The law changed in 2004 (3 March 2025)

Marcus asks about intersections and marks the 60th anniversary of the release of one of the most well-known musical films. Also, the Warriors didn't have a great start to the 2025 NRL season...

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome on him as Marcus.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Where are you? What is happening? A lot to say tonight?
Been a member Monday, oh, eight hundred and eighty to
nine to nine to the text of your daughn to
come through Heddle twelve. Looking forward to your contributions. A
little bit about my weekend. So I did surf to
city yep. And that's when you run from Audeaty Beach

(00:38):
to the city. Well, you don't run. It's whatever you do,
whatever you want. You can walk, or you can run it,
or you can bike it. I swiftly walked it and
that was good. The kids are on the bikes. They
went off beforehand, and it was a pleasant couple of hours.
Of course, once upon a time, when you ran round
the bays, you'd get everything. You'd get gator rage, you'd

(01:00):
get fresh up. Gosh, there were drinks. There's all sorts
of stuff. Now it's all water. I'm thinking, jeeps, creepers.
What's that about? Anyway, I don't know what to say
about that. I thought it was going to be more
different flavored stuff. But water seems to be the snack
of choice these days, and that is fine anyway, get
in touched by Miss Macisa's word. But anyway, so I

(01:22):
did the surf to City and which was fine, and
then very keen to get up and watch the Warriors,
because that's what Autumn and Winter and Springer about the

(01:48):
roller coasters. The Warriors, Wow, goodness, it was a hard watch.
And we only got home at halftime or just before halftime,
so only saw fifty minutes of it. I don't even
know what I can say, but once in a while
when you watch the Warriors, there were moments and you think,
jeep as anything can happen, Magic could happen. Can't work
out whether magic's going to come from this year. I

(02:10):
know in the past have started badly and they have
kind of triumphed. I don't think this is going to
be one of those years. Anyway. I kind of feel pessimistic,
because sometimes I felt pessimistic, my pessimism has been unfounded
because some sort of miracle worker appears from the lower

(02:30):
ranks of the team. Anyway, So yeah, that was kind
of a little bit of a damp square. Although the
game between Penrith and Kredlla was sensational. It was sensational,
absolutely buzzerb to that was great, made it all worthwhile.
But yes, as far as the Warriors go, I'm loyal
to them. I don't know how loyal anyway, so I

(02:54):
don't know what's going to happen in two weeks time
when they come on the field again. Then of course
there was a fight at halftime cheap as one of
the coaches with one of the English scribes, but that
seems to have gone quite that story anyway. So yeah,
I really thought this would be yet. Mind you, they've
lost three good players, haven't they, with Tahu and Aden

(03:15):
Vanua Blake who is a machine for Cranulla, and of
course they've lost Shawn Johnson, so it's not quite sure
what they've done with all the money, who all the
new players are. But oh well, I'm sure they've spoken
about that muchly on other sports programs for the last
twenty four hours. But yeah, that's I just want to
get there off my chest, so I think I could
move on. But that's a situation with the Warriors. No

(03:37):
doubt they will still get set up crowds at Mount
Smart although I see there's drifting at Mount Smart this weekend.
I thought that was quite an apt sport, drifting in
monster trucks. Who thought there was still demand for that anyway?
So yes, surf to city and then the warriors, oh well,

(03:58):
or the other thing too. I will mention this. I
was driving in from Bluff to night and just before
Open Country the Tally's milk factory. There is a paddock
and in that paddock for what is that, there appeared
to be hundreds of Canada geese. Now, I've never seen

(04:21):
them in such big numbers in South and before. I
can't work out what this is about. I can't work
out if it's the dry some we've had it, it's
the drata quite what it is. But there was a
field full of them, and I've never seen them in
such great numbers in South and So if anyone understands
what's going on there, But are we in the middle
of a Canada goose plague? Because it certainly felt like

(04:45):
that there were hundreds of them. I fell doing a
U tune in going and taking a video for you.
But you know, sometimes at a distance the videos you
think are going to be good that don't work that well.
In distance anyway, So there we go. That's that. So
that's Surf to City, the Warriors and the Geese. As

(05:11):
far as the oscars go, mind you, there's been a
short quake as small quake in California three point seven
or something on the back of the oscars. I didn't
watch any of the oscars. I watched two of the
characters from Wicked singing. That was enough for me. I
wanted Wicked to win it all. They didn't. I suppose

(05:31):
I have to go and see those other movies now,
But for me, Wicked was going to be the one
that was going to be the clean sweep. That wasn't
to be. But let's just let the box office do
the talking, because no one mourns the Wicked. If you
haven't had a chance to say, it's worthwhile, you'll love
it anyway. That is it from me. That is the Warriors,
Surf to City, Canada, Geese and Wicked thirteen past eight.

(05:56):
How you're going welcome the show head on midnight right now?
The question I've got for you tonight is a fairly
interesting question, and it's one of those questions that I
want to hear your answer for because I think you
have an interesting answer. I'll also I'll be very curious

(06:20):
to hear your answer about this one. And the question
is quite straightforward. Now, it's a two part question. Can
you handle that? A two part question? Part one and
part two. Now, the two part question is in New Zealand,

(06:45):
would there be more roundabout or traffic lights? And how
many of each do you think there is? Rough guess
I'm not going to I'm not going to wander around
count and then you get dizzy. In New Zealand would
there be more traffic lights? And the sad thing about
this question, I wish someone had asked me this question,

(07:06):
but I know I got center as and email as
a bit of information. So having a chance to think
about this, it's a bit like are there more doors
or wheels? But in yours there would there be more
roundabouts or traffic lights? Have a think about that and
tell me the answer, and also tell me how many
think you how many you think there are? You'll be

(07:26):
fast over the answer this. I guarantee it would there
be more than one hundred? How many traffic lights? How
many roundabouts? And which is there more of? And when
I'm talking traffic lights, obviously if there's a t intersection.
That's one set of traffic lights. It's not four traffic lights.

(07:47):
Get it. So what's the more of roundabouts or traffic lights.
I'm not going to reveal the answer until we get
some people to bring up and ever guess I'm curious
to know, oh eight hundred and eighty telling you which
is the more of and what's your reason? I think

(08:09):
you'll be surprised by the answer, And I hope you're
not surprised by me saying I think you'll be surprised
because I'm not going either way, because you don't know
which way I thought was going to go in the
beginning anyway, and we never worked out if there's more
doors or wheels. Oh, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty.
Someone says roundabouts three times as many, Marcus. I lived

(08:32):
in Vancouver, Canada for fifteen years, and they've become a
real pest over there. They must be referring to Canada geese.
They have to tell them to keep the numbers under control.
That's going to happen. If they don't do something about
to keep the numbers down, they make a real mess. Well,
they do try and keep the numbers down. Kerrie We've
spoken about this at great length, and that's free big
with the gun people. They like semi automatics and things

(08:53):
for Canada geese and for kangaroos because they scare. Bennett's Marcus,
greetings and welcome, Good evening, Good evening. What would there
be more of?

Speaker 5 (09:07):
I reckon there's traffic lights, way more traffic lights because
partners roundabouts?

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Oh what what's your partner's name?

Speaker 6 (09:15):
Brook?

Speaker 3 (09:17):
And what's Brooks thinking?

Speaker 5 (09:20):
She thinks there's so many small towns that there'd be
more roundabouts over the whole country. And she thinks just
because they're from Auckland.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
It's.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
A real Auckland centric counts. Ah all traffic lights because
they're everywhere. But there's these little country towns with roundabouts
on you. Okay, so you think there's more traffic lights,
and Brook thinks there's more roundabouts, No vice versa. You
think there's more roundabouts, Brook think there's more traffic lights,
and she thinks you're all concentric.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, I think there's more traffic lights.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
How many you think there would be?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I think three thousand, six hundred sets the traffic lights brilliant?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, thank you being and Brook? Wow, Yes, and we
all thought about Britain. It wasn't quite so still, I said, yeah,
well you're what I'm saying about Brook, don't you. Frank.
It's Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Good evening, mate, What do
you weaken?

Speaker 8 (10:17):
I reckon there's more traffic lights, because.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
Just everywhere I go there's traffic lights.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
But but you've been a big city, are you?

Speaker 10 (10:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (10:28):
Big city?

Speaker 12 (10:29):
Small city?

Speaker 13 (10:30):
Ere I've been as traffic lights.

Speaker 14 (10:32):
I lived in Hamilton for years. Traffic lights, mate.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Would there be twice as many traffic lights.

Speaker 12 (10:39):
And Hamilton?

Speaker 11 (10:40):
Yes, way more than roundabouts.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Good on your Frank, Bruce, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (10:46):
Hi Magus. Hey, I would have said roundabouts over traffic signals,
because you've got so many in the country and small towns.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Where are these small towns all the roundabouts? We haven't
got na in Bluff they have a small town. I
think we call spe Parmiston. Have we got figures for
Parmiston North ten? Okay, we've got to find out. Okay,
you reckon Parmiston all to have more roundabouts and traffic lights.

Speaker 15 (11:18):
Oh, here there'd be few. There'll be fifty to fifty
traffic signals over roundabouts. Yes, the only roundabouts.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
The only town I could think of that the more
roundabouts than traffic lights would be Blenham and Masterton.

Speaker 15 (11:35):
Oh yeah, hey, I look forward to the answer, Marcus,
thank you.

Speaker 14 (11:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (11:41):
No.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
I like your coming up the way you came through, Bruce.
I like the way your self terminated. Marcus. My town
is two sets of lights and roundabouts up the razoo.
What town's that number ending in sixty four?

Speaker 10 (11:54):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
What would you rather have?

Speaker 17 (11:59):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (11:59):
What you'd rather have? Anyway? Get in touch by name?
Is Marcus? Welcome here on midnight eight hundred and eighty
town and nineteen ninety the text keep the text through?
What would there be more of roundabouts or traffic lights?
And fancy people thinking roundabouts are a rural thing. I
think Queenstown's got Queenstown's got traffic lights. Now Alexandra's got

(12:23):
roundabouts and traffic lights. Someone's just texted through Gore Sue, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (12:37):
Speaking with me?

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yes, Sue, Hi SUI.

Speaker 18 (12:40):
Hi, sorry about that. I think there's more traffic lights.
I don't know about the country, but in the city
it's a wash with traffic lights.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Isn't it.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
But it seems that in rural towns it's more roundabouts
when you look at and it's like Levin and places
like that. So that's interesting.

Speaker 18 (12:59):
It is because funny enough, I was coming down to
rock Out Drive between Packering and Bottedly the other day,
which is about five or six kilometers I'm guessing, and
I counted fifteen sets of traffic lights and there's probably
more to come.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, and no roundabouts, no roundabouts, fifteen sets of traffic lights.
That's why I was so staggered by the answer. And
they've got interesting texts and I'll get to those evening. Carrie.
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (13:31):
Hi. My long did mother had a view on this.
I lived in the North Island and she lived in
the South Island, and she she used to say, you
North Island are absolutely obsessed with roundabouts, now you know,
based on that scientific analysis.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
But she's she is she long dead or not not
that long deal.

Speaker 16 (13:52):
Quite quite long? Did you have ten years or more?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I wouldn't say that's long deed.

Speaker 16 (13:56):
I it is a fear okay, yeah, okay, But I
mean the point is.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
She sounds like a good shot. She sounds like a
hard shot, your mother.

Speaker 16 (14:05):
The point the point is the course that you might
have a different answer for the North Island and the South.

Speaker 17 (14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Absolutely, And I would have thought she thought the North
Island was obsessed with roundabouts.

Speaker 16 (14:19):
Yes, yes, yes, she's never seen. She used to come
up every time she came to visit me. She was
never seen so many rens did.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well okay, yeah, Well, and once you start spotting things,
then it becomes you caught the callback. Oh the roundabout. Yeah,
I come, I can see that.

Speaker 16 (14:35):
I said it was a highest sign of an analysis.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
What do you think there's more of?

Speaker 16 (14:41):
Well, I think there's more of I think there's more roundabouts, Yes,
I do, and when it might it might be a
city versus country question as well.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
It would be interesting if there were more roundabouts when
one exceeded the other, you set the point on the graph.

Speaker 16 (15:02):
Yeah, because I suspect they use lights in the city
and roundabouts in the country, but you know, in the
small towns and things. But there was deadly a total.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
GISs because lands cheaper. I think roundabouts are cheaper and safer,
but require more land the maintenance. No, that's right. Yeah, well,
I'll mind you some of the ways that I won't
go into that, but there's one roundabout in the way home,
which is particularly challenging. I find too fully go around it.

(15:37):
Enough about that SAIDs the better because I don't want
them to put in the camera because they could. But
I'll please that this has been discussed much amongst families.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
And broke.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Old Babbling, brock Old bed and Brock Marcus Way. More
roundabouts everywhere? How do we count the roundabouts? It all
serves traffic lights. Fielding got eleven roundabouts no lights, Marcus,

(16:10):
love your show, your style and your patients. First time
text Harlem shine, I hope you beach Cava Fukadani has
no traffic light. Roundabouts stop and give way chairs. Bro
I live in Palm. I reckon there are more lights.
There should be a few more roundabouts here, though there
is especially one on Tremaine which kills the flow. Based
on your comments, I think roundabouts. I can only guess
it because traffic lights stop and make you annoyed. Marcus Cambridge,

(16:35):
I just started counting that I lost count must be
twenty roundabouts about three lights. I thought it would be
traffic lights by count up and in my journey from
Greenhithe to Riverhead each day, there are six roundabouts and
only two sets of traffic lights and for Nuapai, and
one of those is due to roadworks. Marcus roundabouts ten

(16:56):
to one. Blenhim only has roundabouts, no traffic lights and
all pus. The only railway line through a roundabout in
State Highway one recently added tumor on the rate of
when Renwick Rangy has four sets of traffic lights and
six roundabouts. Yes, I got in trouble on the bus
coming into Ranguora. I don't know what was happening. Were

(17:18):
backed up. It didn't look good. Livin two sets of lights,
ten or twelve roundabouts. No one warns the wicked. If
you've got something, Oh eight hundred eighty ten eadyan nine
two nine two to text, my name is Marcus, welcome.
Oh what have you got here until twelve? Yeah, brilliant
breaking news when that happens too. By the way, if

(17:39):
they've got something, let us know as I say, oh
eight hundred eighty tenaightyan nine two nine two to text.
Levin two sets of lights, four roundabouts should be six more.
I should ask you what you people prefer for the
anger seven roundabouts snow lights but lots of one ray

(17:59):
bloody bridges for you about roundabouts? And traffic lights. Hablton
has some more speedbumps and road owned roundabout sneed maintenance
if they plant quick growing plants in the middle. Marcus.
The surf to city, I'm pretty sure of the rest
of New Zealand has the city to surf at least

(18:20):
Christ does. What's up with invocabol hating on the beautiful
beach that's from Ray. I've thought long and hard about this,
right why it is surf to city not city to surf,
and I think it's because it is in Queen's Park
and they have the infrastructure there going at all eaty beach.

(18:45):
There's not the there's not cell phone receptions. They probably
don't a lot of cars on the beach. That's probably
my understanding with that. I don't know if it's always
been surf to city, but it'd be nice to have
swim at the end. You're quite right, but it's not
a bad event anyway. It's quite nice with the mist
on the beach and everyone assembling there and the sands

(19:05):
hard and the bikes. It's quite a good value event actually.
Marcus Crash and Christ Jews intersection of Blenham Road and
Clarence Street. Police and eminence. There roads still open, take
care heavy rain. Tonight I go through three roundabouts and
three lights to go to work in four lights going
home from work in christ Church. Stephen grew up in Hastings.

(19:29):
There has maybe thirty roundabouts to maybe ten traffic lights,
way more roundabout small land and rural and town and
bigger coverage than cities. From Sarah, no one knows how
to indicate on them the thing we're indicating on roundabouts.
They change the rules, so it's a generational thing. So

(19:53):
a lot of people haven't refreshed on the rules. It
changed in about two thousand and two. So I even
forget what the changes is was is they did change them? Yeah,

(20:16):
so I can't work out what the change was because
I don't want to be reminded of the bad rule.
We've discussed this many time you get yourself an old
road code, you'll find out what the road rules what
I've been twenty ten They changed it. It changed on

(20:41):
March twenty fifth, twenty twelve. Yeah, that's right, that's my understanding.
Top or fifteen roundabouts, three traffic lights. Cheers for almost
every round about you save a set of traffic lights.

(21:01):
Nothing worse than stopping for a red traffic light at
one in the morning. That's a good point. Actually, traffic
lights at nighttime are terrible. Dave Marcus, good.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Evening, Hey Marcus, Oh you good day. I've got a
question for you, mate about the triffic lights and the roundabouts. Uh.
I can't think of any triffic lights aroundabouts north of Cameo.
I was wondering if you what you want to know?

Speaker 3 (21:28):
You want to know the furthest north round about? Is
that what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (21:32):
Yeah, I can't think of anything. I know, there's nothing
up around Argavill, Cora co co CoA.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
I'm just I'm just looking at the map of.

Speaker 11 (21:56):
It's the one lane budges though.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
I'm just trying to think. I can't see any with
a quick squizzing Kaititire.

Speaker 11 (22:11):
No, there's nothing up there.

Speaker 16 (22:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
You sound like you're a driver.

Speaker 11 (22:17):
Oh, we used to be.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, there's one. There's one at there's one coming north
out of Kaitaia across the Arwenoi River. Might be after
your time. There's a Donald road that goes off by
Peck and Savor Noel Leming.

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Oh true, Okay, here.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's the corner of State High one and Donald Road
and north Way.

Speaker 11 (22:45):
Yeah, probably won't over it a few times myself.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
It might be a recent thing, Dave, because of your driving.
Thank you. Twenty one to nine, Sandra Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
Hi.

Speaker 19 (22:54):
I would go roundabout because I used Topeak Courrer driver
and Tarong and the goodness gracious yeah, yeah, I amn't
been here for a while because a little new promise.
Now Straightford, there's true Elsa, Oh we got it. No,
we haven't got one, Nelson, but yeah there are how

(23:17):
the sum Yeah, so there, I would go roundabout.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
I shall reveal. I should reveal more this hour, Okay,
I promise you that I'm not going to talk to
you about this all night. I'm just trying to think
what the old rules on the roundabout. You can't find that,
can you, Dan? We had this before. What was the
what was the old rule? What was the new rule

(23:45):
two thousand and nine? I think it changed. I think
you didn't used to indicate when going straight through in
the old days. Now you do. I think it's the
only thing that changed, though. Goodness was diff then when

(24:06):
they when they changed the left hand turn rule, which
is the best thing Stephen Joyce ever did. Yeah, I
used to indicate someone and know that's a driving instructor
can remind me. Yeah, because the old rules were different.

(24:28):
Get in touch one of miss Marcus. Welcome nineteen to
nineteen to nine, eight hundred and eighty, ten eighty. How
about them worries ain no good, no good. I just
thought there was going to be magic there. There was nothing.
P Harra is one round about on the foreshore. I

(24:49):
think it might mean pie here Marcus treffict lights and
pie here northernmost. No, there's one in Kai Taia. I'm
sure there's probably one a Cape Rianga in Waipaula. I
have traffic lights Marcus at roundabouts, no use of vindicators

(25:15):
and at red lights runners pedestrians at risk it both
CYNDI alive so far in palmest North roundabout in Cable Bay.
Cable Bay. Goodness, that's a great name for a beaching.
It giving away around. That's not gonna be our topic
for the whole.

Speaker 16 (25:36):
Of the night.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Actually, what is the topic going to be tonight? I'll
give you an answer on this perfect eighteen away from
eight away from nine. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what

(26:00):
the old rules were with roundabouts. Do you know what
the old rule was then it was two thousand and four. Yeah,
if you can, because I mean, people love. It's a
good reminder for people, and I will try myself to.

(26:22):
Did you have the internet in two thousand and four evening,
Richard Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 8 (26:29):
You could do Marcus?

Speaker 20 (26:30):
How I like your voice?

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Thanks?

Speaker 8 (26:33):
Thanks? I was just ringing to talk about the roundabout
rule what it used to be. I believe in the day,
you used to indicate right when you entering the roundabout,
regardless of whether you're going straight or right. And now
they say, don't indicate it all if you're going straight,

(26:54):
or indicate when you're leaving.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, I think I think you've got to. I don't
think you can go through a roundabout without indicating. These days,
you've got to indicate left after you pass the last exit.

Speaker 8 (27:04):
Yeah, it's the vein of my that's when you're sitting
there and someone's coming straight through and they're indicating right,
because that's how they first learn roundabouts. But of course
you sit there waiting for them, and then they take
off straight.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
See. I thought the old rule was you indicate going
straight through.

Speaker 8 (27:20):
That's the current rule. You only indicate when you're leaving
if you're going straight, I think, and.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
The old rule you just drive straight through without indicating
it all, didn't you, because it's because you see you
see an old driver.

Speaker 20 (27:32):
They won't indicate, or they'll indicate right when they're going straight,
and you'll sit there and wait for them.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
And then then you bon't need.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
To give away, will you? Where will you be waiting?

Speaker 8 (27:44):
Well, if they're coming towards you and you're you're going.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's what you're saying. Okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 20 (27:50):
You get the old people to indicate right, and you
wait for them to go in front of you, and
then they don't they continue straight. Well, I put that
down to the old rule because it's generally old people
who do that.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
What it says, what it says from the roundabout rules.
What's changed. Although this has been recommended behavior at roundabouts
for some time, until now, it hasn't been law. This
means that from twenty seven to Febry two thousand and five,

(28:23):
when the rule comes into effect, you can be fine
for not following signia requirements at roundabouts and not using
the correct lane at multi lane roundabouts. If you're going
more than halfway, you much approach in the right hand
lane or any other lane mark for that purpose. If
you're going straight ahead, you must need to use the

(28:44):
lane that has marked that purpose. Oh yeah, I've just
got to get the other bit about indicating. I'll try
and find a more concise things. I don't feel like
reading out a lot of rules, Richard, but thank you.
Marcus Exel from South waikatal Tokoto are three roundabouts Potato

(29:07):
two roundabouts, no lights, tog though, just congestion with pedestrians crossing,
stopping the whole network. No parishionists at the methods choose
but heaps of meth. Haha, love your show. Yeah, that's
what always thought. The old school was rule if you're
going straight ahead, there was no indication required. That was
my understanding of it. And now you indicate when you
come off. Marx is a huge round about it now

(29:29):
hukka twice. The size is the one on eighter itself
by the lighthouse. No traffic lights. So here's the answer.
This is by a guy. This is what his businesses is,
studying roundabouts and counting them. I've got the details for
you on this people. Now here's the situation. Roundabouts traffic

(30:15):
lights nineteen hundred and fifty roundabouts, So just remind you
traffic lights nineteen fifty. Just this in two thousand roundabouts

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two three hundred and twenty six, there's about three hundred
and seventy more roundabouts than traffic lights. I thought there'd
be miles more traffic lights. That was a surprise to me.
But listening to people going on about small towns, there
does seem to be a small town prevalence of roundabouts brilliant.
And I think we've all forgotten the rules of roundabouts.

(31:07):
So there you go. Who and indicating becomes far to
complicates you get older, doesn't it. Get in touch by
names Marcus HITDT twlve o'clock eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
So yes, many more roundabouts than traffic lights. I know

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you all. We feel good about having that bit of information.
Get in touch if you want to talk about anything
else tonight. Also have a free busy start hour first hour.
People love texting about pay. Here has pedestrian crossings protected
by traffic lights. To these count everything counts. But what

(31:57):
about that guy? I thought number one north of Camo
must have been on cruise Control eight from nine big
it's Marcus, Hello, Hi, Hi, big, It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 21 (32:15):
Oh Marcus, I'm just saying at the moment, I don't
think it will be this quick. I'm going to talk about.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
Sorry, sorry, b you're eating.

Speaker 5 (32:28):
What I'm eating.

Speaker 21 (32:33):
Thing I would be on this.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I thought you said broccoli. I think have you stopped?
Have you stopped eating it now? Because your phone line
is still terrible?

Speaker 21 (32:41):
Yep, yep, yep. No, I actually have now right to
teach people to drive. I mean, I'm not a driving instructure.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
Can you can you take your phone back from your
mouthpiece of bit and speak clearer? Please? Thanks?

Speaker 22 (32:59):
How is there? How's that?

Speaker 23 (33:01):
Bellow?

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Miles be like night and day.

Speaker 22 (33:03):
As Okay, I'm just taking it off frame.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Never hands free again? Ever, that was horrible.

Speaker 22 (33:09):
Ye okay, Marcus. So I teach people to drive. I
mean I'm not a drive a driving instructor, but I
do teach people to drive, and I try to teach
them the correct way. Now, driving through a roundabout, when
if you are going straight through, you do not indicate

(33:33):
You indicate left when the front of your car hits
the middle of the roundabout, collect the traffic on the right. No,
you're going straight through.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
So you do indicate. You do indicate going straight through?
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 22 (33:51):
Yes, yes, you do. So you indicate left when the
front of your car hits the middle of the roundabout
as you're going straight through. Now, if it's the two lane, what's.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
The middle of the roundabout? You mean, if you're coming
in from If you're coming in from six o'clock at
nine o'clock, it.

Speaker 22 (34:13):
Would be nine o'clock, so the middle of nine o'clock.
So as soon as you're at nine o'clock, you indicate
left to let the people know. If you leave your
vehicle till after that, it's too late. And if you
do it before that, people think you're turning left.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
And how do you indicate if you're turning right on
the roundabout?

Speaker 22 (34:38):
Okay, so if you're going right as you approach the roundabout,
you indicate right, and then you go around and you
keep going right, right, right, and then left you indicate
left and then go straight straight on.

Speaker 7 (34:57):
Yeah, yes, that's how you meant to indicate, you know, so.

Speaker 24 (35:03):
I've stopped.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yes, sorry, Marcus, charge for your services?

Speaker 21 (35:08):
No, I don't.

Speaker 22 (35:09):
I actually do voluntary or I ask them to donate money,
you know, like maybe someplace here, but I don't charge.

Speaker 10 (35:19):
No.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
How do people find you.

Speaker 22 (35:22):
Through wood of mouth? Good of mouth? Yeah? So you know,
I mean I like people. I mean, at the end
of the day, our vehicles are classed as a weapon
where we can kill people with our if we do
not drive the correct way, you know. So it's better

(35:44):
to teach people now the correct way then let their appearance,
you know, teach them a way that is long gone.

Speaker 16 (35:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
How do you know you're teaching the right way?

Speaker 22 (36:01):
Because I look at the traffic the way that I
go around around about out. I can tell from the
people who are on my right that if I'm coming around,
they stop when I go left this left, then they go,
you can, because how indicators are there?

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well, purpose, I was really hoping you got it wrong
to fill the boards up. But yeah, I appreciate you
be thank you for that. Give up the good work, Roger,
Marcus welcome. How are you doing good, Roger.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
I'm actually a track driver here in christ You well,
I don't know why, but I do so. Roundabout when
you come up to a round about, these two lanes
and normally glad and will go straight, both will go
straight through one. I'll go to the list and then

(36:57):
on the other side of you one will go to
the right. So when you come up to that, you
only indicate if you are going to the list or
going to the right. You don't indicate halfway through the
roundabout that fall. I did do that once and I
got pulled over by a cop and told offer it.
You don't indicate. You don't need to if you're going
straight through. It's clear that if you're in the left

(37:21):
hand lane, either you're going to turn left or to
indicate where you're going straight through. And that's the same
in the right hand lane. If you're going to turn right,
you indicate otherwise you go straight through. So that lady's
a little bit off the.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Market here, I think, right, Roger, Roger, it does say
you're supposed to indicate when you go straight through.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Well, this cop said a little wise to me, and
I don't do that, because it's what's the point Once
you've compast that indication of turning right or turning left
and you gain straight through, it's pretty obvious, and I
don't see anyone else, to be honest, it.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
Is the law, Roger, to my understand the laws. If
you're going straight so I bring up the road code
the break and read that to you. Just depend a
respective of which lane. I think you do indicate if
you're going straight. But yeah, wow, but that's good that
you got pulled over. That's unbelievable, cheapest, that's what we need.

(38:22):
But controversy fairly clear text from Simon. If you exit
around about not indicating left, then you don't know how
to drive. It's in the New Zealand road Code, simple
and crystal clear. Yeah, I think it's a I don't

(38:47):
think if there's a specific lane. Someone says truck driver's correct,
lady was wrong. Check a website indicating when going straight
at around about, indicating your turn, if you're going right indicate,
Well that's what he said. Sorry, you've misheard that person.
That guy said he didn't have to. He got a
make it, he got a ticket. We're told off for

(39:08):
not indicating to go straight ahead. Marcus, you do indicate
when going through a roundabout, and Norkland most roundabouts to
have signed to tell you which indicator you should use
in order to make it easier. So I think people

(39:29):
need a refresher Marcus. I think the driving instructor was
correct as well. As the truck driver. You don't indicate
straight through except on exiting the roundabout. Yes, but that
means you've got to indicate once one time you just
drive straight through. Cars don't have straight through signal, it's

(39:56):
only left or right, So why indicate right of going
straight either going right on roundabout or getting off left? Yes,
so people think they know better. Mind you that my
guy might have been pulled over before the rule changed.

(40:21):
It seems to be pretty clear you indicate as you
come off the roundabout, even if you're going straight through.
Lisa Marcus welcome, Hi, Lisa. Let me just I just
got to control that button, but I've tried, really Yeah,
gotcha out and clear, Lisa, welcome, Thank you.

Speaker 25 (40:40):
I'm really confused. I don't know my road rules and
life is my license since I was sixteen and I'm
now fifty one.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
But the rules changed with the roundabouts.

Speaker 25 (40:49):
But are they talking about a three laying roundabout or
a two lane round.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
About it I don't think I've ever seen a three
way roundabout, but I think it's all of them.

Speaker 25 (40:59):
Have you been the challenge?

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Not in the car? If I think I do know that?

Speaker 24 (41:05):
Did just fly?

Speaker 14 (41:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (41:08):
Bike?

Speaker 10 (41:09):
No?

Speaker 21 (41:09):
I don't know you.

Speaker 25 (41:12):
Yeah, we've got three lane roundabouts every Really, I've got
no clue. I just don't indicate. I just take a
deep brief praying gerry.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
On, has it whiked out for you?

Speaker 25 (41:22):
Pretty good, Sapa. We've got a little hybrid car. It's
all good, just but I honestly don't name it rod rules.
I need to refriger.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Riding straight on it a roundabout, Yeah, weird expression. Riding
straight on and a roundabout don't no, just his riding
straight on and a roundabout. I don't think it's a
f a motor bikes. Don't signal before entering the roundabout.
Signal left when you pass the exit before the one
you want see.

Speaker 25 (41:57):
That would indicate to me that it was just three
lane roundabout. No, like a tone on it not.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
On and off, it says, don't signal that puts you
at risk of losing control. Sometimes you mean that might
be for motorbikes. Actually, so you may.

Speaker 25 (42:15):
Look, I'm about to say some silly words. I'm just
so confused, and.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
There's no shame about this. We've all we've all made
mistakes at roundabouts.

Speaker 25 (42:25):
Well, I've ever been pulled up at a roundabout?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Really?

Speaker 7 (42:31):
No never have you.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Do you think I'm going to say that on here?

Speaker 25 (42:38):
I think you should.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
No, I haven't. I'll tell you something, Lisa, I haven't,
but I should.

Speaker 25 (42:43):
Have us confused too. I thought you were going to
give me two minutes before the news they wanted to
talk about the.

Speaker 13 (42:51):
Warriors, And now I'm confused.

Speaker 25 (42:53):
Yes, and I listened to the news.

Speaker 7 (42:56):
Yes, I don't know. I'm going to make some have
on you.

Speaker 25 (43:00):
Months am there again? Like I said, I think what happened,
well it would.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
What were you going to say?

Speaker 25 (43:09):
Well, I think there's a bunch of tosses really all
the Warriors. Don't you think all that, all of it support?
That's just an unwavering.

Speaker 22 (43:23):
Over and over again and yeat again.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Well they had a very good two thousand and three,
and we thought two thousand and four would be better,
it would be as good. It wasn't, and then we
thought this year would be good. I mean the players,
I think I have no doubt about the players. They
are doing their damnedest.

Speaker 25 (43:43):
I mean, what's the problem.

Speaker 15 (43:48):
Well, I can't go out.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
It's a hard competition to win, and they haven't got
They didn't appear to have those those players that can
win matches, and probably they were overwhelmed. There's people getting
engaged all over, there was proposals and things all happening.
It seemed weird. It seemed like a stranger. I think
we're best when we are in front of our people.

Speaker 25 (44:13):
Yeah, yeah, I agree, yeah totally.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
But I found myself thinking ahead for two or three months,
which player was going to suddenly become amazing, whether it's
Darlan when he's back with its charms, Nickel Klock's dead.
I couldn't work out who was going to be the
player that's gonna really win us matches, like like Johnson
did and like edding for New Blake did with his
post tach or meters and stuff. And it just wasn't happening.

Speaker 25 (44:37):
Not what it means of the day. Don't should just
stay home?

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Who the whole team would?

Speaker 16 (44:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (44:44):
Well you just keep them to a New Zealand that
famous we just keep near.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I take your point. Jeff, it's Marcus. Welcome,
Hi Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.

Speaker 17 (44:59):
Oh, sorry, just what I thought about the roundabouts? Get
away from the worry, because I think we've had enough comments.
I don't I don't indicate if I'm going to turn
right at the roundabout. Yeah, I signaled to turn right,

(45:20):
but if I'm going straight through, No, I've never ever
signaled to go left and go straight through.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Well, you've broken the let's go first. If there's been
eighteen calls about roundabouts, there's been one call about the warriors.
So for you to ring up and say so, it's
something wrong with your ability to disseminate information because there's
been less than five percent of the calls about the worries.

(45:53):
And the first thing you said, that's enough about the warriors.
Back to the roundabouts, and then you tell me how
not to drive through a roundabout. You've got to indicate
is you're going straight through?

Speaker 17 (46:03):
If I'm going straight through, I don't indicate never never ever, that's.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
That's not a point of pride. You're doing it wrong.

Speaker 17 (46:14):
Because because I'll tell you something now, I have seen
politic cars go through straight through on a roundabout, and
I've never ever seen a police car under kate.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
But have you seen you know, have you seen police
cars drive at one hundred and thirty kilometers per hour?

Speaker 17 (46:31):
Yeah, well there's an't roundabouts and that pap Mara and
Taring are here, you know, what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
But your logic's not straight because they're allowed to use
this cell phones, they're allowed to do stuff as they
go around. I'm not going to justify the police because
they aren't good at roundabouts. But they might be tapping
in Ridgio's and stuff.

Speaker 17 (46:48):
Well maybe, but I still haven't seen a police car
indicate at all of these going straight through on a roundabout.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
But you know it's you know it's the lord, don't you, Jeff.

Speaker 17 (47:03):
Well, I'll see in trust go straight through and not chief?

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Do you know it's the law?

Speaker 10 (47:12):
What? So?

Speaker 17 (47:13):
I know what it's the law to turn if I'm
going straight through, I've still got to indicate.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Do you know that you have to do you know
that you it is the law that you have to
indicate if you're going straight through.

Speaker 17 (47:27):
Yeah, you don't have to indicate, jeez, you.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Like luxan, But do you know you know it's the
law you have to indicate if you're going straight through?

Speaker 17 (47:36):
Is that the law?

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (47:39):
Well law?

Speaker 17 (47:42):
When when does that ever change?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Two thousand and four?

Speaker 7 (47:47):
So woh.

Speaker 17 (47:49):
Well, well for twenty one years they're I've been breaking
the law.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
I'll read it. I'll read it. I'll read it. To you. Okay,
this is the law from the NDEDTA website. If you're
going straight through, slow down as you come to the
roundabout out, be prepared to give way. You use a
lane with a straight arrow, don't signal as you come

(48:17):
up to the roundabout. Give way to all vehicles coming
from your right. Yeah, signal left as you pass the
exit before the one you'll take.

Speaker 17 (48:30):
Yeah, that's that's on a two lame one. What about
a single What about a single one?

Speaker 3 (48:35):
It's the same.

Speaker 17 (48:39):
Well, I don't know, I'll say, I don't see many
people signaling to go straight through.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
That's what we need. That's why we need a refresher,
particularly if you're did you say you've too.

Speaker 17 (48:51):
So you mean, I mean, well, this is this is
actually I'm on pap mar.

Speaker 10 (48:59):
No.

Speaker 17 (49:00):
But never, very rarely do I ever see anybody seconally
it's going straight through single lane.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
You're probably not in the place to see it.

Speaker 7 (49:12):
To see it, yeah, I do.

Speaker 16 (49:16):
I do.

Speaker 17 (49:16):
If I come up to a major one when you're
leave in Toweronger, pep Marge, I go to Towonger and
there's a big round about there, I indicate to turn right,
and just as I hit the straight. I indicate to
go left and to go through.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Nailing it, Jeff Head enough two texts to read. Hello, Dean,
it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Okay, Marcus, just want to talk you about this indication roundabout.
I'm fifty four, had my life since ninety eighty six,
so I've got it when I was sixteen. Now, I
haven't heard you mention this yet. I mention it. But
as I approached the roundabout. I was always taught as
I approached the roundabout to indicate right to let obviously

(50:06):
people on the left, I'm at least going to be
either going right or straight through. And that other lady
you had on was correct. Like when you get sort
of like at nine o'clock on the round about, the
indicator left to go straight through?

Speaker 13 (50:19):
Is that correct?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Do you know about that indicating right and then let No.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
That's wrong, un as you are going round it before
I was taught. Yeah, but the law has changed in
Oh has it changed in two thousand and four. You're
probably on your You're probably on your oe or in
a coma.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
That's radical.

Speaker 3 (50:42):
Well, I mean it's a last thing you know when
you're young. You're probably twenty eight, and they say, the
roundabout law is going to change. That's not going to
peaky interesting you you'd be watching Dallas or Gilligan's Islands.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
But so what was your understanding of the original the
indicat like into the roundabout and turning right? What I mean,
what was the point of that? Was it to let
left traffic know that you're at least gonna be going
past and they're turning right or going straight through? Is
that that was born?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I don't know, Dan, If you've got that, you've got
the original law there have you? What was the original law?

Speaker 13 (51:15):
It's been real.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, I'll still find it. We'll have to get some
motorcycle cop to tell us that. Yeah, it seemed to
be it seemed to be indicating the whole damn tire.
You didn't indicate going straight forward. But if you're going,
I don't know what used to do. So when the
law changed two thousand and four, where were you that year?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
I would like to say to you, honest.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
Really we incarcerated.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
It's no, no, no, but you know we're we're having
a few beers and other bits and bobs. They so, yeah,
the mine probably got a bit cloudy.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Yeah, that's fair enough. No, I think you're honest. Nana
has emailed and infuriates me. Not mine now and furates me.
And people do not signal when they're leaving around about.
I'll be sitting there waiting patiently as they come from
my right, then they suddenly turn off. Yep, think about

(52:09):
driving it. These are really important these days to know
you're left and you're right. Doesn't that I'm not totally
fa with that, dB Marcus welcome Hopefully.

Speaker 6 (52:19):
Common things down it. Roundabouts have as many different flavors
as people have footwear. Everything from a little bump in
the middle of the road we call UFOs and actors
are roundabout to roundabouts so you can put a quicker
ground in the middle of place and reserve.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Which they did.

Speaker 6 (52:40):
One will doesn't suit every roundabout. We have roundabouts where
the leftmost lane has no choice but to leave at
the next exit because there's a chest.

Speaker 7 (52:52):
On it in the way.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
And I believe you don't indicate when being forced to turn,
or you might not even be turning. The road may
leave the roundabout as opposed to you leaving the roundabout,
if you know what I mean.

Speaker 16 (53:09):
So the indication is.

Speaker 6 (53:12):
To try and view what your vehicle's doing. From someone
else's suspective, you're trying to convey information to other drivers
what you intend to do. So if I can see
that you've got no choice but to leave the roundabout,
there's no point to indicate. Whereas as one of your

(53:34):
bud you just read out said, I'm sitting there looking
at a car on my right and it suddenly turns left.
I could have gone if that indicated that sort of
thing is important. Convey what you intend to do to
those around you. How's that grab you?

Speaker 3 (53:50):
What's the law though?

Speaker 6 (53:53):
Well, the law is written. It's caught between a rock
and a hard case. Most roundabouts and a night degree crossroad.
But that's only most rounded it's not all round about.
Some roundabouts might have six, seven, eight places to come off.

(54:13):
You can't indicate at nine o'clock if you're going to
come off the road off the roundabout at ten thirty.
Well actually that would work, you know around even throw
about two fifteen and sixty seconds.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
But can we agree? Can we agree to be that
if you're going straight through the roundabout and the current rules,
you've got to indicate as you go off.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
I would indicate coming off straight through roundabout with ninety
degree approach roads.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
Yes, okay, so.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
You always have to you always have to indicate to
come off.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
The roundabout, not all those. Not a time there's a
round about. It is not a hut where you can
go straight through the roundabout, never enter the roundabout, and
the road is marked that way. And a friend of
mine drove through there without indicating was pulled over, indicating
leaving the roundabout that is marked with its own lay,

(55:06):
that goes straight ahead, and he never crossed the lane.
He just never turned the steering wheel.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
If you've got some if you've got some special vendetta,
you and your mate going with the parmers with the
upper pa.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
What I'm trying to say is not all roundabouts were
created equal.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Someone record the laws created equal, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (55:28):
No, Well, the law is written to fix the most problems,
but it doesn't always encounter. They build a brand new
round about in Blenham, just north of Blenham. It's Spring
Creek or something Creek or something spring, and the first
truck that tried to use it destroyed the roundabout because

(55:51):
it designed it for cars and not for trucks. And
he had to turn right and the third trailer or
the second trailer took out the center of the roundabout
because there wasn't enough swing room.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Never thought you'd I never thought. I never thought you'd
be a roundabout deny a dB.

Speaker 6 (56:06):
I'm not because I really enjoy round of it. I
take away traffic lights. But with the UFO roundabout and
I'm driving a fourteen meter bus, I drive over the
USO because I can't get a bus around some roundabouts
that are Outcok Street. The law doesn't allow me to
drive over aroundabout. She just go around, so I can't

(56:31):
physically do what the law says.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Sometimes this is you with driving a truck, is it?

Speaker 6 (56:40):
Or a bus that was a full sized coach, so
you know it's horses for courses. The law tries to encapsulate.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
I think, can I just say that? Can I just
say that? Bees getting quite a reflect? I think b
had it pretty well spot on, didn't she?

Speaker 6 (56:56):
I think so, yes, It's just that you don't get
hang up on the ninety the nine o'clock rull. It's
even the losses having passed the last exit before you
want to come off, you indicate yes, and that could
be three courters of the way round the roundabout.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
But if you're if you're coming from six o'clock and
coming off at three o'clock, right, yes, you do indicate
indicate right then left until.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
You yeah, right until past until o'clock one o'clock mid day.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
What's it's free complicate? It's free complicated. Yeah, it's free
complicated to explain it because you've got to use clocks
and things. Kids can't read clocks. Now you have a
good day, Thank you, dB. Marcus. I think it's indicate

(57:53):
left after exit, before you intend to exit the roundabout.
Mark is saying that you're signaling to go straight ahead
is confusing the listeners. You're signaling that you're exiting the roundabout.
So the guy waited when the roundabout to your right
can ster moving before they actually get the way off
the roundabout. I'll god another one. Someone texts, I've got

(58:16):
an a text here, It says Marcus. Indicating to go
straight through here was canceled years ago because the multitude
of accidents of people that crashed into each other because
their turn indicator is on and they went straight ahead.
It's called a turn indicator for a reason. To get
with it, Marcus, what do you think this person is
are you a New Zealand Because it's clearly wrong. I mean,

(58:39):
that's why I enjoy doing this topic occasional, because a
lot of people don't have very good understanding of it,
and people think I've heard sort of whispers in the
pub about how to handle roundabouts, but the road code
is quite clear. Signal use at roundabouts. If you're turning

(59:01):
left at the first exit, signal left as you come
to the roundabout. If you're traveling more than halfway around,
signal right as you come up to the roundabout. Signal
left as you pass the exit before the one you
wish to take. If you're going straight through a roundabout,
don't signal as you come up to the roundabout. Signal
left as you pass the exit before the one you
wish to take. Look out for cyclists who may find

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it difficult to maintain a turns on a roundabout and
are exempt from this requirement. So if you're on the bike,
you don't need to indicate. If you're on the unicycle,
you gotta watch out. Good evening, Billet's Marcus, Hello, good good,

(59:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (59:43):
Bill good. I reckon that this road code thing should
have the roundabouts and with your driver's license. You fail
to do the proper thing and the roundabout, then you
don't get your license.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Begause, Yeah, because it's a good point because you never
do the roundabout and you're driving obsessed with the hill startup.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
The thing is. I mean, I'd rather people didn't indicate yes,
some of them, because that way you're then you're cautious.
You think, oh, was he going straight ahead? Is he turning?
You know, because a lot of them they'll put their
left hand indicator on before they actually get into the
roundabout or even get to that first left exit, and
then you think, shit, he sund a bit quick to left.

(01:00:24):
Sure enough, they're coming straight through. You know, if you're
to jump the gun and had a prangle, then you
know this is wording against yours. What really sickens me
with roundabouts is that they put these beautiful roundabouts in,
They spent it hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then they
put these friggin shrubs in and you've virtually got to

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you've virtually got to poke your nose through to see
if the car coming is either going straight ahead or
turning left. They're virtually on top of you before you
can make a decision because you can't see their indicators.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
There's some bad planting. There's some bad plantings at roundabouts.

Speaker 7 (01:01:04):
Oh even even a level cross and said, you know
crossings near schools, and you know junctions, they put these
bloody shrubs in and if you're.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
A child of you know five, you should go in
with a I'd back up and caught bill if you
in there with a chainsaw.

Speaker 7 (01:01:21):
I walked into the council and Kypo and told them
they had two days to get the trees and the
shrubs down, or I'm down there with a chain saw.
And I slipped the piece of paper onto the lady
and I said, that's my name and address. I've got
four steel chainsaws. It's just a matter of which size
I used.

Speaker 16 (01:01:38):
You know they were.

Speaker 7 (01:01:39):
They were there the next day and they cut them.
They cut them right back and they do regular maintenance
on them there. But they're getting to the stage now
where they they're looking for another visit from me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
I think, because even I love you, I love your passion.

Speaker 7 (01:01:55):
Oh look, we we we were. One of the reasons
we moved out of out of wood End was because
of the danger of trying to get across that road
with three four year old grand or Ye understand, you
know they've got they haven't got the marked crossing. They've
got the one where you walk to the middle of
the road and then you carry on. But they had

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frigging shrubs. They had four foot I don't like.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
I don't like those things. I don't like those When
are those things and you walk to the middle, start
coming in because I've stopped for people and the cars
behind them tooted it men, and because I thought the
guy's going to keep stepping on that's they're not things.

Speaker 7 (01:02:33):
No, it's a matter of courtesy there. But there was
an old year that got killed while we were while
we were out there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
Because she kept walking.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
Yes, well she stepped out in front of the car
because there was a big flick for it. Yeah, okay,
And they can't they can't even saw her, you know.
The next day there, well two days later they took
the whole flexus out, took them right up, cleared the thing,
but it was too buddy though their prold heels gone.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
What do they called those things when you walk to
halfway then stopped there. I don't like those at all.

Speaker 7 (01:03:02):
Oh, they're like they're like a Clayton's crossing. Are they
I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
They are, but well I kind of I kind of
missed the memo with how to handle them because I'm
kind of I'll quite often see something coming across and
I'll slow down for them to keep going. But you're
not supposed to do that, I mean, court because because
you're not courteous to the car behind you.

Speaker 7 (01:03:21):
Well, you know, I mean that much for a buddy, Harry,
they should exactly keeping me a distance behind you rushing
home to wash. Yeah, see that, that that's one I
would end. That's that's part of State Highway one, you know,
because that's where they're trying to put their bypassing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Bag of the bypass.

Speaker 7 (01:03:44):
Yeah a million, a few million dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
You know, I don't even know why I said that.
I'm just trying to work out where what the ends.

Speaker 7 (01:03:50):
Are here north of the north Carboy.

Speaker 13 (01:03:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:03:55):
Yeah, So the big bypass is going through there. Well,
I think they've already brought up quite a few sections
and stuff, and it's it's going right through the past.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Believe come quite a big old settlement Woody in there.

Speaker 14 (01:04:09):
In it.

Speaker 7 (01:04:11):
It is, well, there's there's virtually going to be no
gap between between Woody End and blank You're in the end,
and there's there's no gap between Vegas and Woody in
now because there's always some building going on. But but
they're they're also building warehouses and factories and bits and pieces.

(01:04:31):
They've got restaurants now, pre schools.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
It's going to be It's going to be big christ Church,
isn't it. It's going to have a million in the
next ten years. I reckon it's going I mean when
you look at all that Well, Rolliston, Lincoln all around there,
and I mean it's going to be all just one place.

Speaker 7 (01:04:51):
That's going to be classes Canterbury. They wouldn't be christ Well.

Speaker 16 (01:04:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
It's all going to It's all going to blend into
their eventually, isn't it. Lincoln join up with Lincoln, join
up with Prebleton, They'll join up with Hornby.

Speaker 7 (01:05:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The do you know where to grow to?
The old dope plant? Surely all the good ground to
be taken up?

Speaker 21 (01:05:09):
Where do they?

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Normally you groat indoors these days, don't you in your cupboards?

Speaker 7 (01:05:15):
I don't make experims.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Do you look again, you've great your They're probably growing
in the roundabout spell. It's when good evening, Ryan, It's Marcus. Welcome,
good Marcus.

Speaker 24 (01:05:25):
How are you this evening?

Speaker 10 (01:05:26):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
Thank you Ryan?

Speaker 24 (01:05:28):
Good good.

Speaker 16 (01:05:29):
Hey.

Speaker 6 (01:05:29):
Listen.

Speaker 24 (01:05:29):
I'm just listening to the show that I've listened about
last hour or so, and I found it quite interesting
listening to the roundabout laws. I did my licensing in
about twenty fifteen, so I assume if the rules changed
for the two thousand and four times, I've probably learned
it under the new licensing agreed. The way that the
way that I understand it is when you come up
to a roundabout, if you go and left, you indicate

(01:05:50):
left obviously just before you get the roundabout. If you're
going straight, you don't indicate on entry, but you indicate
when you're leaving. I would typically do that. We're talking
a four way round about. Once I go past that
first corner, there's enough time for people to go if
they're going and people know what I'm doing. And then
if I'm going right, indicating right on the entry and
all the way through until you sort of the corner

(01:06:12):
just before your exiting and give sort of a few
seconds of left indicators people know you're leaving. Is that
your Understanding.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Textbook Brian Textbook on the Future. This is unbelievable. You've
just nailed that, and that's why the kids are all right.
You've come through and you see it exactly like it is.

Speaker 24 (01:06:32):
Absolutely it wasn't hard, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
The beach didn't going around? What did you do the
hell start or the three point two? And what did
you do for your driver's license?

Speaker 24 (01:06:39):
I did a bit of everything.

Speaker 16 (01:06:40):
I did.

Speaker 24 (01:06:41):
I did my initial learners license in Wellington here and
lower Heart and I also did one and the VT
and Z that used to be in the down by
the train station now wow. And so I did a
few different tests, and I did my defensive driving course
and out in Parrie railways as well. So I did
a whole lot of driving around a lot of different
areas there. But the amount of people that didn't know

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and the amount of people that would fail, at least
at least at least mates of mine through the years,
I had a lot of friends fail on roundabouts and
they just they just couldn't get the neck of it.
But to me it seems quite strange.

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
Did you have a round about in your test?

Speaker 24 (01:07:13):
I did have a round about of my test. Both
my learners and my restricted, although they're a lot harsher
and my restricted.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
You're nailing it day. You're a professional driver, because you
should be.

Speaker 24 (01:07:22):
I work in the trade, so I spend probably eight
hours a day driving on the road and I see
all sorts of crazy stuff. And you know, a few
your listeners have called up and said, you know, people
indicating at the wrong times. It caused a hell of
a mess at those roundabouts. And I see it every day.
You know everything would am on the road.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
Appreciate it, Ryan textbook, You're the future.

Speaker 14 (01:07:40):
Ryan.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
I thought he was going to take the vickey before
and he came in so strong, but is feared income
greeting Jenny Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:07:48):
Yes Marcus. I'm eighty three next month and for my
eighty second birthday, eightieth birthday, I had to do the
get three from a license renewal and I thought the
Official New Zealand Road Code twenty twenty three and there's

(01:08:13):
four pages on what the signals you use at roundabouts
and it also gives the diagrams and when you put
your lights on. And it's quite true that if you
slow down as you approach the roundabout and give way
to your right and then when that's clear, you proceed

(01:08:35):
and you go ahead. And then when you across that
road on your left, and it's also cursory for the
people that are waiting to go through the roundabout or
turn left themselves, and you indicate then as you're turning
to make your exit out on the left. And it

(01:08:57):
also shows you the signal used for the roundabouts on
a single lane multiple lanes. And if you you signal
all the way round on the right, it's going right
round and roundabout and out to the right side. You
keep going right round and you indicate that, but don't
the left. You do indicate and at the signal before

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you are about to come from the roundabout.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
And going straight ahead. You've got that right, haven't you.

Speaker 22 (01:09:28):
Yes, yes, yes, it's quite right.

Speaker 12 (01:09:31):
And that's in the Official Road Code twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
What did you say about going straight ahead?

Speaker 12 (01:09:37):
Well, if you're coming up the roundabout and you want
to go right, you indicate right all the way round
and indicate out. That's going by the diagram on the page.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
But if you're going straight ahead.

Speaker 22 (01:09:52):
Straight ahead, you go.

Speaker 12 (01:09:55):
You slow down as you approach the roundabout, give way
for anything on your right, including cyclists. And then you
go across the road and you signal to go left
when you don't of the when you're departing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
From perfect Jenny, congratulations, Thank you for that. For those
that want to Endota website. Road code general road code
about driving, driving, giving way roundabouts, slow down, bend the
correct lane, give way to vehicles that cross. Yeah, and
the signal use is the same for both if they're

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single lane or double dane. Signal lift as you come
up to the roundabout. If you're traveling more than halfway round,
signal right as you come, Signal lift as you pass.
If you're going straight through, don't signal as you come.
Signal lift as your partics before the one you should take.
So all the diagrams are there for two lanes and
one lanes. It's all the same thing. You indicate that

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it's a flat roll, it doesn't change. Good evening, Robbie,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:11:01):
Yeah, Hi, market's good evening. Just I'm just wondering if
some of yours is may be able to give some
indication as I think we may have some sort of
trial happening up here in the Bay of Islance. We've
got different colored sand approaching the pedestrian crossing, and that

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it's right at the beginning of this new color. We've
got the diamond, and of course nobody, no pedestrian knows
how that works. That you know, any vehicle within that diamond,
you don't meant to be traveling across the pedestrian crossing.
But there's a couple of new looks like experimental type

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of thing too.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Are we're talking pie here or kitty kitty or we're.

Speaker 13 (01:11:47):
Talking pie here at the moment here? And of course
we've got a lot of cruise ships and their people.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Yeah, my concerned about colored sand would be colored sands
also always quick to wear off too?

Speaker 16 (01:11:58):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
But sounds like a good thing, is it?

Speaker 13 (01:12:01):
Yeah, well, it's a matter of you know what you're
meant to do with it. I suppose it's just to
indicate the drive as possibly that there's a pedestrian crossing
just approaching.

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
I don't know, So what yeah, okay, what different colored
sands are there?

Speaker 26 (01:12:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:12:17):
No, well it's it's a sort of a very light
GOLDI color as opposed to the dark black tar seal.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Okay, and what did you have a question? What was
the question?

Speaker 7 (01:12:32):
I sort of.

Speaker 13 (01:12:33):
Well, I'm just wondering if anybody else knows whether it's
just a trial or whether it's something new that they're
trying to introduce.

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
I can't find a picture. I'd like to look at that, Robbie,
I'll look into that. But thank you. Pone's got the
information about what's happening at pie here. All about that
and the pedestrian crossing. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine. Text all about the crossings.

(01:13:02):
Get in touch, be a part of it. There's something different.
You've got be great to hear from you. What about
that guy going with a chainsaw? We didn't going with
a chainsaw, but you know what I'm saying, he's fired up.
Ah just did audio? Were same color two days ago?

(01:13:32):
Wooden population nine thy three hundred. But Estra in refuge,
it's the name of in the middle of the road.
Cyclists may be exempt from signaling UNICE. Cyclists have both
hands free, therefore must indicate free. Good point, Marcus. If

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a roundabout has two lanes and you enter the roundabout
in the left lane and you're traveling straight through, do
you have to indicate tw exit? Even though there's a
solid white line and you are allowed to turn anyway. Yes, yes, absolutely,
And I don't think you would have a solid white line.
I think you would be you could go straight through,
you could turn right, You've got alternates. Then there's a

(01:14:20):
complicated area, but more complicati they've changed the rules. I
would think it's about the roundup. It's all about the roundabout.
But people get infuriated. A lot of people sending me

(01:14:46):
emails of interesting roundabouts. I'd like to see a diagram
of that one and upper hut, Yeah, because I can't
quite as hard to visualize sometimes when people are talking

(01:15:08):
about them, isn't it. But yeah, as every time we
have the discussion. There are some people that swear black
and blue that they drive through and they don't need
to indicate. But that doesn't happen in my world, Marcus.
The colored sand is anti skid surface, very effective at

(01:15:29):
reducing stopping distances before crossings, et cetera. Marcus, I point
the fingers at boomers. They just think they're singly correctly,
but sadly they are wrong. Reason the ku? What's the ku?

(01:15:51):
Ryan has texted spoke a few minutes ago, and use
anyone approaching a pedestrian refuge, you must give way if
pedestrians on your side of the road, if they're waiting
the island or on the other side of the road,
you do not need to stop until they start crossing
your side. I reckon they're no good. When did they
come around those refuges because I kind of I don't

(01:16:13):
even like using them either. I think people, including myself,
probably thought they were it fairly similar to but es
during crossing, but they're not. They're kind of snuck in there.
I think we probably need a refresher on those. That
would be my take. I've been so busy about roundabouts
if forgot to even look at the other news that's happening,

(01:16:36):
and I'm just trying to see what's happening now. There's
always stories about married at first sight. That seems very toxic,
doesn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:16:44):
There is a.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Cyclone about to hit Brisbane, Well Queensland and New South Wales.
There's a Lithuanian at rower who's road from California and
I think he's had to be rescued three days from finishing.

(01:17:07):
It's not good as it when good that he survived.
It'd be frustrated to go that way and kind of
finish three days out. But that's weather for you, isn't it.
Someone's texted through and they've said, tell bears he needs
hearing aid, So there we go. I don't know what
that's about about, but thank you. A lot of people,

(01:17:30):
I think, looking at the texts, have invented their own
roundabout rules, which they think are safer. But I would
think that when it comes to road rules, I think
it's best if we will follow the official rules rather
than making up our own ones, because that, to me

(01:17:52):
sounds like a recipe for roundabout disaster. Yeah, a lot
of people are saying, what about roundabouts when there's a
solid line. I haven't seen one of those, but you
might want to send me a picture. It's kind of
the annual roundabout refresher. If you got any comments that

(01:18:13):
you've got to make, now is the time to make
them about roundabouts. The rules changed in two thousand and four.
I believe then you could drive straight through that indicating,
but now you have to indicate as you leave, even
if you are ultimately going straight. If you're going left,

(01:18:33):
you indicate left. If you're going straight, you indicate left.
As you go off, you're going right, you indicate right,
then indicate left as you go off. I don't know
what happens, well, at least I don't know what happens.
I don't know what happens on the basin reserve. If
you're going right round if you indicate right from the beginning,
it seems fore early, doesn't it. It must be abut
a kilometer round. These are the discussions tonight, Get in touch.

(01:19:05):
Marcus is still twelve, Marcus using a roundabout? Be courteous?
Indicate how hard is that? What's the law if every
dangerous one of the old clusion cross roads at Bombay Pukakoe, Marcus,
the road ruf of roundabouts should be read a few
It should be if you are going straight, don't indicate

(01:19:26):
it will stop confusion. George is also one of those
pair that wants to cut the plants in the roundabouts.
What would you plant mulimbikia? Someone says you missed the
point from a couple of earlier callers, Marcus. There are
a few roundabouts that have a must exit lane with

(01:19:49):
painted white line on the right. There is a sole
argument there is no need to indicate left because you
had not actually turning, just following the road exit lane.
Cheers for them, send me a photo of one followed.
I'd like to see that. I don't know that roundabout.
It's certainly not on the road code. Marcus based reserve
is a guy ratory round about? There's a lot of

(01:20:09):
new ones easy on the way Cato Expressway indicating on
guy ratories. What's the guy ratory round about Marcus? It
seems that Ford ranges out is in BMW's are exempt
for indicating any time cops. I've never interested, Gavin Canterbury,
I don't know what a guy ratrie round about?

Speaker 21 (01:20:30):
This?

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
We look into that looking forward to you. Also sixty
years today since the Sound of Music. What a great
film that was. And then for a while they're about
twenty years back it became a sing along to the
Sound of Music thing that became all the rage that
went viral before things could go viral. What is a

(01:20:55):
guy ratory round about? A large and complex roundabout. I
don't really know much about that. You might have I
don't think we call them that New Zealand, but you
might have some more information. Oh no, the huirepai ones
a guy ratory the who are paie guy ratari? Never

(01:21:16):
heard that before the first and biggest of these projects
has been dubbed the gay ratory by at Now that's
a messive roundabout. I don't even know what you do
with those. They're not in the road code. The guy ratories.

(01:21:39):
You might want to comment on that also, maybe everything's
getting a bit complicated. Do you think with roundabouts if
they've got guy ratory ones. I don't know how old
I would have been if I saw the Sound of
Music eight nine ten seem pretty good to me? Is
it the greatest movie you've ever made? Probably not fairly

(01:22:03):
well cast. Wasn't it been a while since I've seen it?
About sixty years ago, nineteen sixty five, filmed in Los

(01:22:25):
Angeles and Salzburg. Of course, Christopher Plummer was Captain von Trapp,
so there we go. Julie Andrews was always going to
be Maria. I think Grace Kelly was considered. They considered

(01:22:53):
getting Victor Borg for the father. Anyway, they probably went
geg busters from the very beginning, did it?

Speaker 16 (01:23:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Do you get in touch on talk by that or
anything else? John Marcus welcome, Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:23:18):
Good evening, Marcus, How are you?

Speaker 7 (01:23:20):
And I good?

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Thank you? John?

Speaker 10 (01:23:22):
Good? The Sound of Music twentieth century Fox movie is
the longest running film in New Zealand ever. It showed
that the State Theater were in Christchurch, which was run
by Amalgamated Theaters. It ran for seventy four weeks without
any breaks. You know, seventy four weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
It's pretty amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:23:46):
Seventy four weeks. I saw six times at the State
Theater while it was on. Yeah, and then and then
not long after that, I started working in cinemas, and
every cinema I worked in the Sound of Music was
screened that the particular theater.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
Have you watched it recently?

Speaker 10 (01:24:12):
I owned two copies of the film actually on film itself.
You know, you know I've got a film collection. I've
got two copies of the Sound of Music. Yes, we
watch it. It's a very good movie. You never get
tired of it.

Speaker 7 (01:24:29):
Long.

Speaker 10 (01:24:29):
It's a wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Female dear ray a drop of gold and sun me
and myself.

Speaker 10 (01:24:39):
I'm not going to sing it to you, but no,
it was a very very popular song.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
Was it out of interest? It seemed long?

Speaker 10 (01:24:49):
Yeah, I haven't got a running time in front of me.
It's about three hours long. Yeah, I've got the film there.
It was in It was when it showed at the
State Theater, had showed in seventy millimeter in stereophonic sound
in the suburban theaters. Of course, it was just ordinary

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thirty five millimeter film, and I have it on sixteen
millimeter film.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
Okay, Oh well, nice to hear from you about that, John,
Always good to hear about that, Marcus. I was lucky
to see the von Trapp family live at the Theater
Royalty Badoo in nineteen fifty five. The voices were amazing.
Inspired me to get into show music, Marcus. Roundabouts are easy.

(01:25:37):
Once you're on the round about, you of the right
of way. Every other car has to give way to
you until you've exit. Just indicate when leaving the roundabout. No,
that's not quite right. You've made your own rules here.
There's set rules for a roundabout. If you are turning right,
you indicate right when you get on, and left to
get off. If you're indicating turning left, you indicate left.
If you're going straight through, you just drive on, indicate
left to get off. But don't see me your own rules.

(01:26:02):
It's confuses. People feel quite strongly at this. Get in touch,
you grow ratory round about How on earth did they
know he could sing? Because he's singing at the church.
Oh wa, eight hundreds. You know the rest of My

(01:26:22):
name is Marcus Welome.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
What have you got?

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
We are talking about the sound of music. I don't
know what the stage. I presume it was a stage
show first. I think I've got that one right. It
was a player a stage show, Is that right? Roger's
and the Hammerstein.

Speaker 26 (01:26:46):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
That's with a song, just like Wicked was a musical
before it was a movie. Hammerstein died of stomach Kenton
nine months after the Broadway premiere. You wouldn't have seen
the movie. Goodness, there was a there was a a music.
Oh there was a film too, called The Trap Family,

(01:27:10):
a West German film, and a sequel called The Trap
Family in America.

Speaker 7 (01:27:19):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:27:21):
I haven't seen the play.

Speaker 7 (01:27:23):
I'm not like it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
I think the same songs were the same. It seemed
to be very similar to The King and I I
thought always that's not said as a judgment. It was
a fine film, that's right. They had then they brought
it all bat You could sing along. There were movies
and they'd show the movie, everyone's sing along very loudly.

(01:27:44):
I think that's sort of a bit like the Rocky
Horror show that sort of throw things and do things.
I don't know what they'd do, but they'd like, yeah,
just kind of like it was interactive. There is the
cyclones looking serious for Australia. Cyclone Alfred a weather phenomenon

(01:28:08):
that's not been seen for more than three decades. Category
won four thirty k's off the southern Queensland coastline. It's
gonna go category two overnight and could make landfall by Thursday.
Could be one of the most destructed of the region decades,
with gusts in excess of one twenty five k's. Doesn't
sound that much. A cycle hasn't crossed the southeast Queensland

(01:28:34):
coast in fifty one years when Wander helped me Wander
because catastrophic floods in jan seventy four might bring some
stuff down to New Zealand. Actually, don't want to be alarming.
Thomas Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:28:53):
Been waiting all year for this.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Pardon roundabout, I had my headphones. What did you say?
What did you say?

Speaker 6 (01:28:59):
Been waiting all year for this?

Speaker 8 (01:29:05):
Every year it means me too, So I approached.

Speaker 26 (01:29:11):
A roundabout slowed down to a stop, and there was
another car on my left and another car my right.
It was three entrances, and we all approached and gave
way at the exact same time.

Speaker 9 (01:29:27):
What and then we got a glitch in the matrix?

Speaker 16 (01:29:31):
Man?

Speaker 9 (01:29:31):
Well, and then and then we were all giving away
to the right, and no one was going for the
longest time until we all got the same idea to go, Oh, bugger,
let's go, And we all thought it at the exact
same time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
It was Was it four or three? Was it a
three round Was it just a three roundabout?

Speaker 23 (01:29:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:29:49):
I wish it was nine.

Speaker 8 (01:29:50):
It would have been even.

Speaker 3 (01:29:51):
Ard all arrived at the same time. That does a
glitch in the matrix, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:29:56):
That's all I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
One of the great calls, one of the great calls.
Who's seen the trap fan? Trapped?

Speaker 17 (01:30:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
The Trap Family. I think the Trap Family came to
using in quite often. So my understanding is there was
a family called the Trap Family. They are a musical family,
and they experienced the war and escaped. Now, then there
was the musical about the Trap Family. Then there was
the movie about the musical. But why did they get out?

(01:30:35):
That's what I've never quite understood. I've never understood the
further detail of that because they were clearly Austrian Germans,
weren't they.

Speaker 10 (01:30:52):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
They weren't people that were being persecuted. That's my understanding,
is that right, So were their lives at risk? I
don't fully understand the background further situation there. Anyway, you
might want to mention that one of them lived until

(01:31:24):
that ninety nine or something. Maria I think lived for
a long long time. You died at ninety nine. She
was the last surviving of the von Trapps. So there
you go, get in touch one of miss marcusheidt twelve
o'clock on eighty ten, eighty and nineteen ninety to text.

(01:31:56):
Mary Margaret Wood was perfect for the role of the
Reverend Mother. It was her final appearance as the Mother
Abbess and the Sound of Music, which was nominated for
the Academy Award for Bes Supporting Actress of the Golden
Globe for Besupporing address Motion Picture of It. She could
no longer sing. Climb every Mountain was dubbed for singing
by Margaret Mackay. The most Amazing Film soundra good evening

(01:32:17):
and welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:32:19):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. You wanted to know why the
von Traps got out of Austria. My impression or knowledge
of it is that he was up for conscription in
the with the Nazis and that final concert they gave

(01:32:44):
the Nazis was standing guard because he was due to
join them and he didn't want it. They didn't want it,
and that's why they got out of Austria.

Speaker 3 (01:32:58):
Yeah, that was sort of my understanding too. But they weren't. Yeah,
but they weren't being They weren't people whose lives were
in peril, were they? They were people that were persecuted.
He would have known what was going on with his
time in the navy, wouldn't he. I mean he would
have been he'd been command and part of that organization.
That's right, That's right, George von Trapp.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
I mean he was.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
He was an officer in the Austro Hungarian that navy.

Speaker 23 (01:33:30):
Okay, Yeah, So the Nazis wanted and he didn't want
to be part of it, so that's why they all
got out.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
It is interesting though he had been in World War
One as a commander of a summer in commander Sinking
eleven Allied merchant ships. Wow, so it's quite. It's quite.
It's quite a new want story. But yeah, this one understood.
What's happening sound? I just need a reminder of that one.
But thank you. If there is something different you want
to talk about tonight. I just as I said at

(01:34:05):
the beginning of the show, I.

Speaker 14 (01:34:05):
Had a real.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
I hope all my feelings were wrong about the Warriors,
but she's a pretty hard watch. On Sunday, did we
actually show the English League and the Women's League? I don't.
I couldn't see that. I just saw it was on
it one. There did something between where'd we go? We
gather fireward? We did something between. I think we did something.

(01:34:33):
So I don't know why we didn't get all the matches.
Marcus listening in from Ballei just got back from Europe
and went on the Panorama. Sound of music during Sulzburg
was fantastic. Very few roundabouts in Bali and no rules

(01:34:55):
for the few that there are. Anyway, I kind of
thought Ballei would be quite round about it. I wonder
if we've got the most perhead of population. I thought
this was interesting during the According to the BBC, during
the height of the Cold War. The sound of Music
was a part of a series of recorded programs the

(01:35:16):
network had on hand to play on a loop in
the instance of a nuclear strike. Are great, we'll probably
suffer that again. Turn away from eleven in it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
Good evening, good ending, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:35:31):
I'm like, yeah, put us sort it out to the
Otago's sparks. Who won the how he burdened Johnson.

Speaker 14 (01:35:38):
At the weekend?

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
Go the sparks, go the space.

Speaker 7 (01:35:42):
They got very little publicity for it?

Speaker 21 (01:35:45):
Is that and they've done well?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
Why is this so little publicity?

Speaker 6 (01:35:50):
This woman's cricket, it's a woman's woman playing.

Speaker 13 (01:35:53):
But still because the actually the hero player.

Speaker 7 (01:35:59):
Was Edan Carson, because she was Ean Carson, the.

Speaker 15 (01:36:08):
Spin bowler.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
Oh Eden, yes, Eden Carson, that's right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:11):
Yeah, yeah, she was actually playing with a chest.

Speaker 10 (01:36:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:36:14):
I saw that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
She's struggling with that. Yeah, good on her. Yeah did
you go did you go watch it?

Speaker 21 (01:36:22):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:36:25):
No, Fortunately, I can't get very far.

Speaker 5 (01:36:27):
Okay, it was my health and that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
Yeah, I presume it probably wasn't televised, was it, No,
it wasn't. Okay, Well, thanks for the heads up on
that too, and I appreciate that. Nine Away from eleven.
If you want to talk Marcus still twelve, what about
the sound of music and roundabouts? Of course, remember she
made the clothes out of the curtains, Marcus. I saw

(01:36:53):
the Sound of Music twenty six times the first year
it was out, having to multiple live shows and DVDs
most years. I think this year will be my sixty
eighth time. Love it, Susie. Someone wants to know how
old Julie Andrews says, or is She's still alive? Someone
that doesn't have the Internet.

Speaker 10 (01:37:09):
She is.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
She's not as old as Dick van Dyke. She's not
as old as Carol Burnette. She is still alive. Eighty nine.
There you go, eighty nine. Father's ald work teacher. There

(01:37:38):
you go, every long Wikipedia page about her. Didn't know
she had a daughter. There you go in nineteen sixty two.
She lives in sag Harbor, New York, where the Bay

(01:38:00):
Street Theater is co founded by her daughter Emma. She's
a grandmother to nine and a great grandmother to three.

Speaker 16 (01:38:14):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:38:15):
Edwards. Of course, Blake Edwards and Andrews adopted to Vietnamese daughters.
Why do they specify that Amy Lee and Joanna Lynne
married for forty one years. Didn't know if she got
the what's it? She got the what's it? When you
get the Academy, the Tony, the beft and the what's

(01:38:35):
that one called? She got an egot, he's got the
emsh Maybe not, probably have the Tony. Get in touch
bax till twelve. Keep those texts coming through. Also talking roundabouts,
had a good run on that. It's not a well
you want to go back to too often. The roundabout Well, Marcus,

(01:39:02):
my in laws have a time share at the Von
Trap Lodge in Vermont. It's the farm they settled en
after leaving Austria that still family run with Von Trap brewery,
maple syrup, desistillary skiing, et cetera. Who would I thought
there's a Von Trapp time share. Goodness, I've heard it

(01:39:27):
all tonight. If you want to talk after the news
YIPI a all about the Von Trapps and about roundabouts.
More roundabouts in the country now than traffic lights by
about three hundred. It's about two thousand versus two thousand,

(01:39:48):
three hundred. True story. You heard it here first? Do
you get in touch? Marcistroe Midnight high on the Hill
sort of only go to does it. I think that's
the one when the puppets were doing that, weren't they
That was hard to watch now the cyclone on its way.

(01:40:09):
Lee has emailed a strange feeling here in Brisbane tonight
as cyclone Alfred draws close. CBD looks to be closing
from Wednesdays to need to click my positions from work tomorrow.
Work at the museum. Flooding and power outage is always
a huge risk to collections. Tie down your trampling, Queenslanders.

(01:40:30):
Thanks for that. Nice to hear from you, Lee, Jamie,
good evening, It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:40:40):
Hey, how are you going?

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Good Jamie?

Speaker 14 (01:40:43):
So my last want to be flying to New Zealand
on Friday was this cyclone coming? So that'll be interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:40:49):
Why is she flying to New Zealand?

Speaker 14 (01:40:52):
I got a Osrick goes. I've got a wedding to
go to next week. My brother in law, her brother.
My brother in law, her brother.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
Is getting married.

Speaker 14 (01:41:01):
So you are all going to go home. But I
decided to stay here and they were going to go. Yeah,
and now the cyclone's coming, it's going to get pretty interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Is your wife still quite happy to come home?

Speaker 16 (01:41:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:41:17):
Not not terribly but if the planes don't get grounded,
she'll probably go.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Should we texting you, Jamie if you have you made
sure the tremboline secure?

Speaker 14 (01:41:29):
Yeah, we don't have bringing up yard, but yeah, I'll
be work. Some man has been a wet drive on
three three hundred k out of Sydney and the whole
down the East coast has been raining on and it's
pretty heavy all not.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
So when do they when they where do they start
talking about the cyclone.

Speaker 14 (01:41:49):
I reckon last week?

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (01:41:52):
And then and all that ballon the truck stopped today
and I just had the u A tip on and
they were talking that Ballan has gone into flood.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Watch as well.

Speaker 14 (01:42:02):
And one of the guys on the radio us have
been carting something for the east if so whatever because
he's just talking to his mate. Well I just overheard
the conversation and he's talking to his mate saying that
they're in bud Rocks and he's going to pick up
a whole eat of stuff bring back to Bella.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
They take a long time because they're talking about it
landing on Thursday. Have I got that correct?

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:42:25):
I think so. Yeah, that sounds about and we've got
hard rubbish at home at the moment. So all the
local Facebook pages have been going on about, oh, we
better hopeful this rubbish gets picked up before the cyclone comes.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
Typical typical Facebook pages, all the consumer about his rubbish
collection day. So is the chance is there a chance
that you have to take time off work?

Speaker 10 (01:42:50):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:42:51):
I think I'll be all right because we just keep trucking.
I'm not going up. I just him out.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
So looks after who looks after the kids? If your
wife's back and New Zealand, the kids did tell us
that the worried about him hiding under the bead with
you driving your truck. This all right then? Okay?

Speaker 14 (01:43:11):
Yeah yeah, so no, so yeah, we were all meant
to go, but with this buying buying a sticken out,
it's almost over the line. I decided it was better
to stay here and keep earning the money and the
sender the money home.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (01:43:25):
So yeah, because I can't really this time. I can't
really want to take two weeks.

Speaker 16 (01:43:28):
Off work, you know, so long time to go back.

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
It's a long time to go back for a wedding.
Two weeks.

Speaker 14 (01:43:36):
Yeah, I should go in to like ten days. I
was going to stay for another week and hang out
with my grandmother because she's yeah she's getting pretty old. Yeah,
but yeah, I'll do that later on in the year.
But yeah, it's going to be interesting times.

Speaker 10 (01:43:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:54):
What are they be doing?

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
What do they doing?

Speaker 3 (01:43:57):
Moving?

Speaker 10 (01:43:57):
What?

Speaker 14 (01:43:59):
Yeah, I'm not too sure. Just my mate said to
me today when I was on the phone tourn because
he lives at rint Cliff, and he said, worrying times
when the estays and rolling into towns, it musn't really
been expecting something big.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
Yeah, so that's Thursday, so you'll be dry well, keep
us and keep in touch with us about any updates
you've got anyway, so I'll be curiously what happens with that. Yeah,
they talk about clothes, they talk about the closing, the
city closing Brisbane and stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:44:29):
Yeah, I think they're gonna I think schools are going
to be closed come Wednesday. Or to mention, we got
an email really hit but something about the kids school's clothing.

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
So okay, stay in touch, Jamie. That's Jamie from Australia. Marcus.
I went to watch Shana music five times in the
school hols with my nana Ash Burton at the Kirijodian
Theater and ten good Street now loonger there, Gary, get
in touch. Hello, Susie Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:44:55):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
Susie?

Speaker 12 (01:44:58):
Marcus hit about twenty years and singing reasons, and I
learned a lot of those songs, and my favorite one
was climb every Mountain?

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
He has?

Speaker 7 (01:45:06):
Does it?

Speaker 16 (01:45:06):
Go o.

Speaker 12 (01:45:10):
Every mountin?

Speaker 23 (01:45:13):
You know the one?

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
What about do dear? If everyone loves that?

Speaker 12 (01:45:16):
No, I didn't. I didn't do that when I did
sixteen going on seventeen. The hills are alive and adele viye.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
Did you do high in the hill? There's a log here?

Speaker 12 (01:45:31):
No, not that one, Marcus. No, I didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:45:34):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
That's the big high in the hill.

Speaker 12 (01:45:39):
Yeah, but that's all I'll tell you Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
Okay, Susie, Yeah, you have al.

Speaker 12 (01:45:46):
No, I'm not good at yodling. Well, I've won a
lot of I've won a lot of competitions.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
I bet you have what was.

Speaker 12 (01:45:55):
Singing?

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
But I mean what you know there? But what song?

Speaker 21 (01:46:00):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:46:00):
Lots?

Speaker 12 (01:46:02):
Uh he heay, climbary Mountain? A lot of folks on
Marcus and yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Just a mixture really any country?

Speaker 12 (01:46:11):
No, I didn't do country Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:46:13):
No, why not?

Speaker 12 (01:46:16):
I don't know of more of a soprano who tort you,
Rina Kullak, who just passed last year. She was in
her nineties. Oh, she was an excellent teacher.

Speaker 11 (01:46:30):
Marcus.

Speaker 12 (01:46:31):
And I used to do competitions every year, and I've
sung at weddings, I've sung at funerals here.

Speaker 17 (01:46:37):
Where are you?

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Where do you call home?

Speaker 12 (01:46:39):
Susie Southland?

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
Cheap go you?

Speaker 12 (01:46:43):
And I'm celebrating the fifty ninth birthday today.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
Oh, happy birthday to you, Susie. Do anything special?

Speaker 12 (01:46:50):
Yeah, I did do something special. I was on the
go all day, Marcus an listening.

Speaker 25 (01:46:55):
To you, which I love.

Speaker 3 (01:46:57):
Nice to hear from your Susie. I was going all
go today too. What I do something interesting? I'll try
to get that damn battery for that moa that was
my place was shut down. The course it was.

Speaker 17 (01:47:09):
Cheap.

Speaker 3 (01:47:09):
It did something else interesting, carry but it was anyway
desperate Get out now. Warning a cyclone Alfred threatens to
hammer to Australian states and we a phenomena not seen
for more than three decades. Yep, yep, that's what's happening.

(01:47:34):
I don't know if there's going to be any blowbag here.
Where's the Chinese Navy are they gone, Yeah, we won't
be taking our fueling ship up there by Taiwan for
again for a while, will we?

Speaker 7 (01:47:50):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
No, I'm not normally one to give parenting advice, go
to TikTok for that, But what TikTok is telling people
and start tutting about this. Parents around the world who
are desperate for decent nights sleep or rest of rest
have resorted to an unusual tactic to keep their children

(01:48:11):
to sleep at night. A trend Richard it on TikTok
sees tired parents giving their little ones a spoonful of
butter before putting them down for the night, some claiming
it helps their tots sleep all the way till morning.
Experts of warnings not like to make a difference and

(01:48:32):
can do more harm than good. Now the train has
spread to New Zealand, with parents desperate for some shady
trying it on their own children. The babies look young
than they look about nine months. Has it worked? After

(01:48:55):
a mouthful of butter? Ivy slept soundly all evening? There
you go, butter and Nutricia's jumped in. There are way
more beneficial fats that you could use to benefit your
baby's diet and leading baby nutrition has said that social

(01:49:22):
media platforms are rife with misinformation. Gosh, is that right?
She's the pressure the texture of butter could be a
choking hazard. They're saying, PEPs, you want to put it
on a bit of toast, perfectly normal for babies to

(01:49:44):
wake up in their night. There you go, butter before
Beard might try that myself. I'm just trying to think
there's anything other. I ate one of the school meals today,
terrible got them. They are just being left at the
sort of local shed where you can try the food,
and very hard to open. But it was an edible

(01:50:07):
and actually when I came away, I had about two
mouthfuls of there was like a macaroni cheese. And my
abiding thought about the school meal it's very hard to open,
was how did it cost three dollars fifty? Because I
felt it was about worth about fifty cents. There's a
couple of bits of peas, that a color, bits of

(01:50:27):
Carrots's terrible. It was sort of hard. I mean it
wasn't just awful. It was still warm, but not good
at all. So I have eaten one. I do know
what I'm talking about. Honey, Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:50:44):
Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:50:45):
Back on school lunches, I heard you talking about the
school lunch experience.

Speaker 6 (01:50:49):
That you had.

Speaker 8 (01:50:51):
Did you get did your.

Speaker 22 (01:50:52):
Mom and dad make you lunches?

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
Sometimes?

Speaker 11 (01:50:56):
My mom and dad cared for me quite a lot
and they made me lunches.

Speaker 6 (01:51:00):
But I'll bet you money, did it.

Speaker 13 (01:51:06):
Bothered?

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
Sorry, honey, Yeah, I just I'm happy to discuss the
way the lunches are at the moment and the situation
with the contract and stuff like that.

Speaker 6 (01:51:18):
But yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Yeah, I just don't want to get into sort of
squawkback about lunches and parenting and because it's sort of
I think we've heard it all at the stage, Marcus.
Advertising on the radio, TV is obviously done to get
people to buy the product. I was wondering if people
are like me and will never buy a product because
they consider the advert stupid, loud, or I don't like

(01:51:45):
the person doing the advert for one reason or another.
I have a few things I will never buy. KIV
tell us what they are, Kive, I'll be fascinated. One
of the things you'll never buy. I don't think there's
anything I've never seen. Every bike the way it's sold,
I says yes to you're probably never going to buy
it anyway, that would be my take on there. Yeah,

(01:52:09):
but do come through if you want to talk as
I say, sound of music and roundabouts, and if you
want to go to the school lunches if you've tried one.
But you know, I think the program is about to.

Speaker 13 (01:52:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
I kind of get bored of explaining it, really, but
that's fine. But certainly it seems to me as though
they're trying to kill off the whole program. There was
a plan to have school lunches, and I think it's
one of David Semol's bottom lines. He thought, Okay, he
doesn't like government doing things that he doesn't think the

(01:52:42):
government should be doing, like feeding people lunch. And there
are plenty of countries around the world that have tremendous
school lunch programs. It's just always been part of their culture.
That's how they do it. But I think pretty much
by giving this contract to these people, they're trying to
end the scheme. But it's a pretty strange and weird

(01:53:04):
way to go about it to deliver a product it's
just so unbelievably poor. And when David Seymour said he's
having a lot of principles contact him and say how
much they're enjoying the meals. Well, I'll be curious to
see those letters. And I think the point is also

(01:53:25):
too about school lunches and the likes of that. It's
from the teachers that we're knowing with the pupils that
they were saying, okay, pupils need to eat to concentrate.
And of course, no five six seven year olds choose
bad parents. No one does. No one says, okay, you

(01:53:50):
know their kids for goodness sake.

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
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