They go to bed early (15 July 2026)

Marcus gets some updates from some listeners, and then gets into banning phones, banning racing, and NZ's first case of bird flu.

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
First Thing's, first Greetings and good evening. I need your
stickers for your smeg knives. You need to go to
Food New World and if they say do he wants stickers,
say yes and get someone put them in the letterbox,
post them to newstalk ZEDB. I've told a caller I'll
get him a stickers for stupid knives, and I'm panic

(00:34):
now that we're not going to get them. I've put
this on Facebook, right and the peo box is nine
to one, nine eight Victoria Street, West Auckland, eleven forty two.
That's on the Facebook page Marcus lush Nights. I need
your stickers And the post has only got eleven comments,
and people said stupid things like if he's got to
me stickers, can I have some? This is just for him.

(00:55):
This is a one off offer mark from Cambridge. When
I see Cambridge, I'm in the town, not the exam system,
so I don't know how many needs, but I need
to get him a stickers because a man's word is
honor and I've promised him I get them, so yeah,
any if I know it's going to cost you three
bucks and postage. But look, honestly, that warm, fuzzy feeling

(01:16):
will be priceless. Do it for us. I've been mentioning
this number of times about the course of the show.
By the way, well done, Spain. Who would have thought
get in touch if you want to talk eight hundred
and eighty to eight year nineteen nine two detect Marc
is still twelve, by the way, two with us sweepstake
five and dollars for the one of the World Cup,
Argentina for Pam, Wrecked for Spain, Fiona for England. It's

(01:40):
looking good, it's looking really good. So of course France Gomberger. No,
God didn't turn up when they said they say they
didn't turn out. They's a you for us, and they
didn't turn up. They didn't play very well. I don't
know watch it. I'll be watching tomorrow morning. But mainly
I need for this guy to have stupid knives. So
seeing them to Dan and Daniel, seeing them to Mark.

(02:01):
But what I'm worried about is us even posts. Not
what it was was sook the sticks of Bobby take
a week or two to get to Dan and then have
to carry them to mark to mark. We might drive
them down, but we want this. We want this soon.
So if you've got stickers, please, I don't want your
stupid oodle orgies. Those things at the Woolworths. I call

(02:23):
it countdown. Who She's see a lot of daries that
started selling soft toys. Oh that's the thing, isn't it.
It's weird, I think when the golden age of soft toys. Yes, anyway, now, Cindy,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome Hello Marcus. Hi, Cindy.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Look, I'm just phoning to tell you sadly, my mother
used to phone you. Her name was Josie and she
was over one hundred years old.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
She rang every year. She had a special birthday. When
was that.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
The birthday was the twenty third of December.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
That's right just before Christmas shuld ring, exactly right two
days after my dad's.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Okay, well, I just want to let you know that
Jersey died. She was not She was one hundred and
two years old and she she died just it was
actually we could go tonight for goodness sake.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
But I just certainly you know.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
She was she was such a delight.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Yes, I know she was.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well talking to her.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
She loved living. She she wasn't really very interested to die.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
She was living and she'd always ring up. I suppose
I'm going to tell you one hundred and one or
something it was, but she always did it. She did
it with great sport.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yes I know, and then she'd tell us, so we'd go,
what you did?

Speaker 6 (03:43):
What?

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, well I just I just thought she would
have appreciated, if you know.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And and it was and it was I guess I
don't know the details, but it was expected, was it well, it.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Wasn't unexpected given her age, but the age, the end
came quite quickly, as it turned out. She died very peace, Remarcus.

Speaker 7 (04:11):
It was all okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
And that'sually we're a bit upset about the whole thing,
of course, because she knows your mother.

Speaker 8 (04:18):
But yeah, she was.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
She quite remarkable because she she'd say things like I've
had enough, I've had enough of this, and then someone
had come in a room and should absolutely light up,
should she'd be away, I mean, you know, the like
this friend of hers, this man who was in his
fifties or something. Oh, we said, I told her I
was a boyfriend and she loved it. And that's exactly

(04:43):
the way she was. So the end came quite quickly
and the finished, but she didn't suffer and she had
a wonderful life and her death was okay.

Speaker 9 (04:51):
And that's the end of an ear.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Oh well, thank you so much, because look, she said
he let up the radio shore every time she rang,
because she just and it almost sounded up unbelievable. She
talked about her age, but that's extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, she was, and she was BEAUTI she was beautiful
to my sister and I just because we're not exactly
young either. Owai, we're supernutans, we're going to say.

Speaker 10 (05:13):
But you know, she never.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Had a line on her face. She never had a
line on her face. She was absolutely amazing. She was beautiful.
And the other thing, as we placed gravel online with
my sister and my mother and I, she would whip
up us right to la very finished and scrabble.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Wow, what was this secret with no lines on her
face in that age? Was it just jeans?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
It was good jeans, and you know she liked them.
She liked the wine and she liked the brandy, and
she ate far too much cheese and she did everything
you know, you know, all these things you should and
shouldn't do. She just never had a line on her face.
It was absolutely amazing. She was lying there, she was
lying there and death, and both my sister and I
was saying, look at those cheeks, look at those cheeks.

(05:56):
Not a line on them.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, that is unbelievable. I really appreciate you coming through
because I would have wondered on my condolences, and also too,
what a joy that is to have a mother that
has been so remarkable and lived to that age. It's extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, thank you, Marcus. I thought you might be interested.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Absolutely lovely. Thank you so much, Cindy. That certainly started
my show off. Well, I mean, I mean, well, of course,
I mean, you can't really be too sad with someone's
hundred and it's an extraordinary a celebration.

Speaker 11 (06:22):
Is she just?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I think it must the last four years. She started
ringing just before Christmas? Oh yeah to me, of course
she was going to ring which just before she was
going to be one hundred I think, and then one
hundred and one and one hundred and two, so it
would have been three years unspoken to her. Oh that's marvelu, Cindy,
thank you for that, Bob. It's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (06:38):
Good evening because I took your advice and got hold
of mister Smith the other day and I'm member of
parliament over these operation wow, and he took all the
details and had to sign a bit of paper so
they could get my records out of the doctors in
the hospital. So we'll wait and see if that has
any action.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I thought you're going to say you're ringing from the
operation theater.

Speaker 9 (07:00):
I wish im bloody. Was Marcus.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Straight soon up?

Speaker 9 (07:05):
So I followed it up and I said right, And
I told him Marcus last told me to come here,
and I said, I'm not going to take no for
an answer. So as I say, I had to write
down all the things where where I mean, what hospitals
I was in, and doctors and what that sort of thing,
and then sign an affidation that said it's right for
them to get my records in that. So I'll keep

(07:25):
you in touch, and I hope, like heck, I've got
things moving.

Speaker 11 (07:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
The thing is Onie said that because someone else said
they got to their MP and they had it in
a week.

Speaker 9 (07:33):
Well, I told him that he'd been a hurry up
because he only got three months left in power, so right,
and I said, I said, la, hurry up and doing
help for me?

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Did you crawl? Did you crawl into his office?

Speaker 9 (07:46):
No? No, no, no, I went and there and I'm
banging my walkingstick.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Did you did you milk you? Did you milk your lamp?

Speaker 11 (07:52):
I don't need to.

Speaker 9 (07:53):
I don't need to milk it. It's there.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Okay? They say, gee, you look bad.

Speaker 9 (07:59):
He said, oh it's been quite a while. I said,
you're telling me, mate, But anyway, I did it and
I signed papers and we now, wait, did.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
You leave mister angry at home, Bob? Or did you
come in there hot and bothered?

Speaker 12 (08:12):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (08:13):
I got remember to hot and bothered to start with,
But then I thought I better not we do over
the top. We might come in to bager On.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
We might he might call. They might call the protection
if you came. And so did he say what he's
actually going to do?

Speaker 9 (08:25):
But no, apparently they'ved out with these cases before and
it just needed my permission to get my records and
take it from there and get back to me.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And where do you live? Where do you live? So
he's Stuart Smith, the MP, isn't he?

Speaker 11 (08:42):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (08:42):
That's correct, trying to overthrow, overthrow his leader, and then
decided it wasn't such a good idea.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's right, that's right. He's part of the triumph it
a I thought. Remind him he won't get high up
the list of time Willie.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
Oh no, no, well he's a whoop now, but he
won't be. He'll be getting whipped next time.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Did he say, what is he going to real estate?
Wouldn't he?

Speaker 9 (09:06):
Well, they all seem to do after that.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, of course they can. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
I was thinking last night when I rang up and said, no, no, no, Paul,
Henry Paul, Henry, Paul Henry.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes, Henry Paul was the lead play.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
He should have gone with the New Zealand whatever it
is party that's got four and a half percent. He
went there, that'd get ten percent straight away.

Speaker 13 (09:30):
I think that's right.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, I said that that was that. It will he'll
be he'll be ruining his decision.

Speaker 9 (09:35):
Yeah, going with that, I will imagine.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
So so now where did Stuart say get back to you?

Speaker 9 (09:41):
He just said that he would email me. I said, no,
give me a phone call. He said, email is no
good to me, because I want to be I want
to be able to answer back when they get back
to me.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
He's put them on not to say, well.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
It's too good to just say, oh, I'll email you.
Was some stupid miss tapping away A said you ring
me up and I'll talk to you.

Speaker 11 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Did you tell me your youngster of a whipper snapper?

Speaker 12 (10:02):
Is he there?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Forties or something?

Speaker 10 (10:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (10:04):
Well he looks about. He's got a photo of there
in the office window, which is about I think mostly
taking thirty years ago, because they sitting didn't look like
his photo.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Do you give you a tear of biscuit?

Speaker 9 (10:14):
No, no, to your biscuits. Yeah, he just wanted it,
just needed my single john a bit of paper to
get the records and take it from there. So I
will keep you in touch, Marcus, keep you in touch
and see what happens.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
How long was he in for?

Speaker 9 (10:28):
I was lucky because I rang up the week and
I talked to you. I rang his office and the
lady said, oh, he just happens to be coming in
next week. I was all right, So I made an
appointment of nine o'clock that morning, Monday morning.

Speaker 14 (10:40):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
How's your pain? Leavel bob?

Speaker 8 (10:42):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (10:43):
I was not too bad it's more more of an
irritation than anything. Sometimes it's worse. We've had eighteen degrees
here today.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
So too, wouldn't have been eighteen, would it?

Speaker 9 (10:53):
It was eighteen here and lening them today? Marcus, I'm
telling you, yeah, exactly, that's what I thought.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
Do.

Speaker 9 (10:58):
I went out and planted out some broad.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Beans, brilliant nice to talk Bob, Thanks and my eighteen
past date. Just thinking a little bit about the Paul
Henry situation too, And boy, that's been a longer media
had a longer media attention span than perhaps I thought
it would have. I mean, what happens when the next

(11:20):
poll comes out and he's showing in the preferred prime
minister stakes and is higher than Sema. What happens then,
because then they are well and because that's when things
start moving. A mightn't be the plan, but certainly, Ah,
you know, people prefer you as prime minister than your leader.
So that's what I was curious about. Whether that would

(11:41):
actually change anything. I don't know whether it will or not.
By the way, to the other thing also is that
David Seemoh, he's got a bit of headlines today because
remember a while ago he said that all students should
be given five thousand dollars to invest to teach about investment,
remember that? Or five hundred, five hundred five thousand, but
was five hundred. Well, what he said today he seems

(12:04):
to be speaking of script wish people quite like. What
he's said today is that he thinks he's not talking
about a social media band. He thinks under sixteen year
old should be banned from having cell phones, which is
kind of weird because this is the Party of Freedom.
But you know, I'm sure there's plenty of parents out
there that would love that because the kids want the

(12:26):
phones and the parents that want them to have the phones.
But the kids given or the parents given pest of power.
So if you want to comment on that, what happens
Wendesy tip over Seymour And also too, what about the
band on the cell phones? Not banned on social media,
but ban the phones or just give them dumb phones?
Though I don't want a dumb phone as well? Has
he got the Internet? I think that's the way it works.

(12:48):
Get in touch of it? And what about that with
old Josie? Oh the other thing too, bird flu Fanny
fancy Fanny fancy. Out of all the coastline in the world.
Fancy out of all the coastline in New Zealand, the
skewer drop steed right outside Parliament everywhere I thought the

(13:09):
bird would arrive and bluff. I was on alert. Oh
thought that's where we're going to get the first one
victim zero. So I don't know what this means. However,
if it gets into the poultry sheds, it's all over
for that, particularly shed color moll because you can't have
them going elsewhere. So with stockpiled, stockpiled diesel, are we

(13:31):
stockpiling chicken and eggs? Are you worried about your budgy?
All these questions and more, that's the I don't think
it's going to go and I don't think it jumps
the species. It killed some person in America, but that
was it. They had gotten to some cows. But you
got cows and birds hanging out together. Eighty six dollars

(13:52):
by the way, Brent Crude. So look, it's a lot
going around in my head tonight. But money, it's about
the stickers, Marcus. I've given up chicken eggs and KFC
going to red meat. When there is rn bird, there
are many infected birds.

Speaker 15 (14:04):
Oh by the way.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I don't think it's bad if you eat the meat
as long as you cook it. And let's face it,
chicken Sushioan's into that much, are they? Twenty three past eight.
The good news on the knives is that a woman
from Hoka Ticker has sent us nine hundred dollars worth
of stickers for the knives. Her husband's a butcher. The
text says, my husband's an ex butchers, So we have
real knives here, not the speG, not the smeag. But

(14:27):
oh well, it's what Mark wants and he's going to
get them. No stone unturned, Johnny, It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 16 (14:32):
Oh cleaving. I thought it was a little bit at
odds with David Seymour's libertarianism. How are you sort of
reconciles taking the phones and maybe giving the kids a
dummy phone?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, it's against it's against the freedom of that well,
and yeah, I agree.

Speaker 12 (14:52):
But he did answer that question at the Graham Dingle business,
you know, Graham Dingle Foundation. Yes they're probably good. They
tune up at Simon Bridge's gangs meetings and everything. But yeah,
look they he says, we've always been libertarian, but we've
never extended libertarianism to children enough. Yeah, and I was

(15:16):
quite surprised because there's a lot of things I don't
like about David Seymour, not just so many other undies working.
But I sort of like agree with this because I'm
one of the parents who doesn't want his kids to
have a phone. Then yeah, yeah, of course not. My
white chids don't think of tablets or phones, and I've

(15:39):
known to them learning too young on them, I think,
and Seymour sort of elaborated a bit on that, talking about,
you know, giving the kids exposures to tech, but in
a way that's rational, not just having a little thrust
upon them. So I agree with him there, And yeah,
I voted from last time too, but I changed my Yeah,

(16:00):
I know you couldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
I voted how can you how can you sleep straight?
What do you vote?

Speaker 11 (16:05):
National end?

Speaker 12 (16:08):
I was one of those people we've got sack into
the narrative about how awful that the other guise were
after being like voting that way for years and years,
and I thought, I'm giving a shot, and I voted
initial twice and in this time I voted back to.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
How's that worked out for you?

Speaker 12 (16:23):
Johnny well, I'm working harder, but I don't I don't
feel like they're actually helping the people who really need
the kick in the pants to get out.

Speaker 14 (16:36):
And do something good.

Speaker 11 (16:37):
You know.

Speaker 14 (16:38):
I think they could be doing better rather than just
being negative.

Speaker 12 (16:40):
Blue Blue, Yes, I've got cocker tails. They like to
go outside. Sometimes they like to get out and fly
away and come back. But that's not going to happen anymore.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I just your birds. Your birds are grounded.

Speaker 12 (16:55):
The Yeah, they're flying inside.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Wow, that's a big And that was straight away. The
scower comes up on the Tony beach in there that
what are you cockatails called?

Speaker 12 (17:05):
Oh, there's blowy and but I actually planned this as
soon as hearing on the news a little while ago
before the one on the beach, when it was first mentioned,
I thought, right, I'll just be able to make a
plan if this goes off that I because they need
UV light, Marcus, They've got a head there to stay healthy.
So I'm going to buy a lamp. But I'm just
gonna have to be a bit more careful, maybe put
a niece up to protect them, keep the bugs away.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Have you told the birds?

Speaker 12 (17:31):
Yeah, we we're pretty good with the birds.

Speaker 11 (17:33):
Day.

Speaker 12 (17:33):
I like him in conversation on the phone. What do
they say, Ah, they saw a lot of stuff, like.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Have they got their words?

Speaker 12 (17:44):
Just? Hey baby?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Can get a hey baby off them now when they're sleep.

Speaker 12 (17:49):
They're asleep, but they sort of saying film real jacket.

Speaker 11 (17:52):
I'm not going to.

Speaker 14 (17:53):
Wake them up.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Think oh yeah, yeah, so sure of cool. He's get
to go to wake up his parrot to talk to him.
I can see how that's that's gonna nice. Yeah, that's
gonna tread and social media. Yeah there we go wake
them up anyway, get in touch, Hittle twelve. I have
done nights with parrots. Sounds more fun than in reality

(18:18):
it really is. I think they're going to bed early cats,
marine mammals, big cats and zoos get it. Cows get
it on their udder. Didn't the news say poultry can't
catch it? Maybe I'm misuard. Yes, poultry can't catch it
my understanding. And we did have a chicken farm down
south that got coosed. That was another form of bird flu.
Let's not forget race course tonight too. They reckon it

(18:41):
might be the last meat there. Well that was today.
I don't know what's going to happen to the area there,
there's been a lot of discussions, people in houses, people
in green space, people in the markets. To Continue'm a
big fan of the markets. They've been for a long
long time. So it could have been the last race
meet today, Jeepers, Jeff It's markets. Good evening, good chief,

(19:02):
thank you.

Speaker 14 (19:04):
Just regarding Paul, I was I was lostening to a
bit of Paul Henry if you copy that. Yeah, yeah,
I was slatting this interview with Mike this morning.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
Mike, Mike Hoskins.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Your first name, guy, Yeah, George yep, Mike and Paul yep.

Speaker 14 (19:24):
Yeah, yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, I'm just not sure
whether he's is he a bit bored or is he
trying to stir it up or the impression I get
he's very compassionate about where New Zealand's going, but is
it could he do a lot more for it? I

(19:45):
guess for the public average, David in the past has
has certainly suffered from, you know, not being particularly popular
with his opinions and his policies. And yeah, I'm just
not sure how to take him on that. I mean,
he's been a bit of an icon certainly and as

(20:05):
a world caster over the years I find him quite
entertaining personally, but I'm just not sure whether he should
be taken seriously or whether he's just as I say,
he's just Board's where he's at at the moment. It's
just over one of.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
His It's interesting that, because politics is all about discipline
and active, had more media in the last twenty four
hours than they've probably ever had in their life, including
David Seymour Twerking. So for them to now go off
brand and do policy on the hoof and talking about

(20:44):
banning cell phones from under sixteen's boy, talk about diluting
your message, it's crazy.

Speaker 14 (20:50):
It's mad. You know, what's the logic behind that?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, it just shows that someone's threatened. It just shows
that the ship. I don't know, but I'm surprised that
they've come up with random policy when they've got the
whole world talking about Paul Henry. Then suddenly they've actually
deluded that message by talking about benning cell phones.

Speaker 14 (21:10):
Yeah, I know, And I mean it's not why not
focus on is he right and saying what you know
he's banging on about being very compassionate about New zealand
bringing it back to where it should be, and you know,
basically sleeping off course like that. I've lost their weight,

(21:33):
you know. And he used to be National pro, National
pro blue, you know, and now he's changed his mind.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
But he stood for he stood for national he did.

Speaker 14 (21:45):
That's all right better in ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
I think you're right.

Speaker 14 (21:48):
Might did happen, But yeah, I just yeah, I know
it's it could put an image, you know, reimage act
to a certain extent.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
But I yeah, befo, We've got nice to talk to you, Jim,
thanks so much. At twenty five to nine, Marcus. Ten
years ago, you could buy a dozen eggs for two dollars.
Then the campaign Champagne. Oh it's a weird wave of
sputting it Champagne socialist thought we did free range. Now
they're a minimum seven dollars fifty per dozen. Chicken is
currently the cheapest protein. It won't be after bird flu

(22:24):
takes hold. It's ob scene that butter and porter from
the USA is cheaper than butter than New Zealand. Food
system has broken, that's right. I was discussing that this
very day the last source of cheap protein is chicken,
and that's not going to farewell if the bird flu
gets in those barns. Do I call them barns? Are
they barn hens?

Speaker 9 (22:43):
Now?

Speaker 11 (22:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Are you doing anything differently now? With bird flu? I'm
going to keep doing a bit of a foreshore search
to see if any birds come in. But where did
arrive at Wellington? But I'm hearing you about that, yes,
because the eggs are expensive. Our eight hundred and eighty
to nineteen nine text, you've got to come through Marcus
till twelve. Anything else you want to mention too, very

(23:05):
key to Avanelee Racecourse. I think it was today. I
think it's today. So it was the last scheduled race
meet today. So that's it ended to. I said to
consolidate future racing events in Auckland at Elsley and Pooka Cory.
So you last time went to Midwick Races at Pooka
Court terrible. There's been racing there since eighteen ninety and

(23:31):
for those that don't know, one of the great things ever,
once upon a time they had night gallops there and
one of my few regrets in life that was I
never went to the night gallops because that sounded like
something very special. Twenty one away from nine hddle twelve
Maty it's Marcus.

Speaker 15 (23:48):
Good evening, Yeah Marcus talking about bird and chicken chicken protection.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yes please?

Speaker 15 (23:55):
So you know how all the book farms have gone
to like free range today the.

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Opposite of three range and the chicken house so that
they can't get.

Speaker 15 (24:08):
Out a few hours a day and makes them come
back again.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Your phone lines, your phone lines not great maney. Have
you put your cows in the shed?

Speaker 15 (24:19):
The chickens have gone on the shed.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Have you got chickens?

Speaker 15 (24:22):
Yes, well we've got we've got a flock of laying
laying birds.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, how many?

Speaker 15 (24:27):
About twenty?

Speaker 11 (24:29):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (24:29):
Lucky?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Hold you? What are you feeding them?

Speaker 15 (24:32):
Feeding them scraps from our large family and chicken feed
from arm source or writings?

Speaker 12 (24:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Okay, So you haven't got them on a movable pin
on wheels, have you? That's what some people have that
you can fence off an area from that to pick
around them.

Speaker 11 (24:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (24:50):
I've just got a little four little sheds that take
about five chickens each, yep. And they can lay inside
on a perch and then there's lay boxes in the back.
But we used to just have them willie ellie free
range all over the place. But now I've reinforced them
and I'm sort of locking them away about three o'clock
in the afternoon so they can sort of be less

(25:12):
free range.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I guess is this a reaction to the bird for announcement.

Speaker 15 (25:17):
No, it's coincidental. But my point is, how does it
work for the free range chickens that have the big
barns that they open and shut and they're supposed to
walk around outside and then come home to roost again,
which is perfectly what I'm doing, But it would be
better for the bird population if they were free range,
if you know what I mean in a time like this.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, And I don't know how the birds pass it
from bird to bird, do you know?

Speaker 15 (25:44):
No, I just know that it's in the wild.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's gone to Antarctica.

Speaker 15 (25:50):
Yeah, so it gets passed around in the world naicely.
Yeah so so.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, I there be any other birds. There would be
any other birds on your farm that would have it?

Speaker 15 (26:01):
Would they in the Australian ones on your farm potentially?

Speaker 11 (26:06):
You Well, that.

Speaker 15 (26:10):
Not the flaming glars that the rosales and such, the
parrot kind of boosts that are non New Zealand ones
that fly around.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Okay, so it gets into it, It gets into a
flock of those that could do things.

Speaker 11 (26:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (26:22):
Yeah, and probably like having your feed and feeding your
birds in their hutches instead of having it on a
just out in the open, would be better because then
the other birds wouldn't get your same feed, if you
know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Are you self sufficient in the eggs.

Speaker 15 (26:39):
Most months apart from Dune and July? Yeah, so most
months apart from the cold winter sort of slop laying
at the moment that I'll start up within food.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay, much else happening on the farm at this time.

Speaker 15 (26:51):
Of the No, I just started carving at school holidays.
So yeah, giving through.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
That, well, that comes with its own challenges, doesn't it.

Speaker 15 (26:59):
Yes, we makes a good progress. Today we had chicken
and chock shed mending and firewood splitting of next year's
fire would split them.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, wood split or a tomahawk for the kindling.

Speaker 15 (27:11):
For the kindling, well, I've stopped. I've got one of
those things from the few days where you bolted onto
a thing and you wack it with a hammer for
the kindling.

Speaker 11 (27:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (27:21):
And then the kids, I got two strong boys. I
just let them to anger management with the axe and
they just whipped through it with the axe.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
That's the answer. Money dous to hear from me? Seventeen
to nine here till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten
nine nine to the text. You want to be a
part of it, be good to hear from you anything else?
Jump in bird flu been on cell phones front of
six things. This is what actor is talking about, Actor
David Seymour. I think they are one and the same. Well,
I always assume that. And the Evandale racecourse no longer.

(27:48):
When was I at the races? Probably there, I'll be
twenty year ago now was good and a punder of
the air competition with one of the old pea teachers,
mister Gain. He was a live wire. Penty's sitting him
there after all those years? Goodness, get in touch. What
about our rare native bird? Will bird flu wipe them out?

(28:09):
Doc have been, doc have been vaccinating the birds, not
all of them, but their stock some of them. But
you know, if it got into Fenuaho where the Karkaport,
that would be a disaster because I've had some really
good breeding years and they've got that flock from almost
zero up to several hundred. So oh, they'd be worried.
They'd be really worried. Marcus Hastings is having the spring

(28:32):
carnival races again, so excited going to traditional Big one
or October ten before the council sells out to property developers.
They let it run down on purpose. So it's Hastings
losing its racetrack. We have got too many of them
AND's an oldies sport. But yeah, I worry about this.
I didn't know that was up for sale, but not

(28:53):
can tell me more about that had a race meeting
there in twenty months.

Speaker 12 (28:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I haven't been the races at Hastings, but being touched
onto it this for anything else, I'll keep up better
with the news. Well, no, how Bob Goes is going
to go with his with his was a hip or
his knee with his hip could become an election issue.
I can almost see Petty Gower or someone saying and
concerned voters Bob of Blenheim, God ridiculous waiting years for this. Anyway,

(29:21):
he'd be great. They could actually, because you can pivot
the election around a case like that, can't you? Any
who are fourteen to nine, Hea Tel twelve will be
in touch anything else you want to mention A lot's
going on tonight. There are a lot going on spent
today in Queenstown. Beautiful drive from Queenstown south with the
light on the hills of Northern Southland. Some days I

(29:43):
think Northern Southland's got more to offer than Central Otago.
Certainly empty, which is a bonus as long as you
can keep the pivot irrigators at bay. But you know,
in the winter with all the grow yeah, boy, it's nice,
beautiful seen. We've got the wilding Pine sorted at mid Dome,
full of assies, Queenstown full of assies, thirteen flights from
Australia landing there today. It is pretty much part of

(30:04):
Australia now Queenstown and four eggshops. Yes, I think they'd
buy their rug boots before they came on holiday anyway.
That's me thirteen to ten nine eight nine ten away
from nine Brucett's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 11 (30:18):
Good evening.

Speaker 7 (30:20):
I eat three eggs a day and I love them,
and I like choks and I like chicken too. But
we wouldn't have all this problem with viruses on chalks
and stuff if we were creating the food artificially instead,
because that's becoming commercially competitive by about twenty thirty that
will be just as cheap as regular food, and they

(30:40):
can put in all the nutrients. I know it's an't
so unnatural, but so is wearing clothes or lighting fire
and cooking food. So I think that's where we're heading.
And I mean it would give a lot of security
to the economy if we were making this food and
factories instead of having big farms and being cruel to
animals and all that. I know they try to be humane,
but you know there's a lot of cruelty there.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Can I just interrupt you for a sek because I'm
not across the canon of laboratory eggs? Is that a
thing has that worked? Well? Have they managed to get
one on the lab?

Speaker 17 (31:09):
Well?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
A lot of food, a lot of egg is actually
artificial egg used in bakeries and stuff all over the world. YEP,
A lot of it is powdered egg. It's not made
out of eggs, It's made out of other things that
make up the egg. And nobody knows the difference and
saying that's a wonderful cake I've just made, Not that
you should eat cake. But there's artificial meat which is

(31:30):
not yet really competitive, but by twenty thirty. It will
be like either grown from cells or in factories, and
that they do it. What they can do it with milk,
they can do with meat. They can testurize it so
it feels great in your mouth and tastes you can't
sometimes you can't tell the difference. That's where we're heading.

(31:51):
And it takes a vastly less land less carbon footprint,
and it'll be cheaper eventually, So that's where we're heading.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Good do they look like eggs?

Speaker 7 (32:02):
You can make it look whatever you want them to
look like.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
I just want if they made it official eggs, would
they bother with the eggs? Shall Will they be like
that or they be just in the cooked form?

Speaker 7 (32:11):
Well, it'll depend on what the humans want at the moment.
The humans who are bakers just want powder so they
can have stuff and to make their bakery with their
their you know, sweet pies and all that sort of stuff.
They say, give me the stuff that acts like eggs.
You can buy it, you know, I mean, And nobody

(32:31):
knows the difference. But the world being what it is,
people say, I want to have a fried egg.

Speaker 12 (32:37):
The look the.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
Fried egg or a boiled egg. So the manufacturers say Okay,
we'll have it ready by next week next year.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Good on you, Bruce, Thank you nine to nine Grant.
It's Marcus. Welcome a Marcus.

Speaker 6 (32:51):
I don't want to sound like a Noah or a
smarter but just to correct that check before the powdered
egg I've just looked it up, is actually egg natural
egg that has had up moisture reed moved natural. What
it said on Google was natural shell eggs with the

(33:12):
moisture removed. Okay, okay, that's basically you know, it's not.
It's just like it's funny how people think, oh, you know,
because they can do this, they can do that. Well yeah,
it's like, I mean, they can do lots of things
with lots of things, but bed as a natural product,
that's all I wanted to say that.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, well explain.

Speaker 15 (33:34):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Lance. It's Marcus. Hello.

Speaker 18 (33:37):
Hello, Yeah, just got a breef story about interaction with
the world Bude. A couple of years ago, I was
walking down the river, down the river bed a nice
sunny day, you know, but in front of me coming
up there was a blue heroing and it was like
it was only about five meters off the ground. Fine,

(33:58):
straight towards me, so I thought I started flapping the
arms to see what it.

Speaker 19 (34:03):
Would do, you know, great thing to.

Speaker 18 (34:05):
Do, yeah, yeah, And it came straight towards me, and
then I keep flapping the arms and as it passed
out faced in the direction it was going, well, it
flew in a circle around me, and so it was
like we were flying together there for a while. And
then it just carried on after it done a circle
and flew off, and I thought that was rather indulgent
for a while.

Speaker 20 (34:25):
Boo to do that?

Speaker 2 (34:26):
What's going on?

Speaker 21 (34:27):
Oh well, I don't know. It was the kind of communication,
wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Do you think it was it call for help from
the bed?

Speaker 14 (34:33):
No?

Speaker 21 (34:34):
No, no, this was a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
There's no bed.

Speaker 21 (34:40):
Yeah yeah, no, no, it was just a friendly boot.
Hopefully it'll be all right and sorry.

Speaker 18 (34:48):
And on the artificial meat and things, apparently what they
do is they grow up from cells and it floats
free and vet and they make like sausage meat from it.
But they can obviously form it into real looking bits
of meat and things, but it's like a it just flow,
it's free, and that's some like a soap or something.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Wow, it was about five years ago. Was all the
there was that there was a feeding friendzy artificial meat,
but they never got the texture right.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
It was.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
It didn't have the mouth, didn't have the resistance, the
teeth resistance that you needed. It was all about Parr.
It was all a bit the incredible burg and all
that oil. Was a lot of hype, a lot of right.
But yeah, I thought it was going to be the
real deal, but didn't really turn out to be much
at all. Oregon beans, that's the future, that's the answer. Anyway,

(35:37):
I know what the question is, get in touch, Hittell
twelve and if you've sent stickers already, if you've posted bits, no,
just so I can actually yet Mark know how many
stickers are coming his way. That Mark wants the knives,
and I'm sure committed that he gets them. These are
the smeg knives at New World. And if you work
at spodcast, if you work at New World and he
asked you if they want the sticks, as they say no,

(35:59):
you just pop up an envelope and send them to me.
I don't know if you're allowed to do that, but
I mean, don't break the law. I don't want to
lose the job. But nine oh seven greetings Marcus. Till
twelve o'clock tonight, good evening all and sundry bearing it.
But we're gonna got up early tomorrow, don't we seven
o'clock for the football for those that need to know

(36:19):
that is free to wear. The state broadcaster will have
it from seven pm seven am tomorrow morning. So I
don't watch the match today, but that was obviously Spain
surprisingly about France, and tomorrow will be Argentina and England.
So three teams left and our contenders in the sweep

(36:41):
steak are Pam and Rick and Fiota. Now get in
touch with you on to talk. We are talking. One
of the things we are talking is about bird flu.
This is the first time that we've done the talk
back since we've had the bird flow in New Zealand.
It's only been here about twelve hours and we're all
big on this. People are keeping their birds inside. No

(37:03):
one kind of knows what the risk is going to be.
It says it could get into cats and dolphins. I
don't know how, but we're about that, but do come through.
Peter's Marcus good evening, Marcus good, Pete. Well, how was
the football?

Speaker 20 (37:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (37:16):
No, really good? They actually must have met the old
Spanish would definitely be better than France. They actually held them.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
What was so good about them? Just was it teamwork?

Speaker 19 (37:24):
Oh definitely they were just they just covering the field.
They were just the better team. You couldn't deny that.
You know, that was a really, really good game. So
I'm going to go again tomorrow morning as well. So
good the old crowded house. He had breakfast here and
did the same again in the morning. You know, it's
good atmosphere there. There wasn't a lot of people here, but.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
How many how many would have been there?

Speaker 12 (37:43):
Pepe?

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Uh?

Speaker 19 (37:46):
Without thirty?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Do's not bet anyone wearing the Spanish strip? Is there
a big Spanish community where you are?

Speaker 11 (37:51):
No?

Speaker 19 (37:51):
I got old Macy's cap I got that the other
day at a hospital shot number of team really yep,
I got his cap on and I lucky I got
a got at the hospital shop too. I got the
Spanish Eddy Death football Club jersey as well.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
So did you go dressed up?

Speaker 19 (38:08):
Just the cap and the real Eddy Deaths? You know,
McCoy and of the best of the Besselona Soccer Club.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I thought you were Dutch. I thought you were the
I thought I suppose the Dutch You're gone everything. They
need a second team.

Speaker 19 (38:19):
Yeah, I like that, I like this. I like the Spanish.
I was over there around for balls. When I was
over there, pap alone and so always like the Spanish.
So yeah I was one. Then the window down they won,
So you might.

Speaker 22 (38:30):
Have been just lucky over the cap on.

Speaker 19 (38:32):
It might have might have given them luck on it, Marcus, if.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
You run with the bulls, how do you know it's
a good or a bed? I mean, did you get
close to the ball?

Speaker 19 (38:38):
Oh yeah, I watch. You've never been there yourself.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
No zero interest, but interested in you.

Speaker 19 (38:46):
So, so what what happened? You know they closed the
street off. It's all barricade, weren't you. Basically they barricade
the street off. Basically one end is the arena, the
balls at one end, and they opened the gate. They
let offer you hear a gunshot and then basically opened
the gates and then basically you just bolt until you
get out to the arena because you don't know where
they're coming. Little balls for horns. You know, they need

(39:07):
to do damage. You know, they're not there to pat
you on the back. What they do is the Spaniards,
they roll up. They are big rolls of newspaper. They
roll them up, and they don't like, they don't really
like the tourists being there, but they make a lot
of money. They should be grateful with there. They may
it wasn't for us being there, they wouldn't pep alone,
I body wouldn't. Still, they wouldn't do that well, so
they'd actually make a lot of money, especially Pepperlone itself

(39:29):
well known for the running the balls. What they do
they hitting you. If you can't get around argue with them,
you just keep on.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Classic tourist thing to say. If it wasn't for us
to town and go broke, but anyway, keep going.

Speaker 12 (39:39):
Yep.

Speaker 19 (39:39):
They basically what you do in the Spanish to behind
you're hitting them these uwice papers. You don't you just
keep on running. And next one I was quite lucky.
Was so what they did was was you're you're a
like sad Deans pretty much like they hit the balls
and you're running because you don't know where those balls
are coming. You know, they're bit of a windy street.
You know it's probably only how long the streets isn't
that longest street that's probably might be a kilometer long.

(40:00):
If you're lucky, it's not that long street really, but
you know Colonna's along along the long distance. You go
run until you get to the arena, so you basically
can get out from them. And then next minute was running.
The next minute, the one's behind me. I was like
a sandwich, like a piece of meat. Be seen the sandwich.
I landed on the whole lot of Spaniards. I landed
on top of them. Hold on, land on top of
on me. The next month, I see these hooves going past.

(40:24):
I could see them. They put me rust out like
I didn't get hurt. That's pretty lucky, didn't get hurt.
Then basically you see them all. But then what they
do for gunners all the pens Sometimes they'll have one.
They'll hear one shot go off, and then they normally
call them one pack, and then sometimes you hear a
second shot. Sometimes they when they let them out the
gate with the penis, they might not all came out

(40:45):
of the same time and not coming out, so they
basically the pack's being split. Then you're really going to
run because you don't know. I was just lucky that day.
There's only one gun that way, and off I knew
that the whole lot of coming at one time when
I was running, I was waiting and you could hear
the shot. I couldn't hear the second shot. No, they're
all they're all coming. I just kept on running, so

(41:07):
lucky enough they all went path. There's probably about ten
of those balls, and round about when the other group
of them, these little probably seeing the little black ones,
the little little little horns, and then they have some
big stars that come after those little running balls, and
they're basically harm I say, just big stairs are basically
they're like not pee, wouldn't They still do some damage,

(41:28):
but they're more they're more calm. The little balls of
the horns are the ones that do the damage. But
I was quite good because the end of the day,
because I went with the they went for grip. We
left from London and we had a three day two.
They basically stayed there for two nights and then we
came back and then basically the tour guy basically said
was you're going to run for balls, you do at

(41:48):
the very first morning. Don't hesitate, just do it. That's
will you always take you always take the guys that
know what they're talking about. Exactly what I did. And
then so basically what you run, you get out, you
get in the area.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
What were you wearing, Pete, Oh.

Speaker 19 (42:02):
Just shorts and and a shirt. Basically it's a short
sleeve ship to the typical kiwi.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
But you're pecking your thongs and what do you have
for you at a gendle?

Speaker 19 (42:12):
No, I just said, no, they see you. Make sure
you made some good sneakers on. You didn't make sure
you got sneakers on.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh okay, you didn't tell you You didn't tell us
that bit with your story that the guy said go early.
But also make sure you got good shoes. So head sneaky. Yeah,
I thought you might have slipped. I thought you might
have slipped on the cobbles.

Speaker 19 (42:29):
No, no, I'm make sure a good footing. So that
was all right. Then basis they said, was they do that?
And then the next day, this next day, I went
to watch it and I thought, I do that. Yes,
they're what a clown I was.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
But yeah, wow, look at listen to you because these
days you have you these days have a GoPro on
your head. You didn't have to. You didn't have your
cell phone or anything.

Speaker 19 (42:45):
And this is in the seventies, is it no, No, eighties,
almost ninety ninety it was, but those days there was
no such thing as cell phones, and those no thinking because.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
These days you'd have your cell phone on a selfie stick,
you have a GoPro tied to your head. They'd probably
be a GoPro on the bull's head be a different kind.

Speaker 19 (43:02):
Of It was quite funny. They said, the worst comes
to the worst, the bull does kill you. That there's
a little plaque, a little plak by a watering.

Speaker 15 (43:11):
You get a plaque and they put in.

Speaker 19 (43:14):
They put your name on there of the plaque using
this guy's name of the came from New Zealand. So
there's a there's a could be a good it could
be not a good side, but.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
A great way to go.

Speaker 19 (43:26):
I was born and bred on a farm marker.

Speaker 12 (43:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (43:28):
Well, if I don't run off these balls, I can't
call myself a truth.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
No, listen to you, okay, And since saying you've supported
Spain and the football.

Speaker 19 (43:36):
Pretty much because we I like this. I like the singer.
A singer is really nice. It's really nice, sweet sort
of a drinks I drunk that night, Meat around the
bulls basically got you've got to got drunk that night.
You know, that day was just drinking all up and
then there's quite a big thing bring even you run
the ball. That's sort of a thing that you just
don't do you And they reckon maybe I am crazy.
I don't know, but I did it and I was
proud of us. So basically my day is to just

(43:56):
have a good day. And I drunk a lot of
singry does Spain?

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Won't it?

Speaker 9 (44:00):
What I mean?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
The World Cup? They go all the way?

Speaker 10 (44:03):
Why you have to.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
See him today?

Speaker 19 (44:06):
I reckon if I get him that, all the pairs
of Argentina, Tomorrath, English, I reckon they could. What I
saw today, I haven't watched them me four till today,
and what I saw today they have a good chance.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Nice tear from your peek, thanks so much. Fourteen past
nine Evan our racecourse. What should happen to that? Anyway? Marcus.
I have a friend who was angry about the bird
floor arriving. I thought he was considered about the birds
he loves. But I found it since he's angry because
he said it's not true. Ah, i'd friend of awesome
and we presume it's true. Yeah, Look, I don't even

(44:44):
know what to say to that. But these days people
will always think that things that happened aren't true. What
a complicated way to live your life, to doubt everything.
But I wouldn't put any I wouldn't put any effort
into converting he or she. I don't know what the
conspiracy around bird flu is, but there will be one.
I'm just not sure what it is. Get in touch

(45:05):
Marcus till twelve on hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
nine text having our racecourse had its last race to
the thing about the even our racecourse. It's been closing forever,
so I'm surprised there were still races there. As far
as bird Floor, Texas says, I put my doll from
the back panic just in case for a good Someone said,
do you know how many pasture trains traveling around the

(45:27):
South Islands. A ninth episode of World's Most Scenic Railways
is from Graymouth through Arthur's Pass. I'd say they'd be
two and a half picked in christ Church, christ Church,
Graymouth and the Tady Gorge Railway which goes from Dunedin
to not as far as Middle March. A lot of
people trying to get in line for marks stickers. Let's

(45:51):
just get mark sorted first. If you've got knife stickers
from New World, send them to news Talk ZB. Go
to Marcus slash nights on Facebook. That's where the posts
are in the po box. Yes, hastings to lose its racetrack,
Trent them next. So Trentham's going the closing down on
the race tracks. The rate of knots is We not

(46:11):
much discussed about what to do with Avondale. I'm not
wat sure what the answer is. Eighteen past nine, twenty
past nine, Helgrit's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (46:21):
Oh Hi, I live in Avondale and I've been here
two years and I wanted to tell you what's happening.
I met the head of the business association one night.
I was walking in the street and I said, hello
the sky and I said, oh, did you hear that's
sold the racecourses. He says, you know they haven't sold

(46:41):
it yet. He said, I'm the head of the business association.
He said, I'll tell you what it's going to happen.
And this is before they did what they're progressing. And
now they built a new community center. They're building he said,
they're going to build a community Center, in the library,
new shops, and seven hundred houses in the racecourse and

(47:04):
he said, we yeah, so, and they were going to
have lots and lots of trees. And I'm not sure
about this, but I've heard through the grapevine maybe some
little bit of wetlands for some of the pookackers because
they drive everyone made around here. Yea in the ducks. Yeah,
so that's what's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
But that's still up for discussion, is it not? Or
is it all go?

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Oh, it's all go. Because they had it written last
year on the wall, what's the different areas there they're
going to build? And I that there were and I thought, well,
there's nobody around here with that name. It had the
different different little areas of places. They're calling that the
group of houses, which is really interesting. It's really flash

(47:53):
now and it's lovely. The new community center, it's going
to be really flash upmarket. All townhouses have gone around
here by the railway station because they want all the
transport by the up and so there's sum up by
the railway station. There's about twenty three next door to me,
and then there's some more being built and there's my

(48:16):
ones which there's fifty one of us. So that's what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
Okay, I just thought that they were I don't know
that the Jockey Club have sold sold that site yet.

Speaker 5 (48:28):
Well they're not there's it hasn't actually been sold. But
that's what's going to exactly what's going to happen. He said,
the house is going to be built, but they're looking
for a good developer. I won't say who. He told
me who's the developer game to be because it'll be

(48:48):
it's confident and sure. But so that and the market's
still there at the moment. So they're going to shift
the market. But they've taken away the big spider. They're
going to bring that back.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Okay, hell gon nice to hear from me. Think of that.
Twenty three past nine, Helen, it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah,
high Marcus.

Speaker 23 (49:05):
Now I think about the bird blue with perhaps it
might be a problem if the sparrows. I got the
sparrows population because you know, keeping you chocks in barns,
but sparrows like to get in everywhere and feed on them,
of feed inside the barns. Just just just.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
The thought they could be a super spreader.

Speaker 23 (49:30):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know by have.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
You got Have you got chickens?

Speaker 23 (49:34):
Oh no, I've got three, that's all.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Now, that's yes. So are you worried?

Speaker 23 (49:41):
No?

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Now, it spreads rapidly between healthy and infected birds.

Speaker 23 (49:50):
Yeah, yeah, And we've got I've got two keeckos wandering
around all over the place. So maybe that might be
a problem, but I'm not concerned. Now. You know that
the guy was talking about the running with the bulls
and the steers coming down the hill. I found this
video on you tube of these steers coming down the
hill and anywhere. One of them is coming down and

(50:13):
he suddenly stops and he looks to the to the
right or left, to whatever it was, over the left,
and there's this car parked up up and down the
hill watching this going on. And he was a steer.
He's got really long horns. Anyway, for some reason, he

(50:33):
just decided he was going to go and attack this car.
So he goes over to the car and he sticks
his horns in the radiator and he's diggling the car
up and down, up and up and down, up and down,
and all this water is pouring out of the radiator
and the people in the car must have been absolutely
pecrified and he completely it was a big suv completely

(50:54):
wrote the car. They wrote the deck of offic was incredible.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Wow, and it's online on YouTube.

Speaker 23 (51:01):
I was looking at I was looking up on dangerous
dangerous farm animals.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
And particularly have a fun thing to look up.

Speaker 23 (51:10):
Yeah, particularly cattle and anyway, this steing, you know, just
coming down the hill, stops, looks over the oh right,
goes over to the cart and just completely demolishes it.
And these people in the carts they're petrified. There's lots
of these amazing videos and that sort of thing on there.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Thanks Marcus, nice to talk, Thanks so much. Tell them
there we go. I was going to ask kelln us
yext year I had done running with the bulls and
get a chance to ask you that it's not something
that's it's not something that it's not top of my list.
I could do it. I'm not scared. It's just I could.
Just seemed pointless to me, But one man's pointless is

(51:49):
I mean for Pete, it seemed like it was a
coming of age thing for him, and it seemed like
it was as someone from a royal background with something
that they needed to do. When he walks a little
bit toiler taller now having run the But fancy him
getting a whole Spanish outfit from the second hand shops.
Goodness had the messy hap and the juicy Tomorrow at
seven England, Argentina. Let's hope that old Posh can manage

(52:13):
a smile tomorrow. Yes, things have gone bad for the family.
We don't bring us all down by failing to applaud.
Don't they talk about those two anyway? Enough from me.
I don't know if the galahers will be there. I
think they're probably saving wonder Wall for the final and
maybe and that's a good thing. If you want to
be on air tonight, that's the plan. Get in touch

(52:36):
here till twelve oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty
nine nine two de text anything goes David Seymour, bless them?
What is the human headline? Anyway? What he says He
wants to ban cell phones for under sixteen, not social media,
but cell phones themselves. So there don't there be any votes.
And now I think I'm going to vote for old scenehere.

(52:56):
He wants to ban people for having phones. There's no votes,
that is there? What's going on? You wouldn't think there'd
be votes. That's my take on that one. And bird
flew has arrived and now pet cats are at risk.
This is not me trying to sound scare hungry mammals
can get this disease, and mammals are afected by eating
infected birds and seals. Well, your cots cat's not gonna

(53:20):
eat a seal, is it, But I'll eat a bird,
So you might need to keep your cats indoors. Yep,
they always knew it was going to arrive, and it's arrived.
Most seabirds and marine mammals will likely experience a severe
infection if they were to be infected, and in counters
it to the arther that carries the infection, and it
can be found in traces of milk even if it's pastureized,

(53:42):
so that if your cat eats a bird could get it.
It does say the worst cat. This is Hoggard cheapest creepers.
He's running the show. He said. The worst case scenario
would be getting a number of infections within some major
poultry Productions of these lead to reduction eggs and chicken meat,
So it gets in the hen house to go to

(54:04):
kill all of them. The poultry industry said they remain vigilant. Really,
that's the plan. Hold your horse. If you're online, I'll
get to you. The number is old eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty Hittle twelve and nine to nine two
to text the cell phone. This is not social media.
It's actually a cell phone band that's happening. And bird

(54:24):
flew the flu of the bird. The cats will get
it from eating infected birds. I don't know. I mean,
I don't want to be a scaremongerer. But yeah, that's
a concern, isn't it. You might need to get the
CaTiO after all. So that's something too you want to
talk about. Yep, McDonald's going all in in Australia with
iced coffees. They see that as the growth area. I

(54:46):
say it's probably not a growth here. I say it's
probably a fad. But there we go. And that's just
my opinion. Oh, Wendy has emailed Marcus listening to you
live from southern Spain where we now live here for
three years from Dunedin. This was the sound coming from
our village last night when Spain got through to the finals. Yeppee,
I can probably play the sound studio PC on This

(55:08):
is the sound ever listen, it's downloading downloaded. It's a
bit of actuality from Spain. Very good, thank you for that.
I enjoyed that much.

Speaker 14 (55:28):
Lee.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
What a gorgeous looking part of Spain. That is too.
Twenty eight away from ten Marcus to midnight if you
want to talk, there's anything else you want to mention
tonight bird flew the races at Avondale and bending under
six seeds with a cell phone. This is actually by
the way too. And what happens when the preferred prime
miters of stakes come out and Henry is above sea? Well,
what happens then? Is that awkward? Oh it's a good

(55:50):
or a bad thing. It is what it is. I
suppose it's the fast moving smalled as board of choices.
But yeah, if you want to talk eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text,
you've got to come through. And the football is tomorrow
morning for those that need to know, it's going to
be England versus Argentina. And I can tell you that
it's free to wear on TV one. So yeah, there's

(56:11):
four or five matches, so that's happening tomorrow morning. So
there's only three matches left, a semifinal and the concert
lation final. ERD it's Marcus, welcome, good evening, Hey Marcus,
how are you good to get erin?

Speaker 22 (56:26):
Yeah? So your your cell phone being for David Seymour
for from David Tymore. The suggestion aren't coming from Act
given that normally the freedom of choice, own up to
your own consequences type party, so that I was quite
surprised that was him versus anyone else in Parliament. I

(56:49):
would have thought he'd be last. So I didn't think
he was that supportive of the social media band on
under sixteenth, so I thought he was a handbreaker.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I was really surprised, and also surprised because suddenly they've
had all the headlines with Paul Henry and then he's
kind of change the whole narrative by going on betting
cell phones to under sixteen? Has he done that deliberately
because he doesn't want I can't work at what's going on.

Speaker 22 (57:15):
I'm surprised. That almost sounds like a joke, but it's
not April, so yeah, I mean it is an election season.
I don't disagree with it. I've my youngest as similar
to yours. I've got My youngest is teen, and and
lots of the kids that got cell phones, but there's
a number that don't. And there's a number of parents
that don't want their kids they have cell phones. But
it's really hard when half the kids do have cell

(57:38):
phones and they're talking about them. So I think, what's
the appealing to a number of parents, especially ones who
actually already have kids for cell phones. So I kind
of look and go, geez, I wish you would never hope.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Yeah, and they just say finance banned. Yeah, I'm sure
parents would come and it wouldn't be a bad thing
for parents to have the kids without cell phones. I'm
sure if it was for everyone, most parents would because
I mean, it's just lazy parenting if you can use
it as a as a communication device, because there's other
ways around that always used to cope.

Speaker 22 (58:08):
Yeah, absolutely, And of course it would have to get
special beacons put in our kids for all those ones
that get kidnapped every year by strangers.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
It's amazing that whole stranger danger thing about what a
huge FORCET was for so long.

Speaker 11 (58:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (58:22):
Yeah, and if you look at the stats, it's always
a relevant well.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
There's always there was always a danger in the home.
It was always those that it was amazing.

Speaker 22 (58:30):
Yeah, it's the same with people talk about Scouts or
the church or whatever. It's like, look at that family.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
But I think the Scouts. I think the Scouts in
church were pretty bad.

Speaker 22 (58:41):
Oh Scouts, all right. I enjoyed Scouts.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah, but there's been a fair number of people involved
in Scouts that were prosecuted for Yeah.

Speaker 22 (58:50):
Fair enough, yeah, true, true, they blemish it.

Speaker 11 (58:53):
Now.

Speaker 22 (58:53):
The one I wanted to talk to you about, just
in the news headlines then, was the legislation that's been
signed over re councils being forced to have climate change
plans or something miserable about climate change. And for me,
when I hear that alarm bells go off, I'm like yourself.
I'm a city councilor. And I was surprised when I

(59:16):
saw you last time, Marcus, and you said you were
still a city counselor, because everyone in the car I
was traveling said what is he still? Because you don't
talk about it on the radio much, and as an
audience member, I value your opinions on it. Whether I
don't always have to agree, but I always value your opinions.

Speaker 12 (59:32):
Marcus.

Speaker 22 (59:33):
So always let us know your feelings around counsels. I
see you laughing.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Well, so much these days is done in public excluded
as well, and that's a story for another day obviously,
but jeep as creepers anyway. Yeah, yeah, so Simon Simon
Watts thirty years thirty years of the future, Councils must plan.

Speaker 22 (59:55):
Yeah yeah, so. I mean, I don't buy into a
lot of the stuff that's used around the measuring and
climate change things. The one that gets me the most,
and you probably have visited your council as we measure
around our electricity usage and we get labeled with we
burn this much carbon as a percentage of our electricity.

(01:00:15):
But we're in Christange and all our electricity in the
South Islands is renewable. Not very often does it come south.
When it does, it wouldn't get past Blentim It will
be used up by the South Island's having hit something
from the North Island. But we have to be tarred
with the brush for the whole nation, even though we

(01:00:36):
down here not using any such measurements like that that
I just don't think they're on top of it. And
there's a lot of scam angering around the sea level rise.
Christdge has an accretion beach, which means it keeps growing
every year. Got an excess of sand goes up. And
I looked up recently the South Island rises on average
and meet at every hundred years.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Didn't look good. Dunedin didn't look good yesterday though, were
the king tides? Did you see the streets there at
Anderson's Bay?

Speaker 11 (01:01:05):
Yeah, you are.

Speaker 22 (01:01:06):
True, and we get that a bit in christ Church
over up around the stream stuff as well. So a
bit of engineering absolutely needed. But we just need to
be all balancing up which one it's gonna be. But
some of the numbers sometimes I just I just don't
trust them to be fair.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh well, nice to talk eron. Thanks so much for
that twenty two away from ten o'clock if you want
to get in touch eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine two nine two to text. Also to the Evandale
race course and the phones for kids. A couple of
texts about that SIMA suggesting banning smartphones to under sixteen
only of them have a basic phone to ring a
text on. That's right, it's a dumb phone. Marcus Burdflew.

(01:01:46):
You are not being alarmist, we initially took COVID too lightly,
and look where that got us. If your cat comes
home having caught itself a bird and then becomes and well,
don't taste time, isolate the Moggi and called doc. By
the way, I don't think we did take COVID lightly.
I thought we took COVID very seriously. We kept out
of the country for over a year until we had
the population vaccinated, so you don't think it was taken lightly, Marcus.

(01:02:07):
We never wanted to give our kids cell phones until
I was sixteen, but this year my son turned thirteen,
we'd started to get him a very limited cell phone
because what we found was he wasn't socializing with other
kids because they couldn't contact him. In the old days,
we used to have a land one and people would
phone you up and you'd go out and play who
you'd have a chat. But our son was just sitting
at home and been left out to catch ups that

(01:02:28):
were happening around the neighborhood. Since we gave him the phone,
which you gave me, Monitor likes Haawks. He's never at home.
He's always out and about hanging with other kids. We
always were always the family that said that they will
not give a phone until you're sixteen. But from a
social perspective, he was just missing out on those childhood connections,
so he wouldn't me mind if it was a dumb
phone or a smartphone. I guess I think it's quite

(01:02:48):
a safety fact. I for kids who have a phone.
I have to wait outside a huge untim ate in
high school to pick up my granddaughter a lot, and
if she can't find me or fine her. It's great
to have a phone, Marcus. I welcome the bird flu
infecting cats. Don't get me wrong. I'm not a prick,
but he's my explanation. All of my neighbors have cats,
have to deal with this the excrement. I have a
boat to which I saved up and put new seats in,

(01:03:10):
and the cats quite like sleeping in there. I have
no issues with kids using phones. It falls down to
the parents. There is also an app that parents can
install their phones. They can see everything their child does
on their phone, can lock apps, even lock the phone.
Marcus Simo won't be able to ban cell phones. Front
of sixteen's is there are three thousand children in New

(01:03:33):
Zealand that needs smartphones for the insulin pumps nineteen to ten,
Big Dan History to nineteen eighty eight, die Hard released
This Day and nineteen thirty three Jack Lovelock specially as
the World mile record. I watched die Hard last summer,
hadn't seen it forb for thirty years. Thought it was fantastic,

(01:03:54):
so good. I've never really gotten to the old is
it a Chris I've always thought there was a bit
of a borish discussion, but the movies movies very good.
A lot of discussions about whether die Hard would have
worked as a movie in the age of cell phones,
which is kind of interesting. But he is good. But
one of my boys he stayed up to watch Few,
which one was the oldest, one of the younger, absolutely

(01:04:15):
was compelled by loved it. It's either ten year old
of the twelve year old. So there's that. And that's
happened today. And we now have bird flu, which is
pretty interesting. Also, two figures through from the UK. Ninety
percent of the best selling novels in the UK feature
a woman being murdered. Ukmps want to ban fast food
outlets near schools to tackle obesity, and the US Congress

(01:04:39):
has voted to make daylight saving permanent. Trump thought switching
it back and forward made no sense, and the Republican
Scott Dejals played the beatles he Comes the Sun on
his phone during the final count. So Trump promised it,
and he's done it. Since World War One, the US
has said it's clocks ford during the summer and have
more done in the afternoon into conserve electricity, and they

(01:05:02):
rolled back in the autumn for standard time. But they've
made it permanent. I don't know how it works in America.
I don't know how dark it's going to be at
nine of them eight in the morning in the winter,
as you going to Scoo. I'm sure someone will tell us, Marcus.
Civilizations have vived for centuries about cell phones and sod
us baby boomers who went to school in the fifties
where we had no feelings of deprivation. I know a

(01:05:24):
thirteen year old girl who wrings all text your mother
so she can let her know where she will be
for collection after school and what time. Crazy kids are
in charge texting us telling us what to do, not
actually true fourteen to ten. And also horse racing. I'm
alarmed to hear about all these horse racing courses that
are closing down. Hastings is getting a new race course

(01:05:48):
at Pahaakiki Flexmere. In the meantime, renovations have been done
on the Hastings race course. There was a race day
in May and basically will continue on at the course
until the new course is completed. That's in twenty twenty eight.
Other text says just looking back through the text, here

(01:06:11):
was one about I think Tarapa course. The new tracks
will also close Cambridge and Tower Muta tracks. Oh trapa
racecourses planned to close. A new Mega track is planned
on a new property at Tummyheady midway between Hamilton and Cambridge.
The new trap will also close Cambridge and the Tower
Meuta tracks by the way too. What is an announcement?

(01:06:32):
I need your stickers for the smeg knives that new
will to giving away. If they say he wants stickers,
please say yes and send them to us. There's a
listener in Cambridge that wants the full certain he wants
the whole shooting match. He missed out on the brazier
and I said I'll do with a dandis so he
can get the knives. So if you can help him,

(01:06:53):
just send your vouchers to me. Go to Facebook and
go to Marcus Lush Knights as I'm doing, and then
go to the posts on Marcus Lush Knights and I'll
tell you what the what the damn addresses anyway, And
there's a picture of the guy and the address is
there in the comments Private Bag nine to one, nine

(01:07:15):
eight Victoria Street, West Auck eleven forty two, and just
tell us how many of his cent But a lot
of people are texting me and they say they also
want spear stickers. This might be something we can do
further down the track, but it's really important to me
that Mark gets his stickers first because we're going to

(01:07:36):
kind of miss out twice. And I said I'd do it,
and I'm worried how long the post's gonna take. Twelve
from ten I'm seeing somewhere it said that kiwis are
urged to urged to fill up with gas now, which
I said two nights ago. I think, but AA you

(01:07:56):
did notice to be urged to fill up sooner rather
than later. With the AA warning fuel prize a set
to climb following the renewed conflict, the current dip may
prove short lived drivers who can afford to should top
up their tanks before wholesale prices increase begin flowing through
the superstations. Last week was even better. This week is
still good. Next week's going to be worse. The longer

(01:08:20):
you wait, the more you'll have to pay. So diesels
down ten percent, but yeah, it's going to be back
over three. Well that's for ninety one. So Tehran has
vowed decisive response to US attacks after Trump has said

(01:08:41):
told around that power plants and bridges will be targeted
if no deal is made, So more bluster from him.
Same i'd say, we're going to hit You're gonna hit
your hard. Nothing's changed, really, and how much fuel has
gone through the straits of her moves today. None, So
that's a worry. So that's happened. Yeah, so that's our

(01:09:03):
full fuel security. Get in touch if you want to
eight away from ten o'clock, we're talking about the closing
of Evan our racecourse. They say the last racecourse was
there today. Huge For those that don't know where ever
our racecourse is, it's well, it's sort of in the
inner West. It's probably about five k's from the city

(01:09:24):
on the estuary, well close to the estuary, and it's
a pretty handy bit of land because it's close to
good roads and it's close to the motorway and it's
close to the railway, so it's sort of a bit
of a sweet spot. And you'll bet a huge number
of houses on a race treet, but also you do

(01:09:46):
a lot of other stuff, so that's what the and
many discussions about that. So it's a kind of interesting
what you do with old racecourses because they don't always
get it right. I'm not quite sure what's happening with
Forbury Park in Dunedin. The council bought that, but it's
just laying there looking like it doesn't look good actually,
but I think that might be land in South and
Eden that's vulnerable too in undation. But yes, a lot

(01:10:11):
of these race courses are no longer sustainable, but what
do you do with the land? And bearing in mind
to the other big story this year is that we've
only got we've only got well, I thinking in the
cargo there's only two more race meets for the dogs
that ends in the end of July. I thought it

(01:10:32):
would have peted out, but it's going strong right till
the end. Apparently someone said sorry to throw a span out,
but as it me or of certain brands of slice
spreads had a shrinking spurt inside the same sized bags.
Gold answer for that, Marcus. I worked in the racing
industry for a long time. A lot of the current

(01:10:52):
course managers are costing owners and trainers a lot of
money with abandoned race meetings by overwatering tracks and changing
track conditions and irrigating too much. Course managers ten to
fifteen years ago knew what they were doing and never
had races things abandoned by not overwatering. It's a fairy
complicated industry. The horse racing industry isn't it. But I'll

(01:11:13):
tell you what. It's an industry that doesn't appear to
be growing anytime soon. And the all were the tracks.
Whether that will be the answer or not, I don't know.
Maybe it's raining more seems like it might be. That's
some of the news that's happening. If you want to
add to this, or there's something else you want to
talk about, but you want to go to be a
doding because you want to get a video of the
morning for the football England Argentina. This is the great

(01:11:35):
rematch from the last time there in the world Cup
and didn't go well, that was the hand of the
hand of God when Maridonna stopped. That was before var
And by the way, they're also a friendly trying to
stop Trump tolling the straits of hermus I am keen
to talk about the night racing at Evandale, well, because

(01:11:57):
Evandale is the racecourse. Is that last race meet today?
But they did there and I think it's the only
place in the country they didn't have Evandale night racing,
which was a huge thing. And it's hard to find
much stuff on online about that, but if you're some
of the experienced night racing, I'd like to hear more
about That was a big thing. It worked for a while,

(01:12:17):
think until it didn't. But you had the floodlights up
at the whole bit. It was a big deal, a
really really big deal. And I've had some talkback sessions
on this about it, and it was it was. Yeah,
it was really really special. Apparently I think it might
have been the late eighties. I'll just really google some
up and it's very hard to get information about it.
But you got some information about that, let's be hearing

(01:12:38):
from you. We also talking about cell phone bands, the
football tomorrow and anything else you want to talk about tonight.
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty eight and to text,
bird flu is here. I'm not even not sure what
to say about bird flu because no one quite knows
what's going to happen with it. But if your cat

(01:12:59):
eats a bird that's had bird flu, your cat will
get bird flu. Will it kill you a cat? I
don't know. That's not something I can tell you. By
the way, I think before Evan our racecourse was a racecourse,
I think it was an airport. Planes flew there, so
that's something. So that's one of the things we can
talk about. Anything goes. All the lines are free. Also too,
we're talking more about more thoughts about Paul Henry and

(01:13:21):
David Seymour. Yeah, what happens if my thoughts there was
what happened if Paul Henry starts coming out as the
more preferred prime minister to David Seymour. We're not saying
that Paul Henry's gone there because he wants to be
the leader, but maybe if you get to offered it,
I wouldn't be surprised if he takes up that option
and someone wants to stop mucking around with a clock

(01:13:41):
with daylight savings. We probably will go that way because
Donald Trump has just banned daylight savings. Now it's going
to be permanent. They're not going to chop and change.
Good evening, Jim AT's Marcus welcome, Oh hi hi Mark.

Speaker 24 (01:13:53):
She just an updates about abber or mightn't be lost.
Now the situation is the dates that can out for
the new season beginning August the first, and in the
months of August, September, October and November, Avondale are going
to stage trial trials, you know, race trials, not full races,

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So all the facilities and everything will still be there
to till November the twenty fourth, which is the last
scheduled trials meeting. Now a lot of this is political,
you know. Winston Peters is the current Racing Minister. Now
the election is on November the seventh, and in the
unlucky event of Labor holding up a coalition, there will

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be a new racing Minister and I'm pretty sure if
that happens, it'll be Karen McNulty. Now, his background is
steep than racing. He was a non set for the
tav for many years, trying to go into politics, and
he knows the racing industry inside out, so the unlucky

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event of that happening, it could be a lifeline. He
might look at the whole situation there and you know,
legislations to allow allow Avandale to continue. But it's ridiculous
that they can run trials in the next four months
but not racist.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
So is there suddenly? Just is it because of this?
Is it because of government initiated change in the racing
industry that they can't what's the story behind it all?

Speaker 24 (01:15:24):
Absolutely, there was a Racing Act. The latest Racing Act
went through in the twenty twenty and that's given New
Zealand Thoroughbred Racing the authority to close down tracks and
to consolidate assets, which is coded in my opinion, to
little land grabbing. Now, over the years, New Zealand Thoroughbred

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Racing have more or less run Avondale into the ground. Now,
the Avondale Cup, an annual staying event usually held in
December quite a few years ago, was transferred to be
race at Elderly. That was one of their main earnest
you know, I used to get massive crowds. It was
a huge event, probably the second to the Markland and
Wellington cups. You know that's going. There's been a sort

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of a slow erosion of you know, Avondale racing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Jim might don't understand the whole ownership thing, but surely
there'd be an Avandale Race club themselves that would have
a committee that they themselves it would be in their
interest to keep the whole thing going. Have they been
asleep at the wheel or what's happened there?

Speaker 24 (01:16:27):
No, they've tried the invest but as I said, it's
the whole situation is a bit political. Starting. New Zealand
First have been heavily funded in recent decades by the
maker cluds in New Zealand and New Zealand Bloodstock. They've

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helped Winston successfully get over the five percent threshold, you know,
and you know quite quite a few elections. So there's
a massive imbalance between Elsby and Avondale. And you know,
those sort of people who I mentioned who are funding
New Zealand First sort of looked down on their nose
of Avondale.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
So so it's the upmark ellerslie versus the working class Avondale.
Is that what it's about?

Speaker 24 (01:17:11):
Absolutely, Yeah, you've got it, You've got it. One hundred percent.
But I am you know, the Elsie committee and you
know people associated with Elsie and watching Horay Henry's whereas
the Avondale sort of people, you know, working class saulted
the people to walk.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Yeah, yeah, and that's certainly what my experience. Can Auckland,
I mean, I know that racing is not what it
was with Lotto and everything coming along and online gambling.
Can Auckland sustain where you've got Pooka calls?

Speaker 12 (01:17:40):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Can Allkland sustain and you've got the trots to it
at Alexander? Could all Con sustain alex Evandale and Ellesley?

Speaker 11 (01:17:51):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:17:52):
I think what they want is to you sell Ellerslie
and sorry, settle Avondale and use the proceeds to keep
you know, to keep Ellas we going now the Avondale's track.
You know, I'm a small owner.

Speaker 11 (01:18:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:18:06):
I've had a horse a few years ago won a
race at Evandale. Now this time of the year, in
the winter, Evandale was put apart from Royal Kaka up
north would be the best track in the Auckland and
Wakato district to handle rainfall. It's a brilliant track. You know,
it should shouldn't be sacrificed in my opinion. Now early
you referred to counties or the pooky Go Track. This

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time of the year, it's an absolute volb.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
You know, I've had some very uninspiring trips out there.
I've been midweek and it's yeah, yeah, I back that up.

Speaker 24 (01:18:34):
Okay, So you know, be a real tragedy if Evandale goes.
It probably will go, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Know, you never know where would the money the election,
would the money from that, would the money go to
the Avondale Race Club, would go to the New Zealand
National Thoroughbred Yah?

Speaker 24 (01:18:53):
Yeah, you know the money would go to New Zealand
thoroughbd Racing.

Speaker 13 (01:18:57):
Okay, and they.

Speaker 24 (01:18:59):
Will sell you know, the developers you know round like
hawks trying to get hold of that land. Yeah yeah,
I don't know how many hundred hours built on that land.
It's a pretty big area.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
So you know the problem if macleaney did become the
racing minister there that it would be also a stretch
for him to keep that open too, wouldn't it, because
there might be the case for two racecourses.

Speaker 24 (01:19:24):
Yeah, okay, you're sensible, not who the racing minister is.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
And the other thing that we never hear the end
of is Western Springs with Speedway to similar sort of
that there's always closing and not closing, and Evandale things
the same. This has been going on for years.

Speaker 24 (01:19:40):
Yeah, yeah, it is just briefly the demise of night
racing in Avondale was caused by one last meetings. Well,
a lot of the dates relocated over winter, and you
know who's going to turn out for night racing in
the middle of winter, cold night at Avondale. But the
major reason for closing was during one race the whole

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lights went out on the course and you know, the
jockey said to pull the horses up. It could have
been an absolute catastrophe, and I think that was the
beginning of the end. You know, they managed to pull
their horses up safely and get you get back to
the bird cage.

Speaker 15 (01:20:13):
But you know, it.

Speaker 24 (01:20:14):
Should never have happened. It was just a freaking electrical outage.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
How How did night racing run for.

Speaker 24 (01:20:25):
Probably round about two years as a spectacle.

Speaker 2 (01:20:29):
Was it good because it sounds good?

Speaker 24 (01:20:32):
Yeah, I think so, but again it was it's all
over the summer months. I think it would have been
even more successful but the cub had to spend a
hell of a lot of money installing those lights, and
that trained, you know, a lot of the revenue. So
but when when the lights went out, well they literally
went out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
Love you to talk to you. I've loved that. Thank
you so much for that, Graham. It's Marcus Grevening.

Speaker 10 (01:20:56):
Yeahday, Marcus. This is something in the same vein and
see racing. When next Jagger was eighty three on the
twenty sixth of July, I'll be eighty nine. So my
memory is not as good as it used to be.
But I recalled going to the racing the Trots in

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Auckland when Cardigan Bay was racing and it was off
a handicap of eighty four yards and it was about
about three rounds of the trick track, I think, and
with a round to go, Cardigan Bay went around the
field and went one going away. But it's the hairs

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on the back of my head. The crowd went wild
when they saw, you know, Cardigan Bay going around the
whole field and the heads on the back of my
neck like something I'd never forget. So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Do you know the year of that, Graham, No.

Speaker 10 (01:21:58):
That's right. I could do a bit of research on it,
but I'll do the research.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Graham, I'll do it for you. Jane ats Marcus good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:22:06):
Oh hi, I just wanted to talk about the bird
flu and ask the question that your listeners might be
able to answer. Forman Currently, I feed twoies on our
bat deck of winter, and usually I have up to twelve.
Sometimes I've had sixteen, and twoes don't usually sort of

(01:22:28):
flock together, but I'm attracting them the same bowl. Is
that something I should stop because of the bird flu
and bringing birds together?

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
It's a good question, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:22:41):
And who who could tell me whether that's something that
I shouldn't do? No, who would I ask?

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
I guess it's mainly going to be in the sea birds.
What are they called? The seabirds? The my gradery birds?
To begin with, I guess we'll probably hear once it's
in the native population. No sign it's the year, because
I guess here that native birds are falling ill. So
I reckon it'd be good.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
To go and do you think so? There wouldn't be
someone I could ring up who will be knowledgeable? Who
I could ask the question? Tous I take to contribute
to it because tooys don't usually form in a group.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Well, my advice, and this is based on nothing at all,
is I think we'd start to know when the birds
got when the toey's got sick because of their reports.
And I think you would know that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
I hope I'm not the first one off the block.

Speaker 2 (01:23:42):
Well where are you? I don't think you would be,
would you in Auckland? Okay? Is it good to feed toea's?
Is that a good thing to do?

Speaker 11 (01:23:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
I did look it up first. They said not to
feed them honeywater, but to feed them brown sugar water. Yeah,
and they've been doing it for about fifteen years now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
And what's the theory?

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
But why brown sugar water not honey?

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Why are tweas needing your feed?

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
I don't know, but they come round and remind me
so in winter they can't have so much food. They
come around and sort of remind men hanging around in
the oak tree and it treages me to stop boarding it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Ut Okay, Well maybe someone will know, Jane. I'll find out,
and I'll keep you in mind too if I hear
anything more about toe's and stuff. I've enjoyed talking do you?
Thank you? Marcus? I don't want to sound like a
conspiracy theorist, because I'm not. But I'm really consider it
the future of our bird life. I saw the zoo
talk in many of the tropical and native bird lives
to restrict exposure. I'm worried that the loo might be

(01:24:48):
the glue might be used the way of eliminating some
of our bird life, attempt to speed or on hinder
development of protected areas. Our birds are one of the
main indicators of sight, with the eclogical value of being
convenient for developers of the birds wore displaced to remove
the equation. Look at Flamingo Island in Albania. Why do
we keep mucking up the world clock with daylight savings

(01:25:10):
causes incosis of time zones across the globe. Set the
world clock to what it should be in line with
planet cycles. Countries are what extra dollar hours at the
end of the working day should change instead of workday
from nine to five to eight to four. Easy. Someone's
taxed it through Mary Poppins. Is that a horse? You
know what? As soon as I heard that woman ring

(01:25:33):
up about bird flu and talking about the two wee
I thought, well, remember there was a guy who we
had called Jim who was a vit pathologist. Remember him?
Did we even know he died or not? He must
of us guess we got an email, did we? Gosh,
it's not that people remember it. Someone as you forget

(01:25:54):
that frighten you wasn't just get really cheapest creepers, old
Jim Morning morning markers? Are they magers? I'll tell you
why I knew his stuff though, didn't he when it
came to pitt pathology, It'd be one of the most
informed talkback callers ever been there. Guy and his swamped

(01:26:14):
that he was restoring. I'm very fond of him. A margin, Hi, Marga,
come here, you call it and join the dot. Surely
Elleslie sabotage those lights, having now to get their plans

(01:26:35):
underwa schedule. Nighttime when the race meets kill, the lights
shows over what seemed to be the case. But the
lights that the trots never go out, do they? That
seems to work always when there's people on committee that
always gets a bit cloak and degger he doesn't he
can imagine all that people with fivedoms. I've always enjoyed

(01:26:58):
visiting the race tracks around the country, and he's right
by that way. Okay, that's a great track, that one
because you can see that you're right near the ocean.
It's one of the greats because fung and A used
to have a track but that went. That got turned
into housing, so I don't know what happened to that one,
but yeah, that went. It's one of my lasting regrets
that Bluffy have had a race course, but there's never
really anywhere for it. They could have put on the

(01:27:19):
island harbor. But you know, I mean, Bluff hits most
of the spots for being a true real di income
New Zealand town. It's got the port, got the railway,
got the pubs, had a golf course once. We're still
going to nine Holbit out of Maui Way. But yeah,
never had the race course, wouldn't have been room. Oh

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well it's still time. Well I put that in the
district plan, Marcus. The problem is the government wants more housing,
as it believes is a housing shortage. The Auckland Council
wants more houses for more rates revenue, but there is
a lack of associated infrastructure supports such as schools. The
new five thousand and two and three level town houses

(01:28:00):
currently been built of the grounds that you need to
tech mandeal, but lack parking and existing schools that have
the capacity to increase the rolls sounds like a lack
of Ford planning to me. And when's that train starting.
Jim died about a year and a half ago, September twenty,
twenty twenty four. Do you know what his surname was?

Speaker 12 (01:28:19):
Dan?

Speaker 11 (01:28:20):
What was it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Puddon? Were h h as they saying there? Jim Hutton? Yeah,
a lovely guy. Well, I don't know. I mean I
never met him in real life, but you were what
a legend he was? Good evening Regent's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:28:33):
Welcome are Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:28:37):
I'm just driving home at the moment over the mammakoos
in the file.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Yeah, goodness to be beautiful.

Speaker 25 (01:28:43):
It's sick, is what the ad words?

Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
Suit?

Speaker 25 (01:28:47):
I just mentioned a few other race courses that you've
missed that had closed down in the last few years. Dargable,
hang on jams.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Hang on Aurbaquino. Point is that what it's called.

Speaker 25 (01:29:00):
No dargable was called dargable racist as far as I.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Was also wet oh because I went up to the race.
Is there not so long ago? I think Winston was there.

Speaker 25 (01:29:10):
And it was that was just I think it must
have happened just before they closed.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Yeah, and I thought it was it's called Aarbaquino Point, Okay.
I didn't realize that it had closed.

Speaker 25 (01:29:20):
And the original wangare one was I forget it was
actually the showgrounds originally.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Okay, sure, yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:29:29):
Thames has gone really Pira Shiko.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
Gisbin, his GiB his Gisbon got no races.

Speaker 25 (01:29:45):
There's none now on the east coast.

Speaker 14 (01:29:47):
Once you.

Speaker 25 (01:29:49):
The track you're talking about, Hastings is really the only.

Speaker 16 (01:29:52):
One on the.

Speaker 25 (01:29:55):
Up in the top half of the you know, around
that area because Grisbine's gone, while was gone and of
war gone.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
For those who don't know to Tiko and that's including myself,
that's just not far southwest from that's right.

Speaker 25 (01:30:13):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:30:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:30:14):
Really it was a really cool track because there was
always sort of good happenings for your nose stands and
nothing like that. And it used to always be they
used to always have a white Tangy Day meeting not white.
He was one of the long weekend meetings in the
Urban's great place to go and drink some beers under
the trees and have a few vents, you know, one
of those good ones.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
And that country towns do races so well that sounds amazing.
That's a shame.

Speaker 25 (01:30:40):
And Thames, I mean go back to the day and
Thames they step a Christmas meeting two days in the
summer time when I was a young fellow with many
of my mates were driving over from wang Matar Beach
and have a day at the races. Wonderful times, great memories.
Little track and.

Speaker 11 (01:31:00):
Was gone.

Speaker 25 (01:31:00):
That fire was a good jumps track.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
I've got leave with different company headlines. Rig thanks so
much for that. Ridge didn't realize so many clothes that
have closed quite recently. So for those who don't know,
there's three matches after the World Cup. There is the
match between England and Argentina tomorrow morning, which will be
free to wear on TV one at seven o'clock, and
then there will be the final and then the consolation final.

(01:31:28):
So it's the tail end. Hello Ella, it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:31:38):
Birds way.

Speaker 18 (01:31:39):
Why are the seven eggs in the shops?

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
It's a really good question. Where else would they sell them?

Speaker 20 (01:31:45):
Yeah, they shouldn't sell eggs in the shop.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
Where else would you sell them?

Speaker 16 (01:31:50):
You wouldn't sell them?

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Tell me about tell me what you're thinking.

Speaker 23 (01:31:57):
Why would you buy them?

Speaker 15 (01:31:59):
Okay, it's a good question.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Hey, I don't think you get it from the I
don't think you get it from the billing, it from
the birds. By the way, I'm reading, I'm reading James
Hutton's comments on his funeral page, and there's quite a
lot of people that mention ZB sorry to hear of
Jim's passing. I'm calling it to z B. He was
so knowledgeable. Yeah, thank you Jim for all your wonderful

(01:32:26):
story for incredible life. Ile miss your voice coming through
the ZB air waves. Jim fly high, Jim, I have
some lovely stories there, so here we go. That's because
he was a great tramper. I feel a bit nostalgic, don't.
Karen says, all the ZB talk beat listens will miss
Jim the veterinary pathologist. I'm in my fifties and on
many a night when I had insomnia from the stage
of life, I'd tune in and always hoped to have

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a story from Jim in the wee hours. Call after
caller would then reference the interesting insights Jim at Offord.
We're all missing him, and we're wondering where he was,
not realizing he was tuning to his next adventure. Well,
the thing about Jim, I don't know what about Jim
the pet pathologist, but he would have been great on
bird flu. He's also very good on He was very
good on dehydrating fruit and tramping food. And this is

(01:33:11):
another great message on his death notice. I was sorry
to learn of Jim's passing. I first knew him when
my late husband and I sent many samples into the
animal health lab from both al Vet Clinic and Avian Quarantine,
and then more recently enjoyed this is him on talkback.
So he would have been great. If he isn't Avian Quarantine,
he would known exactly about bird flu. Of course, he

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was beloved on ZB and the Pribleton Pit. Oh that's
what heck, did we know at the time?

Speaker 4 (01:33:37):
What there?

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
We did much at the time, did.

Speaker 12 (01:33:38):
We, Jim?

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
Oh you well, I'm quite moved about that. Other race
tracks that have closed dargavilte t Teco, Wido, Foxton, Martin, Fielding,
the list goes on. I'll tell you what, We're quite
well served with race courses in Southland. We have Escott Park,
we have Riverton, we have Winton, we have Gore, and

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I think we have Windham, although the the stand, the
grand stand had burnt down recently. And I'll tell the
other thing too, which I was excited to read it.
But I haven't had a chance to talk about this because, Oh,
someone said there was a race course at aka Aka
out the back of Wayuku. They filmed one hot came
a hot Friday there starting Billie T. James. What was

(01:34:27):
I going to say? I said, I interrupted myself. What
was I going to mention? We're onto race courses? Then
we got onto. I've got no idea, what's going to say?
That's a shame. I think it was quite important. Oh
what I missed to talk about because we're so busy
last night talking about Paul Henry, is that, out of

(01:34:47):
all the ways to celebrate Matariki, it seems o Hawks
Base and on one of those threes of Hawks Bay
seemed to be amazing. They've got all that sort of
driftwood and slash that's washed up on the beaches from
Gabriel and cyclones and you just go help yourself and
start a fire on the beach, and there were hundreds
and hundreds of fires around the coast. I think about
ten thousand pe people there for it just sound like
it was a fantastic event, so well done them. So

(01:35:10):
that's you know, if you're looking for a destination Matadiki
place to go, that looks like the one that's really
kind of Yeah, ten thousand people Mataiki beach fires, it's
a great story. Organizers say it's likely that more than
ten thousand people took part in the Mataiki diy beach
fire event that continues to both capture and warm the
hearts of Napier residents. The Nati cahu the Nati Cahunu

(01:35:36):
event Matariqui Mahuica Now and it's forty we start after
Stuck and Gabriel and big file. Piles of driftwood coated
the shoreline. This year, City Council Napier embraced it as
the main as the city's main Matauriki event event. With
little no dry driftwood around, pan pack and toomy timber
stated off cut pine which was left in mounds along

(01:35:59):
the boardwalk for people to pick from for their fires.
Quickly hundreds of fires were burning. I'm the national quum
to King ross White Street. There we go. That seemed
like a good thing. The Walker procession where people write
message on land and foot and btches on the spirit
of Napier's pull. It seems good, although I thought it

(01:36:19):
was drifted with the fact that they're burning good firewood.
I'm slightly it's not quite as good. It looks like
great firewood. I've reached a whole new I've reached a
whole new efficiency with my fire. I've kind of different
I'm lighting it differently. I'm just going full noise when
this is the smaller fire. I'm going full noise and

(01:36:41):
putting as much wooden there as quickly as possible to
really get those embers going. I'm cranked, boy, I'm cranking it.
And Jeep's creep has made a world of difference with
ourt heats. The room I can now get because I
mean I like to get it, thermometer out like to
time how quickly I get the room hot. Marcus, the
first time I've ever heard you emotional? Was I emotional?
Someone said, why Matty went too sadly? Marcus killer? Marcus,

(01:37:05):
great talk about Jim who is sadly missed. My favorite
race course was Takaranga Taka Devenport, now a golf port course.
My favorite racecourse was tak Takarranga Devenport at Allison Park.
Oh yeah, anyway, if you want to talk about racing
and the because you never heard about racehourses coming up.
They don't close the bend in one. So I love

(01:37:26):
looking at that on Google Maps because it's triangular but
expensive things to run. And yeah, and I think race
courses need to change. Every time I've been to the
Gallops recently, it's all about the members. It's all about
looking after the you know, there's the experience for your
general just turn up for a white bait fredder and
a and a punt. I mean it's shocking, it really

(01:37:49):
is that. Yeah, it really is a they've got the
it's probably the worst example of host responsibility or just
you know looking after pilll overseen in my life. Anyway,
that's them, that's their journey. And I suppose there's strap
for members nineteen to eleven. I can't quite work out

(01:38:10):
what the point of just getting all the because this
isn't the whole point of race courses to be meeting
places for communities. You've got this kind of all weather
course in Cambridge. No one's going to go there anyway.
I mean you know, I love hate it the whole thing.
I just I guess my frustration is that they're great
things of the great culture and it's dying, but no
one seems to know how to save it properly. Just

(01:38:31):
those sort of amateur committees doing their best. But it's
not good. Oh it's a good point. The penalty shootout
should start about nine thirty tomorrow. I reckon the Windham
grand Stand Blue down the October Big Ones. Of course
it did, showing England, Argentina and not Fray, France, Spain
on TV one just shows New Zenna's still a nineteenth

(01:38:51):
century colony. How utterly depressing. I think it was because
they thought probably more people would pay to watch that.
I think it was about driving subscriptions. Went to rua
Carcolar Saturday. It was the beginning of the winter Carnival.
Fantastic numbers and perfect weather. Their slogan where the surf
beats the turf, I think it's on sand and the
drainage is rey very good. It's great, So please, I've

(01:39:13):
got a lot of a lot of those racecourses like
Awaquino Point that was the dark of all one. So
Rocco down with the Furthest North Racecourse. I think funk
and a. You think it would be one up Bay
of Islands, wouldn't you. Anyway, there's just me rattling to myself.
If you want to talk about anything tonight, good, Oh,
there we go. Brian Wyndham's main Grand Standard not burned down.

(01:39:35):
It was blowing to bits. That's right. Then they deliberately
burned in preparation to build the most modern stand of
the country, to make it the number one cause in Southland.
Oh yes, So be in touch if you want to
talk with these things or anything else. And that's the plan.
As petrol goes up in price, so you want to

(01:39:58):
go and fill up, and you want to keep your
birds your cats inside because I eat a bird with
bird flu, they'll get bird flu. And none of this
is good. I wanted to move into the humans. I
don't think it will, but I think that's what they're
always still ultimately could be a concern. I mean, we
might be fine with it, but how would you know
there's some other kind of earth sharing thing you want
to say tonight. I've kind of we've had good topics,

(01:40:19):
but we've kind of meanded a bit. My fault probably
it didn't feel like it was a one topic night
that I really wasn't sure what topics have double down on.
I've been betting cell phones to under sixteen. I mean,
you know, where do you go with that? It's a
good idea, but jeep as creep? Is that what act?
What should be about with? So there's that, there's Daylight
savings and Trump, and oh there's something else as well well.

(01:40:43):
I took a screenshot of something that I thought would
be a good topic today. Who what was it?

Speaker 12 (01:40:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
Even no race course, We've been talking about that too,
So yeah, be in touch with you and to talk
about these things or anything else. Here till twelve. There's
a bit of action in the golf. But of course
Trump wanted to start tolling the straight ohor moves, which
is ironic because they know we're there. Even though they
all say it was illegal for Iran to do it.
I think people friendly trying to talk them out of
doing that because that would be a disaster. He was

(01:41:09):
going to charge twenty percent. He's an out of the
box thinker, isn't he. On Trump comes up with stuff
that other people wouldn't think of. So there's a new
wave of daytime strikes at the moment, the fourth consecutive
day of strikes, and Iran's deputy froudmins it says, the
interim dealer is all but dismantled, and Trumps threatened, the
power plants and the bridges. That's all happening. Thirteen to

(01:41:32):
eleven head and it's Marcus. Welcome, Hey, Marcus, how are
you you good? Heaven has yourself?

Speaker 17 (01:41:38):
Yeah, you could just all just listening to you when
I drive home.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
Good on you.

Speaker 17 (01:41:46):
Yeah, just about daylight saving. To be honest, I hate
daylight saving. I think it's a great idea of getting
rid of it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Well I think, hang on, I think in America they
haven't got rid. They haven't got rid of it, They've
just made it permanent.

Speaker 17 (01:41:59):
Well yeah, but I mean when I say delay, Sames,
I mean the chopping and changed.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Yeah to I just like it to. I'd like to
change and leave it at there, even if it's dark
in the morning in the winter.

Speaker 17 (01:42:12):
Oh absolutely. I mean I come sparky, and even in winter,
even with the daylight saving change, it's dark when I leave,
it dark when I get.

Speaker 2 (01:42:19):
Home, exactly. And you just put your kids, just put
a head torch on your kids, sending them off to school,
they'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, I reckon. So what are
you starting? You saying you're starting the dark anyway?

Speaker 6 (01:42:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:42:32):
Yeah, I mean I have a forty five minute drive
to Cite most most days. Yeah, so I'm leaving home.
You know, we start at seven, so I'm usually leaving
home by sex and often we do early starts off
and it's before there and it's never daylight by then
anyway in winter.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
Hey, why do sparkys why do Trainey start so early?
A headen?

Speaker 17 (01:42:56):
I don't know. I don't want to work late.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
I get douse, you go surfing or something.

Speaker 22 (01:43:03):
No, well, I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:43:05):
Usually, like our hour for our company is siven until
I've usually simu So yeah, I guess, I don't know.
We just do more out in the week. A lot
of commercial side construction sites, especially often everyone under started
given it just did.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Okay, please discuss Thanks so much for that. Leaving away
from living Larry Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:43:33):
Yeah, you mentioned poor Henry and his aspirations. I thought
it was it could be a bit of conflict. Michael
Laws had mentioned that he had an interest in becoming
Minister Broadcasting and I guess poor Henry have an interest

(01:43:56):
there as well, so that could be fun and games.
I imagine there'd be certain uneasiness over at.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
I'll tell you what if the would be a debate
between the two of them. Laws of one hands down,
he's formidable.

Speaker 20 (01:44:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I can I can imagine there
be a lot of uneasiness over at the Red Rodeo
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
We don't call it, we don't call it. We're better
than that, Lorry. Come on, even on the internet, even
on Facebook.

Speaker 9 (01:44:22):
Again, just hacking back to the but I think it's terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
That people say that, like I'm going to shut down radios.
There's people's jobs and livelihoods. I just find that just
just tasteless.

Speaker 20 (01:44:41):
Yeah, well you're going to remember that. See the previous
one they had, Willie Jackson was he was minister broadcasting
the previous group wasn't he was sort of.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
You might be right, he was, Yeah, yeah, it's interesting
the Minister broadcasting because everyone thinks they've watched TV and
be done radio, so they can do it. I mean,
because I'll tell you what, who's at the one at
the moment, Paul Goldsmith, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (01:45:05):
That's right?

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
Yeah, he's spoken of radio awards and all he could
talk about at a radio awards to the nation's broadcaster broadcast,
all he could talk about was picking up a prize
from Radio Hodaki when he was a teenager. That's that's
what his speech was. I mean, cheapest creepers.

Speaker 20 (01:45:21):
He copped quite a spray, didn't he from That was?

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
That was at the Music Awards, that's right. I think
it was the Music Ones and that was I think
one of the tops. And really he was was he was?
Was will He Jackson Minister Broadcasting? He was?

Speaker 9 (01:45:40):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
No bird flew stories from Antarctica.

Speaker 20 (01:45:47):
No, no, I haven't picked up on that. One moment
in the old school.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Was one of the chances that the first bird would
end up in Wellington. I can't believe that.

Speaker 20 (01:45:55):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
Yeah, okay, nice to talk, Thanks Larry. Saving away from
eleven o'clock. A couple of texts stands to reason there
will be sick birds all over the North Island and
nobody noticed it was a skewer. I've never heard. I've
always a skewer. That's how it's pronounced. A skewer. The
lady who phoned about bird flow and buying eggs reminded

(01:46:17):
me of the East and the Superman, and we went
to grabby eggs and I had to stand and wait
while the man in my way stood swapping eggs from
the expensive brand large range into a cart and of
the cheapest ones. When I've been through the checkout, I
reported at the service desks. The woman was shocked and
went off to look at the cameras. One of the
most bizarre behaviors I've witnessed a supermarket. Wow. I don't

(01:46:38):
think I would have naked. But there you go by
the way too. If you've got if you've been to
supermarket and got vouchers, stickers for the Smeg knives, we
need those. I'm raising stickers for Mark from Cambridge who
missed out on the brazier and I've promised him the
knives can nives. So if you've got the stickers, God,

(01:47:00):
send them to me and we will courry them to Mark.
The address private Bag nine two one nine eight Victoria Street,
West Aukun eleven forty two. That's on the market slash
Night's Facebook page. It's eleven oh seven people, it's the
final hour for me. Good evening and welcome you enjoyed

(01:47:21):
those discussions about Evan our racecourse, because that's something that's
been going on on forever, the closure of that. But
it's a bit bit of land. I imagine probably that
golf courses and race courses the last big bits of
land and cities that they've got tons. If you're closed
down the golf courses, though, do they the numbers still
seem to be good. That could still change. I mean

(01:47:42):
they're doing that at Pegasus, aren't they AnyWho. That's a
lot lot going on tonight. So there's bird flu when
there's well everything. But get in touch if you want
to talk. Marcus, the man in the supermarket may believe
in an eager to egalitarian society and free range for all,
Thank you, Owen. So that's the plan if you want

(01:48:04):
to be involved in the final hour oh eight one
hundred and eighty, she said, you might have predictions for
the football tomorrow morning. That's not for long, that's just
just under eight hours away. That's England versus I'm not
seeing much reporting in the press about that. It seems
as though the English press are keeping it in check
because four eight, twelve years ago they were obsessed. They

(01:48:27):
were having the Pope talking about prayers for Beckham's foot
and they seem to be keeping a lid on it.
But there's been a lot of analysis about why the
French played so badly. I think embepies come out against
the manager for sloppy tactics. They got hiding two hill,

(01:48:48):
so yes, humiliation in Dallas. They keep gave and Buppy
a three out of ten rating. So you'll be doing
it tough. But I don't know what tomorrow's headlines will be,
because certainly there will be them. There'll be other than
miracle at where are they playing anyway? How to be
the miracle or the disaster hyping it's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 13 (01:49:09):
Yeah, doing Marcus. I don't know if I'm just seeing
the thing on stuff in the last hour where the
AA is urging t we used to fill up now
because because our runs threatened to stop all energy exports.
So yeah, where we're just about to head down with
the drums and fill them up.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Again to the drums, We're going to head down there.

Speaker 13 (01:49:29):
Well, well, the AA, you don't just put it up
on stuff, and yes it's the top headlines are saying,
you know, urging g we used to full up now,
so it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
So that's the rolling banner on the stuff website. It
doesn't say what time that came through. AA WARN's key
with fuel prices are going are about to fill full
up now next week's going to be worse rather than
with the automobile warning, fuel prices set to climb phone
in the new conflict.

Speaker 13 (01:50:00):
Yeah, although it serves the warns have been coming up
for the last two or three days. And yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
Thought I thought, I thought you were quite trigger happy.
I thought you would have pulled the trigger already.

Speaker 13 (01:50:11):
No, well, I was waiting for actually tomorrow, just tomorrow
being Tuesday, you have the cheap price day. You normally
save about an extra fifteen sixteen cents at the understand. Yeah,
but then I'm just worried that it's going to go
off overnight and it's going to be the same price.
So I thought I'll be to kid now. And yeah,

(01:50:32):
I was just well worried that all those kiwis that
complained last time aren't taking note of these warnings because
these are the same warnings we got last time. And
then look what I got ended up with like four
bucks a leader, So yeah, full up, now.

Speaker 2 (01:50:47):
You'll get turn of leaders.

Speaker 13 (01:50:50):
Yeah, so we'll be two hundred and ten leaders and
per drums. So I'll get two of them, and yeah,
probably called the vecraft as well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
Okay, you put them on the back of the track.
You got on trailer, have you?

Speaker 13 (01:51:05):
Yeah, them on the trailer?

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
And how long was that last year?

Speaker 13 (01:51:09):
Well, I've got a mainstrraction. It down to ten weeks
last time. So I never I never paid over three
bucks the leader.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
Okay, and it's for diesel.

Speaker 13 (01:51:18):
Yeah, yeah, it's diesel.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
And what's the price at the moment?

Speaker 13 (01:51:22):
So down the road at the moment is oh, no, no, no,
as much now I think it's about two twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
Okay, So you're going to say, because it's gonna up
to three, you're going to say eighty cents leader, you
don't say about five hundred bucks for four hundred dollars.

Speaker 11 (01:51:38):
It's going to go up.

Speaker 13 (01:51:39):
I'd say it's going to go up four bucks markers
because this time around the strategic reserves are pretty much empty.
So it's going to climb much higher, i'll say, than
what it was last time.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
And there's some you're there's some factors with Russia as
well out there they're importing or they've stopped producing too, so.

Speaker 13 (01:51:55):
Yeah, well that's still exploring. So what's seppening is all
those countries that used to buy off them are buying
off the same parties as we buy off. So now
he's a demand issue.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
I just think it's the key thing to be doing,
to be stockpiling.

Speaker 13 (01:52:11):
Well, Marcus, I've got a family to fee there, and
you know, I've got to get to work. So at
the end of the day, in times like this, you've
got to look after yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
Where do you keep your drums?

Speaker 13 (01:52:22):
Not telling well being diesel, Marcus, you can actually store
up to one thousand leaders on your property.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
You're not right. I suppose that you'd need a hand
truck to steal it, wouldn't you in a hoist.

Speaker 13 (01:52:36):
Well, as long as they're on the trailer and fix
to the trailer and unmovable, you can. You can store
them down the deck in the shed. As long as
the store on the trailer markers. You can't deal with
petul that you can only store up to fifty leaders
of petrol.

Speaker 2 (01:52:54):
Good luck. Appreciate you coming through, Ben, thank you. So
they're stockpiling again. You're worried about bird flu, Ben, go on,
he's on the strops. You can hear them. They're stropping
it up. A no nonsense. It's weird that AA said
that to stock up. Don't normally they're not normally like that,
although it could have been just an article that was taken. Yeah,

(01:53:14):
it's hard to source where that comment came from. I
looked at that earlier when I read that out there?
Where is that from Biden's memoirs on it? It's called
Promise Me America. It'll be this autumn his memoir. Yep,
so that's a situation. It's about. It's a book about
his faith in the promise of America. He'll turn eighty

(01:53:37):
four three days after the publication. Wow, get in touch
on a talk on her eight hundred and eighties about
fuel about stocking up. Oh, that's an interesting text, Carolyn.
Thank you, Marcus. My thoughts for the Evandale race course.
It could be a good location for a new stadium,
plenty of land for parking. Enjoy your show, chairs, Carolyn, Well,

(01:53:57):
I'd say it'd be a great place for a stadium
because it's on the railway. But is it better than
we're eating parkers? That's the question. There's probably more room there.
I don't know what the answer is, awkward? Does all
need a new stadium? And so that this weekend's pretty
busy with both the league and there's basketball. What's what
are the three events are on down? There's three things,
aren't there? Here's basketball? What basketball? Is is it that?

Speaker 11 (01:54:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
It's the Harlem Globe Trotters. Kids love that, don't they.
I'm just looking at how far away Evan Dhler is
from the railway. If they did do that, Yeah, you
could do that quite well. It's a nice bit of
land right there on the estuary up the fox, get
in touch, hit'll twelve maneams Marcus sixteen past eleven. Someone
said it's a comment from some stupid stuff report and

(01:54:43):
not AA great way to get panic buying. Here we go. Well,
that's not quite how I read it text from what
I'm reading on stuff. But it's an unusual thing for
them to say they've got live around threatens to stop
all energy exports, key we urge to full up. Now
that's the headline, And that was at seven fifty seven.
That headline, AA urges keywis to fill up sooner rather

(01:55:04):
than later, as fuel prices are a about to rise. Yeah,
so it's probably a spokesperson, Terry Collins. They might have
rung him and he might have said, off fendly, Well,
it's a good time to fill up now. I was
an Arians interview. This last week was even better. This
week it's still God, next week's going to be worse.
The longer you wait, the more you're probably gonna have
to pay. So yeah, it does sound as though that's

(01:55:27):
going to cause some form of panic buying. And this
is from thirty seven minutes ago from older Louis Herman
wat go you the US military Central Commands is it's
resumed strikes and Iran in daylight part of an increasing
tember of attacks designed to further degrade military capabilities Iranians
force of US to protect commercions shipping in the straight

(01:55:48):
of hormoots. That's happening as we go. By the way,
more media, media, use more media and used Radio one
in the UK seems to fight all their DJs that
replace them with social media influences. Probably not a bad idea.
They'll probably be hungry out there doing what they need
to do. Radio one access six long time presenters and
replaces them with influencers. There you go all about eyeballs

(01:56:12):
twenty past eleven. Get in touch if you want to talk.
My name is Marcus. Welcome Pedal twelve. All the lines
are free. The other thing about Paul Henry, I mentioned
this earlier to night, and I meant to that again.
What if he starts coming out in the preferred prime
minister ahead of David Seymour, does it in effect? Does
that transition happen? I wonder about that. You might have
a comment about that also tonight. Marcus. Don't know why

(01:56:33):
that guy said you cannot store over fifty liters of petrol.
People with boats they have turned elias in their tank.
I think he said you can't have it on a trailer.
I think it's about where you store it. That's my yeah,
he said, so what he's on about. But yea, if
you want to talk about fuel, about stockpiling, about guest by,
people said beyond guest be looking about what's going on there.
But get in touch here till twelve oh, eight hundred

(01:56:54):
and eighty ten eighty. That's rain out there. But you'd
be nice to hear from you. I think it's raining
really hard. Marcus. Regarding fuel prices, Iran unperpletar wise I've
never heard one two Z'B commentator called pub out for
what he has a dangerous, inept corrupt inness human being.
Please elucidate, cheers. Roger will likely speak for myself. I

(01:57:17):
can't speak for what other people say. I would imagine
that a lot of things a lot of time with Trump,
I think people just assumed that that is known. But
this is not a news flash. I think everything that's
happened is entirely predictable and incredibly unsurprising. It's not going
to get better anytime soon as he becomes increasingly irrational.

(01:57:40):
But yeah, we don't get to vote. It's not our democracy,
if that in fact what it is. But that's that.
And I seems like the weathers just turn for everybody
of every heavy rain down here, and if you want
to talk on here. Oh by the way too, I
haven't mentioned this tonight, know, well, how is State Hiway
Wan south of Cake colder? So it's been out for

(01:58:01):
like four or five six days and it's back flowing today.
I just wanted how good the road was. Does it
look like a Jerry fix? So they've already put some
work on that. If you've got an update for me
for about that also that would be enjoyable for me.
So yeah, let's be hearing from you and your thoughts
about Paul Henry leading act. I'm not saying that will happen,
but you know, I mean things things change quite quickly

(01:58:23):
in polics, don't they say to say, oh this would
be a good idea. Oh you know, could you imagine
situation that, Oh, actually we should be higher? Maybe Seymour
was the problem. It's all just going to be conversations
and suggestions and then people act. And you know, I
don't have a problem and do what you want your party,
but I'll be curious to know how that's going to go.
Your Pam, it's Marcus. Good evening, Hi Pam.

Speaker 26 (01:58:41):
Hi Marcus. Gosh, it's getting exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Are you in the sweet Pam?

Speaker 26 (01:58:46):
I am?

Speaker 11 (01:58:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
Well, did you have any connection with Argentina? No, it's
even better.

Speaker 26 (01:58:51):
I just had an arm chair, that's all.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Yeah. Now why did you have an art? What did
that mean?

Speaker 26 (01:58:57):
Well? Well, I was sitting in my arm chair when
I ran you and you gave me Argentine.

Speaker 2 (01:59:02):
That's good. No, it's exciting, it's the best.

Speaker 26 (01:59:04):
It's a very exciting. I don't know that I'll sleep tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Will you watch it tomorrow?

Speaker 14 (01:59:10):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
Yes, okay, do you know anything? Have you watched any
of their other matches? Or have you not had the
app on TV and D or.

Speaker 26 (01:59:16):
I have been watching?

Speaker 21 (01:59:18):
Yeah, okay when I can.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
Do you like what you see?

Speaker 12 (01:59:21):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (01:59:21):
I love it.

Speaker 26 (01:59:24):
It's very exciting for an arm chairperson.

Speaker 2 (01:59:27):
Well, just two more games to go?

Speaker 26 (01:59:29):
Two games.

Speaker 18 (01:59:32):
Tomorrow though.

Speaker 2 (01:59:33):
Where's where's the final? Den? It's Monday morning, it'll be
all over for you, or tomorrow or maybe tomorrow by.

Speaker 26 (01:59:42):
Nine it might be, it might be tomorrow year. I
just thought I must bring it and tell you I
am excited.

Speaker 2 (01:59:51):
Nice to hear from your Pam. Thanks so much. We've
got Fiona with England and we've got Rick with Spain.
That's the three there in the final of our sweepstake
five hundred dollars. I'll keep you posted and also to
you keep me posted with your Smeg stickers for the
Night Wives the Canives, if you've got any of those,
we do need them for Mark and and I just

(02:00:11):
want them. So if you're going to send some, text
me and tell me you've sent them too, because we
do want I want Mark to rest easy with his
knives hopefully by next week, so he doesn't need many.
How would you need all together? Dan stickers? And that's
two thousand that's four thousand dollars worth of groceries, right, Okay,

(02:00:35):
well hopefully yeah. I don't know what he doesn't look
I mean, does he want the knife You wouldn't want
a knife block. That's a stupid looking thing, isn't it.
Why would you keep your knives on a block? By
the way, we have a knife block. It's not particularly good.
It's like a posting box for adults because you're never
quite sure which knive's going to fit where. And gosh,
woe be tired if you use the carving fork, because

(02:00:55):
that's thick and that only goes in one very particular slot.
Marcus Paul Henry joining ACT. I don't think egg voters
will be happy about that.

Speaker 1 (02:01:03):
I am not.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
If he ended up leader, they have lost my vote.
They may have now anyway with this move. Wow, no
one ever said that. Last night, with all the calls
we had, everyone was quite happy with it. But I
think too, with political parties, you sort of spend a
long time coming up with policy and your messaging, and
when someone comes and you and then goes on the

(02:01:24):
talk circuit. It kind of changes everything, doesn't it, because
something it's about what It's not about what the act
Party stands for. It's about what Paul Henry thinks. And
they're quite different things, and a lot of it was
quite sort of stuff. Oh, this is what's wrong with
this country, not about allegative solution to fixing it. But yeah,
it's got the headlines twenty nine to twelve. Holo Bryant's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (02:01:45):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening, Marcus. You're just the report.
Here looks like Augland Airport might be closing. I'm on
the corner Mount Albert Road and Standing and roads and
it's very sicky soup at the present.

Speaker 2 (02:02:00):
Gee wow, yeah, how.

Speaker 8 (02:02:03):
Long is it like that?

Speaker 2 (02:02:03):
And what are you doing out?

Speaker 14 (02:02:05):
Woh?

Speaker 8 (02:02:05):
I I couldn't sleep there, so I went out to
I am a Ham too, so I went out to
the radio and just have a look to see what
was on there. And there was nothing going And I
went out to the door. Hello, here was a bloody
pea soup.

Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
Did you know in your time as a Ham? Yeah,
did you ever go extraterrestrial?

Speaker 11 (02:02:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:02:34):
Negative?

Speaker 8 (02:02:35):
No, Well I had to go I've had to go
at the.

Speaker 9 (02:02:40):
At the satellite.

Speaker 8 (02:02:41):
The isis sure, yeah, but pretty hard. You got every
well can I say it? Every Tom tick and Harry
having to go at it, and it's you know, just impossible.
I'm only pushing thirty watts on that particular radio where

(02:03:01):
I could be up to one hundred.

Speaker 2 (02:03:03):
Because I was just reminiscing the other day. I had
to write up thing about news talks he'd be in
the early days when it was one's he'd be and
I was to have a listener that would ring it
on the mid dawn show, right, and he would talk
regularly to the cosmonauts that would go overhead.

Speaker 8 (02:03:19):
That was blind Bill on the blind Bill would have
been blind. Bill worked at the Auckland Hospital.

Speaker 2 (02:03:26):
And he rang me one night to tell me that
the Soviet Union had collapsed, And I said, how do
you know? And he said, well, the cosmonauts have told
me because their landing plans have changed, the landing ka
ja Kistan or something.

Speaker 8 (02:03:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're probably probably blind. Bill was one
of the ones. He was being blind. He was still
very active.

Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
You know, I mean, what was his ham call sign,
oh jeseus.

Speaker 8 (02:03:54):
A couple of years ago. Now that he's been passed away.
I mean what we call silent key.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
Silent what the silent key, Well, you call it the
silent keys when you die.

Speaker 8 (02:04:05):
Yeah, ye, it's alan key as a operated passes away. Wow,
now you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:04:13):
The hang on hang on Yeah, the silent key. Will
put that in the quiz.

Speaker 8 (02:04:17):
Yeah, that's the silent key the person who passes away.

Speaker 2 (02:04:21):
What was this? What was what was blind Bell's surname?

Speaker 14 (02:04:26):
I forget it?

Speaker 2 (02:04:26):
Now? What did you sit in the ham? Did you
don't call signs have any particular letters in them?

Speaker 11 (02:04:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:04:33):
Well, okay, you've got zero ones are in Auckland XL
twos down.

Speaker 2 (02:04:40):
It would be z L four t Y I think
would that be right? One wouldn't be z L four
t y. Would that be his ham?

Speaker 8 (02:04:48):
XERI four is down? Your turror creep?

Speaker 6 (02:04:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
Okay, might be another one. Okay anyway, yeah about Evandale?

Speaker 8 (02:04:55):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, okay. You go through Great North Road.
You've got to go over Roadsebank Road. Okay, head towards
the roundabout there, the head towards the New Lynn and
all those shops have been pulled down back race cops. Wow, yeah,

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I was over there the other day, and I've got
to hear it. The Salvaks Naomi was there. There was
three good fruit shop, there was a men's wear shop,
all good stuff, you know what I mean? Okay, well,
I know there's a hell of a lot of stuff
happening a all right.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
Have you ever been to the races Avondale, Bryan Toby
A while? Is it?

Speaker 11 (02:05:38):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:05:38):
Look, it was a few years ago since I went
to Avondale.

Speaker 2 (02:05:42):
Okay, used to be very good shops, very good men's wear.
We're shop in Evandale, great shops. Twelve from twelve extremely
heavy rain in south and and I the cave. Don't
know what that's about, is, I says? Up in Queen's
and a nice day. There's snow on all the hills,
but boy, oh boy, the rivers will hire a lot
of snow melt. Quite a warm day and a lot
of snow had melted the rivers. The rivers were very high.

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Queenstowners as ever, crazy busy. So yes, a lot of
people wandering around, seeming very wealthy, spending a lot of money.
I did think the airport was so busy. Twelve I
think it was twelve or thirteen flights from Australia day.
But the airport's not big enough, needs to be moved.
I think. I think the terrorist idea was a good one,

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and the terminal's not big enough. The arrivals area is very,
very small and poky feels like they're coming out of
a cupboard where they bounce out of It needs a
bit of a rejig. That's my take on that one.
Apart from that, not much else, although I'll tell you what.
I found a four hour park, a four hour free
park close to the city. It was like all my
Christmas is a come at once. You never find a
car park in Queenstown. I won't say where it was,

(02:06:48):
but ge I'll be back there, Flip. Good evening, Billets. Marcus.

Speaker 11 (02:06:53):
Welcome Marcus, so i'm speaking with you.

Speaker 2 (02:06:58):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 16 (02:06:59):
Bill.

Speaker 2 (02:06:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (02:07:00):
Yeah. The radio about ten minutes ago, just from the
street sort of thing, and the first thing I heard
was you're talking about Bill from Workland. Now, I think
when I heard the conversation, you gave enough information for
me to believe that you're talking about Bill Bryant, who

(02:07:23):
I went to the Foundation for the Blind with as
a school pupil. When I'm seventy seven now, so I've
made and Bill would probably be would if they're still
lied about the same age. He lived in Auckland. I
lived in Wellington, so I used to spend weekends with
his parents in him in chocolate cakes and general cakes

(02:07:46):
and everything not meant to eat. And he was right
into his taxis and air airlines. He could tell you
what pilots were leaving what airports at what time. He
had a great knowledge of it as the schoolboy. I
don't know about the part that you were saying about

(02:08:08):
the getting reports back and so on, because once I
left school and came back down to Willington, I tended
to lose contact with Bill out from a couple of
reunions and so on. But he did work in the hospital.
I think, I think, but I could be wrong, but
I think he had something to do a radiography for
a while.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
How did he know and how would he know all
the flight? Would he be involved on radio to find
all that information?

Speaker 11 (02:08:36):
Well, as I said, I only spent weekends with him,
so I didn't know how he got the information, but
he used to have a lot of it's sent to him.
He had timetables and that from the airport with like
details and who was the captains And he used to
know from the times that he heard the planes going
overboard overhead, he would be able to tell you what

(02:08:59):
planes they were, where they're going, and who the pilots were.
And it's basically from because he that was his.

Speaker 2 (02:09:06):
Chris And you hadn't heard from him since school.

Speaker 11 (02:09:10):
I haven't heard them for quite a few years now,
but I went to school with him. Radiation and Paranel Foundation.

Speaker 2 (02:09:17):
Are you backing Wellington now?

Speaker 11 (02:09:19):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (02:09:19):
Wow, I couldn't work.

Speaker 11 (02:09:21):
With he is totally He is totally blind. He has
a sister's name prison Ye, and his father I think
was I can't mean where he was, but I know
he was quite a keen church color one of the
schools they went for and there they lived in Armadale Road.

(02:09:45):
Wore a road, I think it was my memory. And yeah,
there's just sim and his sister and mother and father
and he is totally blind and we some right rotary
wheelers around his health. Outside of his health. And I've
been a lot of a lot of time women, very
nice gentlemen when I got to know them as the

(02:10:07):
young men later on, but only for a few years
unfortunately because of the distance.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Between us and you went back to Wellington.

Speaker 11 (02:10:15):
Yeah, I came back when I was about nineteen. I
went up to walk from when I was a year
old and say at the Foundation for the Blind.

Speaker 2 (02:10:24):
Did they take people? Did they take people when they're
a year.

Speaker 11 (02:10:27):
Yep, about about eighteen months they have what was really living?
I suppose you'd call the kindergarten come child home in
Victoria ave roomer.

Speaker 2 (02:10:44):
Do you remember the number?

Speaker 11 (02:10:45):
And not remembering in Victoria? No, but I used to walk.

Speaker 2 (02:10:51):
I always used to walk past there. The kindergarten. Was
always told that that used to be the school for
the blind.

Speaker 11 (02:10:56):
Yeah. Yeah, well that was until you got went to
school and you went to panel and were in the
school Sylphus in the panel block.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
So they took you away from home, so you didn't
take it.

Speaker 11 (02:11:10):
They don't take it. I don't know the full story
I've got. I've got different stories from family members who
don't seem to want to tell me exactly what happened.
Family understand I believe the doctors suggested that by the
best schooling of me could be done in Lauchland. I

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don't think they knew that down here in Willington. There
was actually a special needs class at TRRO people we
find disabilities and that we're attending and I din't my
parents I assumed didn't. I didn't know about that one
and took the advice and went up there and had

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been taken up to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (02:11:54):
I'd like to talk about that more because that's are
you a Are you a Braille person? Bill?

Speaker 11 (02:11:58):
No? No, I'm partially fighted.

Speaker 2 (02:12:03):
Because I think Braille's on its way out to Isn't it?
What technology? Because there's no one that can do it
anymore because it's all just computers and stuff.

Speaker 11 (02:12:10):
Well, I haven't seen one doing for alpholics for years.

Speaker 2 (02:12:14):
No, han't all those books.

Speaker 11 (02:12:18):
The library, but it's all on talking books. Now send
your tapes in that.

Speaker 2 (02:12:25):
Did science come to did science come to your savior? Bill?
Did you get did your site get a lot better
through technology?

Speaker 11 (02:12:31):
No? Mine's been like it since so just.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
There it didn't change.

Speaker 12 (02:12:36):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (02:12:37):
Unfortunately by three siblings have all three children have all
got the same as it is problem. One of them
is sextually lost for a detachment and has gotten totally blind.

Speaker 2 (02:12:50):
Wow.

Speaker 11 (02:12:50):
And orders have got the same visual impairment, but with
you all right, Yeah, I've got no complaints. I've had
good life, and yeah, you do what you're given. That, yeah,
for what you're given. But it's quite a surprise just
talking about Bill.

Speaker 2 (02:13:08):
And then well, just before you do go, I've just
got a text here right that i'll read to you
about two more minutes. It said, Bill you're talking about
died into two thousand and nine and he was into
CB in a major way. He knew all the pilots
that flew in New Zealand flights domestically. That sounds like
your guy, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (02:13:27):
Yep, that's the one so died.

Speaker 2 (02:13:29):
About fifteen sixteen years ago.

Speaker 11 (02:13:31):
Just from him. The thing that was his family name
an Armadale Road, pretty short as forty four.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
It would be big pull big, big house pull out.
The back was a pool now probably wouldn't.

Speaker 11 (02:13:44):
Be in your day, No, and you can listen, you could,
you could hear it to get the horse racing.

Speaker 2 (02:13:48):
From you would be not far from not far from
Ellesley at all. Oh, Bill, thank you for ringing. I
made my night too, so well on to night. What
an interesting night with old goodness. The highlights Bob and
his knee though, But don't forget your stickers. Don't forget
your stickers. I want yeah Smeg stickers for Mark and

(02:14:09):
his knives. I always knew that about the for the
Blind and Victoria Avenue. I never spoke anyone that's been there.
That is it for me? For tonight, I got into
the rain. I wasn't expecting that. And yeah, I probably
will get up for the football. That's an early start
for me. Actually, I've been running the family for a
number of days. They haven't had me any sleepings. But oh, well,

(02:14:31):
to life we choose, well to life that chooses us.
Isn't it catch you tomorrow? Enjoy your Thursday Thursday.

Speaker 1 (02:14:40):
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