The fight between spiders (27 February 2026)

Marcus wraps the week talking spiders, Split Enz, and weird things in the sky.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be Marcus could Evening eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine to nine to detext. You want to get involved,
feel free to partake in the show. Yeah, hardy, hardy,
howdy hardy howdy. Big week? Well were that the phone box? Then? Yeah?
Big week with everything people as far as talk goes,

(00:31):
dogs and the Kaimi Tunnel and hobbies and toast. Wow,
feel this a little bit to talk about christ Church
related today? Electric Avenue is on. Some of you might
have been and be going back. Wouldn't one a report
of that? That's like huge, That was sort of off the
radar for a while. Now it's bigger than ever, so
good on them for that. I mean, Splittons are playing now.

(00:54):
I think they are playing. Let me just work out
when they are playing. A lot of people are posting
stuff from when it's on. Splitions are played tonight. They're
on now, So if you've managed to go or leaving
early or something like that, let us know how that's going.
Maybe they'll go for long. They're supposed to vish at
nine twenty. I don't know if there is noise control

(01:15):
stuff there, but cheap as creepys. She's a big thing.
I don't even know what the capacity is of electric avenue.
I was trying to find out earlier on today about that.
But she's the biggest festival I think in the Southern
Hemisphere or something at the moment. Maybe not Southern Hemistery.
That would Brazil, Brazil, maybe Australasia. But good on christ
Church for getting that together. So that is happening tonight.

(01:37):
So you've got any takes on that, let us know
you might be there, you might be about to be there. Wow,
forty five thousand people per day over two days, ninety
thousand people all up. God, that's going to be a
big night in christ Church, isn't it. I wonder where
they all stay? There won't be a room at the end. Well,

(01:57):
they're in christ Church. So there we go, post people,
Earbnb and doing all sorts of things, probably coming in
from the surrounding towns. You don't stay overnight at the site,
I don't think, And I think it's one where you
camp or maybe you do. Can you camp there? Does
someone know? I don't think you can camp there? Can
you camp there? I don't think you can camp there.
It's not like parachute, is it. So if you've got

(02:18):
anything to say about that, if you are in christ Church,
let us know. I see traffic at slower around the
avenues as all people are trying to winding their way there.
The other thing too, with Broadley and the sewerage ponds,
the council have been served a notice. What did that
take so long? So there could be some solution on
the horizon, but I'm sure the council will have tried

(02:40):
to do something already, but now they've got now their
kind of duty bound, I think because of the abatement
notice over the stench. So the regional Council has issued
this christ City Council with a notice. It's been five
years since the damage it burnt and the smell has
been marketing. I get text every night people say they're

(03:01):
selling their houses or trying to and they can't. So
it's been five years situation. I think four and a
half years too. You might want to come in on
that tonight. But basically as the Friday free for all
oh eight hundred and eighty tendy and the other thing
I've got to I can tell you about this quickly.
I want an email from someone. This is again once
again as a christ Church kind of related story. Headphones

(03:21):
just fell off, Marcus. I've been shopping at kai Ko,
the christ Church Do supermarket for one month now. My
supermarket bill is down from two hundred and eighty dollars
per week to two hundred and thirty dollars per week,
so it's dropped fifty dollars over to eighty. So that's
a lot. Do you want us a percentage? I can

(03:42):
do that well if I'm a calculator, So that's much
much cheaper, much much cheaper. It's down twenty percent, so
that's a situation there. Yeah, so wow, there we go.
So that's happening with christ Church. My supermarket bill is

(04:04):
down for from to eighty per week, just two thirty.
It's a great experience, lower price, is great staff, and
everything is fresh. They have won me over. I'll never
shop the other supermarkets again. Everyone needs to visit. Wow.
That's from Mitch, so if you want to talk about
that also to the changing face of supermarkets, and that's

(04:25):
happened also. But there's other stuff you're doing tonight you'll
be out and about. It's a Friday So that's a
situation eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine
to text a heat till midnight tonight. There's something else
you want to mention?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Good?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I can handle that. Lot's gonna happen to not I
can feel it. But anything goes Friday, free for all,
loose like a goose. Oh, Iron Maiden, the going I
think that's the guy that flies plane, doesn't it that
things for that band? Thinking the past, he's actually flowing
the plane over here. I don't know if he's still
got a commercial license. Bruce Dicktson and Uguess he's still

(05:01):
in the band?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Is he?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Pretty good name for band? Iron Maiden? You want to
get in quickly with the ear New Zealand flights. Oh yeah,
it's for OrCam this November spark. I reckon I'd sell
a couple more nights, wouldn't They? Fifth visit to New
Zeland for Iron Maiden. It will feature Megadeath. They played
nineteen ninety two at the Logan Campbell, so they've been

(05:23):
here fairly regularly regularly. Twenty one the force lead more
onea Pacific At twenty one seven. The second half has started,
so I'll keep you updated with that. I won't keep
you updated with golf because it's not in my remit.
But yeah, oh, by the way, New Zeland do Tipping Point.
What a ghastly dull show that is with the Hansy guy.

(05:44):
The British guy's quite hands. He always goes hends on
the contestants. I'm surprised they've gone with that one. But anyway,
there you go, tipping Point. Now fourteen past day, anything goes.
It is the Friday free for all, so keep it loose.
You might be doing something interesting, you might be on
a long journey. You might just want to tap in
and have something to say and we'll get to you people.

(06:07):
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty Teddy and nine to
nine to text. Oh wow, just reading the sports the
texts to sports talk either been talking dogs had they
on the radio. Please don't confuse an American pittball tear
with an American bulldog. I hope he'll get twisted about
different dogs, don't they in different types?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Helen.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
It's markets good evening and welcome, Hi, Helen.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
I don't want to embarrass Patricia.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'll put my headphones on. Yeah, hi Helen, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
Hi, I don't want to embarrass Patricia. But I thought
her call last night and her story were just absolutely extraordinary,
and I hope she takes her stories further and some idea.
I thought maybe somebody might.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
She might hang on Helen. I think it wasn't last night,
it was the night before before. There's a bit of
leakage because most people have tuned and won't know it,
and I like to keep the shows siloeds so people
can just tune in and fiel their up to date
with what's happened. So yeah, so what I'm saying is
someone rang up. She written the kids book. She's eighty five,
her name was Patricia, and she read it to us,

(07:12):
and you've taken two days to ring in.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
Yeah, well my phone's been out of order.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
What happened to it?

Speaker 5 (07:18):
Oh, I don't know, but it's back on now. But really, yes,
I thought she's got a real talent here, and she
might be interested in somebody like Joy Cowley, but also
doing an audio version that poor pull the blind blind,
you know, blind and low visions for oh.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
I love that low vision, particularly the owl.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
Yes, visually visually impaired blind children. You know, I thought
it was absolutely she's got this real talent of being
able to bring everything to life.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
And oh, well we all hung on every word Helen.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yes, she's got a really good reading voices. Just you know,
I'm very sensitive to people's voices. But I think she's
got a great talent here, and I hope she just
keeps it up and perhaps goes to see the blind
people about doing an audio vision and maybe doing reading
so that because she's I think she's this phenomenal and
I wish you well.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I like the fact that you what did you say
about you've got a very What did you say about voices?

Speaker 5 (08:19):
I'm very sensitive to voices.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Okay, Helen, which broadcasters voices do you hate?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Oh? I won't say.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, that's what I've asked you. You tell me honestly.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
No, I don't want to say. I don't want to
embarrass people.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
But who's do you hate?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Fair enough, Okay, here we go. I should have asked anyway,
my fault, Helen, if you go. I thought you were
going to say something like someone else like this on
the Telly. But anyway, thanks Helen. Keep in touch seventeen
seventeen Fast eight. I had to dump that anyway, be

(08:56):
in touch if you want to monam is Marcus, welcome,
So three christ Titch things to talk about, Kaiko, the
new supermarket there Bateman noticed for Bromley and Electric Evenue
and Split Ends. Gosh. I think I saw split Ins
at their final concert at Sweetwaters in nineteen eighty one. Yeah,
with Toy Toy there on the stage. I think their

(09:16):
parents are on the stage, quite moving, But that's forty
years ago. I don't know if it was the same
Sweetwater as where they had Ultra Box. Feels like it
might have been Vienna eighty three. It might have been.
Actually they fare welled at all on eighty one and
eighty three. So there you go. That's a situation there.

(09:37):
So if you have to see them, or you're about
to see them, or have just seen them, let us
know about that. Oh not long till daylight saving now
only a month. That's interesting now, Marcus, can we talk
about how dangerous electric scooters are for pedestrians? I t
see what people kicked out bobs who die about people

(09:58):
allowing him to ride their bikes on the footpath. I
don't think with kids it's not a big deal, is it?
And really, how many people have been killed by electric scooters.
Not as many has been killed by dogs and they
can walk on the pavement. So let's keep things in perspective. Yeah,
so you can't. You do it whatever you like. A
promiser nineteen past eight Hill midnight, Shyanne. It's Marcus. Good

(10:20):
eving and welcome.

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Yes, good evening, Marcus. Here are you going?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah? Good, thank you, Shan really guys to hear from you. Yes, likewise,
but you've called me, I haven't called you.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
No, no, Well that's right. Well, I mean in facts
a fact, don't it. You know, it's whatever you do,
and they can take this point. We're talking about these
rock wheelers right now. I've seen some pretty naicty stuff
when it comes to rock wheelers. I've got a neighbor
down the road and three of them.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
How much would that person how much would it cost
to feed three wattweilers?

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Oh my god, you're locking probably ran about three hundred
at the tops for their food.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
So it's one hundred dollars a week for rotweiler, is it?

Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yes? Is?

Speaker 6 (11:06):
And then if he's lucky and he's got pizza insurance,
then he's all got And then he's got mself covered
to get the dogs fixed. Up or if something goes
wrong as the dogs but he hasn't, then he's gonna
then he's going to be in deep do those and
then he had to go on things out out of
the hole because they han't got pit insurance.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
But you're gonna get what's your point. You've got a
guy down the road, three dogs, no insurance they have
they attacked you.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
No, But my girlfriend and I were sitting in the
cars as he just got home and he was taking
for a walk, and oh my goodness, gracious mate, you
should have seen it. He just he was dragging one
of them sell under the gutter and you just carried
on dragging them, dragging them, you know. And and I
said to.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
My walking them, that's a change, Well yeah, but I
mean walk themselves.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
Yeah, but I mean it's malicious. But the point inside
is don't have kids, and you can't look at the animals.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Brilliant succinct being, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
You get it, Marcus. I'm just on their quite co
so I've been there twice and I've got to the
meat is a hicke, a lot cheaper than countdown or
peck and see.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Wow, do you know where they're getting it? Do you
know why it's cheaper.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
They butcher it on site, for goodness sake. So I
understand they get the beason from the freezing works whole,
you know, already skinning and gutter the net, and then
they just butchered them on site, and that's probably why
they can do it cheaper. But I was paying fifteen
bucks a killo for months Marcaeus soon.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Four.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Yeah, what fret percentage?

Speaker 7 (12:57):
This was for premium cheapest.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's good months.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
Yeah, it was a it was a good deal with
they they are in like five hundred green packs and
it was two for fifteen bucks, and so it was
a good deal. Like the only thing I'd be I'm
a bit worried about is they didn't stop like a
full range like Peck and say they're not They've got
a damn good range, but it's you know, you've got

(13:22):
multiple choices of everything, and I found that some of
the items they just stopped. The one brand.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Want to be as big as a supermarket ben.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
It's quite big.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yeah, I'll say it would be big because they've got
I understand, they've got a butchery attached to it, and yeah,
it definitely be about the size of the peck and see.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
And are people there are people winding in the work
because we wanted to we wanted to be utilized.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
It was when I was there, it was it was packed.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Oh great, that's the best news I've heard. We've got
to break the gyopoli.

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Yeah, just just cooking on what their lady said about
the dogs.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't want to go there.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
That was That was Monday, and the caliber of call
about dogs were so poor.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Okay, yeah, well, I'm just saying, we've got a great
dane and it's about fifty bucks a week to feed it.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
So love a great I.

Speaker 7 (14:13):
Don't know where she's getting one hundred bucks a week.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Don't live long?

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Do they?

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Eight years?

Speaker 8 (14:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
I love your dog?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Did you know?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Did you know?

Speaker 9 (14:22):
You?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Did you know where you got it? They didn't live
that long.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
We actually got at three years old. The mother in
law passed away, so we got it from her.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
But the dog's mother in law or your mother in law?

Speaker 7 (14:33):
No, no, no, no, my mother in law.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Dogs.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
We inherited it.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Dogs wouldn't have dogs, wouldn't have mother in law. You've
got Yeah, you've got to get married. That was sley
thing to say.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, but he on that Kaiko. I'd actually recommend
it for anyone to go check it out. But they
do sell a lot of bulk items too, just what
you want, So yeah, there is sort of like a
Costco's kind of thing. So but yeah, it's definitely worth
a chickout.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Do they sell dog food?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, they do.

Speaker 7 (15:06):
Dog bones and everything.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Good dog food?

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Was that?

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Was it good dog food? Or it's the same riscuits?

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, brilliant Ben, thank you for that. Twenty six, twenty seven,
twenty eight past eight, Marcus, is there a standard for indicators?
Have not this big variation in size and visibility? Have
you heard about mattresses made from recycled clothes? A Kaitia Initiative,
NORN advocate and R and D interview today? We can

(15:37):
I buy a nice smoking jacket? Got no idea? What
was the tvn Z can we save announcement?

Speaker 10 (15:43):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (15:46):
They're not changing their rules or anything, though, are they?

Speaker 8 (15:49):
Lux?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
And just crying? Abut how much a lot more of muldoon?
It'd actually not kind of kiba washed the scheme back
in seventy three. Would be one of the wealthiest nations
in the world, apart from one of the most people
leaving in biggest numbers nations. I try and remain positive.
Oh yes, seven from one PACIFICA twenty one four force.

(16:09):
There's a situation there and three christ stories. Electric Avenue,
Bromley and kai co. It's two words because you keep
thinking going to say kai koh, but you say kai
ko kai ko like food. I don't know if coe
has a meaning in Maldi. I don't know about that.

(16:31):
But yeah, learning as we go. But yes, oh no,
except yeah, you ex I've got the word. Let us see,
have they anyway? Answering a lot of my own questions
to night be in touch if you want to be
I think we need a publishing arm for some of
those kids stories. But I'm prety happy to about dangerous scooters.
And I don't think electric bike should be allowed on

(16:53):
bike ways. They're too dangerous and the people on them
look too sort of self satisfied. I think bikeways should
be for people that are cycling. But I think that's
an unpopular opinion. I don't think anyone's going to agree
with me, and I'm happy to have the unpopular opinions
because some people will agree with me, but not everyone.
By the way, if you've got a vape shop. How
much money do you make? I see them popping up
and God, there, god forsaken looking shops, aren't they couldn't

(17:16):
you put Space Invader machines in them or something just
to give them a bit more life? And the staff
looks so bored and disinterested. Anyway. I mean, every time
there's an empty shop and Vocago seems like a vape
shop comes in there. There's a great deer. He called
cracker Jacks. Well they've put a vape shop out. One
called well why would you? It was a good deal.
Wouldn't go there?

Speaker 10 (17:34):
Now?

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I thought, well why would they? You know, did the
real fruit, ice cream and everything? But now no, and
they're the first to have the old do by chocolate
at not. They've got a stupid thing because you've got
to shut the door, and you gotta then the start,
you gotta ring a bell and the staff's I can't
get it started. It grinds my gears that New Zealand
beef can be purchased Australia cheaper than we can bar
New Zealand moved to Australia, that's where you go. You

(17:57):
get the milk and the beef cheaper. But be in
touch if you want. Anything goes tonight with some broad Church.
There's been a severe thunderstorm warning issued for the Wakata.
There we go, Waikiti Valley, White Eca, Guthrie, Talkadoor and
Mamaku remain until eight forty five, so it's got about
twelve minutes left. If you want to be a part
of that. It's where it's happening. And Kaiko and Bromley

(18:24):
and Electric Avenue. And someone wants to buy a smoking jacket,
why would you find not a smoking jacket's for Bruce says.
If it's good enough for cyclists to ride on the
foot path, it's good enough for podestans to walk on
the road. Ridiculous thing to say. It's comic conversion but
doesn't really work. But yeah, if you want to be
a part of what we've got going on tonight, some
of the other stuff I can let you know about tonight.

(18:47):
Oh this day in nineteen fifty one they brought the
troops in into the waterfront workers dispute in New Zealand. Yep,
that's happened. And Iron Martin, I thought I'm maid to
be doing an outdoor I thought there'd be enough for
like a forty thousand, but they're doing spark Arena and

(19:08):
TV Indeada making a local version of The Tipping Point.
That's the one I don't reckon. You get enough questions.
It's got an old school coin waterfall, pusher, arcade machine.
Being Shepherd's the UK host that reckoned people. He's always
goes hands on the contestant and sort of in a
slightly suspect looking way. So that's happening the tipping Point.

(19:31):
I don't know if you win much money you want to, say,
to win a couple of grand No one's seeing that.
It doesn't seem to be a life changing amount, but
there you go. At least they're making it locally, unlike
the New Zealand version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
They just filmed in Australia with Australian Kiwis, which was
weird and there only was four shows. I think bear
Catch your Hittle twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty,

(19:52):
Catch It a Bit twenty four away from nine. All
the lines are free. How you're going people? Welcome here
till twelve. A rugby league starts this week and of
course on Sunday with the n L in Las Vegas.
But I think we'll wait till next Friday when the
war Warriors play in New Zealands. It's going to be exciting.
But in the meantime it is the Friday free for all.
Anything goes, whatever you've got. Already we have talked about

(20:14):
about Kaiko, the new supermarket, and christ Church yay, and
how much it costs to feed your dog anyone make
their own dog food? I guess it's kind of quite hard.
So that's a topic. Are They're all topics? And yeah,
the first split ends outing for a long long time.

(20:35):
When they broke up in eighty four. It's forty two
years ago. I think they'll go very well. But there's
this electric Avenue. There's forty five thousand people each day.
I don't quite know where. I haven't been. I don't
quite know whereabouts. And Hagley Park its that's the big
peck park in Christch for those that don't know. But
what a fantastic thing. They've got a concert right in
the middle of and everyone's there. I see a lot

(20:58):
of the radio hosts from the breakfast shows are sort
of down there as they do sort of slap it around.
That's a deal they get done or quite how that works,
or here we are look at us, slip slip. You
don't get so much with the talkback hosts going to
concerts do You wouldn't be quite the same for that.
Just looking at the site map now, don't know how
they keep it. Must be big fences a to keep

(21:20):
people in and out. Anyhow, That's kind of what we're
about tonight. And yeah, anything goes. If you've got anything
to add to the rigmarole tonight, do get in touch.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. You went up
to twenty thousand pounds on the UK version of Tipping Point.

(21:42):
It feels like it's more a in the UK. It's
more like a two in the afternoon show. It doesn't
have that peppiness that the Chase has. But I don't
think TV is here to be spending any money on
his quiz show that goes on in the afternoon. They
want it for six o'clock or seven o'clock. Maybe they
gonna get rid of Shortland Street. Yeah, just put that
out there people if you want to be a part
of it. And much discussion about bikes and scooters on

(22:04):
footpaths get really triggered by that bikes on People get
freaked out by bikes on footpaths. How much damage is
a seven year old or a balanced bike gonna do? Really,
I don't know why people get so triggered. But there's
a pedestrian advocacy group Living Streets Are Tier DOA, which

(22:26):
would see children to twelve years be able to ride
bikes or e bikes on the footpath is dangerous for
pedestrians using the footpath. We'll think of the kids been
out and about biking to school, how positive that would
be for their health and not getting run over by cars.
It's a very mean spirited attitude from Living Streets Are TIERA.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know when they
say advocacy group, I don't I don't know if it's

(22:49):
just someone on a phone and a FECTS machine or
if it's someone out there actually campaigning. Living Streets are
to promoting walking friendly communities. Oh, you're good on them.
I don't know who. It might be funded by the
Health Commission or something never branching it in vert cargo.
Oh yeah, there you go. They sponsor walk to Work

(23:11):
Day twenty to nine. If you want to be in
touch seventeen away from nine o'clock seven thirty five, Western
Force over Malwana PACIFICA feels like there's about fifteen minutes left.
I don't even know where that game is played, but
I let you know. It's other Th in Fiji or
Perth is it? But yeah, I'll find out for you.

(23:32):
So that's on at the moment, actually only seven minutes
left to go there. If you want to be a
part of it, feel free to get in touch the
talk that is Benet's Marcus.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Good evening, Yeah, Marcus, a game?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Good, thanks Ben? How's yourself?

Speaker 11 (23:47):
All right?

Speaker 12 (23:48):
Yeah, I'm just traveling up to Joan Alexandra go you yeah, yeah, yeah,
just faster training and it was quite a new trainer.
And I don't think we had any new trains, so
that's pretty conate.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I think we are. I think they're always bringing a
new locomotives. What number was it?

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Odd?

Speaker 12 (24:10):
I didn't catch the number.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Sorry, Yeah, many many waggons on it, No, they were
were there?

Speaker 12 (24:17):
Many say? Maybe? Okay, just in characters, containers all and stuff.
But that's a good sign that maybe the railways starting
to get up and going well.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
They made a big profit. You heard they made a
big profit today. Oh yeah, it was all the new
They ordered sixty six new DM locomotives last year for
the South Islands. That's what that'll be.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
Yeah right, But the key.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
The Kiwi rail profit came out today on the back
of the New Zealand dying and having it. But the
the details that got a seventy three and a half
million and a half years surplus.

Speaker 12 (24:59):
Yeah right, yeah. I think we need to be used
utilizing the rail.

Speaker 13 (25:04):
Of it more.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (25:07):
I've been lucky enough to go to America a couple
of times. In you see those trains over there, you know,
they got two containers stacked on top of each other
and they're just messive.

Speaker 7 (25:16):
You know.

Speaker 12 (25:17):
Oh, I don't know how long they are. It must
be at least, you know, good four or five hundred
meters long. Is that's the way to move stuff around
the country.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Isn't that?

Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's quite interesting because Europe's really big on passenger rail
and America is the opposite. They're really big on freight rail.
So it's kind of a different focus but seems to
work for them.

Speaker 12 (25:36):
Ay, yeah, yeah, I wonder what ch one would be
the Yeah, I mean, if you could have the luxury
of Evy Base, and then it's sort.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Of are you off? Are you going up for Electric Avenue?

Speaker 13 (25:48):
No?

Speaker 12 (25:48):
No, no, no, that's some military training going on up here.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh yeah, sounds serious.

Speaker 12 (25:55):
Oh you know, we're just just just doing some break
the shooting.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Brilliant if we want to hear Ben, you have a
good time. Thank you. Nice to talk fording away from nine.
If you want to be a part of it. Rail
always good to get a bit of a talk about
rail and dogs and Kaiko and Electric Avenue, anything else tonight,
keep those texts coming through. It is the Friday Free
for all. Did that woman? Did the person who she
said to his voiced in light? Did that go out?

(26:20):
Oh yeah, Marcus, I hope they get rid of shortened street.
Would make my life Andy, how said any that you
want a program to fail to make your life? Marcus
have traveled Northdowne Moto and for a long time we
plan want to play another trip again. However, but with
the amount of dog attacks in the area, we have canceled.
Does the community in the north knock care? And does

(26:42):
Shane Joan only beat his chest and get nothing done?
My wife was solid some years ago at Matodi Bay
haven't been back there. Also, Wow, Marcus, look up the
Facebook page run it straight, Ea, fence hopper might be
running straight A fence hopper dedicated to people wanting to
jump the fence into the fistal hilarious. Good luck to

(27:05):
them through this year. This two layers of fence plus
barbed wire. They should have been electronic. God, I was
reading today about the fence between Poland and Belarussia or Belarus.
Yea flip. That's a trippy kind of a situation. If
you followed that story, that's a real trippy situation, that one,

(27:26):
and it's not in a good way. So what happened
if I can just Belarus's president, who's pretty sketchy. They
got involved with diverting a plane with someone on it
that was important, but he decided to get back at Europe.
He would open the country of Belarus to migrant from
Africa and then feed them through to Europe. Oh yeah,

(27:48):
there's some tragic stories because they're trying to get to
poll and there's high fences and the likes. But anyway,
it's a bizarre story just through his own spite. It
really is bizarre. Anyway, you might want to mention that one.
Don't really want to mention that, but just that's what
sprung to mind anyway, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty

(28:10):
and nineteen nine to detext emails if you've got them
and anything else. You wouldn't think that the South Island
could cope with sixty six more locomotives, which it's a
lot of fourteen to twenty five more. One of Pacifica
are on the way back. But there's only one wom
minute left in that match, so that's not going to
be a good thing, is it? And yeah, one minute now.

(28:35):
Keeping an eye on news in the UK. Also people,
the latest story is Sarah Ferguson begged Epstein to upgrade
her business cast flights to see him in Palm Beach
days after his JAAR release on child six charges, and
she's asking for her kids to be upgraded. Also, gosh,
that is a family without dignity, isn't it? A family
without dignity when it's not a talkback topic but jeepest creepers.

(28:59):
No one's sticking up to defend either of them. Oh well,
be in touch with your on talk Marcus till Middler
eight way four nine. Oh yeah, wow, how are you people,
what's happening. What's happening out in the world tonight too.
I'll tell you what. It was a remarkable data in south.
They said it was going to turn bad and coming
from the south and it was going to be winter

(29:19):
before we had autumn. It's been an extraordinary day without
a cloud. That's the weather report. We do anything interesting,
are there's a big thunder and it is currently coming
through or just passed. I think so if you've got
an the updates from that. I haven't managed to look
at that Facebook page at for Electric Avenue, but yeah,
I guess the trouble is when you've got a big
park in the middle of town in forty five thousand

(29:42):
people that there will get fence jumpers. It looks like
they're making it very very difficult, as they probably will.
It seems like a very difficult venue to time enforcement.
Seems like they managed to do it. So I might
have like a that website. But yeah, if you want
to be a part of the show, good people, that's
the plan. If you've got something to say on here.
We have been talking about Kaiko, that new supermarket, and

(30:04):
christ Chuch that people are rare about the abatement notice
served on the Bromley sewage plant. Well, they'll even be
worse if something if that means something will happen, because
that means they've actually refused to do something in their past.
But this is the environment candiby ecans who is the regulator.
They received four thousand, five hundred complaints. Yeah, so I

(30:30):
don't know if you can spell electric avenue. But split
Ends are currently on. Probably later on tonight we'll hear
some people driving home. They can give us a report
on Split Ends and the songs they sang. Because you
want to talk quickly before the news, that would be
ideal for me. There might be some other topic you
want to broach. That's the right word stix away from nine.

(30:54):
Yeah anyway, so get in touch eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine to de texts. You want
to be part of it? Oh that Rugby has concluded
thirty five nine says something about Pacific as super Rugby.
I like the matches amongst your Zealand teams. The rest
of it kind of always seems a bit I don't know.

(31:17):
It seems like a funny old competition that one I
only ever passing interest in it. But yeah, strikes me
as kind of weird. Well what changes every year the
teams that are in it? But yeah, I don't I
wouldn't know on form who should have won that? Apparently
it was in New Zealand. There you go. So that's
the situation there with that match and the Reds and

(31:39):
the Highlanders will be on at nine thirty tonight. Yes, indeed,
the other story. I can tell you a lot of
AI stories coming through and at Burger King, AI is
listening to employers to see whether they're using the words
please and thank you. It's an AI chatbot. Well why

(32:00):
just get AI to do the serving. That's what most
of them have done. Seems to be a bit of
an intermediary step there, But yeah, you might want to
mention that too, people, But get in touch if you
want to be a part of the show. If there's
something different you want to mention. Tonight on after a
busy week of talk, Yeah, last day of summer and
now we all keep saying that, I don't know what

(32:21):
that really means to people. I suppose what it means
is you look back, I think it was it a
good summer or a bad summer. I think something we
had was kind of okay. Actually, although we're away from
a month up north. The weather was pretty good. The
upshot of it was all pretty standard. There were good days,
were bad days. Didn't really mind it at all, but yeah,
be in touch if you want to talk. Just coming
up for three away from at nine o'clock. If you

(32:43):
want to come through really quickly before the news, that
would be great. Otherwise I'll try and launch it in
the next hour. But iron made and turing. You want
to get your tickets for that, particularly if you're traveling,
you want to get your flight tickets. So it's in November.
That's its Spark, And no doubt you don't know why
that I thought there would have been. Yeah, well I

(33:03):
guess into all the better sound, No way there'd be.
My people seem to love spark, don't they. You never
hear any complaints about that. So that's when that sign. Also,
that was announced today, So there we go. I'm going
to go just sort out the aircon and make the
room a bit cooler, and I look forward to hearing
from you at the other side of the news. If
you want to just give us a call during if
you want to tea that up and get in touch.

(33:27):
I'll by the way and Wellington the beaches are now
unsuitable to swim at. Pretty sketchy, isn't it. They're fine
now they're no longer fine. And we certainly know what
happened to the more point works do We kind a
bit confused about that, but I'll keep looking for information.
But yes, you want to start the next hour? Give
us a eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and you

(33:48):
might have been an early lever from Electric Avenue. You
just know how that is going. Forty five thousand people there.
I guess the weather's good. Any complaints about that, so
that's a good thing. I shall read a text. Good evening, Marcus,
how are you doing well? I answered, I'm doing very
very well. I'm my happy play at work. The hobby
broadcaster here is a subject for tonight. I just found

(34:11):
out what a terraneum. What a terrarium is. It's a
self sustaining miniature ecosystem housed in a transparent glass or
pesta container featuring plants that thrive in high humid and moisture.
They repaired one on the repair shop tonight. It looks great.
Cheese sonya very good, thank you, Sonya Marcus. One of

(34:31):
the only interviews. They said, what happened the old control
panels removed and a new one hadn't been put in yet,
deliberate incompetence. This is more point. I don't watch the
repair Shop, mainly because I'm at work, but the rare
times I've seen it. Now this will be an unpopular opinion,
but I don't mind. It seems to me the repair Shop,

(34:54):
it seems to me sentimental, mawkish and exploitative. They're just
sort of going for the tears. That's just me. I've
always preferred the one I like like is Drew Pritchard's
one when they get the antiques and Marcus, are you
going to Maiden? Oh look, I'm not a diet in

(35:17):
the wool Iron Maiden supporter. It would require me to
fly from in Vocable to Auckland to go to it,
which are probably about twelve hundred dollars return, So I
guess I'll say no to that. They should be doing
a Christ Judge. They should be going to christ Chuch. Also,
although the Fooies are going to christ Church, that's pretty
much the perfect band. I would think that Christ Chiach

(35:38):
Stadium because I don't know that seems as though the
food fighters have the South Island people have particular affinity
for the food fighters. But that's not going to get
me to midnight to night. If there's something, if there
is some stuff you want to talk about tonight, I've
kind of come up a bit kind of not sure
what the topic is tonight. There doesn't seem to be
anything out there that people seem to be okay about stuff.

(36:01):
There's not any great sporting controversy, and the only thing
I can really get people going on about it is
where the bikes should be on the footpath. I don't
have a problem with it, but people, For some people,
bikes make people see red. They even hate children on
bikes Marcus. Maybe if the bike and scooter riders had
nicer manners there wouldn't be a problem. A perfect night

(36:23):
in christ Church for split ends, no cloud, no wind,
eleven degrees, but with those numbers it will feel like
twenty five. The city is the place to be now
just gets more positive every day. Well apart from Bromley,
is christ Church, New Zand's best city. Well Wellington you
can't swim because it's full of sewerage and all clan

(36:45):
no one can sell their house and people are leaving.
So yeah, I'd say christ Church is New Zealand's best city,
but you never know, it'll probably become a victim of
its own success. Too many people will move there or something.
I don't know the answer to that, but i'd take
the moment say oh, I didn't even you'd have to
be up there though, wouldn't it. Leedan's fantastic. So there

(37:05):
you go. It's eleven past nine. If you want to
discuss any of these points, or you might be doing
a roadie, or you might just have your own interesting
thing to say, then feel free to avail yourself of
the airwaves tonight. I don't want to get all controversy
on it because you'll you'll get triggered, but there might
be some hard Although we did try dogs on Monday
and I didn't feel that as a talk back night

(37:26):
was pretty The dog owners didn't conduct themselves well, let's
just put it that way. They seem to have no
general awareness. That was my take on that. A texta
says passenger rail in the States runs on freight lines
so doesn't take priority and can be very slow due

(37:46):
to that. What I did read I read a book
about a woman that went round all of America on trains.
I'll tell you the name of the book, someone Dipski
was your name just smoker, So she's round in the
back carriage where you could smoke stranger on a train.
It was called it was a travel book about going

(38:06):
around America on a train. But what staggered me was
a lot of the people she met on the trains
were Amish people. And it seems the Amish people there
are three means of transport they're allowed to partake in
is horse and buggy, train or rollerblading. If you get bored,

(38:28):
watched one night YouTube Google YouTube Amish rollerbladers. They love it.
After their butter turning off, they go and their rollerblades
looking quite zippy. Anyway, Lance, this is Marcus. Welcome and
good evening.

Speaker 11 (38:49):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
How are you Lance. I'll be a ten out of
ten this end.

Speaker 11 (38:53):
Oh well, that's good.

Speaker 14 (38:56):
Yeah, I'd like to talk about night usen and air
drinking water.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Oh wow, yeah, I see the report for rural Southland
is not good.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (39:08):
I'm on the west coast of South Island, so we're
a bit through the up.

Speaker 11 (39:11):
But it's the same.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Something are you on boarwater?

Speaker 14 (39:15):
Yes, we've got a small town supply.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Here, is it does the town supply boarwater?

Speaker 11 (39:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (39:24):
Really?

Speaker 14 (39:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, we've got deep wells here.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
But there'd be so much there'd be so much you
think on the West coast, there'd be so much water
they wouldn't need to go to boarwater.

Speaker 14 (39:37):
Well, I'm trying to get people to realize that it's
a serious health risk and that we should all get
our own rainwater tanks.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Absolutely, you should do that anyway.

Speaker 11 (39:49):
Well you'd think so, but no, not mean.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
You can't wait, but you must do that yourself. Lance.

Speaker 11 (39:56):
Yeah, I have got a couple of rain wood.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
You just cut out there, Lance, But keep up the
good fight, Jamie. This is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 15 (40:04):
Oh Marcus, how's you like going?

Speaker 2 (40:05):
We've go me? How you going?

Speaker 8 (40:07):
All right?

Speaker 16 (40:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (40:08):
Not too bad.

Speaker 15 (40:09):
I thought i'd give you a call because I know
you like to talk about how bad Sky is. But
I've got a shocking one about Foxtel over here.

Speaker 13 (40:17):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, so Fox tells you all, like, what do you
call those providers? It satellite TV? It's still caught, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (40:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (40:26):
Yes, so yeah, that's it. So yeah, I before the
ashes it was on, I was having a month off
work over Christmas.

Speaker 11 (40:33):
I'm like, oh, I'm going to.

Speaker 15 (40:34):
Get old fashioned foxtown down through a found like beamed
in my TV because our internet is not very good.
So anyway, ring them up, sort that out. They go,
we don't send a technician out, but we'll send you
a d dish kit if you can add that to
the first bill.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
I'll do that.

Speaker 15 (40:52):
Three months later and about hitting phone calls.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
They were telling me, I know, we don't.

Speaker 15 (40:58):
Even send a dish kid out. We'll put it on
your internet though, and I'm like, no, I don't want
it on my internet once and is not very good.
I want the old fashion way. And they were like, yeah,
they could not send me a dish to set up myself,
or a technician out or anything.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
But they had already said three months only they were
going to do that.

Speaker 15 (41:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then just and then about months
into it, I started getting all these text messages you
must return your gear for a full refund because you
don't have to pay for it until you activate it.
So I didn't activate it until I got like, was
waiting for the dish and one lady was on the
phone was even like, I'll activate it right now for you.

(41:38):
I was like, no, because then I've got to pay
for it, and I haven't got a dish, so I'm
going to pay for something I can't watch.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
So yeah, sat.

Speaker 15 (41:46):
The hardware and mind us. The dish sat in the
house for three months and it got returned on Monday.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
So it sounds like you were just at the frechange
of when they were stopping doing dishes, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (41:59):
I think so. Yeah, they said they'd ran out of
dish kits or they don't send them out or something,
and yeah, they stopped a couple of months. All they
stopped sending a technicians.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Now as well, where.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Was the call scene to you were dealing with Jamie?

Speaker 15 (42:15):
But I think I think they were overseas to be honestly, Yeah,
I couldn't, you know. They didn't sound Australian.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
So because I had.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Sky ring me every day for three weeks, right, and
I said, ring Vanessa, I'm not good with this stuff.
But Vanessa somehow would put the number is the only
number on block, so ring her and then ring me
says she's not answering. I think she always answers anyway,
we finally got it resolved. Just Dad, I think We've
got and put our internet on with Sky. I don't
know why, but they're persistent.

Speaker 15 (42:48):
Yeah, they kept on going on me, oh, you just
put it through the internet, and I'm like, yeah, but
the nb N where on is terrible drops in and
out and so whenever I'll be watching the only wanted
to watch the cricket, so I'll be at the most
important moment and then it will start buffering. So just
give me the old session one and they just.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Could not do it.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
So what are you going to do now there, Jamie, Well,
we returned it and I will get messages delon.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
And we do KO.

Speaker 15 (43:22):
Instead, which is like just fifteen months will you get?
Is just a sports channel, so over the internet.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
So I'll do that until you need.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Everything else is on YouTube, Jamie, that's what you want. Mary.

Speaker 8 (43:33):
You know, where was that last caller from? It sounds
like my neighbor.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, he's your neighbor as he's he's out west, he's
out with he's out Brisbania, West Brisbania. I don't even
know the neighbor of it. Like western Western Queensland, Australia.

Speaker 8 (43:56):
You're in the West Islands.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
This city is probably Hamilton at the moment I.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Say, people are right, well that you've been to that
unite that you bar precinct theater.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
No, well I wanted to go and see Teaks, but
I was up having the holiday from how I'm MACKI
with Dallas, so they didn't work out. When when someone
like Teas comes again, I'll go.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
So you missed that, you missed I don't think I'm
so familiar with Teaks? Well have I missed out on that?

Speaker 8 (44:27):
Teaks? Do you remember in the christ Church massacre and
there was this young man from Hokianga. He was like nineteen,
but it sounds like a fifty year old.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 8 (44:37):
Now Frank Sinatra's saying how great they are with another
beautiful lady. It was amazing.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, Okay, that's a that's a great reminder because I
did see that, and then we saw then we see
Lord and Marlon Williams do.

Speaker 8 (44:57):
Yes, here Marlon Williams is how did they do?

Speaker 2 (45:00):
They did a Cybern and Garth Funcal song, did they?
It was pretty good? Anyway? Thanks, But that's a great
that's a great refresher on that anyway, So you haven't.
So Hamilton's the best city in the country.

Speaker 8 (45:10):
It's because it's got good roads and the buses are
pretty safe. One of my daughters moved to christ Church.
She said it's pretty good, but the buses are a
bit dodgy, like bus fights.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
And is she studying or is she studying or working?

Speaker 8 (45:29):
So this is our third daughter, one of the middle ones.
She's going to be a lawyer, so she's doing law
at Canterbury, but she's already the manager of the local
subway on the side.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Does she not feel the love of the milking shed
that you do? Ah?

Speaker 8 (45:46):
No, No, she's very she's revery opinionated, and she'll make
you see it her way and say used to whatever
she wants. So she'll be a great lawyer.

Speaker 2 (45:56):
Are you going to go and see her? She's only
been in there for a month.

Speaker 8 (46:00):
Is she I just I'll just let her get through
this stress quarter and then I'll go down. But she
won her first debate and first year law. You do
like therese one on one debates with someone and she
kicked the guy's butts and that was pretty bracy.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Will she be at the concert tonight?

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (46:16):
I think she is there, and I will go down,
Marcus will go down when the mountain biking is good
and when that new stadium opens, Yeah stadium.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
You won't go out for the food fighters.

Speaker 8 (46:28):
No, no, I've already said them a few times.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to run, Mardy, but nice to talk.

Speaker 11 (46:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Twenty one past nine four votes for Hamilton, one vote
for Tim who for New Zealand's best most happening city.
I don't think timodhow is the city? I think you
have fifty thousand, But there you go. But yeah, nothing
for christ nothing for Auckland, nothing for Willington Ken. It's Marcus.

Speaker 18 (46:52):
Good evening, Oh good, good day, Marcus sort. I'd just
give you a buzz And I've been thinking a couple
of days about give me a ring. I'd something that
might be interesting for you to talk back is the
Allen night. I wife called me up into the bathroom
to come and have a look at something. I went
in there and there's a black a white tail spider

(47:12):
and a Daddy Longleys having a scrap.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
And a weaber on the bath and behind the bath in.

Speaker 18 (47:22):
The bathroom and they get into the bath now and
again I think they go looking for water. These black
tails white tails, I mean, and anyway, there's Daddy long legs.
They're having a punch up and I was amazed. I've
never seen anything like it in my life. And we
watched it for about two to three minutes, I suppose.

(47:44):
And in the end they were going hammers and tongs.
The old daddy long leaves out with his legs and
they're anything in the and the white til was trying
to get in there and give a few punches, and
that it was. It was a proper boxing match.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
The right the white tail wouldn't have the reach of
the Daddy long legs, would it.

Speaker 18 (48:02):
I was trying to get in under the legs of
the Daddy long legs and close, so it made it interesting.
And I were just going cammas and times. We watched
it for about two or three minutes. In the end,
I thought this is enough. I've got to go and
get rid of them.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
I got rid of the.

Speaker 18 (48:17):
White white the black white tail. I've got rid of that.
But I left the daddy long as I thought he
might come in handy.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
I wonder why they were fighting. Would it be territorial
or fight fight?

Speaker 18 (48:27):
To think we've got a couple of daddy long leaves,
which I was told years ago to keep around for
their white tail the white tails, and so I'm sort
of not too fussed about if I see them around
and getting rid of them. I've left them around a bit,
and so I sort of leave them in the barking
because that's where they seemed to hindle, although I've had
them in the bed in the bedroom and they've been

(48:49):
bitten a couple of times myself. But I just thought
you might be interested.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
It's a very good story and told very well too.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Ken.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
I'm more than interested, So thank you.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Ver.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
There we go. See she's a broad show tonight. That's
really lifted up the stand of the calls with that.
And we're going on New Zealand's best City?

Speaker 13 (49:07):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Cross Church? Hands down? Still a bit of crime there,
They wasn't there, but I guess that's I don't know
what that is about. Would the highs come the lows?
But yeah, I wouldn't called Timadu a city. I don't
think tim who's going. I think the population there is
probably declining, is it? And I'll tell you what. It

(49:27):
wasn't a good look for Timanue that someone set light
to their Christmas tree last year. That was a bad
look for people. I thought you'd be between Duneda and
christ Church for your best city, wouldn't it? Then Hamilton
for third jumping if you want to be a part
of it, people, Marcus, the white tail eat other spiders,
so probably trying to eat the dady long legs. Wouldn't
be much food and a daddy long legs though, would there.

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Wellington is a dying city and Wellington is the highest
unemployment rate in the country. Marcus. I'm heading off the US,
including Pennsylvania next week, getting there and back by train.
Can't wait. We'll be interesting to see if you're see
any Amish on the train. How easy just to go
across and become an Amish? Be good holiday for a while,

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wouldn't it. I mean, you're probably busy raising barns and stuff.
But actually most of the only stuff I know about
the Amishes from the Weirdio Yankovic video of Amish Paradise.
Ah as I walked through the Yeah, that's the goody,
Actually that's I think that's Weirdo Yankovic's finest moment is

(50:31):
Amish Paradise. It's to the tune, It's the tune of
Gangster Paradise by the way as I walk through the air,
Marcus best City, the tron idyllic, Waikata, River Hilldale Zoo,
more Bogas And I'll tell you the bad thing about
Hamilton is that lake and now they've tipped fifty tons

(50:51):
of arsenic into it. And what a toxic sight that is.
I worry about that lake. Whitetail man needs to YouTube
the fight. That's what I'm thinking. You get something like
that and you get people bet on it, and then
he we'll get the talk back. We could do a
poll on what's gonna win. All I want to do
is play Amish Paradise now, Hettel twelve miname his markets,
Good evening and well hopefully after ten we'll get some

(51:15):
reports on how split ends were, what songs they sang.
I'll go look at their what songs are the major
ones that they did, so I think what they would
have played, or you do message to my girl when
you do, poor boy, you know I got you?

Speaker 13 (51:34):
You do.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
History never repeats. Oh there's plenty, there isn't there. I
walk away anyway, That's gonna be a great concert. So
we'll get a report from that as people winding their
way home. We're big in christ Church and that will
be happening now. If you want to talk on air,
that's the plan. Stand Friday free fill anything goes now.

(51:55):
There's another severe thunderstorm warning for Bay of Plenty, tod
On and Pokahena, pong Old Kawa Valley, Pike, Papa Mo.
The warning will remain until ten o seven. That's just
come through Wai and eBay of A Tope or Gisbit
Hawks by Tae Happy. We're under the watch until eleven

(52:18):
p r under into eleven PM. There's a showery unstable
a mass New Zealand's best city almost happening city. I mean,
wats the criteria so one where people want to go
to the live I suppose, and that wouldn't be awkward
to Wellington because people are leaving. It would be probably Rolliston,
christ Church, Hamilton. When these are just polled, aren't They

(52:41):
don't mean anything, but it's good that the christ Church
people have got reasons to keep the head of it higher.
Always been fiercely proud. Daddy long leaves can beat a
white tail spider. It strangles it with a silky thread.
Deady long legs are the natural predators of white tails.
The daddy long legs are more toxic than a white tail.
That is right, The daddy long legs are very toxic.

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But I think you've got to eat them. It's not
a bite. I think they're toxic if you swallow them.
I mean you wouldn't, would you. Oh, maybe I've got
that wrong. A lot of misinformation about spiders and I'm
perpetuating a b but if I think that's a myth actually,
but yeah, that's not my strong suit of spiders and
spider facts being touch people. If you want to talk

(53:25):
twenty had away from ten, also talking about Kaiko and
christ Jurge and the Bromley stench, and how's your relationship
with sky TV going? And if you're heading home from
Split Ends, I think they'll go along. They're supposed to
finish at nine to twenty ext. Look, I'll relook at
the at the program, but yeah, I think once I

(53:46):
get on stage they'll be I don't know if there's
noise restrictions not when there's forty five thousand people there
with their guide? Do I look at guide? No set times?
Friday Split ends eight to nine. I got it right,
then Basement Jack should go across to see them. Hello, Greg,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (54:06):
Hyah sense I'm enjoying the show New Margatine and.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Yes, good Greg, enjoying that you're enjoying this and you
and I'm enjoying that you're enjoying it. To cheers for that.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
Just on the spiders you're talking about the the white
Tail isn't toxic at all. People get them fected from
their bike because they've got dirty fans that they're not
actually a toxic spider, and.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
That makes sense.

Speaker 9 (54:32):
The deady go on needs.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Apparently is toxic.

Speaker 9 (54:35):
I can't fight people because it's claws, it's you know
what a bite you was that doesn't open wide enough
in the two weeks for humans. That was always my
understanding anyway. Wow, So if they buy the White Tail
or another spider, I think they do kill them because
I've always told that the Jenny Lobley's was Joys of

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the most been the spider in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
You ever seen a carapo.

Speaker 9 (55:03):
I've never seen them in real life, but yeah, that's
one little bit in the drug Wooden Beaches and there.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yeah, I've never seen they must be really really rare, aren't.
They don't even know if that still exists. Maybe some
other things predated on them.

Speaker 9 (55:15):
Yeah, another of the spider and yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Yeah, I think the white towels have got a much
worse wrap than they really deserve.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
Yeah, there were stories two going around that you know
that once they eat it getting long, then they get
twice as venomous and all this, but it's it's all
crap that they don't. I think that the couple times
for the white tail, and what it is is they've
usually got dirt on their knippers and if people don't

(55:44):
clean the wound out properly at more given bisiness, Yeah
I don't think. Yeah, pretty sure they're not poisons.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Sounds like that, sounds pretty sensible and that sort of
backs up what the's saying on the Tapapa website too,
So thanks for that. Back at your people, if you
want to talk nine to de text. I went to
try anyone, try key we freed onto. I went to
the four square, no kei we fruit. I was desperate
to try ki we freed on toast today, but it
wasn't to be. I wasn't going to go just to town.

(56:13):
I've been on a bit of a Lamington crawl today
becuse I've got a.

Speaker 10 (56:15):
Friend that.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
That that was on her.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
She wanted one, and I thought, and she long story,
not a story for now, but I thought, I'm going
to turn her because we've got a supermarket one. I
thought I could get a better one. So I thought,
I'm going to determine to do the tour of the
baker is to find a Lamington. But yeah, no luck.
And actually what I should have done was just made one.
I don't know why people aren't making Leamington's anymore. Went
to every bakery and in vert cargo. I went to
one bakery. It was all muffins. I thought, gee, that's weird.

(56:40):
It was all muffins. So I looked at It's called
muffin Bragel. That'll be see, you've got a lot of muffins.
The third one it's muffin rags busy airs. I'll tell
you what this was about. Between about twelve and two
o'clock I did my bakery crawl. But the South End
economy appears to be booming. Every dairy farmer gets FO

(57:07):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in the payout.

Speaker 11 (57:09):
But that's just not that.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
It just seems to be as though, yeah it's a
the turnaround's ready happening. Yeah, every bakery flat out or
every cafe flat out. But no, Lamington's not eve anything.
Leamington adjacent too much. The snacks have gone. And tell
you what, there's a lot of tanned slice. Oh this
is mine, this is our team, This is the Highlanders.

(57:31):
It always takes me a while to translate which teams
belong to? This is Highlands, us is the Reds. Where's this?

Speaker 11 (57:37):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Queens and Reds here must be in some one of those. Yeah,
I mean, no one would enjoy a bit of tan slice,
would they? A lot of slices? I don't think I've
ever ordered just a slice. Seems wrong to me to
go into a diabetic coma. Twenty three to nine, if
twenty three to ten, if you want to talk here

(57:59):
till twelve Queens and Reds up five nil. That's at
sun Corp. Five nil to the Reds over the Highlanders.
Suet's Marcus.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, it's through here, Hi, sir.

Speaker 18 (58:10):
Hi.

Speaker 10 (58:12):
Just talking about the white tail spiders. I was actually
told by a m bug man to do with spiders
and everything, And they say that the white tail spider
isn't poisonous, but it's what they prey on, and they

(58:36):
were praying on Daddy longlegs, and apparently their bodies.

Speaker 17 (58:43):
Are so toxic.

Speaker 10 (58:46):
That is what gives the white tail spider their poison.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Okay, yeah, I don't yeah, Okay, have you.

Speaker 10 (58:57):
Heard otherwise or was I put wrong?

Speaker 2 (59:04):
I don't know. It's always quite confe using the white
tail information for me.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
Yeah, yeah, same, same, yeah. But I was actually told
by here the council, that I went in and I
took a white tail spider into them and they just said.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
That, Okay, I found I found that. This is on
the TIPAPA page. It says the myths about white tails
and deady long legs. One of the enduring myths about
white tails is they are not especially dangerous to people,
nless they eat deady long legged spiders and co opt
their venom. The story goes, Diddy long legs is particularly
toxic to humans, but it's feeble fans when it can't

(59:45):
bite people. This is all, to put it mildly complete rubbish.

Speaker 10 (59:49):
Oh okay, okay, we know.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
The deady long legs can bite, and the venom is
not dangerous, even if it was white tail to have
no ability to transform their own venom by taking on
the venom of another species. It would be a new
trick if they could. It's worth noting that the deady
long legs this is one of the white tail's most
formidable opponents. That's because the deady long legs is incredibly
attuned to what's happening in its web. No matter how

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careful it is, it's virtually impossible for the white tail
to avoid being noticed. Once detected, the dead long legs
will rain sticky silk down on it, and no time
at all, the white tails wrapped in silk and been
hauled up by the deady long legs for lunch. Because
the way white tails hunt as they'll go into a web.

Speaker 10 (01:00:33):
Yep, because they don't make a web of their own.

Speaker 5 (01:00:39):
Day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Yeah, okay, I think that's what happens with white tails.

Speaker 11 (01:00:46):
Okay, my daughter.

Speaker 10 (01:00:49):
Many years ago, she was I thought it was just
a mosquito bite on the inside of her knee, but yeah,
it was a white tail and it just oh god,
she had this big, poisonous pussy thing.

Speaker 17 (01:01:10):
It was incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
It says here the best time to see white tails
at work is after dark. The white tail will very
slowly and carefully enter a web. It starts plucking threads,
trying to entice the web's owners to come with an
attack range. Once it does, the white tail strikes hard
and fast. It needs to kill such dangerous prayer as
quickly as it can. Forcedly deployed fangs deliver a venom

(01:01:34):
and sure this happens. However, the other spider attacks first,
the white tail end up as prey rather than predator.
Should have filmed it. This is exciting. Thank you, Sue.
Seventeen to ten. And it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome,
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:01:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:01:50):
These white child spiders in the nausey we get a
lot of them and the heat of some of the
very toxic munity poison. But what we use is in
mush ups and plantain and put it on and it
neutralizes the poison.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
Yeah, And I always have a few leaves, a few
deady long leagus on my roof because they do they
keep them away.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Okay, yep, because yeah, okay, I know that the websites
do say that they're not particularly venomous. It says white
tails are blamed for a lot of nasty symptoms. However,
studies have shown there's nothing in white tail venom that's
a particularly concern. Secondary infections are sometimes but on white tails,
even though no spider is seen. This can happen with
any skin breakage, be it bite, grays, or sting. In

(01:02:35):
some cases may be serious, but the risk of infection
can be greatly reduced by keeping skin breakages clean. There's
no suggest if it suggest that these spiders directly transmit
bacteria or other pathogens, but white tails do deserve respect
because of how mechanically strong they're. Bitters, little strong biters.
Fifteen to nine, fifteen to ten, ten to fifteen, fifteen

(01:02:57):
to ten. Text of the night Marcus have just been
to a concert within a concert, thousands watching split ends
outside the electric air perimeter along Hagley Park could see
everything unreal best key we band there ever was. Yeah,
well they certainly lasted a long time were they're supposed

(01:03:20):
to be for? Are they finished yet? I'll Texas unit back.
I want to see what the endcourt is? Have they
finished yet? Have have they finished?

Speaker 11 (01:03:31):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
I never ever thought that christ should become the music
festival capital of New Zealand. Such a good park, that's
vision that's council vision putting a park like that aside. Yep,
not the best park in the country. That would be
booka Cuda park, but a good park, Big park. Twelve
from ten Spiders and New Zealand's Best City, most Exciting City,

(01:03:56):
and Bromley and Kaiko the Supermarket. These are just suggestions.
Oh that try was just allowed. Dan, Yeah, it took
a long time. But knock on a so it's zero
zero at sun Corp. Marcus Paul here, I got bitten
by white tail SPI didn't. I got bit of a
day light. I've got a big pussy, a big pussy

(01:04:17):
pimple on my thighs. It's a big pussy pimple. I
couldn't work at that was a big pussy. What's pussy
and pussy is the same word? Are they homonyms? How
would you spell pussy? That's got me thinking, isn't full
of puss?

Speaker 15 (01:04:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Same word as you should say pustulant, pussy and pussy. Yeah,
didn't know that same word. Basically ten to ten. If
you got to be a part of it good makes
surely you must like a good ginger crunch. Chelsea Winters
is amazing. Make it all the time. Everybody loves it.
Otie with coconut would beautiful to know why you think

(01:04:57):
Howses and Auclid aren't selling. That's the data. I think
people want their twenty twenty prices. That's what their expectations are.
I think, you know, this country needs to become more
than just a property market. But good luck with that.
Nine from ten. Oh, by the way, Spara thought for
those mariners that are still on the inter on unferry

(01:05:19):
that's moored off Tasman or off Nelson. That's the one
the ship that was sold for scrap. There's twenty there's
twenty crew on that ship and they're trying to get
it reflagged and they are earning. Did you read how
much they're earning. There's twenty sailors from India who are

(01:05:46):
getting ready to deliver it. They are earning turn and
six dollars per month, so six dollars a day, that's
how much they're earning. And you're stuck on the ship.
I don't know who's Steve adoring them. No, so that's
not the word right, who's provisioning them? But so yeah,
I can't quite work what's going on there with that

(01:06:07):
seems like a terrible situation provisioning. I guess it is.
But yeah, that's what's happening there. They're listening today. I
hope it's good for you. So yep, still zero zero,
twenty minutes gone on the rugby. This is the Queens
and Reds versus the Highlanders. You Robert ats Marcus good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:06:29):
Oh good, A bit nervous about the sixty. Around six
twenty pm, I was sitting watching the TV. It was
a bit of cloud out there, and I looked out
the window from Shirley christ Church northeast. I've written it
down northeast. Shocked, stunned by what I saw, A large

(01:06:49):
black horseshoe, sort of a E shaped, crescent shaped objects
slowly slow control flight. I ran outside and watched it
travel south under the cloud. Level ran back inside to
get made ten times fifty binocles, ran down the driveway

(01:07:12):
and observed it closely, and it made no sound as
it flew. It was a very aerodynamic shape, a rigid structure.
Wasn't natural, that's for sure. And what else can I
say about? On edge on it looked like a wing,
but it would do a loop upwards, vertical and you

(01:07:34):
could see the crescent shape and there was a middle
piece as well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
That was sort of it'd be nothing to do with
the big concerts on. It wasn't of a Hagley park,
was it.

Speaker 18 (01:07:46):
It was heading towards that direction. Well, I'm here in Shirley.
It was really weird.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
It was a horseshoe shape, yes.

Speaker 18 (01:07:58):
Sort of a horse or crescent, but it's like a
capital e but it's rounded and there's a all piece
as well, and it was Yeah, it was really odd.
I'm hoping someone else saw it. I was hoping that
had a camera nearby that would There was no one
out there at the time.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Oh you sounded very reliable witness and no sound, which
is weird.

Speaker 18 (01:08:24):
Yeah, it was just yeah, it was just it was
doing a thick flight and then it looped upwards vertical
and then it would loop down again there a straight
flight and it was repeating that pattern as it was self. Yeah,
so I'm hoping someone else saw it. The size was
roughier size.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Of the car so and what could any idea of
the altitude.

Speaker 18 (01:08:49):
It was just below the crowd level. It was going
higher as it was going further self.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
So it.

Speaker 18 (01:08:58):
Freak me out.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yeah, I know that's your good witness. Okay, Robert, we'll
see if anyone else knows that. Thank you saw that.
Christ surely let me just what direction were you looking from, Shirley, Robert,
I just got to look at my bearings.

Speaker 18 (01:09:13):
Let's see. Uh, I was looking north at my from
the side, and it was going southwards to the south.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Yeah, you were looking northwards and it was heading.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
South Yeah it was.

Speaker 18 (01:09:28):
It was heading in the southward direction. Southwest, oh, south west?

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Yeah, yeah, so heading towards. Okay, appreciate that. Thank you.
No one, no one has seen what he saw that.
I've seen that I can see, just putting it out there.
About the call before the news, I texted about the
guy that's watching Split Ends from the road. I said,

(01:09:54):
have they finished it? He said yes, with icy read.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
During the break, I was watching some videos of the
concert with Liam and Tim Finn. They said it was
there a thousandth concert according to someone that had done
all the numbers. So yeah, that was interestingly. Yeah, it
was interesting to see the crowd, the crowd. The crowd
from the quick bit of video, I thought the crowd

(01:10:19):
weren't going nuts because the crowd seemed a lot younger
than I don't know how familiar the crowd were with
the music. Maybe someone knows who's driving home from there
from Electric Avenue or walking home. But we are talking
about whitetail spiders and New Zealand's most happening city. Some
said it's christ You, someone said it's Hamilton. No one
said it's Todunger. They have been the discussion so far.

(01:10:40):
People also talking about Bromley and about Kaiko the new supermarket.
But anything else you want to embark on tonight good
current list of Shirley Weird. Our TV internet went off
saying off seven fifty tonight. Never happened before, Marcus. The

(01:11:01):
Brodny issue has always been there. The problem has come
from processing waste after the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
Think.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
We know that though they need to move it somewhere else,
they need a better plan. The people have promptly deserved that.
Looking at the rugby, the school's not on the screen.
I'll wait till it's on the screen, then I'll tell
you the score. There's rain fade. Why my sky is
bad today? There's rain fade again. It's not raining, it
just seems to be a pause. It mainly happens that
I'm not here and the rest of the time I'm

(01:11:30):
just watching, watching, watching, to give you an update, people,
twelve five the Reds against the Highlanders. Thirty one minutes gone,
twelve five. I guess that's two tries to one. They've
just conveyed that, so it's twelve to seven.

Speaker 11 (01:11:46):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Poor tackling from the Reds. They should have stopped that try.
Twelve seven. Adam Lennox was the score of the half.
He's going across, should have been tackled. But yeah, ten
past ten. I'm with you till midnight tonight. If you
want to talk about anything to tonight. It's been a
big week of talk of this something else you want
to mention. Also, bikes on foot path it's just kids.
Where else would they go? And I'm kind of slightly

(01:12:11):
anxious that in New Zealand are getting ready for announcement
that if you're read between the lines, the speculation that
they will cut some of the regional airlines services. But yeah,
that's the only point of having a partially government owned airline,
you would think. I don't imagine anyone else is going
to make money out of those roots. So yeah, that's
a situation now if you want to talk to me,

(01:12:33):
particularly if you are heading home from Electric Avenue, although
I think you're probably going from that stadium to basement Jacks.
Timidoo is hopeless. I've heard it's a town that's down
on its luck, that the population is declining. Remember the
last time you had a good story out of Timadoo?

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Never?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Well, No, the foreshore is quite nice how they developed
it there, but to set light to the Christmas tree
that was a bad thing. There was a bad story
for the town coming into summer or during summer. But
be in touch if you want to talk about this
or anything else. It's the Friday free for them. Might
be something I want to talk about. Spider fights is
what we've been witnessing. That's some of the discussion eleven

(01:13:11):
past ten. But yes, Electric Avenue if you are heading home,
that's the major topic for tonight. How good it was
with Split Ends?

Speaker 17 (01:13:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
And Iron Maiden? How keen are you you get to that?
And tvn Z is going to develop a local version
of Tipping Point. To me, it doesn't seem to be
a very well thought out quiz show. There are enough
questions and there's an endous watching those sort of little

(01:13:41):
discs go down and flip across. But that's the one
that TVNZ's committed to, and they're going to make a
local version. They're building a whole studio on everything. So
where would you raise it, as quizz Do you love
it or just think it's okay? So yeah, the local
version of the Tipping Point. So all this and more
twelve past ten if you want to come through, as
you can see, that's the time for you to call now.

(01:14:02):
And yeah, I don't mind what your topics are about
tonight hands slice I've mentioned Also why is that so bad?
Most of the UK news is about the Green There
was a by election in the Green Party one I

(01:14:23):
think Labor was third, so that's just happened also, and
there's much hysteria about that in the UK, So come
on if these are things you want to talk about
or anything else. And in New Zealand, good to see
Kiwi row making a bit of money, making a lot
of money. I thought that's all something. Also tonight text

(01:14:45):
if you've got them nine two nine to it'll call
us up if you want to. And that guy before
the news that saw that thing, Yeah, love the info
on white tails. I discovered recently that all spiders don't
like vinegar. They shy away from the smell. I mix
up fifty to fifty white or not vinegar with water
and sprail around the house. Spiders gone redo every four

(01:15:08):
to six months. Marcus saw Splitdeens around nineteen seventy six
seventy seven at Napier Municipal Theater. They were great then,
even though the attitude was Kiwi bands were inferior, and
there've been great ever since. Icons using Icon's National Treasures.
Someone sent a letter to Mike Hosking. It's a funny

(01:15:28):
time to send it. What's you're thinking? Joe well into
nightmare continues. Beaches in the Red so again, prre disaster
for Andred little swimming. We seem to be okay, he's
not sick. That'd be the worst thing. But yeah, be
in touch if you want to be on air tonight
fourteen past ten are talking split in hope. If you're
going to get some people heading home from the concert tonight,
a lot of people outside watching it, So you get

(01:15:52):
in touch if you want to. Oh emailers says Marcu's
not sure. If you listened to the interview with the
E News Inland Boss with Mike Hosking this morning. He
kept on mentioning the same answer. No, I didn't hear that,
But what answer you keep on mentioning only some of
the press rounds yesterday, yues, it's part of your job
to go and do the press. Fifteen past ten, Oh, yes,

(01:16:14):
seventeen past ten, still encouraging you to call the game
on the rugby game looks like it's been played at
a blistering pace. It's just about ten seconds away from halftime.

Speaker 11 (01:16:21):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
That's the Queensland Reds nineteen. The Highlanders are on seven.
They're expecting the new coach of the All blacksby announced
next week. It's going to be a big week of talkback.
I would imagine whether then they well, I mean, I'm
presure it's going to go Jamie Joseph, but you never know.
It might be depending on this performance tonight. But yeah,

(01:16:43):
all the lines are free if you do want to talk.
I've checked everything at you that I want to talk about,
so there might be something different you want to mention.
I haven't got a problem with that. If there's something
else that you want to mention, talk about, say it's
all good. The thing I liked about the guy before
the news, Robert, who saw that thing in the sky.
He didn't think it was a UFO. I just didn't
know what it was. It sounded to be like some

(01:17:04):
sort of drone kite or something. But I mean it's
interesting you ran in to get a camera, and we'll
rantom to get binoculars, but not random to get a camera,
which would be the obvious thing to do. And yeah,
ninety thousand people at the Electric Avenue concert over two nights,
forty five thousand each night, split ends, I believe have

(01:17:24):
probably just finished playing, and I wanted someone to ring
up and say how good it was and what their
big hits were, I mean, which of the songs they chose,
and what's the festival like in general, because a lot
of people in a part forty five thousand people, and
how it's handling is it's sort of at the capacity.
That's of interest to me. So yes, if you want

(01:17:45):
to be a part of the show. Also, talking whitetailed
spiders and the myths around, seems to be a huge
amount of misinformation about whitetail spiders. Don't know who perpetuates it,
but yeah, they're not really a dangerous spider, but they've
got a very strong bite. But yeah, as I say,
I'm not the expert on them. But yeah, you might

(01:18:05):
have something you want to say about that. So that's
what I've got for you tonight people. And yeah, as
I say, there's something different you want to talk about tonight,
there's other stuff you want to mention. There's cricket in
the morning. We will face England at two thirty. That's
sort of a four hours time. There be a lunar

(01:18:27):
eclipse next Tuesday, which will be the only one for
this year. The NRL begins this weekend and the Warriors
face the Roosters Friday ericson Daylight Savings on the fifth
of April. Clocks go back an hour. That's what I
can tell you his world Polar Bear Day today. How

(01:18:50):
many polar bears do you reckon there are on the world?

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
Have a guess.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I've got no idea. I'm I guess myself. I'd say
one hundred thousand? How many do you reckon? There would
be I was curious to know about populations of things.
As I wait your calls, twenty six thousand? Not many,
is it? I guess one hundreds three times wrong? But
it wasn't. I mean, they've got no idea of knowing.
But yeah, they'll be probably extinct within twenty years. You'd

(01:19:14):
think their habitat will go anyway, if I sound like
it's slightly more positive. But yes, be in touch. If
you want to be on air tonight, we might get
a late flurry.

Speaker 9 (01:19:24):
We need it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
I need it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Now, let me think of some other stuff that you
might want to talk about tonight. Salmon fishing. We could
mention Polar Bears and Iron Maiden, and they'll be performing
with Megadeath, but just for the one night that'll be
at Spark. It's a fiftieth anniversary show. I don't know

(01:19:46):
why it's the fiftieth, with three should be the fifth.
It's the band's fifth visit to New Zealand. First Place,
New Zealand, December nineteen ninety two to Logan Campbell.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
That's what I can tell you about people and TVs
that are about to make a local version of Tipping Point,
which strikes me as one of the more mundane quiz shows.
So you might want to mention that too, Marcus. The
description of the unknown object in the sky sounds like
the perfect description of one of those Foyl helium balloons,

(01:20:19):
particularly of the letter of number. I can understand that,
but it seems like it was bigger than that. That
was as big as a car. Who knows. Twenty three
past ten. Oh, by the way, the other consert news,
Good Charlotte are on it tonight at Auckland Domain. Yeah,
it's interesting that the Aukland domains becoming a bit of
a concient concert video. I don't know a lot about
Good Charlotte, but yeah, I don't know how that venue

(01:20:46):
is working. I don't know what the capacity is. So
it works. It's an ar eighteen gigs. The good on
them for doing that. That's Good Charlotte. They're on tonight. Yeah,
that one passed me by under the excitement of what's
happening Electric Avenue. So here's that's good. Let's go well,

(01:21:07):
maybe heading home from there, maybe they hasn't finished it
with the neighbors and things like that. So yes, all good.
If you want to talk about any of these things
here till midnight, no surprise is there. It's my job
and that weird object in the sky. What I'm enjoying,
not talking about is married at first sight, which I'm
not drawn to Keith. This is Marcus. Good evening and

(01:21:29):
welcome Hi Keith.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
Good this Marcus. I'm actually you Hecke and Marcus. Oh
you're away, were Hecke? And that's that little isle and
off the coast of Auckland.

Speaker 7 (01:21:45):
Oh is that right?

Speaker 4 (01:21:46):
That's right? Yes, Look, I don't know whether I've been
stewing over whether to ring you or not. The story
is that I'm eighty four, I'm parting mobile and hence
I realize a lot on television programs during the day. Now,
my gripe is that to watch an hour long program,

(01:22:11):
you've got to watch just the record of an hour
of commercials. It's not so much the commercials that they're playing,
it's a positioned in time they're timing them. Now, my
question is why, like sports, can't they have commercials at
the beginning, at the break, half time break, and the
finish of the game that get in just as many

(01:22:34):
commercials and it wouldn't spoil the story that you're watching.
And Marcus, I would be one of probably one hundred
hundred and fifty thousand people, bed dridden people, wheelchair people,
old people, are half lying people that have to get
up and rub their noses on the television, and I
don't think it's fair.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
To wait, why are you rubbing your nose on the television.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
So they can see what's on the picture, Marcus, some
half flying people, That's what I'm.

Speaker 7 (01:23:04):
Talking about, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
I mean, the reason they can't play the edge at
the end of the show is because no one would
watch them and the advertisers wouldn't buy those slots.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
But they do anyway, Marcus. In between programs, you get
the end of one program, they share commercials. The beginning
of the next program they play another set of commercials.
And I was watching one series that I really like watching,
which is The Game of the Strains. In the last

(01:23:38):
twelve minutes of that one hour program they played nine commercials.
And they always do it. Everything's building to building to
a crescendo or building to an end of something, and
you'll get three commercials shut in there. In my opinion,
that's just rot. I don't know whether you want to

(01:24:03):
comment in it or not.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Well I did comment, and what I said was if
they just put the commercials at the end of the
shows are not during it, people would go and do
something else. They wouldn't watch them, and no one would advertise.

Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
Well they do. They do for sports program to Marcus,
but the crickets the same, crickets the same when they
get somebody else in the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
Cricket sports sports programs. Part of the sky TV profit
model is that people are paying for the subscription, so
they're not is dependent on the commercials.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
So do you watch much TV during the day? You
don't know? Well, I'm unfortunately I have to help them
in the day. And as I say, there's a whole
lot of people would actually have to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
Are there any good Are there any good ads on Keith? Yes, sir,
are which ones?

Speaker 10 (01:24:58):
Do you like?

Speaker 13 (01:25:00):
To?

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Ads?

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
Are very good?

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
Do you like the team? Do you like the Tina
from Turner's Woman?

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Yes? Good?

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
Well that's positive, Thanks Keith, nice to talk. Someone might
want to respond to Keith. Keith, that's Keith. Not happy.
But I liked about what hearing about way Hike and
Good Charlotte performing tonight and split Ins if you've just
come from splitions and just know a little bit more
about them, how that was tonight? If you're driving home

(01:25:35):
from Electric Avenue or driving home from Good Charlotte, what's
good Charlotte said? I think The only reason I may
really know that good Charlotte is he seemed to always
be the judge on the voice. I think I know
what good Charlotte hits were. I mean that remark about
a data thing to say, it'd be my jam. But yeah,

(01:25:57):
get in touch you and talk about a complain if
you want to complain about TV. But I'll tell you
what if The only way free too, where TV is
going is probably with more ads because the death to
try and make some money, Marcus, I record most programs
I watch and fast forward through the adverts. Yeah, or
good luck explaining that to Keith. Keith didn't sink well, yeah,
you might want to reply to Keith too, or say

(01:26:17):
something about what he's saying. We are discussing New Zealand's
most progressive and exciting city. Would it be Hamilton or
wand it be christ Church? I mean Hamilton, bless it.
It is a long way away from the sea. I
don't think a great city could ever be inland, apart
from maybe Denver got a funny thing about inland landlocked cities.
That's just me now. Some of the other stuff that

(01:26:40):
sprung to mind tonight was spider fights. Who would win
between a day long legs and a white tail. It
seems that it's the deady long legs. It throws down
silk and ties up the white tail because the way
whitetail hunts is to get into webs. But yeah, no
measure for the deady long legs. I don't think white
tails themselves do webs, which is weird in itself that

(01:27:03):
some spiders don't. There's the strange object that the man
saw over Shirley some as I saw an odd flying
thing and carpet thought it must have been a drone
but seemed too big. That was last night TV. Indeed
his nuts with tipping point, bring back fair goal and
the Sunday shows. No more quiz shows needed. That flying

(01:27:24):
object could be the new electric plane that's been put
up through its paces around the top of the North Island.
Wish he just had some shots and split the ends.
If you've seen that and good show, What dan would
you know off the top of your head any good
shot it hits without googling them? No, I don't either,
but yeah must if they're playing the Domain, they must
be expecting a fairly good crowd. So onwards and upwards

(01:27:47):
that I try and entice you out with something interesting
to say, particular if you're in some sort of a
good mood. Marcus, your daytime TV viewer needs to get
a recorder so he can fast forall the ads. I'm
an older person. I managed the dish TV recorder. Well.
I surprised he watches Game of Thrones. I don't think
that's what is going to say. They're going to say
Emma Dale or something. So I misjudged him. There wouldn't

(01:28:10):
that be on Netflix? Where would you what this Game
of Thrones on free to wear? I don't know the
answer there. Nineteen to seven, the second half's begun. This
is the Reds above the Highlanders. Hello, Lisa, here you there?

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Thank you Lisa.

Speaker 19 (01:28:24):
That's good.

Speaker 13 (01:28:25):
Hey.

Speaker 17 (01:28:25):
I used to work for a company that the Peace
Control called Flick Anti Semics something or other global organization.
And the gentleman that's spoke before about white tails and
deady long legs. I can't remember. It's a couple of
calls ago. He's absolutely right. They will eat each other

(01:28:47):
depending on their environment, and that is how the whitetail
gets the veminus is through the deady long legs, and
they the predators, so they will hunt their prey rather
than make a web. The white tail. Yeah, I reckon

(01:29:12):
they can. They can make a bit of a mess.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
How long have white tails been in New Zealand.

Speaker 17 (01:29:18):
I've got no clue. I don't like them, don't you know?
Oh that's lucky. I just don't like them because if
you try and kill them with the word flights, rail, whatever,
they'll jump out it. Yet they're not afraid of anything.

Speaker 13 (01:29:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:29:42):
Where I am now, I'm in why Hey, rural why
he and I haven't seen any white tails, but I
have noticed a lot of deady long legs around the
house in section. There's a lot of spiders in general,
you know, and in the section and farm and stuff,

(01:30:02):
and they do come inside. But I haven't seen white
ours so far this season.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
Yeah, I just cool's been in yours? Aren't There are
a recent VISI But they've been here, they arrived And
why we are in eighteen eighty six.

Speaker 17 (01:30:17):
It's a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
We're a long time, long time for us to be
still confused about what they're up to. Where did they
come from Australia? I yeah, typical typical Aussie's over here.
Maybe everything arrives here eventually apart from those Argentinian nanty
everyone get tot and bothered about. They came from Argentina
of course.

Speaker 16 (01:30:37):
Oh.

Speaker 17 (01:30:38):
They used to be really nasty when I was in
peace controlled, very very difficult to oun control because they
build be messed so deep into the ground and they
and they hollow out the ground effectively, So the problem
might sprout up in one area one year, in the

(01:30:58):
next area, it'll be in a completely different residential section
at the mound I was in particular. And they're nasty,
nasty things to get rid of.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
Yeah, they haven't. I think they came across for the
Commonwealth Games or something for construction. Oh did they Yeah, well,
it's I think that's what they've said.

Speaker 17 (01:31:21):
Oh who would no, A It's yeah, incredible. I just
remember that they were just so difficult to manage, you know,
and to really a very specialist peace control in the
seats to eradicate.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Yeah, it says they were. I'm surprised. It says they
were first discovered in New Zealand at Mount Smart during
the opening ceremony rehearsals for the nineteen ninety Calm Games.
Oh you are, but they seem to you don't hear
as they seem to have chilled out now have they're
not as they're not as everywhere. We don't get them
in this out, We don't get them in bluff. They know,

(01:32:00):
I've never seen an end. But yeah, they're always a great.

Speaker 17 (01:32:05):
They're all over the mount are they?

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:32:08):
Man long and know, yeah they are.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:32:10):
Every I was there for at the Best Central Company
for one summer and every second phone calls urgent in
the innance and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:19):
What would you suggest move.

Speaker 17 (01:32:22):
Getting a terminator and or to do the girl properly?

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Do they dig?

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
I spray right around the house, do they?

Speaker 17 (01:32:30):
Ah, Yeah, they spray, they dig they yeah, they tracked
their environment and then they kill them. But then the
very next year they'll pop up and the neighbors do
you know what I mean? Like they so hard to
get rid of old you're something else, It's really hard
to get rid of it. That's bed bugs. That was

(01:32:51):
the worst You had to base. If you've got bed
bugs in your house and they can come in through
luggage or through you know, poor sanity and a house,
you had to pretty much burn everything that you could
and in the house and get your.

Speaker 2 (01:33:09):
House bomb experienced bed bugs. They never sound that bad
to me.

Speaker 17 (01:33:17):
No, I've never seen one under a microspect. My job
wasn't to be out looking at the bugs. My job
was to sell a solution. So all I knew was
that it was a major. Absolutely everything had to come
out of the house and then the exterminator would go
in fully, you know, looking like a spaceman and use

(01:33:41):
a very very toxic chemical to blitz them. And there
was always more than one. You know, you had to
do it more than once to get rid of them,
to kill them off because they're hard to tell.

Speaker 5 (01:33:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:33:58):
Interesting, well, it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
You should have kept it that job. Least you're soundly
a very aligned with the insect world.

Speaker 17 (01:34:05):
No, no, no, I'm going much better things now. I'm
moving at a medical center and it's just really interesting.
That interesting move.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Great to hear Lisa was like someone happy in the job.
Nineteen to eleven. How about lower Hut for best city,
Great wea They're excellent shopping, great for cycling, walking and driving,
excellent council to Judith Marcus, I grew up in Australia,
spent twenty years there. Never once or a white tail.
Only redbacks can't stop singing the house Martins. Well, that's

(01:34:41):
about the Argentinian ants. I always thought of surprised, and
they came to the Commonwealth Games where they're not in
the Commonwealth. I think they came in some of the
construction lumber. And since they've kind of taken over the
North Island nineteen to seven, they're making a decent go
at the Highlanders in the second half. They're losing, but
they've got they They've got some giant on the wing.

(01:35:02):
Hard to put down, really hard to put down, Ellis,
do this is Marcus?

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:35:11):
You sound as if your way in America.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Do I sound distant, very distant?

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Where's your radio? Compete to where you are.

Speaker 16 (01:35:22):
My radio or about three feet?

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Okay, I apologize for that.

Speaker 16 (01:35:28):
What I rang to say the libraries around New Zeron
would have progress in their books and they would be
able to issue photographs of the white Tail Spider. I
have photographs of the spider from the from the Palmas

(01:35:52):
North Library, so other libraries would have the same.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
What's your point, Well, when you're talking.

Speaker 16 (01:36:00):
About the white Tale Spider and quite virtuous, but.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Why but why would someone need to go to the library.

Speaker 16 (01:36:11):
To have a Rocke at these see how big the
spider is, Alista.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
People just people just download images on their No one
uses the library anymore. You just download the image on
your phone.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
Do you know that?

Speaker 2 (01:36:27):
Mate?

Speaker 16 (01:36:27):
Well I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
I like going to Thee's library. Of course, you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:33):
Know, you go to the library.

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
The rate.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
You go to the library and see a picture, you
get your pay rates because.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
You got to.

Speaker 16 (01:36:41):
Yeah, but yes, that's right, and that's why I go
to the library. It goes, I pay for it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Yeah, good point. See yeah, yeah, no, that's just a
lot of time picked from then Alisair. Yeah, well, I
don't know if people using the library like that, but
good on them. Spiders and ants and ants and spiders.
That's that. We've got a theme. If and down do
spiders and if that doesn't work, try it again. It's

(01:37:11):
interesting how someone's used the library like that instead of Google.

Speaker 11 (01:37:14):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
I don't even know if you would see a picture
of a white tail at the library. However, Oh, what
do we know about the war between argent between Afghanistan
and Pakistan. That sounded quite bad today, didn't it. You're
worried about that sounded a really serious so it was
full on war. I'll keep an update on that, but
I'm not seeing anything report. It might be nighttime there.

(01:37:36):
Now they're calling it open war. This is according to
Al Jazeera. Pakistan's Defense minister Kawaja A Sief said is
now open war between Afghanistan, between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban government.
His explosions are reported in Kabul and fighting continues along

(01:37:59):
the border. It's called the Durand Line, which is the
line that separates the two countries. It's a conflict to
be worried about. There were allies for a long time.
I'm not quite sure why the tension is so high now,
but that's happening. Wouldn't be surprised if Russian agents out
in there steering the pot. Get in touch if you

(01:38:21):
want to be a part of the show. It's fifty
away from eleven twelve away from eleven o'clock fourteen nineteen.
The Reds lead the Highlanders. Hello Jackets, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Hey Marcus, how you're doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Thanks jack Good.

Speaker 20 (01:38:34):
Just tuned in on the last five minutes and heard
you're talking about white tail spiders. Yes, absolutely horrible spiders.
Hate them for a passion and mate, I've dealt with snakes.
I've dealt with all sorts of creatures, and I'll never
deal with a spider ever. I got bit by a
white actually about four months ago and still healing from it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
Where'd you get bit?

Speaker 20 (01:38:59):
I got on the upper arm okay, just below the
bicep and ended up in surgery for it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
What did the surgeons say, basically thinking.

Speaker 20 (01:39:10):
A lot of spider bites like that. Actually it caused
what's called a staff in fiction, quite nasty ancest and fiction,
and ye had to be drained and fatter, lovely big
hole five centimeters in all directions.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
And what two centimeters deep?

Speaker 20 (01:39:27):
Two centimeters deep like when they leave a big hole
for it to sort of hell And without going it's
too much detail, I could see basically the arm muscle,
that's how deep it was.

Speaker 11 (01:39:38):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (01:39:40):
Yeah, And that just reaffirmed my fierce of spiders and
was just like, right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
We were you aware of when it bit you?

Speaker 13 (01:39:49):
No?

Speaker 20 (01:39:49):
So I was laying on the floor watching TV at
a girlfriend's house and I felt something on the arm
and looked over so a spider ran to the other
end of the room. Had no pain or anything, and
about an hour later I started feeling pain exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
Where it was, well, yeah, we what we're watching?

Speaker 20 (01:40:07):
I don't know. They've made me watch so many movies
I haven't watched. I've lost track of the titles.

Speaker 2 (01:40:13):
Gee, that's a good place. That's a good place if
it's expanding your movie watching as it is.

Speaker 20 (01:40:20):
But yeah, I just want to say with spiders, absolutely
hate them. I've yeah, like when I was doing snake catching,
so many people would bring up, hey, I got a
spider to deal with him? No, wouldn't have a bar
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Oh, you actually are a snakeketcher. You've worked as a
snake catcher.

Speaker 20 (01:40:35):
That's spreads, a snake catcher in Australia for two and
a half years.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
Goodness you had's a good call. Jack, appreciate that. Thank
good luck with a girlfriend, nice to talk, Thank you.
Nine to eleven doing some forensics for Keith. If he's
watching Game of Thrones, he must be on Neon's most
budget package. If he goes up to the next level,
which I'm cost him probably next for ten dollars a month.

(01:41:02):
He won't get the ads, and to be fair, Game
of Thrones was made for HBO. It was being made
to watch without ads, so that's why they seemed jarring. Yeah,
they old jarring seven from eleven. Good Evening, Irene, it's Marcus. Welcome, Hello, Irene, Hello, Irene. Hello,

(01:41:29):
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:41:32):
Yes, you're talking about white house fires. My husband was
bitten a few years ago by one and he ended
up happen to have plastic surgery on his leg because
the infection the way it gets in it was so bad.
And how much they had to cut.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Out of his leg sounds ghastly.

Speaker 17 (01:41:54):
They're are very nicetys widers.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Did they cut out muscle?

Speaker 19 (01:41:59):
They know it was down down on the lower part
of his leg, which is you haven't got much fat here,
and they had to sort of go right in. But
that when when the white tail bites you, it sets
up like a set of bubbles, and those bubbles that's

(01:42:20):
where the infection is. And just if you don't get
if you don't know straight away and you don't get
on antibiotics, then that's what happens.

Speaker 17 (01:42:32):
It gets worse.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Did he know he'd been bitten straight away?

Speaker 19 (01:42:36):
Yes, he saw it, but he didn't think anything of it.
It was his I think it was the first time
he'd seen a white tail and it actually bit him twice,
but only one of them was really.

Speaker 17 (01:42:49):
Bad, and he was down stairs. Came upstairs and said
to me, I've just been bitten by a white tail spider.
And so we went to the doctor and he said, no,
we'll put you on antibiotics.

Speaker 19 (01:43:03):
But it just got worse and worse. Really, he actually
ended up staying in hospital several nights with us.

Speaker 2 (01:43:11):
How long was it between he got bitten and when
he went to hospital.

Speaker 19 (01:43:16):
It was just about to the next day.

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
Okay, it's happened that quickly.

Speaker 19 (01:43:20):
Yeah, yes, made him delirious and it's just really nasty.
And that is from them eating the daddy long legs.

Speaker 2 (01:43:32):
Goodness, Iren, thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
So yeah. People, so they do say it's not because
that's a myth, but people are obviously being told that,
and the scientific journals say that's not in fact true.
But that does seem to be what people are saying, Marcus.
After a white tail bite, you get what you carry
as a species. That's what that means, Marcus. The white
tail is here in Canterbury. I've been bitten. I killed

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them on site. They've been here twenty years. Marcus. I
saw four to five men to raise doing their backflips
out in the Bay of Plenty today. No ants or
spiders though chairs, Mike Marcus are parts of can to
be that are built on a massive colony events. People
need to check their pantries as some types can get
into well closed food jars. I'm surprised the former Utter

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Tearry is allowed to be anchored for this amount of
time with a foreign chronet while they aren't while they
wait permission to go to India. Surely by now the
welfare of the crew must be becoming an issue. I
think the Maritime Union has gone to see them and
they are not consumed for their welfare. But they've been
underpaid and it's a really I don't know what they
spend the whole time in the many about sixty days,
the Highlanders have collapsed. They've made several mistakes that the

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Queens and Reds have pounced upon, and the school now
is an unflattering thirty one fourteen to coach Killer this
match not for less Kiss though he's going great guns
and what a great coaching name that is. By the way,
Queens and Reds are going extremely well here till midnight,
John ats Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:45:03):
Good evening, well, Helen Becus, I'm just adding to the
white tail spider scenario at Christmas time. I was just
before Christmas, I was admitted to hospital with a bite
and I was in there for five days and I
also had to have an operation and it was on
my knee, on my knee cap I have one hundred

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year old house. It's mostly cowie and I was getting
it insulated underneath the floorboards. And previous to getting it insulated,
I sprayed the entire underside of the house with a
product called metal eggs, which is an anti bora insecticide
type thing. Ye a week later, I went back to

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the house to work on it, and no one's in
the house, and there are a lot of spiders general
sort of spiders around of all types in webs, some without.
And on Thursday night I went to bed. Friday morning,
I woke up and my leg was just twice the
size of the other one, and I was wondering if

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I fell off the ladder or straight myself in the
section at some point, which I didn't. I got home
that night and I had a hot and cold fever
and didn't know what was going on. And my partner
looked at my kneecap and found a little bite hole.
So the next morning I went to an A and

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E and the doctor there prescribed me some antiboddics and
said come back the next day. Went back the next day,
had a look at it and he said it's worse.
You go into hospital. So I went to hospital thinking
that I was going to get discharged quickly, and I
actually got kept in and ended up staying until Christmas.
Eve had an operation to cut it open, and they

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left the cut open so that it trains out and
I ended up walking out of the hospital on crutches,
and three weeks later it had the swelling had gone down.
I went back to the house and I went went
home again and had been bitten on the other leg
and same thing. But I was only admitted for one

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one night that time. But when I researched the white tail,
all these so called experts also say that there's no
proof that it's the white tail. But the white tail,
when you look into it, it's a real nasty little creature.
It has no natural venom, but it gets its venom
by eating other spiders. It doesn't have a web, it

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just goes around that it's nocturnal and gobbles up anything going.
And the white tail gets its most of its venom
from a the deating long legs, which is extremely venomous spider,
but it's just got no means of administering its poison.
And I have seen them up there, since they hide

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in places like the tops of French doors. When you
open French doors, are in there among other spiders, and
what happens is you hardly see them, and when you
do see them, they run away because they know you're
going to harm them. But they go inside your bed
to cool off during the day. So that's where most

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people get bitten in their beds. They don't even know
they've been bitten. They'll get bitten in their sleep and
they'll wake up the next morning. So it wasn't a
very nice experience anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
What did the doctors say yourhead?

Speaker 11 (01:48:34):
Well, the first doctor said, yes, it looks like there
is a bite, and it was like a reverse cone
type bite and there. He said, Yet, it looks like
you've been bitten by something, and I says, well, it
might be a spider, because I have seen white tail
spiders up there, and I've never been bitten by one before.

(01:48:55):
But I have heard of people being bitten, and in fact,
I had a man round my health once and he
was the World War Two COI. He was in the
Italian campaign and when he got out of his car
he had no leg below the knee, and I said, oh,
what happened to me? And I was thinking that he
lost in the Italian campaign, But it turns out he

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got bitten by a white tel spider. He must have
been about a D plus at the time, and it
got so infected that they amputated his leg.

Speaker 10 (01:49:27):
And since I had my bite, I had.

Speaker 11 (01:49:30):
Also been told by about three different people people losing
losing legs from these things, that they're a real nasty creature.
But when you check them out on the internet, from
that they make out that they're they're not as dusty
as what they actually are the first tand anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
So you're saying that the internet's wrong, I'm.

Speaker 11 (01:49:55):
Saying, don't believe anything everything that's on the internet, because
you know, before I wasn't afraid of any such spiders,
but now I'm extremely weary of In fact, I was
up there and I also saw a couple when I
opened the French doors, and they were killed on site.

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I remember when they first appeared in the nineteen nineties
in Auckland, there was a council pamphlet that came out
with a picture of these things and it was a colored.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
I think they've been in New Zealand since eighteen eighty
six and.

Speaker 11 (01:50:30):
All things they have they came from Tasmania, I believe.
But this, this pamphlet from the council actually at a
heading and it said kill on site. And that was
in the nineties when they were coming in and in
fencington and things like that. Yea, they want to beware
or we don't.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Yeah, okay, John, thank you, We'll keep moving on. Jimmy,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:50:58):
Oh come on, Marcus. I've just turned on. What do
they have on the internet about spiders?

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
All this, most of the stuff from the hospital admissions
seems as though there has been hysteria related to white
tail spiders, And there's no proof for people going to
hospital have been bitten by white tail spiders. It's always
been other things.

Speaker 13 (01:51:22):
Oh okay, I killed one tonight, so today I had
to kill a white tail spider. I'm a very good
fan of them, and I don't like killing anything, but
this one was a hum and danger. I've read a
lot of things about them, and I hear that they

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don't really spin a web, or they can't spin a web,
and they crawl across and they'll keep they'll go chick
out other spiders and jump in their web and eat
them and sit there in comfort and then cruise off
to the next one when he feels hungry. I don't
know if that's true or not. It's just something that

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i've heard.

Speaker 2 (01:52:04):
You're right, yeah, but this.

Speaker 13 (01:52:08):
One was crawling across the ceiling and I don't use
even fly spray. I got up there and I gave
it to him, and it didn't budge at all. It
was like I had no effect on it whatsoever. When
I sprayed it with a flysprev I was like Flaffer gasses.
And then at the end of the day I clunged

(01:52:29):
up on the ladder and had to give it the
old squashy rooning because I know, I don't know if
it was a fear, but what I've heard about them and.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
People are people are paranoid about them, but they say
the fear is misplaced.

Speaker 13 (01:52:45):
Definitely misplaced, you know, most differently, and about the bed anyway, Hey,
come on, you know, big bugs whatever you know, And
yes they do get in there, but if you just
leave your blankets open or give it a girl's shape
before you go, Vina, And what's the problem. They're not
just laying in the bed waiting for you to come.

(01:53:06):
So things like that, they actually like womph.

Speaker 2 (01:53:08):
By the way, are you talking about he's talk about
white tails or beard bugs.

Speaker 13 (01:53:13):
Actually all spiders like okay, not a swhite owl. Yeah,
but thanks Marcus, and let me have.

Speaker 2 (01:53:20):
My absolute pleasure, Jimmy. Nice to talk to you, Marcus.
I found a huge wolf spider in a sink at ricar.
I didn't go outside that cockroaches and black willows nasty
question mark only humans with a spider phobia. We all
carry them. Is a bacteria and our immunity, good or bad,
determines the outcome. So yes, that seems to be the situation.

(01:53:44):
But a lot of people believe they've been bitten and
they're they've been entitled to continue that thought. But yeah,
that's just what I have read. Twenty six past eleven.
Whether Heartland has got a Womping thirty one fourteen Raining
at sun Corp is Carter Gordon on the TV with
his baby with a dummy pollo. Tom.

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
Yeah, hi Marcus. Yeah, I'm calling from christ Church. Oh great,
and I I've been to Sea Split Ends before. Great.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Yeah, I've seen the set list.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
How was it? It's good, it was, It was good.
But I think they could have paid for longer.

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
With the noise control things about that. I see they
sort of started eight and went to twenty past nine
because there's others.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
They started afresh. They finished being on time at nine twenty.
It was one hour twenty minutes. Yeah, well, I mean
I didn't I didn't pay to go in. I was
just one of these freeloaders who was on the other
side of the fence and there were there were hundreds
of people like me getting a free free view.

Speaker 2 (01:54:58):
So let me just have a look at the Let
me just look at the geography. Whereabouts were you standing?

Speaker 3 (01:55:04):
So, so the Electric Avenues is in the north Hegley Park.

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
Okay, THENT we just bring that up on the map.
So I'm quite keen to see this.

Speaker 3 (01:55:13):
So north it kind of runs parallel with the river. Okay,
So where the whole where the whole venue is runs
parallel with the river?

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Okay? Is it on the boundary of Park Terrace and Harperrev.
I've got that right beside the golf course.

Speaker 3 (01:55:32):
Right, yeah, and I'm not sure there must be no
at least one or two hundred meters from the river
out towards.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
The golf course sort of thing, I understand.

Speaker 3 (01:55:44):
And on the western boundary, on the western boundary of
the venue, it's all fenced off. The whole the whole
thing is fenced off.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
So are you watching from the golf course or from Harperrev.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Watching from the golf course?

Speaker 13 (01:56:00):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Right, okay, I've got that all work down.

Speaker 3 (01:56:02):
Along along with probably more than five hundred other people
or maybe some people. Good on you and so and so.
Uh so outside of the fence is like I don't know,
you know, God knows, you know, seven hundred old people
or something, and we'll maybe a thousand people. And inside

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the fence there's like forty five thousand people.

Speaker 2 (01:56:26):
So we're so you're looking across. Where's the stage is
the state is the stage of the easternmost part of
that park.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
Stages there's there's five stages and artists performing throughout and
stages run from north to south. Okay, sort of thing, understand,
And so split ends was playing on the northernmost the
top end of the boundary of the venue boundary, and

(01:56:59):
for for the for a lot of people that where
I was and around me, we actually got a very
good view because on the god of course, the golf
course has got these raised mounds, yea, the golf and
so when you're when you're standing or sitting or standing
on the mounds of the golf course, you get an

(01:57:21):
elevated view right towards the.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
Stage, so you could see the whole stage.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
Well at a distance. We were quite well, I don't
know how far away it was. It's like probably I
don't know, four hundred meters or something, Okay, three or
four hundred meters away, but you know, it's like it
was good enough. I mean, I was with four of
the people. We all had binoculars and you can see
the big televised screen.

Speaker 2 (01:57:49):
But there I'm looking at the map now they're at
the electric stage. Weren't they the northernmost one?

Speaker 13 (01:57:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
More than northernmost one. Yeah? Could you when you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
Could you see? I just saw some footage that old
that that woman had done with Simon Barnett put she
must have been there, but it seemed like the crowd
was was quite young and not bad into their music.
Would that be right? They know their music? Have I
got that one right?

Speaker 13 (01:58:13):
Or is it?

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
I tell you what I guess. I said this for
the people around me, but all the old people like myself,
I'm in my sixties, and so all the all the
people on who were free learning off the concert on
the on the golf course where all the old people
and all the young ones were inside, the young ones
in the side of the fence and the old ones

(01:58:35):
on the outside of the fence. And just from where
I was standing with one binoculars looking into the grounds,
and just in the front of where Split Ends was playing,
people were just mingling and walking around. They didn't seem
to be paying attention to them.

Speaker 2 (01:58:51):
That's right, That's what I noticed. What I noticed from
the footage is the Splittings themselves were in colorful suits
and homage to their early colorful costumes they wore, so
they looked good. They they are not to the early
Split Ends. But yeah, I didn't see the crowd.

Speaker 3 (01:59:10):
Some of the crowded inside the fence. They were they
were singing along and watching the show, But a lot
of people were just walking around mingling around inside the venue,
but all the old ones on the outside of the
golf course. So we're more interested in Splittians than the
people in I I reckon, well, tell you something else,

(01:59:33):
because I'm surprised. I'm surprised that Splits have only played
playing this one concerting christ Church, when they could have
drawn crowds throughout the whole country.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
I guess that's the great thing about being a promoter
and giving them the right deal, because I think they've
They've done a number of concerts in Australia at Byron
Bay in place. I think they have too, that's coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
They yet to perform they used to perform in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
Okay, of course as Australians. Australians love them as well too,
don't that's a bigger market.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
Yeah, but I'm surprised at Splitons isn't playing in Auckland
or Wealentin at least.

Speaker 2 (02:00:07):
Were they selling things? Was there anyone giving you? Was
there a food truck or anyone for the people.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
That are in the hell no, hell no, no, we're
just all freeloaders. We're just like you know, it's walking
through the park and it's all public ground. So if
you could find advantage point you could see them or
hear them at least.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Did you take a cheer?

Speaker 3 (02:00:26):
I didn't, but lots of other people did. People were
people with good cameras or good cameras or lenses were
taking photos and taking video of it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:37):
Did they talk much to the audience, No, No.

Speaker 3 (02:00:40):
He didn't know. No, there's a Tim and Neil phone.
We're both doing the vocals. And they had a few words,
but not really. There was pretty much just like one
song after the.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
Other song, okay, and the Spoon solo was good.

Speaker 3 (02:00:57):
Yeah, yeah, but I think I mean, their their music
and the way they presented is you know, it's kind
of outdated for the very young crowd who have paid
money to see Electric Avenue.

Speaker 11 (02:01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Yeah, most of the proud and literally avenue who paid
there will be I would say most of them will
be under thirty five.

Speaker 2 (02:01:20):
Yeah, and it's not like Fleetwood meant that the band
have recently had a lot of reworkings of their songs
and either you know, be familiar to some of us.
But yeah, they did break up over forty years ago.

Speaker 3 (02:01:33):
Yeah, but it was good and I'm sure they'll have
good success in Australia as well.

Speaker 2 (02:01:37):
Oh yeah, people are, they're beloved and great songs. Do
you get home all right?

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah totally. I mean literally have any
of us still playing when Spillons I was.

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
Just curious about whe you would have parked. I biked,
thought you might have buid.

Speaker 3 (02:01:53):
Yeah. But so when Spitins finished, I mean literally saw happening,
so there were any crowd. So when when Spain's finished,
all the freeloaders on the golf course, we just saw
everyone just dispersed. I remember I'm went in there for spoteans.
Nothing else on your bike?

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Yeah cool, now on your bike that was at the
end for you. Will you go back tomorrow to watch anything?

Speaker 3 (02:02:15):
No, No, I just want to see sport ends.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
Yea, quite in the rest of Quite like the rest
of christ I mean it's a lot of people to
be there in that one venue.

Speaker 3 (02:02:23):
Yeah, a lot of our towners though, Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:02:25):
Of course up from ringing or how much with.

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
Tickets about how it's turn and ten dollars a night?

Speaker 2 (02:02:32):
Oh it's pricey.

Speaker 3 (02:02:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
Oh, I'm surprised he went more on the golf. Anyone's
trying to play golf?

Speaker 3 (02:02:38):
Well, no, because there was at the start of that
time was Spilton started at eight o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
What types of golf course close?

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
Okay, Oh, you've been an excellent report. Tom next time
do it again. Ah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:02:52):
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