The longest flight (4 December 2025)

Marcus talks the truck drivers who need to resit their licence, exceptionally long flights, and Led Zeppelin.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm not normally a fan of Spotify. I'm less of
a fan of Spotify. Now they've said my listening age
is seventy five, which is a slight disturbance for me,
but anyway, that's the situation. So they tell you, according
to the music you listen to, how old they think
you are. This's a lot of Van Morrison apparently, although
don't use Spotify a lot a lot of musicals. Yeah, yeah,

(00:35):
get get a handle of that. So that's me. That's
my listening year. Now, how you're going people? Welcome? There
has been a wicket and I'm all in for the Ashes.
I like the hype of it and I like the
Hubris but three for one. Who know, I will keep
you updated with that too, Sorry, but I'm more into
the Ashes. I don't know why. I just kind of

(00:55):
like the fact Northern hem'sphace, Outhern hemispeed thing and all that.
So we'll keep you out there with both anyhow, Tonight
it's a bit of a Thursday free for I feel
fore Christmasy. I think a lot of you will have
I think a lot of you will be coming away
from I think a lot of you will have experienced
very long school prize givings today. Yeah, I don't really

(01:21):
know what to say about that. I don't know. I
don't know who loves those. Is it the schools or
is it the families? And I'm not quite sure what
boy they go for a long time. Anyway, I know
over the years there have been schools that have got
rid of their prize givings because because it's the end
of the year, it's summer, it's a nice day, and
probably no one wants to be in the hall for

(01:42):
three hours. But you might have a you might have
an opinion on that. You are more than welcome to
come through with that opinion. It's one of those topics
that comes up from time to time. But yes, thanks
very hard for schools are in an unenviewable position. But yeah,
that's the situation too with a lot of you are welcome.
As you drive home from your prize givings, do get
in touch. You want to start the whole discussion tonight.

(02:03):
I'm very aware that IKEA has opened. If you were there,
let me know how that was for you. Why do
I want to know only because I'm curious. Was it good,
was it bad? Was expensive? Was it cheap? We were amazed,
We're surprised, we overwhelmed or underwhelmed. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
We've been warned and warned and warned about Carmageddon, all

(02:25):
sorts of things. That's appeared to me as though it
had gone quite smoothly. I'm not seeing headlines. Not when
mana are opened at the airport. Boy, oh boy, that
was carmageddon. But this one. Don't know why. Maybe it's
because they actually took contingencies and it worked quite well.
Now someone texts all the time wanting to know product recalls.

(02:46):
Tom and Luke's snack bulls have been recalled because a
hard plastic. Yeah, well that would do much harm, would
it if we're reading a credit card to plastic a week?
But in the Tom and Luke is not gonna do
you much damage. This is the chocolate coated cookies and
cream raspberry and hazelnut. I don't quite know what to

(03:06):
call snack balls. They were nowhere in there everywhere. They're
just like round uncooked biscuits, aren't they? Is that what
they're like?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
And as she solved, as some sort of super food
for endurance athletes. But I think now people just died
them as sweets, do they? I think it's mainly dates
wrapped up inside them. Anyhow, you might want to mention
that also tonight. But it's a pretty free reading show
this evening. I won't be guessing any free food orders.
I'm quitting while i'm ahead, but you want to partake
in the show, feel free to come through. Eight hundred

(03:36):
and eighty ten eighty. Any other sport we got dan
but a crickd a ashes and stuff, just the ashes,
just the ashes. There are more measles though, I'm seeing
one of the places of contact was an A and
E place, which is not a good place to go
if you've got the measles. So I imagine that will grow.

(03:57):
And I think there was no targo in Dunedia's. That's
probably going to be something that's going to be one
to watch, and not in a good way, but watch
in a kind of a curious way. Also to Australia's
under sixteen social media ban comes into an effect on
Monday and meta which is Facebook have really begun shutting

(04:21):
down accounts. So Facebook and Instagram began shutting down half
a million accounts of users under sixteen years old as
a deadline looms. So good on them because they've been
I think they've been acting like they don't think it's
going to happen, So that's going to make it easier
for parents and for the government of Facebook themselves shuts

(04:42):
it down. So I think the onus is on them.
I think probably Facebook themselves have to be compliant with that,
and they'll tell you before your sixteenth birthday when you're
going to go back on it, when you're allowed to
go back on it. Hopefully, what will happen is by
the time they turn sixteen, they won't want to be
on it because I'll have enjoyed the time away, running

(05:02):
through the meadows and stuff like that. So that's a situation.
So they've already started shutting that down. There's a been
an appeal in the Ashes for something stumped or ELB,
don't know what it was, but I bring that result
when it happens, and Woolworths have admitted they were they
failed over that rat infestation at that supermarket in Anderson's Bay.

(05:26):
I feel like I want to say, is where it was.
I'm not sure what was going on there. That was crazy.
There was rat after rat after rat. Boy, Oh boy,
there was a time for a while you couldn't turn
on talk back rape with the paper without some story
about it. And then adorable shot of those rats. There's
an a durable photo with the rats in the ham and

(05:49):
it's hard to describe, but on the hemshelf there is
about an inch and a half vertical plastic barrier and
these adorable rats are just resting their hands on the barriers.
They look out into the crowd. It's an adorable shot.
But yeah, I thought the should been fined more. Actually
they got fined about seventy grand. They could have gone

(06:10):
as high as two hundy. I don't know if it
was something to do with a change of management or
quite what went on there, but it was surprising. Any ho,
Enough from me, looking forward to what you've got to
say about the topics of the day. Oh eight hundred
wasn't a wicket, by the way, Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two detext Also
for music fans, it was this day in nineteen eighty

(06:32):
the Zippelin disbanded. I don't fully know the story was
that disbanded after the death of the drummers. That what happened,
I suspect, but you might want to talk about that.
That was forty five years ago now, and I think
they rebanded for one concert and then that was a
I think they should probably hologram it like EBBA. I

(06:55):
think people might like to see the holograms, but they're
a proud band. They probably refused to do it. But anyway,
there's that also tonight. So yes, there's a bit on
So if you want to come through and discuss it tonight,
anything goes oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two to text. It'd be nice to

(07:15):
hear from if anything. Yes, Zeppelin called it quits deck
four December, four eighty months after the tragic death of
drummer John Bonham. So I mean, what can you do.
I guess you're either can protect the legacy or you
find a new drummer. And I think they probably made
the right decision. You'd think, wouldn't you. I mean, it's

(07:37):
not like they've it's not like they it's not like
they disappeared into anonymity. I think probably the mystique in
the fact they finished in nineteen eighty made them probably
more legendary than ever. There'd be my take on that,
although different times. But get in touch. Welcome HEREDI twelve
fifteen past eight three for one to three nine England

(08:01):
over Australia. Seems like a fairly good start. Gee, they're
scoring quickly because I think this guy's just coming. He's
already on seventeen. Just in the time I've been on
the air. That's off twelve balls. This is Brooke. This
is basball expression. I hate David. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Yeah, hello Marcus. How are you, David?

Speaker 6 (08:22):
I'm good, Thank you, first time caller.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Just in reference to the New Zealand Transport Associations Truck
Drivers issue in regards to the licensing for the truck drivers, tell.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Me, is this the testing that to get retested or
is this something different?

Speaker 4 (08:42):
No, this is different.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
Basically, they're allowing them to actually move forward and absorb
their licenses and continue their their licenses in regards to
the protocols of actually getting a genuine truck driver's license
within this country structure.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Sure, can you explain it? Can you explain that story
a bit more?

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Sharing my thoughts in regards to the legal legalities of
anybody to get their driver's license and qualify as a
secure safe driver within this country. It seems to seems
to me that they seem to brush over the concept
of what legally should be right what should be wrong.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
So I just yeah, So the background to this is
international drivers coming to New Zealand and providing false documents
correct to get their license in New Zealand, and that
has now been discovered.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Is that right, correct, Marcus, That's exactly my shoe on
this whole matter.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
And how let's just talk abutit more about this because
a lot of people probably catching up with a story.
So all the drivers were from India.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
Well I believe so, But they've got overseas licenses and
had incorrect paperwork presented incorrect paperwork to become qualified drivers
within this structure. So I'm just a little bit puzzled.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
The funny thing is, David, I have had people ring
up the show and have been talking about this for
a while now.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yes, so it puts everybody at risk, you know what
I mean in regards to how the structure actually puts
it in place and allows these people to conduct their
business and drive you know, under that concept of having
a legal driver's license, and it seems to me that
the structure is allowing this to take place.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Okay, David, you're obviously a truck driver, is that right?

Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah the present moment, yes.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Can you explain to me and the listeners how this
was uncovered.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
This was uncovered through the VT and Z New Zealand
in regards to the false driver's life and people that
paid for their licenses. So it's just a network of
things that have unfolded. Okay, So yeah, it's very frustrating
as you can imagine for those that are genuine people
working in the industry and going through the protocol and

(11:22):
taking time and effort to put things in place. So again,
it's just another flaw in the structure within the system
that where seems to be running in today's time.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
So these people are now allowed to reset their tests.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
They're allowed to resit the test apparently, but the understanding
that do they still qualify? That is the key question.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
So before were they given an overseas was their overseas
license converted to a using and license with them out
without them even having to set the test? Okay, thats wrong,
That sounds wrong to me.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
That's right exactly, Marcus. And what they were they presented
incorrect paperwork, They did not follow protocol. Now that they
government system seems to allow this to actually unfold, it's
just another concept of why people lose faith and trust
within the system.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
I can kind of understand that they know they talk
about the shortage of drivers and wanting to get people
match fit and migrants. Good for that, but yeah, that
seems to be an error and they've clearly admitted that,
haven't they.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
That's that's correct, market and it's very frustrating, you know,
as we see in now you know, I mean, and
the concept of what takes place here, it's just again
another example of how the structure has failed everybody within
the system.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Also also fails people running trucking companies because their gears
at their gear and their cargo is at risk, isn't it.
Have you seen have you seen markets? Have you guys
seen evidence of really shaky driving?

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Yes, okay, and you know and yeah, not following protocol
when we think about everybody's you know, risk and.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
You know who the you know who the real some
of the real victims and this will be who's that
you think mark drivers from India that have gone legitimately
through the process, because people will be identifying them and
thinking they're terrible drivers because they're on a dodgy license.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yes, it's very true. But also they've gone through the
right protocols I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
That's what I'm saying. But they will everyone will sort
of see these drives and think probably their their license
is a legitimate So that's unfortunate for them. Also, yeah, okay,
but they should not.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
They should not feel that way because that's done the
right thing.

Speaker 8 (13:38):
That's done the right thing.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I can clearly say that. You know, people like they're
quick to judge.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
That's right exactly, but all credits to them.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Yep, I'm hearing you. David, look great start to the show.
Thank you so much to hold your horses. Mike with
you soon twenty one past eight. We're on to licensees.
I don't it's not I knew about the the the
dodgy license place where people went to to sit licenses
and for backhanded they're giving them. I knew about that one.
I didn't know there's so much so you might have

(14:07):
some more background on that. Be good. Always good to
have a tracking night. Oh wait, hundred. You know the
rest markets Marcus, good evening. Hi, how are you out
of ten? I'd be a nine, Mike.

Speaker 9 (14:20):
Oh that's good. Yeah, yeah, probably the same. You still
got sunlight down there?

Speaker 3 (14:25):
What would make you a ten?

Speaker 9 (14:28):
Oh no, yeah, near perfection. Near perfection is too difficult
to attain in this world.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Good answer.

Speaker 9 (14:40):
Yeah, but yeah, you know you still got the sun
light down there and the cargo absolutely yeah, yeah, no,
I can imagine now we still do in Auckland. Anyway,
listening to Mett and Tyler earlier today and they were
going on about Ikea and things, and I don't really
want to talk about about ike but one of the

(15:00):
things that meeting was the no who knows to shore?

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Tell me what? Tell me? You got what you want
to say?

Speaker 9 (15:08):
The solid timber furniture, you know, the stuff that lasts
for thirty forty to fifty years plus last five or
six years. I'd go to friends over in Australia Gold
Coast and they had this impressive, huge, solid might be
an oak, I don't know, heavy weight dining table and

(15:32):
you know it was a pleasure to eat dinner on
and things. And then a couple of years back or so,
I returned and my mate's wife had replaced it with
some white resin plastic something, or rather dining table that
she'd probably seen online or whatever. And yeah, I just
didn't have the interesting to say that.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
What do people call all that old furniture? What's it
called brown wear or something? What do they call it?
But wooden furniture? Old wooden furniture people have no love for.
You can't sell it, you can't give it away for
love nor money. And I guess not it is because
they houses have changed and people's tastes have changed.

Speaker 9 (16:10):
Well, I mean this new white thing that she had,
I describe it like sitting in a prison, a prison
eating hall, sitting at a bench. I mean, the difference
was amazing, and I didn't have the guts to criticize
it in front of her. I would have been kicked out.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's probably a good thing, like you didn't do that.

Speaker 9 (16:30):
But yeah, some of the old stuff, I mean this thing,
I mean, some of the stuff you can classify as
antiques these days. I mean, what how old does something
have to be to be classified as an antique? Forty
fifty years old?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
People don't want to do that. All they want they
want bright cheerful and Scandinavian.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
Yeah, well, I mean gosh. But anyway, and it just
before wedding on for the score count I thought, you know,
reminded me this old wooden, solid, well built, handmade stuff
reminds me of that old adage. You know it would,

(17:08):
and you know it's what's the word for that, those
old you know, those old.

Speaker 10 (17:18):
No, I can't think of it.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
No worries, no worries. Make nice to hear from you, Brian,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Good evening, how are you this evening?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Good?

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Thank you, Brian.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
Hey, you don't want to buy a cheap truck driver's license,
do you, just Jacob?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
But rereading the article, these people legitimately have licenses in India.
It seems it's just because it's a complicated story.

Speaker 8 (17:41):
Now my understanding is that they said, there's what four
hundred and fifty nine truck drivers with shonky license. Okay,
now I did read though they said not one of
them is from India. In other words, all the drivers
that came from India are kosher. It would appear to
be those who brought the licenses or went through a

(18:04):
process in some country in the Middle East. I think
I know what it is.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's United Arab Emirates, so their licenses are converted to this,
so I don't understand how that's happened.

Speaker 8 (18:17):
Yeah, I don't know whether then the question would be
did they all go there and work there or did
they do something online? But I think it's worth acknowledging
that they said that anybody that came from India with
an India license, there is not one of them that
apparently were rescinded. So you know, let's give our good
Indian friends. Yeah, fair enough kudos there, you know what

(18:40):
I mean. And I think the other one, the other part,
the other side of the story was those ones that
were where you could go and buy set through a
license in Auckland, wasn't it? And I believe five people
lost their jobs. People have got those licenses, had to
resit and I only read jested and I think that
only fifty percent of them actually passed. So you know,

(19:02):
there's a little bit.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Were they doing shonky warrants as well?

Speaker 8 (19:06):
I don't I don't know whether you're going to link
the two, but certainly my understanding it was five people
were let's say let go because they were.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Doing Brian I'm just going to get hang on there,
don't go away. ILL come back to you. There's something
else I want to read to you. Back to you, Brian.
I'm just reading this article. It says commercial drivers who
lost their licenses after providing fugent documentaries may be allowed
to reset driving test as the industry and use calls
for reform on how such drivers are detected. It says
news nz tas reconsider its approaches to side instead discipend

(19:38):
these drivers from operating commercially because these drivers hold a
valid overseas license. NZTA sees this as a pragmatic approach
that supports the continued operation of the commercial transport industry
while not compromising public safety. So I'm not quite sure
if that's referring to the UAE license or the Indian license.

Speaker 8 (19:59):
I think it's the UAE license. I think that was
sort of my impressions from the trench industry, isn't it They.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Want so those licenses are valid then from the.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
UAE, H, well, you know that's sort of like those
living in Singapore and we were working in Indonesia, so
we had to have Indonesian licenses. So about twenty eight
of us went over and we got issued each issued
a license if we made the money, you know, So
how do you you know, you start getting into that
gray area. Well maybe they were a suit in all faith,

(20:31):
but they weren't really. You know, maybe over there it
is a fee to get your license. Yeah, yeah, you
know those gray areas, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
I'll be happy for them today set and then I
think that's all behind them, is it. I think that
would work out, wouldn't they?

Speaker 8 (20:45):
Yeah? Yeah, you know. The reason that's steed in my
heart is people don't realize that I'm going to say,
maybe up to ten years ago in China, when you
did your license, you drove around the car park basically
and if you didn't hit the cones, you got to
the exit. You basically filled out your paperwork and got
your license and from there it was the first time

(21:05):
on the road. Now you know. The danger there, to
be honest, was two weeks later they're on a flight
to New Zealand renting a canda. Then again, I don't
want to particularly pick on and Chinese people do, not
get me wrong, but overseas requirements very two hours, That's
what I'm saying. So therefore they come legitimately, they have

(21:26):
to allow them to use their licenses here in the
same way that we asked for Kiwis to be able
to drive on their license, if you know what I mean.
So it's a bit of an international miss mash, really,
isn't it. Yah.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I'm also remindful of every migrant group we get to
New Zealand, starting with people from the Pacific, the Asian people,
probably the Kiwi's. The first thing they've done is judge
them on their driving skills, probably wrongly, but I think
it would have made their their transition to this country
atty smoother.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
I wouldn't think, no, you did right. We're all judgmental
in that regard, I guess, aren't we.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeap, Thanks Brian, nice to talk to you. The number
is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine two to text, looking forward to what you've got
to say, twenty seven away from nine o'clock. Looking for
you calls twenty four to nine three one five four
four three at the cricket Allan, it's Marcus. Good evening, Hello.

Speaker 11 (22:23):
Marcus Allen. Deck has been while.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (22:27):
In factly I think the last time that you and
I saw each other was in zoo keepers.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
That'd be right a long yeah, right, that would be right.

Speaker 11 (22:37):
Yeah, Marcus, My wife and I are staying the night
in Cozy Nook, and I just want to show you
that today. We arrived here about four o'clock and there
was a guy pulled up alongside the youth. He was
on his phone for a long long time and a
long time and he was talking to somebody, obviously talking
to somebody, and the weather got very very rough. There

(22:58):
was a suddenly come up and our photo straight got
very very rough indeed, and the next pill it was
surrounded about four or five police cars. You know how
remote cozy Nook it. We got out, yeah, and we
got out and spoke to the to the policeman. And
what had happened was that a bloke in the it

(23:19):
was a fisherman from I think from Riverton, had been
out looking for craypots or picking up his craypots and
had been struck by a rogue wave and had swamped
them in his boat and the motor was comped, was
conked out, and he but he had a cell phone
and he rang his mate ashore and the mate rang

(23:39):
the police and.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
That's what the what it was all about.

Speaker 11 (23:42):
So we watched this drama unfold. When we realized what
was going on, we looked out into the middle of
five Out Strait and here there was there was big wool,
white white caps all over the place. It was pretty fierce,
and here was this boat, that all black boat. One
second was on its nose and next second was on
its tail, and it was obviously being bobbed around something terrible.

(24:06):
The waves are fair crashing in and we really thought
we were watching a death unfold. It really was quite amatic,
and the police didn't really know what to do. And
the ship, the little boat was being blown from from
the south closer and closer and closer into the shore.

(24:28):
And you know what the area is like here, It
was pretty rocky and pretty rough, and it's pretty dramatic,
and we really thought that. The next minute helicopter arrived,
and the helicopter went out and went It was so
low that it went behind a rock that we couldn't
actually see what was happening, while we could see that
there was a rope below us. And the next minute

(24:49):
it reappeared again had somebody hanging below it, and it
took that person to shore. But then it came back
again with another person, and we don't really know what happened,
but in the finish or everybody was ashore and the
boat was there out there, but then along came. I
think it's a reason we knew Riverton rescue boat, yes,

(25:11):
emergency boat, yeah, and it came along, but it was
a bit late. It may well have taken the Blokes
vote in tow and towed it back to Riverton. But
I've got to say that in all the years I've
been writing and talking about news things and that sort
of thing, it was one of the most dramatic things
that I've ever ever seen because we didn't really know

(25:32):
how this is going to unfold, and on top of that,
we're in the middle of nowhere, so it was really
quite dramatic, and I felt that I had to share it.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
But it's such a remarkable swan too. One of the
for that to unfold. Ellen, it sounds like it wasn't
that far offshore.

Speaker 8 (25:51):
No, it wasn't.

Speaker 11 (25:52):
I guess I don't know how far off shore he was.
He got swamped by the by what by the wave,
But when we looked up and realized what was going on,
it was probably three hundred meters offshore. But it was yeah,
yeah about it yet.

Speaker 12 (26:07):
But yeah, but he was.

Speaker 11 (26:08):
Being driven towards the rocks at quite about a surprisingly
wrapped excuse me, quite a surprising rap rapid rate. And
but it was I've never said that. You know that
the wind came up very quickly and it was diving
in very quickly. But it was a very very dramatic
moment for us anyway.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
And it was it was it was a jet ski.
It was. I see they're reporting something in the paper
and the O d T. They're saying a patient has
been here lifted to South and Hospital with modern injuries
after falling from a jet ski. Would that be right?
Or have they got their wires crossed?

Speaker 13 (26:46):
No?

Speaker 14 (26:46):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 11 (26:47):
This was definitely a black, a black sort of fishing
boat thing.

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (26:51):
He was out, he was out, he was out. He
was out picking up as crate fresh pops out.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
So he's doing and that's about that's about four thirty,
between four thirty and five fifty, is that right?

Speaker 15 (27:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (27:01):
Yeah, that was about right. Yes, yes, So within the
O d T. I didn't I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
But they sound like the details of it weird because
You wouldn't be doing prayfish pops on a jet ski,
would you, And you would have seen what it was.

Speaker 11 (27:13):
No, you wouldn't know unless you're mad. You wouldn't be.
But I'll tell you what that This is what really was.
It was quite a disturbing moment. Quite a disturbing moment.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, but a fairly good outcome. Even better if they've
managed to save the vessel. I would think.

Speaker 11 (27:32):
Yeah, I suspect that they took a medic out on
the with the helicopter the first time, and they left
the medic on board, and they winched the boaty ashore,
and then they went back to the medic. I suspect
that that's what's happened.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Do you get any video?

Speaker 11 (27:50):
No? I got I don't go A're gonna only go telephone,
And I took it. I took I took a steel
shot of the helicopter with a couple of people hanging below.
It was quite but it really was the first time
that I've ever seen that thing happen live in my life.
And I've got to say that the system really works,
because who would have ever thought that when I saw

(28:12):
the slogan was both bothering around out there like a cork.
I just thought that guy is going to die. He
just there's no way to save him. But which would
be Which would.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Be a horrible thing to witness, wouldn't it?

Speaker 11 (28:26):
Yes, it was for about ten minutes a quarter of
an hour until we saw the helicopter arrive.

Speaker 16 (28:31):
It was.

Speaker 11 (28:32):
It was pretty gut wrenching. It was unpleasant. It was
really unpleasant.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Really nice to hear from you, and a nice to
talk again. Thank you so much for that eighteen to
nine backsone by the way, just so you know, probably
if you're a local, the Bluff Christmas Parade is a
Sunday with free ice cream and stuff at one o'clock
for those at the Uster Festival site. If you're in
town Deon, it's Marcus. Good evening, Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 4 (28:55):
You've had some really interesting calls. I'm going to harken
back to something I clicked into, which was led Zeppelin. Yes,
and an experience that I had was not Zeppelin itself.
But I arrived into London in nineteen eighty nineteen ninety, sorry,
and I was eighteen, and I wandered down Earl's Court,

(29:19):
not knowing that it was called Kangaroo valley and I
went into a pub and walked out of a pub
with Kenny Everett. Ironically he didn't look well and went
down an alleyway and found a shop and looked at
this beautiful guitar which was called a gretch. Oh gosh,

(29:43):
what's called a gretch? It was called ub got a
bird bird name, and I thought, that's really gorgeous. I
had to go back there. It was a Sunday, and
I went back the next day and I spoke to
the owner, and I got to know the owner. Over
the course of the next I don't know, six months
or so.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Was the White Falcon.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
And then I got a job. Yes, that's the one
White Falcon, Thank you very much.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
Do you look it up?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
I'm not telling Okay, yes I did.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
I think it was about I think it was about
three thousand pounds at the time. It's worth about twelve
thousand dollars in New Zealand now. And I got to
know the owner, and it turned out that that shop
was the distributor for hard rock cafe stuff all over
the world, and so I had the pleasure of meeting

(30:31):
a number of people throughout the rock industry over time. Anyway,
I got a job at the the youth hostel down
the ya, down the road, and one day two young
guys from Georgia came in. They would have been in
their early twenties, and this guy walks and they look

(30:55):
like rockers. And we headed off and I said them,
what are you doing? They said, we're on a pilgrimage.
We're doing a pilgrimage to follow led Zeppelin. And they
went who thing's called Headley Grange and where where Stairway

(31:15):
was Stairway to Heaven was recorded. They went to all
the recording studios and I said to them, do you
want to do something really special? YEP. I took them
up to the shop and I said to the guy,
I think his name is Michael, Mike can't recall, and
I said, can you bring out the guitar? And they
actually got to hold the guitar that apparently, and it's

(31:41):
got like all the authenticity stuff. Was that Jimmy Page
played Stairway to Heaven recorded Stairway to Heaven. Yeah, that
was a pretty cool moment because and these guys who
have mained friends of mine for the last well now
I'm I'm in my fifties and they're in their fifties,

(32:02):
so years ago.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
And Georgia the country or Georgia the state.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Georgia the state, okay, so and yeah, and they just
went on and did the pilgrimage that they went up
to Scotland to do something that I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
There, but oh, witness some castles the Satanist had board.
Is that the way it works?

Speaker 4 (32:27):
I'm not exactly sure, but but I just want to
tell you that story.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
It's a nice story, that lovely story and with a
Ken Everett touch. Was he just drowning his sorrow? Is
it at a bar? Is that what he was doing?

Speaker 4 (32:40):
I don't know, but I know that he wasn't at
the time.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Bolskin House was the castle I think that Jimmy Jimmy
Page owned that was the Alister Crowley place. Yeah, he
was the one that Jimmy Page was the one that
wasn't Alister Crowley stuff. Wasn't he not sure? Okay?

Speaker 8 (32:56):
Okay? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Beautiful for it.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I love it a lot. And how long we in
London for after that?

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Another two years, and then I went back later for
another five six years.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
What I like about what I like about you is
your you were eighteen and taking every opportunity come and
make this post and oh, yeah, that sounds fun to
go along and do that.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
Yeah, played with some I played with some great ride
played with I actually played with al Angus Young and
another another couple of other what's the gay from police
and at that at that shop. So it was a
cool shop.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
We were you doing? Were you in a band there
as well done at the time?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
No, not there, No, no I was. I just actually
I played with a big rock band over here when
I was eighteen at Western Springs and decided that I
didn't want to go to university and I wanted to
become a rock star, and went over there and became
just a personally just hung around with people, worked at

(33:57):
went not working in bars and hung out with the
dancers from cats and some people who were values in
life and and yeah, and played them, but did wind
up playing in bands over in the UK. Later played
at place called Philtery mcmasty's Whiskey Cafe, which is owned

(34:19):
by Shane mcgallan from the Pogues, which is a launching
place for his face. Oh who's the great the one
who killed herself? She was saying that the the the
young girl who a wine house, Amy wine House partner

(34:43):
Pete Pete.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
Oh yes, Pete the Yeah his band, Yeah Baby Baby
Yeah where what called? We'll get into it. I've got
a run, but lovely you talk to Thank you so much.
I want to get one more call them before the news.
The Esher's bearsball three for one, sixty six, well established
roots on sixty one. The crowd, the army, the Barmie Army,
Barmie Army. They're going nuts for as they should nine

(35:08):
to nine. Funnily enough, the traffic carbageddon that was threatened
has happened now at Ikea and Sylvia Park Carbine Rod,
named after the race source that it formerly was a stable.
What happened was that people have gone there after working droves.
So yeah, that'd be all can foref and out go shopping.

(35:28):
First of all, wait for the traffic to subside. Ben,
this is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 10 (35:33):
You get it. Marcus just on the arm that obtaining
the truck licenses and that. So now the reason why
they do it the way they've done it because they
did this scheme in Australia a few years ago. They
do is they go to it in the air and
you can get a full truck full Class five truck
license in thirty days. You can't do that here in
New Zealand cost you thousands of dollars and takes years

(35:57):
sometimes depending on your experience. And they can get it
in thirty days and then they go convert it to
an UAE license, right which they can do straight away,
and then they can come back here and convert it
straight to a New Zealand license, sit the theory test
and do the practical test on the same day, and
they've got the truck license, so they can do what

(36:19):
takes a Kiwi up to two years to do in
thirty days doing it that way.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
It ben, can I just check out? You said they
go to India but they actually live in India anyway?
Is that right? Or are you saying that Indian people
that well, well yeah, but.

Speaker 10 (36:31):
Like there used to be, Kiwis used to go to
Vanuatu to obtain your motorbike license because you can get
a full motivate license over there in a day, and
then they'd come back and swap it here for a
full New Zealand motorbiate license. You know, you can't do
that over here. You've got to do learners restricted and full.
They don't have that over there, so it's just straight
full and that's what they do. And then they go

(36:53):
to the UAE something like the UAE and convert it over.
So then when they come to New Zealand, all they
have to do is sit a fery test and a
practical test on the same day and they've got a
full Class five license. And that's how they get around,
you know, paying all this money and having to go
through learners, restricted and fool like anyone can go to
India and do it. It's just yeah, it's just it's

(37:17):
not really what you should be doing, but that's how
a lot of people do it.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Are you a truck driver?

Speaker 10 (37:25):
No, I'm not a truck driver, but I've heard it. Yeah,
it was happening in Australia a few years ago, the
same thing.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Okay, appreciate that, Ben, thanks for the insight. A lot
of texts about that email here Marc's I heard the
caller mentioned the gretch white Falcon guitar was used for
a bit by Malcolm Young from ac DC in the
Back and Black era can be seen in the music

(37:55):
video for said song. Back and Black is still number
two for the All time record sales. Do you go
get in touch if you want to say anything. Oh
eight hundred and eighty ten nine two nine to the text. Yeah,
Malcolm Young was there. He was the founding a guitarist. Hello, Helen,

(38:16):
that's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 15 (38:18):
Yeah, hi Marcus. You mentioned about the shonky warrant of
fitness infections for the trucks while ago. Yeah, well, I'm
not very long before that. I happened to go south
to fung Ray and I hadn't been south of fung
Ray for about twenty years. And this particular day, that

(38:40):
traffic was really really quite heavy and help because it
wasn't like that twenty years ago. And anyway, I'm I was,
I was very familiar with with where the turn off
to where I wanted to go. Anyway, I'm found my
sort of sandwich between a truck and then a couple
of cars or something behind it, and then me and

(39:03):
then a few cars and another truck and everything was
I just couldn't slow down or anything. So I'm desperately
looking for this turn off and not able to slow
down or anything. It was absolutely scary. Anyway, it was
such a frightening experience that I've never actually it never
actually repeated the experience. And I'm not really a slow driver,

(39:27):
you know, I've had my speeding tickets.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Sorry, Helen, I'm just gonna go to the news. Just
hang on there. I think I'm not quite sure if
you've got the gist of your story or not, but
just be there. Hit'll twelve seven past nine, start came
back and sick and Bally got brooked for thirty three.
Stokes is on now, Helen. So the story was you drive.
It's a long story, but long story short. What happened
to you drive?

Speaker 15 (39:48):
You couldn't believe the driving, Well, there was no way
to slow down. You can't get off the road because
of the way they build them, with the deep ditches
and the barriers and stuff like that. And the hero
I was kind of feeling I was kind of sandwiched
between these trucks which can't slow down anyway. And then

(40:08):
I was quite frightened, you know. And then it wasn't
very long after that that they did these inspections of
the tracks found quite a number of the mad faulty breaks. Yes,
so yeah, that's a very dangerous highway south of Fungary.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah, Fever said I'll tell you what. There's a lot
of extents around that Rookak roundabout. I mean it happens often,
doesn't it. There's a lot of excents in that bart.
I don't quite know why this seems to be. It
seems flat with that roundabout us, but there's always extants there.
I don't know if it's complacency or what it is.

Speaker 15 (40:41):
Anyway, I survived to kill a tale.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Yeah, no, God, well done you, Helen, Thank you. Eight
past nine, Roberts Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 13 (40:49):
Good evening, mate, Jimmy Page. Yes, I just wanted to
mention his surprised appearance at the twenty twenty three Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. No one knew that he
was actually going to be there. They just thought he
was going to phone it in, and then they turned
the lights on and he was there.

Speaker 8 (41:12):
And he played.

Speaker 13 (41:15):
Rumble by leg Ray and it was just just pure.

Speaker 16 (41:23):
It was awesome. And that song.

Speaker 13 (41:28):
Rumble nineteen fifty eight, it was banned from radio for
being too too raw, too much, too heavy for radio.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (41:46):
But yeah, you know, did you see that?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Did you see that movie out last year about the
Zeppelin that had all the old file footage of the
old video footage of them and the old their whole background.

Speaker 13 (42:00):
Well, I've read, I've read books. I read books about them.
I don't really watch the docummetries and things.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Oh it was, Yeah, you should because it was extremely good.
And I thought it was good because I got all
sorts of footage that no one had seen before, a
lot of footage for America. I had no idea. They
all had such you know, they were such great and
respected musicians and almost savants before the band started.

Speaker 13 (42:26):
Well, they loved America.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
They would do they would do thirty.

Speaker 13 (42:30):
Shows and thirty nights. That was their tour. They would
tour America and it was just a show every single
night in the seventies early seventies, and while they were
on their off time, they were recording new albums. And yeah,

(42:51):
it's just my father. My dad is the one. He's
the number one lead Zeppelin fan. He's got all the
hiphi in that.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
And yeah, rob had he seen them.

Speaker 13 (43:06):
He saw Robert Plant when he came it must have
been about ten years ago now and when he came
to Auckland. But we also saw them Crooked vultures, which
had John Paul Jones on the Basse from the Zeppelin,

(43:29):
and also Dave Groll on the drums from Food Fighters
and the guy from Oh forgot his name there singing
not from the Zeppelin obviously.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
The name's coming to me, yeah.

Speaker 13 (43:48):
You know, deep and Deep and Nick.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (43:54):
No, it was awesome.

Speaker 13 (43:55):
We were right, we were right at the front and
we couldn't hear anything for two days.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
The Queens of the Stone Age singer was is that right?
I got that right?

Speaker 13 (44:05):
Yes, No, it was them Kruger Vultures. That was the
one time, just the one out.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
But the vocals was Josh Holm, Was that right, Josh, yes.

Speaker 13 (44:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they had another guy there sort
of just like another guitarist there. I remember when they
were introducing the band, you know, and he introduced himself,
introduced the other guy, introduced Dave Role.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
But when he.

Speaker 13 (44:33):
Introduced John Paul Jones from the Zeppelin, the whole place
just erupted, you know, and I was five meters away
from him.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Victor.

Speaker 17 (44:44):
Was it was that?

Speaker 13 (44:47):
Yeah, that little one that's not in Wellington on the waterfront.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
There Wellington, ye ye ye ye yeah, okay, you.

Speaker 13 (44:54):
Understand only like a twenty thousand, so.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
That you know what we're talking about Zeppelin tonight, don't
it was this day they broke up in nineteen eighty
fourth of December.

Speaker 13 (45:04):
Is that because of John Bonham he died.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Some months beforehand? Or what another story you've read about it?
They decided just not to go on? Is that right?
They had a pact or what was it about.

Speaker 13 (45:13):
I think they just couldn't go on, you know, they
couldn't do it without them.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Well, you're grieving too, aren't you. When your mate that's
either been that tight with since Kenton, you've lived with
you for years touring, I mean it would would be very,
very difficult.

Speaker 13 (45:27):
And to be fair, Robert Plant he lost his young
while he was touring. While they're in the middle of turing.
He lost his young four year old son to a
meningitis or something like that.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
It's nice to talk, Robi, going to move it along,
but yeah, but I've always enjoyed reading all those books
with all those old band Stuff's pretty interesting. Although you
get with old you get a different idea from They
always seem quite wild in the books, but when you
saw them in the documentary, also became such a gentle
old men. I guess that's life, really. Marcus Robert planted

(46:02):
an NPR Tiny Desk concert a couple of weeks ago.
It's still sounding good. He looks well too. Who incredible voice?
Still hasn't he? Marcus? I totally outraged a little bit
heartbrogs aloond day that die Hard was voted not a
Christmas movie by some namby Bambi political correct heat up.
Oh yeah, I've never quite understood the how excited people

(46:25):
get about die Hard being a Christmas movie. I guess
Christmas movies are not my thing. Maybe think about die
Hard that I always say at this time in the air.
The book that was based on was it was an
incredibly good book as well. I've read it posthumously, I
mean after I'd seen the movie. But yet it was

(46:46):
a good book. It was compelling. Four for one eight
one England and the Ashes chows to bet. I don't
if they won the toss. I lost the toss. Someone
said that I saw an article on the Daily Fail
They said that the Australia got the toss wrong. I
don't quite know what they're thinking. Is there. I will
look for more of that. Ozzie accused of making a

(47:07):
messive mistake. I don't know what that is yet. I
tried to read that previously but gotten intoxicated by the callers.
But get in touch if you want to be a
part of the show. England won the toss and chose
to beat I'll certainly know what the mess of mistake was.

(47:28):
Eight hundred and eighty ten eight lot happening tonight feels
very much like a Friday. All week I've been kind
of a day behind mind. You've very busy time of
the year with the end of year and work finishing
and a lot of events and prize giving and parades.

Speaker 18 (47:45):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Someone's convinced that people from other country sitting licenses with interpreters.
The interpreters are answering the questions. Oh yep, Marcus. If
you ever wanted a great footstoppy YouTube John Paul Jones
with C six Steve, thank you for that. If you
want a text or call eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Marcus. Yes, Jimmy Page with Alisa Crowley Page collected

(48:13):
Crowley artifacts was deputed in his philosophy. But that was
the seventies. Yeah, two things they said to be into
the seventies. One was Tolkien and one was let's say witchcraft.
Would you say, witchcraft or devil worship, whatever your term.
That as some interesting figures are at the ashes, looks
like Greg Norman. I think it is Greg Norman. Actually so. Yes,

(48:37):
the crowd's picking up all sorts of people, but as
Greg Norman is looking incredibly well, but be in touch
if you want to be here or midnight seventeen past nine,
oh nineteen pass nine. How are you going people? What
an exciting night it is. I feel there's all sorts
of interesting stories coming from all corners of the world,
from cozy Nook to London and long way that continue

(49:01):
and bits and bobs from a topic point of you.
That's the way I like it. I've never kind of
indulged in that, you know, I'm kind of I'm slightly
new to Spotify. I don't you say that much. I
use in the car sometimes I'm listening to music. But yes,
I now see they give you a report on what
you've listened to, which is pretty cringe making. They said,

(49:23):
my listening age is seventy five. Well, I got back
into Veden Fleece. Is that what it's called? That Van moraw?
You know? When I get into an ELB I listened
to it quite a lot in a row. So that's
what I think has skewed me. Old Van Morrison is
one of those people that you can love the music,
but to test the guy, he seemed like an angry guy,

(49:44):
didn't he always? Whereas remember on last Waltz he insisted
to sort of get on there and he was fine.
But yeah, it didn't look like ebix as well with others. Anyway,
I'm not quite sure why Veden Fleece was so famous,
but yes, I think that's made me. Yeah, listening age
of seventy five. Then I see that Christopher Luxin is
trying to make it. He's got a listening age of

(50:04):
twenty three or something. So I think it will each
to their own. It'll be interesting to see some of
the Z'B hosts Spotify profile. I think I'm not saying
mine would be the youngest, but you never know. At
the Ashes, the update from the Ashes, there's a lot
of putting the ball through the hoop, so they must
be consumed that the ball is out of shape because

(50:25):
they're forever putting it through those kind of sizes that
the umpires have got. I don't know why that is.
I don't know if the pink balls are particularly malleable
or quite what's going on there? I find that interesting
as well. I like it when they bring up the
whole briefcase full of other balls to try and find
a ball of a corresponding weird outness. But Stokes establishes

(50:52):
four from six routes sixty six from one to twenty,
so you've got an establishment. They're twenty one past nine.
What's happening in the world at the moment. Actually, there's
Ikea and that's opened for those that don't know. Out
of Auckland where Ikea is on the Southern Motorway going

(51:15):
south from Auckland about ten k's out of Auckland, where
there used to be all those half round sheds from
World War Two that became Sylvia Park and now next
to that they have built Ikea. Used to be a
horse training ground. That's why it's called Carbine Road after
the great race horse. And then, of course every time

(51:38):
I think Sylvia Park, I'm always thinking of that song
about Sylvia's mother's dead. That's where I go. I don't
know where you go anyway. Was Carbine a great horse?
Think it was a regray horse. I think it was
one of the New Zealand's Best five Horses number two
after Farlap, I would think won the cup won the
Melbourne Cup in eighteen ninety. But in those days you

(52:00):
win the Melbourne Cup. That was bigger than I found
it really interested. Listen to us, listen to us New Zealanders.
I find of really interested day reading all the columns
about the New Zealand World Cup Football World Cup drawer. Boy,
two years out from the event, we've already lost it
in our own minds and are bidding us ourselves up

(52:22):
for how bad the drawer is and how bad the
competition is, with people saying it should be the tennis way,
like the tennis way that the draw goes, and they're
quite right. It's a crazy tournament to think that the
All Blacks, supposedly the number one brand, could be out
in the quarters. But yeah, I waited. A time that
we should be moaning is when they announced the way

(52:42):
the drawer is going to be made, rather when the
drawer actually happens, because clearly it's a bad idea. There's
always one side of the pool that is dramatically easier.
But I mean, that's quite fun. New Zealan's attitude towards Rugby,
that we expect, that we expect the worst. We're so pessimistic,
and it normally happen. What doesn't normally happen, but often happens. Yeah,

(53:09):
twenty four past nine. If you want to join the discussion,
it's about licenses and about led Zeppelin. I forget what
everyone else is talked about. But it's been good. Well,
I think it's been good. Yesterday, in the heavy waikat
or downpour, I was driving on a back country road

(53:31):
and as I approached a wide sweeping corner, a black
Suzuki Swift came flying around the corner and had a
puddle of water and spun out. He was lucky he
stayed on the road. I stopped, reversed to check if
he was okay. I reversed a check off. He in
his late twenties, was okay. He was more embarrassed than anything,
but uninjured. I remember his number plate when I told

(53:55):
my uncle he was Adam and I should notify police.
The guy spun out, there was no impact. Wouldn't that
be wasting police time? Was my uncle right?

Speaker 16 (54:03):
Well?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
I think he just got to realize it's a good outcome.
I don't know if the police need to know about that,
I'm not surprised. Your age for music is high. Your
hourly song is like pulling teeth. I'm not listening that
at home, though. This is something I put you through.
Someone's complaining about the Fiji truck license. They're calling it

(54:25):
the wik book special. Yes, but there's been a number
of times I've heard on this show people complaining about
the sort of license people have. And good news with
the sand from Kmart. There's three brands of sand and
the recall has been canceled because I found no asbestos.

(54:47):
What a cluster this is. The comms have been bad
from both the government and Camart. No one knows what's
going on. That's my intel, not my intel, that's my opinion.
I guess that's what I mean to say. There's bad
weather expected today. Also just putting it out there looking
for missing bits from three seventy mh three seventy today

(55:13):
that started. If you want to know more about that,
that's a lot online about that. You could probably even
go online and see footage. I wouldn't be surprised if
that's something they do crowd sources to help you look.
But that's kind of what's going on. If you want
to add up to the discussion, it'd be nice to
hear from you. The number is eight hundred and eighty

(55:36):
ten eighty and nine two nine two DE text title
twelve if you want to be a part of it,
one nine two for four. In the Ashes England spatting
today night, they did complain about one of the all
the commentators were saying when Brooke got bold that it's
that sort of interim shady bit between full light and
dusk when the street lights come on. So there was

(55:57):
concern about that, the fitness of that, but that's just
what happens.

Speaker 14 (56:02):
Now.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Auckland has welcomed passengers on the inaugural world's longest direct
flight from China to Argentina, a new China Airlines service
from Shanghai to one US there as land in Auckland
just up to six pm. The flight from China to
Argentina was expected to take more than twenty five hours,
with the return June taking four hours longer. That must

(56:28):
be the spinning of the earth, ay, would that be right?
The service will run twice twice each week, with passages
enjoying a two hour stop in New Zealand. Before continuing
on their final leg China Eastern I don't know if
that's the first time that flight's landed off. They've got
four New Zealand. Some of you train spots. I don't

(56:48):
know how interesting that it'd be from a train spottersport
at plain spotts point of view, But aviation is interesting.
It shows kind of the changing dynamics in the world.
And I don't know what the big I guess China's
got big relations with all countries in the world now,
So yeah, there we go. That's what's happening. But look,
get in touch if you want to be a part
of it. Monums is welcome here till midnight. If there's
other discussions, you've got other discussions, other topics. It's all

(57:12):
good for me into all of it. Just don't ask
me to guess your takeaway orders. I thin I'm doune
a dash with that one. But yeah, oh wait, oh boy.
There's been earthquake in England three point three. They don't
get them very often, seismically quite Robust's why they've got
all those old buildings. But yeah, there you go three
point three and it's big for them. Time is it?

(57:34):
By ten? That's how rare they are. But yeah, but
get in touch you on to you on E tonight
as I say, here till twelve and looking forward to
input anything else you want to mention, Chuck it always
keen if you've been to Ikea to find out more
about how that was for you. I don't think it's
a shop you go to and buy stuff. I think
it's a shop you go to and pay for stuff

(57:54):
and then wait for it to be delivered. But not
a bad thing. It took me a while to only
being to one in Sydney. It took me a while
to work out what go iclely wasn't shopping on a
walking holiday with luggage? Was I going to start lugging
around fleckpeck furniture? But do talk if you want to
be a part of it. I'll catch you after the
headlines four for one nine three in the ashes Stokes

(58:18):
on thirteen route. I'm sixty seven and it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (58:24):
Oh hello telephone. I just was just interested to know
the way the earthquake was in England. I'd lived there
for all my life till I came to New Zealand
and I'd never fell No you told us.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
I think I mean, they don't get them to they.

Speaker 19 (58:42):
Well, I never even heard of one and I never
felt one. But I actually when we came here, I
was pregnant with our first child and quite new to
the place, and when I all this shaking ereything happened,
I thought, oh my god, I've lost my baby. I
don't need an improview because I had all I read

(59:04):
in the newspapers, all these people dying. You don't you
don't hear the little one, And it took me a
long time, even up to now to get used to that.
Oh they're horrible.

Speaker 7 (59:15):
Aren't they.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Lancashire and the Lake District.

Speaker 19 (59:20):
Oh well, that's not where I lived, but it's I
never heard of one when I lived there. We came
out when we were in our about thirties, and that's
a long time ago, but we'd never experienced one. So
I hope they're not going to start there because so

(59:41):
many people live there now.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Nice to talk and thanks so much to that. We'll
keep you updated twenty eight to ten. Dave Marcus welcome, Hey,
yeah your dive still Yeah, I.

Speaker 16 (59:52):
Still am, always did will be. It's the ones, Marcus,
the ones are dating that that's there at thirty thousand feet,
Like example was always it takes least time from here
to pers and what it first to hear it. Even
at thirty thousand feet, you've got those trade winds in
the atmospheric stratospheric wins.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
Mate, good answer? Anything else to report, Dave?

Speaker 16 (01:00:16):
No, not really sitting here in the dirry in a
cup of tea, and I've only really just tuned in.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
But you still you're still rolling your owner. You're getting
the tailors.

Speaker 16 (01:00:24):
Would they roll my own riverstone? Generally?

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Rolling one hand?

Speaker 16 (01:00:31):
I can do, but I generally don't. I like a
good solid roll. That doesn't. I don't roll the race horses, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
I roll, but a one handed race horse? Would you
roll that on the saddle? That will always look good,
didn't it?

Speaker 8 (01:00:44):
You know that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
You can see the old sort of the old sort
of cowboy doing one of those.

Speaker 16 (01:00:51):
Yeah, not really.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Once upon a time broadcasters would smoke in this you
you don't see much of that these, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:00:59):
I remember old Paul Holmes used to smoke zeum when
he used to spin the discs. He used to be
heaven always have.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
In fact, every every radio studio had an ash tray,
normally full of Ash. Also, I think, I think also
to the obsession with the voice, they thought probably smoking
made the voice deeper and gave it more resonance. So
smoking was a positive Grafa.

Speaker 16 (01:01:24):
That's right. Well it's still as a positive. It leaves.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
All right, mate, Have you got anything to be stressed about? Dave?

Speaker 16 (01:01:34):
No, not really made, but I said here, I enjoy
I enjoyed dy with and you know I don't have
to justify my Dave.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
I enjoy you enjoying a Darry.

Speaker 16 (01:01:47):
Thank you. I appreciate that, Marcus, and I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Keep up the good work. Dave, appreciate that. Twenty six
to ten. Yeah, it's done without judgment the show. I
think enough judgment in the world. Enough judgment. That's tough enough.
How can flight between China and argent tend to be
the longest direct if it stops in Auckland for two hours?
I kind of thought the same. Actually, I think that's marketing,

(01:02:16):
but also I think it was.

Speaker 16 (01:02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Look, I don't know how much to say about that.
Three people have texted about that. How is a direct
flight United returning to christ from San Francisco for the
first time this summer? Here comes this summer do he's

(01:02:40):
in mere Harlocks won the richest race in the world,
the not Only nine Japan Cup, whose son Brew won
the two thousand and Melbourne Cup and Fuimnino won the
ac Derby. Her grandson Marcus went to Ikea today and
rahaps amazed by the organization they put into the opening day.
Went to Costco opening a couple of years back. Now

(01:03:01):
it was absolute carnage, so it was lovely to see
the opposite. An amazing range at great price, says think
it'll be great competition for local brands, and I imagine
the Swedish would be good and well organized. But boy,
they had a long time to get their comms right
and get everyone kind of sorted out with traffic. I
mean it's been a masterclass and a slow opening. I

(01:03:23):
think it's a great thing.

Speaker 12 (01:03:28):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
How can it be a direct flight because I think
it used to go from New Zealand to England via
Los Angeles and that was direct as far as two
points on an orange joined babit of stringoes. But we
didn't go on and say we're going to the world's
longest flight. We just got on and did it. Do
you think it's been a bit of hype in that.

(01:03:51):
Let me look where they are on the globe. If
you put a direct line between Oh who knows? Actually
what are Eric and Shane? Can you cast any light
on this? Shano, How are you going? Shane? You're there,
You're there, yep, yep, Marcus, you want to talk about

(01:04:14):
this flight?

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Yeah, the flight the longest flight in the world, twenty
five hours. It's very, very strange.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
So, but it can't be the longest continuous flight if
your stop and you're open for two hours.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
No. The longest flight, I believe is from Singapore to
New York with the Singapore air Lines.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
I thought it was Sydney London direct.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
No, no, no, not not in your nelly. No, not
at all. Hang on that, No, not at all. Singapore
and New York.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Bro Okay, since when?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Since two thousand and four? I believe most of the
seats were business class. Oh yeah, so it's not economy
and things like that. So it's a lot of load,
things like that. So yeah, so I'll try and do some.

Speaker 3 (01:05:09):
No, you're right, work wikipedis alighting at JFK Singapore.

Speaker 8 (01:05:14):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
Singapore air Lines yep. So I think it was about
seventeen seventeen to nineteen hours, what I believe. So it
depends on the head winds and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
So are you are you sound like your pilot?

Speaker 6 (01:05:28):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
I'm not a pilot, nor am I. I live in Risbon.
I worked for the airlines for many years.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
So what's what's this one that they're talking about from
New Zealand? Because that's not that's from China to what
a series? Because that's not long?

Speaker 7 (01:05:47):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Because it's touching down?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Well, it's not a long You've got a touchdown for fuel.
So you can't go twenty five hours unless you have
obviously military aircraft to do it like they can do
it still up in the air and get a drink
of the air, but not twenty five hours. You cannot
do it unless you've got, oh mate, I would say

(01:06:14):
probably fifty packs of the aircraft. So you cannot do
it like empty aircraft. Yep, definitely, no way. But you
cannot deal with passengers. You can't make any money.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Off someone's texted this might be a big deal because
the flight's got the same number the whole way. That
might be what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
That's all it is a flight number. You can do
a flight number were I'm ringing from Princeville at the moment,
so we can do a QS four out of Sydney,
Sydney to Auckland, swap crew, think crew to New York
and I think it would be shit, probably about twenty hours,

(01:06:59):
but we have to touch down and swap crew.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
So appreciate that. Shane, thanks for that. A seat of
the dog sounds like a home invasion. Ah, I didn't
hear where that road crash that Nina talked about was, Dean.
I tried to do you remember what highway? She said.
I had to have a look for it and couldn't
see where that was. It was it was a three number.

(01:07:25):
I think if everyone managed to hear that, because I
tried to look it up on India TA and the
website gets so busy now with roadworks it's hard to
see where the crashes are. Sounds a bit ghoulish saying
that didn't I goulish. If you knows any more about that,
let me know. Now the website won't come up for
some funny reason, inns TA. I'm having another look around now.

(01:07:48):
If you do know where that was, let me know.
Piggy put Oh, that's on the song is that stay with.

Speaker 8 (01:07:57):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
But I couldn't find out where that was. But let
me have ano look at the map state Highway thirty.
I think that's in the song, is it? No, I
can't find it. It's north I don't I thirty five.
I'm friendically looking. Oh, yes, so there, I'm glad I
looked that up. So that is a place with no diversions.

(01:08:20):
That's just south of Takaha a Portuguy that road from
there around so yes. Due to a two vehicle crash
east of on Marloor, the state of thirty five is
currently closed in both directions. No detail available that will
affect people with trying to get around there. So that

(01:08:41):
kind of puts out that whole side up to cape
by the way of the est cape. You're cleared. I
looked that up. Thank you for that. Dand eighteen to nine. Yeah,
I think that's written wrongly on the thing. I think
there's an eye there. Sorry, I've sick called it. Yeah,
I think it's there's a type out there. I looked.
That didn't seem right the way it was written. Yeah,
sorry about that pronunciation making a hash of that. It's
a mayo. So there we go. Hope that's a better pronunciation. Marcus.

(01:09:08):
As you are a train lover, can you please help
an answering the question? GBVR one year to a run
for trained fans had four engines and twenty three cars long.
How many cars are allowed before adding a new engine?
That must be great at Glenbrook Vintage Round. I don't
know the limits. I imagine it would be on weight,
not on length. That would be my take on that, Marcus.

(01:09:31):
What about discussing non stop flights? Airlines do make a
distinction between direct and non stop. A direct flight does
not mean it's a non stop flight, INUSI and used
to fly direct to Japan, but stopped in Fiji. There
you go, she's all on seventeen to ten fifteen away

(01:09:52):
from ten pecks. It's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:09:55):
Oh Marcus. Yes, this flight from China through to brunosies
guys stole me sunder there before to be stopping at
Auckland to refuel. And which way does it go? Does
it goes through Tahitu or down to the pole and
back up again?

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
I think it part of goes across the pole? Is
that the direct way?

Speaker 20 (01:10:14):
Well, it's six hundred nautical not shorter to go down
to the pole and back up.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 20 (01:10:25):
Round. Yeah, I've done the land chivy round through Fiji
and and that way to boona series. But the other way,
going from walkland down to the pole and back up,
it's a lot shorter.

Speaker 4 (01:10:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
I'm looking at the map of it, and the map
just says it flies down from Shanghid to walk and
then it seems to go kind of almost straight across
the BA. But I imagine that's not the case.

Speaker 20 (01:10:50):
Well, that's the long route because the planet's not ground.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
It is round.

Speaker 20 (01:10:55):
Heah, it's round, but not quite.

Speaker 7 (01:10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
I see what you're saying. You copy that yet it's
an obloid or whatever that one is. Thanks Pecks four
ing to ten getting touched. Hit'll twelve lunch for the
cricket or off for a tea, whatever it is. Marcus smoking,
I couldn't believe what I looked was looking at today
pulled into our local petrol station. He was one of
the young female staff members standing at the corner of

(01:11:19):
the building by the fork and having a cigarette. Gee's
not a good look safety wise. Online today I brought
twenty nine useful and good looking things from I Care
for one hundred eleven dollars. We have we exhausted the
topic of NonStop flights, Mic has read an earthquake in Larnak, Scotland,
on Boxing Day seventy nine. The reason I recall this

(01:11:39):
because I was in the maternity hospital awaiting the birth
of my daughter. Reguards Livingstone, thank you for that. Thirteen
to ten. These other news will bring I'll bring that
to you if there is anything happening, do let me know.
Also if you've got breaking news or if you're out driving.

(01:12:00):
Looks like Scottie Stevenson's a bit of trouble are using
a crude comment in his cricket commentary, and TV and
Z have not defended them. They've come out to say
that he missed the mark and fell short of its standards.

(01:12:21):
So the principal's gone to the BSA on behalf of
the college. That'll become a big story for about a week.
A spokesperson said, cricket was live, unscripted broadcast environment. Well,
that comes to risk that our commentary team could make
a comment that misses the mark or falls short to
the standard our audience expect of us. So that's happened

(01:12:46):
I know the consequences of that. Watch the space eleven
from ten here all the way right through all twelve.
It's nine from ten here till midnight tonight. People, if
you want to talk, there's lines free if you want
to come in and join the chat, and it would

(01:13:07):
be good to hear from you if you do want
to be a part of it. Graham Mead will be
along after midnight tonight and welcome if you want to
be on a air. Roger says, this license scan all
makes me I rate. I'm so sick of the important corruption.
These people don't do themselves. Their fillow country folk Getty
favors shape up ship out. It's going to say it's

(01:13:30):
early in the air for shape up ship out. Next ye,
it's quite late in the year. And if you want
to talk about these things, they'll be nick to hear
from you tonight this day. In nineteen eighty, led Zeppelin disbanded.
Marcus Wee story smoking in the sixties till the early
seventies were allowed in restaurants. Cigarettes were sold as well.

(01:13:54):
Cleaning ashtrays was held. Cheers Frank Well, of course for
a long time until I don't know when, but until
relatively recent times, smoking was allowed in the hospital. Now
you tell young people that these days. But yes, it'll
be a NSH tray on everyone's table besides their beds.
Not one else to do in hospitals, so I suppose
it was considered a good thing. Marcus, big supermoon out tonight,

(01:14:18):
thank you. I don't really know what a supermoon is,
but it's happening. I would suggest Auckland to Ba would
go via Tahiti long it allows an alternate if problems arise,
maybe that's alternate. That's happening as well. But yes, be

(01:14:38):
in touch if you want to be a part of
the show. And Big Extant stayed Hiway thirty five on
the way to get Takaha, so that road is closed
seven away from ten, four from ten. Philipp's Marcus welcome, Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Marcus, it's full of the cyclists ringing, but I'm not
ringing about cycling tonight. I was worse than London in
the early late seventies early eighties. I was a computer
tech or build engineer, and I was installed in the

(01:15:15):
computer at the Windsor Police station and it was a
very simple, early sort of a thing. But i'd been
out there the day before to unpack everything. And then
that night John Bonham died and I went out. You know,
I hadn't really heard about it, but I went out
and I was sitting with the sergeant in the police

(01:15:39):
station and he was telling me all about it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:15:43):
He went out to the mansion and saw the body,
so wow. So that was that. I was only in
my early twenties and it was early. It was early
computer technology, but it was the first computer that the
police at Windsor had got. So it was all excitement

(01:16:03):
and I was a bit of a hero sort of thing,
all my knowledge about computers, being a key with in
his early twenties. But apparently, you know, he'd been drinking
all day. They were rehearsing stuff and he was drinking vodka.
He drank about two bottles of vodka and then you know,
in the evening he sort of almost passed out and

(01:16:26):
they threw him in bed, but they didn't make sure
he was on his side, and you know, he ended
up vomiting and choking on his vomit, and mas sageant.
I had a cup of tea with him in a
biscuit and he was telling me all about it. I said, oh,
because you know, I knew all about led Zeppelin. I
was a huge fan.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
And he was.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
He was a fan to the cop not really not okay,
So okay, that's that's an amazing I'm just going to
the news. But for I got chance for one more question.
Was it punch cards?

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
No, no, it was it was a floppy discs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Of course. It was nice to talk. Thanks so much.
It's a great story. Ten oh seven seven past ten.
Greetings and welcome here to the end hit or midnight tonight.
It feels like Friday. It's Thursday. Not saying that. Yeah,
that's just what it feels. It's not a bad thing. Hi,
market's Marcus. Good evening, Got.

Speaker 7 (01:17:26):
Anything Marcus, Long time I talk to Yeah, I listened
for the last couple of hours. This business about flights
have China to Argentina.

Speaker 15 (01:17:44):
Now, it was.

Speaker 7 (01:17:47):
In the beginning when the report was made they were
saying the flight is from China to Argentina. The return
flight comes through Auckland, so it is the longest flight
in the world. I am an expair traffic controller. I

(01:18:11):
haven't know these things. And that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
So so it sees the new service is between China
and South America via Auckland Airport. No, although I'm just saying,
I'm just saying, well, that's what the article says.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
Yeah, but that what they're saying. The flight goes bathing
through to South America, right, doesn't come anywhere near in
New Zealand. That's our mutual return. They need to get fuel,

(01:18:52):
so it is the longest flight.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
That's not my understanding.

Speaker 7 (01:18:57):
Yeah, well I'm telling you what it is, so you
do know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
Yeah, but that's not what any of the articles say. Well,
because it says the new service will reintroduce a direct
flight connection between New Zealand and Argentina. Yeah, enhancing only
tourism trade, but proviving another link home for the forty thousand,
so that South Americans who live in New Zealand.

Speaker 7 (01:19:22):
So if it's yeah, but we're not talking about it,
then we're talking about Chinese going to South America.

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Yeah, I'm just I'm just talking about what I've read
about it. But yeah, that's fine. I mean we can
agree that that's just my information. Mike, But are you
currently an near traffic controller.

Speaker 7 (01:19:43):
I'm seventy five years old.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Okay, sure enough, I'll look into it. But thank you
for that Mike oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nine to nine to text. The article I can read
today is it does say the route from China to
Argentina with a short break in Zealand takes more than

(01:20:07):
twenty four hours. So it does appear as though New
Zealand is in it both ways. I'll just work on
naturally here otherwise route on sixty nine, Stokes on fourteen, Laurie.
Good evening, Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:20:23):
You wonder if he was thinking a bit like that?
Was it the Auckland New York flight that depending most
times it could stop. Yeah, well, especially coming against the
coming against the wind.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
I had to drop down Fiji quite often. Didn't they
have enough guts?

Speaker 17 (01:20:41):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, it was not usually on the
way back, but it could make it. It can make
it there, right, Yeah, I suppose they have. Wonderf he's
thinking of the same thing that you mentioned before. It
was americable about when you're talking about the Durries or
the cowboys rolling their cigarettes. What's quite remarkable those cigarette
papers they sold, they didn't actually have any glue on them.

(01:21:05):
Hey they I've still got a packet of the of
the Bull Durham Bull Durham's brand that you know, most
cowboys was always mentioned in the cowboy books or stuff
like that. It came in a little calico bag and
the they put the papers. I think it's either sort

(01:21:28):
of perhaps has some inherent if you've got the right
amount of lick on it, it might stick. But you
had to give it a bit of a twist. Uh
So that was so that, you know, the cowboy riding
was one handed. Rolling a smoke was even more remarkable.
But the the the term derry, I supposedly it's in

(01:21:50):
contention whether it actually come from an Australian term that
was used to for an Indian carpet that's rolled up.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
It's called there's two It looks a bit like a
roller rod, doesn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:22:03):
But the other there's that there's one food thought things.
It's it's short for the old Durham or you know
bull Durham or yeah it comes from that. So I
don't know if that's ever been fully resolved.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Oh I think it's quite fun when when when words
have two definations that both make sense, because yeah, that's
kind of fun. Is that that that's what the language does.

Speaker 17 (01:22:25):
But my nice little bag of bull Durham and went
all powery on me and help me be able to
smoke it. But hey, how long you enough?

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
How long you've enough? The darts Larry.

Speaker 17 (01:22:36):
Probably mostly for probably about twenty five years now. I
suppose I used to like the old port oil and
that sort of stuff, and that I was on the
old dung funnel bike for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
There'd be one of your core brands, wouldn't it be
the outdoor men on the dung funnel? Put that on
the question. Then, by the way, one of the course.

Speaker 17 (01:22:57):
Pipe three three nuns, three three nuns, tobacco none nicer.
It was called hey now on the Indian or the
dry truck drivers from the subcontinent. It's not only in
New Zealand that's had that problem.

Speaker 7 (01:23:11):
A few.

Speaker 17 (01:23:13):
Look in on Fox TV occasionally you'll see up in
America and California. There's been major issues there. They've been
coming in and been issued or been been able to
drive tructure on dodgy licenses. And of course quite a
lot of accidents. There's one a big covered in the news.

(01:23:35):
Guy an eighteen wheeler did a U turn on the
middle of the freeway and he's been charged with homicide.
But it's quite a lot of instances of it happening,
particularly in California. I think all the other government of
the here has sort of been in some sort of
system with a letting these guys get in and get
and get presenting them with licenses, and they didn't really

(01:23:59):
have the confidence here. But it's interesting that Harris worked
up in the because I think this is actually a
couple of years ago it was the same thing chopped up,
you know, over the old testing, you know, for even popping,
and all those in the know could supper some cash

(01:24:20):
and get their driving test.

Speaker 6 (01:24:24):
Okay, yeah, I kind.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
Of found that because I always thought you was free
from all that sort of stuff. I don't like hearing
things like that, that that you know, that that you
can do something like that. I mean that as sketchy
as heck, isn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:24:35):
Yeah, well it's definitely sound awkward pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Well yeah, I don't want to Yeah, well.

Speaker 17 (01:24:40):
Yeah, different rules, Yeah, but you know, it's it's it
does sound really third world, Isn't that that what's been
going on out there?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
And the other thing too, of course, is that that
siks seeks are great drivers, aren't they seek bus drivers?
Make them a big part of the driving fleet in
North America as well. They are significant. That's something they
seem to I don't quite know why that is, but
Seeks are great with cars and great drivers.

Speaker 17 (01:25:05):
Here try my head.

Speaker 7 (01:25:08):
I just got my.

Speaker 17 (01:25:11):
License renewde a couple of months ago. But the doctor
was trying to talk me out of the heavy truck license.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Tell him to ring me, I'll give you a vouch
for you know.

Speaker 17 (01:25:25):
He was looking at probing me for any weakness basically,
and I said no. I held my ground and said no,
I don't want to hang on to that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
So how did they bring the Elder Association to try
to talk you out of what your what's your right
to drive?

Speaker 16 (01:25:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:25:39):
Get great pairt onto them?

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
Yeah, I get great parent exactly? How deary anyway, Nice
to talk Larry. By the way, in the United States,
one hundred and fifty thousand Seek truck drivers forty percent
on the West Coast sixteen past ten two O three
for four Route seventy Stokes nineteen. Is there a break? Hello, Matthew,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:26:01):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:26:01):
Marcus? With the four good and licenses? I reckon the
company's need to crest on on their because it's wrecking
the bosses and all the and the managers need to
crack down on that because it's just making them.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Bad for all of us, because the managers would know
who didn't was a legitimate driver, wouldn't they.

Speaker 6 (01:26:23):
Yeah, but the evot goes through the cracks, but what
they just will fall through the cracks and like these
four diler ones looks I'm not being racist, but I
know a few but Indian drivers said are legit. But
then the sun that aren't. Yes, it look bad for
the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Of us makes it this was it? It's bad or
all the Indian driver? Yeah, yeah, I agree, Matthew. But
thank you, Hello Bob.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
Just talking about these struct liv AD licenses. Thirty five
years ago when I was unemployed, You labor an apartment
and give you different courses to go on. So I
decided to do the HD course. Now I went on
that course and we had to do not tying, and
we had to do chemical learn different chemicals on that
that I couldn't even pronounce a little alone write down
another of paper. And they passed all of us that

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was on that course. Now I wouldn't given me a
piddle car license.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Wow, so you're saying everybody were saying that you're saying
that you didn't license was pretty slack there for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
Well, they were worth having because some of the guys,
you know, when I back to track, the guy would
come back and right on the whiteboard, he'd put a
truck in the middle of the lady's flower garden. He'd
asked the other people, could you see anything wrong with it? Honestly,
I couldn't back for some nuts and not tying, and came, well,
I actually had a license that allowed me to drive

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a petrol tanker gee that was put through New Zealand
Labor Apartment used to do it. And the only time
that we had any formal instruction was when the trap
drovers came. The day of the instruction, he got on
the truck alongside me. I wound down in the window
and put my hand on the give ox. He said,
the day of the fat belly black single truck drivers
are gone. Get the plenty window up and you'll never

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have a hold that gear on tra of it goes
to poll out, he says, get both hands on the wheel.

Speaker 15 (01:28:11):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
And I got it, And honestly, it was a danger
to give me such a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:17):
To be fair, they're probably in that day they probably
will mind flow always worried about skin cans with those drivers,
all with the arm out the window. That was probably
never good.

Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
Yeah, but to go.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
Giving it to people who, especially the chemical one who
I couldn't even pronounce the name of something.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
Did you get a job as a driver, Bob?

Speaker 8 (01:28:36):
No? No.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
The only time I drove a truck was when I
was driving up and I rang a gorge in Wellington
to full of gravel. I got pulled over by a
traffic officer and he asked me for my license, and
I've sentent them straight. I said, you honestly think they
gave me a life?

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
How did that approach work? The honest one?

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
That was quite good because he had seen me going
up and down there several times, was writing my loads
of gravel and that, and he just told me to
make sure I don't even get a booking. I I
was told to make sure that I went.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
That's the mature response, isn't it just call it straight?
Why didn't you have a lot? Why were you driving
a truck without your license?

Speaker 8 (01:29:09):
Bob?

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Well, I had trouble even getting the scout license. I
can't read and write very well. I had a lot
of trouble getting just a normal simple car license. So
my far found the paper.

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
We're going to have a tricky but you still drive
your truck? Hold your bag, did you?

Speaker 21 (01:29:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
No, no, no, there's a job to be done, Marcus, any.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
Any other drivers from you?

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
No, I'll say hooray because both Mike and Barry sees
that I just cut off, and I never say hurray
to you. So there you go, Mike and Darry. I'm
actually saying good bye to Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
That's probably that's probably my that's probably my quickness on
the buzzes rather than your own and politeness. Bob. I
would say so in your defense, march to thank you
for that. And you do feature in our Christmas quiz.
We do know why that you are. What your question
was to Jim BOLGERR Bob, Yeah, which which one? Which one?
Is your secondary job?

Speaker 10 (01:30:06):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
I wonder if you had remembered that one.

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
It's one of the greats twenty four past ten. If
you want to be a part of it. Here'll the end.
The hobby broadcaster China Eastern Flight to one A series
left Auckland just over an hour ago per flight Trekker.

(01:30:31):
It's the longest one way same plane flight, not longest
non stop stops in Auckland both ways, Marcus. Mike, the
air traffic control has lost as marbles. It's a seven.
It's a triple seven. They or any other aircraft in
the world would not have that kind of range twelve
hours China than using it in another ten and a

(01:30:52):
half hours. I'm sorry about that, Mike. I don't think
I didn't realize that it was. It said something that
you wouldn't take.

Speaker 4 (01:30:59):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
The longer the flight, the more danger of blood clock.
Oh you were your stockings. Don't you to stop the
deep vamethrom bosis Marcus Evening, Marcus, we may might have
been smoking, but we're not obese. Two thousand and three.
I think it stopped in all bars, Susie. I think
it was two thousand and five. Marcus. My standard for

(01:31:29):
teaching to smoke at the desk was always fun when
he was marking and work, having a drag on the
cigy over you and your math's book. It's twenty six
past ten and my name is Marcus. Good Evening. Do
you want to be on air? That's the point, that's
the plans dand so do get in touch if you
want to talk. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty

(01:31:54):
nine to nine to to text. There might be some
other stuff you want to mention from the discussion today
around various things. I was still trying to speak to
someone that went to I Kia because I'm curious. Oh
wait eighty ten eighty and nine to nine, two detects
if you want to come through.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
There has been a set, a rare set of cojoined
twins are urgently airlifted from PUP when you're get into Australia,
with doctors recommending they be separated as soon as possible,
specially from the Sydney Children's Hospital Network. A rite in
Port mores with this morning to help transfer the babies
to Sydney. So they're going to be separated. I think

(01:32:44):
one of their's health has been deteriorating. They've reached the
critical level. Something needs to be done. I think one
of them has is less well than the others because
of shared organs and congenital anomalies. So no doubt they'll
be a developing story the next couple of hours, next
couple of days, rather and twenty eight past eleven ten. Sorry,

(01:33:09):
there seems to be a development in the cricket. They've
gone upstairs for an LB decision. Original decision was not out.
They've just gone for a review and I don't think
the review has been successful. I think Australia called for it.
That's two they've called for for LB now that have
been given not out. I don't know how many reviews

(01:33:29):
they have. I think it's three. They've got two, they've
had two, they've got one remaining. My brother could not
read or write, but obtained a number of licenses, including
heavy truck and earth moving. All written tests were done
orally along with the practical tests. Thanks for that. Barnie
Army seemed to be loving it. And the Barmi Army
have taken the fancy dress up and noted the dress

(01:33:52):
as beefeeders are knights. Today it all looks free TAMAUI.
I guess that's the one thing about global trade is
it's much easier to get yourself an effect of fancy
dress costume, isn't it Once upon a time if you
labor and make them nay you can just you order
to want to give them the mail the next day
for twenty bucks. One of the reasons I'm opposed to
fancy dress is the waistage. All that effort for costume

(01:34:16):
you wear once been a good partnership this. I don't
mean to say it to jinx it, but yeah, Stoke's
on nineteen route on seventy three. Although he's got the
he's that's exactly one hundred and forty six balls, so
it's one run every two balls, and there's plenty of
going back to the ref to measure the ball. Even
Stark was showing their umpire how bad the ball was.

(01:34:38):
It seemed to be out of round. I don't know
what's the problem there, but that's the whole match. They've
been doing that. I don't know that's because the heavy
canockers or quite what it is. It works perfectly for
us these day night matches, so sort of we get
it all on our shift as a supermoon tomorrow night.

(01:34:59):
It's not full tonight, but tomorrow night. So I know
you guys love the moon. It's a big feature of
the out nighttime show happening as we go on. Thanks
so much, Nina, twenty nine to eleven. I'll be here
till midnight. Tight Grammar long Along at twelve o'clock tonight
and if you want to join us for the last

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ninety minutes, rock and roll full Moon here in Thames.
You will be full everywhere, will it? I can't where
it won't be, Oh Marcus, Customers to IQ will still
be finding their way out. That's right, because you get
in the shop, you've got to walk right through the
whole thing. It's like a mice run. That's the right expression.

Speaker 12 (01:35:42):
This day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
In nineteen eighty led Zeppelin disbanded. I don't think they've
played once. The dramma died. The drummer died this several
months earlier, as that sort of the big news today.
As far as today in history goes, there are more
measle cases. And I think one of the locations of
interest has been in an that's not good. There are

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severe gail for the eastern North Island of Chatham Island
and the Lower South Island. That's happening. Also, Pirate radio
station Radio HOLDAK broadcast its first transmission from beyond New
Zealand's three mile territorial limit, which is probably one of
the most famous stories in New Zealand radio history. The

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ship the Tiriy that's very much where Hodaki's legend comes from.
What I think happened, and maybe someone knows that someone
doesn't know. I think what happened with the Pirate Ship
a lot of books and movies we made about it.

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But just from a broadcasting point of view, it's my
understanding that there were not DJs on the vessel playing
the records. There were shows that were pre recorded, I
presume on reel to real tapes, and then we're taken
onto the ship and broadcast from there. So I think

(01:37:12):
that's the way, which doesn't make it as quite exciting
because you can imagine sort of a long hair beard
DJ with the smokes playing records as the ship rocked around.
But I don't think that's the case. And of course too,
I think the story is the ship went aground and
a life was lost. But for a long time, Radiohodaki

(01:37:33):
was one of the great independent stations, then had various
owners and now as part of n Z and ME.
As you'll be aware, it was just an Auckland station,
but they've taken the brand right around the country now
now I think it's around the whole country. But yes,
it was this day in nineteen sixty six, so next

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year will be I thinks you'll be sixty years. I
say it's fifty years, but next you'll be sixty years
for them. So I always think of it sort of
as been a one of the outside of the outlies
of station, but sort of very much the heritage brand.

Speaker 4 (01:38:08):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
The other thing too, the PlayStation is thirty. That's the
birthday of the PlayStation. Yep, so he's the first. Starny
PlayStation came out in nineteen ninety five. I think it

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was originally run on CD ROMs as opposed to cartridges. Anyway,
some of you will be into that. It's kind of
a bit after my time, I think when it comes
to video games. But look, the lines are available. If
you want to be involved with the discussion tonight, as
I say, Marcus till midnight. The number is eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine nine to detext. If

(01:38:53):
there's other stuff you want to talk about, then we
are here for that. I look forward to what you've
got to say. Twenty five to eleven. It's twenty three
to eleven, people of New Zealand and welcome. Hey, I've
got all the lines. Freed need to get a bit
more of a talkback, going a bit more of I
don't know what the other topic is that you might have.
There might be some music you want to go on about.

(01:39:13):
When I say music, I mean music or some other
topics you might want to go on about. And if
you want to discuss any of that, please come through.
I mentioned music because it was today in nineteen eighty
that led Zeppelin dispended and today in nineteen sixty six
that Radio Hodaki had their first broadcast. But they are

(01:39:35):
just topics. There's other stuff you want to talk about.
I don't know what it is I feel. I was
just saying to Dan Off here before. I feel that
suddenly when we roll around to December that pretty much
the whole country changes in its nature. That people are
out of work mode and they're into building up to
Christmas mode. And I'm sure a lot of you are

(01:39:55):
in that same position. So if that's something that you
want to if there's other stuff you want to discuss
and talk about, then that's fine. I'm quite happy with that.
I can't always cognize what all the topics will be,
but if there is something that you don't want to
mention or say on the show, they'd be great to
hear from you. You might be out there at Christmas parties.

(01:40:16):
You might be coming home from Christmas parties. You might
have had a sad you might have had a bad
Secret Center experience. You might have had a bad ikea
Kitset experience. Wow, this is interesting text. My longest flight
was from Invercargo to Auckland, Auckland to Shanghy, Singapore, then

(01:40:38):
k Elm to Shelpol Amsterdam, then onto lot a Polish
airline with Chopin airport Warsaw thirty six hours, stop off
on k Elm and Dubai to refuel. The more passages
before to Amsterdam than Warsaw. Someone says, have you been
on the hand piece of land? I don't know what
that means. You might want to explain that turn on
ten for four of the cricket route on seventy seven

(01:41:00):
Stokes on nineteen. I think they'll probably go till midnight
and if you want to talk about anything else, that's
the whole plan for tonight. So if you want to
be on air good, it's the plan. Mainly we're talking
about direct flights. I thought that Australia Quantas was going Sydney, England,

(01:41:23):
which was going to be the Sidney Lander, which is
going to be the longest direct flight. Maybe that's still
get to launch. And those wide body jets were there
there seven seven seven I think they were, So that
might be something you want to mention also tonight. But yeah,
all the lines I've feed, there's some entirely different topic
you want to talk about. There might be some Christmas

(01:41:44):
question you've got. There might be some gift you want
to get for a son or a granddaughter that you
can't find you might need to ask a question about.
You might be some some Christmas food related question. I
don't know what it would be, but I'm up for
that discussion. Basically, we're here to help at this time
of the night, so yes, that's what we're about, so

(01:42:04):
you do come through. I see the media doing their
obligatory story about the Franklin Road Christmas lights. I have
sensed that the whole New Zealand's obsession with Christmas lights
has diminished. I'm not hearing the hype I once heard.

(01:42:24):
Bearing in mind, if that's the case, I think it's
probably worth acknowledging that New Zealand is the worst place
for Christmas lights because it doesn't get dark or so late.
It's harder to winter Wonderland when it's thirty three degrees.
I think also what happened is that once upon a
time we could suddenly trade with China and get cheap lights,

(01:42:45):
miles of them. We got excited, but the novelty has
worn off. That would be my understanding. There was a
place in christ Church that in the outskirts of christ Church,
the people went went crazy to get to Boy, what
an amazing run out. That was jeepest creepers. Wow, wow,
Stokes just walking straight away. It was a wild shot

(01:43:08):
from out. Stokes has run out and he's swearing. That's
heartbreaking for him. He was having a good knock. He
looked established, I'll talk you through this because this was
an extraordinary and the stumps light up now, so it
was bold.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
It was a hit.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
There was a single he called he ran back. Oh yeah,
classic runout. But yeah it was caught out about a
meter out. Extraordinary, shy on the stumps. I haven't done
commentated that well, but I just caught in the corner
of my eye. So Stokes out for nineteen or forty nine.
Here we disappointed with that because he ran for then

(01:43:46):
turned around and ran back. So I believe it's the
guy at the facing end who's supposed to call. But anyway,
what are your thoughts on meat prices? It's expensive, mince
is expensive. I've also got thoughts on butter prices because
the butter price hasn't come down. They all said it
was going to hasn't come close. If I don't know

(01:44:10):
what you want to say about butter, it doesn't light
up the talk back lines like it once did, but
you might have thoughts on that. Also, I'm liking how
people just text me and say, what are your thoughts
on this? What are your thoughts on that? Anyway? Eighteen
to eleven just the backup for the cricket if you're interested.
This is Stokes has run out. This is from Krak

(01:44:31):
and Foe where they do a broad by ball commentary
Stokes run out horror mix up Engless with a direct hit,
there's a clean bald. The guy's gone out for a duck,
so Smith's out second ball. So this is the turning
point for them in the ashes. I'll bring you the
details of that one. But Bowlin's clean baldoon I think
that might be the first clean bowling of the match.

(01:44:51):
But the situation before that. Two balls earlier, Stokes run
out horror mix up. English with a direct hit, good length,
angled across Stokes defense to covers right and calls for
one root sends him back. There was no way there
was run there. English swooped and gathered in the right
hand and hit the stump the one Stumpy could from

(01:45:14):
side on. Outstanding work and Psmith, by the way, he's
just came out and gone back, and he looked terrified
as he came out. He almost looked like he was
crossing himself. He's gone straight back. Two balls that's a duck.
So that's the situation now. England now six for two eleven.
Was looking for a while there. They could go three
hundred and three fifty, but Bowlin's the bowler I think

(01:45:37):
got an edge in middle wicket. But yep, that was
a great shot. Now some texts to you for me,
four of them on a lot of texts. I'll read these.
Back in the eighties and nineties, before emirates were a thing.
To get to Sweden, I flew Auckland to La La
to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Copenhagen, Copenhagen to Gottenburg.

Speaker 20 (01:45:59):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
Marcus, my brother owns the Shans Road Christmas lights. It's
the largest in New Zealand. His wife passed away from
motor neuron disease and it still doesn't for her as
she loved Christmas, so clearly it's still going. Marcus went
to the doctor. Yes they hadn't been for a year
or so, to discover she now pressed a timer as
I entered the room to keep appointments to time. Didn't

(01:46:21):
quite seem to work as I had to wait twenty
five minutes after my scheduled time. Just wondering if anyone
had struck the time and situation at a doctor's visit.
Cheers Mary. Yes, I think we're in a crisis in
the GP sector at the moment. There's a lot of
surgeries changing hands and a lot of people going to
teleconferencing or teleydoctors. So yeah, I think that whole space

(01:46:45):
is changing dramatically and not for the good. But thanks
for that text. Marcus, as an airline employee, traveled non
stop on stand by taking my dad back to South
Africa in nineteen seventy nine. I can't believe this. Auckland
Nandy Honolulu, Los Angeles, London, Zurich, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Salisbury,

(01:47:12):
one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight flights once
again Auckland, Nandy, Nandy, Honolulu, hon Lulu, Los Angeles, on Angeleys, London, London,
z Are Zurich, Nairobi, no Robi, Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Salisbury. Marcus
a good point about the Christmas lights. You could also
buy your lights now while there are plenty and cheap

(01:47:33):
too selectively, then light your home section whatever at Matariki
Christmas lights and Mataliki stars. Just to thought, Kate Marcus.
Flight MU seven four five Chinese Eastern Airlines heading past Gisbon, Director, Argentina,
forty nine knots four hundred and ninety knots excuse me,
altitude twenty eight thousand feet. Thank you, hi Marcus for

(01:47:59):
our work Secret Santa. We had a twenty dollars gift limit.
I received a piece of piece of plane for Carcer.
Lead us to say I was a little disupported every
little Christmas moll. I think there was trouble the year
before last with our work Secret sand It wasn't there.
Dan there was a situation that people there was an
upper limit, but people were just buying a bag of chips,

(01:48:20):
weren't they, And they had the thing that you could
pass your gift on to someone else. Is that what
killed the Secret saner Dan for work? It was people
were getting ripped off. They weren't spending enough money, right,
they put a lower limit in there. Yeah, it was
twenty because what's that rule called when you can actually yeah,

(01:48:40):
we discussed this last year. What's the rule in secret
Sander where you can choose someone else's gift? Had a
good name to it, Secret Sander variations. If someone could
text me the name of that. Since you're not calling
it and I'm fine about that, I don't take that
personally dirty CenTra. I think it was called right or

(01:49:02):
the Yankee swap or dude, is it a quiz? Yeah,
dirty center mischievous nature of gifts stealing or the Yankee swap.
That's probably a that's probably a slur against the Yankees.
Would that be right? Must be? Go back to the

(01:49:22):
Civil War, that expression the Yankee swap six for two
one one in the ashes. We might even see Australia
bat tonight with a but luck on a wet wicket.
Here we go seven from eleven. Keep those texts coming
through if youve got thing interesting to say. Stealing Sander,
that's right, Marcus. I remember wh they had smoking on planes,

(01:49:45):
of smoking sexus the back of the plane regards gen
that's right, but I think probably the well, I guess
they had kind of extractor. Fans don't know where that
smoke went. It's a good point. Where did that smoke go? Yes,
someone could steal mind too, but no one wanted to lill.
That was a person with a vacaccia bread. There should
be another secret, Sander, we can give it away. I
think there might be. I don't fully know the subtleties

(01:50:07):
of that. Fifty seven over has gone in the cricket
two and five for six, and I'm excited to have
some live sport. By the way, temperatures in Australia hit
set to hit forties on New South Wales coast this weekend.
She's heating up, Shane. This is Marcus. Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:50:28):
You know Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:50:29):
Thanks Shane.

Speaker 18 (01:50:31):
They here was a bit of documentary on gv ago
Zeppelins and Jimmy Page was actually a studio guitar player.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
Yes, and very soort after.

Speaker 18 (01:50:48):
Yeah, yeah, but he keep refusing everybody aga until Jimmy
Page asked.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
It was it was kind of a hit weird. I
think him and John Paul always get John what was
his name? I always get him mixed up with John
Paul Young. But the way the two of them, there
was a place in London where all the street or
the session musicians would go and they just hang out
and then people just ask them for work. It seemed
to be quite It seemed to be a bit like
that Tim Penelli in the in the US. They would

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go there and they'd just get jobs because they were
so acclaimed and sought after. Yeah, yeah, which I didn't
really realize. I saw that movie.

Speaker 18 (01:51:28):
Yeah, Robert Plant tracked him down and then asked him
to join the band, talking about joining making his bad.

Speaker 3 (01:51:36):
Yeah, I think I saw that in that movie I
saw last year, talked about that. I think he was.
I think, like most people is in a skiffle band.

Speaker 22 (01:51:42):
Was he?

Speaker 18 (01:51:44):
Yeah, he's also a chis of steading there and watching
John Bonham drop was in a British newspaper.

Speaker 3 (01:51:53):
Oh really and yeah, he.

Speaker 18 (01:51:57):
He's written to see the newspaper, and I think I
must have said what around report?

Speaker 3 (01:52:04):
Are you old enough to have seen them when they're
in New Zealand.

Speaker 18 (01:52:06):
Shane, Yeah, I would have been, but I didn't go.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Because you went in Auckland, or you went into them,
or you didn't have it, didn't have it together enough.

Speaker 18 (01:52:15):
Oh yeah, first one, it would have been a good.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
Gig to be too. I'd be too young for nineteen
seventy three, but would have been extraordinary.

Speaker 7 (01:52:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:52:30):
I think I was still a primary school into it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
Oh okay, that's a fair enough excuse, Shane. You couldn't
have mean you have to be pretty together to get
yourself from primary school or concert that time of night.

Speaker 18 (01:52:41):
Yeah, it's a quest of us.

Speaker 3 (01:52:43):
You take care, Thanks so much, Shane.

Speaker 7 (01:52:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
Talking about led Zeppelin, who they've failed that they broke
up this day in nineteen eighty, which is an extraordinary
time ago for the music still to be so strong. Now,
if you want to talk about that or anything else
for the final now that's the plan. Stand and be
nice to hear from you. The price of meat is

(01:53:10):
a total ripoff, considering the best of our meat is exported.
I don't know how family survive these days with the
price of meat, fruit and vench coll it and clocks
and rural field and you see the best Christmas lights.
He would start at the beginning of November, but last
year was his final year. Tonight is the super full
moon in the last for the year. Thanks for that.

(01:53:31):
Eleven wait, eight past eleven on Marcus Hittl Midnight. Graham
Mead will be along at twelve o'clock tonight. In the meantime.
What if you've got looking forward to talking to you tonight,
so jump and if you want to talk, it's bits
and bobs tonight. But that's good of course. Bearing in
my next year, I've got an election that'll take up.
That'll be November. To send no, that'll be October September,

(01:53:52):
October November. Taking care of the talkback, getting myself prepared
for that might take leave, Jimmy, it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah,
good evening, Max.

Speaker 23 (01:54:02):
Look, I just tuned in just before the news and
I can say, and I'm proud to that that i'd
seen led Zeppelin. Oh fantastic, mate. I'm in my seventies
now and I've never seen anything like it. And I've
been to a lot of concerts because most of them
were held at Western Springs in the early seventies. But
I've got to say that, mate, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page,

(01:54:26):
I've never seen anything like it even till this day,
but I think it still holds the record. I might
be wrong. There was over eighty odd thousand people of
Western Springs, Marcus. It was just phenomenal. I can still
see it now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
I mean, I don't want to be the fat guy,
but I think I saw recently that Bowie's Serious Moonlight
in the late eighties or mid eighties got a bigger crowd,
but I think that was because a lot of people
came over the fence and it was slightly sketchy. But anyway, yeah, yeah,
I don't know that. So the numbers are kind of
always realized that.

Speaker 23 (01:55:05):
Yeah, I knew it, like I remember seeing Cleton's in
seventy one and they were quite huge. But I've got
to say it. I don't tell many people because they
don't believe me. The people I have told you, I
know led Zeppelin wasn't here. They were here. And I

(01:55:25):
have to say, Marcus, yeah, absolutely phenomenal, and thank you
for taking my call. And I hope you have a
good night.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
Okay, I just ask you before you go, is led
Zepp for nineteen seventy three they were what album was
that on the back out? The third album come out
by then?

Speaker 7 (01:55:43):
Is that right?

Speaker 16 (01:55:45):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:55:46):
I can't remember that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:47):
I think House of the Whole. I think House of
the Holy was seventy three.

Speaker 23 (01:55:51):
The Holy.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
Yeah, I'm not.

Speaker 23 (01:55:53):
Sure, but I can still see Jimmy Page. He had
this guitar and I think there was like two guitars
he sort of had, and goodness, we were quite close
at the time, and I've got it. I know it
sounds quite weird, but I tell you, Marcus, it was that.

(01:56:14):
The sound was just absolutely fak and I can I
can close my eyes and I can actually hear them
right now when I when, I just fantastic, because you know,
you feel proud of able to say that you'd seen
somebody like him. Until this day, I still think they're
one of the best ever. And I love like Dean Martins.

Speaker 9 (01:56:37):
In all sorts.

Speaker 3 (01:56:39):
Had you traveled to Auckland for the gig or were
you there?

Speaker 23 (01:56:43):
No, I was actually living in Auckland at the time,
but now I reside in christ Church. I love it
to pieces and this is my home. And thank you
very much, Marcus, god bless mate.

Speaker 3 (01:56:55):
Nice to talk Tommy, thanks so much. Ten past eleven,
the number is eight hundred and eighty eight. I see too.
They are reporting now. They're just in the Ardun's documentary
is in contention for an Oscar. That's for best Documentary too.
That's just I don't know when the nominations are out,
but that seems to be the latest reports there. Now,

(01:57:16):
let me see what other people have talked. All the
lines are free if you want to talk. Marc has
just wondered why we never hear Dan speak with you
on air. Seems he's the mystery man. We often hear
Glenn on the Hosking Show speak up Merry Christmas. Tracy, Well,
that's Glenn and that's Dan, and that's the beauty of

(01:57:36):
people is yeah, that's yeah. How can I say that?
I think Dan is very happy with his role. However,
there was if there was any extraordinarily hard it question
that we need to answer, I wouldn't hesitate for Dan
to come on and explain that. And Dan has done

(01:57:59):
mid dawn shows very ably as a talkback host. But
he's very comfortable doing what he does and he is
much appreciated for that role also, so yes, will he
be singing a song on the pre Christmas show? Probably not,
although he probably could. Marcus just listening as usuals who

(01:58:21):
drift on said, can you give me another shout out
to my beautiful wife, Emma A iritable sumo. Cheers Marcus
nol Hi, Emma, Marcus, beautiful, bright moon, fantastic regards to
Christopher Auckland. Marcus, it's getting expensive to eat corn on
the cob with butter. Now went to the supermarket's say

(01:58:41):
three seventy four corn on a cob and ten dollars
for the fire and grams of butter. That's thirteen dollars
seventy four butter and a corn. I wonder if there's
any other country in the world would pay more than us.
Luxy's doing a great job, Hi, Marcus. I went to
his MIDI live shows and Organs I could but have
had brain souge. I can't remember some stuff. Sorry, not

(01:59:02):
much help, but I like your program. Frank nice to
if you're listening Frank and all manner of calls, I
welcome the last hour. It's thirteen past eleven. I don't
know why it feels like Friday. I've struggled with this
all week. I think I want to miss a day
on the weekend because of bad weather, and it's put
me out of kilter. Lorraine says, Hi, Marcus, listen to

(01:59:24):
your program in Munich, Germany regularly. It's a morning program
due to the time difference. I'm seventy three years living
here since nineteen seventy eight. Is it possible to contact
you on air via WhatsApp? Appreciate your reply all the
best regards, Keep up the good work. Regards Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine.
Now that has come to me through my junk email file.

(01:59:46):
It's come through wou Foo. So I'll get in touch
with Lorrain and we'll give her that number for that.
If you are Oversees, you can call on WhatsApp. Leed
Zip's Houses of the Holy was released September late March
seventy three. Hi Dan here, No, I don't want to
sing on the pre Christmas show. Thumbs up, thumbs up.

(02:00:08):
Didn't think you would. I think we might go carol
free this year. Par up a pump pump, and I
think as everyone as everyone, as everyone quite rightly put
on one of those Christmas memes. You see, the last
thing Mary probably wanted after giving birth was the drummer

(02:00:28):
boy making a racket, So there is that. Yeah, I
do like it as a carol, the Carol of the
drum par up a pump pum. It's interesting for Rady
and all the shops. The carols have all been kind
of decrolified, haven't they. They're all coming across more like
summer songs, which is probably fairly understandable. So if you

(02:00:50):
want to talk about any of these discussions, that's kind
of what we're on about tonight, do come through. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty nine nine to text, be in
touch if you've got anything to add. Sixteen past eleven.
Get those texts coming through. This is interesting. Hi, I've
put up my Christmas lights again and into the West
Power Light Up the West Coast competition. Look it up

(02:01:14):
and vote for the one you like. State Highway seven
Dobson is mine, so West Power Light Up. So there's
a competition. Oh, I'm happy to skew that for you.
Anyone from Dobson gets my vote. That's as real as
it gets. West Powers Light Up the West Coast, organized

(02:01:34):
by the Hits do you have a local breakfast there?
I can't see which one into your glowing house lights
below to win. I'll vote for you and let me
have a lock.

Speaker 2 (02:01:50):
Things.

Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
Seems to be the enter thing, not the voteful thing
there West Coast lights up or complicate it to vote
than it looks so Mitchell entry below and get ready
to shine. Maybe it's not ready to vote. Let me
know if it's ready to vot. Vote wis power light up?

Speaker 9 (02:02:09):
Vote?

Speaker 3 (02:02:12):
It might be on Facebook, might be a Facebook thing
someone's written on Facebook. The link doesn't work. Please try again.
The website went down. It should be back up again.
I can't see it.

Speaker 7 (02:02:23):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 3 (02:02:25):
There's Joe of Cadman Street. That's good. There's Chelsea Pine
Tree Road that'll win. There's deb Romney Street where my
mother's from. Looks pretty good. Alicia, West Coast fit not
much to it floor shop. I'm just see where the
one on Dobson's Canary looks good. I can't see your

(02:02:49):
one yet. Hello Berry, this is Marcus. Welcome good Bury yourself.

Speaker 14 (02:02:56):
Oh yeah, just living the dream out here.

Speaker 3 (02:02:58):
Brilliant me too.

Speaker 16 (02:03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (02:03:02):
I just wanted to say about when I came over
from in twenty one, I had to change my top
license over and all I all I had to do,
because I've been driving for I've about twenty five years,
was the computer test, theory test.

Speaker 3 (02:03:25):
Yeah, that's fair enough. Was it much difference in driving
between the two places?

Speaker 14 (02:03:31):
If there a few just a few little things, but
nothing nothing sort of safety safe, safety orientated. Yeah, pretty
much all the same.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
The only thing I think is different. You see, we
had that funny left hand tune rule for a while
before we got rid of it about ten years ago.
That was weird, wasn't it.

Speaker 21 (02:03:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:03:49):
Yeah, but it's a yeah, it's the same, the same
in Naus, he said, Yeah, it was was really no difference. Yeah, yeah,
but I enjoy living over here. I'll never never go
back to Australia.

Speaker 3 (02:04:03):
Why did you come across originally? Berry?

Speaker 17 (02:04:07):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (02:04:08):
Mainly for the life star. I've lived here previously, back
in the eighties and nineties. Yeah, and I went back
to Australia and Jan and Jan decided after the pandemic,
I applied for a job and came over.

Speaker 4 (02:04:25):
He live.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
Because you're certainly going against the flow, aren't you? Most
of going the other way?

Speaker 14 (02:04:30):
Yeah, yeah, I've always been a bit like that, like
from against the type.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
Are are you working now? Bury out driving?

Speaker 16 (02:04:38):
Now?

Speaker 11 (02:04:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:04:40):
Actually yes I am. Actually I'm just sitting over the
MOKEI I do milk milk takers.

Speaker 3 (02:04:48):
Oh sure, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Where's moke?

Speaker 14 (02:04:52):
Uh sort of what would you say? North northwest of Talbot?

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
Okayot? And what depot do you go out of?

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
What depot do you return to?

Speaker 14 (02:05:10):
Well, the trucks based out there at the factory.

Speaker 18 (02:05:13):
But.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
With the factory as you understand.

Speaker 14 (02:05:18):
Yeah, but I actually worked for years the company, the
subcontracts to them.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
Yeah, okay, are you rostered on for Chris? Are you
rosted on for Christmas Day?

Speaker 8 (02:05:28):
No?

Speaker 14 (02:05:29):
No, it makes a change the first time. The first
time for it works it out. But because we do
days and nights and uh so this year is my
my Christmas off?

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
What would normally have what would normally happen on Christmas?
Would you get given stuff? Will you be given a
feed of people to be pretty welcoming?

Speaker 17 (02:05:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:05:53):
Yeah, trying to people are usually pretty good.

Speaker 2 (02:05:58):
Usually get a.

Speaker 14 (02:06:00):
Give pack of maybe lottery tickets on.

Speaker 2 (02:06:03):
What do you call it?

Speaker 11 (02:06:04):
Not lottery to get Yeah?

Speaker 14 (02:06:06):
Okay, scratchy or you might get a can of beer.

Speaker 3 (02:06:10):
Or yeah, brilliant, nice to talk Barry, thanks very much
for that. Twenty past eleven, six for two three nine,
Route on eighty eight, Jacks on seventeen. But like Route
gets the century before the end of the night. Get
in touch if you want to go vote for that
guy's Christmas Lights at Dobson Marcu's Little Drummer Boy. We
wait all year to hear it on your show, Paula.

(02:06:31):
Thank you for that, Paula, and you be in touch
if you've got anything to add by him as Marcus
welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine two detects. I'd like to hear from you if
you do want to talk on air, but with you
till twelve. I don't know what you want to talk
about for the final forty, but would love to have
your input tonight if you're doing to come through. Prince

(02:06:54):
Harry's gone on Stephen Colbeer's show. It appears to have
not gone that well, mind you. That's the Daily Mail's
version and they do seem to have a problem with him,
so I wouldn't know the reality half and have again
what you're reading these papers. Yep. Now I'll tell you
what the Daily Mail's Ikea story is. Ikea has finally
opened its first or on New Zealand, featuring never before

(02:07:15):
seeing the menu items, including a divisive dish that's likely
to get OSSI's talking. The menu offer exclusive dishes to Uzel,
including the lingoln Berry Pavlova, perhaps finally sit in the
famous Ossi visus Kiwi Pavlova Gate debate. Four bucks for
the pav there sounds fair, doesn't it. I don't know
what a ligan berrier is. That looks delicious and the

(02:07:37):
Aussies are saying that's wrong. Why don't we get this?
Twenty two past eleven, twenty four past eleven, Good evening,
David's Marcus, welcome, Hey.

Speaker 12 (02:07:48):
Marcus, how's are going good?

Speaker 3 (02:07:49):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (02:07:51):
Hey? I want to see lads up. In eighteen seventy
nine in the peas call Nebworth Park, there were two
hundred thousand people there.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
Now that's where I know that's quite famous. But because
you tell me that that's in England.

Speaker 1 (02:08:03):
But where is that?

Speaker 3 (02:08:04):
I presume it's Nebworth? Is it in the castle? Is
that right?

Speaker 6 (02:08:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:08:10):
Not quite a castle? That is like a kind of
state owned by his Lord Nebek or wherever his name
is or was. It's about when I was about forty
five minutes driving from London anyway, we traveled up on
the on that we went to one concept that separated
both weekends. We went up to the first weekend, which
was the fourth and yeah, it was amazing. But I

(02:08:33):
got a little bit more to add after that as well.
When Bottom died, Plant lost the plot for a while
and he set up his own little band. And there's
there's a friend of mine who was in a Welsh
polytechnique and the pas called pot of Preathe and I
got a call from him. He said, oh, come up
Robert Plant singing in the common room tonight in the college.
I said, yeah right, he said, no, yes, you come along.

(02:08:56):
I said, I'll come along with you buy the ticket.
He said, you come along and out buy the ticket.
So I went up and I couldn't believe it. It
was a time before that I saw them two hundred
thousand people, and the next time after that would have
been I think it would have been a He was
with a band which she called the honey Drippers, and
they played to about oh maybe one hundred people there

(02:09:17):
that wow, and a friend of mine, a friend of
mine went went to the bathroom just before the gig
started and he got planned to sign his tickets. So
Robert Plants signed my maid's tickets for him as well, So.

Speaker 20 (02:09:28):
It was a bit of yeah.

Speaker 12 (02:09:31):
Also as well, from the net Birth concert, I bought
my sister a poster, my older sister, and I think
it disappeared for years, and she found it a couple
of years ago and she got it framed, so it
takes Prider place in her house now.

Speaker 3 (02:09:44):
And the honey Drippers played their own stuff, or they
played zipplin stuff. I mean, they're a pretty good band
on their own right, wouldn't they had they had heads,
didn't they?

Speaker 12 (02:09:52):
I'm not sure they had had. They were just covers
of American and Louisiana Blue Standards. Plan the Plant was
into a big time, but nobody where I worked here
in New Zealand, nobody believed me that I'd seen Robert
Plant playing in the common room. So I got a
friend into email over some photographs that he's like and yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:10:11):
So.

Speaker 3 (02:10:13):
He always seems to throw everything. Cloudy seems to have
had a love of music. I mean, he certainly hasn't
been afraid to follow that through. I mean he could have.
He could have rested on his laurels his whole life.
But he has explored all sorts of other dimensions really,
which I really respected for.

Speaker 12 (02:10:30):
Yeah, he's not. He's certainly changed. His appearance has changed.
Somebody described him as Roger Marle with a curly boom.

Speaker 3 (02:10:36):
That's right. Who else?

Speaker 20 (02:10:38):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (02:10:39):
Nebworth? Do you remember? It was a number of bands?

Speaker 21 (02:10:40):
Was it?

Speaker 12 (02:10:41):
Oh Todd run Grind? Yeah, so say Johnny and he
has redukes?

Speaker 20 (02:10:49):
Yes, No, I can't remember.

Speaker 12 (02:10:51):
It's a long time ago. It's say nine.

Speaker 3 (02:10:54):
It's crazy when you think how long ago it was,
because they still feel like I mean, they're still you're
still looking. They feel like quite a contemporary act, don't they.
I mean, if you looked, if you go back to
seventy nine and then go back, how long we are
from here? You know you're talking before. It's sort of
bizarre to think about it. How how father?

Speaker 12 (02:11:11):
I think I was nineteen? I think I was nineteen.
I think it was so I was born in sixty
one cent you no, eighteen, I was eighteen?

Speaker 3 (02:11:19):
How long you been here? Another funny thing?

Speaker 9 (02:11:21):
You?

Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
Yep?

Speaker 12 (02:11:23):
One more funny thing. Friends of mine who went up
for the second weekend after the concert closed, camped close
to the Thames and in the middle of the night
all the area lit up in this field where they
were camping next to the Thames, and there's a load
of Health's angels there. It was yourself for a bit
of fun. So they decided to throw my mates in
the Thames to see if they were witches that they floated,

(02:11:46):
which is.

Speaker 3 (02:11:49):
Pretty English thing to do, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (02:11:52):
Yeah, when they went to that to the world, shouldn't they.

Speaker 3 (02:11:55):
Not to hear from your Dave thanks for that twenty
eight part to Live and Torret's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 21 (02:12:01):
Why Marcus say that? I think I was just listening
to you yesterday and you were talking about fish and chips,
and I was going to give you a call because,
funnily enough, just a few days prior, I'm coming down
to New Zealand for my mum's ninetieth and so my
grown up sons and my wife and one of the
first things we do is head straight to a New
Zealand fish and chip shop, because you can't beat it.

(02:12:23):
The British say that that they're the homer fish and chips.
They don't even know what they're doing it. They're just
horrible and the price is phenomenal. It's just going to
give you a bit of a conversion. Since COVID has
just gone through the roof, we don't even buy it
anymore from the fish and chip shop. But a medium
piece of cod is nine pounds twenty dollars and a
large piece is eleven pounds eighty twenty six dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:12:47):
Wow, do they do well? Because my impression when I
went to Evan for fish and chips is they pre
cooked them and just have them kind of in.

Speaker 21 (02:12:57):
A warmer, correct, And we often say, please, we don't
want that one, can you cook me one? So they
sit on a warmer and the chip sit and like
this heated thing, and then you know they might have
been there for a while. I mean, there's no selection.
You'll have a few pickled onions in a jar on
the counter. You might able to get a spattered sausage,

(02:13:17):
and that's about it. And we looked at a menu
on the Company Coast where I go. He even does
white mate for it is called fed up. And my
son was just about salivating, saying he can't wait to
get there because how cheap it is.

Speaker 8 (02:13:29):
You know.

Speaker 21 (02:13:30):
We converted a piece of you know Asuman's dog fish,
if that's what we still use, but I love it.
And that converted to two pounds eighty for a piece
of fish, and we're paying nine pounds to twelve pounds.

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
Whin's the party?

Speaker 21 (02:13:42):
It's just crazy. So the party is my mum's ninetieth
in the end of.

Speaker 3 (02:13:47):
January, and that's on the Kampany coast, is it?

Speaker 7 (02:13:51):
It is?

Speaker 21 (02:13:51):
Yeah, to be held at my sisters. My dad just
turned ninety three. He's a stubborn, old bigger. He had
a fall about two weeks ago. He had to be
stitched up and k locked himself out and he was
driving a week to eater. I'm not sure if he
should be, but he was.

Speaker 3 (02:14:06):
How long will you spend? How long are you going?

Speaker 17 (02:14:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (02:14:10):
They go ahead, go ahead, No, you go.

Speaker 3 (02:14:12):
It's probably more interesting what you're going to.

Speaker 21 (02:14:14):
Say, you know, all right, No, I was just going
to ask you. I'm just listening a lot of talk
about the price of butter in New Zealand. When they
talk about that, is that a pound store or is
that two fifty grams?

Speaker 11 (02:14:26):
Look, I think they were really sure.

Speaker 3 (02:14:28):
I think it's I think it's four hundred grams, but
I don't know that that hasn't there hasn't been further
shrinkageh on that. Let me just confess. I'm almost sure
it's four hundred grams.

Speaker 21 (02:14:37):
It's not right, Okay, I think we're paying a lot less.
I was just looking for two fifty grands here. It
averages about two pounds seventy five, which is about six dollars,
so I think we're still paying quite a bit. And
the interesting thing here, Anchor butter, which was always the
great New Zealand butter, has been sold off to some

(02:15:00):
British company and they still sort of have their anchor brand,
but if you look very closely, it's British butter, so
it's no longer in New Zealand butter.

Speaker 3 (02:15:10):
Yeah, yeah, it might be fine. Yeah, I'm unsure if
it's five hundred or four hundred grams, so i've been
it might still be five, but I might have to
check that out.

Speaker 21 (02:15:19):
What else, what are people paying on average for that?

Speaker 3 (02:15:21):
Oh like sixteen eighteen dollars?

Speaker 21 (02:15:24):
Oh right, okay, well you know we're only paying for that, yeah,
ten dollars, right, Okay, goodness, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:15:30):
I'd better check that because I don't. I don't buy
a lot of butter. What else are you craving? When
you hear Todd, what's your other match? Buy it must buy?
When you use.

Speaker 21 (02:15:38):
Oh boy, what do we crave? Allum p? I go
back with a truck play in New Zealand. Mom might
have just had someone this morning and thought all that
would just last until.

Speaker 8 (02:15:47):
I go.

Speaker 21 (02:15:49):
Rations to rations just and the variety of like ice
cream and you know, I'm not a big junkie, but
just when you're on holiday, it's like, you know, we
go and there's such a small selection of ice cream
and we just have and like drinks and things. You
have so much selection in New Zealand for the population.

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I just it's always good to come back. There's so
many lovely things. I know, you know there's some problems,
but it's still a great country.

Speaker 3 (02:16:18):
But you're not coming back to Laval, Todd, Are you
tiring here?

Speaker 7 (02:16:21):
No?

Speaker 15 (02:16:23):
No, No.

Speaker 21 (02:16:25):
The planners to spend I don't do winter very well.
I'm just looking out on them, very miserable with them.
The morning and it's dark at four now and not
light to wait in the morning So my plan is
I've coming for five weeks this January, and I'll always
come in January because when I come back the days
are getting lighter and we're getting towards spring. But the
plan is to be there January till March every year

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and to come back to the spring and sumwhere in Milton.

Speaker 3 (02:16:48):
It's like a plan to be nice to talk Todd.
By the way, the cricket's not going well. Just another
work I think it's called Jacks is out for eighteen,
so I hope doesn't get standard. He's on ninety eight.
It was caught by Smith. There was a cocky little
guy that he got Bold's dark Court Smith. I'm just
looking at the details now. A good catch from Psmith actually,

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although he's an overperformer, he tries to look humble where
he catches it under celebrates, but yeah, nothing he can do.
I enjoy. So it starts for he's on a fore foot.
That's his fourth wicket, so that's pretty extraordinary. The guy
what was the guy's name? Then it was yeah, it
was Jack's. So roots are ninety eight Atkinson on he's

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the batsman and so seven for two five one and
this will be it once they get England out, that's
a day betting they want to go to four hundred.
They haven't Joan. Hello, it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (02:17:43):
Welcome, Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 22 (02:17:46):
You've gone to butter again. A couple of months ago,
I bought quite a few pounds of butter. Was eight
dollars fifty for my Christmas slices that I make and
the Christmas cakes. And anyway, I looked on the cornies.
I have corny some mornings for breakfast, and what do
you believe? I mean, butter's better and use it sparing
and I limit my butter. But here's the recipe for

(02:18:10):
Afghan biscuits with margarine. The icing was with margarine. Now
that is not a good taste or a recipe when
it's always been made with butter and you just don't
get the same taste. And I'm so surprised that it
was on the Kellogg's bag that the complex was it?

Speaker 15 (02:18:30):
Oh?

Speaker 22 (02:18:31):
I thought it was terrible. I thought, goodness me. And
I mean, when I make sandwiches or full roll, you
don't have to use mard or butter. I don't use
margarine anyway, but you know you can put the fillings
in it. Bit of mayonnaise. I only dressing and that
sort of thing. But and I have butter where I
can taste the butter like on a date spane or
on a stan cheese god or something like that. You know,

(02:18:53):
you're just and you know and you know have butter.
But I've got a friend that she's eighty eight, lovely.
She cooks and eats a pound of butter a week.
She's got no clear straw and she's eighty eight, done
that for years. You wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 20 (02:19:10):
Would you?

Speaker 3 (02:19:11):
Yeah, we are Who are you making the slice for?

Speaker 22 (02:19:16):
I do the light condensed milk with the butter. I
just to give to friends. And my younger brother, Jim,
lives in Wahiki Island.

Speaker 7 (02:19:23):
He likes his.

Speaker 22 (02:19:25):
ENTUSI messy, Jim, he likes his. And I don't roll
on the balls now, it's more handling with it. When
you've got your your butter, you melt your butter and
your condense milk carefully so you don't stick on the pen.
Then you got wool ingredients ready with the biscuit crumbs,
sultanas ate, the cots, coconut, and I was rolling it

(02:19:46):
in balls and you know, in coconut, but the last
few years, I've just put baking paper on a tray
or caketon has got an edge on it, and put
it on the fridge. Then I lifted out, cut up
with a cleaver knife and make nice squares. And I
just picked them out with my small tomes and put
them in my sandwich bags, and they get sent up
to Wahiki on My friend Barbara's husband likes him. And

(02:20:09):
and I make a Christmas cake for my sister and
her partner, and and I just got the giving is
good luck for everybody that has a bit of Christmas cake.
And and I enjoy doing that. I don't put pressure
on myself. I get all organized.

Speaker 3 (02:20:24):
And yeah, now we see on the rock.

Speaker 22 (02:20:28):
On the way Heiki Island. He's over over a bit,
you know, over the other side. He's got a house
that's probably a bit older. I don't know in a
photograph of But we went there when their daughter got married,
and we went to the clay. Is it the clay
winery that's right for Hannah's Hannah's wedding she lives.

Speaker 3 (02:20:50):
I think you call it the clay. Why do imagine
that's the mud brick Yep, that's the one pretty fish placed.

Speaker 8 (02:20:56):
That in it.

Speaker 22 (02:20:57):
Yeah, it was quite nice. And Hannah lives in Australia
now with her two girls.

Speaker 3 (02:21:01):
And but mom comes out brother as your brother on
a tongue. Is he Luckson's beach or is it Rocky Base?

Speaker 22 (02:21:08):
Oh, I've got his recipe there. No, I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (02:21:13):
I put you on the spot.

Speaker 22 (02:21:15):
No, I have to put the light on and go
into my own.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
Don't do that.

Speaker 7 (02:21:21):
No.

Speaker 22 (02:21:21):
But they were going to go and retire in the
commandel or Wahiki Island, and I think Susie chose way
Haki Island and Jim was happy with that, and and
they like it over there. But it was nice going
over there for the wedding.

Speaker 3 (02:21:36):
Wedding there was fantastic.

Speaker 22 (02:21:38):
Yeah, they're very nice. And I'm always interested in, Oh,
what's the other island where Helen comes from. Oh, he's
the Chatam cheer. Because she was in the Mornings Weekly
years ago and it showed her her lovely flower garden
and how she lived in her that was the family
home and she she didn't have she had a generator

(02:22:01):
in their power and all that rest of it. But
she's not living there now, but she lived there, you know,
up to the early seventies and I think she's mid
seventies now, but yeah, and they had to have the
buses that come in and they would go over to
her house and she would you talk to the people
and all that, and she just loves living on the island.

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Another guy, he sings and players at the day does
Roy Orbison. He was brought up on the Chatham Islands,
Tody Gregory Hunt and he was quite a big Samory
and in another older man that I knew. He grew
up on the Chatham Islands. But it does interest me
these places. I haven't been out of New Zealand, so

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I mean, I quite like I haven't got the Mary Channel,
but they often have something on, you know, about different places.
But my younger brother, he says to me, he says,
you're good, Joan. He says, you keep up the tradition
of sending and to make the different fruits and the
slices that I make. And I enjoyed doing it and
giving to people because that's what Christmas is all about,

(02:23:05):
you know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:06):
To tell you what the slices again.

Speaker 22 (02:23:09):
Well it's actually butter like denense milk. Just mount that
gently and then you add your I've got the two
packs of your you know around your super wines. And
then I've got I've got two packets of ap becot.
It's going to make two lots. And because I'm meeting
different friends and give my friend Barbara's husband likes this too,

(02:23:31):
so I give him for him and Barbara and anyway,
and then you've got your fruit, your coconut, putting about
a cup and a half of coconut, and it's very tasty.
It's very nice. And you make it about I'll put
him more than an inch back. And I just know
how to stir it to make it, you know, the
right bite to it, you know, so it's it's not

(02:23:52):
going to be sloppy with the condensed milk. It's got
to be firm. So and no, it's very very tasty
because've got all that lovely coconut and fruit. And and
I use the light condensed milk rather than the sweet
and condensed milk because you don't have to sweet when
you've got fruit. I actually bought a bag of cranberry,
so I'm going to put cranberries in apricot. That's a

(02:24:13):
real nice Christmas e one. So when I send it
to Jim and I give a sandwich bag to Mike.
I will put two different different lots, and you can
get quite a few pieces in the sandwich bag. So
I enjoy making it as long as you're organized. I've
got all my ingredients on Tuesday with five percent off

(02:24:34):
the gold card on Tuesday at Countdown Gold Card person. Now, oh,
oh gosh, I've been I'm late seventies. I've been on
for a while looking at.

Speaker 3 (02:24:44):
Her seventies out there shopping and doing your DiscT.

Speaker 22 (02:24:47):
Oh yeah, well I can. Yeah, I just do my things,
you know that I like to do. And and I've
had a lunch out today with a lovely friend who
lost her husband seven weeks ago. She was a friend
for over thirty years.

Speaker 3 (02:25:00):
And she bouncing back.

Speaker 22 (02:25:03):
Oh, she's quite still, very tearful and upset. I lost
my husband three years ago. He had dementia and then
he had a heart attack. So he was seventy five.
But I looked after him for three years with his dementia,
and they said it was chronic and severe, but he
was very good and he was actually easier. He was
very happy with the dementia because he'd just you know, yes,

(02:25:23):
he just enjoyed. He was out in the lounge. He
and I've got a big window at the front, and
he wasn't up in his TV room and he enjoyed
anybody coming and people walking past with their dogs in
that and he was quite happy. But late seventies, late sixties. Sorry,
I knew there's something happening. And his mother had had
and these things happened with age. His mother had Alzheimer's,
but Bernice was dementia. Yeah, but he had a good life.

(02:25:46):
He had over forty years with me. So and I
just lived now like I used to. And I just
got lots of longtime friends, and I've got a pretty
good life really, and grandchildren and it's all good.

Speaker 3 (02:25:57):
Love you talk Joan. I've got to run. I've got
myself talked to you for two longer commercial commitments. RT
got a century and there's are just a tremendous catch.
By the way, Just as I said, Ruth got one
hundred and six and the ball's gone up. Two people
ran for it and they collide with each other. They
managed to get the catch. So I'll just tell you
how this happened, because this is quite exciting.

Speaker 12 (02:26:16):
It's been a.

Speaker 3 (02:26:17):
Great afternoon of cricket By the way seven for two,
six four, another wicket for Starkey's bowled the ball. It's
the guy that's coming at Dick concern. He hid it
high and there was confusion amongst it. They both ran
for it. I think it was the wicket keeper. He's
got the gloves. He ran back and got it, and
the other guy sort of laid down and gave him
a hug on the ground. Quite touching really. Harry is

(02:26:39):
the catcher and Larbi Shane was there with him. But
there are a smug team outn't they over celebrate?

Speaker 17 (02:26:48):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (02:26:52):
Now almost time for me to say good night, And
have we learned anything tonight? I did learn one thing,
carn what it was though, that's the thing about learning now.
I'll return tomorrow night. If people have asked me how
long I'm going, I tend to take my Holles without
telling people, which I always feel quite cowardly about. It's

(02:27:12):
like the Irish sideways. I just leave without telling anyone.
But I'm not going. I think there's a future. I
think the breakfast host tea is off already. I will
do after Friday. I'll do two more weeks and the

(02:27:35):
last next week will be loose as a caboose and
the final week will be looser. I hope at least
something happens. Of course, there's always news that can happen
before the end of the year. I have got a
quiz which we've noted down all the extraordinary things we've learned.

(02:28:00):
There's fifty one questions, Dan, is that right? And I
think what we'll do is we'll probably just get you
to write down the answers to the questions and it'll
be self marking. I hopefully that's the best way to
do it. I don't imagine everyone will do it, but
I've tried the quiz again. I've forgotten what most of

(02:28:21):
the answers were because it's kind of quite a cane
of knowledge, but that could be quite good fun. So yes,
who knows what will happen on that last night, Although
for me, I've noticed I've always been looking forward to
the last night of the year, and I've always found
a bit of an anti climax because the thing about radio,
you can't really tell what's going on because it requires
the audience to partake as well. But we'll see how

(02:28:43):
it goes, so that will be I think. I think
there's a two in front of my last night, it's
either the nineteenth. What day is my last night? Dan Oh,
that's my lad's birthday, that's his twelfth, it's track his
twelfth birthday. I might even take that last night off. Actually,
I hadn't thought of that, so let them bringing the

(02:29:05):
kid on air. I've got a dog in the studio
with you tomorrow night. I'll tell you more about that soon.

Speaker 1 (02:29:11):
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