One long day on the Inter City (28 April 2025)

Marcus neighbours who feed birds, expensive domestic flights, and even more expensive airport parking!

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings, welcome, good evening, Marcus sits me here till midnight tonight.
I hope you are good where you are, and I
hope by the end of the show you're even better.
That's kind of what I hope to achieve. That's the aim,
that's the plan. Anyway, guys, I kind of feel that
we're back to the This feels like we're into the
middle half, the winter half of the year. I would

(00:33):
imagine it feels pretty much like there's a clear dmacation there.
Of course, the school holidays are over. A lot of
people had that eight day holiday off for the ten
days or whatever, but untill back on now nine to
five Monday to Friday, well not line to five for me,
but eight to twelve Monday to Friday, a five days
a week. For the next couple of months underrupted apart
from King's Birthday and Matariki, which I love. I love

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getting back to the regular nighttime pat and also too,
so feel free to get involved with the show. The
number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. I'll throw
some topics shees your way, you throw some topics my way.
We'll see we're we end up which one wins, which
one we end up talking about. I've got some stories
and a bit to say, but no doubt you've got
other stuff, maybe from the long weekend, or maybe some
sort of instant outrage you want. You have that you

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want to actually talk about. Feel free to come through.
It's just cool if you want to go on ear
Denson testing anyone to talk about anything else just btw.
So just if you do want to get on air
apart from ads and stuff like that, if you want
no details for that doesn't really work for us. So
get in touch, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty, And

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what we start talking about might not be what we
end up talking about. That's just the way it goes.
So we'll see how we end Oh. By the way,
if there is breaking news, now, this can work two ways.
You mon't have some breaking news that you want to
tell us about, and we might have some breaking news
we tell you about. But what I can kind of
guarantee is that things, if things happen, you will know

(01:57):
about them. One way or the other. You will have
the details. So by tuning and you're not going to
miss out what's happening in the real world, and who
knows what that's going to be. To know whether it's
be earthquakes or whatever. Will keep you updated, but you
might have some information for us also, son't hesitate to
text it through or call it through, and we'll do
what we can anyway. I hope what's going to end

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that weeknd too. Seems to work kind of well with
the indact days on a Friday. I suppose it means
the next couple of weeks we're getting no day off.
I'm not saying that's to be cheerlish, but you know,
it's probably sat down on Sunday the next couple of days,
or maybe not probably as though actually the way I
think about it, with the leap days and all of that.
So yeah, that's an interesting, going to be interesting sort
of a scenario, isn't it. Hadn't thought of that anyway,

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get in touch if you do want to talk. As
I say, oh, oh, by the way, we're going into
kind of election an election period.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Ant.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
We've got the Canadian election, which is very sooner, We've
got the Australian election, so there'll be some exciting international
news and also the election of the Pope, and that's
going to be a while. I love how people are
like really up to date with the terms people. It
amazes me. People love jargon, don't they, And they'll love

(03:13):
adopting jargon. I'm not one that adopts jargon that quickly.
But you already am hearing put on the raid saying
they're going to conclave. For goodness sake. Anyway, it's either way.
The elections today in Canada and it's on the third

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in Australia, so we will get so I don't know
if we'll get results or when that will happen, but
I'll do what I can to tell you about that. Hey,
first topic for tonight, it was a good story, a
story I liked. It's a woman that lives in an
apartment in kaiber Pass and Auckland. It's where the buses
thump up and down day and night. Kiber Pass. For
those that don't know, you go from the New Market
to the city on kiber Pass. There wouldn't be any

(03:59):
in many streets in New Zealand named pass, particularly in cities,
but kyber Pass is one of those named. Historically, no doubt,
always freaked me out as the name of a street
when I was younger, Kaiba Pass. But there's a woman
that lived in Kiba Pass. There's a woman that lives
in Kiper Pass and she feed pigeons and they weren't
her own pigeons, they were the pigeons of the community. Anyway,

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long story short, she's been fined seven thousand dollars for
feeding the pigeons. Yeah, and I want to know if
you've got stories of neighbors that are attracting or feeding
strange animals that are causing you some sort of concern.

(04:43):
When I first read that story, I thought she was
feeding her own pigeons, because that would be annoying too
if they're flying round and round. But you don't hear
many complaints about homing pigeons, and I was surprised she
had homing pigeons in Cover Pass. But they're not homing pigeons,
they're stray pigeons. So I wondered if you was someone
that lived somewhere with neighbors that were feeding birds that

(05:03):
was causing you, Well, what they thought was this one
is it was meaning that the rentals, the rent values
of the rentable values of the property were going down
because no one wanted to rent the properties because of
the the bird excrement that was lying around. So I'm
just curious to if you've got a neighbor that feeds

(05:23):
birds or feeds unwanted animals that causes you some sort
of concern and what you've tried to do to stop that.
That sounds right in the bread bask of neighborly disputes,
and I would like to talk about tonight. So if
you have got one of those seven thousand dollars they're
going to repaint the building, there, shouldn't be allowed to

(05:44):
feed birds, should you. I don't know the answer to
that one. Actually, it doesn't sound like a crime. It
all comes down to the rental appraisals. And I guess
if you're living in apartments, you've got to keep the
wishes of the other apartment owners. You've got to respect those.
But that's something I thought you might want to kick
it off with tonight. If anyone's got any stories about
that feeding birds or the neighbors feeding birds that causes

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you so unwanted time or unwanted stress. Oh wait, hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine, By the way, to
a campaign mural campaign releases. Just a press release is
just given from Andrew Little's rural campaign for Wellington, fixing
the pipes, more housing, small businesses, climate, honoring the treaty

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firm grip on the council and its finances. So there
we go. That's Wellington for you. I don't know what
his chances are, but there we go. That's just come through.
But yes, birds and your neighbors, that's what I want
I start about tonight. You got something to say about
that would be of interest. By the way, I hope
you had good long weekends. Verone's got any story of
outrage from the long weekend? Let me know what that was.

(06:52):
I think the weather. The weather was very good where
I was. I was in cent Clote, the weather was fantastic.
It was about twenty two degrees yesterday and not a
drop of rain. But I know in other places it's
been fairly poor. And by the way, the rain did
arrive with some form of gusto today in invert cargol,
which is what we want because the garden needs it.
But do get touched Marcus till twelve. There might be

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some story from the weekend that you've got as well too,
that you could chuck into the mix. Eight and n
text is back into the normal rhythm. I hope eight fourteen. Josh,
it's Marcus. Welcome, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
On the holidays, we went up to pass Fun today
we went and camped up the off grid.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yes, we had a real good time.

Speaker 7 (07:44):
More moyer, there were moid there were yeah, power color.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
We're up there for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Not near the coast in land.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
It's near Bay of Islands, of their area, Bay of Islands.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Because most campings off the grid, is it.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yes, most campings. So we we showered outside and everything there.
We were just all off grid, water from the rain
and stuff.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
We on someone's farm.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
Yeah, on someone's farm.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Yeah. I got a cabin.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
We got a little cabin. The ice stayed in a
little tent kind of in a container because it was
raining so hard.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
So is it were they made or is it something
you booked?

Speaker 5 (08:22):
Our family family went up as family.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh yeah, good, you had a cabin.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, it was really good because we stayed in this
little container. Was bucketing down with rain and we just
stayed in this little tent and the container ship like
a stripping container.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Did you start off on a tent.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, we started off in a tent and then it
started bucketing down and we had just moved a tent
into the shipping container, which was really was Yeah, it
was quite. It was rain coming down.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I think all tense leg don't they.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
Yeah, most tents. Yeah, so all this rain water came in,
so we had to move it in. We just stayed
in the cabin and then we dried it out and
then we got back in there again.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Did you think did you think of putting your hold
on hold because of the weather.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Yeah, we were going to do there because it looked
like it was going to be real bad. And then
it looked really good when we went up there, and
then it got all ye, so funny, and all the
paddocks and stuff around was starting to fill up the
water and.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah, okay, nice to hear from you. Just keep it going.
Sixteen past eight, eight hundred and eighty. Yes, it seemed
to be the subtropical cyclon that never left. Seems like
it's probably still lurking around dragging the water. And am
I right? I think I probably am eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and ninety nine to des Peter Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (09:37):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus. You know I've been a culport of
that feeding birds. When I came to live in this
little village of eleven little houses, I was feeding the spars.
Then the blackbirds came, and then the wild pigeons, you

(09:59):
know the pigeon ground town. Yes, they came. Seagulls came.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yes.

Speaker 9 (10:04):
Oh I did not get on the head because now
you know, the neighbors was going crooked it. So I
did stop feeding them and that probably saved me about
twenty dollars a week.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Okay, I've got a few questions. Can we just break
this down? Will you say a village this is like
a village within a city, not like a village in
the country.

Speaker 10 (10:24):
Right.

Speaker 9 (10:27):
I didn't I couldn't pick up what you said.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Okay, you said when you're in a village of eleven Yes,
that's a village, not a village in the countryside, but
a village in the city. If I got that correct?

Speaker 9 (10:41):
Yes, in no pardon? Oh power?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Oh yeah, yeah copy that a power.

Speaker 11 (10:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, So what did you expect?

Speaker 9 (10:52):
Wow, I didn't expect one hundreds of them to come,
And I thought this is getting out of hand, and oh,
I mean I don't blame. I thought you riskers, so
that was stopped. Amazing. They never ever came back. But
I'm just saying to people, if you're going to feed them, yeah,
you can be too kind sometimes to the birds.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well I think I think once you start feeding birds,
word gets around and then you get all the birds
from the whole district coming your way.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
That would be correct, because the pigeons I know that.
On crast, Yeah, the crafters pigeons, they have a daily
you fly some of them fly out North Canterbury Farms
because I used to work in the river bed years
ago there the way Mac and you see him go

(11:44):
over in the morning. Then that'd come back at night.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, yeah, Peter, what were you doing in the river bed?

Speaker 9 (11:55):
I was working at the time. I was working at
the Belfair Belfast Freezing Works, and the off season I
was working for after what you call them now your
catchment born.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
Oh what doing weeding or something?

Speaker 9 (12:15):
Yeah, a lot of planting of the yeah, willer trees.
We used to cut a lot of them. And you've
got a new guy on and you'll be what you
what you're doing? You put a couple upside down. See
this new guy would start putting them in like I did,

(12:39):
or one of the boys did. Then we'd get back
to you and say, hey, oh we're well upside down.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah, I thought I thought willows would go both way. Peter,
when you're feeding your birds twenty bucks a week, what
were you feeding? Then we're feeding them seed?

Speaker 9 (12:54):
You just tea some bread and wild bird seed.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Okay, good and tell Peter thank you. Taylor, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (13:04):
Good evening, Marcus. How was the long weekend?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
You're good? Riskful?

Speaker 12 (13:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (13:09):
No, absolutely? Can I just say I had the most
fabulous antack day in my life. I was asked by
the council to lay a reef for them at one
of the dawn services, and then later in the day
I was asked by the councilor and to perform the
national anthem at their I believe Maori Anzac event. And

(13:31):
that was at one of their Odd Eyes and Pucky Pucky.
But that was great.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
So which council asked you to do it?

Speaker 7 (13:39):
This is Hastings District Council.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Okay, are you a performer?

Speaker 11 (13:45):
I'm not a.

Speaker 7 (13:45):
Perform Well, I just I know how to play the
piano and that that was good enough for them. See
I'm in the Hastings District Council Youth Council, and so
I've been able to get a couple of connections from
some of their officers, and one of them knew that
I was really good at playing the piano, so they
asked me, oh, would you like to be form of

(14:06):
this event? Because the person that we had was Gonzo,
so we need someone to fill in. So I did
the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Did someone tap out? What happened to the last person?
I'm worried about that. They got COVID really well amongst us.
So you got the call? Whe the call.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
It was the day before. So I was just practicing,
like do. Pettican was like, oh my gosh, So I
don't know.

Speaker 13 (14:35):
I've never done this for my life.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
So yeah, So I got that done and I was
brilliant and so many people were complimenting me after it.

Speaker 14 (14:46):
Did the most beautiful thing?

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Did you sing the national anthem? Unaccompanied?

Speaker 15 (14:50):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (14:50):
I didn't sing. I played the piano.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Oh to someone else who sung.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
Oh that nobody's saying it was just kind of like,
I guess everyone sang collectively. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Did they have a mutual did they have a yeah?

Speaker 14 (15:06):
No?

Speaker 7 (15:06):
There Oh yeah, the piano was provided. It was all.
It was all provided by the council. They they must
have had some sort of situation with like a well
they had like equipment people there and they weren't from
the council.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
So and it was outdoors at pucketucky was it?

Speaker 7 (15:27):
It was outdoors? It was kind of that when you
go to a middle it's like the big four court
in front of the main building.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, yeah And what was
the other thing you want to say?

Speaker 7 (15:39):
Yeah, so on Thursday I heard that you were talking
about a number of things like micro fivate towels, but
bin's curb side collection and funnily enough, do you know
have you heard of the app that Dunedin Council has.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
For I have heard of it, but remind me what
it is.

Speaker 7 (15:58):
It's the best thing ever and I feel like so
many other councils should do it. So what you do
is you download the app, you put in your address
and it says what your next bin collection day is.
So it will say, oh, so tomorrow was the yellow
leaded recycling bin and also the green wastebin and then

(16:20):
the choes next Tuesday is like the wastebin or the
glasspin and it can give your notifications on your phone
and it tells you what day is. It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
So it's only in Dunedin only Indonnedan.

Speaker 7 (16:35):
I feel like, well you could try and get other
councils on board.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Taylor is a youth advocate of you're asking for that
for Hastings.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
I wouldn't be against it.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Why why are you're advocating for because youth council Youth
councils are waste of time largely, aren't they.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
Well that's a that's a pretty bald statement.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Look, I mean it's true though, I mean it seems
to me it is. It's sort of the nerd parade
and they come and they say, well this week we've
done this and this and this, but nothing ever happens.

Speaker 7 (17:09):
Well, look, it really kind of depends on you.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Fight. You fight for this app.

Speaker 7 (17:16):
Oh absolutely yes, I mean I just wanted your opinions
on it.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh no, you got to go for it, Taylor, No aprecire.
I'm expecting big things from you. Edit's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (17:27):
I make us food Internet good, Thank you, ed. Hey, listen,
I make boot boxes right and I have a pine
can a bottom on the wire and the things swings
bat was and forwards, and I put peanut butter and
seed on it, and the wild birds love it, love
loved their movements. The spurros don't like movements, so the

(17:50):
spurs don't jump up and eat the seed because they
don't love the finger bets forwards.

Speaker 17 (17:55):
When wildbirds are on it, did they describe how it looks? Again,
I've got a I make boot boxes right, and the
on the boo box of a bit of wire coming
down for pine cam on it right, you know, lace
with pine cm with peanut butter and seed, and the
thing swings batwards and ports when the birds jump on it.

(18:17):
The wild birds and the sparrows don't jump up because
they don't like movement.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Where do you sell a spirit?

Speaker 16 (18:26):
Well, I'm just making man, I've got one of my
front but yeah, but there's something that's something I've learned
that sparrows don't like movement.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
Well, okay, the wild birds do.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
I guess, yeah, okay, I don't know if the sparrows.
I don't know if sparrows psych can work if they're moving,
if they're focusing on something. But let me think about that,
because I quite like the comment there, Hey, nice to
talk to you. Thank you for that. Keep your calls
coming through. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine to detect Hittle twelve looking forward. Were your

(18:59):
neighbors feed pigeons? How big a problem is that? I
suspect kind of quite a big problem. So get in
touch you on a comment on that. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine two nine to detext Hittle twelve.
He until midnight tonight, looking forward to what you've got
to say. Any other breaking news will bring that to
The Canadian's going to vote in two hours, but they'll
vote in different time zones. Big Country, Berg Country. Marcus

(19:25):
Todonga has the bin app. Marcus, agree about the youth council,
and we don't need nap for rubbish collection, and just
look up and down the road and copy the neighbors,
normally the older or the retired ones. That's right, if
you retired. I think bindet's a big deal. Now the
posts stopped coming, Marcus. The only thing they have a

(19:46):
bad taste in my mouth this WEEKND gone was a
recall on a bad batch of nchovs. Someone says, I
guess a piano or is a bit like a piano. Yes,
he had an interesting way of saying piano, didn't he
I kept wanting him to come back to that. I

(20:07):
don't know about you, Marcus, but I'm getting tired and
fed up with cliches. I've heard several on it, and
it rattles to mynes. For instance, it's not rocket science
going from strength to strength. I think when people say
it's not rocket science, now they're saying it more tongue
in cheek because this is a cliche we think about

(20:31):
rocket rocket science. It's quite straightforward. It's not complicated. Ah,
get in touch feeding birds or neighbors that feed birds.
But I think it's the thing about feeding for feeding birds. Yes,
it starts fine, but it becomes problematic. Well, it becomes

(20:58):
too much. All the birds arrive, don't they? And then
I think, I mean, what happens with birds is you
habituate them. They can't fend in the wild anymore. You
make them lazy. It's like, well, then I won't say that. Actually,
just stop myself there. Get in touch Hittle twelve oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine two
to text A pretty good start on the old birds.

(21:25):
Get in touch if you've got anything to add Hittle twelve.
But they will start voting in Canada within an hour
or two. Do you a lot of people do that
London Marathon, a lot of world records broken fastest person
don't dressed as a crustacean, fastest person doing it in crocs.

(21:45):
I think there's already about one thousand. Yeah, check them
on a thousand different things that happened in there. It's
birds and feeding birds. It's a situation tonight. Get in touch,
Marcus Till twelve, or problematic neighbors that turn your bird
into a bird bath, but you will turn your hound

(22:06):
some too, a bird sort of a a bird hostel
by just feeding the birds. No sport tonight, I don't
think that to worry. I'll tell you what. I watched
a bit of the rugby league over the weekend, and
they honored and Zach Day on most of the matches

(22:28):
I saw. But boy, oh boy, the Aussies they like
a long last post, don't they. I'm not entirely sure
how many verses the last post here. I don't know
much about the last post I enjoyed as a piece
of music, but I think I've always been used to
the abbreviated version, but boy, there was something that went

(22:51):
on for a long long time, not complaining. Thought it
was good. It was just news to me. Would it
be different verses of what would you call it? I
suppose I could look at the sheep music, But I
don't think I understand that it's quite fine to get
that clean note out of a bugle. You said you

(23:19):
get down the bottom line, you get it all about
a lot of did a little lot of quick notes
in a row, which I thought is quite fun to
listen to. Yes, Roberts, Marcus, Welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (23:30):
Good rob I know you're a trained commer, but have
you done the trip from Hachiman, Hanoi down to Hachiman
City at all?

Speaker 19 (23:40):
Okay, are you gonna ask?

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Are you gonna ask me if I want to do it?

Speaker 18 (23:43):
Do you want to do it?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Well? Are you taking a tour?

Speaker 18 (23:50):
And I'm trying into Hong Kong and then to Vietnam
and book a train shop which is seeing six hours
but doing it in two bads, going from Hanoi down
to the nag and then from the name down to
Hochi Min City. And I just didn't know if you've

(24:12):
been on it or not. I know it's down the
coast of Vietnam. But yeah, is.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
It like, is it a train with a sleeper.

Speaker 18 (24:19):
Yeah, it's the first plass to get your three fer
your meals. Yeah, alcohol everything right, they're paid for. But
it's right down the coast. That's right from the top
of the top of Vietnam right down to the bottom.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Sounds fantastic. Yeah, are you are you having second thoughts?
You're just curious know what to expect.

Speaker 18 (24:41):
No, it's just wondering what to speak Marcus. You know,
like people's right down the coastline of Vietnam. So yeah,
I've never never been to Vietnam, and it's just hoping
that you you.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Know, I would be the Vietnam either. So I see
this goes right down. It looks fantastic. Yeah, it's right
down the coast. It looks like a back kind of
a train trip to me. When when when is it?
When's it happening?

Speaker 18 (25:10):
I'm may we're going okay, So why are you.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Doing it in two goes? Because you want to stop
at the halfway bit, do you.

Speaker 18 (25:19):
Well, there's a couple of we want to go see
the hands that hold the bridge and.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Then yes, I've seen that. I've seen that on social media.

Speaker 18 (25:28):
Yes, yeah, we want to go and see that, and
we want to go to Halong Bay as well.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Is it is it a war side.

Speaker 18 (25:37):
Just just just the cove and the beach with the
Americans sick set up.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, that's what I thought. Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (25:45):
And then when we get to Hochim and said, we're
going to do the tunnel, go underneath the underneath the
ground and go through the Vietcong tunnels.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yes, yes, on Delta as well. We'll keep listening Roberts.
I'm sure we'll find someone that's done that. They might
have some tips for you. Who are you going with?
Who are you going with?

Speaker 18 (26:04):
I'm going with my partner, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Okay, we'll keep this thing well, so what we can
find out for you. Brob always good to get a
travel question. As soon as I wouldn't I don't like
the bridge with the hands, I don't wouldn't like the tongue.
I'd like the train itself, the train itself, and maybe
buy an old zippo. That seems to be what they do.
Then you might have gone on that have some information
about that that's good. It's all good. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two detect by

(26:29):
the way they of course two. There's not much has
been made about that, but I'm going to acknowledge that
today to say, also thirty years today since those fourteen
people died standing on a viewing platform at Cave Creek
in the Puppelo National Park. And that was a really horrible,

(26:59):
horrible news event in all sorts of ways too because
of course there are people that survived that with lifelong injuries.
And also I think it was one of those news
stories that came from the West Coast. And I remember
too working at TV did in the newsroom also, you know,
and yeah, it was the West Coast felt for every

(27:21):
remote and information took a while to come out, and
it was it was, and then there was endless inquiries
and reports and things like that. It's a really tough time.
So you just want to acknowledge that that was this
day in nineteen ninety five, so thirty years ago today.
So some people will have connections with that. It was

(27:46):
a very popular politech on the West Coast that was
doing all those courses. You don't hear so much about
that now. I don't know that politics still a thing,
but seemed to be going for every successfully. A lot
of discussions or people want to talk about the bad
batch of anchovies, Marcus, who'd you mentioning that the bad
bunch of Achiv's the recall that dodgy batch was the

(28:07):
name of Pendarvis Limited. I dealt with him when I
was in commercial real estate. Marcus, hope you had a
good break. Can you tell me how the fact that
someone is feeding birds gits around amongst different breeds of birds.
Do they watch each other's movement or recognize certain calls?

(28:30):
I think, well, that's a good question. I think birds
just see where the action is and they just follow
the other birds that hang on something's happening over there.
We're going to go and see what's there. I think
that's what it is. There's probably even a saying about that, Marcus.
I like to know what's happened to the mashed potato

(28:51):
and the frozen part of peckets over the stores. They've
been out for ages and apparently it's imported from Belgium.
Could someone tell me what they know about the imported
mashed potato? Get in touch thank you for your texts. Also,
people and get in touch you want to talk eight

(29:15):
eight ten eighty nineteen nine to text, looking forward to
what you've got to say. Sixteen away from nine. Anything
else you want to mention if you've got breaking news
there know what that breaking? Users? Be good to hear
from you and I'll do what i can. Government eyeing
more affordable domestic fears for using I believe that when

(29:36):
I see it cheaper to fly from Palmers to North
to Rara Tongue than Dunedin. The story that comes up
from time to time, I see now the Minister for
the South Island's got involved with this. I heard one

(30:01):
of the people, one of the head biscuits from the
airline talking about it. It's it seems as though their
excuses it's the size of the aircraft. The bigger aircraft
are a lot cheaper to run, but you can't run
a bigger aircraft of the smaller regions because he's not
the demand. But they're also monopolistic, you'd think fifteen away

(30:24):
from nine. If you want to talk, my name is Marcus,
Welcome Headle twelve. Do you want to talk? Eight and
eighty ten eighty Marcus person on Shakespeare Road, Bluff Hill.
This must be a napier feeds birds in the morning
constantly have to stop for them Hamish. Oh that's fair

(30:44):
if you feed them on the road. Airline prices are
getting too expensive these days. Well, I think airline prices
have always been expensive, haven't they. Airline traveler was always
sad as a luxury. Then for a while there was
the Golden Age with different carriers coming across with Jetstar
and Anset and Quantas, and there was kind of a

(31:06):
there was kind of a battle for the fears that
came down in price for a while. But I think
air travel has always been incredibly expensive. There was a
golden period. I don't even know when that golden time
of cheap air travel was. I think probably there was
key wear from Australia from Hamilton. Everyone was going across
to Australia and for suddenly the price the trans Tasman prices,

(31:33):
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, But the trans
Tasman prices are probably as cheap now as they were
in the mid eighties forty years ago, would that be right?
I don't think what the first air fear was to

(31:54):
Australia anyway, do get in touch if you want to
talk about that. The people who are in the right
ways around the water put their prices up for landing
on the runway, so the gritty companies to get the
customers to pay. Well you got. I mean, it's probably
not cheap to run an airport, but I think you

(32:14):
make all your made out of the car parking. Don't
you license to print money? Particularly place like auk An
Airport there's no train. They must make billions of dollars
over the years. There'd be my take on that ten
away from nine Sailor, Marcus, Welcome, good evening, Chord bro.
How's it going, good Sailor. What did you want to
talk about.

Speaker 15 (32:35):
Just on your last story about the airports with their
car park My sister is an airline stewardess and she
has to pay.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Hang on, Sailor, I think that I think they'll put
I think if you're an airline stewardess, they will pick
you up because sometimes do you live in Auckland City,
Farmer Pray, sometimes you'll see groups of flight attendants with
those suitcases on wheels, standing on corners, waiting for shuttles.

(33:10):
I think they picked.

Speaker 15 (33:11):
Up, Yes, but most of usually the family fix her up.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
I think, is she is?

Speaker 20 (33:21):
She?

Speaker 3 (33:22):
He is in the Emirates in New Zealand. Yeah, I
think I'll pick.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
You up.

Speaker 20 (33:29):
Anyway.

Speaker 15 (33:30):
What I wanted to talk to you about was the
compulsory construction for youth.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Who's talking about the military. Who's talking about that? I
saw Matthew Hooton wrote a column about that. Is that
what you're referring to?

Speaker 21 (33:43):
Yes, I think so.

Speaker 15 (33:47):
I joined the Navy in January nineteen seventy seven till
nineteen eighty eight, and it was the best ten years
I ever had. Straight from school, straight in And I
joined the Navy with the young follow called Dean Shelfin.
And when we arrived, when we arrived at Tommickey Naval Base,

(34:08):
there was a classics of our men standing at the
quarter deck and we all pulled out of the bus
and all of a sudden he called Dean out, that's
going on?

Speaker 20 (34:18):
What's going on here?

Speaker 15 (34:19):
Next minute he gives on a big hong, a big hut.

Speaker 20 (34:22):
It was as old above a buck Shelford bow.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Oh, yeah, I can understand that, but I'll never forget it. Sale,
hang on sale. I think part of the joy for
you joining the navy was because you did it by choice. Yes,
I think conscription would have been something different. Someone has
made the frigance. I don't why we're talking about potato,
but someone says, Marcus, are potato flakes any good? I

(34:47):
don't see the point where you can just buy potatoes?
Is it for lazy people?

Speaker 21 (34:51):
Look?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
I have no idea. I would say potato flakes are
just for people that are tramping because they're light. They're
the only people that should be buying potato flakes unless
they are some and I don't know much about this.
Would the gluten be out of it if they're I
don't know, Marcus, can we get a price cheek of

(35:14):
butter throat news in eleven dollars a block for anchor
and nine for PAMs and christ Church Highway robbery? Don't
know the answer about the potato flakes? Why would you
buy them? Mate? Ins in forgets who here's a taxpayer
of bad them many times in shame we don't get
discanted fears. Then they announced mess of profits. M Yeah,

(35:41):
I don't. I don't really know. I mean, fortunately we
have a jet that goes to invert cargoll now, but yeah,
I don't. Yeah, I don't. I reckon. I tell you
what I reckon that the indus in would be a
lot more, would be seen seen to be a lot

(36:03):
fair if they actually had children's fears. I think from
age two years on you're an adult, which always seems
extortionate to me. Why would you charge a child full price.
I've never been able to reconcile that, particularly if they
since they are have government ownership. Can't work that out. Marcus,

(36:32):
all those people that are winging about the airline prices,
why don't you just buy some in shares and be quiet? Hi, Marcus?
In news in in another government department, their annual accounts,
they are going to include twenty million as income for
unused credits from good old New Zealand people. People that
prop them up in COVID. Disgusting. Really, when they're spending

(36:53):
money on uniforms that say that they should have to
date them to charities. Don't fully understand that. But I
might reread that during the news no one feels much
love for your New Zealand. I still think people probably
I think he's in an overplayed their hand with those
stupid inflight videos. I think if I thought that I
think management thought everyon would love them because they're in

(37:14):
flat videos, but they just ignored us and basically we
just want a cheaper travel. It's my take on that one.
I'm a great defender of the inter city. But it's
a long time in the cargot Auckland almost a week.
Don't if it don't it a wed that much cheaper anyway.

(37:38):
Marcus absolutely hate instant mashed potato flakes made in the
mashed potato bye by it because if you ever have
fresh fish and you dip the fish in there before
shallow frying, a little bit of all in the panic
comes out a nice crispy coating on the fish. It's
my favorite way to have fish. Thank you for that.
It'll twelve people back into the regular routine. I guess Monday, Friday,

(38:04):
school holidays over looking forward to what you want to say,
A lot of talks about the price of e New Zealand,
but also to looking at the charge at the charges,
airport's charge. I must make a fortune of parking. That's
what we are talking about tonight. Oh wait, oh wait,
one hundred and eighty tenty nine nine to de text

(38:24):
Daniel Marcus, welcome, I.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Have the game.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Good text, Daniel.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
Yeah, I was actually parking warden at Auckland Airport. Sure,
and you know a lot of people don't actually like us.
It was actually quite a good, good gig sort of. Yeah,
airports definitely do take a pretty big fee, but you know,
people are always pretty rushed at the airport, you know,

(38:53):
laf stiff flight or looking for luggage, So it's quite what.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
I don't even know they had parking wardens there. I
just thought, yeah, okay, I thought they'd pick up the
finest left the gate.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (39:08):
So that's often how it works. But if people get
out in other ways or try to get off without
a fine, then we normally sort of go after them.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
How would what ways would they use to get out
without paying a fine?

Speaker 6 (39:23):
So sometimes people with false number plates, wow, so if
they have if they put a different number plate to
their you're just a car. Or sometimes they can just
leave their vehicle them and forget about it. But we
sort of have to enforce that everybody case sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Are you still there?

Speaker 22 (39:43):
No?

Speaker 6 (39:43):
I left two months ago, Okay.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Because the thing for me, Daniel is that I mean
the trouble why I don't like the aucland airport is
because there's I mean, the buses are okay, but there's
no train. But they seem to be making a fortune
with park and ride because now there's a huge new
park and ride on pu Andui Road. Have you seen that?

Speaker 6 (40:02):
Yeah, And there's actually quite a few parking ride sort
of organization around the area. They do make quite a
bit of money just because it saves people the cost
of the you know, parking in the airport.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
But what a lot of hassle you have to go
to Perenoi parking Road. You'd be stressed about your flight,
you'd park your car there. Then what do you go
Do you gotta wait for a bus?

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Yeah? Yeah, I wait for a bus and or a
sort of shuttle van and then they'll take you and
drop you off. And it is a hassle. But at
the end of the day, you know, if it saves
you a few hundred and parking in the airport.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
How the bus? How offred would the buses run from
parking ride?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Probably about every twenty minutes, so yeah, pretty regularly.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
To me, that's not that regular really when you look
at something like sitting in the airport where the train
goes right there, bearing you're off the train for ten
bucks or fifteen bucks or whatever, and you're at the airport.
You're at the gate to go into your flight.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean I understand and that it is
inconvenience for people, and that's I mean, even they're parking
in the airport. Short term parking is always covered with cars,
so it is a bit of a squeeze.

Speaker 20 (41:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Did people treat you well? No, not really, No, that's
not good. What would they do? Well?

Speaker 6 (41:19):
I had a few fights actually sometimes in car park what.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
People would people people to selt you?

Speaker 6 (41:28):
Yeah, sometimes you get pushed around or you know, one
time got spat on. Yeah, it's pretty bad that. You know,
no one likes a parking warden. Yeah, but would sometimes.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
People would Your bosses use cctv UH cameras to prosecute.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Sometimes, but you know, more often than not, people would
just be a bit frustrated, a few comments here in
there and then move on. But yeah, I mean that
the fines aren't cheap, so you know, definitely can't understand
the frustration there.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Okay, nice to see a new job, Daniel.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, yeah, good on.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
You're nice to everybody. Eleven past nine nine to eleven
oh wait, keep those texts coming through. That's breaking news.
I'll bring that to you, Marcus and put it to
a city merely you merely Google, put it to a
rubbish and recycling calendar and start putting your address. As
you are doing, that will pop up. You click on
it and it shows you what the council will be
picking up from your address over the next three weeks.

(42:31):
First week, maybe black rubbish bags only. Second week, maybe
black rubbish bags are recycling. Third week, maybe black rubbish
bag recycling in glass. I think people want to pop
up when it changes with public holidays. I'm convinced they do.
Dean Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (42:47):
Yeah, man.

Speaker 10 (42:47):
I sooner to talk about the airlines. But interesting what
that guy said about the car parks and that there
was something else that sprung to mind when I was
listening to them, and it was people that would actually
leave their car in the car park they or the
international car park and actually go away for a week,
and when they come back that can come in and say, oh,
I've only just come in a few hours ago and

(43:09):
I've lost my ticket. So well, had she had to
do was pay a cety or forty dollars fee to
get their car out that used to go on yeah yeah,
but I used to be an aircraft if you were
out at the airport as well. But just with this COVID,
well since COVID y, you know, like some of these
airlines haven't come back, you know, like I used to
go up to Thailand quite but I used to fly

(43:30):
like Thai, thy god. I find the cheapest is probably
Malaysia now in Singapore and Cafe I suppose they've got
the code share with in New Zealand. So it costs
quite a bit, you know, just to try and get
to Bangkok, if you like, unless you go the Chinese
airlines like China Southern Air China. But then you're looking
at over twenty hours to get to your destination, you know.

(43:51):
But I mean I remember back in the day we're
all Brunei. I remember, I think it was two thousand
and nine. I went to Bangkok. I've got a seven
to twenty four return.

Speaker 11 (44:02):
How much cheap?

Speaker 3 (44:02):
How much would have been.

Speaker 10 (44:03):
Now seven hundred and twenty four? Back then, I think
the standard price was about thirteen hundred to get there.
I mean, I think raw Brunei were actually running at
a loss. That's why they stopped buying here, but they
provided a great service.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
Was so how much would how much would the comparable
price be?

Speaker 10 (44:20):
Now, well, I looked the other day to get to
Bangkok with Malaysia fourteen hundred fifteen hundred not too bad,
you know, yeah, with the code heare with Singapore. I mean,
you might want to go with Singapore Airlines or cafe,
but you might get a in New Zealand craft you know,

(44:41):
so the service might be different and the food might
not be good.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
But you know, but I can I just say, I
reckon three k, I reckon now with your personal screens right, yeah,
and your headphones. That flying now is effortless because you
just watch a couple of movies the old days, it's true. Phone. Yeah,

(45:05):
plane trips just to be interminably long, that major screen
that drop down play a movie. Yeah, you know that
people complained about the seats and not the food, but
just to be able to actually watch films and zone
out for twelve hours, I reckon, it's pretty good.

Speaker 10 (45:19):
Yeah, it's okay. I mean, but the other thing is
like a Virgin Australia. They used to fly here before
COVID and go up to the islands like we go
up to the Cook Islands quite a bit. We've got
extended family up to here, and now it's just the
New Zealand and Jetstar that fly there. A lot of
people don't want to go jets Star, you know, because
I've ever been on a jets Day aircraft just going

(45:40):
to Wellington, and I actually noticed that the seats it
was like our money, little fellow, and I just noticed
how crammed the seats were, you know, like how the
three three you'd look across, but the seats were actually staggered,
so you'd be sitting on one side and you'd look across,
but you wouldn't have three right across from it. It
looked like that actually put more rows of seats in them.

(46:01):
I don't know if that's just a domestic or not
or international, but I mean Virgin Australia brilliant because they
had good competition. And the thing was that too. The
people on the Cook Islands, a lot of the people
there have medical things that they rely on, so they
actually come down to come down to Auckland, you know,
medical things that are ongoing with them, and it costing

(46:22):
such a fortune to come down. Now with the New
Zealand you know that best probably Jetstar. I supposed they
have to fly by Virgin Australia. They really offered a
good service to the islands.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
You know, you've got a tool voice team.

Speaker 10 (46:36):
What's that You've.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Got a tall voice?

Speaker 10 (46:39):
Do you mean like, what do you mean it.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
Sounds like it sounds like a tall person. When you
said you're just a little bit. Guys are taken aback
because you sound tall.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Well five ft seven is tall.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Off your tools sounding voice team anyway, No, that's not head.
They I've always want to have a guest the height night.
But problematic, I think Dean, thank you anyway, get in
touch with talking about airline and travel and the price
for the price that airport's charge. But yeah, that awkward airport.
I hate to say it, but when I saw that

(47:13):
Perdori parking right, I mean I don't love travel, but
when we are traveling and there's four of us, and
that comes with its own challenges. You're not traveling on
your own. You've got to you've got gear, you got stuff.

(47:34):
But when you've got to go and then you've got
to park a car and then you've got to park
and ride, Oh flip to me, that's a holiday ruiner.
At least in v Cargo, we can walk, park your
car in town and walk, so it's not that far.
But that park and ride thing, that's just end of

(47:55):
a long trip. You're gonna wait for the shuttle to
take you to the car to wander around. No, yes,
what every every airport should have the play should have
the train going right to it. There should be the
first thing you think of when you do it. That's
my take and I'm staying with it. Anyway. Marcus's topic

(48:15):
remind me I need to book a car for this
weekend car parking off to watch the Mighty Warriors and
megic Round and Brisbane. I won't be doing the park
and ride gimmick chairs, Sean. I don't know about a
magic round. A magic round by the ways, they have
one venue and all the teams go there. The Queensland
government ponies up the money. I don't like it. That's
just me. Who the Warriors got? Could go all right,

(48:39):
couldn't we? Dave Marcus welcome, Hello Marcus. How are you good? Dave?
Real good? How's things? How's tricks?

Speaker 22 (48:48):
It's good? Yeah, I'm actually a fuss drover and I
drove the Airport Express in Wellington. I've been doing it
for about two years now and I just wanted to
talk about how we've noticed like a decrease in parking
ever since we've got the buses because Metlink is like
made a more reliable service, so less people park in

(49:10):
the airport now.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
And Dave, I don't know if you got the involvement
with it, but last time I was in Willington thought
the service was brilliant.

Speaker 22 (49:21):
Oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Yeah, although although I couldn't buy a hop card at
the airport, could I?

Speaker 22 (49:29):
Oh the Snapper cards. There's one kiosk in the in
the in like the night and day at the airport,
which you can, but it's not very well advertised. I
wish you were small advertised.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Yeah, no, I think I managed to get one in them.
Had to google it up. I think that was the situation,
and they wouldn't Do they take cash? Do they take cash?

Speaker 22 (49:49):
Yes, so we take cash. Okay, that's good to take
the Snapper card. But the old airport buses that we
used to have in Wellington before these ones, they used
to be separate from Metlink, so they didn't a Snapper
card and they only took cash, which really decreased the
amount of people using the facility and more people were

(50:10):
paying for parking. But now it's so much better. And yeah,
I absolutely love my job. I just go back and
forth Wellington Station to the airport all so.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
Yeah, it goes, it goes from the train station Wellington
Central and it takes it takes about twenty years. I
thought it was I thought it was a really good vibe.
I thought it was an excellent service.

Speaker 22 (50:30):
Yeah we have they're like brand new buses to like
free Wi Fi. It's about They run every ten minutes,
which I think is very good. And yeah, the old
ones that we used to have used to do much
larger routes. They ran from all the way from like
the Tony in Wellington. But it's really good to have

(50:51):
these ones now. And I meet lots of cool people
and like tourists and things. Yea, and Central really really interesting.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
The only thing I thought is where you catch the
buses sort of looks like a b of an afterthought,
just under a car park. It's not a really nice place.
Is that you just thought of out there? I thought
they could have pre planned and built somewhere a bit nice.
We actually caught the damn bus. Yeah.

Speaker 22 (51:13):
Yeah. One thing was like, it's really annoying getting in
the underground car park. That's the airport. They didn't give
us contents to build the bus stock sort of under
under the side of the underground car parks. We've got
a wind all the way through and these busses aren't
designed to be like fitted through underground car park. So

(51:35):
I've crashed a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Wow.

Speaker 22 (51:40):
But yeah, just like the edge and like most bus
drivers always hit the edge and the speed bumps. When
you go over the speed bump, it's the little hanging
down arier that says that helps all the car park
is all the busses hit that, and we've told them
for years to remove it, but we keep on hitting

(52:00):
it every time, which is just damaging the busses.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I think that which which which breaks up a I
think airports don't want people catching buses, they want people
paying exorbitant car parking fees. Thank you. Someone says Marcus's
article came through Stuff Newsing today regarding in New Zealand.
Amazing a man could fly to Los Angeles cheaper than
Willington to Todonger or a woman Where would you go?

(52:25):
Where would you want to fly to? Though it's all here.
I'm joking. Oh gosh, cheap expensive fears and the engine.
When was the last time in Ncho v recall? I
hate Anchio vies this week in two Get in touch,

(52:47):
Marcus Till twelve. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine, trying to click on a stupid article. But
I'm blaming myself. I'm not. I hate how you gotta
highlight something. Get in touch, Hittle twelve. My name is Marcus.
Welcome Peter.

Speaker 23 (53:05):
Away, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Thanks Peter?

Speaker 23 (53:08):
You just gathered in news and as you fly to
the mood, not come back again in New zeal And,
should fly to the moon and not come back again. No,
I don't reckon because I'll never forget. Threty odd years
ago and I was doing the AE in London. My
dad passed away when I was.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Over there, right, said sorry to hear that.

Speaker 23 (53:29):
Yep, yeah, so I had a job over there and
that sort of stuff and general text men, and try
to settle with you before you because I was you,
I was going to come back to London stuffought, Well,
I'm as all sitting so basically I spent about three days.
I thought, I got the phone call, went to sort
of boss and all that sort of stuff, and went
to the text man over there and what refunds are

(53:50):
going to get all?

Speaker 20 (53:51):
But I thought.

Speaker 23 (53:52):
Maybe because I was, you know, I had a New
Zealand passport, I thought maybe I'll give him a shot,
you know, new seel and I thought I'll give him
a go and rung them up and not explained my situation.
And I said, you didn't need any sort of a
rebate because of my sick instance, As I said, I didn't
have much money, just come back from from an o
round or around Europe and an accent a lot of
money at the time. And they say, no, we don't

(54:13):
do any there's no discount for in my situation. I said, well,
you know, I say no, in other words, you're not
let loyal to your New Zealand citizens in are you?

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Did they did you manage to come back?

Speaker 20 (54:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (54:29):
Did they come back and come of needle?

Speaker 3 (54:31):
For how much money?

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (54:33):
I think I saved probably about four hundred dollars or
something from compared with the New Zealand tickets at the time.
It's still a lot of money in those days.

Speaker 20 (54:41):
Years ago.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
It was a great airline. It was a great airline continent.
So what went wrong with them? They were fantastic.

Speaker 23 (54:46):
Yeah, we're very free. You know, I'm not flying more.
All I know who's taking over with him? It might
be it might be that use airlines or something that
I think they're pretty much gone now, aren't they coming?
Any airlines?

Speaker 20 (54:58):
Aren't they fair?

Speaker 3 (54:59):
But they didn't give They didn't give you. They didn't
give you a discount because your dad died.

Speaker 23 (55:03):
No, nothing at all. No, they say, no, we don't
do the counts. And then I said, well.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
But there's Continental. Continental didn't do it either.

Speaker 23 (55:11):
The af fears were still thicker. Any New Zealand sot
back and then you're going to the Continental, well say
four hundred dollars a beer in your pocket, in New
Zealand's pocket exactly.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
And then and then did you go back for your
job back in London?

Speaker 23 (55:24):
No, I didn't know. I decided I was almost coming
back any way, sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Well, Yeah, what what was the job? Peter? Just to
fill the circle, doing.

Speaker 23 (55:33):
A bit of all sorts on building sites. So they're
just doing general handwork, little bit of welding over there,
and the bar work. You just normal stuff you do
when you doing the sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
And year, so you'd be good behind the bar.

Speaker 23 (55:47):
So most no, no, what I'm going to say is
that in New Zealand, I'm not doing us any favors.
Are in half by the by by half as text
players and the fleece and half of the if it takes,
and we all know that they're not doing us any favors. Markers,
you know, they should try to make it a is
it more reasonable? Then they then they have the prices

(56:09):
for their score holidays and the poor kids, and when
people were trying, everybody's worked and they want more money,
they take more money out of your pocket. Just try
to have a everybody striking him with a decent holiday.
They have no mercy at all.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Nice to hear from your pe to twenty eight past nine.
Back in October, I brought four tickets on es in
to Rara, Tongua in September school holidays. They were nine
hundred each. Today the same flight would cost two thy
four hundred and three each. Imagine how much it will
be in September. Richard Marcus, how do I get the
cheap train after leaving Sydney airport. You walk to Walleye Creek,

(56:51):
take it fifteen minutes, pleasant walk over the ibis one
of those birds called the bin What are they called?
Marcus just checked innes In and fly from toto On
to Wellington for May three thoirty return. Really cheaper to
go to Los Angeles, Guys doing Porky's. I forget what

(57:12):
that article was. I've got it here. I'm not saying
every time, get a bit of flexibility. Six forty to
Los Angeles in November. So it's cheaper to go to
the States it is to go to Wellington. That's toto
On and Dad Scott Costa. Good on them. Luxon thinks

(57:35):
he's at the still thinks that the monopoly and accruing airpoints,
as does Willis with the Fontira monopoly both the specificly
background and treat the public as customers. Talking about airports
and parking and air fares. This is kind of what
I like to talk about. Actually, why do I like
to talk about this?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
I enjoy I enjoy. I enjoy the different options with
transport to airport. I find that quite fascinating. Actually, airports
the worst we have to be the need in stupid
place for an airport, but I guess that's just geography.

(58:15):
I don't think there's regular buses going out there, which
seems crazy. You can get the intercity, one long day
on the intercity, one long day here on the intercity.
Get in touch, Marcus till twelve. What's happened those polls?
You get this the story Napier is a quatic center.

(58:36):
They spent four million on the upgrade and open for
about an hour and someone slipped. It's too slippery, noticeably
more slippery than before the upgrade. You think you're involved
with poles, not slipping and be important Hendle twelve, twenty

(58:57):
eight away from ten. It's all about airports. By the way,
I don't even like the term park and ride because
you're not really I suppose you are riding. Marcus Contain
Airlines merge with United Airlines. Fly Asia. Was cheap to

(59:17):
fly Pertha Sydney via Kualalumpa than direct. Yeah, whileye Creek
Shaqi when it comes for the Sydney airport. If you
like a good quick walk after you've landed, it's quite
straightforward to do. What are those I'd look at what
those ibis nicknames are they're those birds are always so

(59:40):
they're called bin I can't remember what they called bin
chickens or tip turkeys. A lot of those around Walleye Creek. Shirley,
Marcus welcome, Yes, good evening.

Speaker 24 (59:53):
Marcus just wants to talk about the air pairs. In
November fifteen months ago, I lost or we lost our
eldest son. And November was at the end of November.
It was a busy, busy time. People were away, couldn't
get hold of you know, everyone wanted to come. So

(01:00:16):
we had in cremated and I held the memorial service
in January. My other two sons with their family, both
live in Brisbane, and for them to fly over to
the memorial service and return was eight hundred dollars each

(01:00:36):
way per person. This is a New Zealand from Brisbane
to from Brisbane to Wellington, so it would have cost
the family of four six four hundred in air fares
alone before you know accommodation or anything.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:01:01):
So in the end I said to them, don't come,
and I lived streamed the whole service for them. That
eight hundred dollars is disgusting from Brisbane to here, isn't it?

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

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
There a satisfactory outcome hadn't was the live streaming satisfactory?

Speaker 24 (01:01:22):
Absolutely brilliant. And I think the live streaming cost me
about sixteen hundred dollars and that was done by a
very very professional company.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
How much would have the flights been from Brisbane to
Walkland then got in a car and driven down?

Speaker 24 (01:01:40):
Oh, I don't know, but then you've got to hire
a cardot.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Yes do you do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
You do?

Speaker 24 (01:01:45):
Yes, you do, and or your petrol and everything. And
I certainly couldn't put eight of them up in my place,
so they would have had to go into motels. And
it was just absolutely outrageous.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
What's the normal fair? Because what's a normal fair Brisbane
to Wellington? Do you know? I mean it's it's eight
hundred dollars. How low can it go?

Speaker 24 (01:02:10):
No, I don't know, but I know that I flew
to Brisbane a year ago or last August actually, and
I went Quantus and I returned Quantus and the service

(01:02:30):
could not have been better.

Speaker 12 (01:02:33):
It was one hundred.

Speaker 24 (01:02:34):
It was just beautiful. And you know, at the end
of it, because I'm a terrible flyer, I'm very nervous,
they kept coming checking to see that I was okay.
If you want anything, you just push the buzzeric feature.
And when I got off, they gave me a card
saying thank you for flying Quantus with them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:02:54):
And they actually gave me a little gift pack of
you know, hand cream and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
And you'd been it's on your file that you're a
bad traveler, right.

Speaker 12 (01:03:04):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (01:03:05):
I did a course many many years ago. It was
called if WF with Air New Zealand instructor called Grant Amos,
and the f WF was Flying without Fear and it
was the most amazing course. It went for a week
at Wellington Airport and then on from the Monday to

(01:03:28):
the Friday, and then on the Saturday, everybody that was
booked on that course was given a flight to Auckland
and he talked us through the flight all the way
and we went on a simulator up there and flew back.
It was our graduation flight.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Goodness, but it didn't work. You're still frightened.

Speaker 24 (01:03:52):
I'm still nervous. It makes me much better. And I
just when I get to the airport, I show this
card and I say I cannot demand a special seat,
but is there a chance I can be seated? You
know over the wing, et cetera. And they're all very good.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
Why do you like to be over the wing?

Speaker 24 (01:04:18):
I was told it it's a pretty safe place. And
before I go on, the e hostesses come and take
me on board themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Amazing flying without fear, and it's.

Speaker 24 (01:04:36):
Been done by Grant Amos.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
I'm saying that was there something originally that gave you
the tear the flying terrorists, or it's just something just
of a movie disposition.

Speaker 12 (01:04:48):
I'm a bit cluster.

Speaker 24 (01:04:50):
I'd been actually caught in a list here in Wellington twice,
and I think that's sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
That did it?

Speaker 8 (01:04:58):
You know?

Speaker 12 (01:04:58):
It didn't help.

Speaker 22 (01:05:01):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
But you can fly, you can fly.

Speaker 24 (01:05:06):
I I forced myself to fly because I've got my
family in a Brisbane.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Do you sweat this? I saw a go on a
plane once that looked terrified. He was actually.

Speaker 24 (01:05:18):
Hyperventilating and sweat pouring off.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I'm a young guy, like a backpecker, and I couldn't
believe it. I've never seen anyone like that, and I thought,
cheap as Crevius. There's a guy. I mean, you know,
some people might be anxious, but that guy was actually
incapacitated by how terrified he was.

Speaker 24 (01:05:32):
Yeah, it's it's so sad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
You're not like that. You're not like a screaming mess.

Speaker 24 (01:05:38):
No, I'm not. I do take the tears. But when
I get into the plane, we were told as when
you're taking off your wriggle your hands, your fingers, and
you wriggle your toes and you deep breathe, and I
always do that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
What all that does?

Speaker 12 (01:06:00):
Don't know?

Speaker 24 (01:06:01):
I grant told us through.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
That do you wear ear muffs or earphones? Or take
a tablet? And when I say tablet, okay, no, you
know what I mean by tablet. Do you know what
I mean by tablet?

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
What No, I mean like a kindle or an iPad?
You know? Yeah, yeah, so I knew when I said, yeah,
that's the weird circle of word word finder. You find
a code cracker.

Speaker 24 (01:06:36):
Or rummy cowboy, something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
Yep, brilliant. They look at Shuli out there doing it
for herself. Take a tablet. Nope, you know, I don't
mean like that, but there'd be the way to do it.
Of course, you drug yourself in. The plane comes down
in a fiery heap when you be last off because
you be sedated, laughing thing, be all every I mean,
that's what that would be the ultimate thing, to put
everyone on beds and sedate them in long trips. But

(01:06:58):
in the rear event that it goes bad, to rouse
everyone and get them out of the out of the plane,
for it crumbles in a burning heap. No me neither,
no idea what Rummy Cub is. I don't no idea whatsoever,
Rummy Cub. But good on you, Rummy Cub, on your temperate.

(01:07:22):
It just goes to show how far easy And has
changed as a company that once upon time and it
was very famous old mister Amos, grand amos, and is
flying without fair things that the Indus was so caring
they got all that effort to encourage. I mean, there'll
be no money for them to fly someone up and

(01:07:43):
down and put them in this simulator. But these days
they wouldn't care, would they. If you're nervous, flyer, give
you a peck extra peck chips. Lot wouldn't care less.

(01:08:04):
I mean, blessed and we need he travels a great thing.
But cheapest screepers, high volume industry, get them on, get
them off, give them a casava chips. Terrible anyway, greetors
and welcome head on midnight tonight eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty airports and parking and the price of travel. Marcus,

(01:08:33):
always listen, never contact till now. I've been told so.
Apparently riddling your fingers and tost triggers some kind of
reaction your brain which calms you. I'd like that, Marcus
try trying to book blend him to Willington return. At
times I want to go two six seven there and
two two back, twenty five minute flight and seventy four

(01:09:03):
one way for Auckland to Sydney with seventy two dollars inflation,
and that translates to nine oh four to day flight
to definitely cheapen our chairs, Mark, Marcus. This one's for Granddad,
Jim and Wama. Who in you is they need to
stop cancing the team and who do Willington due to
engineering issuescause I think often they just cancel flights having
enough people on them. Evening, Marcus, over glass fence around

(01:09:25):
our pool, over a couple of swallows that land and
defecate and it drives me around the bend. Does anyone
have in indistance on how to get them to not
land on the fence? Cheers pete a glass fence around
the pool. Oh wow, the what the answer for that
one would be? It does sound like you've got a pool.

(01:09:54):
I've been lucky you. I don't know how you stop
birds sitting on the fence. That's what birds do, the fence.
It is you got fence, though, don't you? Marcus. More
terrifying when they allowed smoking on planes, yack is that
seems surprising when you look back at that. You could
smoke on the plane there you just lose your cell

(01:10:15):
phone and they're paranoid. Seemed to work pretty well smoking
on planes. None of them caught fire. I haven't seen
a lot of news tonight. You go. Oh, by the way,
I think the road toll was pretty good. Antic weekend too,
was it despite a lot of people being a rain?
I think probably away? I think probably the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
It's a pretty boring game about the road top. I
think it gone on. It's there hasn't been kind of
carnage on the road. I did a fee bit of driving,
only saw the one cop. Fortunately, when I saw the
one cop, I was on cruise control, thinking about one
hundred and two. I think my car goes. I think

(01:10:58):
my car speed diarmator. It's faster than actually goes. So
I thought that was about the right amount. Gave them
a wave and off we went. Even think Calvin as Marcus,
good evening, be nugas by Calvin. Hey, yeah, welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:11:16):
So thank you. Yeah, I just we just ended up
playing one hundred and fifty three dollars for five nights
parking at the walk the airport went out to the
Ordland for the diving trip, so that was a excitement
for En as well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Seems it seems a lot, doesn't for a small bit
of a small bit of space that your car is
taking up. Seems crazy to me.

Speaker 19 (01:11:44):
Yeah, it was. And because we hadn't booked it a
day before, we couldn't do that three booking, so they
bumped the price up a bit more. If you just
pull up, so says a.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
Double winded door, Is it a parking ride or is
that actually just walking to the airport walking?

Speaker 19 (01:12:00):
That was think come back or something?

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Okay, how much do they charge if you have pre books?
I ne would never thought we've done that.

Speaker 19 (01:12:09):
I think it's it was about thirty or forty I
think from.

Speaker 3 (01:12:15):
And you have much luck in Fjordland.

Speaker 19 (01:12:18):
Oh, Fantassic. Yeah, so they're very good branch auntry for
the diving.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
The fun, wasn't you that got taken by the Great White?

Speaker 19 (01:12:27):
No, there was another by John Pass so made the
diving pretty interesting. How do we heard the.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Yeah they reckon they're in there, they reckon they're in
the fields, or the signers are telling us. Now I've
never heard of Sharkston in there before.

Speaker 19 (01:12:41):
Yeah, I come across the Seven Killers there certainly never
have a Great White.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
So okay not def fore ly Kevin. Thanks about eighteen
past ten. It is ten twenty Beavett's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:12:57):
Yeah, I'm Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:12:59):
I just wanted to talk about the car parking at
the airports. Never ill, whether it's overseas or just in
New Zealand. I go to Flyway, not fly a Way,
but Flyways and they're in Varisimo Drives, which is, you know,
like maybe five or ten minutes from the airport. I'm

(01:13:22):
going to Brisbane on Saturday. It's costing me thirty nine
dollars for five nights or sorry, for five days parking.

Speaker 7 (01:13:29):
Wow, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Do you do not get stressed out that they're going
to get you to the plane? In time.

Speaker 14 (01:13:37):
No, you usually have to get to get to them
at say, an hour before you're due to chicken.

Speaker 9 (01:13:46):
Okay, And I just you know, I use them all
the time.

Speaker 14 (01:13:51):
They're great. I always I think the later you leave
booking that it might get a bit more expensive. So
I booked a few months ago, and so yeah, it's
more or less eight dollars of the day.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
So that's remarkable. And that's if l I w A Y.

Speaker 14 (01:14:11):
No, if l Y Flyway.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
You sure.

Speaker 14 (01:14:18):
May actually no, it might be.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
The I Yeah, I just looked at well, I can't
see that the one that's come up for me is
FLI Way, but yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:14:26):
Yeah it must be.

Speaker 13 (01:14:27):
But because I think.

Speaker 14 (01:14:28):
There's also one fly away Okay, this is Flyway and
it's yeah, it's great. You drop your car off, they
take you to the airport. I mean when you come,
when you fly back, and you ring up say can
I get a pick up? And they usually there within
about ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Yeah. I guess that's what people need to do. They
need to get and I'm never that organized, don't because
I was often driving to Queenstown Airport and I don't
know there's a situation there, but I probably should look
into it because they always said to extort about thirty
or forty dollars a day at Queenstown. So that's probably
the way to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (01:15:02):
Yeah, so you know hear about all these people spending
all this money that you don't have to if you
just get your act together.

Speaker 3 (01:15:10):
Yeah, I guess probably people are busy lives and yeah,
well I guess it's all about getting your act together,
isn't it? To walk backward to justify myself? Thanks very
much for that ten two you. I've never quite worked
out what the park and ride Queen's town is. They
should just google it Queen's Stuna Airport Park and Ride.

(01:15:34):
Oh yeah, it's probably very fair. There's probably private enterprise
that private companies that work anyway. Get in touch with
your talk markets to midnight about parking and riding. Oh
some text a lot of text markets. Well into the
airport only provides parking for ten cycles. No wonder they

(01:15:55):
wanted to sell the shares. When you think about it,
I don't know why. People with bikes. You don't need
a park for a bike. You can tell your bike
up anywhere.

Speaker 10 (01:16:06):
Evening.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
Marcus spent Anzac Day with myadly mother and Havelock North
week and except with beautiful old weather, it was fantastic
trees and gold, auburn, yellow, maroon. Magnificent funny thing. I
was to others landscaped them back of the early eighties.
Shout out to Kevin dug And it's Havelock North High
School's fiftieth jubilee this week. In suzy, I'll tell you what.
I went past the poplars at Kadrona unbelievably beautiful. Wow

(01:16:31):
that valley with the pop I mean, I'm not a
great fan of poppers, but when they're singing cheapers. Try
using Ashburton taxi for expensive no competition here five point
eight kilometers last week, all on route for drop offs. Angry,
angry lady driving ninety seven dollars please give us uber
local company have shut them out. It's a lot and

(01:16:56):
there's probably no good bust alternative. I recently flew to
christ Church via Auckland. I live in Hamilton. Was cheaper
to fly from Auckland Star rather than flying Hamilton to
christ Church. Hamilton to christ Church was going to be
four hundred to six on each way. I paid three
hundred and turn from Auckland and had a better choice
of times. I paid eighty five for parking for thirty

(01:17:18):
six hour park in the car park. One of my
friends used Park and Fly and founder's car used for
smoking in and reviews often complained about chars missing items,
having lots more k's after we left at Park and Fly.
Don't they drive them at Park and Fly? Do they?

Speaker 13 (01:17:36):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
That sounds like a bit of a conspiracy to me.
I always think they're pretty good at those places, but
so much easier. There's just a train underneath. The airport
needs to happen. Marcus going to Port Douglas in June.
Just Bot covered parking three to four minutes from Walkland
International Airport eleven days for one four eight. That's from Jude, Hey,

(01:17:58):
Jude Marcus, I used parking riding a eight day park
ninety dollars. Bus leaves every ten min at the airport
return trip, same for pick up at airport, every ten minutes. Brilliant.
We're talking about exorbitant price of air fees, but our
ear fees exhorbitant compared to how much people paid for
air fees forty years ago. Because flying is a lot

(01:18:22):
easier now, isn't it. Because you've got things to do
on the plane. I consume a lot of TV in
twenty four hours. Those old flights are insufferable. I'm someone
that doesn't love flying. I mean don't. It's just a
long time to sit still for me. Ray, it's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:18:43):
Good evening, markets. How are you good?

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Ray?

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Thank you? How's yourself? All good?

Speaker 20 (01:18:48):
A little bit short winded deal with a CPO D thing,
but I'm managing your Oh good, I yet, Marcas. I'm
playing a trip down to to the neat near in
Augusty of them for me, Moore is forty a Thursday.
We got the state of the Bath And do you
know if the yeah right by the railway station love Lean.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yeah, it's haunted, but I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:19:20):
Do you know if the Tyree Gorge train goes through
the middle match still or does then he goes fast?
POKERNGI if it goes at all? Is it running?

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
I think they were trying to extend it's ranged.

Speaker 20 (01:19:38):
Yeah, I know it was. I know it sort of
working in with the cruise ships. Is there any cruise
ships coming into to thee.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
It goes to Poky, it goes.

Speaker 20 (01:19:54):
To POOKI does it not go right through the middle match.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
No, I don't think so, it says on the website
Iconic train trip through the Tairy Gorge five hours destination
pook it Angy via Taiary Gorge.

Speaker 20 (01:20:07):
Yeah, I know it used to go. It used to
go through through the middle of March here when the
when the when the Oceana gold was hit the thing
at McCrae. See they were when they were getting the
gold from up at the reefton.

Speaker 25 (01:20:24):
And then there was there was trips go up went
up to Middle March and then the whit by bus
from the through the mccratee and then down to Palmerston
and then the year so it's not gone the Middle
March anymore. Still a good trip, Oh yeah, No, it's
a lovely trip through the that was that was all

(01:20:45):
done by pick and shovel through the the the big
wall backs and it's it's actually a lovelier trip than
of the trains.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Hill Point by a country mile. It's like night. Ye,
it's a fair there's a book about that line gout
over the garden fence or something. It's a good book
about the making of that. It certainly worked hard to
do it, chipping away this you know, the rock year
they worked. They worked incredibly hard.

Speaker 20 (01:21:13):
Yeah, and yeah we're thinking of doing go up the
proper ranging there. And then the boy he's some relation
to the guy from Larix Castle. So we're going to
go out and see nor coming out at Larnox Castle.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
There to one place I've never I can never feel that.
I can never get motivated to go to Lenox Cast.
I don't know why. It's not my thing, but yeah,
every time there, I think I must go and do that.

Speaker 20 (01:21:40):
Yeah, well they've done it, They've done it all up now.
I think the they've done all the stables up there
is it's all hotel units out the bet now it's quite.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
It was it was it was a crooked Atlantic.

Speaker 20 (01:21:55):
Wasn't he he could have been here? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
I think I think he got kicked out of Parliament.
I think he's Yeah, I think he wasn't a I
think that was the story.

Speaker 20 (01:22:06):
Yeah, so we're going to do that, and then I
want to go and have a look at the new
stadium down there and the Foresight Stadium where it used
to be carris Brook. They reckon. It's quite nice here
and you know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
So you go, you're going to match tight in for
that ray. Is it going to be a match?

Speaker 20 (01:22:29):
I don't think so. I don't know. What's what's the
team that played down here? It's the holland Theland.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
That's right. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I know where where
are you stationed?

Speaker 20 (01:22:45):
I'm I'm at and I'm at black Ball and the
boys over and Harsville. So I'll travel over over to
sing Me and say the night at the at the
prison and in Lincoln Road, and then we'll go from
here down down.

Speaker 3 (01:23:04):
To the nath You don't stay with your son.

Speaker 20 (01:23:06):
Ye, no, he's only got a little small only got
a little small flat and you're not much room. So
I'll keeping up the at the old prison in Lincoln Roads.
Here is forty bucks at night. He is quite good.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
Oh yeah, it's going to be Lincoln right, you can
stay in the Lincoln roight. What's that prison used to
be called? That was it was the Roman just the Eddington.

Speaker 20 (01:23:33):
Yeah, Eddington.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
It was the.

Speaker 20 (01:23:37):
Minimum security one of the same as the and in
the house version of Rolston.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:23:46):
It was right by the army camp. I was in
the army there.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
And of course what are you what are the rooms like?

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:23:54):
The beautiful, beautiful rooms that's absolutely spotless. Yeah, and the
Leadley floors it's it's wonderful, wonderful room thing. And the
centel was only about eight guys running the whole place here,
and it's it's absolutely spotless, Marcus, you know, and you're

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twenty feet twenty meters out of the big thing. You
get the bus into town. It's it's ideal, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
And tell me something, tell me something right before? How
many people in black Ball these days?

Speaker 20 (01:24:27):
It's about three three seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
Jay, Is it more than it's been for a while.

Speaker 20 (01:24:33):
Yeah, it's well, it's sort of boosts up and there
and now and again there with with the pepper Oa ones,
but they don't the ones that goes to the track
don't spend any money here. They've they're just they're they're
on the track and then they're.

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
All tramp is particular as Tierra row in one time.
They all try to do everything on the shape.

Speaker 20 (01:24:55):
Yeah. Well, a lot of the ones here the the
push biking there that they're traveling through on the pushbikes
and so that they come used to coming to into
the help and they have a share and the pie
and all that sort of stuff, But now they just
just gold through and gone.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
Nice to hear from you, Ray, you enjoy your holiday
twenty away from eleven Marcus till twelve. Get in touch
what you got oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
get to the texts. So I think you'll become a
tour guide, right. It's a good trip that one. How's
this for a parking heck In Auckland they put domestic
drive into the closest park to the terminal parking, take

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a ticket the end of the day you're flying back
to Auckland, book a park in the same car park
online for the minimum time possible. Then when you arrive
in Auckland, drive to the exit and press the button
to talk to the opera and tell them your credit
card's not working. You need to use the card you'd
paid with online. Exit the park. They ask you for
your reference number from your parking online, which you give
them and they let you out. The minimum time is

(01:25:58):
for a few hours. I've parked there for days only
paid for a few hours. Nine to ninety five. Goodness.
I went on the Tady Gorge train on Tuesday. Great
trip with all the autumn colors. Marcus, we're flying from Ucan,

(01:26:19):
dwis it next week decided to stay at the jet
Park Hotel. What it's the COVID hotel, isn't it? JP
Park was where the bedties went, isn't it? I think
there's someone where the people were escaping from JEP Park.
Eh in the COVID days, Marcus, We're flying from Auca,

(01:26:43):
dwis it next week to decide to stay at the
jip Park Hotel. While looking on their website, you can
park there nine days free parking. They have a free
shuttle turn from the airport back to the car. You
have to stay there one night. It's costing US one
six six a night. It's a great deal. I think
they said it's eight dollars a day after those nine days,
so all over works out to be super affordable. Have
a great night, Alana. I enjoyed get Park. I'ms Gnessians

(01:27:09):
Marcus welcome, good.

Speaker 13 (01:27:10):
Evening, Oh Hi Marcus, good evening evening.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Gnis, Hello, Hi.

Speaker 13 (01:27:18):
I just wanted to let you know about the parking
parking ride. It is a very good topic. What I
do generally, if I want to go with the short
trip anyway Cristis or Wellington, I always prefer with a
Heartland Bank on a Heartland Bank Heartland Hotel, they have
a car parking facility and it's very cheap. It's just
a ten dollars per day. Because because I live in

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South Oakland and if I want to travel to South
Aukland to the airport, so that costs me by forty
forty five dollars for one day. But if I go
for just like a couple of a couple of day
or three days, four days, just like a ten dollars
per day, that's much cheaper. And they also I get
a free ride as well, pick up and drop facility

(01:28:01):
at the airport, so I find and one more thing
you they are you allowed to take your khaki with you?

Speaker 3 (01:28:09):
So that makes sense again, that makes real sense. It's
like it's just to just to clarify. Do you stay
at the hotel? This is the hotel? You said, right, yes,
what's the hotel.

Speaker 13 (01:28:25):
Called Hotland Hotland Hotel.

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
But you don't stay there because you're just living locally anyway,
are you?

Speaker 13 (01:28:32):
Yeah? Yeah, I live in locally, so there is no
need to stay.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Okay, you could just you could just park there even
if you're not staying there.

Speaker 13 (01:28:40):
No, No, absolutely not and the good thing is that
actually once I passed, so my car stayed there in
the same slot. Once I come back and there is
no movement inside, like you know, I can not allowed
to take your Khaki. And I found very safe this
that was like you know, it means like I don't
want it to give my car. Key left the Khaki

(01:29:01):
with them, so if I keep something, if I to
keep something, like if I left, my value got inside.
So that is all assurance that you know, always there
in my car.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
This just sounds to me like there's a bit of
paranoia about cars people taking your cars for ride, because
I don't imagine that's going to happen. Yes, especially at
Khaki's Ginnis. Thanks so much for that. Thirteen to eleven Marcus,
your caller from black Ball forgot to say that three
point fifty people and is about as many guinea pigs

(01:29:33):
on the side of the road as well, just down
from the pub. We were there two weeks ago. Bear
at the pub and some surprise for black Ball SLAMI
great spot Tony didn't something bad happened to the butcher
or the sausage person there and black bl I think
they did it with some sort of can't go into it.
I still think for the first time everyone's mentioned Rummy

(01:29:55):
cub on the show and playing it on the airline
on a template. I don't even know what more to
say about that. People, How are you going? What's happening?
Where to park your cars? Cheaply? It's all parking ride.
We're on their phone friendly booking stuff. Yeah, but fancy

(01:30:17):
motels offering parking ride. I mean, part of me wants
to get involved in discussing parking ride, but part of
me also thinks, well, we just had trains that went there. No,
we need to have parking ride. That seem to be
a lot of theffing around and a huge amount of
our city has just taken up by huge kind of
car parks for parking ride. Can't be good from effectiveness

(01:30:41):
of the city point of view. But it's just me anyway. Marcus,
you mentioned USA tariffs and planes before. Are you aware
China is reported as returning recently delivered aircraft to Boeing. Yes,
that's why I mentioned it. When does China start making
their own commercial airplanes successfully? That can't be far away?

(01:31:03):
Can it? Would that be a game change? I think
it probably what that might really change if fees around
the world. I don't know why they haven't done that.
Someone will be an expert on Chinese aviation. It's not
me though, Why would they not be building mass of aeroplanes.

(01:31:32):
It's something I'd ever thought of it. Now we're thinking
about that through throughout the news. Oh, eight hundred and eighty.
Tedy in nineteen nine text Graham, it's Marcus, welcome, good evening,
greeting some South dat.

Speaker 8 (01:31:48):
I just thought of correct a few things without being
offensed to it. He won't about Alanik He I'm not
aware that he was actually a crook. I'm not aware
he was sick because he was actually a sitting member
when he actually committed suicide in his office at well
doing nothing at the department buildings. And the reason was

(01:32:10):
apparently caught his wife and his son having a physical affair,
and that was the course.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
I always think. I've always heard Michael Laws always talk
about Lard. It was one of the few people that
was kicked out of parliament for some conviction.

Speaker 8 (01:32:28):
Well that might have been earlier. Correct. I don't think
he was. I think he was cillustating in PA. I've
seem to be correct and I'm doing all this from
I was out the benefit of a computer in front
of me, but just the story sounded a wet bit.
I'm not sure that's all to correct, but that was why.
I am also aware that the Barker family trust owns

(01:32:55):
and runs the castle at the moment. I've actually stayed
there about about thirty odd years ago. It's quite nice
face actually, and there's been conscious held here. In fact,
Marty from the Chills, they had a concert there about
three years there four years ago and that was a sellout.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
I did read a guy when I was in Australia
tramping and he said he's an Australian guy from Queensland.
He goes there every year for the Christmas dinner. He
says it's so very good.

Speaker 20 (01:33:26):
Hm.

Speaker 8 (01:33:27):
Oh well, I've never dined there, but now I'm just
you know, my experiences that don't it cuts have been
pretty woman wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
It does say that he became drinking heavily and became insolvent,
but yeah, I can't see when you talk of any
year of any that's correct.

Speaker 21 (01:33:46):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (01:33:47):
I'm aware that he poured preverbable megabucks into that castle
and he just no experienceial speed, and he did.

Speaker 20 (01:33:56):
He was pretty in solvent.

Speaker 8 (01:33:58):
But the thing that tipped them over the edge was
catching his wife and his son having an affair, and
that just based, yeah, drove him over the edge.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
He had some sort of he became a director of
the Clinal Bank. He's gonna have me previously became a shareholder,
with the bank collapse the following year, Living Lanark on
the Bringer financial Ruin an explanation to Parliament, he said
that being an interested party, he refrained from voting on
banking inslation, but on that day he mistakenly voted for
a third reading. So I think, yeah, I think he
might have deceived parliament or something like that and then

(01:34:33):
killed himself.

Speaker 21 (01:34:35):
Yeah, well, yeah, I think he was.

Speaker 8 (01:34:39):
He was really coming and come to you and really
and what arb him over the edge was set.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
Yes, I can imagine this was a cool affair between
the yeah and a son. Yeah, yeah, okay, great, thank
you for that. Nice stuff, George Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:34:56):
Yeah, Hagars for Christmas lunch. Now that would be interesting,
wouldn't it, especially it was piped interesting concerpt. But anyway, aeroplanes,
you want to talk about Chinese aeroplanes why don't the
Chinese make an aeroplane to compete with Bowing and Airbus.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
Well they have.

Speaker 12 (01:35:18):
They developed run called a Comac Comac C nine one nine,
and they started that in two thousand and eight, started
putting in a production in twenty eleven, and last year
in twenty twenty five, it became International Flights that called
it International between Shanghai and Hong Kong. It's an aeroplane

(01:35:41):
that runs one hundred and fifty eight to one hundred
and ninety two passengers, three seats each side, with a
single asle down the middle, just like anyw Zealand wagons. Now,
the cost of that plane is between nineteen and one
hundred million. That's our US dollars. I guess the Airbus
in comparison, Just remember I said one hundred and fifty

(01:36:03):
eight to one hundred and ninety two passengers takes one
hundred forty to one hundred and eighty and costs one
hundred and eleven million. The Boing seventy three seven Max,
which only takes one hundred and sixty two passengers, costs
one hundred and twenty one million. So they're in the
competitive game and they're looking at I'm just reading the articles.

(01:36:24):
At the moment, they're looking at going more international in
twenty twenty six, so I guess they're proving it. There's
a lot of orders for it, especially in the.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Not one of his interrupt but we'll talk about the
Subner's texted me and says China do have an aircraft
manufactured COMAC. Unfortunately no international aviation regulate to accept the aircraft,
and their countries is they don't trust their safety and
design assurance. But looking at it, they've had a faultless
record so far.

Speaker 12 (01:36:52):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:36:53):
Now.

Speaker 12 (01:36:53):
I've watched a program on Chinese tvcgnt IN or whatever
it's called Chinese Television International that you get on Sky,
and there was about a half hour program and all
the production and everything all about it. Man that fancied
nice looking inside, really comfortable, esthetically designed, quiet. The whole
work's got all the trimmings and the TVs and everything else.

(01:37:15):
And that's the idea, is that it's an economical passenger
plane for people to fly in. And they were saying
that the Soud East and the Middle East and all
that are very interested in it because of the cost.
So I think that competition is going to come in.

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
And that they are making be very good for world aviation.
That could be great.

Speaker 12 (01:37:37):
Yeah, well, especially because you remember China is huge and
everybody's flying around. They may not be flying them international,
but through China. You know, when they have those celebration
days at the festivals and millions of people decide they
want to go home and then go back again. Those
planes are going to be well in production and they're
going to kick the bones out because why would you

(01:37:58):
want an American plane? It's going to cost so much
when you've got one in your backyard that you're making
with exactly the same excuse that Trump is.

Speaker 3 (01:38:07):
Is it Chinese government or I mean it's hard to
tell these I don't really don't.

Speaker 12 (01:38:12):
Well it's a Chinese company that's making it. They probably
Chinese government backed, no doubt, you know, things like this,
But it's just that, well, you know, when they introduced
the Chinese electric car to b I d oh, who
wants that little crap and the rest of it, well,
they're all bouncing around New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Now, Yeah, you know, I said, look, look, I have
no doubt the future of cars is electric, and I
have no doubt the future electric cars is Chinese. He's
still there. He's dropped out, brought them to tears. Donald Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:38:48):
Hi, I've got a car question too.

Speaker 20 (01:38:50):
I bought my first pea.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
He didn't have a car question. Oh sorry, sorry, So
what what's your segue? You're just coming in cold or
something different?

Speaker 21 (01:39:01):
Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:39:02):
Right.

Speaker 21 (01:39:02):
I bought my first car in nineteen seventy five and
I parked it up totally news since ninety three. I
now want to start using it again. The motor's not seized.
Could mature mechanical typees give me some idea about how
they'd go about it. It's been unused for thirty two years.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
Haven't you already taken this car to the garage.

Speaker 21 (01:39:24):
No, I've had two others. I've got going with the
only parts of the twenty ideas, not thirty two. I
just want ideas, mechanical types, how they'd go about it.
There's ways to do it without wrecking the motor. Just
want ideas. Mechanical types are used to older cars.

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
Okay, I mean, I've got a show to run, and
you this is going in a different direction. What what's
the matter? What doesn't really matter? No, but I mean
what matters slightly. What sort of car? Because you're evasive
with your information. What sort of car is it?

Speaker 21 (01:39:58):
Caw that nobody likes nineteen seventy Ford z f of.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
V six manual and you've parked up for how long.

Speaker 21 (01:40:07):
I stopped using it? Ninety three? It's just been sitting
in the garage on our flat tires. It's never been
used for ninety three ever since nineteen ninety three. It's
got a V six board motor.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
And what's the challenges with starting? Can't what would be
wrong with it?

Speaker 21 (01:40:23):
You can't just turn a key and start them up.
They're all drying the rock a gear. I've had people
tell me to change the off first of Others say
all around the rocker gear. Others they don't worry, just
put new petrol and turn the key. I've had all
sorts of ideas, squirting all down boards. I just want
ideas mechanics that he had started.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Except we were talking about we were talking about Chinese planes,
so that was the that was the problem though our planes.

Speaker 21 (01:40:45):
I heard them say something about Chinese cars all over
the place.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
That's what I thought, Yeah, okay, you know fear enough, Okay, no,
very interesting. We'll move on with about Chinese aviation boy,
he stops driving his cars then sort of wants to
know what anyway, China has officially rolled out ten G
broadband network ten generation. So the Cardinals have chosen May

(01:41:16):
seven as the date to start to conclave and elect
a new leader for one point five one point four
billion Catholics around the world. There was a day of
morning and then they're getting into it. So there we
go May seven, and it'll start. Take two weeks or

(01:41:39):
however long it takes. They'll take how long it takes.
It's twenty past eleven, good evening. Franket's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
Yeah, cure Ma, I'm just what there are fellows Startles's
old care up yep. If he turns the fand out,
well leave it. Cole, don't put that chain in. Just
tend to sound around quite a few times. That gets
the pistons up and down and it oils up the
cylinders and stuff. And then where you go.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
So even because the pistons drive the fan belt and
the fan belt will drive the pistons, does it workay?
Fair enough?

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
You just grab the fan belt all the turn there
and you just move it and they just ye pick
up the pistons and will just get everything moving inside.
And everything's that before you start it, so there's no trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
And then you put the better and they can start
it up.

Speaker 4 (01:42:27):
Yeah, just being it where it goes. Yeah wow. And
then yeah, and it would replace you you're all all
the rest of it, and in put in some you know,
all the fuel, all the liquids replaceable, so all they
all would have drained.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
I never ready thought about it, but all would have
drained away. Right.

Speaker 12 (01:42:50):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
Possibly it will still be sitting around there, will still
turning into some of like graces. We'll have sicking up
of it. But by turning the fan be out, that
gets the cylinders going up and down, you know, so
then you know it's not saved, and that just gets
it going, gets the movement goinge old cold movement.

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
Do you have to replace they of the rubber seals anywhere?

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
No, I wouldn't worry about that until until we look
looks at everything chips, throttle lakes and stuff. But I
would replace a little oil. And again, the best thing
for modern cars, and that is at least once a
year when you follow your tank, put in some inject
decliner like inject decline, you know, because it stops. It
just kicks everything flowing, you know, the mechanic in a

(01:43:34):
in a weight bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:43:36):
I always so people warned you off those additives.

Speaker 4 (01:43:39):
No, hell man, decliner, it's brilliant stuff. You just put
it in a full tanker, guess and that just get subject.
That's brayant mate, What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:43:49):
What is brained is cold, that's the that's what it's called.

Speaker 4 (01:43:53):
That's what it is. It's called inject decliner. It just
kind of stops everything clogging up, and the injectors, especially
with all the modern cares and injective fuel and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
No, yeah, yeah, god, okay, appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Very interesting, Frank, brilliant.

Speaker 4 (01:44:12):
Do an oil change two months before Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:44:15):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Ticking you booth, brilliant, nice advice, Frank, thank you. Inject
the cleaner. Oh yeah, you got a super chip Neulns
the brand or ripco here I can see. I thought
the status day has started putting things in the petrol
tank with the day. They can't even win again. Fuel
system needs to be drained, check and replace anything rubber

(01:44:37):
check to replace the problems. It's easy to strip and
rebuild from the ground up. Is any other way, you
will be chasing every problem one a time. Be to've
done everything no easier cheap way brake pads might be
rotten as well. All break hoses need replacement, Marcus. The
two cylinders on the Zephyr engine'll have rush due to
a couple of the valves been opened for so long.

(01:44:58):
If they want a store for a long time, loosen
off the rockers, Mike, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:45:05):
Hi Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Thank you make yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:45:08):
Good?

Speaker 20 (01:45:08):
Hey.

Speaker 11 (01:45:09):
Look, going back to aircraft, Chinese aircraft manufacturing. Now, I
have seen on YouTube kind of rolling out a passenger
jet airliner which is twin engine, and it looks very
much like a going seven three seven max yep, and

(01:45:33):
apparently that is in the service yep, Hey, that could
be who knows.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Well, I imagine if you're designing a plane, you'd be following,
You'd be you'd be copying the aerodynamics of those people
that'd done it beforehand. When the planes will the planes
will look like the other planes, weren't they. You won't
redesign the whole kitten kabuda, will you?

Speaker 5 (01:45:53):
Well?

Speaker 11 (01:45:53):
No, you look at Airbus airbuts have a lot of
the manufacturing in China. Yeah, so you know what's going
to happen. There will be a we care design, yes,
that they will come up for, you know, the China

(01:46:14):
aviation manufacturing line, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (01:46:19):
And that has been a bit that has been a
big concern for a long time as espionage, Chinese espionage
of intellectual property from other you know, IP, from other
big manufacturing companies. But I'm surprised it's taken them so long.
I'm surprised they weren't doing I'm surprised they were twenty
years ahead when it came to passenger aircraft.

Speaker 11 (01:46:41):
Yeah, well probably they did not have the know how.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
You would you just buy one and reverse engineer it? Well,
I know that sounds great, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 11 (01:46:53):
Yeah, you know, Airbus have got major facilities over there
because it's cheap to produce. It's like all the clothing
and steel, you know, China said we can make it,
you know, and that's what they've done, and now we
are now paying the price for it.

Speaker 13 (01:47:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:47:16):
Yeah, so yeah, they do have it. I've seen it
on YouTube. So if you have a lot or maybe google,
not Google, but search for it on YouTube, you may
come up with it. It is surprisingly similar, and I
was gobsmack when I saw.

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
It, And I guess the other I guess the other thing,
Mike is when you look at it, you're you're obviously
an aviation enthusiasts. But great, there's probably not a huge
market for large passenger planes that you probably only can
sell a thousand a year around the world. I mean,
there's probably not that huge market for them. So you're

(01:47:56):
going against two operators that probably are you know, you're
probably going to run a loss for a while until
you get market cheer.

Speaker 11 (01:48:06):
What I see is the market is medium range, not
short range, but medium range and not long range. Well,
look at the New Zealand, look at the jet stuff.
I mean, I would consider flying between New Zealand and
Australia in the medium range bracket.

Speaker 20 (01:48:26):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:48:27):
And I know for a fact that a friend of
mine flew from Australia. I think he said Thailand, but
there was a sop off on the way and they
change of aircraft, So that would suggest me that there

(01:48:50):
it was not a direct flight, but it was a
transient flight. And meanfore the aircraft departed from Australia was
a media range aircraft.

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
Probably right, if if you were flowing on one of these.
I presume they're just done. I presume they're just flying
domestically within China. Presume they're not flying anywhere internationally yet.

Speaker 11 (01:49:13):
Yeah, not yet. I'm pretty sure they're just flying domestic
Queen China.

Speaker 22 (01:49:19):
And yeah, I was quite surprised.

Speaker 11 (01:49:23):
Really does look like a clone of blowing seven three
seven Max.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
Nice to hear from you, Mike. Thank you. Twenty three
to twelve Chinese e lines. It's what we are discussing tonight.
Good evening, Eric, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Oh here a good Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
You good Eric.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
It's just that chip that was started fringing up about
that chip to want to start as old ziphya, Yes,
we're staid, one of those Ziffer's in our family. Actually
back in the day, the old granade of V six, Yeah,
that was the better one. There was another V sixtivities
to have them. They weren't very good. But because that
car hasn't been going for so long, here's quite a

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few things he has to do before even tempts to
start it. One is they've got I've got was saying,
is just just get a good size socket and put
it on the crank the bottom crank and crank pulley
and see if you can turn it over there, but
make sure he just disconnects the disconnect the battery, even

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take the spar plugs out. Possibly just says a lot
too much compression, just to see if the thing will
turn over. And if he find it's sort of not
going to turn over and it's jamming, that that could
be because the valves are seized. Ut So the last
thing I want to do is try and turn that
engine over with the battery straight off, because he could

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if the valves are stuck on, it could punch a
whole straight through the bisdon Okay, Yeah, So probably take
the rocket cover off and see if you see if
things are moving there as well at the top end
of the motor, if the valves are moving, it all
with the motor. If everything seems okay and you changed

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the world in it, leave the spark plugs probably out
of the car for a little bit, or you can
put them back in, but just connect the the HT
leads to the spark plug so it doesn't start, and
see if you can turn it over with the battery,
just to see if the engine is going to turn over. Well,

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and the other thing is for all that's working, then
he's going to have to drain all the fuel out
of the tank and or just connect the fuel hoses
and find another fuel source to feed into the to
the engine because the fuel will be off.

Speaker 3 (01:51:45):
To think about, the fuel will be off, any of
the fuels off, the fuel's got.

Speaker 2 (01:51:48):
To go regardless, about three six months the fuel will
be off anyway, So.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Okay for that, then what about the fuel and you
got to drain on the fuel out of the hoses
and all sorts of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:51:57):
Do you well, definitely have the tank and stuff. Yeah,
blow it out and whatnot. Probably have the carburetor as well,
because they'll be sitting in the bowl probably evaporated by
now anyway, that may all need cleaning out. There was
actually a program on TV New Zealand Programs I watched
a few years back, or that a couple of years ago.
Actually it was called start Me Up. Did you ever
watch that?

Speaker 19 (01:52:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:52:19):
It was fantastic. And they had these two old followers
and they went around all these places all around New
Zealand and they found old cars sitting in sheds. Sounds great,
and they got them going and they were all towards
there was old Fords, some of these. One car they
found on the side of the road and it had
been sitting at this place.

Speaker 5 (01:52:39):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
It was a real old vintage car and it was
absolutely had it. But the motor was fuller and they
even got that going.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
So there'd be sort of people be right into that, right, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
Yeah, yeah, there were. There were a couple of old
mechanics and the problem was called start me Up and
they just went around and might still be on TV
and JET or something.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Plus, I'm looking at it now, it looks interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
You'd love you'd love it.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Oh no, it says the page looking for cannot be found.
I clicked on it, so maybe it's not around, but
oh it's a shame.

Speaker 2 (01:53:13):
I'll come to more. Channel was on actually, but it
was New Zealand on air that made the program. It
was awesome, you know, just where they went and found
these cars, Some of these cars sitting in these farmer's sheds,
you know, really old old, old cars hadn't been going
for like he's saying, thirty forty fifty years, some even longer,
and they were absolutely had it, some of them, and

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they got them going again. Some they even drove around
the paddocks.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
So if you know what you're doing, it's quite straightforward.

Speaker 2 (01:53:45):
Yes, but you've got to you've got to take precautions
before you even do it. I remember we were young fellows.
Now I used to pull cars apart and recondition them
and muck around with them. But we were young weng fellas.
We actually bought a car office chap and he said
that he said the car has had it with seed.
So we paid them one hundred dollars for it, and
we did a crazy thing and we just reactually diesel

(01:54:07):
down the ball and left it for a night or
two and then drained all the oil out and put
it all back together again and start. There was an
old holder and actually and we started. We towed that
thing down the road and started it. That motor went
for years.

Speaker 13 (01:54:23):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
Yeah, we drove that thing everywhere. We couldn't believe it.
For a hundred bucks.

Speaker 22 (01:54:28):
We've got that car.

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
Had a ball on it couldn't blow it up.

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
So I wonder if it's going to be worth that
guy start? Yeah, okay, I mean you could take it
for a mechanic. It's going to be sounds like it's
going to be about a couple of days work to
get it going again.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
Yeah, I bet it'll be worth getting one of those
mobile mechanics to pop out to his house if he
knows anyone that's that does mobile mechanic ing, rather than
taking it to a big shop. I'm probably looking for
a smaller guy. If you're been unsure yourself and get him.
If you've got a shed for the guy to work in,
get him to come out to your house and give
you a few tips on what to do to get

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that thing going again.

Speaker 3 (01:55:05):
Is the car going to be worth much?

Speaker 5 (01:55:08):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Yeah, Mark falls that hy'd be with the fu.

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
Bott now mate, thirty grand or.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
Well done up? Possibly here? Yeah? Yeah, they're you know
the mark fas if that we had in our family
was driven off a cliff, had one hundred mile an hour.
The guy went to sleep behind me is my step
daddy was.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
Okay, that's not a funny story. Sorry, Yeah, they survived.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
He went to sleep, He went to sleep behind the wheel.
That's how strong these cars are, mate. He was doing
one hundred mile an hour and he went to sleep
behind the where and he flew off a cliff and
he flew fifty meters in the air. The car hit
the ground, the manor and gearbox ripped clean out the
front of the car and then flipped back up on
the on its nose, and then it land on its
back and then slipped down the back and the car

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looked like a mini by the top. It was only
run straight downnel left on it the driver's door and.

Speaker 4 (01:56:03):
We survived it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
Where was the cliff eric Highlands.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
And Lowlands in between Harwar and Elsham. He used to
be Highlands of Lowlands there and he was coming home
from work one night and he fell asleep. He said
he was dragging and came up in the car, but
he fell asleep as well.

Speaker 3 (01:56:21):
He said he was.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
I think he might have been dragging another car. That's
where he's going a bit fair. But he was also
tired and he fell asleep. He fell asleep, so yeah,
he ended up walking home there. I remember a game.
My mum gave me a ring and said, you know,
he had to crash and we went looking for this car.
We found it and it looked like an aeroplane crash.

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Those cars are so strong.

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
Was he injured, Yeah, he had a well, he had.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
A seat black seat built mark because he had a
seatbelt on and in his seat looked like it was
still on him from the bruising. But he ended up
in the back seat but had a big, big old
bench seat in it. So I don't know how he survived, mate,
I have no idea because that car was just squashed,

(01:57:12):
nothing less of it, just but the actual cab was
still in one piece. That's such a big, solid car.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
Good story, Eric, thank you very much for that. My
son in Dunedin has a newborn that feeds ducks. Dozens
turn up eight am and three pm every day to
be fed in the neighbor's roof is covered and crap. George,
thank you. And if you're fastinated about the new pope
that will start on the seventh of May. By the way, nothing,

(01:57:46):
I not really that fascinated by the pope, but I
was reimpressed with how poor he died. I always thought
these pipes would have had castles and flash homes. He
had nothing. I'd die without forty bucks. So ye, he
really walked the talk when it came to and I

(01:58:07):
presume he did. I don't think it was a lavish
guy like swilling Shampare. I think it was the real
deal when it well, that's what I've believed. I mean,
it could all be a raught, but it seemed as
though he was the real deal. So yeah, I was
quite impressed with that. I don't know why I never
thought about it. I never thought about whether the I
guess you could be incredibly wealthy as a pope. So yeah,

(01:58:32):
that was that had nothing, no positions. I can't find
the actual quote of what he had. Oh yeah, well,
I see there's a skeptics website that's go on to
that net worth was one hundred dollars. How accurate this claim.

(01:59:00):
I haven't got time to read it all, but maybe
it's worth a closer look. So I don't fully know
what kind of but I don't think you had any
people to inherit money from. But yes, the Vatican's not
poor out of there with billions. If anyone can, the
Vatican can. So maybe I'll do some more research into that.

(01:59:21):
Might be one with a more complicated answer anyway. Oh,
it's a neighbor, not the newborn that was spell checked.
I thought there was young to be feeding ducks. George's
email Georgia's tex says, my son and Dneda has a
neighbor that feeds ducks. Does to have eight and three.

(01:59:42):
I thought, if the newborn's out there feeding ducks, doesn't ducks,
that's free funny. That's free funny. George, it's made of knight. Yes,
it's not a newborn, it's a neighbor. Are those letters
even close together? Very very funny. Oh well.

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
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