodness sake. Texts and emails if you've got them in
calls for the Final Flurry, it's mainly about the Jolly Farmer,

(02:17:22):
the pub. It must have been there for over one
hundred years by the sound of things. I don't even
know what Drury would have been when it was. I mean,
just a tiny little town, but for a long time
it's just been a place you kind of pass on
the motorway, kind of lost its identity once the motorway
went through, because it's thirty six k south of Auckland. Gosh,
it must have been a slow bus for a mustn't

(02:17:44):
it for Brian founder with coal mining. Surprisingly, I don't
know in fact where the coal was, but I guess
it's coal all around there and brick and pottery, so

(02:18:04):
there you go. That's that. It's going to be as
big as Hastings building all the houses there. Yep, I
think It might be also called Runsoman, which is a
strange name for a place. Is that Runsoman? I don't
know too much about Runsomen. Don't even like saying that

(02:18:26):
is a word either.

Speaker 1 (02:18:28):
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