The Yankee Swap (27 November 2024)

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
At B.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Three things. Welcome on him is Marcus hut till midnight tonight.
Two things, twenty four degrees been a long time coming,
Been a long time coming. Fantastic, Wow, goodness, so much done,
such a productive day. Anyway, hope it's good. We you

(00:36):
are too, by the way. Second thing, drove to work
on cruise control ninety kilometers per hour, very freeing two caveats.

(00:56):
There was no one behind me and the road was straight.
But gee, I'll tell you what. I don't want to
troll you, but sometimes I wanted the speed limits not
too fast because jit was free. I got here exactly
the same time as I always do, went to the
supermarket and had plenty of time. Boy, the supermarket, I

(01:19):
don't know what happens when the weather's good. People want
to buy a lot of food, don't they. I've seen
trolleys full like I've never seen trolleys full before, so
I guess people are getting christmasy. We will talk about
the matters at hand, about including the road exits, and
including too the arsenic and the water. Just warning that's

(01:42):
on the list of things we will be talking about tonight.
So you keep locked and loaded with that and looking
forward to what you want to say tonight. As I say, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine two detect
hitel twelve, all manner of things we will talk about tonight.
Enjoyed very much the chat about the concord last night.

(02:06):
We're surprised how many. Yeah, no, I'm not surprised, but
you enjoyed that greatly anyway, just putting that out there.
So a number of things to talk about tonight, including
arsenic in the water. This is a late breaking story
too for people that don't know. There's marginally elevated levels
of arsenic in the water from the Waikato River. It's
been pumped up to walkland. I don't know a good

(02:29):
excuse to go and drink beer. You'd think, wouldn't it.
But anyway, don't say I say that. But that's something anyway.
So first question for you, we'll start with the low
hurdle topics without a high barrier to entry level. There

(02:51):
was an email at work right and it was saying
about people that wanted to get involved with a secret center.
And we've got a guy's a bit of a self starter,
and he takes upon himself to organize a secret center,
and I say it on him because he's a good
unit and he's got a sense of enthusiasm that's good.

(03:17):
And the email says it's time of the year against
Secret Center. Twenty dollars a minimum. I always saught with
secret Center. It was five. When did it become twenty?
Because I'm thinking, actually, because most people with secret senter
will be junk from temu. I'd imagine for families actually
in the bread basket on Christmas Day, you go fifty

(03:38):
bucks limit, but for the workplace that would be five dollars.
Mind you, I might be able to touch at the
bottom of the south side. I might have forgotten about
the inflation that likes that. So anyway, just to quick
round up, if you can tell me what your work's
limit is for secret Center? Is it five? Is at ten?
Is at twenty? Because twenty to me seems steep, but

(04:03):
I'm not. I mean, I appreciate the guy's ability to
organize the whole beautifully written email too, because it's in
the colors of Christmas. It alternates red and green. But
what's the limit this year for Secret Does that seem
about right? Twenty dollars maybe forty minutes work for the
average wage, would it? I don't know. Bearing in mind,

(04:25):
if you are involved in Secret Center, you can't use
as an excuse to harass your workmates, because before long,
people will be going before the tribunal saying that I
was harassed at work because I've given raises for my
Secret Center or things like that you can't kind of

(04:45):
or swimming pills or stuff like that, you can't do that.
That's why I thought it might be I'll put the
kibosh on because you've got to provide a safe work experience.
You know, Christmas parties in Secret Center. It's all kind
of part of what makes it tricky anyway, So I
won I what's the limit this year? Let me know?
Eight hundred and eighty to ten. He wants the limit
on Secret Center. This says anything above twenty dollars. But

(05:11):
I reckon if you went not a Timur and just
did in Secret Sand, he'd probably get something quite special.
We'll probably be made by a slave conditions. But yeah,
there you go. I don't know that. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty nine two nine two to text when you
get a hoodie on TIMU that looks like a ram

(05:32):
and noodle pack for twenty three eighty nine. If I
got that my Secret Center, I'd be cocker hope. I've
never seen anything as good. The only thing I've seen
as good as the wine glass I saw on the
internet yesterday. And the stem of the winegrat glass is
the straw. You might be across that. Oh eight hundred

(05:53):
eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to text, looking
forward to what you've got to say? But what's the
limit this year for Secret Center? Is it teen? Is
at twenty? Is at fifteen? Is the ZB Herald Secret
Sander pretty much on the money with five with twenty
dollars or not? Five dollars Marcus, twenty dollars not too
steep at all. Do any callers have good gifts for

(06:13):
Secret Center? Oh my god, Marcus. For work, I've always
gone with up to ten dollars. That's enough for a
decent box of chocolates. My work is a fifteen dollar limit.
It was ten dollars a couple of years ago. So
inflation is clearly heading Secret Sanders too. Can I just
say just to put this one out of its misery.

(06:33):
I have never ever been involved with a secret Sander
for someone that's got so much to say about it,
I've got extremely little experience with it. Noniclar works solitarily.
I mean, Dan and I could do a secret Sander,
but Marcus I avoid secret Sander. My team not doing it.

(06:58):
Twenty dollars in another team seems a lot for a
random present. It's junk and it's landfall. No one needs it.
I can't still went to Timu to look at Secret
Center and there's a Ramen noodle soup hoodie, and I
can't work out why I've never been bought one of those.
A Secret Center gift cheap as it looks good. Flip

(07:20):
Google that Ramen noodle soup oddie. It's twenty three eighty nine. Gee,
that looks good. Anyway, get in touch. What's the limit
for secret Sander this year? Is twenty dollars too much?
Or is that about right? I guess it's different in
different parts of the country, But I would have thought
with everyone buying on Temu, things would be cheaper. Is

(07:41):
everyone buying on Temu? I imagine? So you get amongst
at eight hundred and eighty Teddy and nineteen nine to
text title twelve, looking forward to what you've got to say.
It's a hoodie, not an audie. I think I don't
know what it is. So hoodie. So hoodie that shaped

(08:02):
like a ramen noodle soup flavored. It's pretty good. I've
never seen one wearing one. Anyone, get in touch with
your limit some great texts. Twenty dollars is the going rate.
Sun got his boss a personalized snow globe with his picture,

(08:25):
and I'll tell you what with Timmu in these websites,
the quality has gone up, Marcus. I hate secret Sanders.
I always end up with the most thoughtless junk soaps
a all. It's embarrassing to open a crap present, Sue.
One year, I got cotton buds, so I have partaken.
I was given them. I didn't buy anything in return, Marcus,

(08:47):
do you really mean twenty dollars a minimum? Don't have
a problem with twenty, but surely it should be a maximum.
I thought that's what Secret sand was all about. I
e Maximum spend. Marcus. Something a new workplace this year
There is a twenty dollars limit, and apparently they swap
and swap is in capitals you buy Prezzy for no

(09:07):
one in particular. And I've already been warned that there
are two women who usually fight over the wine bottle
shaped present. Should be interesting. I should do an intervention.
Jenet's Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Hi, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Thank you, jen really good.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I have a question for you. How much would you
to spend on a Christmas gift?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
And the secret Sander situation? Yes, yeah, I guess whatever
the going raters, But I've never worked, but I'd also
realize that that was just money gone because I'd end
up with something appalling.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, and I kind of feel.

Speaker 5 (09:50):
The same way too, so the way that we've kind
of said it, and because I've worked in Cortorate for such.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
A long time. If I get someone that I actually
really like, I might spend a little bit more than
the five dollar limits or something. Yes, But if it's
someone that I also don't like, might also spend a little.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Bit more just to give them their just desserts. If
that makes sense?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Wow, what does just desserts look like? What do you
mean with why would you spend more for just desserts?

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well?

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay makes sense to me, But if you don't like it.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Well, it just wouldn't say just we just we killed
them with kind of that's what I thought, that's what
I thought you were angling. Yeah, we did give them
alltle bit too much and then they make them feel
sad and sorry that they were a little.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Bit of an us if I can say that on that.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
You know a scene next Tuesday to us that was
like kind of the perfect timing to be able to
be like, well, okay, now you actually.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
I just have I have problems with all these shops
full with absolute junk.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Oh yes, I do too.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
And I think the two and I think Secret Center
enables them in some ways. And people will be going
there all this month with ten twenty dollars and buying
stuff that will be in the landfall within a week.
And it's heartbreaking. But that's just what people see. People
people like buying stuff. It gives them a thrill. But yeah,
I think it's heartbreaking.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Yeah, And you know what though, it's it's to be
honest in my opinion too though, like everyone in the
world loves like three things doesn't move off.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
It's toilet paper.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
Or tickets or something. If you hear that you've won
something or you've gotten something, it's given to you as
a guest or something.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
I think we just really, really really thrive on that.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Okay, I think I'd rather have a situation where you
bought your own secret center, but that sounds protectedly out
of the spread of Christmas. Another Vanessa last year and
my partner probably she has never ever, she has never
probably even heard of a secret center. She wasn't wouldn't
want to be involved with. I mean, I don't. I
don't know how she finds so many to be connected with.

(12:18):
But anyway, I think last year doing the eggs, sure
that she brought the eggs for people in the secret Center.
That went quite well. And she told me, because there
are secret center variations when you can swap it's got
a different name, the secret center variation, and it's called
Evil Center or something where you can swap them. Yeah,

(12:42):
I don't even know what. Is it called the one
where you can actually either open something else or is
it called hot potato secret Center? I don't know, But
she brought the eggs, yeah, and most people nageled their
way that it became quite competitive for the eggs. Oh,

(13:04):
dirty center, it's a dirty central. The Yankee swap and
you can steal from one another. But when she was
playing the Yankee swap with the dirty sand of people,
one of the eggs. But that was during the great
egg shortage of twenty twenty three. Remember that, Oh, Marcus,

(13:28):
what are you get some of the eggs? People bring
up talk about where do you get the eggs? What
do you get eggs? We get eggs getting touch Secret
Sanders twenty dollars the fair amount, Tina, love your Tina. Hi,
Marcus h Christmas was really pleased you've voiced your honest

(13:49):
opinion about this time of the year. Showing respect. Of course,
if people could fill in a survey anonymously, I said
about eighty percent would agree. Yeah, we are over retailed
in New Zealand per population. I think this is just
in general for Christmas. I think I'm just talking about

(14:11):
the Secret Center. So there we go. But what about
the twenty backs limit? Does that seem a lot? And
I want to know what is it? You'll work in
the interesting variations. Yet, because love it or not, we
are we do seem to be in the Secret Center
time of the year. With that Secret Sander discussion. I
don't know anything about Black Friday, so I don't talk
about that. There looks to be a reinteresting article on

(14:35):
Daily Mail Truth about Timu. Shine Ol Express ordered the
same fifteen items from the shopping giants to find out
what's worth buying and a staggering revelation paywalled. Can you
weaken Magic on that? Dan Brilliant, Dan's on it, Deans
on it, eight hundred and eighty Taddy and nine two

(14:56):
nine two to text get in touch. By the way,
I think this year will be buying our courier presents
because you need us to always buy your present for
your post and the milkman or they've gone, so you've
got to buy a present for the courier. It looks
like hard work getting in out of that van, sliding
that door back and forward. And I don't think people

(15:17):
have pivot enough to the career, so I don't know
what you get them. Just give them something on Temu
probably got to be very familiar with delivering this stuff.
I reckon it's half their market, Marcus, where is secret
center at work? The dealers twenty five max and the
item has to be off tu as you get more
bang for your buck. I bought a one piece multifunctional

(15:40):
solar powered camping light, portable, strong emergency work light with
modile light sources, mobile phone charging, outdoor charging capably perfect
for camping, hiking, and emergency situations. Have a good night, Hamish.
Can you tell Ethan Dan at the quiz night that
some people in the secret tender? Is the trend this
year is it's a twenty five dollars limit and it's

(16:02):
got to be bought from Temu because you get more
bang for your buck. Goodness, me imagine that. I meagine
making it that there's one place you've got to buy
everything from. Hi, Mel, Yeah, yeah, beautifully loud and clear.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
Hi, Hey, first time caller. I was just listening to
your show on the way home in my car. Now
I'm parked. But this secret center thing, I remember in
the day we'd all have secret center and.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
It was all lovely.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
But our company it's a secret center and we're all together,
we're having laugh but we're all donating our money to
agreed charity. So the twenty dollars or the five dollars
or the ten and I don't know that makes us
all feel good?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Did Was it easy to agree on the charity?

Speaker 5 (16:59):
I think?

Speaker 10 (16:59):
So?

Speaker 11 (17:01):
You know.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
It actually was, and I worked with eighty people, and you.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Know, sometimes there's two charities, but everyone feels good and
whatever they want to donate, whether it be five dollars,
because twenty dollars is a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Nice to hear from your mouth. Thank you for that
twenty out away from nine. For a while there, I
was buying a goat for a village in Africa. But
then I think they did the deep dive and the
goats were getting there, and it was a bit of
a scam, and it was slightly tokenistick. And you know,
how does these days villagers are supposed to help themselves
buying a goat. No one got the goat. The goat
was expensive to own. It just didn't work. Nice idea,

(17:39):
but as so often happens, nice I did didn't really
pan out. I've got a million texts, and all of
them of revery good. The Yankee swap, well, that would
be ba. That must be some sort of thing from
the Confederate War. Marcus, do you have an affiliate leak
for TIMU that you'll share later to give us all
twenty percent off? Marcus? When you say there's z'db phone, say, oh,

(18:05):
eight hundred and eighty instead of eight hundred ten eighty.
What's Italian? A previous workplace had a secret center and
we had to buy from a n op shop. Marcus,
our secret centers, you have to buy something from an
op shop, different texts. I'm not one to talk about

(18:25):
bucket lists, however, and despite me having such disdain for
Secret Center, I would like to invent a variation for
it that could be named the Marcus variation, a bit
like the Yankee sideways. But that's what I want to do,

(18:47):
But I don't quite know how to do that anyway,
the Yankee swap. I don't know what a good variation
would be. I guess they've all been thought of. Anyway,
we're on about Secret Center. Not at that time of
the year, Marcus. The exit was just north the Teedo
Golf Club, at the top of thehill with the passing laners.
I was there about fifteen minutes after it happened. That
from Grant, Well, that must have been a harrowing day

(19:09):
for you, Grant text from Martin Marcus. My daughter asked
if it was going to rain on Christmas Eve. I said,
why don't you ask Rudolph the ginger head bloke? Next door.
She said, why, I said, cause Rudolph the Red Nose

(19:30):
rein deer very good. We don't know why people suddenly
texting jokes get in touch secret center of the variations
and the limit because the news talks, well is it
the news talks said, was that the Herald news talks,
he'd be the News talks, He'd be Herald combined. Secret
Sender has a twenty dollars minimum. Sounds like a casino.

(19:52):
We got to buy in like a minimum hend for
blackjack a minimum And there's reasons for that. We just
don't know what they are yet. Because the guy's at
the pub quiz, who's does a pub quiz? I thought
we've all moved on to escape rooms anyway, that's the

(20:12):
other bucket list for me. Inventor invented doing a scape room.
But it's a long way away at the stage. Bob
AT's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 12 (20:21):
Yeah, I believe, well a secret Sander, I believe the
same sort as you. We shall on the bakery, and
obviously if everyone else was buying one, you felt compelled
to buy one, and it was just like a junk
one was a bottle ope no that they bought me.
I can't think one I bought the other people but
you know, four of people, four out of five, we're

(20:41):
going to buy one. You feel compelled, you have to
buy it. And it's just more junk from the junk
shops usually.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
And it's not like you go to anyone's house and
you say, what's that lovely thing you got there on
the mentel piece. They say, oh, well that's funny. I
got that for secret sand To five years ago. Because
they're not those they're not those sorts of things, are you.

Speaker 12 (20:59):
No, No, they're just rubbish that the Landsall.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
And I thought at a bakery you get something interesting,
but clearly not like a cookie cutter or something.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
No.

Speaker 12 (21:08):
I got a bottle open in the one year. I
can't remember what I got. The other year, I can't
even remember what I bought. It was selling to libigant
for five dollars. That was the limit they put on.
You can't buy Marshall's like bucks.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Mind, Joe, I suppose we will all miss it when
we retire. Will be the secret send.

Speaker 12 (21:25):
In Bob, I'll by myself something.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
What's your what's your love?

Speaker 2 (21:30):
It?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
You go by yourself a five dollars piece of jug
just to feel it. You're bakery sheep. Yeah, not dear
from your bob. I think trying to think I've got
any baking questions for you. It's good to speak to
a baker Secret Center. You don't know what the twist
is on the Secret ser I'm pretty sure I do
the show every year, Watch the Twist Marcus, me and

(21:54):
a friend to catch up on Christmas night after the festivities.
And we've done this for thirty years. The budget has
grown and it's now fifty dollars. There has to be
fifty dollars of toys from the warehouse. It's normally competitive
racing matchbox cars down the hill, but one year was
a foam powered rocket air powered rocket which went so

(22:15):
high and ended up across the road in a tree.
Fifteen years later. It's still up in that tree. By
the way, I did google this yes day because I
though it was gonna be Yesterday's topic before the concord
got got legs. But I googled when Secret Research is
googling same thing. I googled when Secret Center started, and

(22:39):
they really didn't start until nineteen seventy nine by Larry Stewart.
But I think that was more giving it to Randos. Yeah, anyway,
I think it's important that we work out. Maybe people
have always done at the workplace. I don't know. I

(23:01):
don't know. Do you get in touching on talk one
of his Marcus had twelve fifteen nine? There's something different
you want to mention? Good? Remind me to get my
drink out of the freezer. I put in the freezer
because it wasn't cold. I'm scared it's going to shatter.
How long would that take to freeze and break? So

(23:24):
there is elevated arstic levels detected an Auckland's water and
Hamilton's water that's coming out of the way Cato, I presume.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
No.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I won't say what would cause that? I think arstic
is naturally occurring? Is it in some rocks? Marcus? I
managed to get someone a plastic ice hockey mask and
tiger is and tail for under five dollars? Marcus? What
about staff gifts from the company? Some company employees not
giving out the end of year gifts anymore? That's right.

(23:58):
I think they've stopped. I don't know why they've stopped. Marcus.
A couple of scrub daddies in the secret Sander best
present ever? Yeah, by the way too, I've had a
lot of discussions with people about scrub daddies. A lot
of people have got in touch. They've bought the wrong ones.
It's got to be a scrub daddy. A lot of

(24:19):
budget ones that don't have the same properties and they're
almost as much. So if you go to the warehouse
or might attend to be a bin with imitation scrub daddies,
avoid those, please terrible. By the way, this person that's
in charge of the secret center. The reason it's a

(24:42):
twenty dollars minimum is that last year there was some
discontent in the office over some of the gifts. It
was a fifteen dollar maxim on it, and some people
went regifting and super cheap chocolates. What does that mean
that right? Oh so yeah, people went into it. That's
giving crappy chocolates or regifted from stuff from last year. Yeah,

(25:05):
that's not the spirit. You want to get their names
ethan and bend them. I reckon it should be a
situation if you're not wanting. They wouldn't know who's put
those things in, would they.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh goodness to Minefield. I tell what the regift always
it's always as dreadful chocolates. What are they called celebrations
or something cheapest? Those horrible ones that none of them
are worth eating. Listen to me, goodness something You've got
enough to eat. But that's what Christmas does, didn't it?
Seven away from nine Mardy, Have you got an update

(25:35):
on the extended Tino for us?

Speaker 13 (25:38):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (25:38):
The rider's still shut.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (25:40):
When I was making stage today, I'm I'm pretty sure
I saw about SIPs going over. Yeah, my round blarm
towards the crash site crash when you were doing what
when I was silence?

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Okay? And just a farm in question for you. You've
got a three wire electric fence, you know, the white
thing with a wire in it. If you break that,
can you just retire it? Will I make that circuit?
We need to actually replace it?

Speaker 14 (26:07):
Yeah, just just retie fine and long. There's some feel touching,
some feel I want to I want to pick it
with bailing times I've just made making will be fine?

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Okay, good, that's what inside secret center. Oh hang on,
just back to that extent. Is that excellent hot that's
not the roundabout that was because there's always extants there.
But this is a new place, right, So I just.

Speaker 14 (26:33):
I was just meeting with transit today and we haven't
had one accident since I started filling yet, but but
we don't have a big one today. This is passing
way by the cousin's farm to start the sear course
and yeah, the tracky spot, but that you know, that
that little road between the roundabout, the two million dollar roundabout,

(26:54):
and here it's getting the the cheese cheese greater safety
wire down the middle.

Speaker 15 (27:02):
Of the road.

Speaker 14 (27:03):
Okay, so I think I'm pretty sure I'm that up
that excellent probably wouldn't have happened.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, okay, okay, so they okay, okay, secret centers.

Speaker 14 (27:14):
Oh yes, we have quite extreme ones in our family
and so many people, so just fine, Christmas thieve our
immediate family does a twenty dollars and I tried to
increase the price of the year, but no one will
let me do it. So it's pretty hard to do it.
A good twenty dollars present. Strinquation and inquation.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
So what were you What were you routing, Marty? Were
you going twenty five or thirty?

Speaker 14 (27:40):
I'm going thirty or forty yere forty.

Speaker 13 (27:44):
A decent present.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
So hang hang on, Marty, your kids have all got
part time jobs too now, so they're actually should be
buying better stuff, shouldn't they.

Speaker 14 (27:55):
Yeah, yeah, well it's just hard to that twenty dollars
present is pretty hard. Like if we go to a
birthday party, but you really need to get a good
special at the warehouse, thirty games or something like that,
but come up with it a twenty dollars something rather.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Than I'm hearing you.

Speaker 14 (28:13):
Be that's not what it's used to be. But I've
got a truck, I've bought a crappy president and I've
left up line around the house.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
And run.

Speaker 14 (28:21):
But I've kept the receipts, and I'm going to go
back on time on Black Friday and then make it
rain and something different.

Speaker 13 (28:28):
Stuff.

Speaker 14 (28:28):
Got a depot?

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Where will you go on Black Friday? I don't even
know anything about it?

Speaker 8 (28:36):
The warehouse?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Okay? These so there wouldn't be a warehouse and mutter
matter is there?

Speaker 10 (28:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (28:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (28:44):
Really really yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Any fast food places?

Speaker 14 (28:52):
Oh, cash cast there, McDonald's.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, you see good to hear terrible lie? Don't we
do running ches in the background. What I shall do
is i shall re what I'm going to do tonight
as I'm going to rework the topics slightly. So I'd
like to give up on a topic before it's done
its dash because I am convinced and I am bought
in to the topic a secret center, and huge ups

(29:21):
to the guy that runs our secret center, because he's
quite right. What's happened is people just coming with junk,
they regive something and they play the play the whole
Yankee sideways and then what they're doing is the Yankee swap.
And what they're doing is then coming in with a
box of old celebration chocolates and going over something gold.

(29:43):
So I think it's an extremely good idea to put
a lower limit. It's a minimum of twenty bucks to
be involved in our and I think it's fantastic now
that it's been explained to me, because there's been a
race to the bottom people coming with junk and walk
away with the gold. So I am committed to this topic.
By the way, on Temu, you can buy a secret

(30:04):
Center exchange dice and you roll the dice and it
says things like swap gifts with anyone, swap with person
on your right, everyone passed to the left, everyone passed
to the right. Swap stop gift is yours Now I
can't see what's on the other side of the dice

(30:24):
because it's not. But that would be quite interesting thing
to make Secret send them more interesting.

Speaker 13 (30:31):
Now.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
But so since some committed to this topic, what I
do want to ask you about before I give up
on it is has anyone ever got anything from Secret
Center that's been life changing? Might have been an oven merchant,
might have been it might have been something you never
thought of it it's actually changed your life as opposed

(30:55):
to Playboy bunny is or something like that. So if
you had one that absolutely changed your life, let us
know what that is. Phone that through. Otherwise have to
get into some more serious topics for tonight. But yeah,
I like to give the odd secret Sander a good
going over. I mean as a topic eight one hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine nine two to text Marcus.

(31:20):
Last year we had a stealing Secret Sanda. It was
heaps of fun, Jennifer Marcus. I work at Calendar Girls
and we have one hundred dollars limit for our Secret Sander,
but must be sped at peaches and Cream. Wow, Marcus.
The sludge that comes from the water filters at Tuaco,
where Auckland gets its water from the Waka do is
dumped as toxic material behind Hampton Downs and landfill. It's

(31:44):
full of all the heavy metals from the Waka told
Jeer thermal based materials. That's from Greg Brilliant. So there
we go. And the best thing ever you've got from
the Secret Sander, the thing that has been life changing?
Where'd you get that?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Soo? Well?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Funny should mention that it was just a throwaway gift
from the Secret Sander. It has changed my life because
poo we listening, Gee, we're buy that? Do I want
to be buying? It's where a scrub daddy might kick
And so you got some answer for that, you're on
the right show. The other thing that I do want
to put there in the topic, and this doesn't mean

(32:19):
the I'm not committed to Secret Sander. I'm desperate to
get this for good to four hours, but I think
probably I'm up against it. By the way, my drink
and a glass bottle that was in the freezer at work.
It was only in there for an hour. I went
to get it during the break and it stuck to
the bottom. I managed to cleave it, but gee, that
was I thought it was going to smash in my hand.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
So there we go.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Make what you will have that. Oh, by the way,
and just with the work Secret Center for the ZB one,
it's the version where you're given a specific person to
buy for and you can ask them to post interests, hobbies, ideas, etc.

(33:02):
That's heartbreaking. It's one that's that far and someone's just
regifting chocolate from last year. That really shows the media
is in trouble. You weren't part of that where you're Dan. No,
Dan doesn't play. Marcu's best Secret Center gift were tossed
tongs toast tongs. They are the best getting the hot

(33:22):
toast out of the toaster. I think they are wooden tongs.
I bought those one year, but I don't know where
they are now. That tongues are fine for the toast
to get the toast out of the toaster, but they
do get stuck in the cutlery drawer. You don't want
tongs any weeyed the cutlery drawer because they they unwind
in the cutlery drawer then you can't open it. Marcus

(33:43):
got a pizza stone for the oven one year. Best
thing ever. Cheers Mike. I'd prefer these as calls, so
if you want to come through about that, that would
be good. The other thing Wisport really surprised to see this.
They are now talking not right away, but they're talking

(34:07):
about about moving Westport and they're going to move it
south of the river. It's not gonna happen instantly, but
it's gonna happen gradually, which I don't know how I
feel about. I love Westport, but that's the plan now.
They've been discussing that at council. A draft master plan

(34:31):
has been proposed to move the town to vacant land,
the government owned Pamu land Cook Farmland, southwest of its
current location, and there's kind of lakes there. It looks
all right, you're still quite close to the river, but yeah,

(34:52):
huge cost. But otherwise is going to be a huge
cost to put in floodbanks and stuff like that. So
if you're on Westport, what's your feeling of that. It's
said to be similar to the Hobsonville Land Company, which
housing is in a quite a former military defense Air
Force to create housing in west Auckland. So they've got
a safeul turn at site nearby and they're looking at

(35:15):
moving it there. It's not a bad idea. I guess
you put the school there and you do what you can.
You sell properties, people move there. There's all some chances
wanting to move to the coast. Next thing you're not.
You've got a brand new town. I'm sure it's happened before.
I'm not quite sure what the what the president there for?

(35:36):
That is Marcus best secret sounding gift I received was
a small leather man pocket knife. Attached it to my
car keys. It came in really handy, very good mark,
Good evening and welcome. It's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Hello, Yeah, hello, I want to talk about the arsenic.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
And the police. Yep, you rang the right show.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
The good people of Hamilton Latron are drinking and also
the people in Auckland are drinking as well, which I
think is disgusting. Yeah. Well, I've got an idea. Many
years ago, I was an operator on the Right Eye
power station, and back in those days, I sort of wondered,
why is the water in Wakamaru Lake ice and blue?

(36:19):
And when you look over into Right Eye, it's sort
of a gray color, and it's the same all the
way down the river, down the character and beyond the
water is sort of a gray color. So I went
for a tour in my little ten foot aluminium dinghy
around the Lake of Marti. One day I came across

(36:40):
two big pipes coming out of the hillside and pouring
what I call black tea into the lake. And I
found out these pipes come from kin Leath, and I
often wondered why putting that horrible stuff into the river.
In my opinion, what goes into the river should be

(37:01):
drinkable before it goes in to be treated. I've been
doing it for years from Kinley and yeah, it then
it's up from Lake Maritai and of course it into
the that's the white cast part of the Waikana River.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
How far is it from to Lake Maritai.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Oh, probably about as the crow flies, probably ten or
twelve miles. Okay, Yeah, because because Mariai is very close
to nam the little township on the side, and then
the road goes into that.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Seems to be that seems to be the explanation. Is that?
Is that because arsenic is naturally occurring, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah? I don't know where. I don't know what to
be out I think, except I know it's highly poisonous.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Yeah, I think it's I think it's actually I think
it's naturally occurring. I think I hear did on the
news today. But I don't know why it would suddenly
start going into that water supply if it hasn't in
the past, what they would have changed.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
I'd like to know what that what's in that black
tea that's coming out of Kenley?

Speaker 3 (38:12):
How did you know it came from Kinley?

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I made some inquiries to find out and I was
told that that's the discharge from Kinley. Really, So yeah,
there's two big pipes are on the on the eastern
side of Lake Marita, and two big pipes they must

(38:35):
be about four hundred in diameter each and there's two
of them and they were just being out black tea.
It was all black around the area all day. But
they spilled into the lake.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
And that's coming from the pulp and paper mill.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yes, well can left the big, pretty big mill used
to employ over a thousand people. I think it's about
for everyone to take her are like nowadays.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, that's kind of quite I mean that. Yeah, I
mean I don't know if because I I don't know
why the levels would suddenly have spiked if it's always
been doing that. So you're not saying that's the cause.
But you're curious about that, are you?

Speaker 13 (39:15):
I am.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I'm not going to drink any more water over here,
Hamilton City. I'll bring my own water in. I'm not
drinking any more water out of them.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I think probably if you bought if it, would it
boord out if they said to board it in the.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Stays in your system. I not, that's next stage in your.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Accumulate.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
It accumulates. Yes, it's like victory accumulates. I won't be
drinking any more water from Hamilton. Oh yeah, okay, yeah,
I'll bring it in from Woody.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Seems surprising that they still put that into the Aukland
has drink that water as well. I kind of find
that kind of amazing.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I wouldn't be drinking it in Lookland.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Well, I still think that. I mean, isn't surage put
into it at certain places?

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yet there is at horror to horror to freezing weeks.
They just arge into the river, the Wiketa River also
the sewerage system.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
This jadges in but doesn't seem ideal, does it.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, I don't like the idea. I don't think there
should be anything that goes into the river should be drinkable. Otherways.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
It don't go in there and all that runoff and
all those damn carp the rivers full of carp and
that's a bad thing. But worries me.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Yeah, there's a lot of smelting there as well.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Yeah, I don't know what the smelt is.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's like a white bait, looks like is it bad
for you?

Speaker 11 (40:39):
Though?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
No, No, people eat it. I'm into the people getting it.
When I was a white paper, I remember people coming
at different times for the year and getting heaps of it,
scooping up heaps of it, and thought it was like
white bait.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
They hate it.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Okay, if you stop walking, you start drinking waters. Did
you heard that about the arsenic.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, stopped straight away. I'm not drinking anymore Hamilton water.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Okay, nice to hear you, mate. I'll get more information.
I'll get to see if they say what you should
do if you would drinking water. I have been emails
from people about that. This is what the media release
from the White from Water Care to drinking water supplies

(41:24):
who treat water from the whet the river have reported
to Daway slightly elevated levels of arstek and recent samples
there was no immediate risk. The maximum acceptable value for
arsenic is point zero one milligrams per liter. Water Care
reported a result tomata of zero point one one milligrams
through up ten percent over what's permissible. There was point zero,

(41:50):
point zero one one three and point zero one one five.
Both water providers followed standard procedure notifying the Agency of
keeping It informed as to their operational response. Further testing.
Someping has been carried out and DAWA will receive the
results of these tomorrow. Previous samples taken here in the

(42:11):
month by both water supplies all showed levels of arstic
below the level or below the limit and the drinking
water standards people in some doctor from the National Public
Health Services doctor William ranges people who are drinking water
source from the Waikato do not need to be alarmed.
The limits in New Zealand drinking water stands are based
on the level of risk from a lifetime of drinking

(42:34):
the water. Arsenic is known to be elevated in the
Waikato primary due to geothermal activity. We undertake monthly fresh
water testing on the Waikatol Testing was last carried out
in seven November and the arctic levels were not unusual.
These levels are typically above the drinking water standard, which

(42:56):
is why treatment is required before drinking water is supplied
to the household. And it's from this point on where
it gets confusing. They're treating it out of it then. Anyway,
that's a situation, So it's geo thermal activity. I believe lads,
they keep your text through nine two nine to if

(43:17):
there's something else you want to talk about, askedmc Westport
and secrets, and that's a three so far. Marcus, A
pig pen, A pig penny is a good prison, and
you wouldn't drop your pigs. Marcus. My sister worked in
the Kodak factory and put it on a when the
Arab was exit happened. Police guarded the film development room,

(43:39):
which wreaked of aviation fuel, and she has never got
over the task of developing passengers photos taken before impact. Wow,
that's a pretty amazing kind of a memory. Yeah, they
would have had all those because Yeah, I've even seen

(44:03):
I've even seen film footage from on board the plane,
which was extraordinary. The secret center. We've tried the variations
on that. If there was a life saving thing you
ever got given from that, I suspect there probably wasn't
the variations and the upper limit in your workplace this
year twenty dollars minimum to avoid the junk. I think

(44:26):
maybe you should say it should be something handmade. Why
I suppose everything ultimately is handmade. We are looking for
the variations that might save Secret Center the scourge for
most of us. I feel freaked out, but I don't
even work in a workplace like that. So yeah, anyway,

(44:46):
there are things like the Yankee swap. We complications with that,
so so far aquent to text one person's Secret Sander workplace.
Every gift has to be there's a twenty buck minimum,
and every gift has to be brought from Temu because
it's where you get banged for your buck. It's a

(45:08):
pretty heartbreaking criticism of the retail sector, isn't it that
it's got to be from Temu? Everything else is too
expensive anyway, So there's that Westport moving to south of Westport,
so it wouldn't be Westport, it would be not so
Westport asstic in the water. Anything else you got, Clearly

(45:29):
we're short of topics tonight. I've done my best. If
you've got something else, want to mention chuck into the mix.
That's hear from you. I don't know what it is,
but it'd be good to hear from it from you
on it people as we sort of feel we get
into that Christmas beginning part of Christmas kind of discussion.
That's what I sense. Fantastic weather right around the country,

(45:50):
still spring, but yeah, cracking into it. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. But you'd be very interested in Westport.
Get in touch, as I say, Fiona at some Marcus
good evening.

Speaker 13 (46:10):
Yeah, how are ye really good?

Speaker 8 (46:12):
Thank you, that's good listening about we support. I've just
moved back to Taraniki from we Sport. I lived here
for many years, and I'm concerned about where the government's
going across the town's going up Elma Roadway because that
land is massport Land is actually right next to all
the pylons. But if they went out where the semen

(46:35):
where were, it would be great.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
How far how far away from the pylons are they.

Speaker 8 (46:43):
Well, there's a few paddocks if you're going up towards
the junction that goes down to Graymouth. So if they
went throughther Away then they could still be okay. If
you went like maybe two k's away from there on,
but over feeling that they've already cleared a lot of
land up there, and I suspect that's where they're going
to put them.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
But I would, yeah, I would thought if you're moving
a town on that it wouldn't be too hard to
move the pylons as well, would it to make it.
That's what That's what I imagine they would probably do.
They chucked the they chuck it underground or something? Would
they what?

Speaker 2 (47:19):
What?

Speaker 10 (47:20):
What?

Speaker 13 (47:21):
What did have to do it?

Speaker 8 (47:22):
Because because they've got to get it across the river, they.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Could just have it. They have it underground. They just
come up to what was that land used for?

Speaker 8 (47:34):
Well, we're it's some farming training, you know, like.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Recruit So it was it dairy land? Was it dairy
farming land?

Speaker 8 (47:43):
And at one pace there was a whole lot of
trees there, So I don't know what that was used
for that state.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
It looks like quite a nice it looks like quite
a nice location for the town. And it's still quite
handy to Carter's Beach, is still handy to the river.

Speaker 8 (47:58):
And yeah, which is god?

Speaker 10 (48:00):
Is it is?

Speaker 3 (48:01):
It's slightly elevated, is it?

Speaker 13 (48:05):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (48:07):
Which is good. And somebody was saying something about west Well,
it's only west because it's west of the South Island,
so the town east of the Border river. So they're
going to come over to the west side and talking
south with its Actually that block that starts heading towards
Greymouth when you take the turn off away from miss Orger.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Yeah, now I'm looking at it even looks further west
from Westport to it that that the way the river goes.
Why did you move away from the Fiend family? Yeah? Okay,
But are people in Westport worried about the town or
are they pretty laid back about it?

Speaker 8 (48:42):
No, we had two weekends in the road just recently.
I actually put the caravan and I went up to
where the lookouts, you know where the nighthouses. They had
a cape felons just so I could be elevated. Oh okay, Yeah,
seriously from the flood where I used to live, which
is at the other end of town, in the area
where they shouldn't have built, and they knew they shouldn't

(49:04):
have built. That's sort of like economic people live here. Yeah,
it up on the news all the time.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Are any of those houses abandoned?

Speaker 8 (49:14):
The most of them. That means to really do these
A few that have been bulldozed over and if they heads,
the new ones has gone up on still.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Yeah, and just tell me if you which part of
the town did you say that is?

Speaker 8 (49:30):
And it down Cold Street on Blank Street, Well it's
a rental street. Those are the ones that end up
on the news. The ones doing by the river itself.
I feel sorry for them down by the reserves, they
always ended up on the news. Yeah, and a course
to the ones going down towards the river, down by
the horse place, you know with the pony clovers. Yeah, yeah,

(49:52):
because the actually no gathers there at all.

Speaker 9 (49:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
So you say it flooded there recently. I thought I
wently flooding the news recently.

Speaker 8 (50:01):
No, you didn't make it onto the news.

Speaker 10 (50:03):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Well, there's the trouble the news. They get sick of stories,
don't they. Certainly Westport's the same mind as it's new
the army are involved, they don't.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
And unless the only gid l they don't want to
know now. But I saw an image of the Hawkes
Crack and once again the river was right up to
there where the road barriers are in its twelve meters
at that height. Yeah, so another meter and they would
have had to basically evacuate town again.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
Okay, nice to hear from you if you thanks that
seventeen A wave. Every time I look at it on Google.
It beautifully located, beautifully laid out town. Love it just
the same the river, as I guess the tide comes up,
it doesn't and you've got the Yeah, it's complicated, I
think probably the way that one drains. Welcome people. My
name is Marcus hid On Midnight eight hundred and eighty ten,
eighty nine to nine to the text you want to

(50:53):
come through Westport, Secret Centers and arstic in the water.
They are just suggestions. You might have the better topic.
And God, we'll love to hear from you, Marcus. Westport
could be called Southwestport Northwestport. Fifty years ago, we sold
lemonade bottles four cents for the bo wells two for

(51:15):
the Yes. I think the labor was going to bring
in the bottle exchange system, but that's gone. And now
I see the UK government they've overwhelmingly voted in favor
of banning tobacco and vapes, so they have bought in
the phased smoking ban, which they obviously got the idea

(51:40):
from the Labor government in New Zealand, and there was
overwhelming support for this. MPs have backed the plans to
make it illegal. Pretty one currently aged fifteen or younger
to ever buy cigarettes in the UK seem to be
a very progressive and effective bit of legislation that national overturned.

(52:07):
It's past its first comments heard all four fifteen to
forty seven. Unbelievable. So yes, the age you can buy
cigarettes will just go up and up and up and up.
So all those people fifteen now will never get to
buy cigarettes. All vapes, I think all vapes now. Someone

(52:35):
has googled me, well, here's it. Something interesting this is
and I've checked this up and as I have to,
someone has texted me people and they've said, do you
realize Dunedin is already west of Westport? Unbelievable And the
guy's right. So if you take a line from Westport

(52:56):
straight down, I imagine it comes out kind of Geraldine.
Even Timidou is west of Westport. It's great a bit
of information. It's a great bit of information. I think
christ Dutch is west of New Plymouth also, which comes
up occasionally and quizzes. Neil Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 17 (53:17):
In nineteen seventy eight, I was employed by the DRI
to do a specialist technician job on a new, brand
new aeration treatment pond behind tr mod too Cold and
gr Mood to Dairy Factory because up to that point,
all the tankers that came late dalues their milk and

(53:38):
also all the chemical A lot of that sodium was
going into the wake at a river, so we bypassed that.

Speaker 15 (53:45):
I had to.

Speaker 17 (53:46):
Monitor at ten hours a day and then do two
hours calculations at night on a programmable computer. What's DRI
there on Neil DRI is Jerry Research Institute.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Okay, so what was going in the water?

Speaker 17 (54:05):
Chemical, sodium, carbonates, excess way whole milk. If they couldn't
take the tinker at.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
That time, I think, I think when you've got to
dump a lot of milk in a hurry, I think
it's quite a bad thing for waterways, isn't it? Or
even for land it's kind of quite toxic, not toxic,
but sort of well.

Speaker 17 (54:24):
I saw fish come to the surface and basically just
cark it so very much motivated me to keep at
the job.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yeah, what's what fish would come. What fish were there
where they came?

Speaker 9 (54:34):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (54:35):
Yeah, jud fish is a bad thing?

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Did fish aren't good?

Speaker 17 (54:44):
Yeah, this is not a new occurrence at all.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
No, that's then'll be why they monitor it.

Speaker 17 (54:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
I still can't work out why Auckland can't be self
sufficient from water without using the river from the Whitekata
with all the hun and the white Tarkis. So I
don't know what's going on there.

Speaker 17 (55:02):
M look Aukan's and mess or why here these dases?
It's all miss.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
You probably haven't been there for twenty years of your kniel.

Speaker 10 (55:09):
No, that's true.

Speaker 17 (55:10):
But are stories are his stories? It's not good to
see I remember.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, but you know you hear stuff on the media.
I mean there's you know, there's some beer. I'll be
walking bashing Neil. But nice to hear from you. Hello, Helen,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (55:24):
Are you evening, Marcus? I'm this a bit of historical trivia.
But they had they had to move the town of
gunder Guy in New South Wales back in about eighteen
forty five. They were warned that they warned that where
they were building the flood Throne, and they just took
no notice. Yeah, original people warned them, and so they

(55:48):
had two big floods and then they moved it.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Wow, yeah, did they move it far.

Speaker 16 (55:57):
I don't know where how far away they moved it,
but they moved it up. Must have been sort of
sort of helly or something around there, and so they
sort of moved us up the hill or whatever.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
I don't know much about Gunda Guy, but it comes
up on stories a lot does. As soon as you said,
I know it's a fit on the road to Gunda
Guy or something that road the.

Speaker 16 (56:19):
Dog on the tacka box, but that the Muran Bidgie
floods really floods. When it goes, it really really rises,
and so they just got sort of wiped out a
couple of times. And on his end and they but
apparently the Aboriginal people have been warning them since seventeen
ninety nine about building on this flood flood prone land.

(56:42):
You know, we're all over the.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Place, you know, So they just went across the river today.
It looks like, is that right.

Speaker 16 (56:50):
I don't know exactly where. I don't really know exactly where,
but you know, I sort of came across these sort
of you know this fact when I was doing some research.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
You know, have you been to it?

Speaker 16 (57:02):
Oh, well, I've been to Gunda guy when I'm probably
about twelve or something like that. The trove newspapers are
full of all this info, really interesting information. You know,
if anybody sort of wants to sort of, you know,
look up anything, it's packed with wonderful newspaper articles.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
I've never thought about going to go, but now I'm evocative. Name.

Speaker 16 (57:25):
Yeah, there are of course lots of errors in the newspapers,
you know, but yeah, it's a treasure trove of information
in those newspapers. And if you want to read them,
you're just type in, Well, how I used to get
it was an LA newspapers. But I think if you

(57:47):
try to type in trove you'll get We'll get onto it.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
What are you What are you researching, Helen?

Speaker 16 (57:53):
Well, I haven't been doing anything for a while, but see,
my family came out, you know, various lines of my
family came out sort of very early on, and started
off started off doing research in to my family history
and then kind of got much more interested in what

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was actually happening with with you know, the colonial you know,
what was happening to the Aboriginal people and the convicts
and all that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Oh okay, So if you've got some Australian history and
you're and your well I am Australian.

Speaker 16 (58:30):
I know I'm still Australian.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
What are the chances?

Speaker 16 (58:33):
Sorry, yeah, but no, Yeah, I had some early sentinels.
I mean shocking, shocking history of what what went on,
you know, terrible really, but yeah, I figured I had
to know. We didn't all sorts of stuff never learned
at school, you know, we didn't really learn anything very
much about what was really going on. Shocking really. But anyway,

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there if there's a town of Gunderguy in about eighteen
forty five, I.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Think we'll speak to someone. I think we'll put the
other those of things to talk about. We might speak
to someone that's been to Gundagay. I lived in Gundaga Underguy.
Gunder Guy. I don't know if I'm actually nating the pronunciation.
They're John Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 15 (59:14):
Good evening Marcus. Quite quite a concern, is it? Well,
where is it coming from.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
The ground.

Speaker 15 (59:28):
We don't have arsenic in this country as a natural mineral.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
How do you know?

Speaker 15 (59:35):
Having lived on cocimin Aglena did a lot of research
on it, Arsenic is not a natural thing in New Zealand,
same as luckian is not a natural thing in New Zealand.
We have lots of golden so like that, arthenic is
not a natural mineral for this country.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
I just thought it came from geothermal activity. No, what
says arsnic is released from various geothermal fields in the
central or thound of New Zealand.

Speaker 15 (01:00:10):
Well, I had an uncle who should work for the government,
and I called bullshit on that one. Wow, yes, sorry, yeah,
sorry about the language there.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
That's all right, But you called bullshit a.

Speaker 15 (01:00:30):
Very dangerous, very very dangerous chemical.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
So hang on to the ground, hang on. You have
done research, right, yep, And there's no arthenic in New Zealand.

Speaker 15 (01:00:44):
That's what I found. That's the research that I found.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Because according to the Attaga University attack of fuker Ihuwaka,
arsenic is one of the most common potentially toxic, toxic
trace metals in the New Zealand environment. It's a naturally occurring.

Speaker 15 (01:01:08):
It is an actually appearing element, but not in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Yes, in this country.

Speaker 15 (01:01:14):
We've got a lot of sulfur.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
No, we have got arsenic.

Speaker 15 (01:01:21):
I still question why it's being in the White Kattow River.
I always look way back in two thousand when they
thought they're going to put this pipe in for Auckland's water.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
I think I think it says it says most of
the arstic in the Wakata River comes from waste fluid
from the White Archie geothermal power station.

Speaker 15 (01:01:48):
Well, in that case, they need to revent the power station,
don't they.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
There's been a big there's been a big learning curve
for you. Do you say there's no arsenic? They talk
about them to re Where are you John?

Speaker 15 (01:01:59):
And awkward?

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Are you drinking the water?

Speaker 10 (01:02:02):
Not?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Now? What are you doing going to drink instead?

Speaker 15 (01:02:08):
On a big modify, I'm going to start drinking mat instead.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Brilliant. I know that's a good thing to do, John.
But thank you, Bernard Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:02:16):
Welcome they Marcus. Yeah, I just listening to your geothermal arsenic.
I employed a guy once who had been the manager
of the Wairaqi power station, the geothermal power station, and
they were looking at this is probably thirty years ago.
He was looking at the stage at that stage of

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injecting the geothermal waste back into the ground. I don't
know whether that ever happened, but the main reason for
that was because of the arsenic in the geo thermal water.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
What else is I wonder what else is coming out
of there?

Speaker 11 (01:02:57):
Yeah, I don't know that, but I do remember him
saying about the arsenic and that was I don't know
whether they do inject the geo therm will waste you know,
the steam that when it's just condensed back into the ground.
But they were looking at doing that. But from what
people are saying, if it's in the Waikato River, but

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there will be definitely where it's coming from.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
And I guess that's the easiest soul they think. I've
got a level, that's that's fine. We'll just what we'll
do is we will monitor it and if it goes up.
But I suppose the flows are low at the moment,
are they there? Has it been dry? I guess it
has been.

Speaker 11 (01:03:34):
I'm not. Oh no, there's been a bit of rain.
But the other thing is too there's geothermal activity on
the edge of Lake Taupo, so it's just naturally occurring. Yeah,
I don't know whether it's injecting arsenic into the water,
but it's certainly a potential for it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Now this is I'm just looking on Google the amount
of arsenic and parts. This is a story from two
thousand and three. The amount of arstic a parts of
the Wakata River is more than twice the interestally recommended
safely liits A water done of the Auckland Company water
Care put the level at zero point zero two five
per cubic meters downstream at white Ki. The water has

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had such levels since the power stations started operating in
the nineteen fifties. So it seems as though, oh, of
course we weren't drinking the water then, were we, because
it wasn't When did it start going Auckland.

Speaker 11 (01:04:27):
About two thousands or something like that, we guess, yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
It seems like it's always been elevated. That's probably why
they've started monitoring it now.

Speaker 11 (01:04:36):
I mean Hamilton drags the water out there for drinking,
Cambridge probably does, Narawahir, all the towns and cities, Huntly,
all beside the way cat I rather be dragging the
water out, but I think the water Care where they
pump the water out for Auckland, purifies it extremely well.

(01:05:00):
But whether they're able to take the arsenic out I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Maybe it might be difficult we know they do say
they remove it, don't they. I don't know how you
remove artic I look into that, Bernard, thank you good texts. Marcus.
There is arsenic and using in soil. When you have
a bore had one and one achy years ago. It
had to be tested all the time to ensure the
arstic levels were fit for human consumption. Haha, John, what

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a wally. His uncle that worked for the government told him,
smiley face, Arstik is in some Laurel trees. Marcus. Arstik
and mercury are the two ways to separate gold. Not
long ago, we had a mind bust It's burst its
waste into the rivers with arsenic in it. That try
that was near ah Waiquino. I think I had a

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girlfriend who almost poisoned herself drinking water down stream of
a geothermal arsenic vent in the Wayo Tapo thermal vent. Marcus.
After the earth quotes, our wells got damaged that to
be replaced in Tuahiwe. During the twinning of our new well,
the water was tested had arsenic in it, So the
world had to be drilled even deeper. For those that

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don't know to a Hiwe and I ite to Google it.
It's just near wood End and Kaiapoi home of Kaiapoi Karen,
who shall always live in my memory. Marcus I lived
in Australia for twenty years and visit Gunda Guy as

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a musician interested in Australian history after studying sociology out there.
Gudda Guy is most famous for the song on the
Road to Gunda Guy and the Dog Sits on the
tucker Box, sung by Diggers during the war. What do
you think a good Christmas gift is for your courier
that keeps coming to your house that you don't really know?
I'm thinking on of the criterias for courier. What's the
universal gift for a courier? Spend a lot of time

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in the car. They're getting in and out of the
car a lot, aren't they? What if someone needs it's
getting in out of the car A lot had to
mede you what a curry would like. Isn't it like
the universal courier gift? I guess it's booze, is it? Anyway?

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It was one of those would be Cassick covers. I
don't if they get I think they might have been
affected by the old Ebaggs oh, eight hundred and eighty today,
you've been to Gunda guy, Larry, No, haven't, Marcus, it
should say. On the way there, I was wondering.

Speaker 9 (01:07:39):
I was wondering what your fascination with.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
It was, because the hell I rang up before they
said they moved the town.

Speaker 9 (01:07:44):
Oh, I thought they moved the statue of the dog
at some stage.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Oh, they probably did.

Speaker 9 (01:07:52):
There was some one Pem's said, I reckon it was
five miles from Gundagai, and the other one it was
nine miles.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
What is this damn story about the dog and Gunda guy?
Could you tell me?

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
Well, it's the famous pem of sort of hardship, sort
of droving gays. There's a couple of versions of the palm.
One of them, ah, the line is looking after all
of the misfortunate of getting stuck with the bullocks and
all that sort of stuff, like the line used to be.

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Then the dog shedding the tucker box nine miles from
Gundi guy. But the other the other version was that
eventually the my time was with with your arsenic that
the dog took a bait uh it was being made
out for a dingos and stuff like that, and got
poisoned and and then they buried him in the tacker

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box nine miles from Gander Guy. My fascination with it
is I've only got one soon near Teaspoon.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
It's not gone, it's not Gunda guy.

Speaker 9 (01:09:01):
Is that I picked it up in a op shops
some years ago. The clichure of the and yeah, I
saw the one with the dog on the tucker box
and Gunder.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Guy, that's fantastic.

Speaker 9 (01:09:12):
And I keep it him office for steering for coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Yeah, well, I don't know that. I don't know the lyrics.

Speaker 9 (01:09:20):
It's by Jack Moses, yes, and it's of droving and
getting the willoking team dog down, and it's I've been jilted,
jarred and crossed in love and sand bagged in the
dark until a mountain fell on me. And I treat
it as a lark. It's when you've got your bullets

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bog and it's the time you flog and cry and
a dog sits on the tucker box nine miles from
Gundy Guy. We've all got our troubles. So it goes
on and on, you know, like hardships and stuff. The
dog sort of sai at the last light on each
chorus is the Dog on the Tucker Box but sort of. So, yeah,

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it's the place I'd love to visit.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Do you think you will?

Speaker 9 (01:10:07):
I'll take the speed with spreed with me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
They do.

Speaker 9 (01:10:10):
Yeah, it's sort of you're going to go. I suppose
you can go from Canberra I suppose, and then heading
towards the Wogga Wogger.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
I suppose Junior or it's not on the main tradelines
have worked on that. I think someone. I think someone
smashed the statue.

Speaker 9 (01:10:30):
Okay, well that's that sort of sort of a real
iconic thing there. But yeah, that's that's that seemed to
be their main symbol and people visited for the you know,
the the the iconic sort of. He sort of loved
those poems. I originally used to buy old Benjo Pedison.

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But it's this other guy, Jack Moses apparently, and it's
probably they probably learned it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
At school, but I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will.

Speaker 9 (01:11:00):
But I'll take the tea spread with me.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Yeah, I'll do some more research on that, Laurie. So
thanks for opening up that. Mm hmm. So the Dog
on the Tacker Box is an Australian monument. Eight k's
from Gunda Guy. The Dog on the tacka Box. The
dog Attacker Box, Australian historical monument and tourist attraction located
at Snake Gully, eight kilometers from Gunda Guy, is described

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in the song of the same name, and the Dog
Sat in the Tacker Box, five miles from Gunda Guy.
The poem was generally considered rude and vulgar, brilliant that's
what we want, Tony Marcus. Welcome, Hello Marcus, how are
you good? Thank you good.

Speaker 6 (01:11:47):
I was just ringing in to say that we're in.
We were in Gunda Guy for a night in August. Yeah,
on our way. We're on our way to Dubbo.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Would you go? We would you? Would you normally go
through Gunda Guy? Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
You do?

Speaker 6 (01:12:04):
We came from Melbourne.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
Oh okay.

Speaker 6 (01:12:06):
It was about yeah, five hundred k's from Melbourne to
Gunda Guy and then about another nearly five hundred from
gun to Guy to Dubbo.

Speaker 3 (01:12:16):
And was there anything interesting about I mean, you could
have stayed at Woggle Wogga, couldn't you?

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
But no, no, no, we deliberately went to Gunder Guy.
I think my brother who was who was driving, and
sister in law they had already been there once before
and quite enjoyed it. And anyway, it was quite a
cool little place. They had great cafes and the old
fashion pub, and they had a the sky had sort

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of started up a pin shop or a pin a
pin museum and from here looking that and it's seriously
and at the back of it, the back of it,
he set up an old fashioned schoolhouse. And yeah, it
was quite amazing. Reallea again in a couple of bucks
to go and have a look for.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
That is an old fashioned looking town as at Gunda. Guy,
is that right?

Speaker 6 (01:13:05):
Hugely old fashion? Yeah good, I'd love to go back
there again. And you know, and a bit longer, but
we we just said the one night and then we
were two nights and three nights and do just researching
my husband's family tree, searching gray yards and what have
you looking for, you know, great gravestones and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
It's beautiful old buildings. It looks like it looks like
Lawrence or summer in scent, like gorgeous balconies, gorgeous.

Speaker 6 (01:13:37):
Street yeah, yeah, really wide streets. The people are just amazing.
They're really friendly and all old session food, you know,
good meat, pies and and my treas and different things
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Really cool, Tony, don't ring up and say it clears
on the show when we're not near we're not near
a shop. It's just crawl. They're so delicious, aren't they
like eating a cloud?

Speaker 6 (01:14:02):
Oh yeah, lovely not.

Speaker 3 (01:14:04):
Is it a pen museum, it's the Australia It's it's
the Australia Penn Museum.

Speaker 6 (01:14:10):
Oh there, this guy had set up his own but
as the little schoolhouse in the back was amazing, and
you know, he had the old straps in there and
you know, things that kids don't get around their backsides
these days.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
But here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:14:23):
Here the duster. The duster got chapped at year. If
you went behaving, we just we'd just stay. We stayed
in a camping ground because my brother and sister in
law were tying a little kemper and so they had
their accommodation on the back of them and they pulled
into like a We stayed in a cabin and they

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are in their little kemper.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
It's a beautiful look at the town. I wonder why
it's got its wealth from. Was there gold there originally
or was it just droving? I suppose not.

Speaker 6 (01:14:57):
I'm really not quite too sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
Actually it was Pens he pens.

Speaker 6 (01:15:02):
I'll tell you what. One thing they do really well
is that where do you go like both places beer
in double They have a lot of light memorials for
their vex, you know, yeah, so they yeah, they obviously
you know, have a lot of respects for them. And yeah,

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there's a lot of history there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Oh brilliant. Oh that's a very good response from you, Tony.
I appreciate that greatly, Marcia. It's Marcus. Greetings and welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:15:33):
Hello Marcus, how are you?

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Oh? Good?

Speaker 7 (01:15:39):
Yes, just as I just listen to This is the
first time I've ever run run a radio station.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
But I was.

Speaker 7 (01:15:49):
Put on the radio and you're talking about Gandy Guy
and I'm thinking, oh my god, you will say Gundergar.
You were pronouncing it, but it's pronounced Gundy Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
I'm having Gunda Guy. So I apologize for that. Yeah, okay,
thanks Marcia, good stuff. Hello. Oh hang on, hang on, hello,
You've got a story about they have your Massia.

Speaker 7 (01:16:12):
Oh no, no, but I was interested in the fact
that they're saying nine miles the dog actually is five
miles from Gundy Guy, and the song is five miles
from Gundy, Guy, and that somebody else suggested that the
town was moved, and it was moved in eighteen fifty two.
It was on the river of the Mrambidgee River and

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it was flooded. There was a terrible flood and there
was lots of people lost, and so they've moved it
up the hill that it's been since eighteen fifty two.
But it is a beautiful town.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
And how do you know, how do you know so
much about it?

Speaker 7 (01:16:47):
I was born there, oh slp Okay, well, my mother
still lives there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
Oh, and you go back and forward to it much?

Speaker 7 (01:16:58):
Yes, I do, actually, yes, yes, because you know, my
brother still lives there and unfortunately my parents have passed now,
so it's not quite the same.

Speaker 13 (01:17:08):
But yeah, so I do know.

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
In fact, I've just had the mayor visiting me from
he was in Auckland for the hockey, the Master's hockey.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
And the mirror of the mirror of Gunda, Guy wore.

Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
Yeah, so I've been in New Zealand for forty three
years now, but that you're going to go to my hometown,
it'd be.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Hot, it'd be hot in the summer, what thirty five
degrees or something.

Speaker 7 (01:17:37):
Yes, it is hot in the summer, but it is
very cold in the winter. It gets so dark. Floods
because of the river, not floods, dark fogs. Oh yeah,
the black frost where they don't they don't list until
late in the afternoon. But the town did. Was you
talked about gold, It was that there was gold there

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originally that brought people there. But it's on the main
road between Sydney and Melbourne, so it does get a
lot of.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
The Shume Highway. Is it called the Shume.

Speaker 7 (01:18:11):
Highway hum Highway?

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Yes? Good?

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Oh well, Marcy, thank you for coming through. I appreciate that.
Idiots Marcus welcome, however, good things. Idy.

Speaker 18 (01:18:24):
Yeah, I'm just resting doing all the feedback on gun
to Guy written in the back in the back in
the early Thirsty system, let's do cereals on the radio.
And one of them was dead and Deadened Dave from

(01:18:44):
Sake Gully. I think that road to gund to Go.
I think that was a that was the theme theme.
Tune correctly. If I wrong, I.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Think you might be right. I'll check that up because
something I did say something earlier. I was really about
to slake Gully, So it's probably right.

Speaker 18 (01:19:03):
Yeah, that was that was the way back in the
in the earlier fifties.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
The theme tune was the right to Gunda Guy Dead
and Dave from Snake Gully. So you're quite right, Eddie,
thanks for coming through with that. Charlotte at Marcus Good Evening.

Speaker 19 (01:19:17):
Oh hi, Gunda Guy, I've been there as well, and
I'm sure somebody I thought fearful for a start, I
was told that that the settlers moved into the valley.
There's a huge, big valley, you know, and the township's
now up on the hillside, and there's a bridge that
goes over the valley. But when this huge flood came,

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you know, it just washed everything away, and the Aborigines
that lived in the area, they spent a lot of
time trying to rescue the people in the you know,
hundreds of that gott were drowned for probably not hundreds,
but in their dozens anyway, And yeah, they rescued they

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actually they rescued at nine people and another one rescued
a whole lot using a rowboat. They had their bridge
and each had rowboats or canoe type things, and but
it was a long it was a long time. Some
people actually managed to hang on to the banks and
stuff for or you know, a bit of water or

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something like that, for up to two days and then
just from exhausted, let go and off they went again.
It was the I think it was the Murrumbridge River
that broke it thanks and came screaming down there. But
if you if you just go into gunderguy one, it was.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
It was earlier. It was eighteen fifty.

Speaker 19 (01:20:42):
Two, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
Yeah, it was eighteen one hundred people died. Yeah, yeahs
or the heroic if it's of four rouge where a
jury men meant that many others were saved. Still the
dearliest flood in Australian system.

Speaker 19 (01:21:02):
Yeah it is, yeah, incredibly so. Yeah, it is a
neat town. We stayed the right new too, was with
my son. I can't remember where we're going, but we
had a good little ground tobe. Yeah, it was a
lovely little town but it was sort of and the dogs,
it's just a small dog and it sits on you know,
one of those letter boxes that you know, people put

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the mail and obviously as the man goes by. But
it was there because I know the song and I
thought I wonder if there is a dog on the
slack of boxes who were approaching it?

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
And yes it was, hang on shell, I've just got
half a minute before the news, but it appears Gunda Guy.
It's famous for the dog and the tucker box, but
also it's famous for a banjo Patterson palm, which is
the road to gunder Guy as well. So it's got two.
It's got two things that make it famous, isn't it.

Speaker 19 (01:21:50):
Yes, it has, it has because I've I've got an
Australian singing bob. It's got both of them on. You know,
it's a record. Actually she shows how old I am. Okay, yeah,
but it was a lovely little town, but it was
sort of creepy because of your thought of all these
people dying, and you know, it's not very nice.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
Yeah, I'll talk more about that, but nice to here.
Nice to talk to you, shut Marks. About twenty years ago,
Grove Us passed through gunder Guy, saw the dog at
the tucker box and nearby was a statue of Mum, Dad,
Dave and Mabel of Snake Gully had a photo with them.
Kendall Nelson, Oh my god, I honestly thought you were
joking about how to repair the oven door with tea towels.
I tried today. After years of an oven door not closing,

(01:22:33):
it now closes perfectly. Thank you, big letters, Marcus Julie.
And someone said, did you know Dunedin is further west
than Westport? Well, that's a text that packs a lot
of punch, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:22:48):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
If these are things you'd like to talk about, good.
If there's other stuff you want to talk about, also good.
I'm re upset they want to get rid of the
Begonia House in Wellington, because only recently, even in the
last year or two we went there. It was revery good,

(01:23:11):
beautiful to walk around. What would you get rid of it? Unbelievable.
It's a great park. You wouldn't want to start getting
rid of the Bogonia. I'm not nuts about Bigonias themselves,
a beautiful building. It seems like a big part of
it was a cafe that said to be very very
It was quite a pumpinkin a little bit of a place.

(01:23:34):
And I reckon that Wellington's getting killed. But you know,
and there's not much that lex. It's vitality. We don't
get rid of the Bogonia house anyway, I just thought
it was important to mention that Alistair Marcus good evening,
lam Me Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:23:49):
The presentation of them whether will have to improve. I'm
in Parmason, as you know, and we missed the men
number two or parmausalor mentioning. And I don't know why

(01:24:11):
they don't start from Kaite tier work themselves down through
the towns and city down to in v Cargo wevery
night instead of up and down, up and down?

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
What are you looking for in the weather ball is Alistair?
Do you want to know what the weather was like
or what it's going to.

Speaker 10 (01:24:30):
Be, what it's going to be over Lix two days?

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
Have you got a cell phone? No, you're a computer?
No what have you got?

Speaker 10 (01:24:45):
I've got a radio and that should be enough for me.
All I want is some knowledge when the weather is
going to be good or wet?

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
And what will you what will you do differently if
it's going to be wed?

Speaker 10 (01:25:01):
Oh well, I've been doing other things around the house.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
But the thing is a it's fine, what are you
going to be doing?

Speaker 15 (01:25:09):
I'll be out in the.

Speaker 10 (01:25:10):
Garden or painting the fence. But the point is I'm
trying to get across is when they mention the towns
and cities. Yeah, it's almost like a medical person's health.
Medical on the medical screen in the hospital. It's up

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and down, up and down like.

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
A like a cardiogram or an ngagram or something.

Speaker 10 (01:25:38):
Is Instead it's saida straight down.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
Hell what's up and down? Or the where they go
the way where they go around the country?

Speaker 9 (01:25:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:25:50):
What what? What?

Speaker 7 (01:25:51):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
What channel do you watch.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Now?

Speaker 10 (01:25:56):
I'm talking about the radio.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Well, you're begging the right. You're begging us? Are they're
talking about TV? Won't you no?

Speaker 10 (01:26:05):
The radio?

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
You don't beg us?

Speaker 10 (01:26:11):
They no, no, no, no, you don't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
You don't come there and and take us from within.

Speaker 10 (01:26:20):
But your no les comes from the weather.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
We go top down.

Speaker 11 (01:26:25):
And then.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
The midserver short forecast starts at the top and goes
down the country.

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
Yeah, it's but it's all up and down. It's not
straight down.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
What's not straight down?

Speaker 10 (01:26:43):
They should mention the pounds and the city as they
go down. They don't. No, it's all up and all
up and down, up and down. Scallire. I don't think
we've scollire.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
What Well, I'm at the homepage of the midsuvi's website. Now,
so the short forecast north and Awk and cloudy periods.
What I thought to Wellington included the central high country
cloudy periods, Coromandel Bay of Finny gisbond to white. It
appen only fine, Nelson.

Speaker 10 (01:27:17):
They went down to Wellington then back to Carmendel.

Speaker 3 (01:27:20):
A good point. Well, they've grouped those all together because
they're the people got the same weather. Otherwise they went
to every place to take forever.

Speaker 10 (01:27:33):
Oh, I don't know that many a time they men
or two or Palmers. North is very seldom mint menton there.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
They were just part of what I talked to Wellington
included the central high country cloudy periods.

Speaker 10 (01:27:51):
Yeah. Well, and often they speak too fast.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
You should listen quicker it good you're laughing.

Speaker 10 (01:28:01):
Well, no, it's no good. They should improve.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
Have you got alistair? Have you got a fence to
paint tomorrow? Yes, we'll do it.

Speaker 10 (01:28:15):
Yes, and I'll be watching.

Speaker 3 (01:28:16):
And cloudy periods. It should be fine.

Speaker 10 (01:28:22):
I'll keep the you ony.

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
You got scattered rain Friday, Saturday, scattered showers, Sunday scattered showers.
You're right about the chat of islands. You're worried that
they get to mention if you like, Yeah, I don't
know what I can do for you, but yeah, okay,
but yeah, it's a it's a good world if that's
your biggest worry. For goodness sake, good evening. Hewitt's Marcus, welcome.

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You know about supermarkets?

Speaker 9 (01:28:50):
Are you.

Speaker 13 (01:28:52):
Know the weather? Yeah, I was concerned about that chat.
That was talking a minute ago to you. He was
concerned about the weather. Yes, I'm on the top of
I'm on top of a hill at the moment and
took a bay. I've been out doing my culling, and
now I'm looking at the weather. I'm looking up at
the stars. The stars are beautiful, pretty clear. I'm looking
down up the lights of Prior City. It looks pretty

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good down that way, and looking out across Cook straight
towards the Brothers Sturble Island, and it looks pretty good
out there as the ship going past, probably fishing vessel.
And I'm looking north now towards Mount Tanaki. I can't
see a thing that way. It's pitch black.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
Can you hear any care?

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
No? No?

Speaker 13 (01:29:31):
Can we just sit far and north at the moment
I think there as far north as broad Meadows, but
of course in between board Meadows, johnsall that' Johnson Mount
calcal and I know they've got to the end. But
in between Mont Calco and here, of course you've got
por City, You've got the Estuary of Power Tahanui, and
of course un LEAs the're gonna scwum it. I don't
know how they're going to get across it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Can't they go up? Can't they go up the east
of the estuary? I suppose not. I guess it's tiger
country up there, isn't it.

Speaker 13 (01:30:00):
No, you are right, yes, correct. You could go up
like State Harbory Transmission Gully. You could go up Transmission
Galley and around the top of end of the public
Dahnui and back down Gray's Road and across and then
carry on heading north towards the Towerblow Swamp, which is
next to the old State Highay which is now stay
HIO fifty nine next to the main track line, before
you get to bukrad A Bay, which is where I

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left the road to come under this FARMI land.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
I couldn't believe how steep some of those hills are
for Transmission Galley, I couldn't believe. I couldn't believe how
mountainous antique. That country was I was, I was a made.

Speaker 13 (01:30:34):
It's preve it's an impressive roading project. And you'll be
you may have accordant or you may have missed it.
But there's been priests of speed living on it to
one hundred and ten kilometers now for goodness, one hundred
and ten kilongs now, and the reason being it's been
untrue something like I say eighteen months maybe two years,
eighteen months of and there's been no fatal crasures on it. Wow,
because that road is actually designed to be driven by

(01:30:57):
emergency vehicles at one hundred and forty klimeters now, and
that's why, that's why all the curves are gracious, and
whilst the're grading is deep in a couple of places
that it is designed for very high speed like police pursuits.
And so you could drive that road one hundred and
forty k's and not kill yourself. And so we've gone
up one hundred and ten now. It's a fantastic roading project.

(01:31:19):
The one I haven't been on is the power to
not the s heres two Yeah, that's right, yep. The
manor of two bypass road manor too Gorge bypass road.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
The new one is it that's going to open it?

Speaker 13 (01:31:34):
I don't think it is. I think it's getting pretty
big close.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
Because that's something i'd like to know. Hey, what are
you calling?

Speaker 18 (01:31:40):
Hugh?

Speaker 13 (01:31:42):
Tonight it was goats, and I have to say I
got five of them, but I could have carried on
and probably got about twenty five tonight, but I was
only really getting enough for Christmas. I'm going to Christmas.
Do this is cracked up? For an Indian man, I said, okay,
And I said, well, should I bring you some goats?
You can make a goat carry? He said, I'm a vegetarian,

(01:32:05):
and he said, besides it pot lack good to hear,
you've got to bring your own cook up. And so
me parking our fella down to cook some carry goat.
An Indian guy who's a vegetarian anyway, but used to
run an an Indian restaurant in Johnsaw, so he knows
his cooking and all his farno will be there and
I'm going to present them with a curry goat and

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it's going to be like that, audience, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:32:31):
I appreciate your skill and your not skill, but your
boxy for doing that. That's good. Good on you to challenge. Oh, Jeane,
youst places, didn't he? Yeah, I'm quite keen to see
how the key we are taking to those hills. I
didn't realize he was a bit further north than I

(01:32:53):
thought were the hills and the key we run Wellington
because the release of them has gone quite successfully, I think,
I mean, I think they're breeding. Where's amazing, how many,
how much bush and how hilly Wellington is. Anyway, I'm
almost going to go to the night people go into
the night what ever? And men, I'm going to go
home and I will reconvene with you tomorrow from eight pm.

(01:33:20):
And Gunda Guy is certainly on the list for me,
although I like the fact that to go to Gunda
Guy you can't get a train, so I've got no
desire to drive in Australia. But anyway, I should report
back on that. It's so it's good to get a
new place to go to Gunda Guy. Apparently they're saying

(01:33:43):
in the war. I'm not too sure about what they
sang during the war. I guess they sang the Banjo
poiet well, the version of the musical vision of the
Banjo Patterson poem. I guess that's what they did. Anyhow, Look,
I will be back tomorrow. Tim's long next. Be generous
with your secret centers, that's my advice to you. Don't

(01:34:10):
use it to elicit some petty work revenge, because that's
not going to go well.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
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