They're a great pant (1 September 2025)

Marcus covers off mobile businesses, ginger cats, rain wear, and being unfairly pulled over on the drive home from work.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be greetings from Shield Country. Welcome. My name's Marcus Att.
Twelve o'clock. I hope you're God if you're not gonna
help your better by the time I go home at midnight,
just looking at the map and reading too, I never
probably fully realized this that Westport was further east than Dunedin.
It's weird, isn't it. Yeah, that Westport is not as

(00:33):
west as Dunedin. So I'm just putting that out there
because that will come up and quizzes and christ Chich
is further west than your Plymouth, but your plymouth is
not called Westport. But there we go. I don't know
what you want to make of that. I think I
might have seen that, but never really kind of managed
to actually accept that that Westport is not as west
as Dunedin. Anyway, the other question I've got, well, this

(00:55):
is a question. I'd know that's a question or not.
I mean, you can talk about anything if I trigger
something that is good. You know how there's food carts,
food caravans everywhere you go. Somewhere in there hot dogs
or there's this or there's that. I don't know how
many food caravans has been there with there be ten thousand,
there's a lot. We've got one, two, three, four, four

(01:18):
in Bluff maybe five. So take me over. That's a
good thing. And I think the beauty is you don't
need to get a commercial kitchen because you just do
it in the van. So but here's my question for you,
and this might you might have an answer for this
one already built in. Why are they're not hairdressers that
just come to your town and cut people's hair? Is

(01:39):
it something if I just invented something or was already done,
or the reasons you can't do it? Why can't you
get a caravan and put two barber's chairs in it
or a bus and drive round and cut people's hair.
It'd be good fun to do because we lot of
people that would be wanting to just work but meet
different clientels. You've got a small towns and cut here

(02:01):
doesn't exist. And if it doesn't exist, why I wouldn't exist,
because it'd be the most simple thing to tell on
the road. Don't I want more to say about that?
But I'm just surprised, and I'm tying to think recollect that.
I've never actually seen it, and we don't have a
barber and Bluff, but it'll be fairly easy for someone
just to come down in a truck, provided the wind's

(02:23):
not too strong. It's been very strong today. But you
come down chick cut people's hair, and then you go
to the next town. You put on Facebook. Oh yeah,
I'll be in Bluff today cutting here. Feel free to
pop down. Is that something do you think? I think
it's a good idea. You go all around the small towns.
I don't know where you're talking about. If you're in
the coraman, you can do fifty yang hour, you do

(02:43):
ha hay around, you go be a great life, You
meet different people, probably get given seafood. If I thought
of something, there has already happened. I've never come across
one of my worldly travels, which aren't that worldly. But yea,
why does it not happen? Once I flew to Stuart Island,
to the west of Stuart auto Mason's Bay, and on

(03:05):
that flight was Aser and she was going across to
cut the hair on Stuart Island and she does it
at the fire station. Well I thought, wow, that's something.
I mean, you must have paid for the aar fair? Yeah,
does anyone even know? Is it a thing that exists?
A mobile hair dressing salon or a barber? And why
aren't there a lot more of them? If I was

(03:25):
actually out there trying to find a job and I'm
looking for a day pivot, I reckon there'd be a
good I mean, I don't know if it'd be good hair,
but but i'd be good with a talk. Oh yeah,
what's happening? Oh yeah, how's your weekend? It's a great
conversation starter, isn't it. Remember when I did my first
how is your weekend? I thought, jeepest, creepers, I've cracked
small talk. It's always good. How's your weekend?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Brilliant?

Speaker 2 (03:48):
One of the great conversation starters of all time. Get
in touch if you want to talk about mobile hairdresses
or about Westport being further east than Dunedin. So I'm
still surprised by that. Keep those texts coming through too,
I imagine there's some great ones already. They come through
thick and fast. From the beginning, very big, very big
crowd tuned up an in Vicargo Airport to welcome the

(04:09):
ran for his shield. It was bad piped in anyway. Oh,
so yes, mobile haircuts. Anyone else got one of those,
I've got a suggestion about it. If that's a good

(04:30):
thing or a bad thing, I'd be keen to hear
from you about that before we get into the topics
of the at hand. And there's a lot of those tonight.
There's a lot we need to talk about tonight. It's
the first day of spring. By the way, I've had
a wet weather breakthrough. Having always been a raincoat guy,
I've now gone to what do you call that? What

(04:51):
are those things those milkers have. They're like they're like
a oh, they're like a wet weather pair of overalls
that go over like with a bib. G. They're good.
You put the rankert on the top and you're good
to go. Gee, that's a good thing. So yeah, anyway,
you get those on your bottom half and you've got
your rain cut on your top and then you're good

(05:13):
to go. Because the weather has been average down south
to be fair. First time it's turned bad. Just turn
bad for the weekend. But gog was like the high
country must feeding out to the sheep. By the way,
there is a strong windwatch for hawkspace out of Hastings
on the Tatahua District. It also is Ginger Cat Appreciation
Day today. If you've got a ginger cat, it's their

(05:35):
special day. I don't know much about ginger cats. What
do people always call them? There'd be some nickname for
a ginger cat, isn't there?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (05:44):
There would be? What's the famous name for? I suppose
you call it Marmaduke or Garfield? Would you? I suppose
that what happens? I guess that would be the ultimate
list or tiger? What would you call a ginger cat?
If I had a ginger cat? What would I call it? Clementine?
Don't know. I'm just out there free forming tonight. But

(06:05):
if you do want to start the hold wall rolling
tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. I'm still interested
in the mobile barber. You get an ambulance? Could I
have the seats in it? Put some cheers and put
some funky music, Marcus. I'm a mobile dog groomer and
travel between Blenham and Nelson, Reefton and Westport. Wow? Wow?

(06:28):
Do you do it in the van? I suppose with
the internet? You know, book on the Facebook on coming down?
I'm being reefed in tomorrow at three be a good
plot for a movie with a mobile barber or a
mobile dog groomer. But anyway, I've gotten no text about
any of those. But it just would be a good

(06:49):
thing if you experienced one of those. Marcus, read our
crazy geography in the Cargo is Newman's, New Zealand's westernmost city,
and you can fly directly south from Auckland and never
fly over the South Island. What was just thing? A
mobile dentist would be a good thing. I've got a
dentist appointment next week. I'm that excited about I can't wait.

(07:13):
So first time back since the dentist told me to
start flossing, and I've floss assiduously. Then he left, and
I've never felt more let down in my life. I thought,
jeepest creepers, because honestly, I took his word so straight.
We not there anymore. Go for through. You don't know
what I'm supposed to do about that, but anyway, I
guess he's got a handy replacement. Get in touch, Marcus

(07:34):
till twelve. You want to start the whole war rolling tonight,
and I'm going to link the topics to you. We
have started with a ginger cat day and more about
mobile mobile mobile mobile hairdresses or barbers. I think barber
would be good because you don't need all the taps
and the washing. Can't believe it's not a thing. But

(07:55):
jump in if you want to talk about that or
anything else. There's other topics, proper topics tonight. Just like
to start kind of get you in with some of
the other stuff, and then we'll cut to the chase
of it later on. There's breaking news, we'll hear about
it here. First. You won't have a really heary plane
ride on the weekend. I see a lot of people
said their flights were delayed. Flying is great, but not
always great. When the weather's not great, can be a little.

(08:19):
But herey, I didn't fly anywhere in the weekend, actually,
so I'm okay about that. But do come board game
weekend for us, actually firewood and board games. It was
basically how it went went pretty damn well, to be fair.
Fifteen past eight. If you want to be in touch,
good evening, Tim, This is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Welcome, Hey Marcus, how are you mate?

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Good Tim? How are you going all right?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Good?

Speaker 6 (08:47):
Better?

Speaker 7 (08:47):
Just drive behind and put some good on the cow
who you're talking about model barbers.

Speaker 8 (08:50):
Yes, and yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
I just remember a couple of years ago going through
on it over and Utan.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, and there was.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
A guards side of the road with a big oh
okay galves steel trailer and he had a barb set
up in it.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
What a great idea with people with people in it.

Speaker 9 (09:11):
You didn't know.

Speaker 7 (09:12):
There's there's people standing around and.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
There's like a there's like a community vibe outside with
people waiting for their cut.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
Yeah, pretty much. It was obviously maybe he's gonna I
saw it was kind of the years ago I seen.
I think I've seen him twice, so I don't know.
I haven't introdre for a long time now. But yeah,
it was the whole probably ten or fifteen people hanging
around in the in the in the trailer.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
What was the set up would it look like at
what sort of trailer? Was it like a food truck,
like a caravan.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
It's pretty much a box trailer, probably the size of
a uh here sort of stealing foot maybe a caravan
to the star, you know, but there's a square gall
steel panel box, you know, like a horse plate to
the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Okay, because if you condition if you went like mister whippie.
With music, people think actually a good deal with their
hair cut out you go, if they drove around the
streets with a song and then you get your hair cut,
because's one of those things you can't be bothered doing.
But if someone was outside your house that actually I've
got ten minutes, well.

Speaker 7 (10:20):
Tell you, I guess the thing that I just remembered them,
the thing that I thought was really cool. I don't know,
I thought it was a ministry for him or what.
But on the on the front of the you know,
the whole maybe two point five by two point five
maybe square panel on the front, it had a whole

(10:42):
mural of Marvel like Marvel comic characters.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Oh yeah, there was, Yeah, there was.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
It was kind of hard.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
There's tend in my mind because it's just so hard
case you like Superman in Spider Man and all those
guys and they're all sitting around on the ground surround them.
Man sitting off on a stone and he was like
tordurable and the man that was very early his mouth.

(11:16):
Oh wow, it was such a pretty Marvel thing.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Good on you, so nice to talk. Maybe we'll get
an image of that. Maybe someone can send one through
nineteen past eight. We're talking about ginger cats and mobile barbers. Marcus,
that sounds nutty, but pretty to measure the local body
red tape. Any mobile service could escape from exactly a
few cashes would be hard to catch. Love it, no,
anyone's that's what you should be doing. You should be

(11:44):
getting a crave and sitting up mobile haircuts. You drive
around ding ding ding, playing with a music out. You
can't you're doing. You've got any bookings, jumping mate, jumping
short back and sides off. You go twenty bucks. I
don't know how much your haircut is. I don't bother.
I cut my own. It's easier that way. Cutting your
own hair is easier that only hasslers you got to
clean up afterwards. Marcus is a mobile. They had two

(12:06):
wist at Mount mong A, Nui. He pulls up next
to the coffee cart. So get a flat white and
a scull and crossbone. Let's also talk about the surprising
things that have gone mobile, like a mobile haircut, or
a mobile tattoo, or a mobile ear piercing. It's all good.
Got about thirty texts about cats. Marcus, Kramer and Nelson

(12:29):
are more North than Wellington. I don't think so. That's
on the North Island. Couldn't be. Marcus. I started a
Dala barber in nineteen ninety nine. I'd cut here at
the fire station, the hospice, the hospital and private homes
working from home now might have lost their license. Evening, Marcus,
congrats on the Stags. What a fantastic one. Great to
see the shield moving around the provinces. Big game this

(12:52):
weekend against Canterbury. Yeah they're five and zero. Good luck.
I hope they get a big crowd. Cheers Gary. There'll
be a huge crowd. There'll be ten thousand. I think
there might be more. The hope for ten thousand against Otago.
Great match. They got eight point five. I think they'll
be ten. It'll be that four. It's at five past four,
so it'll be the Stags and then the All Blacks afterwards.
So yeah, she'll be a big night in town. I

(13:13):
report back. I hope the weather's good. I hope it's
one of those Barmies spring nights. Good evening, Marcus. I
had quite a number of ginger cats. They're remarkably very clever.
Had a breed of cat, had a bread mix with
a cat known as an Osci cat deep golden stripes, beautiful.
Had Rocketman a male for twenty years. Go smart, go Elton, Steve.

(13:38):
It's a good name for a cat, rocket Man, Marcus.
Evening we had a lovely ginger cat called Rusty. Good
name for a mobile wagon would be the groom wagon.
My dentist is mobile, goes down to Great Barrier from
Awkand every month and looks after the resent teeth Nick
thing to do. Either was a fuss about the Great
Barrier dentist for a while, so I'm pleased they've got
that sorted, Marcus. In the nineties I briefly lived in

(14:03):
Johnsonville and there was a stationary barbershop operating out of
a caravan at the back of a supermarket and very
close to Johnsonville train station. It was always busy. The
workers were lovely. There was always a queue. Marcus. Caramere
and Nelson are more north and Wellington Cheeshard. My male cat,
my ginger cat, is called Marmalade. She's sweet. This is interesting.

(14:25):
On a clear day from Hoka Tick you can see
the northern and eastern sides of Old Archy Mount Cook,
but not the west. Marcus. They are over, they are over. Trousers.
You get them in two styles, just the pants or
the pants with bib. My man has the bib ones
great for cart They're a great pant. They're no good

(14:47):
of your phones and your jeans and the phone rings.
You're going to take the rain cut off that you
get into your bib, which is impossible. How rare our
female ginger cats don't know? Someone will tell us. Marcus.
I'm a hairdresser in the Blueskin Bay area and surrounding
North Otago area. I work mobile and cut my clients

(15:08):
in their own home. Must be cut my clients here
in their own home. My hobby and I have discussed
that exact idea getting a camper and decking out with him,
and he's needed traveling further afield of service rural communities.
Great subject matter. Marcus used to be a mobile hairdressing
running out of a caravan in Geraldine. Not sure what
happened to him, but he's gone from the here for

(15:28):
maybe five years. He used to operate every Sunday by
the Geraldine domain. Marcus is a portable barber caravan that
I see down in Victoria Street and christ Church. Marcus
mobile barber vans. There was one new Plymouth and another
operates out of Cambridge. Always busy, busy, busy. There is

(15:49):
a mobile barber and a trailer in the Mudawai area
northwest of Auckland. New concept. First post on the local
First post on the local page. We're in July twenty
twenty five. Marcus and Hamilton. We have a mobile barber
and a trailer I see and parked at various places
around the city. Marcus. We have two of them in

(16:09):
Hamilton and the one cut I've had mine done by
them before. It's a good setup on the trailer. There's
someone in Cambridge as well who had a caravan converted. Marcus.
We have one in Masterton. It's just a caravan with
an awning. Just one guy outside of gym. Good evening, Marcus.
Just this week and we passed a barber caravan. And
why Malku Auckland yours Emma and oil can Aaron, Hi, Marcus.

(16:34):
The Portugui has a mobile headresser. Brilliant good text day.
All that about head dressers in vans and your calls
would be great on this also, And can ginger cats
just be male? I don't know much about cats. Oh yeah,
it's just weird that nanim would be so ginger. I'm
going to say there aren't many ginger animals, but a

(16:55):
giraffe would be ginger, wouldn't it? What colors are giraffe?
Is it ginger? Mind you? If that's if every giraffe
is that color, then you don't specify perfectly ginger. I'm
looking at a picture of one now ginger. Oh Mark

(17:17):
is just having ginger up biscuits and a cup of tea.
Good on you. I'm looking for your email, pictures of
your caravan barbers. Also tonight here'll twelve you want to
be a part of the show. Oh eight one hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine text getting touch here till twelve.
Also talking about ginger cats and wet weather gear. They
like the pants with a bib. Becau's nothing works to

(17:40):
go and do something. You get home and you got
wet jeans. It's like, oh they're wet for a while,
aren't the Because you get think, oh, I'm not gonna
take them off now they're not that damp, but they
never really dry. Oh you're sit in the car with
the earcon on full noise to get them kind of
assemblance of kind of suitable, Am I right? I think
I probably am breaking news when it happens to people.

(18:01):
I want to cross that tonight. So there's something happened,
you'll hear about it here first. I think we're probably
one of the few stations live this time at night.
But we're kind of scanning whatever, and I'll bring it
to you. People got to see how John k and
Helen Clark off to China with Putin. We're fronting up
for that parade. Oh well, pits now, I suppose they

(18:24):
can do what they want. Get in touch if you
want to be a part of the numbers eight hundred
and eighty eight and nine to nine to detext Kevin,
it's Marcus. Good evening, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're talking about.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Rain Yes, oh yes, yes.

Speaker 10 (18:41):
Look I.

Speaker 11 (18:43):
Wear my raincoat, you know, or it's on the boat.
It's always runnings up your arm or you know, they
need like a drip line on it or some way
the so the water doesn't run up your sleeve.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Were you on or were you on the when you're
on the motorbike.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
Now it's just the pushboke.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, I'm hearing you. Some of them have some of
them have straps with valcro that you can tighten up
around your wrists. But then because you want it to
be loose when you're cycling, because it moves up and
down your arm, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (19:16):
Yeah, but it needs like a point on it or
a peak so it drips. You know, that's where the drips.
Chanting to go.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I got a word for you, Kevin.

Speaker 11 (19:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's right. Yeah, that would be good.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I think a p show is quite good because that's
covering you like a tint or a kaftan, and it
just all it's all going down, all off the side
of you and your arms are inside the poncho.

Speaker 11 (19:46):
Yeah, and you could just leave a bit of give
for your handbreaker.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Go go the pon show. Talking Rain,
We're very happy you talk Rain. We're Jeff Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (20:00):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus. Just talking about people going around
with my role things and the bar plenty not so
much an hour, but used to be a lot of
people going around with food trucks when they sold pies, sandwiches,
and they even made hamburgers for you.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
So they're not stationary. The driving around different neighborhoods, like mister.

Speaker 12 (20:26):
Whippy uh yeah, well sort of in that such like
that situation. But since then, all these lunch bars have
come into this industrial areas and now in towering they're
not so plentiful. But there is one on the Wakatani
Road there and it's always chock a block because all

(20:49):
the trucks coming through. All the truck is stopped there.
And I've been there and I've just I've just kept
going because I'll never get in there. But on a
quiet day, mate, she's got beautiful pies. She makes them
beautiful hamburgers. You could ever imagine, unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
If what's the place called, Well.

Speaker 12 (21:16):
I'm not sure there is a certain name, but I'm sorry,
I've just forgotten about it. Okay, they used to be.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But you haven't tried you haven't you have tried the
food because you're saying it's good, or you haven't tried it.

Speaker 12 (21:28):
Oh yeah, quite often when I go out there fishing.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Okay, we'll see if we can find we can see
if we can find the name of that. Jeff, what's
the name of your fishing spot, Jeff.

Speaker 12 (21:38):
Yeah, Well, I'll go to I'll go to Pocahena Beach
and then I'll keep going, and I'll keep going, and
quite often I'll go right out to a party. Key.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Okay, that's what I needed to know, Thanks Jeff Marcus.
I'll get my hair cut at the bar from the
bear Spot. Nice five beer chat in the cut. Oh
that's a great idea. Where's the bear Spots? Does it? Still?
The Elvis impersonator done well himself, hasn't he? Marcus Ginger?
You have females artis rear as they once where I have?
I have two Telly, who was born blind, and girlfriend.

(22:14):
Male tortoiseshells are were only seen one in twenty three
years of riscue. Oh, riscue cats. Worried about risk your cats?
I'm not so good about the people that feed the
cats in the wild. That always seems a bit daft
to me. Now, what's this nexttick?

Speaker 13 (22:29):
Say?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Dan? Do one an end in triple four? So rare
wet weather with the Bible? That what's bible? Close to
Bob with the BIB? I says, are we're wet withthers
with the Bible? Here we go. It's a door knocker.
I hear wit Withers with the Bib all well and
good and desperate for a wee. My advice don't wear
shorts and don't leave it for the last minute. That's right,

(22:51):
You've got to be prepared. Brendan Marcus welcome.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Marcus?

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Ten out of ten?

Speaker 6 (22:57):
Brandon, Oh, that's the way. Hey, you just watched The
Black Ferns Live between one and three and yesterday, and
how good?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
How is eighteen year old? She's ah, she's beautiful, She's unbelievable.
And she you know, I mean, you're not, you're not.
She seems she seems slight.

Speaker 6 (23:20):
Yeah she is, Yeah, yeah, she she she's the furnisher.
The furnisher. They need one, they need one or two
of them.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
I see she's got great pedigree. She's she must be
a niece or a nephew of the Sorensons the play. Yeah,
so I see that's part of her heritage. So she's unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
Yeah, they did well last night. Teen three year shame
made is my daughter Breckon and Porsche. She made worl
up history.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Try hear about Dougie. How goes her? Dougie how at
Christian Cullen And then you get something like that.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Yes, yes, she's above the men. So the woman's game
is coming forward. There's not much competition, to be honest,
for the uneven table.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
But look, let's up the finals New Zealand against England
because they're both great adversaries, because the English team is great.
But we could knock him over, Yeah we.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Could, Yeah we didn't. In part yea last last moment
and I was there alive, I was working as a
corporate host and at one of the box.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
I see South Africa's made the final eight for the
first time ever.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
So that's something yep, yep, No, it's it's a very
entertaining and and and it's surprising to me that the
woman's game has come that far forward.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Really, to be.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Honest, I still think that I'm still surprised that there's
not as much hyper news in as I thought. But
it is a terrible time for us, not a terrible
time for us, but you know, in the middle of
the mornings in the final. But the times aren't great
for us, are they For sport, it's.

Speaker 6 (24:54):
Good rugby, it's good rugby.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
So I've been enjoying her.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
I just want to let you know.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
And Ruby too is doing very well for what I
can see. In the College of the BBC she's she
sets the screen of light, doesn't she She's got charisma.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yes, she certainly has or as.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
They call it now twenty three to nine. Marcus, I
think a head rested doing the rounds at fishing spots,
whatever captive market. The client would sit there multitasking, fishing, talking,
finally getting shorn. It's a great idea, Marcus. I was
just talking to a lady who feeds stray cats. She said,
they catch them and micro chip them, fix them and

(25:28):
release them. The cats are in there as someone has
dump them, which is not the cat's fault, and just
somewhat and some just want to be loved, need to
be loved. Ginger cats. We already want to combine our
topic to it, the ginger cats and haircuts. It is
ginger cat Day. I don't know if pe'll go to
the way. I always thought ginger cats were the ones

(25:49):
that people didn't really want because a lot of the
stranger see in ginger I kind of thought they were
an unloved cat. The ginger cat. Don't know much about them.
I don't know about the weird facts of ginger cats.
I think they are a gooty, is that right? They're
all tabby cats. Actually it's a gooty and most are male.

(26:10):
And if you got two ginger cats, all the kids
will be gingers and ginger dad's father cats to the
ginger or tortoiseshell. I don't know why they called tortoiseshell.
Who doesn't really feel like a tortoiseshell? Does it? Much softer?
Nineteen to nine Steve Marcus.

Speaker 13 (26:26):
Welcome, Yeah, talking about raincoats.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Amongst other things, Steve. But if you've called out raincoats,
you're on the spot.

Speaker 13 (26:35):
I'm on the spot, Okay. I bought a pair. There
were leggings and an overcoat. Because I'm only four for
eight and a half, I had to get a small
men size and I had four inches cut off the
sleeves and six inches cut off the legs for their fits. Well,

(26:58):
I've had a good run with them. I've had them
five years. We won't mention the brand name, but they've
been sent back twice because the seams leak.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Are they stitched and welded?

Speaker 13 (27:14):
No, they're only just stitched and the seams leak. Anyway.
They tell me that there's nothing they can do now
they're five years old. They did you tell them?

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Did you tell them you're four foot eight and a
half when it's Aliva getting it.

Speaker 13 (27:33):
That's why I had to have them all older to fit.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, did you tell them that?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (27:38):
And now I sent them back to the people that
made them. They made in New Zealand, and they put
a tape on the inside where the seams are that
try and seal the seams from the inside. You could
see what's happening. The thread is not durable. And I've

(28:00):
had five years. I suppose I've got to go out
and buy new ones for next winter. That they the
seeds have is it?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Is it that PVC?

Speaker 13 (28:09):
Yeah? The scaler up?

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Does it get it hot? Does it get hot when
you're tramping?

Speaker 13 (28:17):
Oh? Do you?

Speaker 12 (28:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (28:19):
Yeah, they have it has a sort of a pet
at the back to supposed to stop that from happening.
You get weird on the inside.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 14 (28:31):
You do.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
And that's why I prefer. That's why prefer an oil
skin if I'm going a long way or just yeah,
because you're lighter and your ear comes through it more.

Speaker 13 (28:39):
But I can't get an oil skin my size.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Oh yeah, what about the kids department?

Speaker 13 (28:45):
Well, I've been to the T and T children's department.
And I've tried one on. It fits, but I don't know.
I think i'd only get a year's running, but one
this one's good for five years run. But it seems leak.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Have you thought of a poncho? Yes, because you just
get you just get a flat area of plastic and
put a hole in it for your head and you
get to go.

Speaker 13 (29:13):
That's right. Yeah, No, I've got I've got one, and
it's got a hood with it.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah that sounds all right. Where'd you get there?

Speaker 13 (29:22):
I got that it? Oh? I got it? Oh? What
is it? Corpett? And I wasn't pecking say it was
always And.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Because you're not gonna have the seams go crock on
you on a punchow because there'll be no.

Speaker 13 (29:38):
Has never seen that's right? How long should they last
with these scenes? How long does the scene last?

Speaker 2 (29:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 13 (29:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I reckon five years. I mean I like stuff to last.
I like stuff to last forever.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
So do I.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Because I've got something I've normally sorted out for a
long time. I'm happy with it. I don't like it.
I don't like it if it goes crock on me.
I thought you should get ten years, but probably five.

Speaker 13 (30:05):
Yeah, I don't five. Okay, yeah, well I've got a
new I've got a new ship for the next winter.
And there are yellow plastic and it's all bonded. There's
no stitching. Hopefully they will ask do.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
You go to like a farm shop?

Speaker 13 (30:23):
Do you go to like, Yeah, there's a farm there's
a farm force shop. I got I got there. But
there again, I've got a shorten the arms and the legs.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Because as it much to do with a six inch
tube off the league, do you do anything with that?

Speaker 13 (30:41):
Well, I don't know what you could do with that.
Make a flag to put on a on the outboard motor.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, I don't know what you do with where you're going?
And you went with against Steve.

Speaker 13 (30:50):
Oh well if I'm going to go, well, I don't
go walking in the rain. But if I going, say too,
from here to Cope and back, or you know, going
up the coast.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Do you walk? Do you walk your bike?

Speaker 13 (31:05):
Walk a hawker?

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah? Good, I am too nice to talk. Steve Foden
to nine. Marcus had a thought and looked up Hawker's licensed,
you said, and got us by the short. It's gonna
cost nol Just don't tell them. Surely no one's going
to daub in someone doing cheap haircuts. Someone says, prefers
seal skin with horse hair stitching. Good on you. Quite

(31:30):
a few people texting about Steve and his coat. If
anyone's got an advice for Steve about the how long
a raincoat should last? Yeah, when, of course, the achilles
hell of any raincoat is the zip. In fact, the
achilles hell of anything is the zip, aren't they because
they're price he to repair, and so often they get
caught in the in the seams, and then you know,

(31:53):
it's hard to get and it breaks. But a bad
zip's a bad thing in a raincoat. Marcus, tell the
man to visit the consort to Tell the man to
cite the Consumer's Guarantee Act. He can reasily expect better
more than five years. Tell the caller with a leaky
coat six months with a leaky coat. Tell the caller
with a leaky coat to go to a camping store

(32:17):
and buy some PVC seam seal glue. Just paint all
over the stitch holes on the outside of sealment works,
even the PVC swimming pool liquid. PVC seal them may
probably work as long as it stays flexible. I've all
got to stay flexible. I have a female tortoise cat

(32:37):
called Missy. She is the most loving cat I've had.
She's a very strange to today. She was chasing the
greyhounds on track side TV. Yet she's seen them many
times before, keV. Maybe she realized it's going to be
a last chance with all the dogs going to happy homes.

(32:58):
What do you think of that? Eh, she's all over?
Oh eight hundred and eighty to hadd intergestions for Steve
does raincoat? What do you call those ones? Like a
dungay pant? But yeah, I think they have them. I
think the milkers have them. They take over the coat
and just my one's Kywalker, which are quite a good brand.

(33:20):
We got it at a We've got it at a
What do you call those things, you know at a
pub when you've got the lucky raffles? Yeah, what do
they call those lucky raffles that go around? Anyway? That's
where we've got that. One's very happy with. That works
extremely well, great comfort and feeling dry and the worst

(33:42):
with us. I was very excited spending most of the
weekend out in the rent to see if it worked,
refreeing there's about two degrees and just coming in from
the west man o man and hail throwing it down,
getting touched six away from seven, eight, nine away from nine,
Marcus till twelve. It's ginger cats and geographical anonymous anomalies

(34:05):
in New Zealand, like Westport is east of Dunedin raincoats,
but mainly it's about mobile barbers. Six to nine Bennett's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Focus, Yeah, good things, Pancho, Yeah, I am. I really
got into the ponchet thing. I went to this festival
and there was no The weather forecast was for you know,
sunshine and lots of love and rainbow. And I left

(34:44):
from and I'm heading to the tropics here, you know,
I'm heading up to Total. I'm heading up there from
christ Chues, okay, and I left all my lovely raincoats
at home and get get to the place. We're doing
the old one Loves thing, you know it. There were

(35:06):
threats of it getting canceled. You know, it's going to rain,
and it rained hard and people were selling the ponchos.
People were selling these things that I'm sure they just
cleaned out the the old Wully's wrecks of all the
panchos in town, and they was they were what do
you call it scalping? Yeah, that was pancho.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Scalping, pantas scalpers, Yeah, the old.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
I was cracking up. I had my daddy, you know,
he's in the seventies, you know, and I'm like, oh,
I know, watching him trying to he and they banned umbrellas.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Because you know, you can kind of it kind of.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Can't come in there. And he is the old man,
you know, And I'm just thinking, man, And I was
running around just trying to get the best deal on
these panchos. Eventually I coughed up twenty bucks for a poncho. Wow,
you know this lovely young lady heard my said story
about my seven years dead, who was getting wet. I

(36:09):
just stood in the portolies. Well it was when it
was raining. I rand the polo and you know you're
in there, you just going, man, what's worse?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Why don't you buy two? Why don't you buy two ponchos?

Speaker 12 (36:25):
Man?

Speaker 3 (36:26):
They were twenty bucks.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
I don't like a disposable pun showcase. It don't last long.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, you should have brought a permanent.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
It was just craving, you know, because I'm a big
old collector of rain jackets, you know, coming from the South. Yes,
and I'm just looking at one here that might ring
a bell. It's a New Zealand Defense Force property manufactured
by after Alice. It is here Malaia British male and

(37:02):
the tag on this jacket and it's got the pants
and they got the old trip to put over like
the old braces.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Is it? Is it army surplus? Are you ex services?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
This is this? Yeah? I'm scared when I wear it.
I'll wear it to raves, you know, and it's cool,
but I'll wear it down in public and I'll get
I'll get done for impersonating itself.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
You would too to be careful.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Yeah, what's it's his Army on it?

Speaker 14 (37:30):
Does it?

Speaker 10 (37:32):
You know?

Speaker 3 (37:32):
He's Defense Force property. I'm going it from a cousin.
It's still legit. He was a tanky brilliant.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
It's all good stories, Ben, and your delivery is fantastic.
Just back after the break people, raincoats and contubar guarantees
that gingers ginger cat it's all on cheapers. Hey, let's
go welcome. Marcus is my name, and I'm with you
till midnight tonight. Greetings and good evening. The number is
always hundred and eighty ten eighty. It's raincoats, raincoats and

(38:00):
ginger cats and mobile barbers. That's what we've discussed so
far tonight. Someone says this good rain coats on TIMU,
or someone says they're good value. But I imagine they
wouldn't last long. Imagine they'd be terrible. Yeah, that's something. Oh,

(38:20):
by the way, something something to mention tonight. And I've
got a long list of things to mention tonight, but
I'm going to just release all the topics slowly trickle
them through the show. Reading an article today people complaining
about the rabbit plague, I just if there's anyone living
in the country, are the rabbits noticeably much worse the

(38:45):
last couple of years. I'm just asking about that because
I did see it was in one of the one
of the Central North Island papers about how bad the
rabbit situation had got. And I've never heard that talked
about on TALKBAK. So if anyone can say, if we
are things like it's worse, I've ever seen it or
this is an absolute disaster for us. I'm happy to
talk about rabbits. It would have been last year I

(39:09):
went after work to the Alexander Festival, the Blossom Festival
that I was there was an unre There'll be two years.
Agoes unbelievable number of rabbits from gore on Wood, but
I haven't seen to me lately. But anyway, just put
rabbits on the topic as well as raincoats and anything else.
The number is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and

(39:31):
nine nine TEXI want to come through. That's what we
are about tonight. Curra Marcus Kaiwaker are the best use
it and made jackets. They have free zip and minor
repairs for life, no matter how old the jacket is.
You send them in then clean them, they fix and
return it promptly. Check out the repair and warranty on
their website. I've had the same bush jackets zip prepared

(39:53):
three times free. Not because the zips are faulty, but
the dog uses a bed in the truck and choose
the damn zip. The dog is still at it. Your
cheers for that. There's a lot of the fishermen seem
to wear Kaywalker seems to be. They seem to like
those jackets with the short sleeves, like a T shirt
jacket but with a zip. Yeah, it seems to be
a fairly good bread. I think it is still made locally.

(40:14):
So you will talk about them and give them a shout.
Get in touch. As I say, ten past nine. If
you want to be a part of the show Hittle Midnight,
there's any breaking news around the world, I'll bring that
to you. Keep the texts coming through, love your texts.
Didn't know that about the free repairs. I'm into that.
Maybe that's where you want to go, Steve. You might
want to go to Kaiwaka go Aroadie. It's north of

(40:35):
aalk and I presume the factories up in the town.
Go up there and get one made for you. If
you're four for eight and a half, That's what I'd do.
So come on, we're talking about consumer guarantees that how
long you think a raincoach would last? Also on the
discussion tonight and rabbits, has anyone noticed the rabbits are

(40:55):
particularly bad at the moment because the Wallabies aren't going anywhere.
We not haven't talked about them this year, but the rabbits.
I'd like to have some discussion about that tonight. Or
ginger cats. Yeah, they're all tabbies. I didn't know that
ginger cats an eighty percent of mail. There's a ginger Jeene.

(41:23):
That's what happens with that. So get in touch Marcus
till midnight tonight. Anything else you want to talk about,
Feel free, Marcus. There's nothing good on Temu. Well, I've
managed to avoid it for five years and my life's
none the worse. Yeah, I don't think I'll be buying
anything on and I brought I brought one thing off
Ali Baba, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you what

(41:44):
it is. I will one day, I promise to tell
you years ago, but one day I will tell you
I didn't buy it for its intended purpose. Let's just
put it that way. Some of the other things we
could talk about tonight. I'm keen to talk about the
rabbits though. But here's something that I'll ask you about too,
that's come up on a news story and you might
have your own experience with us. This is one of

(42:06):
those experiential topics. Because it's Chinese Language Week and educators
and experts have renewed calls for second language courses to
become compulsory from intermediate school. Yeah, needs to strengthen the

(42:27):
teaching of all secrety languages, including Pacific languages. So you
might want to say how beneficial it was for you
learning languages at school. My experience was I found it
a waste of time because for some reason I just
had zero interest in it, zero interest in French and Latin.

(42:49):
I don't think the teachers were bad. I just had
zero interest and thought it was a waste of time.
I thought we had it, should have the option not
to learn it because I couldn't. It seemed pointless to me,
particularly Latin. But you might have a comment about that
about secondary language, about teaching whether it should compulsorily in
a second language, But yeah, I don't think. Yeah, i'd

(43:13):
say what you say. By the way, to the other topics,
things are happening and Marbicks will close down. That's a
shame the Marbicks, for those that don't know in Auckland,
very famous record shop and Queen's Arcade with extremely good service.
It's gone online. No surprises, their music's not what it was.
I guess the surprising thing is how long it survived.

(43:34):
And the other Auckland topic that it looks like the
rubbish collection might go by weekly and they're doing that
to reduce the amount of landfall, and some said that
might encourage fly tipping. Whatever that is. That's what's happening
tonight fourteen past nine. Get in touch Marcus till twelve.

(43:58):
See I've gone you all the topics just like that.
I didn't know about this. The goats of gray Mouth
that live on the bridge approaches we're absent on Friday.
Have colors been active? Why would goats hang out on
the bridge at Greymouth? I must be on the cobs
inside anyone picture picturing rabbits and ginger cats and raincoats. Sidney,

(44:23):
thank you Sidney. I've seen what you've done there and
repairing linky raincoats also tonight to fourteen past nine. As
I say, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eight broadcasting
from Shield Country, many at the airport. It's pretty hard
to go on to Facebook in South and without seeing
people well because last time the Shield was in South

(44:44):
and everyone got a FIGHTO with a shield. But we
had it for slightly longer. Ah, I shouldn't say that
we might have it for a long time. But the
toughest match of the year is our first challenge, and
that's six days after they've won. And I presume they
parted yesterday and that's Canterbury this weekend, who are five
and zero, so they'll be doing well to on that.

(45:05):
And then maybe we can't everyone can get a chance
to see the shield because last time it was here,
everyone was taking it home. You couldn't you go to
the races, you went everywhere there it was, So that's
what rong about tonight. But yeah, lines are free. If
you want to talk, as I say, there's something different
you want to mention, that's good. I can handle that.

(45:25):
Oh eight hundred and eighty nine to detext it is
Ginger Cat Appreciation Day, So if you want to tell
us why you appreciate your ginger cat, it might do
something special. And I imagine probably all what would be
of interest if you started having a ginger cat and
then you've always had ginger because it's like, once you've

(45:46):
tried ginger, no other cat's good enough. Is that right?
That might be an interesting angle for you as well tonight.
Although all ginger cats are a subgroup of tabby cats.
I don't know too much about cat breeding, but some

(46:07):
of you will. I don't even know whether the domestic
cats came from I presume they came from Africa, did they?
So that might be something you can mention too. So
there we go. That's what I've got tonight, and I'm
looking forward to you and put if you want to
go on about the show Oha eight hundred and eighty
Teddy and nine to nine to detext Hittle twelve, Light
me up, Light me up. I'm looking at latest years

(46:29):
two from that pers that's on the run in Australia.
There was a portal here on there's been shots fired.
I can't see much more information about that, so I'll
take that with a grain of salt until there's confirmed.
And I'm doing Google such as frequently to say there's
any more information about that now not what's it called?

(46:50):
Poor a punker is where it is? They now believe
someone's harboring the guy. Yeah, violent anti government extremists. Marcus,
you are correct. The domestic cat is most closely related
to the African wildcat. The best brand of raincoat is
called a Ute Never Leaks and comes with a switch
called a heater. Lazy, Marcus, there are a lot of

(47:15):
TV products that are not rubbish. You shouldn't make remakes,
must be remarks about things you know nothing about. Regards Anna,
oh gosh, I've got a lot of time to say things.
Tell me something from Tim with it to not rubbish.
When you see the prices of some of the stuff,
it can't be very good and it's putting the local
manufacturers out of work. Let's really be fair about it.

(47:37):
I don't think Tima really is Tima was quality. I mean,
I don't want to judge people, but yeah, I mean
the prices you pay for things, A lot of the
stuff can't be that good, although people say it's good
for car parts. Marcus. My family has a ginger tabby
cap named Tony. Very intelligent and enjoyed count thing us
with his paws around one next while listing, Tony will

(48:00):
be up and next to me, purring and quietly quickly
becoming soporific. He weighed nineteen pounds. He wasn't overweight, just
a big cat. Ginger cats are mainly male. There are
ginger tabby cats and ginger mechel tabby cats a circular
pat They're intelligent and Brave, the only female cat to
have many white fur with a little bit of ginger
are rare. Turkish fan cats are white cats with ginger

(48:23):
on their heads and tails. They are known to enjoy
water Tortoiseshell cats are normally white, ginger and brown. They
are usually female. These cats have retectable claws, whereas most
Oriental cats have non retractable claws. There's a ginger colored
desert cat with three large years for cooling and hunting.
There's also red Abyssinian cats. We were all very sad

(48:48):
when Tony passed away from Alzheimer's disease. He loved being
on our beards upside down, on his back with his
paws up. He was quite fluffy underneath, even though it
was a short headed cat. Tony enjoyed eating peas. Hang
on to cats get Alzheimer's disease. I couldn't think you
should talk about with Tony there for I just so
you know, there's a road snowfall warning for Arthur's past,

(49:10):
the Crown Range and the Milford Road. So tonight the
Linda's Crown Arthur's, I think I'll give you those. I'll
reread those few truck drivers before the half hour, Catherine,
this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 8 (49:26):
Ohhdo Marcus, because I've just recent returned from Florida and
we were done at Key West and we went to
in this Hemingway's house. Oh yes, yes, it was very
fascinating and it's got fifty seven resident cats and they

(49:49):
all had names and Oscar Warden with Taylor and the
odd thing about all these cats a lot of them
had five paws or not paused up at feet on
the paws.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Of toes on their feet. Is that right?

Speaker 15 (50:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, wow, Okay.

Speaker 8 (50:12):
So that was really interesting. It's all beautiful cats, Catherine.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
What's the connection there? Because he's long dead? But did
he always have cats or is it just something that's
happened subsequently.

Speaker 8 (50:25):
No, he always had cats. So we had a tour
of as as home in Key West and it was
really fascinating. But yeah, there there was a long story,
so I'm not sure where it came from. Yeah, it was.

(50:47):
It was quite intense the tour that we did.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I think he might have had he might have had
a connection with polydecty or cats. Is that right? That's
why that will be there?

Speaker 16 (50:59):
He did.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Yes, Now there's seven of them. In residents and at
Key West and we're the place where he wrote all
his literature.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
It's fascinating. I'm seeing here online the six toed cats
at the Hemingway House all descended of snow White, his
polydectyl cat that was given to him by a ship's captain.

Speaker 8 (51:22):
But it'll be right.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Yeah, have they made a mess of the house was
all quite contained.

Speaker 8 (51:27):
It's beautiful. Is you know a lot of the original furnishure,
which three hundred years of it. Yeah, it's just Christine,
it's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
It's part of the country. I have always been quite
curious to go to Key West West.

Speaker 8 (51:45):
Yeah, most southern part of America.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
And that road, that road just seems amazing that goes
all that way.

Speaker 8 (51:52):
Oh, we drove down because we were in the Orlando
Tatner is a barefoot water skis quite well known in
New Zealand, and he hated his American minis and Orlando
and we were going to give him the car and
just go to Disney World. And we got off like

(52:13):
at Disney World, we're just give them the cow would
drive down south and we did. We said it for
water for a night, and then we joined straight down
to the West and it was just amazing. We had
the mile Bridge and it was just a lovely trip.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Catherine, Can I ask you something?

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
What's an American minute?

Speaker 8 (52:41):
An American minute for barefoot water skiing?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (52:48):
So you have to ski if barefoot, not on a.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Water ski, but on your feet for a minute.

Speaker 8 (52:55):
And for a minute and a lake it's full of alligators.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
So what was the record? Is that a record for
him to do or is that just something? Is that
like a it's something he.

Speaker 8 (53:11):
Wanted to do? It? Is it is a record? I
don't know well water skis and do you still in
with known worldwide for barefoot to do a minute on
your coat on water?

Speaker 2 (53:28):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (53:28):
What a skiing is pretty impressive?

Speaker 14 (53:31):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (53:32):
So being been growing is the he's the title holder
in the world, all right? And yeah my partner at
sixty seven did it for an out for a minute?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
How old is he?

Speaker 8 (53:50):
Sixty seven?

Speaker 17 (53:51):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (53:51):
What?

Speaker 2 (53:51):
This will be one of the most interesting call whoever
and picked up Katsen. There's so much going on with us.
We've got we've got We've got from earnest having ways
to cats to polydck or cats with six toes to
your part of your husband who's a barefoot water skier
in l gat and fisted waters.

Speaker 8 (54:08):
Yes, it's sextistive. It news from the Charinity cheap.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
As Catherine loved every single bit of that. That's fantastic.
Oh jeff, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
Hello, How you doing.

Speaker 18 (54:21):
I'm hearing you're talking about coats. Yes, and I have
a Barbour coat. Oh yes, yes, yes, and it's thirty
two years old. It's a Wilmot Tours coat they would
have had with the all Black Tours. Amazing. I was
going to buy a hook for it. When I locked
it up it was one hundred pounds, so I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Yeah, I've got it. I've got I've got a barber
jacket which is incredibly which is similar with that olscar.
It's kind of heaviest, but you love it.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, amazing coat given by an old fellow
who you sed to live down the end of our
street is no longer water. Yes, and yeah he went
on the tour and it has. When you have a
Queen and the dunk and the Prince of Wales wear
the garments, you're allowed to have it inside the jacket,

(55:13):
yes and there yeah, but the zips and that would
last forever.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
They're real high quality zips, so they got a real
heavy hif to them, haven't they.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Oh yeah, amazing. And I looked back into it a
little bit like it's only you corried it with wax.
Just use a lady's head a lot and just put
some wax on it to bring it back up, make
it water for a beginning. And I looked into it
and they made them for the submarine cruise in World
War One. How far they go?

Speaker 16 (55:44):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Wow, I just saw I ring up.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
I'm I like I like the coat. I like coke discussion, Jeff.
I spend a lot of time thinking about raincoats and
I have got one of those, and and one of
those Aaron Williams ones just picked up on the sly Yeah,
although but now I prefer the one with the bibs,
the Kaiwaker. I like that PVCX. Other stuff's quite heavy

(56:08):
because when I'm on the farm, I've got a lot
of walking to do because it's not really accessible by
vehicles in the winter. But get in touch if you
want to talk. We're on about that cats, polydector cats.
It's a good that's rich territory for us. I would imagine.
And yeah, Key West and barefoot water skiing. Marcus. Have

(56:29):
you noticed there are lots of cats named after cars, Marcus,
there are lots of cars named after cats, but next
to none named after dogs. Wow, yeah, you're right there.
I'm just sure to think of the cars named after
cats or the Jaguar. It's a good point, but nothing
after dogs, as there's not a Decks and Marcus breaking news.

(56:53):
Timmy warehouse in China's burned to the ground. Total lost
ten dollars sixty five very good. Six toad cats are
Russian cats walking in snow has developed a more snowshoe
like cat pour Marcus. I'm just trying to know who
you mentioned ginger cat. I've got one. He's eight years old.
His name is Lancelot. He's asleep right here on my

(57:14):
bed for the night. Marcus at risks founding myself as
a geek. There's some really good quality model aircraft on
Temu over Ginger Ninja called Fanta. He's seven kge's and
a good cat acts more like a dog than a cat.
Comes when whistled, scaries when the dog scaries with a
dog as well, Anna Timu was cursed someone texts Marcus,

(57:41):
my parents, both of the radies of Stoke to walk
the same ground as a ginger cat walks on and
he knows it. Brilliant all these things you might want
to talk about. Did you know that dog treats are
a billion dollar industry in New Zealand? Deep fried baked
pigsies have been on soup baket shells for quite a while.
Whether two new products have appeared lately, lambs ears and

(58:03):
rabbits ears. My dog spat the pigs ears out and
when touched them they swallow the rabbit ears, so that's
a waste. But they took ages to chew the lambs is,
so Lamb's the winner. Come on all these topics, polydect
or cats, but mainly ginger cats because it's not polydect
or cat day. So get in touch, hit till midnight.

(58:24):
My name's Marcus, Welcome and raincoats. But yeah, if you're farming,
shops are the way to go. Yes, and in a
semiway's house. That's interesting that people have talked about that,
So get in touch. By name is Marcus Welcome, pretty

(58:44):
seven away from town. I didn't want talk about it
sounds a geeky talk about the compository second language. It'd
be a great top. I wasn't so firmly opposed to it.
That's my problem with it. Shame cats can't talk like
to cat talk about good evening, Marcus. We had a
fantastic ginger cat called Thomas. His owners, our neighbors were

(59:08):
shifting from Babe Union APIs. They took Thomas up to
White Pike Beach bush and dumped him. He made his
way back to Bathy arrival at our house a few
days before he went for a bush beach camping holiday
with our dogs and children. So my husband decided the
cat would come as well, Having to take his chance.
We had about twelve years and every year he came
out annual camp. Loved crayfish tails, so never strayed far

(59:28):
from the boat. I do like people when they say
I've got a cat. He's a fantastic cat. He's more
like a dog. Why they didn't just get a dog
if they want a cat to be like a dog?
Am I onto something there? I think I probably am
twenty five away from ten breaking news when it happens.

(59:48):
Oh jeepers pushed the button number phone when I taped
my phone. A funny way my COVID. My COVID app
still comes back, and I'm still too scared to delete it.
You don't still got their COVID app on their phone?
Do you think it mightn't be as working as well? Now?

(01:00:11):
Won't be coming back, will it? Covid? All your opportunities
to talk are available people. I hope it's going good
where you are. First day of spring, but not in
the northern hemisphere because it's the first day of autumn.
But it's not because they start on the twenty two
of the month. And I suppet we just did a

(01:00:33):
month for a month of wet weather down south, we
get the equinox. It comes in and it's never good.
I'm not complaining though, or however I am. Actually someone's
text me through a text it just says, oprah, what's
that about? Like a competition? I have the COVID app
on my phone. It keeps randomly appearing when I knock it.

(01:00:53):
That's right, because we all changed our phone to guess
tap it we had to scan to go to restaurants.
Of course, seems like half a decade ago. Ah cars
named after dogs, Rover car. It's a good point but
much more after cats. But I can't think of all
the cars named after cats, can you. There'll be a

(01:01:17):
whole list. I'm just thinking of it now. Puma, Ford, Puma, Mercury, Cougar, Buick, Wildcat, Jaguar,
E Type, Ford, Panther, Sunbeam, Tiger, Leopard, Roadster. I'll tell
you what then is it's free good lists of course,

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speed and agility, luxury and grace. That's cars for you.
Of course the Pugio brand is also a cat. It
might be a lion, is it? But yeah, if you
want to be on here, that's the kind of the
point for tonight, I'd be embrace your calls. Marcus, I
have a cat that's free like a dog. Annoys me
because I have a kitten because I wanted a cat,

(01:02:03):
not another dog. If no one mentioned yet, there was
a hairdresser and a caravan that used to park some
days on the edge of town, nightside Cambridge, about halfway
between the low Level Bridge and the old meatworks. Had
the barber pain on the outside of cleaning a pole
from memory. Had my haircut there twice about five years ago,
and thought what a great idea. Not sure if they

(01:02:25):
went other places on different days and haven't been passed
that way for a long time. I'm not sure if
it's still around. By the way, we are talking about
mobile hair dresses or barbers. What a great idea, I
think in other Texas says what about cars and the Bible?
He came in his own accord, on his own accord,

(01:02:48):
I think that should be I read that wrong. Fander
has two dogs, sisters. He just hangs out with the
dogs all the time. They ask to sleep together.

Speaker 14 (01:02:57):
Loll.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Early for a long twenty away from ten people. If
there's something else you want to mention, good, We've got
a million topics going around our heads. That were my
head tonight, breathe. Yes, thought we could do a show
about sick doing a compostal legs, and I've kind of
lost my love of that as a topic because actually

(01:03:19):
no one wants to well, you know, each to your own.
I suppose. I'm not a big fan of compulsion. If
anyone's in those I'd be curious, though, how bad some
of your flights from the weekend part of the weather
was terrible when your people were flying. They'll be something
you can mention also tonight, As I say, all the

(01:03:40):
lines are free if you want to talk them on
what we're on about tonight, and clearly we weather gear.
But once you've tried the pants with the jacket like
a dairy farm, work of very good. It's happening as
well too, So do get in touch. Good to see
clear spring lambs out there at the moment, a beautiful

(01:04:01):
see they're going for good prices three hundred dollars each.
Should someone say, I see somewhere in rabbits the rabbit plague.
Have you noticed it's noticeably got worse. I just thought
there was good years and bad years. I didn't even
notice that it was changing dramatically. There could be something
you could talk about also tonight, and I'll do what
I can to get you updated with the news around
the world. I'd like to have you have your calls tonight.

(01:04:24):
That's my point to be here. Yes, so do get
in touch. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine
to nine to text. Here's some news just through. A
suspected Russian interference attack disabled the GPS navigation service at
bulgear And Airport and forced a plane carrying European Commission

(01:04:48):
present Ersha Vonderlin to land at Plovdiv on Sunday using
paper maps. Wow, so they're scrambling playing data. That's pretty sketchy.
That's just news. It's just happened. And if there is
other stuff that you want to talk about, to keep
those texts coming through. Two people, eight hundred and eighty

(01:05:11):
ten eighty Marcus the men's mobile hairdress was antiquity in
his reflesh black and wearing for a few days last week.
It's good to know. And a lot of cars named
after horses are the Mustang, the Pinto. What are some
other cars there after horses? It was it was a

(01:05:31):
car called a Palomino. I think there was a car
called the Palomino. Was there? Pretty sure there was like
an American car the Palomino, Palomino Camaro from late sixties.
I think so. Jason's enduring the range of topics listening
from a cafe in London, like yelled him sixteen away,

(01:05:56):
fourteen away from ten Stutz bear cat Marcus. I think
the reason cats are named after carsen after cats. She
goes like a cut cat something and say, oh, what
a dog? Yeah, that's right. If a car was named
after dog, that's that was It's funny that a dog
is a tomb of derision, whereas it's not with a cat.

(01:06:19):
I don't know what that's about. But welcome tonight. I
hope it's a good night for you. If you're doing
something interesting tonight, or if something on your mind you
want to talk about, all you can refer. I'd like
to call about rabbits only because the article said that
they were in a bad way that we had and
I always thought that we're rabbits everywhere and they came

(01:06:40):
and went. But yes, I only happened to read that article.
I hadn't really thought about them, so that might be
something that that would be something I'd be interested in
talking about. So he might be on about that or
all the hundreds of other topics I've mentioned to you tonight.

(01:07:01):
I don't know what they're talking about to do with
the rabbits laying poison of bringing some sort of thing.
Carlson was a car company that used a leaping horses
its logo. Thanks Kent. Yeah, horses are big names for cars.
That would be my understanding of that. Yeah, Oh, I see.

(01:07:25):
There was a fair bit of boy racing in TOTALNG
and the weekend they said one hundred cops there. If
you witnessed that. How bad was it? Or was that
a beat up to go with nationals focusing on law
and order? Or send a bit too coincidental for me? Marcus,

(01:07:47):
This probably isn't your job. But do you know when
Friday show is available to listen to? Please? I thought
it was normally uploaded to the iHeart app the next
day on it Brett Cheapest Creepers. I'll tell you what
there can wasn't a very good show Friday either, was it?
But Bits and Bobby? Actually, I thought Romance after Me
after midnight tonight too. By the way, if YI, that's

(01:08:09):
the information, now, let me think what else I can
tell you. Oh, by the way, the local government lecture
nomination lists are out. Voting commences next Tuesday, so that's
the ninth. It's important you will vote and you can

(01:08:29):
vote for as many candidates as you like. Can I
say that?

Speaker 13 (01:08:32):
Well?

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
I have. So that's next Tuesday for voting. This day
in nineteen eighty five, the wreck of the sunk ship
Titanic is found in the North Atlantic Ocean. I feel
I knew that, but also feel I read a Clive
Krystler book about raising the Titanic, which was really good.
It's fantastic book. And I can't remember that was fact

(01:08:55):
fack mixed with fiction. I don't know too much about that,
but that's yeah, yeah, I can't even remember the first
when they found the Titanic. I almost remember a little
bit of it. But look, if you want to talk
about anything in general tonight, so far we've talked about
mobile barbers and raincoats and ginger cats this ginger cat Day.

(01:09:16):
Then I've thrown everything at you, including cat with six fingers, um,
cats with six fingers. I've said that, and I'm just
trying to work at what else We've talked about this
last half hour compulsory second language at school, which I'm
vehemently opposed to Ernest Hemingway's house, and there's just been

(01:09:37):
general all sorts of stuff in the last cup of
forty minutes. I've talked to myself, so need your calls
to people who want to help me out before the
are news and then you might well they were talked
about cars dam after horses, and cars named after dogs
and cars named after cats. We've lent into the cat
talk back quite big. Will it been ginger cat Day?

(01:09:58):
So yes, that's what we are on about and if
you want to tour any of these topics beautiful. Now
I should stop saying now I shouldn't know some of
the other stuff that's go oh yes, and I talked
about boy racing. If you're in that Friday things still happening, Dan,

(01:10:19):
It's been fixed what was broken, so it should now
be uploaded if you're looking for Friday's show. It is
World Letter Writing Day today. I'd write about five letters
a year, and you might want to talk about writing letters.
I'm sure some of you still have pen pals and things.
It's not my jam at pen pal I fearly just

(01:10:42):
as well get on the phone and ring them. But
I know some of you will have had pen pals
for years and years and will be letter writers. And
Marbeck's the record shop has closed after ninety years. It's
gone on. I think I did sell out to EMI
or something and they brought themselves back. But Roger Marbick
was always someone that was hugely respected. Any dealings I

(01:11:02):
had with him during radio and other days, he was
always someone that was sort of one of those great
gentlemen retailers. And what a fantastic place the Old Queen's
Arcade was over the years. So yeah, for those that
didn't know that, that was one of the big private
record shops in Auckland. There was Marbecks and there was
real groovy, real groovy's going on. I think they're more

(01:11:23):
in the second hand market, but mar Becks they had
two shops. They had the contemporary and the classics, and
full of music nuts working there and attending there to
buy records. It was really almost a pilgrimage when people
went there. But been there for ninety years and well,
I guess they've been there probably since the start of records,
start of vinyl. They're probably selling cylinder records in the

(01:11:46):
early days. So yeah, one of the absolute you mightn't
be in Auckland, but Marbecks was certainly one of the
iconic names and retailing and probably one of the few
last of private retailers that weren't kind of chain stores
in the whole of that Qreen Street area. So yeah,
they'll be missed. But you know who buys record not

(01:12:06):
as many people, and most of its online, although records
have come back into favor of it, so that's surprising. Rabbits,
That's what I want to talk about, is rabbits and
how bad the rabbit piss problem is? Currently? I don't know,
and I can't find the damn article. I can't work
out what to search. It was a like a m so,

(01:12:33):
oh goodness, I found something. Here's something I didn't know about.
There's mini golf with rabbits.

Speaker 19 (01:12:41):
Cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
There's mini golf with rabbits. How Good's that is? Mini
golf with rabbits. Someone's sinking outside the square now, so
mini golf with rabbits is actually a thing? Is it
breaking news?

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
What's on the Seleck channel? Okay, there was a crash
bat It's an easy rescue, Laurie. This is Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:13:11):
Him, Marcus. Strangely, the mini golf with rabbits, you know,
I just heard of have you heard of black like
mini golf? There's a they're building one of Palmis North
above the Bowling Alley supposedly, so it's sort of a
must be that fluoro light type stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Anyway, I went to an indoor mini golf glow on
the Minigolf and Queenstown right yep. And it was appalling.
Would be one of the sketchest things I've ever been to.
They've just gone around with some floral paint. It was terrible.

Speaker 20 (01:13:46):
Okay, yeah, this one's apparently under construction. I don't know,
maybe part of a trend from somewhere, but yeah, and I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Would I would say, right, if you got mini golf
with the rabbits in the day, it should be mini
golf with possums at night. That would be good, wouldn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:14:02):
Yeah, well, it raises an issue when you know the
rabbit dung, you know it would deflect the ball as well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
I guess, yes, oh yes, yeahs or something. I don't know.

Speaker 20 (01:14:15):
I need to have a blower before you get on
the green. No, I just raincoats. You might be familiar.
There's a better craft, better craft.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Where are they made now?

Speaker 20 (01:14:29):
They're made in pis Tour.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Oh goodness, Okay, we better give them a shout out.

Speaker 20 (01:14:33):
The family I think they're actually I think they're a
Brethren family. They've been run a long time anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:14:37):
But I tell you why, I tell you what, Laurie.
They're not listening to allowed radios. But right the Brethren
have got the safety workshop, shopping in the cargo, and
they're always extremely helpful and pleasant to deal with.

Speaker 20 (01:14:48):
You know, I certainly found that. But you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
But you can't say, oh, did you see what Taskmaster
on TV last night, because they would have watched it.
But apart from that, they're brilliant.

Speaker 20 (01:14:57):
Yeah yeah, but interesting. I picked up my one in
an op shop, was at the Red Cross when I
think it's funny. I went into the shop to get it.
Just a painting shirt, you know for the summertime, long
sleeve shirts. Off the wreck. Pick one off, nice check

(01:15:19):
one it was, but then just want run and passed
the wreck and I thought, gee, there's a pretty good
looking raincoat just by size ten bucks. It was a
better craft. But just looking online now that they still
sell that same model, I mean you're talking serious money
for those things. You know, they're around the four hundred

(01:15:41):
dollars arc. But Perry, they've modified it. You know, the
flap that goes over the zip of something. They've changed.
Whereas they used to have domed in like a domed flap,
they're apparently going to use magnets sewn and magnets so
that'll keep that flap closed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
That sus like a good idea and tatisfying with you.
Throw it on clicklick, click click as a magnet go down.
That's brilliant.

Speaker 20 (01:16:08):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's you won apparently, but they do
the overtrail as well. So I think if you get
a suit, you know, it's the thinking end of you know,
eight hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
I think about one hundred bucks. I'm looking at the
one I got. It feels like it's about eight hundred
bucks too, so that quite pricey.

Speaker 20 (01:16:25):
But I hit the double at the op shop because,
as it turned out, the shoe I put it, I've
got off a painting, but in fact I used it
at a barbecue, hot summer's day and people were commenting
telling me what a buddy good shoes it was, you
know it was. I was at a canoe race and
the sleeves rolled down and then I hadn't actually had

(01:16:50):
a hard look at it, but it was actually it
was an are In William shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Right, Yeah, okay, it was.

Speaker 20 (01:16:55):
A pretty good It may it may have been off
the same mistake that the raincoat came from, but yeah,
so it's a good double yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
At the bar at the canoeing events and they put
you on the barbecue Larry.

Speaker 20 (01:17:10):
Yes, yes, yes, that's my job of recent years, sort
of sort of setting things up at the start and
then and the finishing and hauling a portoloo around and
that sort of stuff, and cooking the sausages.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Yeah, you've made yourself. You've made yourself indispensable.

Speaker 14 (01:17:26):
Yeah, it seems to be.

Speaker 5 (01:17:27):
Yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Oh well, nice.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
To talk, Larry. Thank you. Someone says cars don't after
dogs and rabbits mits busy dingo and the Volkswagen rabbit.
There wouldn't be a Volkswagen rabbit, wouldn't they. I'll check that.
I'll fact check that. Why the Brethren. Why are Brethren
so into like making farmers gear that seems to be
got there into? Isn't it just think making wet weather gear?

(01:17:55):
I guess that's the way they roll. Christopher Marcus welcome?
Yeah you Christopher?

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
Are you?

Speaker 12 (01:18:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
I can be My mother didn't name Christopher Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
They were welcome Christopher Marcus. There going good thing, Christopher good?

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
I just I just haven't I heard you before naming things?
That today was the World Day for the Care of Creation.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
So I say that I get World Day for the
Care of Creation.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
Dad, and through just universal serit did I've got a calendar,
I've flipped over to the first today and just happened
to say that J h right is basically what.

Speaker 2 (01:18:43):
Is that the care of creation? Will date for that?

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
I say, that's the World Day for the Care of Creation,
which obviously rembris should be every day.

Speaker 2 (01:18:53):
Yeah, I reckon, you're right. I think the Pope was
involved with that, was he?

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a calendar I got at
Christmas from my mom. So that's for we. Yeah, yeah,
I think Catholic.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
Gal, it's pretty old school for your mum still giving calendars.

Speaker 5 (01:19:14):
I actually asked for it. You asked for calendar, you said,
my relationship of time. I thought, I'll just picked it
up with baby. Have a couple of calendars of the
cares of the living, just so I can find it.
Things like today, first of September Cane World Day for the.

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Cure of Creation.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Okay, how do we how do we honor that, Christopher?

Speaker 5 (01:19:36):
How do we honored?

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:19:39):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Living in the best version of itself, which.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
That's what I do every day, Christopher, thank you for that.
Fifteen past ten loose like a goose, It's ginger Cat Day.
That's mainly what we are talking about tonight. That's topic
number one, went with a gear at number two, Mobile
barbers number three. Every topic in the books on these
tonight and minigulf with rabbits. Oh, the longest minigolf course

(01:20:07):
in New Zealand is that Cross Forwarnica eighteen goals holes,
but they are all decent length low powered golfs and
polos in some countries are badged rabbits. I'm loving all
of this, and keep your topics coming through people. Hurdle twelve.
My name is Marcus, Welcome our way. One hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine nine text anything goes. The texts

(01:20:32):
have been excellent, the calls have been okay, keep more
than coming through and then we'll have a show at
the stage. I'm not quite sure I can make it
to midnight. Very bad. This earthquake in Afghanistan. It wasn't
a strong one, but eight hundred are dead. To sex,
to hell have a sex. I guess it must be
building construction or something, is it? Then they go to

(01:20:58):
a Taliban spokesman. It probably tells you all you need
to know. It's not good. Yeah, I've forgotten about the Taliban.
Eastern Afghanistani's mountains with remote areas the quakers worse than communications,
doesn't the flight of operator out of Nango Airport transporting
the injured to hospital. One survivor described seeing Holmes claps

(01:21:18):
before his eyes and people screaming for help. You forgot
about That's pretty faulty there too, isn't it. Oh wait
one hundred and eighty said, if you want to add
to any of these things, Ginger cat day some port
letter writing day. Had a very nice letter in my

(01:21:39):
pair box for a woman in Lower Hut. I wish
I could knew her name already given her a shout out. Well,
I did mean to write back to her. So yeah,
hold that thought. With miss Scribble writing, we have a
pin pal text. It's a good one. Last had a

(01:22:02):
letter from my pen pal in the UK in nineteen
seventy five. Decided this year to google his name, found
him again. Now we are writing letters to each other
again after a fifty year break. Wow, I'd have emailed them, Marcus.
The worst damage in the christ Church cuake quake was

(01:22:23):
unreinforced masonry. Maybe buildings in Afghanistan are similar. That's from Rose,
you think the last that I think a lot of
the damage was the facades of buildings that fell in
the main streets and onto buses. Am I right? Springfield
golf courses and have built up area for there has

(01:22:44):
been quite a lot of shooting down there in the
last couple of weeks. I presume someone is shooting rabbits.
Could you find me this look about rabbits?

Speaker 17 (01:22:51):
Dan?

Speaker 6 (01:22:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Did you god? Oh that was about the golf course.
Another press one, But that's all right, No, that's the
article I saw. That's the picture A property's owner plea
declare a rabbit plague from his orchide falls probably raised

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question over who's ault responsible. Pess could on the reason.
So it seems around that area a central North Island,
that there's a problem with rabbits. But yeah, I don't
know if that's a Three rabbits were spotted in twenty minutes. Well,
when I was driving out of Gore towards Tapanui last year.

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There before, there were hundreds of rabbits on the side
of the road and all around central i Tago. I
think there's huge numbers, but I think it depends on
whether it's going to be a good year or a
bad year. I think the populations grow and then die off.
So yeah, I think that seems to be more a
local story. It's not as an exciting story as I thought. Actually,

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but yeah, if you want to talk about rabbits and
rabbit problems with rabbits, that would be of interest to me,
or ginger cats or raincoats or mobile barbers. But everything's
on the table for tonight. There's something entirely different you
want to mention that. I don't have a problem with that. Tonight.
There's going to be an aurora tomorrow, So now that
tomorrow will be mentioning that if the weather's good, that's

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happening as well. And I think this is all to
do with the soul of flear as well to a
lot of activity on the suns that might affect things
that could affect telecommunications and things the next day or two.
That's something. So yeah, anyways, do get in touch if
you want talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. There's something different you want

(01:24:45):
to talk about. I don't have a problem with that.
Just let me know what that is and we'll go
for gold. Keep those texts coming and emails coming. What
in a glass of water? You make me do a
lot but much talking tonight now, But get in touch

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and I will do what I can to find news
for you people broadcasting from Shield Country. The ran fairly
Shield is in Southland. We had it in two thousand
and eight or nine, then twenty twelve and our twenty
twenty five although we are will me not playing, but

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the province is playing Canterbury on Saturday before the All
Black Test. It's an afternoon game and they are five
that they've played five to one to five. So although
you know it's the Shield, things happen and South and
I think is three on the row and I don't
know when we were the last time. They've won three

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in a row, so that's kind of extraordinary and two
of those were away games, I think, so it's unbelievable.
It was nice when they arrived at the airport today.
The bagpipes were there and that was great. And they
came on the tarac and across the tarmac end of
the terminal with the bagpipes playing was fantastic. Heaps of
school kids, heaps of people still in uniform, I guess

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families and everyone was there, so it was great. There's
still some magic in the Shield and long way that last,
it hasn't got I think it's got as much magic
as it once had because the NPC hasn't go as
much magic because not all the well not many of
the all blacks are there, but it's still it's still
something to And I don't know what would be the
record crowd for a rugby mansioned South, and I don't

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think it will be the record this weekend, but hopefully
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had today probably ginger cats is going as well as
any mainly male and mainly polydectyl. I think or more
of them are polydectyl than not. That means we've got
six fingers. I know that's been a big topic in
the past for us. I don't fully remember all the details,
but people love polydectyl cats. And remember two we've got

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the All Blacks on Saturday too with the Eden Park hoodoo.
Don't quote me on this, but wouldn't be a realief
to lose that hoodoo. I'm not saying now, and I
was saying we should lose that match, but gosh, they've
gone on about it for so long. Must be terrifying
for the players. The old hoodoo. Oh think their shout

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outs for mini golf with rabbits. Someone said, minigolf with rabbits.
I hope it is fun. Try it. Yeah, I've never
heard of it. It's a great thing. Mini golf with rabbits.
I don't quite know what the angle is, but I
guess it's just rabbits running around. It's kind of adorable

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and it gives you a bit of an angle. It's
more like a petting zoo with something to do. I
guess the pictures look great. I don't think they're on
the grass or not the grass the estroturf, but I
don't like the estro turf, I said. Amongst native fauna
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fresh frogs, and abundance of local bird life for a reason,
we price sounds fantastic. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve.
How are you going? Welcome Marcus? I know you this
is an interesting text, Marcus. I know you never read
out my text, but a lot of shops in the
christ Church quake were destroyed because the council banned the
polls that held up the randas. When the verandas collapsed,

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they took the buildings with them. That's from Neil. I've
never heard that before, Neil. Wow. I'm just thinking about
the other texts that you've sent me. They haven't read out.
I can't see any actually others to me, but thanks
for that. Anyway, has it all going people? What's happening

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where you are? Welcome to the show. I'll do a
bit of a reset. Let me sit up, coming back straight. Greetings,
Welcome twenty nine to eleven hit or Midnight romance at twelve.
Anything goes tonight, anything at all, like zept calls on
because I'll tell you what we have gone from a
wide range of topics and nothing really well. We had

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bits and bobs, but nothing really has stuck my fault
probably If that's fine. If you've got something that you
do want to say to the nation, now's a good
time to say it. I want to talk about rabbits
and how much of a pistil it's problem they are
at the moment, but maybe it's not a problem rabbits
and ginger cats because there's National Ginger Cat Day and

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mobile barbers. Why are they not more of a thing.
There's food trucks everywhere, want people just checking barber's cheers
and vans and driving around cutting here. I thought there
could be quite a good opportunity, be great for Cashi's.
So that's something also that you could talk about tonight.
Anything else you want to mention that would be great,

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be good to hear from you. Also to the christ
Church quake and the damage that was caused there and
the deaths from loose masonry. Another mention of what was
happening in total longer with the boy races on the
weekend with one hundred cops going there looked to me
like the police. It looked to me like the police
were part of national trying to look tough on law

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and order. The other thing I'll mentioned too, Actually, here's
something I meant to mention this. It happened on Friday night. Often,
when I drive home from work right at midnight, I
get stopped by the police, and I'll get stopped by
the police with them chasing the car with the sirens on,

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which is never nice, right, And they pull me up
and they say, oh, this is just a regular text test. Now,
I've got no problem with going through checkpoints and stopping.
But when they do a utune and chase you and
put the sirens on, is that standard behavior? Is that

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standard procedure? Is that something a bit different? But you
can tell me about that because it's and I just
I said, I said that. I said to the woman,
I said, this happens to me all the time I
finished work at midnight. I just want to get home,
and there's always the fuss. We've been pulled over and
where's your license? You got to find you know, it's
probably five minutes of your time, but you finish your

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work at the end of the week. You're sort of
hitting home on a Friday night, chilled out, and then
you've got the fright of the sirens behind you. I
always thought they had to have a reason to pull
you over. Am I wrong about that? But cheepest creepers,
And it would happen probably monthly enough for me to think,
jeepest creepers. This is too much. It seems to be

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the curse of the night worker. Just minding your own
business driving home at midnight, you know, and would I
don't mind Checkpike. It's always quite enjoy checkpoint thing. Good
on them for keeping the road safe. But when they
just kind of put the sirens on, and yeah, it's
it's just what you want to have happen. You might
have a comment on that. I just meant to do
some googling to work out whether that's kind of legitimate
or not. I'm sure it is. By the way, there's

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been plenty of chaos with the Smeg. The end of
the Smeg discount is that the New World night and
someone there had their folders full of the stick. As
the woman said, sorry, cheapest creepers. So there's that also,
But if you've got some if you've got to respond
about that with the police, because it's never happened to
me anywhere else. Mind, you haven't really lived anwhere else

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for a while. But yeah, is that what? Yeah? Because
I said, well, why are you pulling me over? It's
just a random check with Then why did you have
the sirens? Because a random check you have sort of
a you'd have the road blocked off, wouldn't you just
be have the cones out? So I don't know how
to avoid that. I guess there's nothing I can do
to avoid it. But if anyone knows what's happening with that,

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is that a common thing or is that unusual? Bets?
It's Marcus. Welcome?

Speaker 21 (01:33:49):
Yes, welcome? How are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
Good? Thanks? Bets?

Speaker 21 (01:33:52):
Yeah, I agree with you on the cops. I think
I'm between you and me. I think it's a bit
of a revenue thing going on.

Speaker 13 (01:33:59):
Again.

Speaker 21 (01:33:59):
I've seen a hell of a lot of people getting
pulled over lately.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
But do they do they always pull over. When they
pull you over at night and there's the road to do,
they normally turn the turn the lights on and chase
your Is it an unusual thing to happen.

Speaker 21 (01:34:11):
Yeah, it is an unusual thing to happen if you're
not speeding, But then they do it if this is speeding.
Like I was going through a fifty K because I'm
on the roads every night and I'm used to the
same roads all the time, and the other night I
was in a fifty K zone. I didn't even realize
I was going sixty and he spun his lights on him,
flew me around, and he comes up and he goes, oh,
do you know what I stopped before? And I said, now,

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I don't actually, and he goes, oh, you're doing sixty
sixty one on the fifty zone. I'm like, oh, sorry,
it's like three o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Okay, you're fir that's fair enough. But can they stop
you for no reason at all?

Speaker 21 (01:34:46):
I think they can. Okay, you can ask you can
probably ask them for a reason why they Well I did,
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
They said, no reason, just a random, a random check.
And I thought, well, it's a it's a fairly full
on way to do it.

Speaker 21 (01:34:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I like I said.

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
I mean, I was pleased. I was pleasant, you know,
it's pleasant, but I just couldn't work out why, yeah, anyway, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:35:06):
But I've certainly noticed that the last last month or
so as there's been a lot of people getting pulled over.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Eight.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
I don't mind them pulling over people if they've got
you know, if they if they're not obeying the Lord.
Got no problem with that at all. But yeah, yeah, yeah,
And I've got no problem with random checks because it's
always they always seem to be in quite a good mood.
It's always quite fun and I'm always through there no time.
But this is a bit different anyway. Mini golf if
you want to say something like that.

Speaker 21 (01:35:31):
Yeah, yeah, the mini golf, that's it's real. It's real
fun if you want to try it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
The one with rabbits.

Speaker 21 (01:35:37):
Yeah there was the rabbits.

Speaker 13 (01:35:38):
Yeah we.

Speaker 21 (01:35:41):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (01:35:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:35:42):
I can't believe not many people talk about it, because
I've always talked to people said, if you ever go
to road a river, go the mini golf with the
rabbit and they've got these big, big hues. They're not
just normal normal pet like huge chinchilla rabbits, and they
and they just lay around the green. They lay around
the greens and the kids pat them as they go around,
and they're hopping around and jumping there. You gotta wait

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every now and again to do your pack because there's
a big fitch and chiller in the way.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
I wonder how it came about. If they just happened
to get anundated with the rabbits, or that was their
idea from the get go.

Speaker 21 (01:36:13):
Yeah, I think I think they just love rabbits, and
they might have said just starting to throw them in
with a mini patent caller putting with you know, putting
on the golfing with the rabbit.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
It's on the least brilliant idea. Bets. Thanks for that, George.
It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:36:27):
Yeah, it's up of the evening, Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:36:29):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
Yeah, good things, George. How's yourself? All right?

Speaker 17 (01:36:32):
Yeah, I'm feeling very very grateful, But I've a bit
concerned about the annoyance of getting pulled up. There's something
very fishy about that, you know, Like it seems to
me as though they on their duk job they might
be trying to start up some other radio station down
there or something. You know, it's ridiculous, you know what

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I mean of some.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Sort I don't drive a brain and car anyone. I
don't know who they're pulling over. But yeah, I couldn't
work it out. But anyway, it's.

Speaker 17 (01:37:02):
Not that biga place as fish it there there the
night that you know, they'd be probably doing similar shifts
and oh here's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:37:10):
Well, yeah, no, I think it's that. I don't think
it's that, George. I'm not saying it's end yet. No, No, anyway,
that at Shield Country, George. So we're happy.

Speaker 17 (01:37:21):
Yeah, well, I look, I was. I actually listened to
the game on the old radio and there I do
it the old way sort of a lot of the time,
and absolutely spoke for Southland people. And I got some
lovely friends down there and managed to after all these years,
at the age of about sixty seven, getting down and

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to Stuart Island and Macaga and Steward Island and you
know what, what what the area has got to you know,
to four value for anyone that wants a good look around.
And I come back to the Catlin said, I know
he missed that. I come down through Gore and the
people that I visited down there, they said, oh no,

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you've got to go back through the Catlands and you
know Stuart Island, Catlan's they took me out to the
beach where Bert Munroe did. He's allays testing and so yeah,
and then what you've got a available in the town
there is amazing the you know the.

Speaker 2 (01:38:22):
The yeah, I just leave it there, George, because you've
got a terrible phone line. It's good to hear from you, Pete, Marcus.
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 22 (01:38:30):
They might think you the you're the local banker robber Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Yeah, yeah, I just put it out because I was
curious to know what that if. That's a common thing
to happen for people driving at night.

Speaker 22 (01:38:42):
But you think that I've been a small town like
where obviously where you were at. They must just say
to them just once, maybe they'll take it. And they
got back to the station on Judy there they probably
not probably not mean on Jure the night they're saying, well,
I'm just like do this every night on my my
Marcus on the talkback show. You know, maybe they will
just leave you alone there. It's a small town.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
They must yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not looking for special
for special treatment, Pete. That's not how I wrong. I
just I just can't work out if that's if that's commons.
I've never had a heaven I just can't work out
why they'd put the lights on to pull someone over
when they've got no suspicion. I just thought they had to.
They'd pull you over if you've done something wrong.

Speaker 22 (01:39:23):
I suppose they're doing their job to agree. But once they.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
Can, you can you can you clarify that so that
again you think they can't You think they are allowed
to do that. They can just pull everyone over.

Speaker 22 (01:39:38):
Oh defint, they can't suspicion while here because I think, well,
but but then again, why would they do that? If
you're doing something like you're driving a bit wonky over
the road or something, they've pulled you over. You were
just sort of seeing you, you know, sort of weaving
a but over the road. The suspicion. I do that same.
I do the same thing too if I was a policeman.
But if you're just driving, you know, normally you're not
speeding or whatever, and yeah, a little bit, but a

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little bit of intimidation, really, I.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Think, okay, good, only think you're eighteen to eleven. The
winter tonight is Minigulf with rabbits. So that's the answer, radiant,
Why can't I didn't deserve to hold the shield with
such a small crowd. Please to see it go somewhere
it'll be treasured and get the support. Well done Southland.
I'm a cantab and I'm a bit torn about this

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weekend's game. Well, either way the next week will get
a huge crowd or the next match will get a
huge crowd. If it stays in Southland, there'll be as
many people for the next match as there will be
for the match on Saturday. And certainly if it goes
to can to Be they be a huge crowd too.
I like all those maps that show the permutations to
I love about the shield as everyone thinks they have

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got a chance to get it and suddenly they find
their next game is going to be a shield challenge.
A random check is classes prevention similar mindset to preventing
harm before it occurs. Oh, the Land Transport Act allows
police to stop and detain without a rest for up

(01:41:04):
to fifteen minutes to check driver's license vehicle inspection. It's
also random breath tests of drivers. Oh yeah, fair enough.
It's tiresome, that wasn't it. I guess that's the price
for driving on safe roads. Fifteen from eleven and Romance
along at twelve tonight if you've just joined the show,

(01:41:25):
haven't got a lot of news for you. Locally. There's
going to be snow on the highways tonight, Arthur's the
Milford Road, the Crown Range, and I'm pretty sure the
fourth one is just trying to refresh my memory and
I'll look it up anyway, so I can tell you
the road snowfall is for Arthur's Crown Lindis. Of course

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the Lynda's not the Lewis. Get those confused. That's happening.
So that's happening tonight. And the other news too. There
was some reports they've found that guy in Australia or
their head gunfire, but those nothing more has come of that.
I don't fully know it's going on there. I mean,
of course there's woice chance that the guy is not

(01:42:10):
alive too, because I wouldn't be surprised if that's happened.
But that's the guy in Australia after shooting two cops.
So and ginger cats is the big topic for tonight,
by the way, the Reject Shopped. We have the Reject
Shop and he's in. It's going to change its name

(01:42:30):
to Dollar Rama. It's going to take on Kmart wouldn't
be hard. By the way. The other thing that I
thought i'll mentioned too, since I've got other things to
talk about, tell what's getting hard to find? Shoe polish? No,
we're in the supermarkets anymore. And I imagine that's because
every when we're sandshoes. I imagine people polishing or naggling their

(01:42:51):
shoes is probably down to about a tenth of what
it was because yeah, everyone's in converse or trainers. I
don't know if that it's a good or a bad thing,
but it makes it difficult when you got to I
shoe polish, you gotta go to your cobblers, which is
probably not bad because it's good to support them. But still,
I suppose you buy it all online. I suppose you
good buy shoe polish on TIMU. Could you maybe be

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a part of you want to talk? My name is Marcus,
Welcome oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and mobile barbers.
I reckon that's going to be a growth area. There
aren't many small town small communities. Be a great thing
to have happen every so often the mobile barber came
to town. Just sounds like it's raining quite heavily here

(01:43:40):
with the rain on the roof Hey nine away from
eleven and welcome if you want to be a part
of the show. The lines are They're free available to
you if you want to be part of it. Eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two text
It is ginger Cat Day. We've talked about Oh by
the way too. There's been chaos with smig. Can we

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please do not have any more of these things? It's
just not fair on people. The hope SSS one Wellington
New World Supermarket went into a frenzy today with one
of its last shipments of the Smeg promotion. Thornton New
World posted online early today sharing with customers the last
of the cast Island raises least I've learned how to

(01:44:24):
pronounce that and medium bakers were in so come and
redeem yours now. By ten thirty of the brass iron
braises had sold out. Stuff's political will put a Glenn
McConnell raced down to the supermarket to make sure he
wasn't left with no reward after taking the proocial stickers.
He said. Shoppers were lining up behind a New World
staff member as he unpacked a box of Smeg products

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at the checkout. It looked like people had purposely traveled
to the supermarket because New World Thornton had sold out
of the brazer so quickly. Almost every second customer at
the shop had one of the Smeg products. New World
Thornton warned its customers they couldn't hold stock aside. It
was strictly while stock's last. The Smeg Minika, Keetes, the

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large bakers, and the cast iron brazer was sold out.
A spokes Foods Stuff Spokespersta told Stuff the promotion finished
on August three enty one, and the stickers redeption continues
only while stocks last, but no late then September fourteen.
They said the cast iron brazier was this year's high
demand item. Some additional units were distributed to the North

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Island stores after arriving on a ladershipment, which is why
certain locations may have recently restocked or are currently expecting
their final deliveries. We understand it can be disappointing when
it pop right of themselves out there'd encourage the customers
to get in earlier checks of other storage availability. Well,
people can't get in early because they're frankly collecting the stickers.
You can't get early. People are working flat tech to

(01:45:52):
get the stickers. So yes, I think it's unfair. So
that's the smeg. That's the end of that tick Bang gone.
We got a baking dish mark summer nurse. I've been
stopped by police toom in my uniform name Bear John,
doing the right speed and stop with the lights fleshing.

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They take my license back to their cart to check,
and sometimes I'm alcohol checked. This is the curse of
the night worker. I was driving at night from Aukland
Hamilton and went through a checkpoint no problem. A couple
of k's down the road, I went through Huntley and
caught a sight of a cop down a side street.
He came behind with lights flashing another zero alcohol test,

(01:46:33):
even though I told him I'd done one just up
the road. I was ticked off and ran the local station.
The next day, a senior policeman told me he made
no apologies for checking at random with a view to
keeping drunk drivers and dangerous cars off the road. My
own opinion, as the second guy was bored at the time.
I had a spoity looking car and it was a
quiet night. Oh yeah, I don't even know if I

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enjoy doing it. To be fair, I wouldn't say that
that's there. I don't know what their motivations. It is
probably doing a job, but I'm sure be more effective
to just set up random, random tests rather than starving
people randomly with lights, because it's not a pleasant feeling.
When you're coming up to checkpoint. You know what's coming
on because you know it's you know it's there. I

(01:47:17):
suppose some people do you tunes anyway?

Speaker 14 (01:47:19):
Do they?

Speaker 3 (01:47:19):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
By the way too, the good of third time? Lucky
with my pumpkin so beautiful. Gosh, it was good. So
I've cracked that. After probably five years of trying with
some terrible ones, I've finally found my recipe and it's
pumpkin and kumuta and gosh it's good because normally after
the second day you think, but yeah, i'll make it
again this weekend. Very good. Got canaloney beans in it

(01:47:45):
till it's all done on that kind of that stick blender. Brilliant.
They'll tell you what. The stick blender is a good thing, free,
easy to clean up. That's better than they're putting in
one of those kind of ones you pour it into.
So yes, that's my strength now opening up the cafe
stage of just selling pumpkin soup. It's that good. So
yet with a couple of cheese rolls beautiful. Found a

(01:48:10):
lot easier with the prick cheese rolls to do them
in the toasted sandwich maker, the flat grill rather than
the oven come a lot better. And of course we've
always got just a freezer full of cheese rolls because
of fundraisers. Seems to work quite well, but delicious in
the soup. So that's my randover. Just coming up towards

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the news people, as you know, get in touch if
there's something else you want to talk about tonight. Oh
the other thing I see there's schools down south that
are closing tomorrow or three years are closing because of
no teachers because of the winter flu season and no
relief teachers available. So I would imagine that's going to

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happen up north soon too. I think probably normally the
illness travels up the country, but yeah, it's a bad
flu season, so schools, and these are secondary school I
think South and Boys said they're giving three years off
no school tomorrow because of sickness. So it might be
coming to your town as well to just be aware
of that. Be nice to have a day and go

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and play minigolf with rabbits. I've got to make this
working on a minigolf course. I'll tell them that what
other animals could you do? It was sheep would be good,
wouldn't it. Sheep are adorable, aren't they? Minigolf with sheep?
That might work, so hurdle twelve. By the way, Wheatis
are tour in New Zealand. They are teenage dirt bag

(01:49:36):
you'll know them. Wheatis pretty much a band of the time.
I didn't even know they were still together. They're probably
not the twenty feth anniversary their first ever live performance
in New Zealand, released in two thousand. But it's big
on TikTok yep might rewatch that during the news. Great

(01:49:59):
song or memorable song. I guess you'd call it, Oh wow,
look at this good evening. My friend AND's wife has
been cutting here for the last twenty five years by
walking house to house within the area. Brilliant have scissors,
will travel, will cut. So the way we've got to
go seven past eleven, the first day of spring. I

(01:50:26):
think probably in future, I always feel when it comes
to the first day of spring that from a talkback
radio point of view, we should probably do something to
honor us. Think about that today, What co we do
it on a spring? I thought seeing it talking about trampolines,
and that was as far as my h that was
as far as my idea's session went. Actually went spring trampolines.
That was it. But yes, we're not good on sort

(01:50:50):
of recognizing the different seasons. Don't know it is spring,
isn't it? Yes, don't know why that is. If I
ruled the world, every day would be the first day
of spring. Every bird would have a new song to sing.
But yes, I have been in a paddic of lambs
and effidels and that is nice, feel very spring like

(01:51:10):
to know. Although it was raining, it was incredibly wet.
But no rabbits are some rabbits actual you've planted young
trees the rabbits have gone into. But the land is
not a rabbit kind of It's probably a bit cull
for them. It's not rabbit and fested. Out of all
the predator proofing on the farm with goats and possums

(01:51:33):
and hedgehogs and the like, but nothing ready with rabbits.
Because I don't really see them as a pest. Anyway,
that's what's happening. But that was the first day of
spring for me. You might have done something particularly spring
like today. So it's just pretty standard talk back till twelve,
and I've wheeled through as many topics as probably you

(01:51:54):
can handle tonight. So if you want to add to
one of those, or just talk about your ginger cat, well,
this is interesting. Here's a chase question. How many mammals
and use it and hibernate? I would just say, is
actually on the chase or is it just a chase
type question? I would just say the hedgehog. Am I right?

(01:52:17):
The bats wouldn't hibernate, the rabbits wouldn't hybernate, the possums
wouldn't hibernate. I'd say just the hedgehog, because quite often
when I'm driving home and suddenly there comes a time
in the air when you see the hadghog's on the road,
which is I presume they're all coming out of hibernation.
That's my answer. Timus shoe polish, what a thought. Can't

(01:52:37):
imagine use anything other than the shrunk and everything blob
of ki we polish procured from a dirty corner of
the shed. That chemical stinch takes you straight back to
the days of nomad shoes and paper runs. Yay, Springer
is here thirteen degrees in Masterton. That's the texts from you.
But we are talking spring and lambs and what animals

(01:53:00):
are using hibernate and ginger cats. Other topics are mini
GoF with rabbits which is a great thing, mobile barbers
which is a great thing, and many other topics as well.

(01:53:22):
But the most important thing for this last hour is
your contribution. You mightn't be a very good caller. I'd
have a problem with that. Get amongst it, oh eight
hundred and eighty nine to nine. And cars named after
cats but not named after dogs. That's the other topic
for tonight, amongst others. And what would be the challenges

(01:53:46):
to setting up a mobile head dressing place? And one
of what the costs of costs of compliance. That's what
we got about rabbits and ginger cats and raincoats and
how long a raincoat should last before you take it back.

(01:54:07):
If your raincoat was leaking after five years, do you
think you'd want to replace? Someone asked that earlier on
Hi Markers. Ginger females aren't as rare as they once
where I have two Tilly, who was born blind, and girlfriend.
Male tortoiseshells are rare, only seen one and twenty three
years of rescue. So that's what people are talking about.

(01:54:29):
I start a dialer Barbera in nineteen ninety nine. Good
on you, so all the lines are free if you
want to talk. That's what we're on about. Come on,
get to get over this last hour. I feel I
haven't really gotten into the driver's seat tonight, but yeah,
you might have something to add. Good, be lovely to
hear from you. I think it's quite a wet day up,
the wet, cold day up the coming That's what I'm sensing.

(01:54:51):
Do you get bored with articles about longevity, how to
live longer? Oh, there's that guy that's the longevity guru,
but I reckon he's a con Dan Buttner. It's always
comes back to beans, I think, And that's what they're saying. Anyway,
enough for me. What have you got to say? People? Oh,

(01:55:12):
eight hundred eighty twenty and nineteen nine to text, give
us a road report if you want. If you're a
truck driver, anything goes. Weekend sport you might want to
comment on. Does everyone to agree with me that they're
sick of the hoodoo of Eden Park? I wish you
would go so just stop talking about it so it

(01:55:34):
takes on some gargantuan proportions. Every year is about the
hoodoo of Eden Park or whatever because it called a
who doo when they'd never beaten there. Oh, for goodness sake,
I'm sure the players are be releaved once it's gone.
Just adds pressure to them, wouldn't it. Oh eight hundred
and eighty and Wheatis are touring. Do you remember Wheatis?

(01:55:55):
I don't know what other songs I would have done
besides teenage dirt Bag. I'll look at their list to
see if I recognize the head the others, I don't
know if they're bigg I think it might be one
h I think they almost might have be in one
Hit Wonder Territory. I'm just looking at their hits now. No,
they did a few records. Just put that out there.

(01:56:18):
But the band's changed line up a large number of times.
It looks like they've been about forty people in the
band over the time. God must be difficult to work with.
Although the one guy Brendan Brown's been at the whole time,
but boy, he's had about twelve drummers a lot of people.

(01:56:38):
Any who. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty do
you get in touch Marcus till twelve? Let me just
check it my other list of topics to see if
I can jiggle you along with something. But I think
the real discovery for me is Minigulf with rabbits. That

(01:56:59):
should become a worldwide thing. Oh oh and Marbik's record
shop too. You might have gone to their regular and
want to talk about that, and also they reckon all
comes down to fortnightly rubber click rubbish collection not rubber collection.

(01:57:19):
Good evening, vow. This is Marcus, Welcome, Thank you.

Speaker 19 (01:57:23):
I want to talk about a thing that I worked out.
How to put lotion on my back? Oh god, the
paint a paint roller. You get a smaller paint roller
from one of the hardware stores. You put a rubber
glove or a plastic glove or something over the little roller,
put your lotion on, and you can actually put the
lotion on your own back. I'm in my seventies. I

(01:57:46):
can do that all by myself. Someone should have told
me before so.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
Why do you put a rubber glove on.

Speaker 19 (01:57:55):
Well, the roller is foam and it soaks up the lotion,
so you've got to put the plastic glove on. All
the rubber plastic is better and it actually still rolls
round and it covers from your whole all back. I
had my back, I stoff and he said, here's a
big jar, go and put that on your back. I thought, well,
how am I supposed to do that?

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
So I can't think how how did he suggest you
were supposed to do it?

Speaker 19 (01:58:21):
I didn't say, no, that's difficult.

Speaker 2 (01:58:23):
If you're yeah, that's extremely difficult.

Speaker 19 (01:58:26):
It's extremely difficult. And I've writed that out so you know,
and you can use it in the share as well
as a body wash stuff. I had the things. I
stoff my back, and there was a heck a lot
of them, and yeah, here's your thing to put on
the back, and you've got to put them on, and
there was there was actually twenty all together. I come

(01:58:47):
from him the cargo. I wouldn't have thought I would
have got all these sun spots and moles from down there,
but I've been announce them for the last ten years,
so they're there. But that's what I'd like to be
able to know. I'd like them to know that. And
I'd also like to tell you I found some nice
socks with a soft comfort toe and one of the
hardware stores and they're just perfect. So thank you for

(01:59:07):
your help about the what did you call it leg warmers.
That's a good idea too.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
I can't quite envisit how you put the glove on
the roller. Do you put it like sideways on it?

Speaker 6 (01:59:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:59:18):
I did. I got the biggest, well, the longest singer.
This index thing is the longest singer or the middle one,
and you put that on and you put a rubber
band round round the metal part. You get two rollers
with the phone ones. There are only about six dollars
for the actual handle thing and that and you put
that round and the water doesn't get into it or anything,

(01:59:41):
and it's it's really good. It still rolls around. People
can't believe it, you know. I did search the internet
as well, but they had a fancy one from Team
U over there, which wasn't like a paint roller. I thought,
looks like a paint roller for me. So yeah, there
you go.

Speaker 2 (01:59:57):
Great advice. Well, thank you, Marcus. Spotlight was selling a
man who range cast iron brazy for sixty dollars, bigger
around and red. That's right. That was breaking news on
the show because who had rung up New World and
then went to the warehouse. They said, just got a
spotlight and get a manu one Marcus us in. Native
short tailed bats are only mammals that hibernate. Headgehogs do hibernate,

(02:00:17):
but they're introduced. Look, I think we fully realized that
the heat shogs are introduced. But he said about the
only New Zealand mammal. I don't know that. Bats. You said,
and bats hibernate, I don't think they. I don't think
bets hibernate because hibernates to dig yourself in the ground.
Bets wouldn't hibernate. Sure they wouldn't hibernate. No, I don't

(02:00:38):
think bets would hibernate. That's my guest. Certainly not the
native bats. Maybe they do according to the internet, Murray,
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (02:00:49):
I don't know that.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
I don't know that they hibernate. So they go into
Torpa rather than I don't know Torpa. What's torper? I
think Torpa is just a listless stage you feel, I
think teenagers do. Yeah, I don't know what that is anyway,
what do you want to say?

Speaker 14 (02:01:13):
Oh, I was just who you're just saying you're getting
bit tired of getting pulled up?

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
Yes, well, I mean because it's at the end of
the week. You think I was relexing drive home and
suddenly you think, hang on, what have I done? Have
I gone through a compulsory stop? Or when suddenly their
alarms get when the surrowns are behind you. It's not
a nice feeling I can't work out. But if it
was just for a check everything, well sort it out.

Speaker 14 (02:01:33):
Yeah, it does hppen to the beast to us hipstery
quite often.

Speaker 6 (02:01:37):
Well not for cars.

Speaker 14 (02:01:38):
But I'll just give you my theory on on these
booze buses in times when there does seem to be
a lot of cops pulling people up all the time.
I don't think it's anything to do with revenue, which
I used to think. I think it's more like the
stats start creeping up.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Yes, sure, and I quite like booze bus I got
no problem with them and all. They're always quite. It
always seems like a party for the cops. They're always
in good humor.

Speaker 14 (02:02:02):
Exactly because I did the steps and I remember reading
about the three days they did it up in Auckland,
and it costs them sitting amount of dollars and so
many cops and they found so many people over the limit,
but which wasn't very many, by the way.

Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
I'm always surprised how few they find.

Speaker 14 (02:02:17):
Exactly, And I did this quick corisk check right and
it was eleven thousand dollars to find one person over
the limit?

Speaker 2 (02:02:23):
Okay, how do you do how do you find out
what that is? Do you work out their hours?

Speaker 14 (02:02:27):
The whole article, the whole article had the length of
the big sort of campaign and how many they found
blah blahen it just they just gave me the figures
on how I worked out. Really it was long comfort yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Okay, okay, but yeah, yeah, I mean I think it's
a real I mean, I think the work that the
country has done on drink driving through police advertising has
been sensational. You know, most people that have apart from
a sid of a drunth drivers it should be in
jail because they're the most likely to kill random people.

Speaker 14 (02:02:57):
Exactly. My wonder they pulled up two thousand people in
wanccer over the weekend and they found I think, like
two people.

Speaker 2 (02:03:04):
You know who they were. Did you with the wouldn't it?

Speaker 14 (02:03:07):
But there's notice why I caught, because well it is,
it is. But I used to get stopped at the
border a lot, and only in Englo Sex and speaking
countries like Australia, New Zealand, in the UK and everywhere else.
I said to be fine, but coming back into New
Zealand was just horrendous. But you know, you just don't
get a little search. I got searched. And so one

(02:03:29):
day I'm coming back from France and I had a
flight which got in around midnight and I did never
connecting flight for twelve hours. I was a bit board.
So I might passenger form that you filled out right,
you have to fill out your occupation. I thought, right right, yeah,
I'm gonna have some fun here. So I put down celebrity. Yep,

(02:03:52):
I did, and so I got treated to Aisle four
at immigration. And so you sort of get marched by
two immigration officers into this room. They go, oh, you
haven't been here before, I don't know. And then so
the question starts and they go, well oh yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.
I didn't care. Twelve hours away and they go, well,

(02:04:13):
watch put down celebrity, and straight away I said, well,
each I wanted to put down minor celebrity, but there
wasn't enough roomy and that really set them off. So yeah, yeah,
search search, search, And then they started waving this plastic
wand around because they found these black flicks in the
pockets and my pack and maybe that's why they picked

(02:04:33):
me out all the time, because they've got a suitcase,
always got a pack, and I was passing myself on
this stage and they're going, oh, and this little black
wand with plastic wand that they wave around was actually
and it's got this little de diet and the end
of it, which is supposed to go off, they find
like explosives or something. But this wand was manufactured by

(02:04:56):
a person who at the time was in a UK
jail because he has found to be a fraud that's
wanted work at all. Meanwhile, it was being distributed to
security forces and armed forces around the world, including in
a rack at the time. Oh, by the whole.

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
Thing, how they how did they take you for?

Speaker 14 (02:05:16):
How long did it take off? An hour or so?
And after that they had to apologize and repack my
pack and hit me on my way.

Speaker 2 (02:05:22):
I mean, even as someone that's an innocent traveler, you
always get a bit sort of ants. He came through
reports because you never quite shore what they go. I mean,
it's never a pleasant thing, is it, when they're always
suspecting you and what drove you, and the dogs come out.

Speaker 14 (02:05:33):
I cottoned down to it quite a few years ago,
and one time I went from France and Breton of
my girlfriend says, I see you soon. I said, Oh,
I was sweet, it's going to take a while. She goes,
what do you mean I'm going to get switched? She goes,
whate what?

Speaker 7 (02:05:46):
Four?

Speaker 14 (02:05:46):
I said, We'll just see you wait and see it. Think,
go then do something about me.

Speaker 2 (02:05:55):
Nice to hear for you, Murray, thank you for at
twenty three past eleven joined the freight joined the discussion
until twelve Do you want to be a part of it?
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty your airports was slightly terrifying.
That's my version of that one. I'm not quite sure
if Betts hybernat or not. Now, actually we'll go into
a state of torpa. Do come through forty years since

(02:06:20):
the discovery of the Titanic wreck. I wonder when they
were send him tourists down a visit that. Oh that's right.
Didn't go well, did it. I haven't waked. That documentary
on Netflix seemed to grim. But yeah, I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (02:06:34):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
That book was very good, that Clive Kustler book about
the Titanic. I don't really know the plot of it.
Someone will remember was it called Raise the Titanic? But
I don't know what the premise of it was. It
was also a movie. Someone will know what was the premise?
How could that even be a movie? On den Arms

(02:06:57):
race thing valuable cargo on it? Hello Terry, this is Marcus.

Speaker 9 (02:07:03):
Welcome Marcus. I was a feminge along the Aucland Highway
shoutbound and just before the high Book turn off, I
had a phone call, so I stopped on the shoulder
went to answer my phone. Next minute a cop was
knocking on my window. He said to me, Hey, you're

(02:07:25):
not a lot of stuff on that appreciate you got
to answer your phone. You're not allowed of stuff on
the side on the highway. You better move on. I
won't find you this time.

Speaker 2 (02:07:34):
Reasonable.

Speaker 9 (02:07:35):
A week later I was traaring southbound just about the
alp of markers, and then the phone ring. I keep
going and I answered, nix minute. The cop was behind me,
put me aside and I got one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:07:50):
Fine, what's the moral?

Speaker 9 (02:07:53):
Stop on the shoulder and no matter if you I'm
not allowed to stop?

Speaker 2 (02:07:57):
Yeah, or don't answer your phone when you're driving. Maybe?

Speaker 9 (02:08:01):
Oh well, he said to me, you should have answered
it on the What do you call those things on
the dashboard?

Speaker 2 (02:08:07):
Oh yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 9 (02:08:09):
Old a year so I'm fifty dollar five. Yeah, I
know I was wrong, Marcus. The next time the phone ring,
I wolf stop on the fie of the motorway.

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
I thought you're going to say it was the same cop.

Speaker 9 (02:08:23):
No one was.

Speaker 11 (02:08:24):
A lady at wol of the Men's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Good to hear, Terry, thank you for that. Seventeen to twelve.
Hello people, Marcus, what are the dominant colorings of stoke
fur down your way? I've spotted two stoakes running across
at Pukakoe Back Road a few days ago. They're both
a beautiful, rich red auban fur along their backs with
white legs and underbellies the same coloring as the sable

(02:08:48):
fur coats. Marcus to kiwis hibernate, Yes, I think they do.
Sixteen to twelve. If you want to talk Marcus till
midnight tonight, all the lines are free. If you want
to come through for the final for Lurry, keep the
text emails coming. Oh wait, one hundred eighty and nine ninets,
looking forward to what you've got to say? How do

(02:09:11):
you go today with the smega and the old brazier?
How good are the brass for cooking in anyway? But
you may as well go to Spotlight and get one
for sixty a mone who'd I guess they're still there?
I don't know that, but it's right, I guess. By
the way, in Melbourne today the machette band has started

(02:09:32):
forty eight thousand dollars fine to have a machete, so
forty seven thousand dollar fine, and they've put they've spent
a fortune on machette disposal bins to get rid of them.
I don't know what. You don't know if you actually
need a maschetti. But yeah, there's been some sort of
I don't know if it's been blown out of proportion,
but there's been some sort of machette violence in Australia

(02:09:56):
and Melbourne were in Victoria. But yep, if you want
to talk about that, they'd be nice to hear from you.
He's a common story. Mother falls to her death taking
a self in front of his son on the footy
fifth birthday, moments after successful bungee jump. Gosh, it's always
influenza dies taking selfie, doesn't it. Or someone dies watching

(02:10:18):
someone take a selfie. Dave, this is Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 16 (02:10:24):
Yeah, hi Marcus, can you hear me?

Speaker 10 (02:10:25):
Okay, yes, yes, fantastic. Just on the ginger cats have
got an amusing story for you. I we got a
couple of cats of our own and we sort of
ended up kind of looking after a neighbor's cat. So
where they went through went so great looking after a cat,
and they had a ginger cat, and it was always
far too thin, deathly thin. So we started we started

(02:10:48):
feeding one thing led to another, and and then then
the mississort of started looking to give it a name
and said, don't give it a name when you know, don't,
don't get too close to it, don't give.

Speaker 2 (02:10:58):
A name, don't name no.

Speaker 16 (02:11:01):
So and then I just off the cup, just referred
to it as gingerbread Man one day, have you seen
gingerbread men? Well, two years went by, a few thousand
dollars later, I've taken into the Bloody d a few times,
feeding it massively, becoming like part of our family. Yeah,
it just we spent two years calling it gingerbread gingerbread men.

Speaker 2 (02:11:23):
Did the neighbors know you'd kidnapped it? Kidnapped it?

Speaker 16 (02:11:26):
No, Actually they had a name for it themselves, and
I remember hearing it once and thinking, now that's a
rubbish name, and we just we just kept calling them
gingerbread men. But yeah, look they've gone now, so he's gone.
But the funny thing is my partner used to miss
our cats when we'd go away, so I actually took
some photos of them, and they took them down to
the local plaza where a guy'd print them out onto

(02:11:47):
t shirts and stuff, and I hadn't printed out on
the pillows, so she had them on her pillow cases.
So we've actually got as well as our two cats,
we've got, we've got this random cat that.

Speaker 4 (02:11:56):
We looked up for a wee one who was now gone.

Speaker 2 (02:12:00):
On a pillow case, so he was he was still
the neighbor's cat. But you feed it and paid its
medical bills.

Speaker 16 (02:12:08):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much. We didn't tell them.

Speaker 2 (02:12:09):
Would have been pointless, do well, so you share it?

Speaker 16 (02:12:13):
Yeah, well, I mean he sort of lived between the two.
But I mean I don't think they fed him because
I mean he was he was definitely thinned all the time,
to the point where.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
It's probably quite a common story. Surprised he went back
there though there wasn't much for him there.

Speaker 16 (02:12:31):
Well, they had kids. I think I think the kids
enjoyed them, you know, yeah, yeah, but just I don't
think Mam and Dee was so cool on feeding them
so much. But I came home one day and he
was in our garage and he'd been on the wrong
end of a fight and he was in a real
bad way. I took him to the vet, and that
cost us a fortune. But what are you going to
do at that quirement of your life and you can't
help yourself.

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
I hope he's all right now that he's moved away.

Speaker 16 (02:12:55):
My partner saw the onus because we know them, and
apparently they're sort of over the other side of East Auckland,
and he's I know, it's a good area there in
so hopefully he's out of danger the jet.

Speaker 2 (02:13:07):
You know, it's nice to hear from David's a good story.
Mexican Marcus, welcome, Hello there, How are you good, Mexinge.
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (02:13:16):
That's good.

Speaker 15 (02:13:17):
I've got two tabby cats, and I really liked that
last caller. It's what we do for our cats, I suppose.
I mean, you know, it wasn't for him, the poor
cat wouldn't have got medical attention.

Speaker 17 (02:13:30):
Absolutely.

Speaker 15 (02:13:31):
Yeah, it's quite cool my cats. We lived in Alexandra
and I'm now living in in the Cargo, but we
were in Alexandra for twenty odd years and we lived
across the road from the quarry, and it wasn't unfamiliar
to wake up in the morning to have four or
five dead bunnies on the living room floor.

Speaker 2 (02:13:53):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (02:13:54):
Wow, Wow, it's.

Speaker 15 (02:13:56):
Just what they used to do.

Speaker 13 (02:13:57):
Well.

Speaker 15 (02:13:59):
The friendly cat who's friendly to humans, was quite vicious.
He's a bob old cat Merton bobtail cat, and he
would chew the heads off. And you pick up this
bunny and the cavity you could see the ribs. If
he was in the middle of a kill, you couldn't

(02:14:20):
go near him. But the funny thing is since we
live here now on Invers. They haven't even bought a
bird inside. Isn't it amazing? Like they had a killing
like the killing fields, you know, and you know central
but since they've lived here.

Speaker 2 (02:14:41):
It's where is the quarry in Alexandra?

Speaker 15 (02:14:46):
Uh, right along by the river bank?

Speaker 2 (02:14:49):
Oh yeah, okay, that's it.

Speaker 15 (02:14:53):
Yeah, I think it's old tailings. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
but yeah they're quite cool. So that's my my imput.

Speaker 20 (02:15:03):
For you.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
Next today to get ready for the Blossom Festival, because
I've always enjoyed that's that's last week the school holidays.
It's always a good weekend.

Speaker 15 (02:15:14):
Oh I do miss it.

Speaker 2 (02:15:16):
Yeah, that's one of the great that's one of the redications.
Oh yeah, the climate, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (02:15:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:15:23):
Sure is, sure is.

Speaker 8 (02:15:24):
I was up there.

Speaker 15 (02:15:27):
And stayed at Dunston House and Clyde Oh yes, you
know Dumpton House. Yeah, and there was practically a whol
frost at ten o'clock in the morning, and I just
I loved it. I took Ernest Clue Road back back
through Vers and it was embracing and just ah, goly

(02:15:49):
I could have skipped and danced, but.

Speaker 6 (02:15:51):
I didn't, So that's okay.

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
It's always there. We are lovely to talk Maxine, thank
you for that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:58):
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