Sounds pretentious (25 March 2026)

Marcus talks tinned vegetables, Kiwi Ranch camp, and whether or not petrol is being stolen from Jason's car.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Here's till twelve. Good evening, you see to my name,
miss Marcus. Welcome. Hope you get better as the night
goes on to oh eight one hundred, you know the
rest Hittle twelve for every wet in the North, the
winterless North, the wet winterless North, it's wet in the East.
I don't see in the Herald they're sending a specialist
water crew up there. That was a kind of a freedy,

(00:34):
dramatic headline. Want it a lot of that? Jeepers firefighters
specializing in water rescue deployed and fung are and auckland.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
On.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
If any we know had firefighters specializing in water. I
guess in some ways all firefighters specialized in water, don't
They's what's in their hose. But if you've got updates
for the weather, I want to be across that throughout
the course of the evening tonight. I'm predicted predicting a
slip in the Brindu and hope it doesn't happen. But
if you are driving in the North or are in
the North, and even update for us about the rain

(01:04):
if it's said, and if it's if it's heavy an
you think like that, let us know. What about keeping
you informed tonight so there's a fever to talk about
about that also tonight oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty it will rain. I don't think it's raining in bluff,
whether it's been immaculate, slightly too hot, too much grass.

(01:27):
Didn't work well with the high country muster. We'll try
that again tomorrow. I get in touch if you on
a part take oh eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty
and nineteen nine to detext. Some have been told to evacuate.
Northland is under a red weather warning. Yeah, so if
you've got some information about that, let us know. I'll
also keep it on the brink crew tonight. That's what

(01:49):
we do. It will be abut one hundred onns. My
guess at the moment. I'll check it up now as
we talk.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Who.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I don't know why I'm doing sighing noises like I'm
sort of exasperated and I'm not assist me. Seeds stuck
in my throat one hundred point one four. It's asked
over one hundred just over. When it comes down, it'll
be all good in the world. Trump's tough, tough talking
will have worked. By the way, this day. In twenty twenty,
New Zealand entered the level for a nationwide level for

(02:19):
a lockdown. Then there was a guy come back from
the Bull conference, remember that, And the person went to
the tool concert. Was it tall or was it the Fillies?
I think it was tall. And there was some event
in Palmers to North. Wasn't there that someone had gone
to like a water Apollo Championships. Do you remember all
those stories when we went to coat anyway, let's not

(02:41):
go there. But today is that day, just so you know,
six years ago. Now have we all moved on? It
is waffle ed. I love a waffle, love a waffle.
So that's the situation. If I need to get more
waffle lions, might we get a mini waffle lion. Yeah,
love a waffle. It's pretty much like a flat turro,

(03:04):
isn't it. I think we'reround the golden age of imported
tat from China, like appliances, I mean, waffle lines have
ever been cheaper?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Anyway, and by the way, said this day. In nineteen
fifty seven, six countries formed joined to form the European
Economic Community. But there we go. Do you know. I
want to cover off the weather first before. There are
other things I want to talk about tonight, So yeah,
be a part of it if you want to. Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty evening, Marcus. I noticed
that Married at First Tight Australia expert Mel Schelling, who

(03:37):
is on the latest series, has died up the dale
a year. I don't. I'm not across married at First Sight.
I suspect in not too many years to come. Just
like America's Top Model and the World's Biggest Loser, there
is going to be a reckoning about married at First

(03:58):
Sight and people will say, what were we thinking? How
did we allow that to happen? When we get vulnerable, lonely,
uncomp pattible people and sleep deprive them and fill of
our cohol and then film it and then wonder while
they all come unstuck. People seem to love it to
who am I to take that joy away from them?

(04:19):
That's the viewers, not the contestants anyway. But weather updates
from the north firstly, that's I want to cover off
tonight because there's other important stuff to talk about. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I just want to know
is it raining, is it flooding, is it pooling? Is
it ponding? There are things are important to know tonight.
I will keep an eye on the Middle East, as

(04:39):
I always do. Although it swings wildly like one hundred
eighty percent. You don't know any degrees. You don't know
what's going to happen one day to the next when
I'm across there. I just want to cover off the
north first of all, because this could become a big
news story tonight, or maybe not tonight, maybe tomorrow. But yes,
do come through if you want to talk about this. This
is the plan. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

(05:00):
and nine nine two text by the way too. Something
else that I am happy to talk about tonight is
the life of Catherine Saunders, who was a good mate.
I hadn't seen her for a long time, but I've
talked to her often on this show. She'd ring up
from time to time. Great laugh, good value, free, supportive,

(05:24):
great person. Everything everyone said about her was right, great
says a human, great broadcaster, one of a very early broadcast.
I think she's from Dunedin, up the country. And then
sort of did it all, did it all by the time.
She was quite young also, but she has died. I
think she was eighty five. There's a few obituaries around
for her. That is Catherine Saunders. She's sort of one

(05:45):
of the first sort of pillowent from TV to become
a bit of a marketing guru. I guess these days
she would have if she had love Agains, she would
have been an influencer. She's really big on the block
of cheese eighty three she was. She was always promoting
the bigger block of cheese. But she hear Thore saying
she had trailblazers. She was also on Beauty and the
Beast and did many many things. So some of you

(06:08):
will have experiences with her, no doubt. Throughout the course
of the evening, we will talk more about that. In fact,
she rang the show and was talking about actually rang
the show, talk about when she's working in TV and
didit Dunedin and she was she was about she was
talking about people auditioning for TV shows and she's talking

(06:28):
about John hau Grenelle coming in for edition I think.
But yeah, she had caught a number of times. So
there we will remember her tonight. Also one of those
old school broadcasters. I guess she'd call I'm not entirely shrub.
I think that she did some shifts at z B also,
but I think it was in the background as a producer.
I think that's the way. I had some discussions with
some people today about that. But anyway, so that is

(06:50):
something you might want to talk about as well tonight too.
So yeah, get in touch if you want to be
part of the show. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to detect. If
there's something that you want to talk about, you are
more than welcome to do that. There's something you want
to lead the discussion with that will be good. But
doing a cover off the weather tonight also too. So
it just doesn't that doesn't get beyond me. A fifteen

(07:13):
past eight email here, good evening, Marcus. Petrol has been
the main topic lately, and anyway, I feel it's more
than that our governments do not think your head making
us in rely on poorting such a lot of what
we used to produce here, relying on road transport of
goods because the rail transportation of the same was discontinued,

(07:34):
as were many passenger rail services. I think passenger rail
services were discontinued because people had private motor cars. It
wasn't necessarily a bad thing anyway. By the way, this
emailer goes on to say, we've lost what is and
now mccains people buy from Timo instead of New Zealand retailers.

(07:55):
Logs go overseas, and so does most of our best food.
I think when it comes to frozen goods like wat
Is and mccains, I think the reality is we're actually
now eating a lot more fresh vegetables, and let's call
it like it as they are better. So maybe this
is not necessarily all a bad thing. Not trying to
be controversially, just trying to say, probably what the underlying

(08:17):
reason for that to happen was. I don't know if
any people to eat tin vegetables anymore? Would you? Tin
pas used to be all right, but I don't know
if does he want eat? I mean, I don't want
to sound judgmental. Am I sounding judgmental. Now get in
touch if you want to talk. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two detects. Someone says,

(08:37):
you mean Catherine Dowling. I mean Catherine saul was this
Dowling was who made a name and if that's the case,
I'll be interested to have heard that. So thank you
for that. If that's the truth, what are the people
saying there's a cyclone about w way? Thank you. We've
had a lot of rain in the last storm. It's
not too bad at the moment. And are o Akua
and Helena, Bay Kate and I are at the holiday home.

(08:59):
Love you show, Mike, Yeah, anyway, get in touch you
on a talk. I'll tell you what the quiz is
going very well. I might even read some of the
quizzes we've got for the hear the quiz questions from
the cause anyway, if you want to start the whole
wall writing that to me, he l midnight. So yeah,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine

(09:21):
to detext. Yes, I'm reading about Catherine Saunas on here
Wikipedia page Knee Dowling. You seal them broadcasting personality, public places,
get them and radio producer. You said in order of merit.
She certainly deserved that. Daneeda in nineteen forty two audition
is a radio announce for nineteen eighty one, She's nineteen

(09:43):
sixty one, and there we have it. And there's plenty
more about that, also very much involved with the dairy board.
But get in touch. I you've got to talk on
air about any of these things, and the weather and
who eats tin vegetables, what tin vegetables would be worth buying.

(10:03):
I think the thing about tin vegetables, right, there's a
couple things about ten vegetables. I think people got concerned
about what tin vegetables. The lining of the tin anyone
across that conspiracy. There's some sort of thing that lines
the tins that is probably a microplastic. I think it's

(10:26):
got a BPA, this phenal a which can leach into
the foods. They call that an indo endocringe disruptor and
it can arry arteries. I don't know if any proof
about that, but if you avoid canned foods, you will
avoid it. Yeah. I don't know too much about that,

(10:48):
but they've had a bad wrapped tin food and maybe
that's been for good reason. The other thing about tin foods,
I'm sure they're probably free high in they'll be high
in salt. But I don't want to sound judgmental, but yeah,
a lot of people rate tinned beetroot. Well, I myself
do love a tinned plum if it is a black Doris,
and it's pretty much always a black Doris is a

(11:09):
tin plum. So you said something you can talk about tonight.
Beetroot comes in cans, Yes it does. My fridge died,
so it's tin food for me. Sardines on toasts, the
breakfast of kings, Marcus. Very still evening here in among
a weeker barometer. Hi, I love tin beettrouit Marcus, tin veggie's, mushrooms, beetroot, bamboo, shoots, shoots,

(11:32):
who asparagus, tomatoes, chickpeas, lentils, Marcus. I've brought a waffle
line on trading to arrive down. I'm looking forward to
trying it tomorrow. Do you love a good asparagus role?
I love a good asparagus role, Marcus. I think tin
vegetables were popular for camping and things like that in
the past, but in fact, frozen visuals they have every
good tune out. The tin fruit was all from overseas

(11:58):
turned out to be the problem. What about when you're
ten those tin do those baby corn They're a delight,
aren't they? Anyway? I need your cause tonight we're talking
about Catherine Saunders knee Dowling. We are talking a lot
of you all have met her. She was a force
of nature, episoute force of nature. I wouldn't say that
about many people in broadcasting, but she was some of
that was extremely pleasant always well, no, she wasn't extremely pleasant.

(12:21):
She had of an inch to her. That's what made
her good, even Diane, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
Yes, I quite like turned corn because I don't want
to buy a big packet at corn because it's only
me to eat it, you know, or me and the dog.
And the dog and the dog ducks corn as well.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Are they a dog wouldn't eat baby corn?

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Yes, they do really.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Hell just loves.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
It really on those little corn forks.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
No, no, you just eat it out of the out
of the tin. You hate it up, you you?

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Oh, I think I thought those little baby corns. But
you're talking about tin corns. Like when you're making corn
fritters like creamy or.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
Corn it justie begie with mixed reg as well, like.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Your tin corn is a classic. Yeah, yeah, that fairing
around with it you think about you get corn, there's
all that bloody wrapper, that all that sheets that sort
of leaves that you've got to get off.

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Oh, yes, no I don't. I just know it's I do.
That would be a bit of a nuisance. Yes, I
just get it in the tin, and it's suitable for
me and the dark, or myself and the dog.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Have you got Have you got a favorite tin vegetable story?

Speaker 6 (13:46):
No I haven't at all. No, I just the corn corn.
Oh I tell you what else is good and caught?
I know I have it every week because tomatoes are
always too expensive, so you get tomato and tins, or

(14:08):
you know they're both sliced tomatoes and tins, or you know,
do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (14:14):
I know exactly what you mean. I mean, I think
you mean sliced tomatoes and tins.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Yes, but you can get them sort of like crashed
up as well. You know, you don't have to be sliced.
It's crushed up.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay, thank you, Diane. Does your dog get the tin vegetables.

Speaker 6 (14:32):
Too, No, she's got thick of the carrots so they
get left behind behind. But no, then I don't give
a tomato. Tin tomatoes either might be a bit had
on her. So yes, no, no tin tomatoes. You'll find

(14:52):
they have them at always every week.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Okay, I'll look into that. Thank you for talking, ten
Vegetables eight twenty seven, Tims Marcus.

Speaker 8 (14:59):
Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
You well, yes, good, Thank you Tim yourself.

Speaker 8 (15:04):
I'm very well, Thank you, Vegetables. I kind of feel
like I've heard this conversation with you before, but I'll
give it another gig. Some big on the sleigh, some
big on this. Yeah, maybe it's.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
My you might you might be having radio radio daja voo.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
Well I think so all there's a glitch in my Yeah, yeah,
you probably.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Well, I think it probably is a simulation. Yeah too,
feels like.

Speaker 8 (15:35):
Anyway, I'll go for it anyway. And so I'm a
big fan of the slow cooker. It suits my budget.
And so what I pad out a chicken like, I'll
get chicken breasts and throw them and three of them,
and I might throw in a can of not necessarily vegetable,
but like rid kidney beans, a can of corn, not

(15:59):
the whole, the whole corn rather than creamed corn, other
kind of beans, which takes me out vegetables. But there's
a product that you get from woolwere so it's tin potatoes.
No tin potatoes.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
No did you say this last time?

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Yeah, this is what really freaked me out. I thought
I should have had this conversation.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
In all my life, I've never heard anyone say tin potatoes.
So this is big for me.

Speaker 8 (16:29):
Maybe it was a foreshadowing I had, yeahm or something. Yeah,
here we go. So and they're the value brilliant there,
you know, usually under two dollars.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
What with the theffing around with the little green green
spots and the peel and stuff like that. Don't go anywhere, Tim,
because I'm going to look after you in a talk way,
just hanging those going to headlines. I'll come back for
you more about this. Not every day we get something
to talk about tin potatoes and the matrix. Back to
your Tim. So we've got the three chicken breasts, and
you've got a tin of corn, and you've got some

(17:03):
tin of beans kidney beans, and then you got your
tin potato.

Speaker 8 (17:07):
You can through their ten potatoes and sometime and just
for those highlight headlines that came and I think the
moon base could do with the supply of the we.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
I'm thinking about that. I'm thinking about myself and thinking,
j A, what they're beating there all that I'm the thing. Actually,
when they're gonna get out there, it's probably going to
be straight up there for a fight. More than likely
Americans together.

Speaker 8 (17:29):
Get some cabs and you give them the energy for
But what you don't want to do with these potatoes.
They're safety board to reheat and you know, boil them
in water or reheat them in water. Be great to
go straight and the slow cooker. Never ever even microwaves them.
They'll do things to the inside of your microwave. You

(17:51):
wouldn't believe they explode.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
This is out of the ten.

Speaker 8 (17:55):
Yeah. Yeah, obviously have the tin You can put them
in a bowl. You can put a like a bowl
with a plate on it to cover it, and you
can actually get the plate to lift off due to
a explode.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And you should be on videos like that. That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Ah.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Yeah, So treat them with respect and they're a good
little stop gap.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
You know, I'm already getting text from people saying, I
always wondered about tin potatoes. What were you thinking the
first time you bought them? You think I'll give that
a go?

Speaker 8 (18:27):
Yeah, I thought I'd give that a crack. And you
know what, you can use them. I mean, you could
use them straight out of the tin and make a
potato salad. There are an all year round things.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
You know.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
You can do some straight out chuck a bit of
you know whatever mayo and some stuff through it, or
heat them. You can slice them and fry them.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Probably you could. Probably you could probably refry them to
they're probably got you probably crisp up quite well.

Speaker 8 (18:54):
They crisp up beautifully. They make a good, good little side,
you know. And two bucks of can it's I don't
know you'd want to eat too many of them, but
that's potato, isn't it say?

Speaker 7 (19:08):
Better?

Speaker 8 (19:08):
And all that?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Brilliant? Okay? Thanks Tim?

Speaker 7 (19:13):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (19:14):
What is the secret ingredient for Tim's slow cooker chicken recipe?
Tin potatoes get in touch? Like every fruit and veg
best fresh, fine, sometimes frozen, tinder great third choice, but
always first induced if you like most families pressed for cash.
My top favorite canned Vegi's asparagus, chickpeas, beetroot. Canned corn,

(19:38):
not creamed canned baby cabbage. I've never known what creamed
corn is? What is creamed corn? Can anyone actually tell
me what it is? I think creamed corn? I don't
I suspect no one actually knows what it is. I
think most people thought it's probably corn and cream? Have
they do you want to tell me what cream corner is?
There's a cube builder for you. Always remember momenting a

(20:03):
tin of cream corn in a mouse head fell out.
She complained to the company and they sent us a
carton of corners, so sorry, and got given away for
the neighbors having eaten corn cream corn. To this day,
this is a good budget buster show, Marcus, tin potatoes
are brilliant, great to take camping, so versatile, Bennie. What
are the chances a guy texting about potatoes would sign

(20:24):
their name BENNI is in Jersey, Bennie. Gee, it's all
going on in the old Veggie Front twenty five to
nine Evening, Richard, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Hi.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
I know it would be quite easy just to google
what cream corners? But I think that's a bit of
a copy out, because we're here to discuss things and
debate about things. Anyway.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
But would it be a cop out or a cob out?

Speaker 9 (20:52):
But anyway, yeah, copy out, yeah, anyways. But I was
just wondering, Yeah, I like cream corn because sometimes I
make corn thrillers. Is there Joan Los Marcus.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Well, look, it's the classic. I've even worked in a restaurant,
so I've had to go to the shops to get
the can of corn because the Edmunds recipe does use
canned cream corn, very very good, one of the great recipes.
A bit of baker.

Speaker 9 (21:17):
Yeah, and a bit of sweet chili sauce as well
as lights on the cream corn. It's a bit of
dog of sour cream. Anyway, it's cream corn. The corners
is beached around it too.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
I think it is. I think it's just I think
they just scrape the milk from the cob.

Speaker 9 (21:35):
Okay, is that what it could be?

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, well that's what it says. But it's like got
a soapy, milky residue scrape from the cob.

Speaker 9 (21:47):
Yeah, the corners in the air, but at inside, the
creamy texture, that's the stuff that's still, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, I'm not a fan. I'd prefer just the corn kernels.
I think if I was doing the old Edmunds corn fritters.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Yeah, but then I don't think it would have the
same texture or the market, so that he used just
the kernels, it might not be that nice.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
I think it'd be night but it does say in
the Edmunds recipe. I'm looking at it now, four forty
gram canned cream style corn.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
Yeah, and if you use just normal perils, I don't
think it would be Did you have the traditional Yeah,
you won't have the traditional corn for us.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
It'd be dry, would Yeah, you'll have the.

Speaker 9 (22:26):
Past the child of a can of corn and flour
or something like that. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
It looked like something that passed through the digestion track
and wasn't fully processed or something like that, wouldn't it.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Yeah, well, I think that's what the cream corn looks like.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
More than thank you, Richard the hate cream corn, Brent,
Brent Crude, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (22:48):
Hello Marcush. My father used to do when he's going
to the racers head, do corn and oyster rolls. No
much the shame as you would do a cheese roll.
But it was the taste of the sheep from the oysters.

(23:11):
And one would compliment the.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Other was he was where were the oysters from?

Speaker 10 (23:20):
Plus, yes, you're due to the second grade one for
it and dropped them up and they were the place
of the bunch for uh and invite men around from
the races and that ever whisked your turn. The corn

(23:45):
and corn and oyster rolls had been grilled before he
put them in the pinfoil, and when they were cold
at the races, they were the most short after, very

(24:08):
much like a like you'd.

Speaker 11 (24:13):
Have for.

Speaker 10 (24:15):
The southern staple of the cheese roll.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
So was it, Brent? Was it done on bred?

Speaker 12 (24:25):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (24:26):
Yes, the same term the shame as you do a
cheese roll, you'd cut the shides off them both ends
and roll them up. And yes they're beautiful our members
of charge.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
President. Wow, Well I'm not gonna do them this year
at forty dollars a dozen, but wow, there you go.
David's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
Getting hungry partial with the old now cream corn for
the best foot as you're next to the cream corn
with a whole kernel corn beach. Yes, and also the
whole colonel or corn goes well on my omelets in
my air fryer that I used two eggs, And I've
told you before with cheese and whatever meat you've got

(25:16):
bung it in and it does easy peasy in the
in the air fryer. Now, I'm a fan of the
asparagus tind asparagus, and although.

Speaker 13 (25:25):
The tin beetroots splice. I've concerned that and just a
normal asparagus. And hey, I've learned something. I've learned something tonight.

Speaker 12 (25:35):
What's the twelfth fielder on a field and cricket that
what's considered the twelfth fielder on a cricket patch? Yeah,
there's one. Will get you now to get bitter mile
per gallon out of your tank, out of your fuel usage,
pump up your tires to forty PSI. And I've learned
something else, and that is to fill your tent slowly.

(25:57):
Apparently there's not much not as much gaseous as being clocked.

Speaker 10 (26:02):
Over on the on the on the dial.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
So sell your team slowly, you get better, you get more.
There you go evidently, So what's the twelve field of Marcus?

Speaker 10 (26:17):
No idea, it's the stumps?

Speaker 13 (26:20):
Okay, yeah, apparently so, and I learned something tonight.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Any hell as if I thank you. I've learned about creamer.
I've wonded about cream corn but never resolved that. I'm loving.
Often they'll do a cheese roll, that's a corn and
cheese roll. I've never been brave enough, mind you. I
forgot to get to do my hot power hot cross Bunday.
I had a different sort of day than I planned today.
I didn't get as much done. And when I actually

(26:45):
finally did everything, I realized I've forgotten. I didn't want
to go get one. I've been sitting around in the
So I'll go tomorrow morning for that. Got a few
town jobs do tomorrow morning. So yes, you'll have read
how the Southend economy is booming, fastest growing region the
country GDP up nine point eight. All yeah, just so
you know, Wellington's lagging point one percent negative. I told

(27:09):
you a couple of weeks ago that were going gangbusters,
bang gusters here till midnight. Maneams Market's welcome. You're not
the big wet up north. Let us know. People are
saying that cream corner is essential for a toasted sandwich.
Cream corners basically corn kernels minced with a binder. Would
they take the shell of the corn kernel off? Perhaps?

(27:29):
Pretty sure that cream corners when they take some hard
skin off the side of someone's foot, mashed all up
and sell it and ain you're welcome. You know that
woman that did the recipe for the beef Wellington that
killed her whole family. The woman that recipe woman in Australia.
That's huge. Her recipe is all about tins. People love

(27:51):
the website. If you're not familiar with it, it's all
about tins. Tins. Are this tins to that tin person,
I'll tell you the name of it in a sec
recipe tin eats. But she did the old beef Wellington.
Of course the rest we does them individually, so she
could use the poison mushroom. Won Now she's getting on

(28:12):
in prison. Probably they say your Depp quite quickly. There's
been surveys about that. Marcus. Good day, Marcus. We are
on holidays, staying in historic Russell to the next Thursday.
The rain has just started coming down heavy. The holiday
home has a fire and the ute has a second
deep cycle battery with one hundred watten Verter set up

(28:32):
that charges through DC to dcuit. When the uter's running,
we should be okay for seven days. It's funny how
Tramp said how he got a gift from the Iranian president. Marcus.
I'm a super fan of as many recordings from various
shows of my favorite callers, and one features Kay who
called on the twentieth of January twenty twenty two. This

(28:54):
is one of the last times I can remember corners
the topic corn corn corn, I don't remember the corn.
I've never talked about tin potatoes. Ten away from ten
away from nine, we are talking cream and corn. Marc
has been in Next South in. My favorite is a
large cheeseburger with a battered oyster. And it never heard

(29:16):
of that, by the way, never known anyone do an
oyster burger? Is that something I've never seen that at
the chippy? Should be though they'd go viral. What are
these food influencers doing. Why an't they doing the good stuff?
Never heard of anyone doing an oyster burger? Sort it out.
So there's no money in frozen vege, and people have

(29:37):
switched mainly to fresh vege. I gather but tinned vegetables
very much. And when you're talk about tin vegetable, that
guy said beans aren't a vegetable. What I know, there
are a leg yuman. There's also vegetable vegetable, aren't they
They probably tinned beans and tinned tomatoes are a bit of
a staple and using in pantries tin beans. Not sure
about tin spaghetti. I always feel disappointed that they ever

(30:05):
put sauce sages into spaghetti. And then my disappointment is
not that they did it, but that there is a
continued market for it after people have tried it. It's
so disappointing because they're like a little smoothien tube of
there's nothing, there's no texture to them. It almost needs
to be sold in two tins with there's I don't

(30:28):
know how you could do it, but yeah, it could
be a good thing, but the way they do it,
it's not. You have quite strong opinions about that tin
spaghetti and sausages. Terrible. It's a terrible, terrible, terrible thing,
terrible thing. Someone asks a very good question, how come
there's no tinned cumua, really good question, sort of out

(30:48):
what is you think there would be? There need to
be big tinned otherwise it'd be tins of kumuta pieces,
but there would be something I'd be into, maybe six
from nine. Keep in touch with the weather if you've
got updates from the North, the winterless North. They did
send specialist firefighters that specialize in water, which I thought

(31:12):
was all of them. There will be power cuts. It says,
keep your devices charged and secure loose outdoor items like
trampolines and patio furniture I'll just be calling an outdoor furniture.
I don't know if we have patios in this country,
do we? I'm not sure about the word petio. Is
that different from a deck. I don't know what a

(31:33):
patio is. I don't like the sound of it. Sounds pretentious.
But anyway, get your furniture in or chain it down,
or put weights on top of it, tin cans, put
your tin corn on top of it. Be in touch.
We are talking about the North and tinned food. It
is waffle Day. About those mini waffle lions. I guess
probably the thing about a waffle. You've never had a

(31:54):
waffle of thought, Gee, I wish I wish it was smaller.
If anything, you probably said I wish it was bigger.
But I know that Camart sell tiny waffle lions. It's actually,
as i'm thinking about it now, it's probably not every
good idea at all. However, if you want to be
on the wireless, that's the planned people, and I'll keep
you updated with news throughout the course. So I don't know.
I don't know what's happening with Trump and if he's

(32:15):
spoken to them or not spoken to them, or the
Iranians have said that Trump is negotiating with himself. I
think there's probably an element of truth in that. Although
Trump claimed Irana has given the US a very big present,
talks like someone talking to a child. Well that's what's happening.
And that's the latest I've got for you. But you

(32:35):
get in touch, you on be on air. As I've said,
the street lights are out in Clifton and Q and
in vert cargo. Someone might have hit the substation. I
don't know where the substation is. We think power are
we going out in the daylight today? Be all the
fans because of the heat. It would be my prediction
no one won Powerball, three people one regular Lotto seven

(32:59):
past nine. Brett, this is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 14 (33:03):
Yeah, just wondering what the whether he puts slights of
your bay and hovisible point A for us people that
live on these on the boats out in the morning.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Here copy that.

Speaker 14 (33:13):
Yeah, just so if anyone out there is.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
What you want one to know the tides title seurages
or you want to know just.

Speaker 14 (33:21):
How far away it is going to hit us, or
or is it just going to be straight past us?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
It might us.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Just wondering how many people, how many people living on
boats out there.

Speaker 14 (33:34):
There's a couple of us say that she has to
be quite wild anyway. Yeah, who are just finding your
close would be? And when he could win the reports, Yeah,
I'll leave you.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'll look it up for you. It should be raining
by about ten o'clock. Rights the rights the next four
days when the wind kicks in.

Speaker 14 (34:01):
Yeah, it'll be funny, no way.

Speaker 15 (34:03):
Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Haven't got any reports for strong ones. We are talking cream.
We're talking about ten vistables, your favorite ten visual one
of the by the way, the street the street lights
around in Ninver Cargo. I've got no word why that is.
I had a couple of reports on Facebook about that.
Soy that teppening. But you get in touch of you
want to be part of the show. My name is Marcus.
Welcome HITD twelve. Also talking about other stuff tonight, the
weather in Northland if you want to mention that. The

(34:28):
other thing I was doing some reading about online today,
which was something that I heard about a lot about
when I was younger. I haven't heard about it for
a long long time. It was sort of prompted a
bit of nostalgia and you might want to talk about
that if I can find the story Kiwi Ranch. We
never have a school a Holida Key. I think that's
where all a lot of school trips went to. I

(34:50):
don't remember anything about that. I hadn't though about that
for a long long time, not though every knew much
about it. I think it was big in the seventies. Yeah,
I don't exactly know where it was, but I'm sure
a lot of.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
You went there.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Or Lake's Ranch is what it was known as. So yeah,
jumping if you want to be a part of the show.
Tin potatoes yummy, yummy. Marcus, have you got the info
on the weather warning? We're supposed to go tomorrow, but
not if it's bad where it's supposed to be. We're
an no target. I don't think it'd be bad. No, Targo,
just use your phone. Nothing much happening in fangare yet

(35:28):
light drizzle? Slight drizzle, the adgust of wind. Ask people
for the best waffle recipe? Yeah, that's the plans stand.
There are no tinned beans available, the tin bees available.
The tin peas available are Wiolworths brand. In the yuck.
A lot of tin food has been disappearing from the
shelves for quite a while. When we talked about tinned

(35:52):
cream corn and January twenty twenty two there was a
shortage then can spaghetti's kind of slime? Thank you calls
people twelve past nine, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and Kiwi Ranch and I to know if you want
to talk about that and anything else that takes your
fancy tonight. I've got no idea what's happening in in

(36:14):
the Gulf. If Trump's been to confuse us all, he's
certainly succeeded. He got some updates of that. Do let
us know what that might be. The Iranian military have
said that Trump is negotiating with himself. It seems to
be a bit of true in that truth truth in that.
So yeah, but get in touch. If there's something different

(36:34):
you want to mention also too, I'm up for it. People,
do get in touch. How's your oil? A lot of
places in Australia have run out, but that's where Mad
Max was filmed and set, the kind of obsessed with
stockpiling fuel there. It's the way they go, It's the
way they roll. Gav Marcus, welcome, are we good?

Speaker 16 (36:56):
Good?

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Gav?

Speaker 17 (36:58):
I starving the.

Speaker 7 (37:01):
Rain on t's I can hear it yeah, then heading.

Speaker 15 (37:07):
The word spree.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Wow, and it's just started as.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
It well yeah, game don started then?

Speaker 15 (37:18):
Okay, very very wind.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Is the wind with it too? Is there?

Speaker 18 (37:23):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 10 (37:25):
Probably?

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Okay Okay, any any curtain side is in trouble or
anything like that? Okay, you have to are you stopping there?
You're going on further?

Speaker 7 (37:39):
Going up microproo.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Okay, but oh so what's the place you're going to?
Cool Pastia? I think it was called Arteria Junction the
railway days, wasn't it.

Speaker 9 (37:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Yeah right yeah, case up the road from there.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
You might be having I mean that sort of rural stuff.
There could be some yeah, okay.

Speaker 7 (38:17):
Before the road goes underwater.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Okay did you say to did you say to hepaw?
Is it where you're going? Okay? Copy that southwest Polka poo. Yeah,
gotta copy that kny ranch Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Carry just yeah.

Speaker 17 (38:40):
I school with one of the people, the homes with them.

Speaker 13 (38:47):
But lots of stowbrys you can go there.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
What's the quarry.

Speaker 13 (38:56):
The quarry.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
At poker Poo. What's the big thing? It's a big
line works, is it?

Speaker 15 (39:02):
That's the lime quarry for a limestone through.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
There under the clay.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Wow, is it what you're going for.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
I'm going to ks up to the road.

Speaker 10 (39:13):
The road.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Oh yeah, wow, bit of a mystery, but nice to
hear from you, Carol.

Speaker 18 (39:23):
Yes, welcome, welcome. I'm bringing in about Kiwi Ranch now.
I live in Upper Heart and we used to have
Kiwi Ranch up at here at Katoki for many years.
It was run under mainly the Hilton says Hilton and Mavis,
and then we had Ruth and Lynn. Ruth has died

(39:45):
Endlyn now and for many years they had camps up
there and a lot of year people went up to
help them voluntary. It was under a Christian name. That
part was all good and yeah, so that's upper Hat.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
So did they they head by the road road and
they branched out. Is that what they did?

Speaker 10 (40:06):
Well?

Speaker 18 (40:08):
I can't give you exact story, but there was rot
to Rower, yes, and there was the one at Kaitoki
and that one went for years and went up for holidays.
They had a lot of voluntary help from mainly church
people and the kids were given a jolly good time.

Speaker 19 (40:29):
It ran.

Speaker 18 (40:30):
Oh I'm not sure how many years. Try Hilton's still alive.
He's where is he up northeast somewhere yeah, so it
was all a big thing in those days. And of
course so we didn't have so many other type temps.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
No, just ended.

Speaker 18 (40:52):
Ah, yeah a while ago. Now it's a while ago.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Nothing dodgy. They just stopped doing.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Is that right?

Speaker 18 (40:59):
Oh no, it wasn't dodgy. But I can't tell you
all exact things, but I know that we had many
happy time up there. They had women's camps and children
and yeah, they had horses and all that sort of thing,
and entertained the children very well, fed them well. And

(41:19):
but Lynn, who's there, passed on to be with the Lord.
She was wonderful. Look she was like the nurse. She
was a mother, She cooked, she did everything. She was
just a lovely person. Russ was a bit of a
blow hard. But anyway, he was the life of the party.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, God, you got good recall of all. That's sixty
years ago, is it.

Speaker 18 (41:41):
Well, I'm sorry to say, but I'm getting on in
years now.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Talked about you talked about cess. But who was Russ's
the blowhead?

Speaker 18 (41:48):
Or Russ was his son?

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Well understand, okay, yep, yeph and.

Speaker 18 (41:54):
Ceth was irish and one time he was speaking at
a conference and he got so excited his teeth flew out.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
What what what denomination was he? What brand?

Speaker 18 (42:06):
Well, let's call them. It was a generally underbreathren open brethren.
But they used all sorts of people to help.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Brilliant.

Speaker 18 (42:18):
Well, yes, some of it was.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Nice, Carol, thank you, goodness, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 20 (42:27):
Could even Mark?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
I tell you good Mike.

Speaker 20 (42:32):
So I've got a bit of a situation as it
relates to petrol. I don't drive that much. And I
went out to my car and I saw my petrol
cap opening. Happened, Yeah, And I thought to myself, well,
I tried to go get petrol, and there was such
cues I decided against it. So I thought, I thought
maybe I had just popped it and then come home

(42:55):
and stuff like that. So I didn't think anything of
it the first time. But then a couple of days later,
when I came out to my car and it's off
street parking, but it's not too far away from the
footpath and so force behind a fence, it was popped again,
and so this time I thought somebody, somebody likely has
done something. But the hilarious thing is is, like I said,

(43:16):
I don't drive very much. My tank has been has
been empty for a long time. In fact, it's been
so empty. The last time I filled up, I paid
two dollars nineteen for it was a very good deal
via guess B and I. I was pretty stoked, and
I sent photos to people. Hey, I paid two dollars
nineteen and then before you know it, it's up around

(43:39):
the three fifty three sixty matters you paid there.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
I'll thought you paid two dollars nineteen. I thought that's
not much petrol, but to nineteen Perlita.

Speaker 20 (43:47):
Two nineteen per leader the last time I filled up,
so I was walking around Cockerhood because I was so
stoked with that deal. But things can change rapidly in
a month.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
You don't know how much has been stolen.

Speaker 20 (43:59):
Well, I don't think any of it's been stolen because
it's been so empty. Sort of like I said, I
don't drive. I worked from home.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
The fuel cap open and there's no fuel gone, then
maybe you haven't been robbed.

Speaker 20 (44:11):
No, but it happened twice in a row that the
flap had been popped twice.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
But how can you How can you pop the flap.

Speaker 20 (44:20):
So I can PLoP? I can I can pop it
from in my car?

Speaker 3 (44:23):
But how can Rodney Robert, What can Rodney Robber do
to pop it?

Speaker 8 (44:27):
Just a screwdriver?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Is there a screwdriver? Mark?

Speaker 20 (44:33):
I don't actually have the look, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
You want to run forensics. I'm excited and dust for
prince we've got.

Speaker 20 (44:41):
We've got quite a.

Speaker 8 (44:43):
Scary dog.

Speaker 20 (44:44):
So we thought about like putting him in his crate
near and then once he erupts, we can catch the
catch the person redhanded and so forth. But maybe maybe
they think that we're we're not fertile ground for petrols,
so maybe they'll just leave us alone now because our
car is always empty.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
I don't have been robbed, but I don't know why.
To get the is to is to is to not
have any fuel in it?

Speaker 7 (45:11):
Right right? Right?

Speaker 20 (45:12):
Well, all I can say is, again I can't say
categorically that somebody has, you know, inspected my thing, but
it was. It was pop twice the first time. Maybe
that was my mistake, but the second time, I'm not
opening the flip on it late, you know what I'm saying.
So that's that's what I say. Maybe I am I
should see it up some sort of trap for them
the next time.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Okay, I think you've been robbed forty one past nine.
Good evening, Freddy, this is Marcus. Welcome even Marcus.

Speaker 7 (45:43):
I was just calling about canned vegetables.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yes we r.

Speaker 7 (45:49):
Yeah, yeah, well I.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Just wanted to ask, like, any.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
Better example of the canned version being better than the
fresh virgin version.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
I want to like, I reckon asparagus and p and
I reckon I reckon Pee is a bit of can
than in real life, he is, sir, and tin guavas
is a die for. I've never tried the real ones.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Oh, I never tried.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
I used to get gloves from my aunties, actually some
little glove jam. But yeah, American asparagus is the way
to go. It's kind of nostalgic.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
It's beautiful.

Speaker 7 (46:25):
It's always a silver lining too. Any funeral I've been.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
To, you know, to check them in a bit of
white bread have an asparagus role. You can't do it
with the real espirit. It's got to be.

Speaker 13 (46:35):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
You can't, you can't.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
It's just it's just not why things. Vegetables are a
bit of ten would be asparagus, peas, tease, baby corn guavas.
I don't like tin pineapple much.

Speaker 10 (46:54):
Who does the Glos.

Speaker 7 (46:56):
What is the Glovers?

Speaker 3 (46:57):
No, it's like from some South African brand. I think
they've got giant PEPs that get in your teeth. But
they're nice. I rate. I tried and grapefruit once. I
thought they were quite good.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
Well different, just like a different experience.

Speaker 7 (47:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Okay, well yeah, that's allready work.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
You get Walworths. We've got the guava halves you maybe
they're Willworth's own brand.

Speaker 7 (47:27):
Okay, well I'm there every second day, so I'll have
it looked tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
How come you there every second day?

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Oh? Mate?

Speaker 7 (47:34):
My family goes through a little food.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
My missus, I shouldn't call it that, sh reckons. No
one does a weekly shop anymore. Most people there every day,
every second day. She's probably right, Eh, it's correct.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
It's correct, especially with like school lunches and stuff.

Speaker 13 (47:48):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Are we just not as organized?

Speaker 10 (47:50):
Or well we were?

Speaker 7 (47:52):
We try the weekly thing. Try to a weekly shop
on a Sunday, but you find yourself there on a
Tuesday or week.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
No one's no one's an organized day.

Speaker 7 (48:01):
They're not that organized. And you know, when these pandemics
and things come, it really shows because everyone's out there Bay.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
I thought you said paramedics, but you said pandemics.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, or you know we
severe weather warnings and stuff.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
I'll see if I can get Freddy what islander you and.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
I'm in an author and I'm in the north Shore.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Saw Well shades. I'll see if I get some of
your neighbors to phone up and say, which which are
the best South African tab I'll see if I get
some of the what do we call the South African suburbs?

Speaker 7 (48:36):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (48:36):
What's the humorous word for them? What do they call them?

Speaker 2 (48:39):
What the South African suburbs?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
But they've got they've got a name for it that's
like like joe Wood Bay or something.

Speaker 15 (48:50):
What are they?

Speaker 3 (48:51):
What's the South African nickname?

Speaker 8 (48:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
I think it's called Brie Bay.

Speaker 7 (48:57):
Is it might only Bay Brown's Bay all those areas.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Yeah, I think they're called Brown's Bay, Brie Bay. But
we'll find out. They can tell us which of the
best guavas. Trippet's Frantic, don't forget cream caught and beetrit
would you mix them? I reckon that guy was robbed,
talk about getting the dog a security camera head. I
think he was robbed. Talk about an escalation. You see

(49:24):
how people kind of shoot their neighbors, can't you. Oh,
there's paranoid. He had no petrol, he bought no petrol.
No PETREL's gone. But he's talking about bringing his dog
out in a crate and getting security, say security cameras.
I just think that's an escalation. I don't mind who
it's a phone call. Spoke too soon, raining now, raining

(49:47):
very hard at the moment. And fang aare Shelley Marcus
Kiwei ranch lit went there in our Joseph excuse me,
let me dump that went there for us. Joseph's primary
takapooa standard for school camp nineteen seventy seven. Unfortunately, horse
riding cantile is too wet. Grape flying Fox Claire, it's
a Joseph's primary store. There is that gone sideways. My

(50:12):
mother in law literally at New World twice a day.
Our house still does a fortnightly shop. We'll good on
you for going fortnightly. I'm down the dairy about three
times a day. We're going to New We've got new
people in the new dairy and the Favaux from christ
Church lovely family. Bit went to see him for his
first day, the old woman was still there over the friar.
Last pit have been there eighteen years. So Bluff now

(50:33):
has a four square and a dairy. He used to
have three dairies and a four You step about five,
I think, But yes, it's always exciting when there's new
people in the dairy. See that's excited. Very good chips,
very good chips, extremely good chips. That's one as you
come into Bluff on the on the right. I hope

(50:54):
the new people can keep the magic being touched. Marcus
till midnight if you want to be a part of it.
Tin Vegetables, tin fruit, the best band of tin Guavas,
Tin Mandarins. People have revery worried about beach Hop. Will
that be canceled and fung A matar? I guess probably
it will be, will it? I feel a bit funny
about the beach Hop. I just don't think it's my thing,

(51:17):
which probably the rep Co Hop what goes for five days.
I don't think it'd be as terrible as the Deco festival.
I can imagine people sort of want around like there
in happy days. I just don't like anything we got
to dress up. I don't like anything that with people
are pretending it's a different time. I don't like it
when you go to motet and it's oldie world and

(51:37):
people are tuning butter and old suits and smocks. That
freaks me out. Anything we hadn't like nineteen twenties days,
we had dress up. Like nineteen fifties days, we ad
dress up. Yeah, I don't like time travel anyway. Lizard's Marcus,
Good evening.

Speaker 17 (51:54):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm finding about TV.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
We run, Oh god, good good, good, good god.

Speaker 17 (51:59):
We fard next door to them from nineteen seventy.

Speaker 7 (52:04):
Gee, Now where is that Ticketary?

Speaker 17 (52:07):
State Highway? Thirsty Ticketary?

Speaker 3 (52:11):
A cabin? Actually work out where that is?

Speaker 21 (52:14):
Well, you go, can you get help?

Speaker 3 (52:17):
I'm working out where it's actually right on the lake?

Speaker 17 (52:19):
Is it on Lake Roota Carwell?

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Okay?

Speaker 17 (52:22):
Which is an inland lake?

Speaker 16 (52:24):
Which is up?

Speaker 3 (52:28):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (52:29):
My other the phone ring? No lake writer call is
up behind here?

Speaker 8 (52:33):
We run?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
You mean you're on your phone? And another phone ringing?

Speaker 17 (52:37):
Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
What the chances of that?

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Like?

Speaker 3 (52:40):
My never rings?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Who would it be?

Speaker 16 (52:42):
My son?

Speaker 17 (52:43):
It's my son trying to get me. But we farmed
there right next door, and they were not that The
children there weren't that happy because they're always coming onto
our property and I would find them on the property
and I'd say what's wrong. They say, we hate it.
The food's terrible, trying to escape some of them. Yeah,

(53:08):
but we found next door to them they were quite
religious and they piled the kids in. Wow, they had
they had bulls, which you're not meant to against. W
should be double fenced and he needs to jump in
and have our heifers get out. We had studied Hereford's.

(53:32):
They weren't that good at farmers. They're probably better with
children than with father.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
They're farming children.

Speaker 17 (53:39):
Well, I wondered they didn't like it there.

Speaker 16 (53:42):
They didn't. Wasn't that clean?

Speaker 17 (53:44):
They piled them in, They piled them in.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Did you did you make did you go and did
you talk to them?

Speaker 21 (53:52):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (53:52):
Regularly because their stock kept coming into our place.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
It sounds like a disaster.

Speaker 17 (53:57):
It was a disaster, and it was not clean. It
wasn't dirty, it was you know. The children really didn't
like Some loved it, some didn't.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Well, yeah, I mean, I think it's always a bit
of a to be yng for your family to go
to like a camp like that. It freaky out of it,
wouldn't it?

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Well?

Speaker 17 (54:15):
I certainly think it would. But as I say, we
farm right next door to them, and I think they
were quite religious and lovely spot and they used to
use our bush which was out of bounds. We had
a bush that we fenced off. It was out of
bounds and there were kids going through it cutting down trees,
which really annoyed us. We protected the bush at the back.

(54:37):
We backed onto Fokopanarka and talk about wallabies, there was
thousands of them.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Would you do with it?

Speaker 3 (54:43):
Did that much grass?

Speaker 17 (54:45):
They ate a lot of grass? My sons shot them.
We had big teams out to shoot them.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
I like, you, you know nonsense. Are you're still there?

Speaker 20 (54:53):
No?

Speaker 17 (54:53):
We sold it about eight years ago. Unfortunely my husband
has not well and we had to sell. But we
bought in nineteen seventy and we were there for forty
eight years. We haden hundred acres.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
So I'm looking kind of because it still runners a bit.

Speaker 17 (55:10):
Of a ranch now, is it k We Ranch or
Lake's Ranch?

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (55:14):
Yeah, yes, I think.

Speaker 17 (55:15):
Well I think so?

Speaker 19 (55:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (55:18):
So were you were you next door? You're literally next door.

Speaker 17 (55:21):
To it, nor going towards Lake Rota.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
So what road were you on?

Speaker 17 (55:27):
State Highway thirty five? We were five one six State
Highway thirty.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Is it the same as Lake Rotakawa Road or no?

Speaker 17 (55:35):
So you went down Rotakawa Road to get to the camp. Yeah,
passed that up the hill.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
But I think the road the road looks to be
like State Highway thirty. Would it be State Higway thirty
now or thirty six?

Speaker 17 (55:46):
State highways? We were on State Highway thirty.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Oh yeah, what number they went?

Speaker 17 (55:51):
But they went down Rotaka Road?

Speaker 3 (55:53):
What number State Highway thirty?

Speaker 20 (55:55):
Were you five?

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Six?

Speaker 15 (55:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yeah, I can see where it is now.

Speaker 17 (55:59):
We were at the top of the hill and then
we overlooked rot and it's a beautiful spot, beautiful bush,
but full of wallabyes markers, full of them.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
I suppose there's nothing you can do. You can't fence
for wallabies, can you.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
No?

Speaker 17 (56:16):
No, But we used to shoot them regularly, spotlight them.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
Goodness, okay, it was good fun.

Speaker 17 (56:23):
It was a wonderful property. It ended up with a
lot of deer and pheasants and we had a pheasant
preserve on it. We released pheasants and yeah, fenced off
all the trout streams to protect the protect the lake
to try and stop poaches, because the trout came up
from late Grota Eati and spawned in the streams.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
Did the farm have a name? Oh, I found out word.
It looks beautiful.

Speaker 21 (56:51):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Mark at a lot of buildings on it. Is that
all different sheds and stuff?

Speaker 17 (56:57):
No, we had the main house and two shepherd's houses. Okay,
there were three houses.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Did it have an estrip on it wrecked?

Speaker 17 (57:07):
But towards the end there was no one.

Speaker 10 (57:10):
No one used it to begin with.

Speaker 17 (57:14):
In the seventies they did, but then pine trees came
in so there was no need to use it as
a strip. And then then my husband decided that to
protect the lake to stop fertilizing, and we planted pine
trees and amenity planting and sensed a lot of a
lot off to protect it.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Now did I ask you where you are now? Where
are you living now?

Speaker 17 (57:38):
Is I'm living in Hamilton? My husband's in a rest home.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
And it is terrible, yeah, terrible terrible disease. Is it
terrible illness?

Speaker 17 (57:50):
Yes, he's got a very rare illness. Markus called ASA.
It's very very rare multiple system atrophy and he's he
started their first seasant preserve in New Zealand where people
we put down ten thousand poles for six weeks and
fed them and grew them, and people came in and.

Speaker 10 (58:12):
Shot them.

Speaker 17 (58:14):
Wow, but they were free to go, but the seed
kept them on the property. It was like like an
English shoot.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
And they wouldn't leave because you wouldn't leave because you'd
fed them. But you're getting them ready to die to
be shot.

Speaker 17 (58:27):
Yeah, but they could escape. I mean, they had a
better life than our Latin the lambs. We fattened the lands.
We fat and had no choice. The truck came and
they went on. At least the peaces could fly away,
but they.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Would they wouldn't fly away because they get feed. Good
on you, Liz, Thank you twenty to ten guy at
Marcus Good evening, okaday, I.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
Just wanted to talk to you about Quie Ranch from
a child's perspective, that that last lady she said we
didn't enjoy it. Well, my memory is quite fond of it.

Speaker 8 (59:00):
It was a very good time.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
So what what did you belong to to go there?
That's I want to know abo about.

Speaker 22 (59:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
I was you know, I was a child we're at school.
It was a summer camp and my mum was like,
do you want to go?

Speaker 3 (59:14):
And I say, yes, we are at a state school
or a church school.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
State school, yeah, state school. But you know some of
the things that we got up to there, Like I
remember there was a bus with the roof cut off,
and you know, we drove into this great big petic
with this great big hill and the man was like, oh,
we're going to go up the hill, and then all
of a sudden he turn it off and take it
out again, and we're just roll backwards and it was

(59:41):
a hard time.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
I mean, help, that sounds that sounds that sounds reckless
these days, Oh.

Speaker 10 (59:47):
It certainly does.

Speaker 4 (59:49):
But then there was this It was like this roller coaster,
but it was like a single rail and a single
cart and you'd push it up to the top of
the hill and you'd get in it and just sit
in it and just roll down the hill and it
would just fall off the end, and you know, you'd
get out and scrape yourself off and go and do
it again. It was great fun.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
So you wrete time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
So everyone was all from different places. It wasn't all
from the same school.

Speaker 13 (01:00:11):
It was it was like, yeah, it's just that.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Yeah, I remember it was just like a summer camp.
So you know, this age group would be there this
week and that age group would be there at that week.
And yeah, there were heaps of bunk beds in the
rooms and you know, communal sort of living and eating together.

Speaker 10 (01:00:30):
But it was fun.

Speaker 9 (01:00:31):
It was fun.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
They they entertained us, and you know we did We
did all sorts of activities. It was a great time.
I wouldn't look at it like I didn't want to
be there because I actually remember being there.

Speaker 10 (01:00:42):
And loving it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
What you were talking guy, how are you are you
in your fifties now?

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
No, I'm in my thirties. Ago we're talking early nineties,
early nineties, early nineties there And was it was it religious? Yeah? Yeah,
it was religious. It was religious, so you know Christ
was there. Jesus was talked about. But from a child's

(01:01:10):
point of view, we were need to tote fun.

Speaker 10 (01:01:12):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
But imagine having a having a bus with no top
rolling backwards exactly exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
You wouldn't find it today.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
You wouldn't find today. Go whatever, be on the device
is nice to talk sixteen to ten talking about Key
we Ranch and ten vegetable vegetables. I have a batchet
like rote to witty and drive past this woman's old
farm every time I get out. Really is a stunning
piece of land. Who had lots of interesting things about
that ranch? Though, someone says, what's a wallaby?

Speaker 10 (01:01:43):
Marc.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
I just want to make sure that peop understand when
they say the Prime minister's table is ten thousand dollars.
It's not per person. It divided up so a lot
of money. It's cash grab. Who would you pay ten
thousand to go to dinner with? I mean, Luxon wouldn't
be my first choice. I don't know who you would

(01:02:04):
pay ten thousand dollars to go to dinner with. But
that's the plans Dan, I think you sit with next,
sit next to Nikola Willis for less, James says Marcus.
Someone's drained eternity to tank on one of our farms
over the weekend. We have now installed lock caps on
all the trucks, cameras and spotlights have been installed. On
Monday we can claim it off our tacks, So no

(01:02:24):
boog deal, just an inconvenience and you've got confirmation about
that thousand dollars ten thousand dollars. Thanks for that. Fifteen
to ten I went to Kiwi Ranch's apparent help. Each
dinner consisted of vegetarian mints. First night vegiments, the sun is,
second night Hamburgs with vegiments, Third night vegimints, bowling knays

(01:02:47):
with a vegetarian Was it just cheaper? We'll find out. Oh,
this is a cricket?

Speaker 20 (01:02:54):
Is that men?

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
So so Thefrica got one eight seven New Zealand sixty
two for two in the ninth eighty five percent chance
to win. According to Krickenfoe. In Australia, the bosses are
asking for people to be able to work from home. Yeah,

(01:03:19):
that seems although they are worried that people are going
to get replaced by AI if they refuse to work
in the office. So there's that as well. Might be
the sweet spot. Don't come back. We're going a computer
to do it. Ten from ten, do the night's gone
quick a if you want to be a part of
the show, that's the plan. Talking about Kiwi Ranch, we
are talking about vegetables, vegetables, vegetables, talking about fuel. Trump

(01:03:47):
says Iran wants deal so bad, they want it so badly.
We're talking to the right leaders, and they want to
make a deal so badly right now. Yeah, I wouldn't
believe it, but that's happening ten from ten rather, and

(01:04:08):
i'd like to talk to if you want to be
a part of the show, and if there is something
different you want to mention. I don't really care what
about you, but bad for old Dame Perry Grinder rast
where they're driving speeding offenses?

Speaker 13 (01:04:20):
What's the hurry?

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
She's the cheer of the ambulance organization. They speed She
had five speeding infringements. Goodness, five, she said, she's a
bit heavy on the accelerator, No kidding, goodness. Well whatever, next,
let's take a break and we'll get this next caller
out of the way. Yeah, Craig, this is Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:04:43):
Welcome, good eving. How's the game seeing good?

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
Thank you, Craig. How are you going with you?

Speaker 7 (01:04:47):
All right?

Speaker 16 (01:04:48):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (01:04:48):
I can't complain too much. I'm a little bit worrying
about the New Zealand cricket though hopefully.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
They'll tweet tweet, don't care, that's right, they'll be fine.

Speaker 22 (01:04:56):
Oh no, we must anyway, one of my friends got
a batch at a lake Roderiti and we go to
quite often and we actually drive past it his place,
and that farm plus Kivy Ranch looked really nice. Actually
haven't been there, but some of the native bush and
stuff is really really cool. So they don't really see
any places like that nowadays, so it's quite good. And

(01:05:19):
then the other thing was a little bit about the fuel.
We had someone steal a whole lot of diesel off
our family farm from one of the storage tanks to
them by the implement shed. They did it a couple
of times a few years ago, so my granddad got
sick and tired of it, so we drained all the
fuel out of the team and put them to jerry
cans and locked them inside the workshop, and then he
filled the whole tank that's on standings back up the

(01:05:41):
water and added a bit of food coultor into to
give the right side of color as diesel. And over
the weekend we came back and they drained the thing dry.
So I don't know what vehicles they put it in,
but it wouldn't have gone very far. But yeah, so
we just he just basically just replaced theseel with water,
put a bit of food color in it, and someone
decided to once again steal the whole lot, So yeah,

(01:06:04):
it wouldn't have done them very good. But yeah, it's
just crazy what people do, especially on farms.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
They had what would they have to what would they
have to steal that amount of fuel? Would they have
a train?

Speaker 22 (01:06:18):
Yeah, they must have to use a trailer befod for
going drums because that'tural. The tank is up on big stands.
One side was ninety one for some of the trekkers,
was never really years and the other side was diesel
and I think it was about two and fifty leaders.
It's quite a lot of fuel, but they're just drained
to completely drive. And my grandy looked at it and goes,
well that'll t shirt and they probably won't come back again.

(01:06:40):
But we did go for a drive down the road
around the year to see we saw any cars parked
inside of the road or died.

Speaker 2 (01:06:47):
Or whatever, but didn't see anything.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
But where was the farm?

Speaker 7 (01:06:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
White that.

Speaker 22 (01:06:54):
Yeah, Morons, Well it's on there. You go through Morrinsville
and then you go through ted and U and then
you got White. We were basically number seven road, which
was basically in sight of the dairy factory. See the
Diary factory for you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Dairy farm yeah, yeah, dairy farm.

Speaker 22 (01:07:11):
But yeah, nice, nice quieta really nice climbing it. But
mind you, half the time we couldn't see Mount Tierry
look out the winner, and it was mostly every time
you looked at Mount Tierra, the transmission towers always in
cloud as hardly but you could actually ever see it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Any chance of you're taking over the farm either, No.

Speaker 22 (01:07:29):
No, not really, I don't think so. But I've sort
of gone down a different career sort of electronics and
stuff like that, but.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Still keep in touch with it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
I used to.

Speaker 22 (01:07:38):
I still enjoy it. Like there's nothing like milking cows
on the farm. It just gets you kind of zone
out and relax, really, don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
You just get into it.

Speaker 22 (01:07:45):
It's just so relaxing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
They seem to love it. They love it.

Speaker 10 (01:07:50):
I used to love.

Speaker 22 (01:07:50):
Getting up a four o'clock in the morning doing that
and then doing these affixing the fence is what it
didn't like so much was haymaking in the middle of summer.
Kind of sucked a little bit, but it's one of
those things.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
You had to do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
But so you never went to you never went to
Kiwi ranch.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
No, No, it drove past it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
We're not the same way driving past it.

Speaker 22 (01:08:13):
No, no, no, well the were my friends Betch was
on the side of like we were. It boarded onto
bush Ley and we walked through the bush and just
looking through just you know, day hikes and stuff like that.
We could see the back of the ranch when we
came out the other side. But well, I remember as
a lot of kids around and they have a lot
of different sort of things like swings and slides and
all that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
But we never went there.

Speaker 22 (01:08:34):
No, yeah, I was sort of working by that stage, so.

Speaker 16 (01:08:39):
But good on.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:08:42):
The other thing, yep, is that closing down?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Is that what we're talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
What we're talking about? It just it would be something
we should talk about.

Speaker 8 (01:08:48):
Oh cool, I just missed the first part.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
I think it has closed down. Well, I think it's
I think he did. I don't know the full I
think he opened up a few of them and then
the yeah, and then he kind of no longer a thing.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
But it was, it was.

Speaker 7 (01:08:59):
It was a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
A lot of people talk about there. From one in
the seventies, they weren't talking about the Kiwi Ranch to
talking about that small as board in Auckland overlooking by
one tree. What was that called? Everyone was going to
remember that one. The don't think everyone was talking about
it at the same time. Here til twelve we are
talking about the Kiwi Ranch and we are talking about
tin canned food and the rains and fang a ray.

(01:09:22):
It's a situation Ron. It's Marcus Gravy and welcome today, Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:09:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:09:28):
No, my twin and I went to Kiwi Ranch back
in the sixties before the lake was built.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
Oh, hang on, I don't even know. The lake wasn't
even there.

Speaker 20 (01:09:39):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
I don't even know that the lake was not normally there.

Speaker 20 (01:09:43):
No, no, it was it was.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
Did they build it as part of the lodge?

Speaker 13 (01:09:50):
They did?

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Well, he must have been a he must have been
a self starter, I.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Think so, Yes, I was.

Speaker 4 (01:09:56):
It was very well.

Speaker 15 (01:09:58):
We we we absolutely loved going there. We went for
maybe three or four years in a row, and there
was a religious content to it, so we all got
sort of given Bibles and all the rest of it,
and all the bunk beds and the cabins. And yeah,
as kids, because we would have only been about six

(01:10:18):
or seven years old back then.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Mind, you'd be happy because you've always got your twin.
It's a bit of an advantage isn't it because you
always got your mate there with you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Yeah, no, no, it was yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:10:27):
So, yeah, we got the nickname the Terrible Twins, was
the food terrible. No, it wasn't. Well, we were we
were raised on in between city life and palm life
because we got done, we got fare eyed out often

(01:10:49):
because the you know, I come from quite large family, sure,
and it was easier to get rid of the twins
then during the school holidays, and it was to get
sort of farm out of the sisters.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, because the twins, the twins kind of a self
always goes a bit of a unit, don't they.

Speaker 20 (01:11:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:11:07):
Yeah, so uh so, being raised in the sixties and seventies,
it was it was just a constant adventure.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Where were where we are find finey too.

Speaker 15 (01:11:22):
Up on the east coast, Toko Madu bay.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Okay gorgeous yeah okay, yep.

Speaker 15 (01:11:28):
Yeah, And then we then we'd come back for school
and then get kicked off back up the farm. We
actually never started.

Speaker 12 (01:11:37):
The year.

Speaker 8 (01:11:39):
On the on the start date.

Speaker 15 (01:11:41):
We're always sort of a month or two months behind
because you know, the sharing season and paymaking and all
the rest of it. So it was all hands on deck.

Speaker 13 (01:11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:11:52):
So but it didn't seem to affect our education.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
And the people from Kiwi Ranch were they were they
just from all over. Would you meet your same would
you meet your mates there every year?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (01:12:07):
Now, they're from all over. Quite a few of our
mates sort of didn't go back on a regular basis,
so we sort of had our our core crew, so,
you know, making damning off little streams and making mudhouses
and doing the globe room thing.

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
And all the rest of it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:26):
So and.

Speaker 15 (01:12:30):
The food sustained you. It was sort of pretty pretty
pretty plain, you know. I used to love the porridge
and a lot of minto on taste.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:12:46):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 15 (01:12:49):
I don't remember showering very often. Yeah, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 19 (01:12:56):
It was good.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
We're run, we are from a we're from a Christian
family or all that stuff. You handled, all right, what's
that we're from a Christian family.

Speaker 15 (01:13:06):
No, but my parents thought of a little bit of
religious education would have held us in goodstead, And did it?

Speaker 8 (01:13:17):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (01:13:18):
Yeah, so I sort of haven't really didn't really, I've
never embraced the church sort of as an adult, but
as a child. The principles that we've taught to.

Speaker 14 (01:13:31):
You you know, like.

Speaker 15 (01:13:35):
We're sounds.

Speaker 22 (01:13:36):
Yeah, I think yeah, you know, I think today, of
all the youth sort of embraced some of the old
school principles, the sort of less problems.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Now where are you? Are you out driving tonight? We're
about to you.

Speaker 15 (01:13:52):
Yeah, I worked nice shift, so I've got you on
hands free while I'm following a work truck in behind
your bookie.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
At the moment, you're not you're not in the rain, No, no.

Speaker 14 (01:14:06):
Not yet.

Speaker 15 (01:14:06):
Yeah, yeah the rain is holding off. So yeah, but yeah,
I'm retired now, so this is sort of my retirement,
something to do in my retirement.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Love you to hear from you. Hope we can keep
your company for a while. We're on nice stuff. Thank you,
get in touch. We are talking one hundred and eighty
ten eighty Kiwi Park, kee We Farm. I'm just looking
at a lot of these. I have said that one
in Queenstown, the Lakeland Park, which is one of those
ones that's all those sort of Christian camps around the country.
I don't know why we were there, but we are

(01:14:41):
talking about Kiwi Ranch. Seems to be a big deal.
A lot of people seem to remember that. Don't know
what happened to it. I mean it's still there is something.
But then we booked there somewhere Jan Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:14:51):
Hid Marcus j wonderful, wonderful. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Did you get sent Did you get sent to Christian
camps or school camps as a child?

Speaker 12 (01:15:01):
Jen?

Speaker 16 (01:15:02):
No, but my Form one and two somewhere there, our
teacher took us on a two week trip bus trip,
the whole class too, all around the North Island. That
was fabulous.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
It's a big endeavor.

Speaker 16 (01:15:19):
Yeah. Stayed in camping grounds in the cabins.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Goodness.

Speaker 16 (01:15:23):
My father wouldn't let me go. He was strongly against it,
and he said, I'm not paying for it, and he
thought that would put a stop to it. And I said, right,
I'll go and raised the money myself. So I picked
blackberries and pine cones and sold them and raised enough

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money to pay my own way.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Show you showed, mind. You You that been quite fond
of your father, didn't you? Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:15:54):
Very Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:15:56):
He was quite horrible to me, but you know you
still love your parents.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
I was horrible. I wonder why it was horrible to you?
Being through the war. Yeah, had he been in combat?

Speaker 16 (01:16:10):
Yeah, definitely. He was a very insular he sort of
took himself away when he was home, which wasn't very often,
and even seed her in his workshop or in his office,
and so he didn't see much of him, and he
didn't talk, really didn't say much. And when I got

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back from the trip, he was still angry with me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Of those one of those simmering type guys.

Speaker 14 (01:16:42):
Wow.

Speaker 16 (01:16:42):
Well, well he thought that the boys in the class,
would you know, make the mic most of the opportunity,
and I'd come back ruined. But they when we got
home back to the school, the secretary rang all the

(01:17:03):
parents to say they're back, come and get them. And
my father refused to come and get me from the school.
And I was standing there on my own with my
suitcase and the dark, and luckily the secretary was still there,
and I went and told him my parents haven't come,

(01:17:23):
and Mum was afraid to go against him and come
and get me. But a second call by the secretary
meant that Mum came and got me, and she said
she was busy putting the dinner on, that's why she
was so late. But I've never forgotten it, but God.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
And thanks for that, Jen, Now I'll never forget it.
Sounds horrible.

Speaker 16 (01:17:50):
Yeah, it was right now.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
But jan when you said your father was never when
you said your father never was there? Where was he?

Speaker 16 (01:17:59):
Well, it's nicely out selling insurance assurance.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
You're going to say at the part, he's an insurance
salesman working hard.

Speaker 16 (01:18:07):
Yeah, but I think you had other girlfriends.

Speaker 20 (01:18:11):
Oh really.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
In the way project, it's.

Speaker 16 (01:18:16):
Probably got another family or.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
Two out there some Oh, you've probably got half sisters listening.

Speaker 19 (01:18:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Yeah, anyway, what a character and not in a good way.

Speaker 16 (01:18:28):
Well, he was a good man and considered very highly
by the community. He did was offered very good stuff
for everyone anyone.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
Did Did he ever apologize for leaving you at the
school with you.

Speaker 16 (01:18:43):
Know, he wouldn't apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
That's a heartbreaking vision with you, with you, with you
and yeah, with all the exciting stories from your school,
strip just stuck there with your suitcase in the dark,
waiting for your father.

Speaker 16 (01:18:56):
And I've been sick for the whole two weeks too.
And I always remember I had broadcatis so that I
had to sleep with the mothers. There were mothers that
took care of us, and so I slept in their
cabin so that none of the other kids would catch
the bug, and one of the mothers rubbed picks on

(01:19:20):
my chest and bag every night so I could sleep.
And when we got to the hot pools and wrote
a row, they wouldn't let me go in the hot
pools because they thought I was too sick. And everyone
took all their clients off and got in there naked,
and I thank goodness I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Have to do that. Maybe your father was right.

Speaker 17 (01:19:42):
To worry, I think.

Speaker 16 (01:19:45):
So it was a bit of messing about with the
boys and the girls that night. Apparently so my girlfriends told.

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
Me what school was this, Jen? And why can I
it sounds like the Great the Great News even short
film you and your father waiting out they're jeepers. Did
you have brothers and sisters, Jen, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:20:06):
One brother and two sisters. They didn't have all the
excitement that I had. They never went away anywhere or
did anything. You aren't the one that had all the excitement.

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

Speaker 16 (01:20:20):
I went away on the Girl Guide camp as well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:23):
You did.

Speaker 16 (01:20:24):
Yeah, I got chosen to represent our heck and went
off to the Girl Guide camp. Yeah, that's gone think
a week or two.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Did you get sick, No, not that time.

Speaker 16 (01:20:38):
But I had two roommates who were quite a bit
older than me, and I remembered them saying what did
your boyfriend do to you? And you know, talking about
your boyfriend. Mom was horrified when I got home and
told her, God, you shouldn't have been in the room
with those older girls. She was superor upset about it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Was your father okay with you going on the guard trip.

Speaker 16 (01:21:05):
I didn't say anything because he thought that was honorable.
You know I got chosen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Oh yeah, and and uniform too. They're into that the
war people a guide and stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:21:17):
Yeah, so he was very proud of me being chosen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:23):
You A really brought the show. You A really brought
the show down. Jan with that story.

Speaker 16 (01:21:28):
Came to talk to you about Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Oh, no, I can't handle that's such as that is
such a heartbreaking story. I can't handle that sort of stuff. Jen,
you there is a there is a child just left.

Speaker 16 (01:21:42):
Yeah, it's horrifying. I thought the suitcases too heavy to
walk home and carry that, so I had.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
To stand all on my How far from the school
were you?

Speaker 20 (01:21:55):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:21:56):
Probably twenty minute walk.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
All those old suitcases were heavy, weren't there and it
wasn't like light like.

Speaker 16 (01:22:03):
These days don't have wheels on them.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
No, everyone's got bloody wheels on him. They after they go,
they go there, they go the wheels cocker hoope up
and down.

Speaker 16 (01:22:12):
The airport, easy peasy.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
That made my heart is a text that made my
heart sink for jan hearing that alone with the suitcase
so sad.

Speaker 16 (01:22:23):
It's always like about.

Speaker 3 (01:22:29):
Oh did he did he chill out when he got old?
Of the old the old fellow?

Speaker 16 (01:22:35):
It was made that tendered to him when he was old?

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
And did he ever have a love? Did he ever
have a laugh? Because you've got quite a good sense
of humor. Did he ever laugh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:22:43):
Not really. It just gave me a look. You know,
I'd tell them all sorts of story. It just give
me this look as if that can't be true. Yeah,
he had a sense of humor, but I don't think
they heard him laugh. It's quite damage from the wall.

Speaker 9 (01:23:05):
He was to kill.

Speaker 16 (01:23:07):
You know, he's quite weak. He's been told to kill people.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
He had killed people. He had killed people, heady.

Speaker 16 (01:23:14):
Yeah, lots of them. It was in the tanks. They
put him in the tanks because.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
He had flat feet so I couldn't walk the tank.

Speaker 16 (01:23:23):
Yeah, and he heard his neck jumping out of the
tank and damaged his neck, which affected him later.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
And he got his meddles. Who's got the meddles?

Speaker 16 (01:23:37):
My brother got them made for all of us.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
What can you do?

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
What could you do with medals? Really?

Speaker 16 (01:23:47):
I mean, yeah, you came wear them?

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
I can't imagine you're whipping them out for endsic day?
Would you be doing that?

Speaker 11 (01:23:54):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:23:54):
Because dad didn't believe in in No, they wouldn't. He
never went. I think he might have gone once and
ended up crying.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
And she's cheery, old cool this one it? Jen?

Speaker 20 (01:24:11):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:24:11):
Welln some has it up and down?

Speaker 3 (01:24:17):
Good with a bed. Okay, I might move on now, Jen,
But thank you for that. Nice to talk. Twenty three
past ten sure a bit of a award winner from
Jen to night in It. Wow. What's the question for
the quiz? What division was Jen's father? And why was
Jes's father in a tank? Flat feet?

Speaker 10 (01:24:38):
That might be it?

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Twenty three fast ten? Oh Jen? Why were they? Marcus?
I missed how old Jen was when she was waiting
with a suitcase to be picked up. I think she's twelve? Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:24:55):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
But the father what a rap bag? Never home? Marcus,
rain on and off, rain on and off. Poor Cupho
going by the water on the rod. Only about twenty
five mills so far. Windstar. That'scared that's setting up that
mystery place. He wouldnt tell us why he's going there,
for it's quite interested about that. I made the Fiji
o a jelly day yummy. Thanks for mentioning the recipes.

Speaker 20 (01:25:16):
Sue.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
That's Sue. Think that's the one with the skins. That's
the skins we're talking about Kiwi ranch Oh. I might
watch the Phoenix women playing or the Phoenix playing. Now,
the high Country muster no change. I took young Denver

(01:25:37):
up today after school. We drove up to the top
of the farm and the sheep they've become scared of
us again and they have not ventured down the paddock
through the gate. So the high Country muster has not
been as quick as I thought it would be. I'll
take the sheep nuts up there tomorrow and so if
I can start habitualizing them. But anyway, the grass is good.

(01:26:02):
It's the top paddock. There's twenty acres and there's the
top acre and a half that has all been in gorse.
But I'm converting it to tussock, and so it's probably
one hundred meters long the paddic and or probably one
hundred meters by fifty meters, so there's probably about a
ten meters strip around the outside, which is the grass
that they graze as they as I slowly clear the

(01:26:24):
middle part of it, and they keep the grass down.
But last winter I thought they were in lamb and
went up and fed them each day because it wasn't
probably enough grass, but there were no Yeah, it didn't.
They clearly went pregnant. But this time I'm going to
bring them to the bottom paddock so I don't have
to come to go up there every day because it's
a klometer up, so that's suitue and you can't drive

(01:26:45):
up in the winter because it gets It's not an
all revert all weather track, so that's the sheep. They
look fine, but they're not coming down anytime soon. But
I think i'll get them down next week before Easter.
I think I might ever have to get the old
backpackers at the backpackery next door to come up and
enjoy me. In the high country, muster will walk the

(01:27:06):
length of the country there, so they probably got the
strength to do it. A lot of people looking forward
to Jen's memoirs. Coller of the Coller of the I'd
call it caller of the Year. I mean, there're not
many calls that have that much pathos and drama cover all,
isn't it? Growing up in a small New Zealand town?
Why can I a bus trip around the hot pools

(01:27:30):
of the North Island? Dad failing to failing to what's
he failed to do? Come to terms with what happened
to him during World War Two and make his peace
with himself and the family suffering? Oh anyway? Put there

(01:27:55):
on the Christmas special? Oh, Wellington's losing? Is this an
important game? Down?

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
Probably is it. I think we're second on the table,
so it might be a bogie team. Anyway, We're down
one knell to the CCM Central Coast Mariners. I don't
like that name. I mean, I don't even know there
aren't Mariners of the Central Coast?

Speaker 7 (01:28:15):
Are they.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Marcus? In the Newyeared prediction? Anyone broke the war between
Israel and Iran or a petal shortage? Did they?

Speaker 10 (01:28:25):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
I don't think so. I'm next young Oh no, no, no,
I'm not going to break it next year. Now I
don't quite know how to go on with the show.
Do you know what should we talk? I feel that
we are talking Kiwi ranch and Tin canned vegetables and
also the broadcaster called Catherine Saunders that has died today

(01:28:49):
at eighty two.

Speaker 13 (01:28:51):
She was what was she?

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
She was someone how can I say that? She was
someone that was great fun and a great encourager and
a great supporter and a lot of us are involved
with radio and TV had a fear bit to do
with her in the early days, just because she was
one of those people that was always around. Actually, I'll
tell you a story about Cath Saunders that I don't

(01:29:16):
think has been mentioned, because she was great at PR.
She was the original fantastic PR person and once upon
a time, and I think it probably was nineteen ninety six,
it might have been earlier, but she was the person
that organized the news in Empire Awards, because I can
remember going to the first years in Empire Wards, which

(01:29:36):
I think was at the race course. I know because
Phil Armstrong, Paul Holme's producer, was there and a few
of us went and it was the first one and
it was a and she'd organize it. It was and
it was a great laugh. It was all for bakers
to sell their pipe product and that went on for
years and years and years, and she and I went
for about the first ten of them that I moved
down here and never went to it. But she was
behind all, so a lot of the great things she

(01:29:58):
was behind. She was one of those very very good
pr She was one of those people that went from
broadcasting into PR with great success. She was also obviously
on Beauty and the Beast for years and years and
years with Johnny Frisbee and Seana McFarlan and all those people.
I can't remember all of them, but yeah, so that
was it. And she was one of the great broadcasters

(01:30:19):
because she did TV and she did radio, and she
had the distinct of white curly hair and she was
just good value and she's rung the show often. Think
she often called herself care or Catherine. She talked and
she rang about broadcasting all sorts of general things. But
you'd often email me and she were always listening, always listening.
So yeah, that is her, And yeah she was started

(01:30:43):
end up living in Auckland. But what was it maiden name?

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
I forgot the pill have made a name like Dowling,
Dowling old Dowling South. Everca have won by thirty three rouns.
Just as a bit of a side pivot, both our
neighbors have canceled the rest of holidays due to gas prices.
We're only three weeks in and we're going to Stuart
Island and they rely on diesel for transport and power,
So I hope. I mean, look, it's fine. If you
can't go, we can't go. That's fine. It's not the

(01:31:07):
end of the world, pretty much as next door. But
I'm looking forward to it. But yes, I want to
take the kids to that roller coaster place in Saudi Arabia,
but I think that's the place to go. Although it'd
be quiet, wouldn't it. The cues would be short, and
what a way to go after you get hit by
a heat seeker on the roller coaster. Do you think
it was part of the experience, wouldn't you? Kids shown

(01:31:29):
no interest in it anyway. Twenty six to eleven. If
you want to be a part of the show, oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two
to text, Oh, jan ap to be fair, I'm always
excited to talk to you. I think last year she
didn't think she was going to make it past Christmas.
So I'm excited by that when it makes it feel

(01:31:50):
a bit more special to talk to her twenty five
to eleven to be part of the show. And as
far as people can see canceling holidays, I think there's
going to be a lot of bookings that have been
canceled because I'm sure people from the northern hem for
you're coming down here won't be But I know that
one thing that's the downside and the buzzkill is I

(01:32:11):
think now in Australia they're recommending people come to New
Zealand so it'll be full of Aussies. Is that a
bad thing? I guess it depends if you're in the
tourism business. Unfortunately, down South at the moment we've got
there's a bike race down the country where they ride
mountain bikes. There's elderly people ride bikes down the country
and get they've got. They arrive in Bluff with very

(01:32:36):
big energy. I don't know what to say about that
parking their bikes ever were in the carglers. They enjoy
their breakfasts. Now, let me take some calls in your
calls if you've got them, if there's something different. You
want to mention or talk about, do that and I
embrace your inputs. Tonight it is six days since the
first lockdown. I did have something. Who were the first

(01:32:59):
people that got COVID?

Speaker 10 (01:33:00):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
What are the present which were cheerleading conference? And remember
that there are all those people had it written down
at the time. I'll go back to my notes. I
keep notes on most things. Twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one.
What was the date sixth of twenty twenty one, twenty
twenty What are my COVID notes? I was keeping a

(01:33:21):
note of the No, no, let's go through my notes. Now,
someone had been to Itthalne visited family in Waika. Told
that's right, hadn't gone through China or had gone through China.
That's right. Yeah, Oh that's right.

Speaker 8 (01:33:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
The some of the visit around, and there was someone
came back from the ball conference, didn't they There's somewhere
to the tool concert. There's someone had to parmas the
North for a cheerleading event. Anyway, I'll do some googling.
Twenty two to eleven. Did you hello, Jason, It's Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:33:49):
Good evening, Yeah, ho, Mark you SA you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 13 (01:33:55):
Sorry so much that your topic of it. But I've
just got a question that's been bugging me for the
last few nights, and I haven't heard anyone mentioned it.
And that's about the fact that modern fuel doesn't last
very long.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Jason, I know that you know that you know your motors, Yeah,
I do.

Speaker 8 (01:34:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:34:15):
Has anyone mentioned this that I must not here?

Speaker 11 (01:34:18):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
And that's probably why we get it in all the time, right,
because we like to get fresh supply. So are you
are you talking about people stock piling it?

Speaker 10 (01:34:27):
Yeah, I'm just talking about it.

Speaker 13 (01:34:28):
It has a shelf life, yeah okay, and the shelf
lifts a lot shorter than it used to be, and
the lower the off timeteam, the shorter the shelf life
is supposed to be. As little was thirty days, they
did say. The only director of her experience I've had

(01:34:48):
with it as my father had a hospuana right on
law mower and we couldn't get it going, and we
couldn't get it going, and it was a brand new
mower and he hadn't ridden it for about six weeks
and sure enough the petrol had gone off.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
Yeah okay. And I've had tub with a fairly recent
Lord Master Mowatt to Actually I went from ninety five
to ninety one and it worked better. But yeah, I
just thought it was just a folk I just thought
it was a folk law that went off. But it does, no, No,
it does.

Speaker 13 (01:35:19):
It does definitely. Like leaded petrol we used to have,
that stuff would last for years, years, literally years, decades
possibly and be fine. But once you get into a
unleaded petrol, the shelf life becomes a lot lower. And
they did say about this when they first were talking

(01:35:39):
about unleaded when they were sort of and talking about
margin Muslim point, the point being they can't have too
much stored in any tank and they need ships on
the way to refill it because obviously, if there's too
much in the tanks, it's not going to be any
use because it's going to go off.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 13 (01:36:01):
Yeah, So that's a problem that no one seems to
have talked about that. I haven't heard anyway that. I
was wondering if anyone has actually brought that up over
the last few days, But no one seems to really
be too aware of that fact. And it's quite important, really,
I think it's really important. Yeah, it is really important.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Are not sure if you stop piling?

Speaker 13 (01:36:25):
No, No, I'm not stop piling. I mean one of
my vehicles has got a full tank. The other one.
When I get down to a certain amount of cas,
I'll put a certain amount of fuel in it. I
mean this fuel at the moment, you know what I mean.
And there's supposedly going to be feeled for a while.
So I'm just by myself, Marcus. So you know, I

(01:36:45):
can push bike if I have to. I've got a
little one hundred cc motorcycle work and revert to if
I really have to. So yeah, I mean it's not
it's more you know, people with kids and families and
all the rest of it that I worry about. But
it just seems like this has sort of just been
left out of the conversation and I'm not sure why.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Okay, A six six of them response from that, Jason, thanks,
you appreciate it. Seventeen to eleven. Fifteen to eleven The
update on Trump Iran fires missiles and American military bases
across the Gulf and tells US is negotiating with yourselves.
It comes despite claims by the Trump administration around badly
what barely one's deal. I can't really do Trump. They're

(01:37:28):
talking to us, they're talking sense. The present has said, yeah,
I don't believe it, but whenever know. And we're talking
about canned food, canned fruit and canned vegetables and the
things that are bred in cans. A lot of talk
about canned potatoes, which I've never heard about. We're talking
about the Kiwi ranch. There was three that I think
it was one of the upper heart one and also

(01:37:49):
in the Mulbras sounds. It's a big thing. So that's something.
But if there is other stuff you want to talk
about tonight, I love done my I think I feel
I've probably done my hobby broadcasting stuff tonight. By listening
to Jem's story, it was heart wrenching. Well, there's always

(01:38:12):
another story just below the surface, Isn't there anyway? Do
come through if you want to talk. Kettle twelve also
about people and fuel and the fact that goes off.
He is right, Petrol goes like a jelly. After time
you need to shake the can. It helps, but it
doesn't stop it going off. Leaded petrol doesn't go off,
like he said Marcus. The last night before we went

(01:38:32):
to COVID lockdown, I was talking to some retail customers.
They said, back in January they'd been around some real
world tourists and days later had become extremely sick. The
doctor at the time said it was just a virus.
You say, not going to Stuart Island isn't the end
of the world, but it's pretty much the end of
the world. It's a good point. It's a good point.
I have stayed at Mason Bay and a rocky year

(01:38:54):
of Stuard is at times, and I didn't think to myself,
probably there is no one further south, or there would
have been some fishing people. There might have been some hunters.
I don't think it was during the hunter wasn't during
the roar. Yeah, canned in you're a big tick for
can manger. I think all citrus is good canned. I
actually bought a tinned meat pie once. I'm not joking,

(01:39:16):
it was. It's a Scottish thing, not that good. Sometimes
if you go to a supermarket and they've got the
foreign isle, sometimes the food in the fore fire and aile,
you think cheapest creepers that could pretty much be in
the standard aisle. Now I think we know what corn
chips are, but anyway, Yes, sometimes you see that. I

(01:39:38):
think they've got a they've got a people see me.
Then it's called like a brem found tin or something,
the pie in a tint. It's got like a Scottish name.
People love it, people get obsessed about, but not very good.
It's called a vigi, a fray, a Frey Brentos, a
Frey Brentos. Marcus lying here feeling sad about Jens call. Unfortunately,

(01:40:02):
many men came back from war broken, but counseling or
support wasn't available in those days, so they kept what
they'd seen done, et cetera suppressed and seemed to develop
attachment disorders. Bloody walk creates so much devastation. A hugs
to jan Yvonne, thank you for that. And lines free
if you want to talk on it tonight ten away

(01:40:23):
from eleven o'clock, by the way, if anyone's listening. And
Pete and peace Haven. I finally went to peace Haven today.
I've never read to peace Haven before. Peace Haven is
one of the very big what would you call it,
one of the very big rest homes in the cargo
and wow, I'd never been there before. But jep as creepause,

(01:40:44):
that's a big place I got lost I went to. Yeah,
I went there and they had to go back to
the cardegan alan Key and had that classic thing where
I was walking around thinking this is the way, and
walked all the way around back to where i'd left from,
got completely disorientated. But we have a friend in there
who is unwell, and yeah, hi to your if you're

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listening also too, So I hope you are, or I
hope you're asleep, or I hope you are doing what
you are doing. But good day to you anyway. So yes,
So she'd been in hospice and now she's at peace Haven.
So she's a dead friend of ours from Bluff and
who always listens to the show. And yeah, she's quite unwell.
So yeah, but that's something i'd finally been doing. They're

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quite right. People texted before and said there's a cafe
at peace Haven, and in fact there is, so yep.
I don't know if it's a place that everyday people
can go to, but yeah, I didn't believe it, but
sorting for my own eyes. But anyway, eight away from eleven.
If you want to be in touch, do be in touch. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty to eighty Kimi Ranch, Shoturu was
the first Kimi Ranch, an amazing place. Loved going there.

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There we go nine away from eleven. If you'd like
to talk before the news, that would be a good plan.
Otherwise we'll get a kicking kickstarted in the next hour.
But if it do come to, if you want to talk,
and you might want talk about fuel, the nation's obsession
with fuel, I don't know. No one reads newspapers anymore.
I don't know what a little of graph on the
front with a big like diagram of a tank and

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how many days fuel we've got left because all going
to hit about east. Everyone's going to go away because
everyone's doing that super size. The holiday there is supersized.
They're Easter in the school holidays. I think there's only
three more days of school left next week, well, I
think there's four days. I think it's a teacher's only
day for one of the days for our children, So
so not much school. So there's that a lot of

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shots now of people loading up forty gallon drums and
people kind of taking shots and shaming them. So yes,
it is feeling a bit like Mad Max, or not
quite like Mad Max yet, but it's close. Oh, the
latest data shows the New Zealand's dip in fuel stocks.
I don't know how many days left they've got. Diesel
is going to go first. But Australia it's not good

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at all because I think they're a bit more paranoid
over there, a bit more conspiratorial and people on farm stockpiling.
I suppose if you're arm you do need fuel, but
that might be something you want to talk about as
well for the next hour. And that's all I can
tell you the stage. Not much happening locally. The Black
Caps have lost the series. That was the series decider.

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Oh hang on, sorry, I've been remiss. I've forgotten about
the rain event. He's I can tell you there is
two thousand people without power in Northland and or a
Kura seven fifty without power, with a further further eight
hundred and two at Matapoli and Tutakaka, one sixty hour
without power in Aranga Waipowa Cody Forest, one five to

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one in Mamarranui and O Mamari, and with a further
thirty three in their Pukehuya. So there is a heavy
rain warning for the North So I'll hopefully keep you
updated with that for the final hour also so quite
a bit. And by the way, streetlights are out in
Vera Kago. Everyone knows what that was about. I don't know,

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but you might have some information about that. It's eleven seven,
seven minutes past eleven. People welcome, all the lines are free.
Whatever goes you are more than welcome to For the
final hour. We've tried things and done different things to
talk about. I don't know what we'll talk about the
final hour. You might like to come up with something yourself,
so if you want to do that would be nice
to hear from you. Pits and bobs. Oh, cream corner though,

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was interesting. If you want to talk about tin corn,
I'll be up for that discussion. It seems to be
a very popular type of tin vegetable. It's corner vegetable.
Once upon a time it was fruit and vegetables, but
then everything broke around. They say, oh, tomatoes are fruit
and bananas are vegetable, and the dates are droup and
now you don't know what's what. It doesn't really matter.

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Daylight saving will end during Easter. That has got to
be good. Good for who. I don't know about the
ending of daylight saving for those of us that work
and then go to bed after work. It means we
go to bed an hour later, which I'm not a
fan of. Well, look forward, it becomes earlier in six
months time. But yes, if you want to talk about
anything at all tonight, that's the final go round. Be

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my guest, quite literally. You might have been watching Al
Jazeera or something. Have an update on what's going on
in the Middle East. I know some of you people
see yourselves as arm chair arm chair armor pause or
who's that blue blood that works on CNN? What's his name? Anyway,
get in touch. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine

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two nine two the texts you want to talk for
the final hour, but all the lines are free, and
we are talking about Kiwi Ranch as well. There was
more than one apparently. Oh yeah, arm chair Anderson Coopers
is what I was thinking of you. There are more,
There are more than one. Keep but yeah, let's hear
from you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
Come on.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
You might want to talk about the rain in the north.
It'll be good to hear from you about two or
anything else you want to talk about. So as you've
known eight hundred eighty Teddy and nine to nine to
the text, come on, right through till midnight. Yes, so

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be a part of it. I just want to think
what else I can tell you. There's an Aussie trucker
who's stranded in the outback for the second time in
amount of days after the service station runs empty amid
the fuel crisis. Wow, so I had the phone for
more fuel to be delivered. I don't know how much
you'd pay for fuel in the middle of Australia. Must
be quite expensive. This guy spent two and a half

(01:46:33):
days waiting for fuel while going from Perth to Melbourne.
Seven truckes in Kaduna and Foreign Border Town. Six hundred
service stations across Australia have run out of gas. I
don't quite know if they're more vulnerable to it, or
people are stopped piling it more or quite what's happened there.
You may have something to say about that, and they'd
be nice to hear from you too tonight. Get those

(01:46:54):
texts coming. Ten beverages on At twelve someone said brink
crewd now below a hundred. I think it was about
it was just over one hundred I think when I started.
So it's just kind of hovering around there. I'll have
at the value now eleven eleven by the way, that's
the time, if that's important. Do you I know some
people like the eleven elevens. Yeah, Hydeen, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:47:16):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:47:18):
I hope you're doing well this evening. Wonderful shows.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
Always nice to hear from you. Don't thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
Yeah. I was just out on the water in the
in the Bay and Nelson yesterday morning and saw the
terry yeah what not?

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
And you know it's not called that. They even had
to change its name before that, which is weird.

Speaker 5 (01:47:37):
Ah, it's the Vega now yeah who who? Who sanctioned that?

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
You wouldn't think they need to change it, but it's now,
it's now, it's now registered to Kits and Nevus and
the Caribbean. So I just find the whole story fascinating.

Speaker 5 (01:47:55):
It's really weird. I sort of I did wonder. I
was out on a friend's friends that are fizz boat,
but I did wonder if you could rock up and
talk to them or not, but that be allowed?

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Yeah, I don't, Well what are they I mean, they've
been there for what would you be doing there because
it's going for scrap so you wouldn't be doing any maintenance,
so it would just be like I can't work up.

Speaker 5 (01:48:18):
Apparently they're sitting extra diesel tanks because since it's technically deregistered,
it has to do the do the one shot to
to India. Whether they'll run it aground and then scrap it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
But I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:48:35):
It seems like maybe pitting the extra diesel tanks is
taking extra time.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
Oh, I see, so they've got to put extra tanks
and you just you just have barrels of diesel on
board with pumps, wouldn't you even.

Speaker 5 (01:48:47):
If you have to put in extra tanks. I mean
it's a big vessel. There's been penty a room for them.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
What I saw is that they are the crew on board,
having paid ten dollars a month.

Speaker 5 (01:49:03):
This was my concern too, and I had mentioned them
on the.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Show before, but six dollars a day.

Speaker 5 (01:49:11):
Yeah, So I did wonder. I thought it might be
an interesting interview if you could just sort of pop.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Up, but.

Speaker 3 (01:49:20):
I could probably google it. But what would the value
of the ship.

Speaker 16 (01:49:23):
Be, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:49:24):
I mean, do they do they boil down the metal
or do they use it for parts? I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
I suppose these lead I don't I wonder, I wonder
how much it was sold for.

Speaker 5 (01:49:36):
Potentially use it right now since there's only weren't running right.

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
Yeah, exactly, because it seems to be a hell of
a thing to I mean, maybe they've got it for nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
But the locals are Nelson were saying that they have
brought the crew the shore once or twice and more
have they shipped them shipper shippeerded them around to give
them a bit of land time?

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Do they come ashore? Do they know they wouldn't? Do
they come ashore on the lifeboats?

Speaker 5 (01:50:08):
I don't know how they came ashore, but apparently they
were just you know, allowed a bit of on sure time.
But it's been a long time for those people.

Speaker 3 (01:50:15):
Oh so maybe that's the whole thing. They haven't got
citizenship as well, they wouldn't be they wouldn't be allowed here.

Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
Yeah, or that it's or whatever else. You need to
visit the right the right documents.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
Yeah, okay, I'll see if I get some. Did you eigult,
did you catch any fish?

Speaker 2 (01:50:28):
What?

Speaker 19 (01:50:28):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
You do you just having a look around?

Speaker 5 (01:50:31):
Yeah, A caught one snapper. I just I don't like
looking at them in the calling them out of their
natural habitat with.

Speaker 3 (01:50:39):
Play with plastic baits, no squid baits. Oh okay, yeah,
and you catch it good?

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
Then you called up about sixteen did.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
You catch and release or.

Speaker 5 (01:50:52):
Little ones? And then then we tell of them.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
Okay, nice to hear from your dean. Thanks so much
for that vow. It's Marcus. Good evening, high Valve.

Speaker 11 (01:51:01):
Hey, I just wanted to talk about topper. I believe
people are getting trying to find copper and it's worth well.
I don't know how much it's worth. I don't know
much about it, but I'm sure you're listening. Listeners will
pulling heat pumps to pieces to get the copper.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
I didn't know that there's copper and heat pumps. Thank
you for that.

Speaker 11 (01:51:18):
Yeah, it's true, so other people might not might know,
but I have no idea. I know gold's going well,
but I didn't know how much copper was.

Speaker 3 (01:51:28):
Perko. I'll tell you how much this pekilo yep, sixteen
backs of kilo.

Speaker 11 (01:51:36):
Oh right, it's not worth a lot, is it really?

Speaker 3 (01:51:39):
Well, it depends depends. I think there's a lot. There's
a long hot water cylinder, ah right, I don't know
how much it would be in a heat pump.

Speaker 11 (01:51:52):
I don't know where all this copper is that the
people are pulling apart to you know, steering things to
pull apart to get the copper.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
It says a standard heat pump. There's twenty one kilograms
of copper, right, woll, which is more than I I
can't think it could be that much. How much I
say it was worth sixteen sixteen times three hundred bucks,
but I don't know if there be that much. Well, yeah,
I don't know it was be full of copper. Okay,
well I guess that's true. It's true, Yeah, near twenty

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one kgs. We shouldn't be telling people that it's worth.

Speaker 11 (01:52:25):
Three hundred to hang up now, I let someone else
talk to you about it, because I'm old and I
just want.

Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
To I quite like the fact that you're old.

Speaker 20 (01:52:32):
Wanted to know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
I mean, you've educated me more by asking good questions.
We now know a that this copper and a heat pump.
B there's twenty one killer rams and see it's worth
three hundred bucks.

Speaker 11 (01:52:44):
Right, let's see what other people have got to say.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Thank you well, and you probably dodgy scrap middle deal.
I'll give you two hundred for it? Would they? Or
do you take it straight to your dealer? I don't
know how it works. Scott Marcus good evening five bells
on Doings and she, yeah, did you know there was
that much copper?

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
No, no, not at all. I've got a little story
to tell you. It's short. God went to the gas
station the other day filled my car up, and I
got chatting to this young guy next to me, and
he said, mate, this petrol coming out of your car.

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What I didn't realize is the week before i'd filled
it up and I hit the fill and it started
pouring out. Have I got dementia? Do you think no
on set dementia or something? Because I never used to
do silly things like that before.

Speaker 3 (01:53:42):
But don't they normally switch off?

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Yeah? But I was still holding it in the you know,
in the in the tunnel. So I just sitting there
talking and wait for him, and my hand got wet
and I thought, what the hell was that said?

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
I think we get preoccupied with stuff, don't we? Was
we did it this other time as well?

Speaker 2 (01:54:08):
Yeah, but when it comes to petro im and you
don't want to be.

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Why don't you just put it? Just put your mountain
and then click and click and release.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Well I usually do, but I thought you know that
it was it was quite low. Completely's forgotten that I
filled it up, you know, just a few days earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
All good thing that your mate told you, that your
you mate told you about it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Well he could hardly not put it you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:35):
No, Look, I don't know what to say about that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
Scott with it sticking in the in the tunnel, chatting
away to him, and he said, mate, it's coming out
of end. And I thought, Jesus, you know, if that
was true, I'll be the richest man on earth. But
you know, I mean when you go to the pump
to pay for it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
Oh, good on you for having a chat to some
of mine. You always got a conversation started the guest
days say oh jee oh you come to be robbed again,
have you? Or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Wow, that's contact, isn't it that?

Speaker 19 (01:55:07):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
That's just engaging with people. We should do more of that.
We do less of it every day.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
I agree, Scott, nice to talk. Thank you. Twenty three
past eleven and it's Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:55:18):
Good evening March, So I just ring you a quick
chair about I'm far north here and it's rain after rain,
well from this morning it started, and you just don't
even want to go outside. It's just rain.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
Is there any across the where abouts are you?

Speaker 13 (01:55:44):
I'm sort of.

Speaker 19 (01:55:46):
Nataki, Well hope.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
I'm not quite entirely whereabouts?

Speaker 9 (01:55:52):
Is that?

Speaker 12 (01:55:54):
Well, you know?

Speaker 19 (01:55:56):
And then the rest all then the moment about the
middle two minutes coast to coast.

Speaker 3 (01:56:04):
Okay, what did you do? What did you say?

Speaker 13 (01:56:06):
The name of the place was, well, I call it Natuki.

Speaker 3 (01:56:10):
Yeah, okay, I'll see on the mat now yeah. Oh yeah,
I was gonna say, I know to Carl, but that's
you're between there and ohaor Ray yeah, yep, okay.

Speaker 19 (01:56:20):
Wow, yeah, No, I'm between the colin Oh that's creep
yeah okay. And I'm out to the forest and so
all the animals out there. I've got mob horses on
my place at the moment, and everything's just so wet.

(01:56:40):
I've never seen rain like it, So anyone if it's
moving south? Is people down south? The rain hasn't hit them.

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
Yet, probably, but it's the heaviest. Is the wind with it.

Speaker 19 (01:56:52):
Yes, it's been quite rough out there, little patches blowing through.
I'm sort of more sheltered, but I'm still getting it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
And how long did you say?

Speaker 19 (01:57:02):
It's been raining for hard from about eleven o'clock this morning,
so you've.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
Got another because said it's going to go for thirty
thirty three hours, so you got another twenty four hours
of it.

Speaker 19 (01:57:11):
Yeah, I've settled in forty days here.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
I'm excited because we don't get we don't get listeners
this far north free off and I have spoken to
someone into Harpor, but that was on another shift I
was doing. But yeah, it's nice to hear from you
that far north. You feel a long way away from me.

Speaker 19 (01:57:28):
I am so I thought, I'm sitting here, think you
will train. And I've been listening to your show with
people not really getting the rain yet, but you know,
and then that guy that hit pong Ray and it's
got heavier and you could hear it on his wim
screen and I thought, well, I've been having it all day.

(01:57:50):
There's more to come, much much more to come.

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
It's kind of hard because in the papers and stuff
they say there's you know that the met Service is
always warning people, but until people start experiencing it, people
kind of minimize it. But they think it's going to
be that bad. But this does sound like a really
serious event.

Speaker 19 (01:58:07):
Yeah, and then to feel the real deal and it
makes you think, yeah, well yeah, and how can I
make things better? Like my Chucks couldn't even make it
down the paddick the Chuck House tonight, they're all under
the house.

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
Have you have you got a serious farm or more
like a lifestyle farm?

Speaker 19 (01:58:28):
No, just for lifestyle farm ten acres.

Speaker 3 (01:58:31):
Wow, well, life sentence farm they call it, because I'm
sure it keeps you busy. Ten acres.

Speaker 19 (01:58:36):
Oh no, it's not a life sentence It's definitely not.

Speaker 14 (01:58:39):
There isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:58:40):
It's ty to do a do.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Okay, we'll be in touched tomorrow and but thank you
for that. Twenty nine past eleven, eight hundred and eighty
eight nine nine to de text. You've got to come
through alka not too heavy We have none yet much
just spitting Patty Marcus. Those shut off clickers are funny.
Sometimes they work if you're holding it, and other times

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they don't. I feel on every think Scott was holding it.
Someone said, coppers inside cable. They stripped the cable. You're
saying all the wiring in the ship is all the
wiring in the under strip. But they won't be doing
it now. They're doing it once they get in touch.
Do you want to be a part of it? Twenty
nine to twelve o'clock here till midnight, but be in touch.

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Oh wait, eighty ten eighty Kate, This is Marcus. Welcome
and good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:59:33):
Hi Kate, Yeah, Hi, Hey, I just want to bring
something forwards. And I did also originally write for the
Education Board on another topic, which was NCEEA. I was
really concerned about in the days when it was fifth, sixth,
seventh form. I found out that students in year whatever

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they are, when you're fifth, sixty seven, eleven, twelve, whatever
it is, if you in the days, if you didn't
pass fifth form, you didn't get to sixth form. But
in the generation of today, in CEA you could go
to sixth form or even seven and not pass in CEA.
So I put that forward to the Education Board. Now

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would have fallen over something, Marcus, and I just want
to bring it forward. And what you think I went
to get I did. I was at AIT a long
time ago and before it tuned to a UT. So
I did a community work certificate and it was for
a whole year and it was a range of treated

(02:00:39):
white tongy counselor and dragon ow coal, the whole thing,
the whole shabam. It was so cool.

Speaker 14 (02:00:44):
It was more like a degree.

Speaker 21 (02:00:45):
Actually it was fun. I just went to get a
copy of it because I'm lockdown. My stuff got taken.
So anyway, I went to get copies of these gold
emblem certisficates of each subject and the transcript or whatever
it is, and they said, oh, sorry, they got rid
of them when it changed from A you T A

(02:01:07):
T to aut what. So I may not need them,
but there's many people. Well I do need them. I
want them, actually, but there's many people that really those
are things that you train and you graduate and you're
excited and you're commended by and they throw them away.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
I thought, when the Education Ministry have all those things,
would they wouldn't there be some central repository for that information.

Speaker 21 (02:01:36):
Well, just today I want to pack up my little
letter to say the list it's like a written leader
now because I've found them away. I asked you, the
director of the head of a itut is because I
want to write to whoever. I don't want to sit
at the help desk and complaint and all that consume rubbish.
I just want to go to the top and say, hey,

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this is a high live. I'd like to just put
something forward. I can't believe that somebody had the mentality
to throw everyone's certification of education away. I mean, that
is just about there it to think that that is
for real, and it is real because I've just happened
to me, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
But did you say you just got and got a
letter off? Have they've proven to you what they've got?
Did you get a letter?

Speaker 21 (02:02:22):
Yes, it's just a little letter. I don't want to give.

Speaker 2 (02:02:26):
That to something.

Speaker 21 (02:02:27):
I want these.

Speaker 3 (02:02:29):
For you to write that letter, they must access some
database that shows you what you've got.

Speaker 21 (02:02:33):
Right, Yeah, they didn't scan my twelve subjects in which
were certificates, which were proper boundared certificates, plus that letter.
They threw away the certificates.

Speaker 3 (02:02:45):
Okay, how long ago was it?

Speaker 21 (02:02:49):
A Sorry at the moment, I can't quite say. Let
me see ninety ninety six.

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
Okay, doesn't sound unreasonable to me. But thank you for that, Kate.
Maybe somebody else wants to comment twenty three to twelve.
What do you think is more healthy chocolate or soft
tubes of equivalent weight I'd say chocolate would be more healthy.
Maybe sugar. That's my prediction on that one.

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