Sort of possessed (24 April 2026)

Marcus talks paper sewing patters on the way out, remembers the late ZB legend Bruce Russell, and gets first feedback on the brand new Christchurch stadium!

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be greeting and good evening or greetings had but even
Marcus hit or twelve o'clock. And I hope it's good
were you are. If it's not good, I hope it
gets better by the time I go home. I've had
a quick look at the Rugby stadium looks broke well.
I don't know what your thoughts are watching on TV.
We'll speak to some of those people as they leave
later on. This is the brand new stadium. They're calling
it New Zealand's best stadium. Uh. I don't know if

(00:35):
that's true. If it is New Zealand's best state, I
haven't been there. This is the Crusaders and Warriors at
Takaha One, New Zealand or whatever it's called. The grass
looks unnaturally green. I'm not complaining about that, but loh gosh,
you look at some of those other sites, so clearly
that's a mixture of something. You can see why I
didn't want the horses on it, and I guess there
was no side of the horse. They didn't keept that

(00:56):
as a surprise. I will keep you updated on that.
Seven and six. If you watched the either match, you
got an opinion on what it looks like. I can't
really tell. Looks chock a blocker except the right we'd
Choco a blocker. But keep me in touch with that
if you've got some information to say about that. Eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. Yeah, I measure this match
you will finish about nine nine thirty and hopefully we

(01:16):
will talk to some people that are actually I can't
imagine anyone's listening to talk back at the stadium. It'd
be exciting if you do get a chance during your
half hour's gone on this match, so be another hour
left to go for that. So yeah, obviously before ten o'clock,
hopefully we'll get someone hitting home from that, if you've
got comments on that. Obviously it's a Friday free from
before a long weekend, so you will be loose like
a gooster. I'm not quite sure what we'll end up

(01:38):
talking about tonight, but I'm not fussed about that. That's
for me to worry about, not for you to worry about.
I see that there's more and more people having there's
a bit of a staution there on the rug. There's
more and more people having problems with the TV and
z app to get shows on demand. If you've had
any luck with that or want to talk about that,
that's become a big news story. As people have pointed out,

(01:59):
we talked about this two or three days ago, probably
three or four days ago. Actually you might have something
to add about that. Do feel free to come through. Also,
I see there's a favor of discussion amount David Seymour
on his free money to year eleven people today. That
was kind of a story that kicked along a little bit,
so you might want to comment on that also tonight.
But apart from that, anything goes. It is the Friday
free for all, and feel free to come through if

(02:23):
you want to partake in the show. So number is
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to
is to text. They're calling it to super Rugby super Round.
That's what it is. Five matches across three days, not
of super Rugby to watch. That's right. Of course, the
long weekend because the end Zac Day is Monday, eyes

(02:43):
and we get a day off on Monday to show
respect or to go shopping. I can't tell you. There's
heavy rain for north and potential for localized downpoos. Rain
should ease tomorrow morning. And that's what I can tell you. Anyway,
do get in touch. You want to partake in the show,
Marcus till midnight tonight, looking full to what you've got

(03:03):
to say, but anything goes and do get in touch.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine to differ. Oh, by the way, there's something else
that some of you might want to discuss, and that
is it's something I've never talked about on the show,

(03:24):
and that is the whole situation of patterns for sewing.
So paper patterns could soon vanish from local shelves. Yeah,
so that's what's happening. So it seems as though, and
there's a number of companies you will know them, So

(03:47):
patterns are going to be a thing of the part.
I don't know how. I don't know if people sew anymore.
And I don't know what the modern equivalent of patterns is.
And you think there would be some sort of a
library with patterns of people could send them around via
the internet, but I'm not quite sure how that works.
So yeah, and I don't know, I don't know what

(04:08):
the med equivalent is. Because you can't really project something
from a computer, can you. And I guess it's just
something's out of fashion. Throwaway fashion. Clothing is cheap of
people just don't buy patents, and I think simplicity, that's
one of the biggest ones, was sold to a private
equity company and it's not a big deal. Of course,
the newseran there used to be. We used to have

(04:29):
our own pattern makers, and that's no longer a thing.
Most closed down after the nineteen sixties. So yeah, the
whole thing's gone. Apparently some people wonder whether stores might
eventually print patents themselves or gone away completely from dressmaking.
So if you are a sewer, because I think the
trouble if you're just keeping the old patents. I mentioned.

(04:50):
The thing about patterns is they would keep up to
date and keeping fashion. As things changed. You could get
the latest fashion. But now be impossible. I can't quite
because you know how most things now have apps that
you can use. Well, there's no modern app for dressmaking,
is there. I don't know what you would use because
not they get on your cell phone and then actually
convert that to your favorite Maybe you can I'm thinking

(05:13):
free d prines or something but yeah, anyway, Steven, it's Marcus.
Welcome and good evening.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, this demise of Pattons, I don't know. I have
arm a strange shape. I'm my only little fellow and money,
you know, sort of fire foot Stephen. I can't get
I can't get shirts with the sleeves that are short
enough for all their too short. I like along a

(05:42):
long sleeve shirt, yeah, but the to the too long.
So I have a lady here who does a little
bit of alterations. I have to do quite a bit myself.
The same with the trousers. Our money. Sort of like
a jockey size. I used to be able to get
everything in Hugh Rights. They had a en up and

(06:02):
carry road. They had a whole line for jockey. If
I can get it fit around the middle. The legs
are too long, and I've got a shorten them. But
I've got patterns. I think I've got enough to keep
me going for the next thirty years. Are you on
my clothes of either going to be made for me
or you altered?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Are you under five foot?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, I'm sort of a jockey sort of size.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Did you ever think of did you ever think of
being a jockey?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
I got the offer when I first left school. I
kicked myself, but I didn't go for it really because
I love I love horses and animals, the dog and
all that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
But I wonder what the like of a jockey is like.
So so that would be a fit. With the price
of labor these days, there would be a fairly expensive
kind of an exercise to get shirts made. Or you
buy shirts off the wreck and you just get them shortened.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
You know, I've just had five. I've just had five
shirts made for me. They're a little bit longer. I
find if if I've got the right links around the neck,
the two short and you know, so when you bend
over your show a bit of beer skin. So I
get them made a little bit longer, and the and

(07:17):
the sleeves are a bit shorter. If you're out of it,
it's just odd shape. And I don't fit into any
Chinese clothes. I had a lady make me five nice shirts,
nice dress shirts, and a couple of casual shirts. Five shirts.
There was five hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
That sound too bad, and.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Like I keep my trousers is pretty good. But yeah,
I've got some tracks. You track short shirts, short track trousers,
but eddy desk ones. But they're too long on the leg.
They fit around the middle, and I am having a
hell of a child getting them shortened because they have
a zip in the leg and right down the end.

(08:08):
Yeah yeah, so they've got to cut that whole zip
it and then put it back in further up is
the here. It's a bit of a mission, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
So when you had that woman make your five shirts,
does she have a pet? Do you lean too your patterns?
She's got her own pets.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I've got Petterons and she's got petterns, so that's good. Okay.
We went I went to a to the base and
I found a nice material shop and they sorted me
out some nice material and yeah, she run up some
nice shirts, so they'll keep me going for a few years.
But yeah, no, there's what you're really.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
What you're really is a pattern for a trick suit pant.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah yeah, no, love you.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Get something quite smart and they got stretched fabric with stripes.
I think they could look excellent.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, there's no I've got to think about that.
I know when I when I lived up in Auckland,
when I lived Minicure Road, I actually sat two and
made two pairs of drowsers for myself. It was a mission.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh pens are hard with its and everything. I've got
to move on to you, but thanks for starting the discussion.
I appreciate that. Gillet's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh good evening. Marcus patterns. Patterns are nearly ninety and
I started saying on my mum's old treadle singer saying
machine when I was about twelve. And I still have Vogue,
Simplicity BUTTERYC patterns. Goodness, I've had them there for years.

(09:42):
Thogue were very posh. Once they were quite expensive. Simplicity
and Butteryc were two and six, that's twenty five cents,
and my goodness, I've still got them their batters, and
I somehow just could never part with them. And they
used to be in they'd have a big book like

(10:02):
the buttery It's what I was.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Going to ask I was going to ask you about that.
They have those big, big glossy books on counter, yes.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
And you'd look through it and you think, oh, I
like that, and choose it and buy it.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
And then they just go out the back and get
them or they have to order them up.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
I can't remember I think they had them. Goodness me,
it's years and years ago, but it was wonderful. Every
now and again they'd sell last season's big fat pattern
book and it was like winning them our union. Yes
to buy one.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
But tell me something, Jo, because I'm interested in all
of this. If you brought last season's glossy pattern book,
was it just to look at awkward some of you
whichually managed to make the dresses?

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Well?

Speaker 4 (10:47):
If you were clear. I was a good little sir.
I could look at a frock in the shop and think, oh,
I could make that. And in Wellington way back there
was a shop a new town called Shaw's Fabric Shop,
and you could buy heaps and heaps of different sort
of fabrics. And I would go to cook Ordy's and
I think all that nice and I'd buy this near

(11:09):
tube fabric as I could, and either I could adjust
seperal patterns or I'd buy a new one.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
And it would people. Was it considered the thing to
do to people would leand and borrow patterns? Would they?

Speaker 6 (11:26):
No?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
We mostly bought our own, but it was and there
were heaps of fabric shops. Thompson Silk Shop was a
great one that went through Palmerston, North Wellington. No, we
and we alsowd all my young friends. We all so
because there weren't a variety of clothing that there is today,

(11:50):
and it was just a pleasure to do it. And
you'd go and buy three years three meters of fabric
and was it together and have a new dress.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I imagine if you bought a patent, you late Vogue
or Buttericks, you'd probably just you just you just use
it once and make one copy of it, but you
hang on to it and then probably never use it again.
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (12:12):
That's about right, because I've got about a dozen stashed
a Waves that I've kept because I loved the particular
dress and if the pattern was really lovely, I would
make it several times because in different papricks it look different. No,
it was something we ordered.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I reckon that might come back. Well, I reckon, it's quite.
It's quite a that's a sort of craft people would
be into because it's one of those things that looks complicated,
but at the end you have something that you think cheapest. Creepers,
I've made that and how on earth did I.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Do it exactly? And the more you do, the better
you get see I sewd for my children. I've still
got my daughter's beautiful little dresses that I made. Oh gosh,
I must have about thirty of them, for goodness, they're
probably I don't like to look in the box there
in case something's eaten them.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
And they were quite vulnerable, delicate things. But I guess
if you're a good sorrow, you looked after them and folded.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Them right now and fair bricks were good quality, they
really were. And it was just a pleasure almost to
me to be able to was up a.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Proc When was the last time you're on the machine, Jill.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh my goodness on nearly ninety it would be maybe
in my fiftiest. And now, for goodness sake, when you
get as old as the wholes like, may you rattle
along your shelf and fine think, oh I haven't warned

(13:45):
that for a bit teen years I could bring great birth.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Love you talk, Jill. Thanks for starting the discussion off
so well.

Speaker 7 (13:52):
Love that.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Twenty one past eight, twenty five past eight o'clock the numbers,
O Colleen, this is Marcus. Good evening, and welcome.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
Good evening. I have a daughter in her early twenty season,
mad so she loves to find a pattern at Spotlight
and pick out the fabric and customize whatever she wants
to make. See yourself's on to it.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
But is she aware that this seems to be we're
at the end of the patents.

Speaker 8 (14:22):
Your show is the first I've heard of it, okay,
because Spotlight have hundreds of them. You go along and
you find your You look through the catalog, you find
the reference number, go to the filing cabinet. You know
they've got like hundreds. As far as I'm aware, it.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Sees the Australian distributor right will be closing and not
supplying the major brands like Simplicity. You look, Vogue, Butterick
and McCalls to Australia and New Zealand.

Speaker 7 (14:54):
Well, that's not very good.

Speaker 8 (14:55):
We're going to have to stock up.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
But you can stock up because they're all they're all seasonal,
aren't they.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
You can You can have a basic trouser pattern and
a basic skirt pattern and a basic top and you
can customize once you've once you've sewed them a few times,
you can do like your own modifications. You just need
to have a bit of a bit of no how
and experience it.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Seemed that the whole tradition of getting the latest fashion
and getting the patents has has now come to an end.

Speaker 8 (15:29):
I think that's been gone for a long time. I
think the patterns now tend to be more specialist items,
like if you want to make a Hobbit and cape,
or if you want to you know, if you want
to do something for live action role play, that kind
of thing. Those those patterns are available and you know

(15:51):
you can make a pattern.

Speaker 9 (15:52):
It's not hard.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Is your daughter like into those armor gedden things?

Speaker 10 (15:57):
Yes, well, you'd have to be good at sewing with
those things, because you because you've you've always got you
I mean one one one year at the Hobbit and
caper the next year, or an ey walk and then
yere ivery one.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I mean you got to you'd really, I mean that's
it's recraft, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (16:13):
Yes, you got to do a lot.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
And I'll tell you what we knit as well, and
crochet all the old fashioned things. I'm in great demands
because I can do the picture jerseys.

Speaker 7 (16:22):
I can.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
The last one she did. The last one I did
for her was a wizard shooting fire at a goblin.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
On a jersey on a Jersey.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
My husband tells me that it's the ugliest tanta jump
or he's ever seen.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
On a knitting machine, or just old school, old school
with needles. Tell me what it was again.

Speaker 8 (16:43):
It was a wizard and he's shooting magic fire at
a goblin.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Apart from the comments that look okay, or look at
a jenki.

Speaker 9 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, no, it looked pretty good. It looked pretty good.

Speaker 8 (16:55):
We got the pattern online and we had to sort
of fix it because I think sometimes so they're untested,
so you have to make sure you've got the right
scale and everything.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Now that's just because I think there's probably patterns for
nitwear as well. But knitwear patterns are just code, so
you don't need to download them and pin them do
so that would work well on the internet, wouldn't it.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Nitwear patterns, Yeah, that they work well if they're written
by someone who's got half a brain. Some of them
are very dodgy. Some of the Etsy ones you pay
a fortune for and then they don't work.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
So here's a question. Is there any way to get
fabric patterns on the computer and download them? Could you
print them at the library and stuff like that? Is
that something that people do?

Speaker 8 (17:37):
I have printed them in a small scale and then
got wax paper from you know the stuff you wrap
your sandwiches in, Yes, and then enlarged them and drawn
them Colin.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
How did you enlarge them with projection or with a.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
I figured out the scale. I did like a ten
to one scale, and then you.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Make every dimension ten times longer.

Speaker 8 (18:03):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh, there should be a TV show about your family.
It sounds fantastic for Jersey. That the lot the Hobbit Cape.
No one's ever seen Hobbit Cape on the show, Colleen.
That's that's made my night. Hobbit.

Speaker 9 (18:14):
I'm glad I made.

Speaker 8 (18:16):
I made space marine armor too. That was interesting.

Speaker 9 (18:21):
What out of I'm a phone slaw child staring and
big brass rivets?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Do you go along yourself to these sorts of cosplay things?

Speaker 8 (18:37):
Oh yeah, my daughter's usually impaired, so I actually am
her driver, so she goes to something I take her.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Sounds like it works, it's not. It's not my thing.
And I've got friends that see me all their images.
It doesn't like a barrel of laughs, Colleen, love me
to talk. Thank you for that. Oh, yes, before my time,
actually after my time, but yeah, wow, if you're into that.
You're into that, aren't shaw goodness? Anyway? Love you, Colleen,
get in touch with your Hobbit and Cape. I'll wait

(19:06):
time at eighty Tenadian nineteen nine to the text. You
want to come through it's been touch you want to
be a part of it here till the end, Meredith,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (19:16):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (19:19):
You must be astounded by the Crusaders beating the word
so far?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Oh what's the score it's been? Was it thirteen fourteen?
I think?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Is it?

Speaker 12 (19:30):
It's so close? What I was calling about today, Marcus,
you're just thinking to calling about patterns? Yes, and she
mentioned that there was a missing pattern. And so what
prompted me to call you today, Marcus? I know, even
though it's so much more to be at the Takaha

(19:56):
one Stadium with the Crusaders warritas we're talking about patterns.
But what prompted me to call you today, Marcus was
that my mother. It just raised the thought to call you, Marcus.
Was that because you were talking to calling about patterns.

(20:17):
I just had this urged to tell you that my
mother she had a knissing pattern since she was three
four years of age. And this knissing pattern that she
had was that she had this inspiration as a three
four year old.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Marcus, I'm here, yes, yep, yep.

Speaker 12 (20:41):
So my mother is a three four year old, had
this knitting pattern that came to her as a three
four year old, just like picking up a couple of
nails off the ground. So my mother, a three four
year old, had these two nails and she picked them up,

(21:05):
and she she had some wool and she started knitting.

Speaker 13 (21:10):
Marcus, Goodness, I know, I know.

Speaker 12 (21:16):
And so from a three four year old, my mother
with these two nails and a bit of wall that
she had that she was starting to knit. Her father,
actually he was a linesman.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
I'm still here, yes, his linesman, yep.

Speaker 14 (21:39):
Marcus, yep.

Speaker 12 (21:41):
Her father was a linesman and he was installing the
telephone communications in the nineteen fifties in New Zealand, and
he came home to find his little girl, my mother,
with these two nails and this bit of wall, trying

(22:01):
to knit. I don't know why he came home early
from his job as alignsman installing the telephone communications in
the whole of New Zealand, but it was just this
pattern of communication that he must have known for some
reason that he had to come home and see what

(22:23):
his daughter was up to.

Speaker 15 (22:25):
Marcus.

Speaker 12 (22:26):
Yes, and so from your conversation with Colleen that I
was listening to and I was hearing who talk about patterns,
and when we talk about dress patterns and missing patterns,
it gets very controversial because of the fact that we

(22:53):
don't want to lose the fact that we have a
pattern in New Zealand. That is just something that we
really really understand through not just our Orange family, our
mother dead child explanation Macus, not just between the media

(23:20):
or to Kaha or the Crusaders, the writers. It's not
an explanation between a pattern being more than just a dress.
It's more than just a dress or a Meredith MICUs.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Thank you for your call. So I just I couldn't
work up when it was going. There's a car crash
State High fifty seven and Shannon. Three car crash just
north of Shannon on State High fifty seven. The road
is partially blocked. Expect small delays here both ways. Traffic
is flowing relatively Well, that's a situation. There is a
seventeen dollar pie, so it's a seventeen dollars seventeen dollars

(24:05):
deep fry pie sandwich on Facebook. But it looks good.
It's two bits of bread. It's a pie sand is
one bit of bread? What is it? It's it's a
it's a pie sandwich. Yeah, that's good. Okay, that's brilliant. Okay,
keep your calls coming through, do it's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (24:22):
Good evening, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Sorry, I think scriber is performing at a half time
and let me go and watch it. Yes do you? Thanks?
Hanging on there, Good evening, Hi.

Speaker 13 (24:36):
I'm just ringing up about Government Question Time that's on
two o'clock from Tuesday to Thursday. I've watched it this
week and honestly, it's just the craziness of it. You're
watching the people that are running held country and just

(25:02):
the amount they spend half their time blaming the opposition,
taking no accountability, and just yeah, it's literally like watching children.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Have you never watched this before?

Speaker 9 (25:21):
D oh?

Speaker 13 (25:22):
I have, But honestly, this week it was just another
level because.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You could choose not to watch.

Speaker 13 (25:31):
It, Oh, absolutely I could, but just watching it. I
watch it one day hoping to actually see someone answer
a question, the actual question they've been asked, with a clear,
honest answer. And to this day, I still haven't seen

(25:55):
it happen.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Thanks so much stating it away from Nike. You we
are talking, I'll get to text before we are talking patterns.
By the way, to end Zac Day this weekend in
the ZBI Fair, we talk about Anzac Day. Of course,
that is four years since Bruce Russell died. That was
of course what day was Antac Day four years ago?

Speaker 16 (26:16):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
The Anzac Day was the Monday he was supposed to
go on air after the Nutters Club, which was a
Sunday night. He was supposed to do the first show
Monday morning. He'd done In My Day Saturday night, he'd
come back in Sunday night to prepare for the Monday
morning show and that so the the In My Day

(26:40):
on the Saturday was the last show he did. And
of course two we all woke up on that Antact
Day with the news of Bruce Russell. So in tined
with the entwined with the history of broadcasting and Anzac
Day is the that story. So yeah, so that will

(27:00):
be fresh a lot of yours minds for those who
are new listeners. Bruce Russell was someone that did the
Mid Dawn Show, amongst other stuff. For a long time.
There we go, oh eight hundred and eighty eight eighty

(27:23):
nine sticks thirteen fourteen, the Crusaders over the Warritors. I
can also tell you that Scribe performed at halftime, and
there's a deep fried meat pie that's in a sandwich,
So people, no doubt at the end will be discussing
the price of beer and the price of pies and

(27:44):
how that stadium works. So yes, it's the first match
ever at the six hundred dollars six hundred million dollar Affair,
and I'll keep you posted about that. It's twenty away
from nine o'clock seventy to nine. Christ's Marcus, Good evening
and welcome.

Speaker 14 (27:59):
Oh good evening, Marcus. I'm glad you brought up Bruce
Russell tonight. That's in my program. Towards the end of
the evening, I suggested, because it was Anzac Day, I
suggested he play Blue Smoke by Pixie Williams, and that
was the last song he played as he went off.

(28:20):
Here if anyone's familiar with Blue Smoke, which was the
first record ever recorded in New Zealand, and it was
written by a gentleman called.

Speaker 17 (28:34):
What's his name?

Speaker 14 (28:36):
Ruru Katiana and he yeah, he played it when he
got back from the World War II the Marrio battalion
and Pixie was the singer and they're head a quartet.
Apparently there's been a program on TV. She received an
award posthumously. I knew the family growing up here in Dunedin.

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They lived near me and Pixie would call in often
and have a cup of tea and she got off
the bus. Author Amelia accepted the award in recent years
on her behalf and Puxy was a lovely lady. She
was a marine lady and she was married to an irishman, Paddy,
and he was a very big character where I grew

(29:21):
up and he was a character friend of my dad.
So Bruce paid that as he went off here Blue
Smoke and I've still got the recording of that evening
that I recorded on my phone of his last words
in him playing the song. So yeah, and it's a
very lovely song actually, and there's a video clip goes

(29:43):
with it as the Battalion of sailing off to the war.
It's quite moving really.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Where were sitting down? Where where was in Doneda that
you lived?

Speaker 14 (29:54):
Pattern?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Where in Dunedin was it?

Speaker 18 (29:57):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (29:57):
Well, the lady that's saying that record, that was the
first record ever recorded, lived in Donedan.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
But she lived nearby you, is that you said.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
Yes, she did in Northeast. Yeah, they lived a few
My dad was Irish and Pixley's husband was Irish, and yeah,
he was a character of a person. But she was
a lovely, lovely lady and would always come in and
have a cup of tea at our house often. And

(30:28):
I actually got around with one of her sons, and yeah,
lost touch with the family now, but I did see
the daughter receiving an award posthumously for that song.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
And he was the irishman was a castello. Is that right?

Speaker 14 (30:44):
Yes, Patty. I don't know whether any of his family
would be listening in, but yeah, we am quite close
to the.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
So you've got the recording of Bruce you talking to.

Speaker 14 (30:58):
I just recorded I think the next day it might
have been Tim Roxborough, you know, everybody was.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
And he replaced.

Speaker 14 (31:09):
I just recorded a little bit with my phone of
the last as Bruce going off. Yeah, that's all you.

Speaker 19 (31:15):
It'll be all your recording.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yes, And I think I think, I think the outpouring
of grief and joy, joy and his services as a
broadcaster was such that that to bring Tim came in
to do a honish show about Bruce. Have I got there.
I think that's the way it worked.

Speaker 14 (31:35):
Yeah, well I think it was.

Speaker 9 (31:36):
I think it was Tim.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Rocks, Yes, that's correct.

Speaker 14 (31:40):
Yeah, and he was all Sunday and Mikey Beben was
very very upset. We all remember and we've all talked
about it. So yeah, no, it was just the shock
really and yeah, I think I think we all listened
while I listened all Sunday, you know, all as day
and yeah, so it's been a double thing for me

(32:04):
thinking of Bruce and thinking of PAXI who who in
the song that he played for the insect people. So yeah,
so some song that I guess we may hear or
may not hear. I've got no doubt that it may
be played on in my day tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
It could well be right. And look nice to you
to tie that all together, those strands to I appreciate that, Chris,
thanks very much for that. Thirteen away from nine the numbers,
eight hundred eighty eight get in touch, my name is Marcus, Welcome,
eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two nine to
the text Judith, it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome you're there. Judah, Yeah, Hi'cus.

Speaker 20 (32:47):
Yeah, yeah, hi, how are you good evening?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Good evening.

Speaker 20 (32:51):
I'm just bringing out about Bruce Ussa we would go.
He passed away on my birthday about three or four
years ago. It was actually my birthday.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Today, it was four years ago here.

Speaker 7 (33:04):
Yeah, I like you.

Speaker 20 (33:05):
Just sort of I remember him every year now because
of that. And he was a great person, always used
to talk back and that if you said that night,
and he was great.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I think it was unclear on what day he died, too,
because it wasn't known if it was the Sunday or
the Monday, because it was sometime. And I think his
son himself said that Bruce would have liked that that
there was some sort of great mystery about when that happened. Yeah,
well brilliant, Okay, Well thanks for coming through, Judith. Nine
to nine, Oh, there's a surprise, is no call? So

(33:41):
seven away from eight, seven away from nine it's called
that that so it seems as though it's going well.
At the new Stadium. You can get a pie sandwich,
which I think a little bit of genius. There's a
pie between two bits of bread and that's seventeen dollars
gone viral. I guess it's what you need. I don't
know if there's cue after the matural earth. There's cues

(34:01):
and fights and one eyed Cantabrians. Some shots of the crowd.
They did look like a They looked like only a
Canterbury Rugby crowd can look sort of possessed twenty one thirteen.
The Crusaders over the Warrior Tars. Be in touch if

(34:23):
you want to partake Marcus. In the forties and fifties,
when women became pregnant to buy a knitting pattern booklet
and knit a layet for the baby, single singlet. Rompers
dressed cardigan and bonnet, often with lacey bits for decoration.

(34:44):
Had to be white and after multiple washings the wall
became yellow. So when a critic war became available, it
was great because it stayed white. Often a grandma would
knit a shawl for the baby, which often became a
family heirloom. And what about the matinee jacket? I mean
it was only baby Azaria that had the matinee jacket?
Was that common? Remember that? Of course, the most famous

(35:07):
metine jacket in Australian history will the cafes do a
double dip in surcharge tomorrow and Monday, No doubt they would. Wow,
get in touched. My name is Marcus, Welcome oh eight
one hundred and eighty. In eighty nineteen, I did a text.
I'm just getting all the texts. I won't say what
they're about. I was reading this text, says him, Marcus,

(35:29):
I'm a sewer, but actually means I'm Marcus. I'm a sewer.
Are they spelled the same? And I'm shocked to hear
what you're telling us about the patterns. I remember my
nan is sitting away for a sewing patents and they
arrived in a brown envelope through the post fifty five
minutes to play forty minutes of rugby? Why does sky
TV persevere with Joey Wheeler? He's an acquired taste, Joey Wheeler,

(35:58):
It's not a taste that I've acquired. Yeah, just put
that out there, Marcus. Here in Hastings there is now
only one fabric outlet, Spotlight, and their patent supplies become
quite sparse. Not everything listened in patent books is available.
Home signing is becoming lost art due to people's busy

(36:19):
lives and availably of cheaper ready made garments. Hang on
to your patents. Great conversation topic. Jane obviously going to
pop a bed and on Facebook advertising tracksuit pants for
the person with the thicker thigh. I've been caught a
lot of things. I've ever been called someone with a
thicker thigh, So I don't know what to do with

(36:39):
that anyway, might report them with for a hate crime.
Thirteen twenty one warre Tars the Crusaders and Crusaders are
on the lead a lot of feeling out their minds.
You've got the stadium, you've got to win. Be in
touch to if you want to talk. Hi Agen Marcus,

(36:59):
I did hear earlier from the woman who would set
up the stadium. I think Pep's the CEO, I'm sure
of it. Recuting the food vendors, she said that every
one of them is a local christ based food business.
Mendal Marcus. People are crazy enough to pay seventy dollars
for pie, the more for them. I don't think anyone's complain.
I think people are celebrating the celebrating the the visual

(37:24):
uniqueness of a pie sandwich nine oh seventh readings are welcome.
We are talking about patents for sewing. We're also talking
about Bruce two four years to see his died. Bruce Stewart, Well,
I'm ready a broadcast or two, and yeah, I think
it's been long enough that people had done. Certainly, I
wasn't wear with that until Dan told me too that

(37:44):
today tooth it's always a part and parcel of LAYB weekend.
So yeah, you might want to talk about They keep
those texts coming through. I'll talk to people later on
as they are heading home from the stadium. We'll find
out whether it's good or not. So get in touch.
You want to be a part of the show. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty, But mainly it's about patents and
the fact that no one's sewing much anymore. You might

(38:05):
want to talk about that. Get in touch. Eight hundred
and eighty, ten eighty and nine nine to the text
you want to come through. Nice to hear from you, Jonats,
Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
Hello, Hi Joan, Oh, Hello, how are you.

Speaker 11 (38:21):
Good?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (38:23):
I rung Bruce Russell the night before he died, and
the first time I rung him would be about ten
years ago. And I said, oh, Hello, Russell. Oh no,
it's Bruce. He had we chuckle there, you know when
I did that. And he was such a nice man,
wasn't he.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Look he wasn't someone that really I had anything to
do with because I worked remotely. So that's that's why
it is difficult for me. I certainly know that he
is someone that was that people said to very much
enjoy his work.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Yes, and I think for a lot of elderly people.
He had a lot of regulars and you just speak
so nicely and made them feel good.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
You know.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
It was really a nice natured man.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
And you know, beside.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
That's right. Romana is doing a good job and it's
had for him to follow in after brutes, but I
think he's doing okay. So and also can I talk
about the stadium?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Oh absolutely, yeah, I'd rather do it stadium than the
ranking other hosts. But yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (39:20):
Just yeah, it looks a bit big and probably for me,
I don't know if it's the idea or place, but
I'm amazed that the builders don't they do a great job.
When you think the houses and all the townhouses are
going up around town here and there, piling lots on
the sections and you know they put up the stadium.
I mean it's a magnificent build. Is that what I

(39:41):
was trying to say, Oh, it doesn't look straightforward.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
There's some pretty complicated science.

Speaker 7 (39:46):
We go on to that.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
No, that's right, and I think they've got two different
areas where they cook and sell food. They interviewed a
guy because there's such a big stadium. Isn't it through big?

Speaker 8 (39:59):
What I think.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Probably when you said I think it's capesty's only twenty
five thousand. Oh, well, looks awfully, which it's much smaller
than it's certainly much smaller than the Auckland Stadium and
the Willington Stadium. I think they're both about fifty thousand.
So in the scheme of things, it's kind of mid range.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
I think, Oh, they're trying to decide where they're going
to call it the biscuits order something else.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
They'll be desperate to find a name for it, won't they.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Yeah, they will probably, But anyway, that's about all I
was going to say.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Perfect, Thank you, don't keep your calls coming through ten
past nine, Marcus, we are at one New Zealand Stadium.
It's totally electric, fully pegged out, hands down the best
that I've ever been to. We'll call you after the
Crusaders when that's from Ben, hands down, huge amount of
regional pride with us. I think christ Church people do

(40:48):
celebrate their successes. Marcus near Punakaki around seven fifteen pm,
a bright light heading overheard from west towards christ Church.
As it got closer, the light diffused to a diffuse light.
I bright light, fog stars are out, no clouds. Quite strange.
It was too low to be a jet, no noise.

(41:10):
It basically just happended to with a fuse light. My
strangest thing oversaw from the west must do the coming
from the sea. Being touched. You on talk, my name
is Markets welcome, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
I think the Crusaders have gone over again, over and
over again. Let me just replaying that a lot being touched.

(41:33):
If you want to talk on air, my name's Markets.
Good evening. Hey, I can't have the stupid headphones, Stean,
what are you saying? Thirty three twenty is the score? There?
Forty minutes to go, So there we go. That's a
situation if you want to be a part of it,
as I say, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two. I will keep your data with the news.

(41:54):
Not much talk on the state of hor moves, but
I say that oils up to one hundred and five again,
so yes, no quick fix. I just don't think of
anything else on Earth Tiller. I need to tell you
there's a fire and a public toilet in the Wellington CBD.
It's a white tonguey park. I don't think that's gone

(42:16):
caused any great concern. But if you do want to
talk on air about anything else, oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two text if you
do want to come through, looking forward to your comments.
Thirteen past nine o'clock. We are talking patterns and the

(42:37):
fact that the old habit of going to a fabric
shop and looking through the patent catalogs and buying a
pattern will become a thing of the past because the
patents are no longer available. It's quite a complicated story.
It's one that's really been unheralded. But I guess it
reflects the tree and that people aren't sewing anymore because
you can buy something cheaper than the fabric. I guess

(42:59):
there'd be my take on that. It says. The article
says for New Zealand's sewing community, the news landed could
drop pin paper patterns from the big four brands may
soon vanish from local shelves, online shop patent post. The
owner Bronwin's Summers, based in Fogare, says she had bought
a year or two worth of stock after learning the

(43:20):
Australian distributor would close and stop supplying the major brands
like Simplicity, new Look, Vogue, Butterick and McCall's to Australia
and New Zealand. It went ut to, especially when I
posted the Facebook post about that there would be no
more paper patentry stocked. The website went insane the Australians.

(43:40):
The Australian warehouses remaining stock was reported sold to Spotlight
before staff were made redundant. Other retailers like The Ribbon
Rose and Penrose have also seen a rush on major
brand patents. We are picking patents every other day for customers,
getting them while they can. While we still have thousands
of patents and stock, the numbers reducing very quickly. It's
quite a confusing article. No one's quite said why the

(44:03):
patterns are out of will no longer beailable. She's also
worried too about sewing teachers in school textile classes that
rely on bulk orders. It's going to have a flow
on effect, and it says, why are they closing? The
closure stems from a wider restructure after former UK parent
company Design Group sold its US division DGA to a

(44:27):
turnover firm. DGA cited trade tariffs and a challenging operating
landscape for several years, comparted by the loss of a
major customer, believed to be US craft chain Joe Ann,
which declared bankruptcy last year. So basically it's Trump's fault.
Although Simplicity the paper pattern maker operation was later sold

(44:47):
to a profit equity firm announced a re launch. Its
paper patterns are currently shipped only within the US. Overseas
customers are instead offered PDF and projectable formats. The predictable
formats sounds like a lot of faffing around. Where would
you put the projector on the roof? It's what we
are discussing tonight. It's fifteen past done. If you want
to come through, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine

(45:09):
nine to tix were two about that and Abratt Bruce Russell.
That's a situation. If you've got something to add, great,
the more the Maria and do be in touch. Long
weekend coming up to that's exciting. We should not allow
us have as exciting aide because its day of respect,
but it's exciting that we've got a short week next
week respectfully thirty five twenty six months left to go

(45:32):
at the stadium. Then we'll talk about what that's like
without meaning disparging. It looks like everyone's drunk. We're not drunk.
It looks like they're in high spirits. There'll be a
lot of rugby there over the weekend. So yes, do
get in touch if you want to talk. As I say,
oh eight hundred and eighty to tenenty sixteen past nine,
eighteen past nine and happy Friday, everyone welcome, get in

(45:53):
touch if you want to be a part of the show.
Oh let me see what the text doors are saying.
We talk about patterns. A lot of people are seeing
bright lights. I'm seeing on Facebook. Someone says a bright
light and putt a kaiki. Then someone saw one at
Whaler's Red To. Now someone seems one in Wellington. So
there's three different sites up and down the South Island
and North Island, both islands on the West coast, have

(46:14):
seen these. Marcus. I saw a bright light over the
hills of Wellington about forty minutes ago, a beam of
light covered in the cloud, turning in on the cloud
on a clear night. No engine sound hitting east. So
if anyone's got any more information about that's always fun
to speak later on. It seems strange, it could be right,
it must be if it's that, if it's at three
places at once, I don't think you even get really

(46:35):
satisfactory answers for natural phenomena, do you. No one ever
really knows what it is, but people are posting on
Facebook about it, so you might have some and tell
about that. Here there we go. There's something else you
want to discuss tonight, feel free. Looking at the texts
and some of the emails, a lot of people are
going to be coming a bit unstuck tonight. Tough week,

(46:56):
not unstuck, but sort of posting some questionable stuff would
be my prediction, would be my take on that one.
But yeah, a lot of shots at people at the
old stadium. I guess these days, if you go to
the opening of a stadium, you don't post about it
on Facebook. That doesn't really count. But I think it's
going to I think people of christ Tacher excited. It's

(47:17):
going to be a big nowt on the city afterwards.
That would be my take on that one. Because the
bars can open well into the They've got special legislation
so they can open into the morning. Because the Nxact
day is important, but also the christ Chich people in
the new stadium is important too. But there we go.
Be in touch if you want to talk twenty past nine.
If there's something different you want to mention. Anything goes

(47:38):
tonight Friday, free for all, looking forward to what you've
got to say, texts, calls, emails, whatever. You got eight
hundred and eighty to eighty nine two nine to text
if you want to be a part of it now.
Someone was asking about whether there was this much hype
when Eden Park opened, But I don't know. If Hedn
Park you've already opened. I think it was a more

(47:59):
a gradual thing. I hope the train went well. I
think there was a train from way matter. But oh
there wouldn't have been a train from WYMETI there would
have been a trained from near Wymetti. I would have
imagined it was from Rolliston, one hundred and ninety six
people into the city. Winston Peters was amongst the crowd,
so well done him Rail's back Golden Age of Rail

(48:24):
and former All Black here and Reed led a fan
hikoy to the stadium. Crusader's alumni, non playing players and
members been at five thirty peeniment at the Bridge of
Remembers before the hikoi. They brought a special ponamu to
the stadium to commemorate the opening. The gold McCaw was
there also, So that's the situation. Double fried steak and

(48:48):
cheese pie sandwich for seventeen dollars six sixty next month.
Then at Robbie Williams then the Fuweies steak and cheese
pie sandwich, Jalipino poppers and ranch mayonnais, large chips and
curry sauce, Mini donuts and chocolate sauce. That's and Nati's offerings.
And there you go. Twenty three minutes past nine o'clock.

(49:13):
Just reporting reiterating from earlier on. There has been a
three car crash just north of Shannon on State Higway
fifty seven. Road is partially blocked. Expect small delays both ways.
Traffic is flying relatively well, I'll just check up on
what a kaitar he said, We've got an update on
that one. Being touchy on Toto, anything goes tonight. My
name is Marcus. Welcome Friday, before a long weekend, looking

(49:34):
forward to your what you've got to say? Let me
just check about the road closures too. Gosh, what a
week of what a what a week of wet weather?
And I feel this is the way it's going to
go on and on and on, isn't it? Looking north
as Shannon, No, nothing posted about that to the road
must be clear to pass through. But yeah, jump and

(49:57):
if you want to talk on air tonight. Oh that's
why I have already give you any updates about the
Middle East to night? Have I? I mean, I guess
at stage where you can't really given update because it
changes hourly, seems to be my impression. Very hard to
keep up with the situation where no one ready knows
what's going on. Oh oh, this is interesting. The US

(50:20):
has threatened to review the United Kingdom's claim to the
Falkland Islands and ban Spain from NATO is punishment for
failure to back the Iron War so it's going to
be the Falklands. The member includes an option to reconsider
a reassessing US diplomatic support for long standing European imperial

(50:42):
possessions such as the Falkland Islands near Argentina. Of course,
the Argentinian resident is a Trump ally, So there you go.
I hadn't thought he'd do that, did you want to
think about? Trump? Is a lot of us thinking is

(51:02):
outside where you and I would go. So it's now
all about the Falklands. So cheapest creepers, no doubt, farage.
We have something to say about that. So that's the
latest there. And I don't know how many ships have
been held on the straight to Hormus, but we will
find out. And Trump has said the Israel Lebanon ceasefire

(51:23):
extend is extended by three weeks, but he claims he
won't rush the Iran deal. Yeah, so that's some of
the latest news I've got for you. He's also in
trouble for calling India a hellhold Donald Trump on truth
social which hasn't been received. Well, oh, I think that
was shows by someone else that Trump shared to be fair,

(51:46):
But that's gone down. But as well as you can imagine,
now the situation too with the Crusaders. They have won
thirty five to twenty of the warrator, exciting game of
rugby league, twenty minutes left to go in that one
Cronulla twenty eight in North Queensland thirty so very closely,
just two points in there, and that looks like an
exciting match. That'll be the pick and be in touch

(52:07):
if you want to talk on it or anything goes.
I will also talk about Bruce Russell. It's four years
ago on Anzac Day or exact day eve today or
early tomorrow, that he had died preparing to do a
middawn shift, the mid dawn shift on Anzac Day. He'd
done in my day the night before and then came
back and my dad I said, I come back on

(52:27):
the Sunday night to prepare for the Monday morning show.
That's a situation. This also reflecting on that. But be
in touch if these are things you want to talk about.
We'll talk hopefully to people heading home from the Warretaz
Crusaders match, although I would think that everyone would be
unanimously beside themselves with excitement about that stadium. We will

(52:48):
talk about the queues, the food, the sight lines, the
lack of the horses, parking, people getting ticketed, you know,
all those standard things after buses, the trains that transport Winston.
Peter's got a train from Rolliston. Two hundred people came
by train. Very exciting. So all that and more. If

(53:11):
you want to talk on air, and if there's other
stuff you want to talk about, be my guest quite literally,
but particularly if you're heading home for the rugby. I'll
watch the rugb beyond TV and you want to commentate
on what the stadium grass every green to me look good,
whereas it should be six hundred million dollars in the likes.
But yes, that's the situation. Marc is speaking of trains.

(53:33):
Next Sunday is a special passenger train trip by the
glen Brook Vintage Railway that will be going through the
Chaimi Tunnel. Marcus I was disappointed to see the news
about pattern's being phased out. I have collected a large
quantity since the eighties and still do. If I don't
ever style, I still like to sew for myself or family.
I did sewing at Score. My mother was the main teacher.

(53:54):
She was a cutter in several different clothing factories in Auckland.
I worry about the future of buying fabric now if
patterns are disappearing, if you probably should be. This is
probably a very realistic concern, So I'll treasure my patents
even more. Why is someone talking about the core? What's
he done wrong? Marcus? A bit spooky?

Speaker 11 (54:13):
Then you?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Stadium costs six seventy million dollars, the same cost as
the canceled Fairies. Even it's Marcus.

Speaker 11 (54:20):
Welcome, good evening, Yes, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (54:22):
And listeners, how are you good?

Speaker 7 (54:26):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Good?

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (54:27):
Evan Bruce always very prepared for his show. Yes, that
would be right, and love to get the true story out,
and wasn't worried about We need more men like him.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
More men like Bruce.

Speaker 13 (54:43):
Yeah, wow, he.

Speaker 15 (54:44):
Called He called the real shots out.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Sheep has caught it like it is.

Speaker 15 (54:49):
Yeah, he didn't. He didn't care if it hurt somebody,
if it was a true story. He was into it.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
I guess it would be all depend on his depiction,
his definition of the truth, would it.

Speaker 15 (55:01):
Yeah, I guess so. But he is already always pretty
onto it from what I listened anyway, Good.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
Anything else happened for you?

Speaker 21 (55:09):
Evan nice, finally calm down.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
But Marcus, what's that down to the weather? Yeah, well,
I'll tell you why I look at those I love
that I looked at. Did you see the images of
the landside at Why.

Speaker 15 (55:24):
No, I haven't seen that yet. No, there was no rain,
but it was just sort of drizzly rain. For me
where I am it was quite heavy over the north.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Sure, there was no surprise whether why we were one
because it was just as you go up that road,
there's that kind of motel that was just below the
road sort of. So it was Yeah, well I.

Speaker 15 (55:43):
Guess I stayed there a lot, actually, did you. Yeah,
when I was fishing. Instead of rinking places every now
and again, I just go take a day off there.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Oh well, yeah, I would imagine there'll be all sorts
of people that will be worrying now about where their
properties are sighted with cliffs and things like that, when
everything seems to be under stable.

Speaker 15 (56:07):
I was very steep there, a MICUs. Yeah, absolutely, very steep,
and that at the top of the road there was
always little slips, you know, down that going down the
hill to worry there, there's always little slips there.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
But suddenly it's no longer little slip. Suddenly it seems
to be major slips down and across the road.

Speaker 15 (56:27):
Yeah, it doesn't surprise me. Steep area like that.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Okay, nice to talk, Evan, Thank you very much for that.
Getting touch people if you want to. Twenty five to ten,
just the breaking news the Crusaders have won the inaugural.
It just me, but it seems to me that the
whole neighbing of the stadium is a bit clunky. Are
we waiting for a sponsor? Is that what that's about?
But yeah, I guess it was going to be Takaha Stadium.

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Then people got triggered by that. I don't know if
it's Takaha or one New Zealand. It seems confusing to me.
People seem to be calling it both were good on them,
but should have called it Lencaster Park. It does look amazing.
There was some aerial shots well I guess they are
drone shots for the distance watching it glowing because it's
got quite a seat. It did look sense, It did

(57:12):
look sensational. I don't know if you saw those shots,
but it's if you are heading home to dais know
what that was like? Marcus. A lot of people in FUNA.
They have re upset that our counsel and Civil Defense
have canceled the ANZAC service due to rain. Didn't know that,
So there we go, the ANZAC service fun Arde canceled

(57:34):
because of rain. You might have some more information. Twenty
four away from ten, you might watch the rugby on
the TV tur If you are not driving home, you
might wanting of your review if it looked good or not?
Did it look good? Was it a good thing? I
weight one hundred and eighty eight.

Speaker 6 (57:49):
Text Ben, you give a Marcus? You and we just
left the stadium.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
God, are you there for the weekend? Are you there
for the weekend or just tonight?

Speaker 8 (58:01):
No?

Speaker 6 (58:02):
No live on Crosses.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Oh yeah, but I mean it. But some people have
tickets for the five five games?

Speaker 6 (58:07):
No, no, just just I've got work tomorrow, Marcus, just tonight.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Oh good on you for going to the inaugural event.
Tell me about it.

Speaker 15 (58:16):
It was great. Entry was fine.

Speaker 6 (58:19):
It's just like you know, like tapping your phone like
you were the payWave card to get in. Yep, it's
so easy. We got this.

Speaker 15 (58:29):
This lamb.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
It's like a lamb deep fired rap thing for Piedro's.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
That's a Pidros there that's that's what you need to know.

Speaker 6 (58:38):
Yeah, yea, so it was good. Don't ask me how
much it costs. I just tapped it and I have
to look at the bencount tomorrow. But look, it was great,
fantastic atmosphere, totally electric. The only gawn side I had
was it just seemed like there wasn't enough bath rooms.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Oh that's a surprise.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
Yeah, there's quite a few. But just when I went
to use, you know, use it, it was probably good
ten minute line.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Oh that's shocking.

Speaker 6 (59:07):
Yeah, yeah, just one of everyone might have been using
that at once, but no, everyone was having a good time.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
You need an add ulp neppy if that happens again.
That's a long wait.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
Yeah, yeah, trice of a bed.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Did you get a coke or a beer bin?

Speaker 20 (59:23):
No?

Speaker 15 (59:23):
I just got a coke.

Speaker 6 (59:24):
Markets got weak tomorrow.

Speaker 17 (59:25):
So.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
To coke be four fifty?

Speaker 7 (59:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (59:29):
I brought me and my wife for one of these
Lamb reps and I drank each and I just kept
the card. I didn't even look.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Did you get the coke at Piedros where you got
the lamb rap?

Speaker 15 (59:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Before the game, were at halftime?

Speaker 6 (59:42):
Just during it?

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Okay, wow? And was your bathroom visit during the during
the halftime. Is it why there's a ten minute weight?

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Yeah, I'd say that's why.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Still though, you think they'd be quicker? Oh yeah? Did
you see to the ex Crusaders or ex all Blecks there?

Speaker 3 (59:59):
No?

Speaker 6 (59:59):
I didn't. But I actually seen one of the MP's,
the labor one from Chriss Roots.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
There want men or a woman.

Speaker 6 (01:00:09):
A woman your name, but she was wearing a label
scarf in that I didn't didn't see one s Peter's
there give.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Be a corporate box, wouldn't he?

Speaker 15 (01:00:18):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
Ever, I didn't see him.

Speaker 11 (01:00:21):
Doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Look, you don't know who that would be.

Speaker 6 (01:00:24):
It might might have been Woods, yeah, Wood, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Okay, oh god, how you get where were your parked?

Speaker 18 (01:00:29):
Ben?

Speaker 6 (01:00:31):
We're just on an uber Marcus at the moment you
did you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Did you have the uber waiting in your right place?

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
I actually talked at about ten minutes before, you know,
just as it was finishing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
And no dramas there.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
No, no no dramas.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
You nailed it, Ben, brilliant, Thank you there were go
Ben Pedrose, the rap, the coke, the weight, the MP,
the uber, the scanning in like we were there. I
didn't mention scribe, did he anyway, get in touch if
you want to Mone of his Marcus welcome eight hundred
and eighty to eighty discussing the new stadium, One New

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Zealand to Kaha. Now anything else, the Ensact should be honored, rain,
hail or snow. They had to do it. Very good
forecast for bluff for the cenotaph tomorrow morning. I see
they've put the speakers out. They'll be a big crowd there.
The fire eas have scrubbed down the cenotaph and preparation

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annual event. Oh wait on hundred you know the rest
twenty away from ten. Hi Michelle, Hi, how are you.

Speaker 22 (01:01:41):
I'm very well, thank you, thanks for clearing. Yeah, well,
I've just come from the game, the Crusaders game and
absolutely amazing, fantastic. Waited so long for that, so long
with worth all of it. The guy that said he
was waiting for the toilet, Yeah, I think for once,

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you know, I'm in my It's the first time I've
been to an event with a woman just carried on
past and the men were queuing, So I don't know
what their problem was, but I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Yeah, someone else's ticket. You said that exact thing that
you've said.

Speaker 22 (01:02:21):
Yeah, so I don't know, but who gears because a
woman like honestly, they toilets the lower plenty of room
to move around, never really queued up much for anything.
Oh it was amazing, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
Happy Kemp. Are you going back to the rest of
the weekend?

Speaker 22 (01:02:42):
Oh god no, I'm only left watched the Crusaders.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Oh okay, well yeah, I'm.

Speaker 22 (01:02:49):
Going back to watch the Warriors and then the All Blacks.
It's absolutely inating.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
When the Warrior is playing some time, so you watch
them even though you only watched the don't you don't
mind them?

Speaker 22 (01:03:03):
I watch them, you know when I Contebrian and all that.
But no, look, honestly, you know I went to the
sleeper cars last weekend as well. I think you know,
like I've born and bred in christ Church, absolutely love it,
so proud right now, it's amazing, it's going off. It's

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what we deserve, it's what we've waited for. We're nice people,
it's a beautiful city and now it's our times.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
What do you think you're proud of?

Speaker 22 (01:03:37):
I think I'm proud of the way that we've waited
maybe and you know, I was talking to people last
week It's sleeper cars, and the comments were how friendly
people are here, and you know, I'm just proud of
of this city. I think it's amazing.

Speaker 20 (01:03:59):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Do you think there's a perception that you're not that
the people aren't like that? Is that why you think
that's happened.

Speaker 22 (01:04:07):
I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but I don't know.
I just think that people just kind of ignored us
for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Maybe, yeah, there was a bit of that, wasn't there
after the quake that people thought that, you know, yeah, yeah,
because that's certainly that's certainly not the m pressure I got.
But I guess that's just I guess that's just yeah, Okay,
it is what it is is if you felt that
you felt that well.

Speaker 22 (01:04:32):
Yeah, and I mean, you know, you would you drive
around the city and it was it was a bloody
miss for a very long time. Let's take it like.
It wasn't somewhere that you were like, oh my god,
but you know, you kind of stuck with it because
this is home and you wanted to rebuild it. And
now we're getting the benefit of that. And that's what
I'm proud of and I think that the people that

(01:04:53):
have stuck it out.

Speaker 18 (01:04:54):
It's what we decided.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
It's great.

Speaker 22 (01:04:57):
I'm very happy, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
It took fifteen years, didn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:05:02):
Yeah, it's taken way too long. But then again, I
would I have to say, apart from all the cycle ways,
that's done it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Why good on Michelle Oh eight hundred and eighty to nine, two,
nine to text, fourteen to ten. Your comment. It's twelve
away from ten o'clock. Get in touch if you want
to be a part of it. We are talking about
the stadium as well to if you're heading home from that.
The Crusaders have claimed their first ever win or that's

(01:05:31):
their first win ever or the first ever win at
the christ Church Stadium. They've christened it is what they're saying,
sold out crowd of twenty five. I'm always surprised how
small they built it. Only the extra seats, but I
guess the extra seats must go on the paddock. They've
begged the bonus points too. Five wins, five losses. There

(01:05:55):
you go. Look, I was quite nice, all the fans
walking all the way from the Bridge of Remembrance to
the park. It's a situation so they'll be relief. I
see even Sarah the coach looked sort of slightly happy
towards the end of it. It's not as natural kind
of the way he looks. It's ten away from ten
if you want to come through quickly before the news.
If we are driving home, how did the car parking

(01:06:16):
work out? There wasn't much of it, So there's that.
People are upset that the Antact Day service and Fungada
is canceled tomorrow because of the rain. I better confirm
that where is that? Where is that being posted? Because
I don't want to give that press if it's not true.

(01:06:37):
I presume it must be if someone's texted about it.
I'll just see if I can get confirmation of that too,
so I can bring that to you. It was in
the Herald, so that is in fact true. The organizer
of tomorrow's Antact Day dawn service and fung have called
off the event as steady rain continued to form the
city today amid we're the warnings that remain in place

(01:06:58):
until nine am tomorrow, spokes because if from the RSA
said the difficuence was made by event organized about three pm.
So it was the RSA themselves that have called it
off by the looks they can started with the Met
Service and Fungare District Council and they couldn't alleviate the
RISA is concerned about worsening weather. Particularly consideration was good

(01:07:20):
to the health and well being of return service personnel
who could have been attended the service, most of now
in their seventies and older. Was at Laurie Hall Park. Hello, Neil,
it's Marcus. Good evening, Hey Markers, so you don't good?
Thank you, Neil.

Speaker 23 (01:07:36):
It was a fantastic night. Stadium is stunning. Your previous
call had talked about the flow to and from people
had sort of been bagging in advanced about a lack
of parking, but I think people just spread out around
the city.

Speaker 21 (01:07:50):
And walked to and from.

Speaker 23 (01:07:52):
It's just absolutely stunning. I think it's going to put
Christage on the map after a long, long, long long
time of recovery post earthquake. So it was just absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
When do you think you'll put Crissis on the map?
You mean with all their content to different events? Is
that what you is that the hope?

Speaker 23 (01:08:10):
Oh yeah, I think unquestionably there will be events happen
here because you're guaranteed to get well if they put
the extra seats, and you know it's thirty thousand people,
it's covered, it's not weather dependance. We've got international flights
coming and out of the airport. It's only twenty minutes
from the airport to the stadium. So I think unfortunately
from Dunedin it's going to steal some of the events

(01:08:32):
that they used to have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
That's a dead duck that one. They having any events
for a long while. It seems it was just a disaster.

Speaker 23 (01:08:41):
Yeah, it's fantastic. I mean they have a stadium right
by the city center. I don't think there's anything like
it in New Zealand. It's it's just wonderful after all
these years and very very very slow rebuilt post earthquake.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
What events are you hoping to hoping to get or
wanting to get.

Speaker 23 (01:08:59):
The continued supporting events. But I think the thing that's
going to excite the city is the concerts that will
come along. Yeah, you know, they're already happening and I
mean getting into christ which is pretty straightforward from all
different parts of the city. So yeah, I'm looking forward
to the concerts are going to be putting on.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
No any comments about food, beverage that sort of stuff.

Speaker 23 (01:09:20):
As great, lots of different options. As your earlier caller said,
they weren't really big lines. I suspect the easy answers
to why the blokes were lining up is because it
was a rugby event, so you probably could figure out
that the ratio is probably four to one men to women,
So that's probably why there's a few more blokes. I'm
lining up at the toilet, but the place flows so

(01:09:41):
well on exit, it was just very easy to get out.
And I recently went to Kaitak Stadium in Hong Kong,
which is very similar and set up that holds about
ten thousand more and it's another smart stadium like that.
It's nice looking, great lights, great sound, just really well
set up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
You haven't missed the old place last ten years.

Speaker 24 (01:10:03):
No, the people have this problem.

Speaker 23 (01:10:07):
We went to the went there tonight. We're in our
normal cantiby clothed, which is about five layers, finishing up
with you know, a nice thick jacket in your beaning,
and then you get in you realize extu, you're undercover.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
So it's quite cold in there. It's quite warm.

Speaker 21 (01:10:22):
Yeah, yeah, it was good.

Speaker 23 (01:10:23):
When we came out you realized how cord it was outside.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Brilliant good until now, thank you. You've got any extra
comments to come through here till twelve the new STADIU.
Everyone's very excited about that, Marcus. On our way home
from the stadium. Was a great night. The crowd was
great and the food was great. Banger evening from the
coal There we go, get in touch if you want

(01:10:46):
to talk. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
nine two de texts maname is Marcus, welcome, looking forward
to what you've got to say. Five a way from
ten o'clock. Now, let me think what's happening tomorrow on
the road. Do you know what's happening tomorrow on the radio?
We're having a special Ends? Is a special Ends Act day?
There would be, wouldn't there?

Speaker 22 (01:11:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
I don't know. They be in the dawn service. So
what Monday will be a bit little bit different to
Monday will be holiday program I guess. But your gym
will be on at midnight tonight. That's the way it
will work. So Gym's on from midnight tonight. Also too,
we are remembering Bruce Russell overnight hosts who died four

(01:11:29):
years ago. This ends Act Day and some of you
remember that two thousand and twenty two on ant Ac Day.
So yeah, that's the stuff we are talking about. I've
got to see that Pedrose is at the stadium, a
brilliant come, a bit of am and they're doing wonders
for lamb anyway thirty five twenty Crusaders over the warretas.

(01:11:54):
But be in touch if you want to talk on air.
See North Queens and Spitcronall forty six forty six thirty
four see I scoring game. They look like a blinder two.
So there we go. Looks hot. Must have been at
North Queens and it must be a hot place to
play league these days. The covered in sweat also talking
about patterns and sewing patents. Bronco's Bulldogs coming up. Be

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in touch if you want to talk on he as,
I say, oh eight eight eighty so unanimous thumbs up
for the stadium and christ Church people cock a hoop
about that now. Stuff have done a write up on
the mysterious light in the sky. This evening footage sent
to Stuff showed a sheer, white, doughnut shaped light move

(01:12:40):
across the sky. Taranaki Todonga, Topau and Wellington even in
a Hooka. Tika Totong, an Astronomical Society president, said the
light might have been an exhaust plume from an unidentified
rocket launch. It's pretty amazing the shots ten oh seven
hit or twelve gym standing to be along before twelve.

(01:13:01):
It will be along before twelve. He'll be on air
after twelve. I hope you're good people. Anything goes. What
have you got on the Ford Durham put tonight here
till twelve o'clock. Greetings eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
ninety ninety to text. Oh so people are still concerned.
People are still concerned about the AM frequency. And if

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you want to mention that, well, I know what you're
saying about that, but look they're still working on that.
That's an Auckland So the situation is that AM is
off here for three or four weeks. I've forgotten about that,
but some of you will realize that in Auckland FM

(01:13:46):
doesn't work for everyone because of the amonger, because of
the cones, and because of the topography. So yeah, so
you're fortunate that that in Auckland they will always be
committed to both AM and FM because the ams been
are getting around the hills. I think so that's a
situation there. So yeah, nice to hear from your Jillian
to thanks for that. Someone has texted me, said Marcus,

(01:14:13):
you do know that Crusader's lost tonight? They have texted
me bag. I said, sorry, I saw a different game.
Must have been watching something on time delay, Marcus. On
our way home from the stadium. It was a great night.
The crowd was great, the food was great. Banger evening
from Nicole. Marcus. Don't know if anyone's given these facts
out about the new stadium. They gave them out on

(01:14:34):
the TV coverage. Thought your listeners might like to know.
That's kind of you. Thank you for that.

Speaker 18 (01:14:39):
Mary.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
Construction start in twenty twenty two and cost six hundred
and eighty three million dollars. Four thousand people worked on
the construction, putting in the collective two point four million
working hours. Roof structure made of over eighty steel modules,
each rate weighing seventy five tons that's tons. Thirteen thousand

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plants are included, sixteen four hundred tons of steel, six
hundred kilometers of cabling, one hundred and twenty two thousand bolts,
a thousand panes of glass, and one winning team. That's
the Crises. That's tonight, Mary, thank you for that. So

(01:15:27):
we are talking about the stadium and your impressions. So
not one person has one niggle about which is unbelievable
because normally there are teething problems. So they've done that
for very well well project managed. We're also talking about
making clothes and sewing and the fact that patterns are
less available. In fact, soon they're going to be totally unavailable.

(01:15:47):
And as someone rightly putting out, if there's going to
be no patterns in there'll be no material shops. That's something,
so you might want to mention that also too. And
there's this doughnut shape in the sky that I've seen
Facebook posts from Whaler's rest Hoker ticker. It seems to
be if it was a rocket launch, it would have

(01:16:08):
to be someone who knows what's happened. But if ayone's
got the information, I stuff see stuff done article on that,
there's a picture on the stuff article. Then what it
looks like it's a mystery. I'm looking at the picture
of it now, it's a doughnut shape. It looks like
someone's blowing a massive smoke ring. But it's strangely it

(01:16:29):
was spotted at so many different places. So it was
seen at Taanaanhakey tod on A Toepaul Wellington's Central Otago,
so it would have had to have been very high in
the sky for it to look in this. Yeah, I
cannot work it out either they or have been invaded.
But I think we'd be invaded by a smoke ring.
So yes, you can talk about that tonight too. Anything
else too, anything else to what takes your fence in.

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It's been a good week of talk back. But oh,
by the way, the Phoenix are playing tonight too. I
might keep your data with that if I can find
this channel. Not good too, Knill to MacArthur twenty four
minutes gone, so control. But yeah, it'd be nice to
hear from you people if you want to talk tonight.
Eight hundred and eighty to eighty. It's something you've got

(01:17:13):
to say. Be good to hear from you tonight. This
day in ninety ninety, the Hubble space telescope was launched,
and this day, in twenty thirteen, the worst building collaps
in modern history in Bangladesh eleven hundred and twenty nine
people died. Now I'm working, I think in the textile industry. Yeah, James,

(01:17:39):
good evening, welcome, Yeah, thanks.

Speaker 9 (01:17:42):
For having me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
What's happening?

Speaker 19 (01:17:44):
Oh, I just headed along to the game this evening
and you know they clear out afterwards. Five minutes later
you're in a pub having a bear. You know, hotels
are nice and close. You really think that well, in
my opinion, that Auckland's mister beat here, you know, casting
your mind back to the debate of the waterfronts, the

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Seedon Park and what they're do in that space. So
I think Crush has really shown them it's just the
missing link and just how good it can be done.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Huge pride, a huge pride.

Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:18:21):
So no, just really outstanding. Yeah, atmosphere was great walking
up to it to clear out. Really, there isn't anything
they could have done better, all the ushers all around
the ground. You know, have a good night, thanks for coming.
Just a really good start to obviously something that the
city's been waiting for for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
So have you been to the pubb already in your home.

Speaker 19 (01:18:46):
I was driving so sensible tonight, but I was driving
past and you could just see people flooding.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Through and she didn't go to the pub.

Speaker 19 (01:18:57):
No, I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
No, you said, yeah, okay, I understand, Wow, wow are
you that's right?

Speaker 19 (01:19:03):
But yeah, I guess the point is that that stadium
was so central to the CBD, and you know, it's
it really gives someone a reason to to get into
the city early. They can go have some lunch, grab
a beer before the game, do some shopping if that's
what they're doing. If they're visiting from out of town,
and you know, having attended some big events and at

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Eden Park and waiting for the train to take you back,
it's a couple of hours, you know, before you get
back into the city. Sometimes here you just slut out
the front doors and then within five or ten minutes.

Speaker 6 (01:19:39):
You can be where you need to be.

Speaker 19 (01:19:41):
So yeah, just a really cool experience.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
I guess the challenge will be, as it was with
the Otago Stadium, is getting the acts. And I guess
that's the thing, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:19:51):
Yeah, it's a fun thing thing, I think, And you know,
Venuzo to Tahi and you know, crush your chain z.
There's only so much money that they probably have in
their pot, right, So yes, it probably takes some private
investments and some backing in that space. But yeah, I
mean they're trying pretty hard. They're constantly working to try

(01:20:16):
and land these big guys. But you know, you mentioned
earlier that it's only twenty five thousands or you know,
I think it's about thirty five thousand with the exercise
in the ground. And is that big enough to attract
the Taylor Swift. Probably not, so, you know, I think
it's more of a quantity perspective as opposed to necessarily
trying to land those it was really bigardess.

Speaker 11 (01:20:39):
Yeah, and the.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Taylor Swift thing's interesting. I spoke to my boss about that.
Who would talk to someone who's in the Taylor Swift
camp and orcan was never in the right thing about that,
And it all comes down to what the organizers for
Taylor Swift look at is. It's the hotel accommodation. It's
not the stadium. It's because I quite know where that works.

(01:21:01):
I guess it's because you want to multiple night ten
a's accommodation to work that out. That's what they need.
So yeah, yeah, I don't fully Yeah, I don't even
know why you need to. I don't even know why
you need to have backings for contents like that, because
you think they'd pay their own way, wouldn't you.

Speaker 19 (01:21:19):
Yeah, I think from my understanding, they obviously all these
cities and events they.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
Bid, which you said, which seems weird to me.

Speaker 19 (01:21:29):
Yeah, and then yeah, they say, right, I guess the
ticket sales probably isn't enough from from what they sell
them for to to be able to fund it. Yeah,
so I know that they bird they said, set aside
in the amount of money, and you know they kind
of hope for the best. So yeah, I mean, Taylor

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Swift is really kind of redefined, you know, the tour,
the touring artists, especially you saw in Australia this year
where people came to her she had back to back
to back concerts in the same city. Yes, you know,
and it makes sense logistically, probably financially it makes sense

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for you know, she doesn't have to uproot a stage
and take a cruise around and and that's that's probably
I think potentially the future of big artists like that
when they can kind of generate that sort of demand.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
And also the other interesting thing too, is that there's
no longer bands anymore. It's all it's all solo artists.
So your big bands that too. I mean they're they're
on their way out now, aren't. They've got your cold
Play and you've got your Fleetwood Mac and those sorts
of things. But but there's not the new ones coming along.
It's it all seems to be solo artists, which probably
I don't know if they've got the same same you know,

(01:22:51):
you know, I don't know who the touring artists will
be in ten years.

Speaker 19 (01:22:54):
Yeah, it's fair. It's I mean there are all those,
you know, and i'd say carefully old school bands, you
know that that used to really generate those events. I
mean Crush it has got and I mean Auckland as well.
They've got the Food Fighters coming in in January, which
you know apparently is tracking quite well. And then Robbie

(01:23:15):
Williams is coming to Crash at the end of this year,
and you know, take of sales for that seems to
be going really really well. But yeah, you're right. I
think generally it's a supporting acts and everything that they
kind of build around the solo artists. So yeah, who
knows what it what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Did you get did you get a bite tweet tonight? James?

Speaker 19 (01:23:35):
Yeah, food was outstanding.

Speaker 20 (01:23:37):
Wow, this really was.

Speaker 19 (01:23:38):
They've got some it's it's pretty. It's pretty different compared
to a normal sort of stadium. You know, I had
some fried chicken, some cramp fried chicken. But they've got
different vendors. They've spent a lot of time and effort
in trying to as.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
They sho as they should be. It would have been
devastated they spend all that money and it was the
same old bog standard food because stadium food has been bad. Yeah, James,
lovely to talk to you. I think your legion. Thank you, Andrew.
It's marks good evening, okay, mar can tell.

Speaker 16 (01:24:08):
Are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Andrew?

Speaker 25 (01:24:10):
Ah good?

Speaker 18 (01:24:11):
Hey, I just real quickly, I just it's really nice
to hear some great feedback about the new stadium down
in christ.

Speaker 24 (01:24:19):
Church, even though I'm up and up north.

Speaker 26 (01:24:24):
Really sad that all those years ago that Auckland Council
and whoever else in the government pleuclude the idea for
a fancy new stadium in the Via Act. I think
I think Auckland.

Speaker 24 (01:24:38):
Whilst it's you know, there's lots of nice stuff about.

Speaker 18 (01:24:40):
Auckland, it's you know, it just seems that it's missing.
It's just missing a whole lot of entertainment options. And
I think that the stadium that they had proposed was
a great idea. We've spent millions and millions of dollars
building the Britomart train station, which is really good. You've
got the Vida Act with all the bars and so
on there, You've got all the hotels around, Yet there's nothing.

(01:25:04):
There's nothing in the downtown an area that's apart from
the restaurants that is anything exciting. And now that the
America's Cup's gone and they've taken the GP sailing away
and I think massive props christ Church, you know, especially
after the earthquakes and all the other just really nasty
stuff that happened down there. I think it's such a

(01:25:26):
it's really turned into such a beautiful city. I think, Yeah,
great to hear and real positive for the country. Really.
I think great to hear that the that your guys
just before It's cream Chicken was yummy and that that
movement was smooth at the stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:25:45):
What happened?

Speaker 11 (01:25:46):
Hang on?

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
Hang on? Andrew? What that last guy?

Speaker 22 (01:25:51):
Right?

Speaker 15 (01:25:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:25:52):
You reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
He works in kind of study of management, because he
talked about the clearout. Is that like a term.

Speaker 18 (01:25:58):
Yeah, I mean, I mean you mentioned going to.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Is that official? I've never heard anyone you say the
clear out. I'd say it was easy, but that must
that must be official, like event management kind of to
made the clear out on that was fantastic.

Speaker 27 (01:26:10):
He dropped that and then yeah, clearing out, Yeah, clearing
the people out. Yeah, I think I think awesome, even
if he look even if he did, you know, even
if he does work in the management team there. I mean,
it's all positive stuff, you know, it's positive stuff.

Speaker 24 (01:26:27):
I think it's good.

Speaker 18 (01:26:28):
I think poor unfortunately we missed the boat here in
Auckland for whoever made.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
The man support poor on Auckland. What are you going to,
guys gonna do once you're finished selling each other's houses
and cutting each other's here and then what are you
going to do?

Speaker 18 (01:26:39):
We got, hey, at least we've got the world's coolest
whatever train thing that they just bloody and bloom and
well built.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
It was one of my It was one of my
topics for this week and I didn't get around to it.
But excitement, excitements building. I don't know if people have
to change their lifestyle straight away for it, but it's
going to be It's gonna work well, isn't it.

Speaker 25 (01:27:04):
Ah?

Speaker 18 (01:27:05):
I hope so for the amount of money that we've
had to pay for it. But I would rather have
seen a stadium where we could attract other you know,
like Taylor Swifts and stuff like that, where we don't
have to go to old Eden Park, which is an
absolute nightmare to get in and out of.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
Imagine imagine a Swift was a swifty Andrew.

Speaker 18 (01:27:25):
Well, who I mean, take your pick, take your pick,
whatever whatever you want. But I think, you know, why
do we have all that fancy stuff down on.

Speaker 15 (01:27:33):
The viaduct there?

Speaker 18 (01:27:34):
And then.

Speaker 15 (01:27:37):
Well cool the videuct Cool?

Speaker 18 (01:27:39):
I remember that's old too. There's nothing really new happening.
But christ Churgers, they are doing everything they can to
rebuild the city.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
That's talking to Thank you so much for that. Yeah,
I love it. I love it for christ Chicher though
I am. I love the comments. But it's a bit
of a christ chich Flecks where you ring up and
say it's fantastic. It's a shame Auckland missed the boat
that it doesn't sound like a place person that's living

(01:28:09):
in a super confiden city to come up with that
flex to me anyway, I wish all the stadiums were great,
that's my personal wish. But yeah, you don't need to
have to dispar at the other person's stadium. Is that
what we've come to? They say, we're all more dividers.
Now we're going to get to stadium wars cheapers. Anyway,
the clear out? How's the clear out?

Speaker 11 (01:28:30):
I reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
He was in management, that guy event management? How is
the clearout? I should have gone and we're going to
not having gone? Actually effectually, where do we find pictures
of the donut thing?

Speaker 16 (01:28:42):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Can you check that on our Facebook page? The donut thing? Yea,
it's a big thing, the donut thing. Get in touch
event stadiums. I feel sorry for Wellington because the stadium
was world beating and now it's no one goes. And
let's be fair, there aren't When you're going to Weedon
Park for the rugby anymore, there's about five thousand. It's

(01:29:05):
only good if your team's good. And I hate to
say it, but that guy that was involved with buying
the Hurricanes franchise he called he said super Rugbies bit
of a dog and I've got to agree it changes
every year. It's not a tournament I can get excited
about because it's it's got a history to it. It's

(01:29:26):
been around thirty years, but every year it changes. Teams
come and teams come out. It feels like it's Jerry built.
Can I say Jerry built? Anyway? Trump be positive? Twenty
five past ten three three nil on the football first half.
The nightmare for the Phoenix continues. Also Broncos Brisbane have

(01:29:47):
scored against contemporary four Neil fors it. They are up. Welcome, greetings,
good evening, Well, how's the clearout? Get in touch? My
name is Marcus Welcome. Twenty seven past ten. Stadium wars
but easy to build, hard to fill, not easy to build,
challenging to build, expends on the rate payers, hard to
fill and bearing in mind, probably people spend more time

(01:30:08):
on their phones and playing computer games than they once did.
You know, the big events the old days, you'd send
Billy Graham around the stadium's head for them out, and
NamUs scuried for them out, Dems Rusos, the singing ten
head fill them out. Nowadays I see Iron Maide and
are turing them all fifty years on jeeps. I reckon
cover bands. They aren't tribute bands. It'll be your answer.

(01:30:28):
Christ it should become the world's home. Become the home
to the world's best tribute bands. Wouldn't be a bad
counsel mission state, bring them all over and then people
could tour just to go and see them all, just
to thought like Vegas of the South anyway to keep
those texts coming through that go was going on about
the Auckland Stadium, but they would have been the rates

(01:30:48):
and Auckland are expensive out they were have been through
the roof. Thank you so much, Marcus for explaining the
AMFM situation. FM doesn't work for me where I'm on
the North Shore, and I was so close to purchasing
your EQUIPM today. You saved me precious dollars. Yes, that
I grew up in a house in Auckland that had
very very poor TV reception and very poor FM reception.

(01:31:11):
We're forever up a tree trying to change the aerial
that would blow around, recomplicated, and we weren't good on
FM either. So I feel for you AM people, and
you need the AM Wellington's different because they've got transmitters
everywhere because it's so topic graphically challenged, but all they

(01:31:31):
haven't really made space for that, so it is very
hard to get consistent FM reception. So the AM will
be back. That mask is a big mask. We've been
there one hundred years. So I've got some great texts
coming through about this doughnut yep, And I'll tell you
more about that on Facebook page. We've got a picture

(01:31:51):
of that. See and go and see the image if
you think you might know what that is. I got
no idea. I thought it might be the moon, just
like an optical illusion. But yeah, there's certainly a lot
of shots online of it in this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:32:05):
Yeah, good evening. I tell you it looked fantastically old,
this new stadium, and the traffic that didn't see to
be so good. I came around pasty on the way home,
no problem at all. But I tell you I will
never be as good as langas to part.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
How come.

Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
And it was raining that night and what not, had
all the drama, but it was still good. Tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Did you go?

Speaker 7 (01:32:40):
No, not tonight. I watched it on the television, but
I wasn't far away from it. I had a beer.
It wandered on home, and yeah, it was the atmosphere.
You could feel the atmosphere was dice around the city,
you know what I mean, just trave home, no problems
around the avenues.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Yeah, it's a question for you, right. You sound like
you're a Cantabrian through and through.

Speaker 7 (01:33:05):
Oh boys to bread not dead yet.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
What was the capacity of Lancaster Park?

Speaker 7 (01:33:13):
Oh well, okay, we're there, Robbie D's that was there
one time? Here. I regon there'd have been fifty I
think there's fifty six thousands of you know, like we.

Speaker 15 (01:33:23):
Were there on the lawn.

Speaker 20 (01:33:25):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
So why would you build a stadium that's so much smaller?

Speaker 7 (01:33:29):
I know it should have been it should have been easy.
Hasn't really, But then again, we haven't got that many
ind the But when the hockey starts, you might want
to rebuilt, extended or something.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Twenty seven away from eleven, eight hundred and eighty, ten
eighty and nineteen ninety ittixt you do want to come through?
Looking forward to your calls, Oh wait, Trant eighty ten
eighty Marcus, great new stadium. But what was going on
with no Enzac remembrance? It's Enzac Day tomorrow, isn't it.
Described was fantastic. That's a good point. Why was it

(01:34:06):
because the NRL and the AFL.

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
I mean it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
They turn the lights off at the MCG. There's horses
go around with a flame and one hundred thousand people.
It's eerie. But yeah, nothing. I don't know why that
would be. You think if anywhere christ Church they worked
from the they walked from the Bridge of Remembrance. I
don't know what that's about, although I think probably if
I am really, if I am really gonna speak with

(01:34:33):
the honesty stick, I think probably the NRL. The NRL's
embrace of Anzac Day and sort of the war analogies
of the rugby league match. It probably goes a bit
too far. I don't think it's about remember it's about
It's just about promotion, I think. But that's just me.
So there we go. Welcome, be in touch twenty five
away from.

Speaker 11 (01:34:54):
Eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Yeah, and the NRAL had both anthems in Australia anthems
before the match. Marcus Great Knight at the Arena tonight
calling it a stadium in fuse, it's only for sport
and as any today you aren't stumping up much cash
towards it. I think it needs to be named for
the variety of events to come excited by it, Alice
and someone reckons there's not enough bolts being used in it.

(01:35:18):
Here's a good text cure, Marcus Auckland am FM signal.
It's a pretty Some of those hundreds of satellites couldn't
help you out. Isn't that what they thought? I don't
know why. Why isn't radio not gone terrestrial? Yeah, it's amazing.
I mean I know that serious and the States is
terrestrial with the Howard Stern show and stuff. I don't

(01:35:40):
know why hasn't gone terrestrial here? I agree with that call.
You can't be the stand that it's built close to
transport and pubs and restaurant great stuff. Nothing almost having
to walk to travel miles to and front of mid
of nobody to get to the stadium. Oh, Marcus, there
will be digital patterns that people can print out. People
are already doing that. Not the death of material tip

(01:36:01):
clothing of Timu and Shine would be making more impact.
Some years ago, at night I saw it. Took a
fun of good photographs of a ring of light traveling
at the hiltitude across the sky that went almost overhead.
Eventually I discovered what it was, the headlights of an
aeroplane re high in the sky were creating a ring
of light some distance in front of the generally invisible

(01:36:22):
aircraft due to an invisible layer of moisture at high
altitude reflecting the headlight beam. It looked exactly as you
described the speed of sound as much slw the speed
of light. But I did very frontally hear the plane
of time after it passed overhead. Marcus, this is what
Google said about the cloud formation. The phenomenon is a
glowing spiral in the sky created by rocket exhaust, specifically

(01:36:44):
from a space ex launch. It is formed when the
rocket second stage releases left over a propellant into space.
Thanks Charlie twenty three from eleven. What the best food
at a stadium would be? What's the best food you've
ever had a stadium? And when I went to the
watch the pen with Panthers, Penworth, Panthers at Penwrith everywhere
with Schitzel, and I thought, that's what you want? Yeah,

(01:37:07):
And then I'd tell we we went to another stadium
at Cranulla and we had a spiral potato but it
was unfathomably salty. But it wasn't until years later I asked.
I said, that the kids did Sultan themselves, and I
think some sort of some overbearing woman who decides to
actually administer the Sultan.

Speaker 7 (01:37:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
I don't know what you feel about the spiral potato.
It takes a lot of sultan anyway, how you're going people,
what's up there on the a list of landfill free now?
Oh and the other thing too. I have mentioned tonight too,
and since this end Zac Day from a broadcasting point
of view, is also four years since Bruce Russell died.

(01:37:49):
For those that don't know, Bruce Russell was a mid
dawn broadcasting coast on he'd be for a number of years,
and he did in my day and had done in
my day on the Saturday, and he'd come back to
prepare for his Monday show on the sun night and
died getting ready for his show. Someone went to wakem

(01:38:13):
and he was deceased.

Speaker 12 (01:38:14):
Yees.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
So it's it was not clear whether it did whether
his death was on the Saturday or the Sunday, sorry,
on the Sunday or the Monday. But I think they
thought that he would love the fact that there was
a mystery about his death. But yeah, that was Bruce.
And so that's four years ago. So just put that
out because I dan ask and I couldn't recall it.

(01:38:36):
But the oh, of course that's what happened, yeah, four
years ago. So there we go that we all got
a text at home. Management came and text everyone to
keep them in the loop about that. So that's a situation.
Now get in touch. You want to talk one of
his Marcus welcome, Oh eight hundred and eighty toda eighty
and nine two nine to text Harry Hayes tenants and
the sinburn not what sure? What he's done wrong? Trying

(01:38:56):
jolly on his team as he goes. Looks like he's
a guy at Gallipoli. That one was a good film Gallipoli,
wasn't it anyway? Nineteen to eleven. If you want to
talk Marcus, I've just come back for the match. What
a stadium. This will be a great venue for christ
Church for many years to come. But what was amazing
was the amount of people queuing outside the pubs after

(01:39:18):
the game all around the stadium. So many people. The
city is buzzing, buzzing if rex have a beer after
the game, aren't they? And for those who don't know
the history, I don't really fully know the history but
I think that Lancaster Park was recently renovated, so I've
been there recently. Before the quake. It was a fantastic stadium,

(01:39:39):
but that was severely damaged in the christ Church quake
and it was found because of liquification, liquefaction and the
likes that the ground was not suitable to rebuild the
stadium there. I think that's the background to it. Then
they had that temporary stadium they had for a number
of years. Well this one. It was always a plan
and this one has been built so I can't even

(01:40:01):
remember what year the quake was. Was it twenty eleven,
So it's been fifteen years for this to be back.
So a lot has happened. But all those years in
that temporary stadium which now they've got no use for,
and now they've got this brand. I think insurance money
and taxpayers money and some rates money. I think that's
the way it was paid for. And it's covered. It's
a quite warm inside. But yeah, I often think having

(01:40:23):
gone from Cara's Brooke to Forsyth Bar, I like the outdoor.
I like that sort of the drama have been outside
for me, But anyway, I guess it's not what everyone wants.
But I guess indoor is the indoor is the future.
Get in touch of your talk on here seventeen to
eleven Allen, This is Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:40:46):
Welcome. Hello. Marcus would like to bring up about the
Western Spring Speedway again. Thank you for being after being
an organ for ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
Years ninety Yeah, good on you.

Speaker 11 (01:41:01):
That's a going back to christ Church just briefly, Dir
it opened dirt with or racing and christ Church is
really going ahead too. And there's a facility forward in Auckland,
and of course the Auckland Council didn't want it. But
it's an ideal venue with the concrete terraces and perfect

(01:41:25):
but for some reason that's another thing Auckland doesn't want.
So I can't say.

Speaker 21 (01:41:30):
Any more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
Where is the christ Church venue?

Speaker 11 (01:41:34):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (01:41:35):
I've never been there, because because christ Church was the
home of speedway for a long while, wasn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:41:42):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
It had almost had neighborhood facilities and thousands would go
every weekend to it. It always sounds exciting when I've
heard that story about speedway in the day.

Speaker 11 (01:41:53):
Yeah, that's why it pops up on Facebook and that
quite often the christ Church Speedway.

Speaker 25 (01:41:58):
Do you think that?

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
Yeah, I mean, I've never really understood why they could.
What the whole Westerns I've had them in discussions about it.
I've never really understood whole situation with Western Springs. Seems
to me that they are opposed to working class sports.

Speaker 11 (01:42:12):
Yeah here for some reason, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Did you ride? Did you ride yourself?

Speaker 23 (01:42:16):
Allan?

Speaker 11 (01:42:18):
I had midget car.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
I thought she might have.

Speaker 11 (01:42:21):
Yeah, But it's a quite a long time ago now,
but you know, there's there's a lot of interest in
it's still but not at the moment. And they've they've
opened up way to wreck a park for it, but
it's trying to tetten everybody like stock cars, mini stocks,
saloon cars. It's not working.

Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
I've also got to say it's a god forsaken part
of Auckland.

Speaker 11 (01:42:47):
It turns, yeah, and it's and the stands are cold
because the window blows up ter you come through.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
The money, it's just it is. It's you know, you
you you wouldn't get a beer afterwards. Outside? What can
they I mean, you know, she's she's she's there. She's
the light manufacturing industrial wasteland.

Speaker 15 (01:43:05):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 21 (01:43:06):
It's dead.

Speaker 11 (01:43:07):
Right, yeah, yes, anyway, that's that's a shame because it's
the punts and rugby club that they use Western Springs
Speedway ground in the center of the field. Yes, and
they use all the toilets and all that there. So
that's that's really good.

Speaker 21 (01:43:27):
That's fine.

Speaker 11 (01:43:28):
Yeah, But why why they don't want it anymore? I
do not know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
Here's a question for you, Ellen. Are you ninety No, No,
I'm only nearly eighty.

Speaker 21 (01:43:38):
That's sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
Didn't you say anyway you want this?

Speaker 11 (01:43:42):
It's been there for ninety years.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
See what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (01:43:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:43:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:43:47):
You wonder what the new sports will be that will
come along that'll draw big crowds? Do you think there'll
be Do you think there's new sports yet to be
invented that will get twenty thousand people? Because what I
mean in the in your days, you've seen speedway come along,
You've seen midget racing come along, you've seen stock cars,
all these sports. Where are the new what are the
new sports of the will yet to be invented?

Speaker 16 (01:44:07):
I wonder, Oh, I think punks would be Rugby club
would be about the only one. Yeah, talks about talks
about pop concerts.

Speaker 7 (01:44:18):
Mister Brown, Yeah, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Well, he's at a bad day at the office. Nice
to talk, Thank you. Thirteen to eleven away from eleven.
If you anyone saw that doughnut of cloud tonight in
the sky, it sounds like it was a rocket a mission,
But it must have been just just at twilight that
the moon or the rest of the sun could illuminate it.
But it's perplexing, perplexing. Will we lemin a a three

(01:44:42):
day weekend coming up to Someone wanted to know when
the cafes will charge more money, if it's if it's
sad day, if it's Monday. I don't know the answer
to that now. Also, people are heading home from the
christ Church Stadium very straightforward, clear out. Apparently people are sober.
How easy it was to leave actually without it without
it's probably every christ Chitach thing to be worried about too,

(01:45:03):
with getting out of buildings, with the history there've been through.
I imagine it's probably the psychologist that's probably quite understandable.
But yeah, and now I don't know, I don't know
how many, but I don't know what bars are nearby there.
I suppose these special ones that have been built and
there's rugby for five days. Sorry, there's rugby five matches

(01:45:25):
for three days I think, or two days three days
counting today. But I think the Crusaders just play once,
so it's not like there's a lot ab out of town.
Is therefore it's like a magic weekend. Get all the
super rugby matches are in that stadium?

Speaker 7 (01:45:38):
I think.

Speaker 15 (01:45:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
I mean it's obviously works, that's sold out. Don't know
how it will work next time. Obviously there's a novelty
of the stadium that's got people going there. But if
you have been to that, let us know. By the way,
Brisbane over the Canterbury Bulldogs sixteen to zero, seven to eleven, Trevor,
this is Marcus. Welcome and good evening to you.

Speaker 28 (01:45:56):
Thank you very much. I'm ringing on behalf of the
Emberly Men Shed. We are trying to raise money to
build our first new permanent building to make things for
the community. And the last Sunday on every month down
to the Better Half Restaurant and Cafe grounds in Leaffield,

(01:46:18):
we run a classic car show. This particular Sunday coming
up is our sixth All American Vehicle Show. I won't
say car, because we also invite American motorcycles in anything
to do with made in America. So I thought particularly
for the people in the North Canoby area who are

(01:46:41):
quite like coming here. Well, I ran it myself from
January twenty one. We only had twenty eight vehicles turn up,
but as since been progressed through the years we have
had up to four hundred and fifty vehicles there. And
of course that was after the first Sunday, after the
lockdown was announced and laterally everybody was dying to get

(01:47:05):
out and we had massive, massive crowd. But generally we're
looking at around the turn and fifty cars every blust
Sunday this month, but this one is our big one.
The All American Car Show is very popular. So the
enterities fee is only a donation to the emply men shed.

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We haven't had a set price, just whatever you want
to donte and so far we've donated over twelve thousand dollars,
which is great good. So thank you very much for
think about it. Speech Road, yes fourteen Nashworth Speech Road,
which is off State Highway one between Saltwater Creek and

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Pockecko Junction.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
What car are you most excited about seeing a big apardner?
What car are you most excited about seeing?

Speaker 28 (01:47:58):
Any American car made between let's say fifty four and
sixty nine. That's my favorite cars, like Lincoln and so
for Lincoln, Cadillac Prize with the Plymouth. They're beautiful. Those
nineteen fifty cars absolutely superb, particularly they're two door hard

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tops some of the convertibles.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
Have you got a site for the MEANSHD, No, we have.

Speaker 28 (01:48:27):
Not got a site for the meanshard We want to
go central m Beli rather than out at Leaffield, which is,
you know, three or four kilometers away. But we're hoping
to settle on that with the Harona District Council in
a very short time.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
It be some empty buildings, wouldn't they wouldn't they an embly.

Speaker 28 (01:48:47):
Well, you would think so, But it's got to be
at a certain size. We don't want something too big.
We don't want something too small. I think one of
those are removable buildings that they had and on that
program called moving Houses would be ideal, you ad thought there.

Speaker 2 (01:49:03):
So where are you meeting these days? Where are you
meeting now?

Speaker 28 (01:49:08):
I can't rebuilding it right in the heart of Leaffield
beach village. No good, it's not ideal. We want to
go a lot closer to Amberley.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Of course I like you, no nonsense. I like the
way you talked.

Speaker 7 (01:49:21):
River.

Speaker 28 (01:49:23):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
Good luck with out having as Gangbusters? Can we say Gangbusters?

Speaker 15 (01:49:27):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Crusaders one. That'll be relief. Great stadium. There's no nigol
in the city tonight. I hope everyone's well behaved. Christ
your chope. Yeah, it's going to be a big occasion
for them. Good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:49:44):
Hither.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
This is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 28 (01:49:47):
Him.

Speaker 17 (01:49:48):
Mark I GTV. I used to be able to get
TV in ZIP class before the upgrade, and then of
course the start work. I went into develop store and
the owner and the helpful he told me a cronecust
dongle which he came round and installed for me this morning,

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and now the app is working beautifully.

Speaker 27 (01:50:17):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (01:50:18):
It also told me that tv zas won't allow older
tant models to access the app due to it being
as they call security risk.

Speaker 2 (01:50:33):
What extraordinary service that Where did you say you went hither.

Speaker 17 (01:50:37):
To the cary to clients in my power?

Speaker 7 (01:50:41):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Oh that's fantastic service.

Speaker 5 (01:50:45):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 17 (01:50:45):
Well, this is what happens when the end of a
Little town.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
So you're glitching and you said it was an appliant
shop in White Power, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
How much was the dongle?

Speaker 17 (01:50:59):
Ah, well it's ninety nine dollars that TV and Z
plus now only.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Yeah, okay, well reasonable, I guess that's the one off fee.
You have those shows for a long time.

Speaker 17 (01:51:10):
Yeah, no, I know, but I mean surely when you're up,
when they update and that which should be available to
all users.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
Yeah, I think so. It seems it's particularly since this
a state broadcast. Do you think they would make that
useful for everyone different?

Speaker 17 (01:51:25):
So, yeah, but anyway, I just thought i'd call in
the lip.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
Oh that's amazing service that they that they came around
and installed that. I'm very happy to hear about that.

Speaker 16 (01:51:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:51:36):
Yeah, it's really good, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
Thank you. Well, that's it's all about loyalty in small towns.
You'd go back there too, wouldn't you. Thanks for that,
Heather Either on the dongle get in touch fifteen past
eleven o'clock, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine.
The text Menamers Marcus, welcome the stadium and the dongles.
I presume a dongle enables you to cast from your

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phone to your flat screen TV. I presume it's like
a Wi Fi aeriel. Is that kind of right? We hope.
So I don't like the word dongle. I'd like a
different word, but as a Wi Fi dongle, not a
Wi Fi to dongle. Whether it's Wi Fi or not,
I'm not clear about. Seventeen past eleven. Now, Oscar, this

(01:52:21):
is Marcus. Thanks for calling and welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:52:24):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:52:25):
Hey, it was just interesting about day playing, wondering have
you heard of the game that they play in Australia
on a day?

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
I was wondering when that was. It's Indic Day, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (01:52:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:52:38):
Yeah, it's basically there when I live there, the most
nationally celebrated hubder across the country. Do you know what
they do.

Speaker 16 (01:52:51):
What the game is?

Speaker 3 (01:52:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:52:56):
I don't quite so. So to get this right, you
can only legally gamble on two up on ans act day.
That's right, isn't it?

Speaker 21 (01:53:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:53:04):
That's right.

Speaker 15 (01:53:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
Now you've got a board with two coins on it.

Speaker 24 (01:53:09):
You've got three, have you?

Speaker 21 (01:53:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:53:12):
You got three, and then two of them need to
face up. He's the name oh yeah, but I guess
my my my pushing was I meant obviously shared history
in the ends X. How come it's not a thing
over here in New Zealand. I've always wondered that this.

(01:53:34):
It just seems like it's such widely played over in Australia.
How hasn't the tradition come across the New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:53:43):
I don't know what.

Speaker 11 (01:53:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
Maybe it's our different stock that settled us.

Speaker 24 (01:53:50):
Yeah, never been too sure. I it just surprises me.
I guess New Zealand we have our great Day, which
is our big day, and then the obvios seem to
have their their two up. But always thought it was
like fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Have you ever played two up?

Speaker 24 (01:54:10):
Yes, I spent I lived in the Sitting four and
we spent the day playing too up at a few
of the local pubs.

Speaker 2 (01:54:23):
I think, And you might challenge me on this, Oscar, Yes,
I think two up was always two coins interesting, and
I think they might have modernized it to three coins
to guarantee a result.

Speaker 24 (01:54:43):
That would make sense because.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
So if they do three, if they if there's three
coins tasked, right, yeah, it's got to be two heads
for you. So if it's three heads or two heads,
you win, is that right?

Speaker 24 (01:54:59):
Yeah, that's right. The person flipping as they're trying to
hit the heads, then they they're betting against the house,
but trying to trying to flip heads.

Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
So is there any margin in the house.

Speaker 24 (01:55:16):
No, no, not at all. It is coin flopping at
the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
So it's just it's just a redistribution of money pretty much,
pretty much.

Speaker 24 (01:55:27):
But everyone has a laugh while doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
Yeah, no, and people love it. I mean people with
the outback that come from miles around.

Speaker 24 (01:55:35):
Oh yeah, I'm glad you've heard of it. I feel
like whenever I talked to maybe I talk to too
many young folks, but they've never heard of.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
Because what's interesting. There's like a pedal that the coins
go on, isn't there.

Speaker 24 (01:55:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's it. And so the person that flips
it with the paddles trying to flip heads, I'd.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
Be into that. Are you in Australia now, Oscar?

Speaker 24 (01:56:00):
No, no, no, I'm in Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
Okay, nice to hear from Oscar. We'll talk to about
if anyone's actually played that in Australia. That's in my
bread basket. Of things like I enjoy gambling. I enjoy
interesting forms of gambling. So she played two up? When
did they go from two coins to three? I don't
fully understand the odds because it's kind of hard to
visualize it as he's talking about it. Oh, unfortunately, Marcus

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the ordects of a high losing record rescuing the ones
Caked and I remember doing five years in a row
there for the sevens and the All Blacks tests in
early two thousandths. I was wondering about that TV on demand.
I thought it was my TV playing app. Could you
let me know what's going on? Please? I can't text,
you have to listen, but I don't know. I think
they've updated the app and they said some new TV's
that this is like that when when spark. Yeah, I'm

(01:56:52):
sure in Naps City would give Dneedin free fire wood.
It would just need collecting from along the beaches. That
we're sure. Thanks for great talkback. Anyone want to com
out the fireworks in Dunedin or about two up or
about ended christ When did the Wellington Stadium the caked
and stop being such a loved stadium. I don't know
what's going on. They're sixteen past eleven, good Eving David's Marcus. Welcome,

(01:57:17):
Hi Marcus. Okay, yeah, loud and clear.

Speaker 24 (01:57:21):
Oh beudy.

Speaker 25 (01:57:21):
Look I've just jumped in my vehicle and and I
haven't caught your conversation. I just heard you mention that
it's about sewing and such, and it wouldn't been very
interesting conversation with me about that. I don't really know
much about it. But what I did call we talk
about was Jimmy Barnes.

Speaker 18 (01:57:37):
I went.

Speaker 25 (01:57:37):
I went to the concert on Sunday night and it
was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Really, where was that at, Dave.

Speaker 25 (01:57:48):
Well, I don't call it Victor And it was Spark Arena. Yeah, sure, okay, yeah,
but proud too.

Speaker 12 (01:57:56):
It was.

Speaker 25 (01:57:59):
I was interested to see how many people would go.
And my partner bought me take a and b Ip
took it. Exc down on the floor with the suits.
Well I thought it was going to be it wasn't.
And so from there I could turn around and get
a really good view of the place. And yeah, it
was pretty chocolate.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
So with Jimmy barn does he sing mainly his old
stuff for his new stuff.

Speaker 25 (01:58:25):
I'm glad you asked makers. It was his fortieth anniversary
tour that he's currently doing celebrating the release forty years
ago of his Working Classman album. So, and I don't
know if you're familiar with that album, but obviously, apart
from the title track Working class Man, there's a whole

(01:58:46):
heap of other fantastic songs on that album, just bangers.
It's an iconic album. It's such a good album that
pretty much set him up for a solo career.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
So it's forty years since his solo album, which happened
after he got out of Cold Chisel.

Speaker 25 (01:59:04):
Yeah, I believe. I know there was another called Body Swerve,
which had a couple of songs that he then we
also re released on.

Speaker 14 (01:59:12):
On the.

Speaker 25 (01:59:15):
Working class Man album, So I think it may have
been a second album, but I think his first album
was just sort of a tentative to step out with
a few songs. But yeah, yeah, it was. It was actually,
well I thought it was four years ago because I
saw him in eighty eighty seven, but he actually said
during one of the talks and he'd released in eighty five.
But of course here in New Zealand we might not

(01:59:36):
have gone it till a year later or whatever. But
so eighty five, he put the album together, which means
he obviously finished up with Chisel and you know, eighty
four or whenever, but he did. He also had Ian Moss,
the other singer slash guitarist from Cold Chizel, open for him,
and Ian came out and they did I think they
did bow River and another song, you know, towards the

(01:59:58):
end of the show.

Speaker 2 (02:00:00):
Because the other thing about I just follow him vaguely
just through the knee. He always seems to having death
skis and comebacks. Is that all hyper? Was that really
his journey?

Speaker 16 (02:00:13):
No, I do, I do.

Speaker 25 (02:00:14):
Yeah, he was quite a there for a while. Yeah,
you know, he was pretty in a bad way. But
he's all right now and even better than that. Because
I'll to give you an idea. I went to Phil
Collins and I came away not happy because still couldn't
see anymore and he couldn't walk out on stage anymoreing Yeah,

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And I mean I didn't want to hate on it,
but it just wasn't that good because he just he
lacked the range to be able to sing the stuff
that he's famous for. Whereas Jinny for Man, I was
pleasantly surprised that he could still get up there and
scream out those those bangers h And also he bought
a three female backup singers. And if you if you

(02:01:05):
know the album songs like Thick Skins and Daylights, you know,
ain't no second prize. There's songs off that that really
lean heavily on the bvs and the vocals, and it's
it's almost like like they're taking you to church. It's
a real gospel kind of a vibe going down. And

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I thought, boy, it'll be a shame if they don't
have one or two singers. And they not only did
they have them, but they had them under spot lights,
and you know, they really made a show out of us.
And actually one of them was his daughter, Yeah, quite fun. Yeah,
And actually the other one was his wife, who also
jumped off and played bagpipes during vision, which is another
great song off that album.

Speaker 21 (02:01:46):
There's some cool.

Speaker 6 (02:01:47):
Bagpipes to go through it, you do case.

Speaker 25 (02:01:53):
I believe he did, Yeah, I think he did.

Speaker 23 (02:01:54):
He might have done.

Speaker 25 (02:01:55):
Kase sing in bow River.

Speaker 2 (02:01:56):
Okay, love that so've nice to hear from me, Thanks
so much of that. Twenty two Away from twelve Lennets,
Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 21 (02:02:04):
Greening the Other Night you're talking about goats.

Speaker 16 (02:02:10):
On the.

Speaker 21 (02:02:12):
On the talk Beck and it was too late for
me to get on you just to be out finishing
and I sort of turn the radio on. But there
used to be a process in plants in Queenstown.

Speaker 7 (02:02:27):
Really.

Speaker 15 (02:02:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (02:02:29):
And I used to export goats because I worked with
a mate and he got the contract to pick up
the frozen boxes and bring them back to christ Us
to go under cold storage. And that was in the
eighties when goats were sort of the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:02:50):
So were they farm goats or goats just in the
hills around Queenstown.

Speaker 21 (02:02:54):
I believe they were farm goats. Wow. I couldn't be
one hundred percent sure because I only went as far
as the cold store there and loaded from that. But yeah,
I used to the two roads a week out of there.

Speaker 15 (02:03:08):
It was for export.

Speaker 2 (02:03:10):
Well it sounds avery on Queenstown thing to have a
goat abbatoir, but yeah, it probably makes sense.

Speaker 21 (02:03:15):
Yeah, I don't know anything about it, you know, until
we got the contract and I defined my way there.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
Great, it's a good story.

Speaker 21 (02:03:31):
Yeah, so it was there. But goes also used for
clearing of course.

Speaker 2 (02:03:38):
Oh yeah, makes sense.

Speaker 21 (02:03:40):
Yeah, And I know one stage and Gorge goats were
fetching a hell of a price, like forty thousand.

Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
So people were paying a fortune for breeding piers weren't there.
They thought they'd be set up for life. It's amazing
when you think about it.

Speaker 21 (02:03:56):
Yeah, because I remember dot of a long of the
forestries there Eire had brought one for I believe it
was about sixty thousand. Yeah, but yeah, I mean it's
just the gas. But the other thing is the speedway
in christ Church. Was it I believe a Dexley area,

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that's right, Yeah, and then it moved out to ru
Phona that sort of died a natural death here.

Speaker 2 (02:04:28):
Someone said that there was a guy from Aucklands, Saget's
coming back in christ Church. Is that not the case?

Speaker 21 (02:04:35):
Well, him was really followed up for a few years,
but it was I think only once a month or
maybe once a fortnight. It was back in the seventies
and eighties. It was every Saturday night. We used to
go out and watch the the speedway and the bikes
and the when they called the team them blikes. We

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laid a swing on it because.

Speaker 2 (02:05:00):
You remember in the newspapers was always full page yea
every week for the for the you know, It was
a big deal, wasn't it. It was a really big deal.

Speaker 21 (02:05:06):
Yeah, because we had world class riders here too, you know,
like there Briggs running.

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
Yeah, the world beaters made Yeah, oh the excitement.

Speaker 21 (02:05:20):
But then just sort of seemed to die a natural death.
I know that the so called neighbors around there were
complaining and about noise and when that caused it to
die down or weaver.

Speaker 2 (02:05:32):
Yeah, I've never really fully understand how something that could
be such a you know, it was almost like a
national sport would just disappear like that.

Speaker 21 (02:05:38):
Yeah, and heaps of people used to go in like
there's a big car placking the area, and it was
right next to the other power of the road toner
their own track and man, but it was a good
night's entertainment.

Speaker 18 (02:05:54):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
I can't think what would have replaced it, because it
seemed as though it was there was always a budget
drivers from America coming down, spending the summer here and
doing things like that sleepy trip and the likes.

Speaker 21 (02:06:06):
There was another speedway for the y mack. Oh yeah,
what what's agueen? Maybe they talk and talk it over
a but.

Speaker 2 (02:06:17):
Yeah, well did you wouldn't go to the rugby mesch tonight,
did you Lenny No.

Speaker 21 (02:06:22):
Man, I'm I'm ski the creds.

Speaker 2 (02:06:24):
Good on you. I'm one Yeah, out of course your
one eye but skider crowd thanks so much that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:32):
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