Twelve Hours in Blenheim (17 December 2025)

A "what should I do while waiting for the ferry" conversation, turns into talk on planes, roadside drug testing, and whether CDs will ever make a comeback.

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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.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Crazy is welcome. But even one name is Marcus Httle,
twelve o'clock tonight, my second last night. I hope it's
good with you. I'll keep you update on the Ashes.
I forgot that was on today and I've watched a
bit of that and that was good. So I've enjoyed
a bit of that, a little bit of cricket. Such
a chill out, Such a chilled out way to watch
TV because actually nothing happens, but you can actually sit
there and watch it. Basically it's just resting with occasional
interest anyway, So that I think it's on lunch and

(00:36):
so they will keep you updated. Australia eight for two
three six three now oh I think pro pattern. Oh
it's the end the day one okay, so I won't
keep you updated. That's that, guys, eight So not a day.
It's not a pink ball test, it's a red bull
test and it's over over eight for three two six,

(00:59):
My my foe Max done on and now I thinkably
I could fill the next four hours talking about the
sentencing for the policeman former policeman mix skimming. He has

(01:20):
got homed attention, and a lot of that homed attention
is because he was of good character. Anyway, there hasn't
been a chance for people to get their talk back
teeth into that. It has been received online with what

(01:45):
would be called incredulity and probably takes makes a fairly
bit of a mockery of the justice system. There's two
types of justice. However, Yeah, I don't even know what
to say about that, but he seems to have he
seems to have known what to have done to have

(02:08):
had the sentencing reduced. So yeah, look, I think most
people would be very, very surprised and disappointed by that sentencing.
It also said that his reoffending risk is low, so
not appropriate and replaced on the sex offender register accord

(02:29):
to the judge. So I don't want to spend the
night discussing that, but you can text it about that.
But I would imagine most of you'd be in agreement
with me to think that probably that sentence appears to
be light, and I think specifically, I think probably there
would be say, there should be some consideration if you
are a police person, a policeman, you would certainly not

(02:50):
only know the laws, but you would also know perhaps
that the harm that has caused to sustain the demand
for those sorts of images. Anyway, if that was talk
back in the middle of the year, no doubt we'd

(03:10):
be going big on that is a week before Christmas.
But yeah, so yeah, I think everyone has been surprised
by that, and I think I've opened up the lines
for that. People would be for every surprised, and I
think everyone would be agreement. So then I guess what's
the point in talking about if everyone's going degree. But anyway,
I just thought i'd better state that tonight, that that

(03:32):
has happened and that has come out the other thing
that is not quite as disturbing. But also I shouldn't laugh.
I shouldn't go from that and laugh. But what I'm
gonna laugh is this is this that this is entirely
predictable and entirely entirely typical and entirely typical of this coalition.

(03:58):
Is that the CONE hotline has been discontinued. And that
was a cost of about one thousand dollars per cone
that was freed. So yeah, there we go. Always a
dumb idea and unbelievable They got to go through with it,

(04:19):
and now, unbelievable they try and suggest that it was
a success. That's why they've removed it. Seven hundred and
fifty dollars a cone per removed and Van Velden Brook
van Velden said it was money very well spent. So
there we go, absurd waste of public money, the cone

(04:41):
of silence, and a thing that has failed to deliver.
So there we go. That's the cone. The phone Cone
hotline has gone. I would imagine what's happening is a
lot of things are happening this time of the year
because the kind of the newsrooms are at Christmas parties
and things aren't getting reported.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
So that's that.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
The Cone hotline has gone. Whether the country's obsession with
cones are still there, I don't know. Probably is, but
yet fast moving targets, we've probably moved on to something else. Anyway,
I'm hit til midnight tonight and hopefully I can bring
some Christmas joy to you. We will do the quiz tomorrow,
the Christmas Quiz that will be all things that have
happened on the show. There might be a prize, there

(05:25):
might not. I don't know if people will be honest
with the judges with the questions, or they'll google them.
I haven't worked that out yet, but we'll see how
that goes tomorrow. Tonight it's anything goes here till twelve,
just like we have been all week. So feel free
to get in touch on a partake in the show. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty to eighty, christ Church, you might
have carmageddon. There are power poles down on Kulitz Road.

(05:47):
If you want to report in what the traffic's like.
I wouldn't mind hearing from you about that. That is
of interest to me. Always like a traffic report for
this time of night as people are Yeah, by the way,
tell I'll tell you what. Why the supermarke? What happens
with people in supermarkets? What if supermarkets become so crazy
before Christmas? Are they shopping for Christmas?

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yes, we are.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
They just shopping because they feel Christmas. I can't quite
work it out, but boy oh boy, it's busy in
the shops, unbelievable. Anyway, do come through you want to
get the whole ball rolling tonight, am here til twelve.
I'll take your texts taken as they come. I will
read those. That's not a problem if you've got texts,
seen those through. Someone said what did Ron Briley get exactly?

(06:33):
And someone said mac skimming had more discounts than a
Brisco sale, although they call them mc scumming. Marcus, Yes,
I asked you if you could help me find a
twelve Day of Christmas recording. Well, after eleven days of
searching bingo, I found it today. You people need to
get on the internet. You don't abously finding about ten

(06:53):
seconds anyway, get in touch, Marcus. Till midnight, oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to text,
you want to come through here till midnight eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text?
Do come through anything else you want to mention? Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty if you want to text

(07:14):
nineteen nine two I've said now anything else you want
to get in touch with? But yeah, Hittle the end,
Hittle midnight tonight. So looking forward to input and there
will be topics. I'm not quite sure they are, but
I will have them, and I'm sure you will come
up with some also, But yes, be in touch anyway,

(07:34):
Oh eight hundred eighty thirty fifteen past eight oh jeepest creepers,
don't waste don't waste dands time people. I said to
Dan what the other persons talk about it time Mike,
because it seems a Christmas the peck and save car
park has always fall no matter where you go in
the Wellington region. Also, the checkout's always pecked with a

(07:54):
huge line behind them. When I am only getting one
or two items, people are in a hurry. Often I'll
park in the car park and then when I go
to go, I'll go forward because there'll be no car
in there. Well, you don't do that in the busy
time because the kaw will come zooming in there. Zoom
zoom zoom. Now here tel twelve you want to come through.
I've got questions about your Christmas dinners. You've got questions

(08:14):
with cooking. I've found out that I have to spend
twelve hours and the New year in Blenham, such as
the fairy bookings. You know how it is. Everyone knows
what we're can do for twelve If anyone's got they
suggestions for twelve hours and blen them? What would ched? I?
I say Dan, how to spend twelve hours and blen him?

(08:38):
I mean I think. I don't think Venham's a bad place,
but I just don't know what i'd do for twelve
hours there. Well with the family, obviously, I'm up for
the challenge. It's just not a place so that. The
only time I've spent a lot of time on Blenham
was when we were or before we had kids actually,

(09:01):
and it was a wet day we had to wait
for the fairy. We had a lot of time to spend.
I did watch. Yeah, I went to the Katie Perry movie,
which I think was on three D. It's good, better
than sort of sifting around town. Pretty sure it was

(09:23):
in three D. Will be the last three D movie
I've seen, actually, twenty past thirty one to come through
part of Me. It was called That's before She went
to Space and before she went Instagram Official with Justin Trudeau. Oh,

(09:44):
by the way too, I've read quite a lot about
Dick Van Dyke's birthday and John Legend sung and played
piano for his birthday. Looked like he had quite a
good celebration.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
And he was.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Singing, and yeah, so enjoyed reading about that. So, yeah,
that was a thing. So he has celebrated his one
hundredth birthday with quite a good party, as you should.
I think you had kids and grandkids and his forty
six year younger wife she was there as well, and

(10:21):
I think it was John legend. Is that think I
get the singing John's mixed up? Actually, but yea, he
was there playing piano for him. Anyway, that's happening. Now
get in touch. You on a talk here till midnight tonight.
And there's a lot of talkback things. I'm not really
going to talk back, talkback, hang on a high mood,

(10:42):
but we'll see how we go. And it's twenty one
past nine eight gosh, saber times. I feel slightly just compobulated.
I don't know why. It feels like my head's racing,
my mind's racing quicker than my mouth. Whatever that's about. Marcus.
My auntie lives and glen him. You could swing around
into her garden. She's getting on. She'll make scones. Yeah,

(11:05):
So there we go. That to good suggestion. You might
have a suggestion what to do in Benham for twelve hours, Marcus.
If you're stuck in Marlborough, then go through to Peckton
and jump on the boat cruise with Beachcomba cruises and
spend a few hours exploring the magnificent Mulborough Sounds. You
will not be disappointed. Remember, there's kids with us too,
so there's oh yeah, and I don't say there's kids

(11:26):
and a disparaging way I say that. I'm not quite
sure what will be age specific. Yes, Peter, it's Marcus
good evening.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
Hi.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
Mate is a place called the Omeca Aviation Here Heritage Center.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (11:40):
Now it's actually like an amazing museum that's got I
don't know, dozens of old aircraft in it. And Peter,
I think Peter Jackson owns a stack of your actual
aircraft and he donated them into a trust.

Speaker 8 (11:55):
It is stunning.

Speaker 6 (11:56):
It's beyond believe.

Speaker 9 (11:57):
It'll take you two.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
Hours to go there.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Because I'm hearing that and to me, yeah, okay, I
don't I don't know if that's part of what I'm about,
but yeah, I probably should to go away.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
So I took my teenage daughter there.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
And she loved it really Okay.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
Yeah, it's got some displays that like you can imagine
going to like you know, when it Auckland, the Auckland
Museum had a display that was like you know, diggers
and trenches from World War One and so on.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
So Peter, I went, I went to that one at Tipapa,
which was giant soldiers and war. Right, is that the
one you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (12:35):
I couldn't and I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
I couldn't get out of there quick enough. But it
wasn't me at all. I just I couldn't work it out.
But yeah, that's just me. But look, I take that suggestion.
I'll give that one a go. I reckon, that's a
really good suggestion, Peter, Thank you for that, I asked.
I've got to be responsive to thank you. Just hang
out and picked and have a picnic at the waterfront.

(12:57):
There's a great playground and great coffee. Well that's the plan.
Once we get out of there, I will have the
there's Minigarl for a good minigulf an extremely good toasted
sandwich shop. So yeah, but we've got the twelve hours
to spend before that. But keep your tics coming through
twelve hours and Blenham, Yeah, someone says, I spy really

(13:19):
of course, what happened with end of this year? The
whole all those combined clubs clothes didn't they have the
combined iris saying the Cozy club which went bad Diesel Marcus,
welcome the Marcus.

Speaker 11 (13:32):
You've got to performing, got to performing. But Peter Jackson's
trust there and Venham's really worth going to say.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Good, to give good, to give the publicity pit. Peter Jackson, Okay.

Speaker 11 (13:46):
I know he's got a couple of really old plains,
a lot of some of the Fokker triple wing planes
of replicas, but he has got some really good stuff
in there. They've got a a lot of the German soldiers.
Where there's the plane crashed, I've got he's got German
soldiers and got the guns on the the file of

(14:07):
the crash, and there's a really good display there of
the red baron when he crashed, when the Australian's actually
setting on my he's actually lying on the ground, and
it's just yet it's worth's really worth going and say Carl.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
That's good. Good heads up, Teazer, I appreciate that, thank you.
There we go. It seems to be the big vote.
What's it called or marker, So there we go. Eight
hundred eighty to ten eighty go to the Vines Village
kids playground on the Roots Ging Distillery. Well, I'd like
to go to a ging distillery. Everyone's drinking gin says
that all everyone but me, But that seems to be

(14:40):
the drink of choicesn't and everyone's got a ginger Stewart
Arland's got a ging distillery, Bluff's got a ging distillery.
Lenham's got a ging distillery. I think you just get
alcohol and infusing some potentnaicals. Don't you think that's what
happens anyway? Hit'll twelve. You ought to be part of it.
One of his markets got evening eight hundred eighty, ten

(15:03):
eighty and nine ticks. Get in touch anything go Hittle
twelve and looking forward to what you've got to say.

Speaker 12 (15:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
If there's other topics you want to mention, feel free.
I'll keep you up deated with the news tonight for
the next four hours. A lot of news coming through
from Australia about the number of offenses that the alleged
Bondi gunman is charged with. Declined to have an interview,
but fifty nine offenses, so I guess there's no surprise.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
With that.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
There's been a poll out, a poll which is the
the Post Newspaper's poll, which puts Labor on thirty eight
and National on thirty he's on a first nine Act
eight Green party eight, others on four and to Patti
Malori party Maori on two percent. That's just come through

(15:57):
before Christmas. Someone's text through Marcus, how old you are? Marcus?
How are your children? Did you have kids?

Speaker 13 (16:12):
Late?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well? What I said, but you're fifty forty five and
forty well, I mean the children, so it's if they're
not adult children. What sort of strange text is that? Anyway,

(16:36):
get in touch if you want to be part of it.
I wait an eight nineteen ninety to text Marcus and
Benny could walk the hills of wither Hills Farm Park
or walk along the Taylor River. I've done the Taylor
River last time. I think I think we'll go to
the swimming pools. Is a great swimming pools soy at
Malbourneline Stadium also Bracehaw Park. Anyway, do get in touch.

(17:00):
And if you're other news for around the country, let
me know what that is. People. They might be bad
traffic in christ Church with the go Away closed because
a tree's fallen down. Yep, so there's that. I see
now the featherest and Christmas tree has been just that
seems to be the new thing is destroying Christmas trees. Yeah,

(17:23):
so it's the feathest and Christmas tree has gone bad
after the Timadoo one got set light too, I think
the feathest and one I quite know what happened to
that one doesn't look good. Vandals have destroyed it. The
tree handmade by a local craft cooperative, entirely from recycled materials. Yeah,
it's been destroyed. So there you go. It seems to

(17:45):
have even for pill that into Christmas. You don't destroy
Christmas trees. See, we have very poor formed thing to
have done. They've found a ninety four kilogram turtle washed
up on a far north beach. It's exciting, sort of
covered in barnacles. That's on Cardi Cardi Peninsula. Yep, so

(18:05):
there we go. Lot of turtle to arriving. I don't
know what. I don't know if it's sick or quite
what's going on with it. It's a bit of a
long article. I can't be with reading all over always
ninety four kilograms. He's taken it to Auckland. They've never
seen a turtle as big. Wow. The turtle came asure.
It was fatigue, dehydrated and had cold shock. Goodness, someone

(18:32):
says via text email. The copper's crime was using his
computer download images, and his punishment to stay home and
use his computer to download who knows what? Where is
the logic? Yeah, I mean all these are good points.
Chet Ai came through with what's quite good chet Ai
as a holiday planner because chet Ai has said everything
that people have texted in Ringness, It's said, although they've

(18:56):
said that you can actually finish with an ice cream.
They're seymore Square terrible name for square, Seamore Square, isn't it?
But anyway, you've got a whole day planned with a
hills Farm Park, Harling Park. They should say, start in
town at the water fountain, cycle along Taylor River Reserve,
go to Pollard Park where kids can climb, play music,

(19:19):
Insment's feed ducks for a picnic. Then all Marker Aviation
Heritage and this is a must do, particularly for kids
who like planes and history. But worry for me if
I could say that, arrive as it opens to avoid
the midday crowd. Then afternoon Explorer Park with a Hills
Farm Park, space to Rome, then the Brashal Heritage Park.

(19:46):
Check with the train or vintage car club is running.
You know, I get in touch. You on to be
part of the show. My name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh
eight one hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text,
oh tell Nina turned her radio down. Marcus, do you
remember those looney mugs which KFC put on the nineties.

(20:08):
I found the whole seat for seven dollars at a
knop shop. Merry Christmas mugs have a great one. How
old you reckon that turtle is? It's a really good question.
How would you know how old a turtle is? I
think animals are very hard to age, almost impossible. I
think because you've got no way of knowing, you're almost

(20:28):
impossible to age. But like humans are almost impossible to age.
That's why they're That's why the record for the oldest
human is always so contentious, because I reckon it's really
unreliable because a lot of people pretending they're children. Tola, well,
a lot of children pretend they're their parents to claim
pensions and stuff like they reckon the oldest woman the world,

(20:50):
the French one was actually her daughter pretending to be
her mother, but there was some shonky deal that she
could live in the house until she died. As she
died and then the daughter just moved in there and
pretended she was to remain living in the property. That's
what the guy for the Guinness Book of Records said.
It's the most reliable of all the records. As the
oldest person, I do believe Dick van Dyke's one hundred though. Now,

(21:13):
if you want to add to the discussion tonight, and
the topics are many and varied, come through, do get
in touch. There's something else you want to talk about.
I am up for that. Eight hundred eighty eight and
nine to nine two to text. Keep your emails coming
through and your texts, and I'll keep breaking news, keeping
you giving you breaking news throughout the course of the evening.

(21:36):
Now the big news so far as the traffic jam
in christ Church, I thought, but maybe that's been resolved.
Now they're saying how expensive it is just to turn
on the barbecue in our cost of living crisis. Yes,

(21:59):
there's a good infometrics and they've costed the different costs
of barbecues. A Christmas barbecue had cost about three hundred
dollars for the core meats, or three eighty with snacks
and desserts. So the whole Christmas meal is up fifty
seven dollars jeepers, not with my I wonder how much
it's going to cost for my cherry capaka capatha that

(22:24):
I'm making not a concern will be a one s
twenty four away from nine if you want to partake
hea till twelve o'clock to night. If you want to
come through, let me set up properly eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to take
some of the other stuff I can tell you about
tonight or today for today. For tonight, tim beverage is

(22:45):
long from twelve o'clock. Yes, that's all happening. And as
maple syrup day, it's also right brothers day Orvil and
Wilbur surprise are you in nineteen o three sustained flight? Um,

(23:10):
so that's happened. It does say New Zealand's Eiffel Tower OP.
But I don't know about you about that, Dan, Do
you know anything about that? It's got eighteen, it's got
one eight nine, then nothing after. I don't know anything
about using an Eiffel Tower. Someone might know that would
be of interest to me. I've been up the Eiffel Tower,
don't remember how much of it but New New Zealand

(23:32):
had an Eiffel Tower twenty three to oh here we go.
I was at the South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin. Just
look wooden must have been sin clear by the looks
of things built by the Otis Elevator Company. I should
redo that be fantastic. What we want now, your holiday

(23:56):
questions and your meat questions for the Christmas barbecue? Anyone
doing a goose? I've been saying that for three days now.
Anyone doing a goose? Marcus talk about things about a
whack through my work. A chap facing same charge as
a miss skimming is currently in prison awaiting sentence in
and looking at a stretch and Javonne Jevon gets nine

(24:18):
months home. It sucks, Marcus. I noted from the news
that the yacht guy got a tougher sentence for holding
back money from the government than a policeman who downloaded
child abuse material. Children are calm due to his disgusting perversion.
That's nick from Rangi Aura, How did a turtle get dehydrated?

(24:39):
What's a drinking normally? It's a really good point. What
do turtles drink? How would it get dehydrated? Gee? People
asking good questions tonight. What do turtles drink? Have they
got desalinators on board? Mind you, it's hard to know.

(25:04):
Is it a turtle or a tortoise? What do I
say it was? I said it was a turtle or tortoise.
Too much going on for me now, I kind of
find the old stories. Anyway, be in touch, you want
to be in touch. Eight hundred and eighty to eighty
HEATL twelve twenty from nine nineteen to nine. Hello, Antonio,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 14 (25:25):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. Just about the big turtle they found,
was that on the West coast or the Krikiri Beach?

Speaker 3 (25:32):
I think no, I think it was on up by
up in the far North and Cuddy Cuddy Peninsula up Yeah.

Speaker 14 (25:42):
Oh well, I know they've got them up in Hawaii
turtles there, and they can reach quite an age.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
This one was all covered in, like in barnacles and stuff,
so it looked like it'd been there for too long.

Speaker 14 (25:55):
But yeah, yeah, it might have been the hope, the
normal stuff they eat, probably not not out there where
he was. He might've come down from quite away north. Yeah,
he'd be pretty old.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
I think they I think they spend most of their
life at sea. But I think they get there it's dehydrated.
I think they get their moisture from what they eat,
and they secrete salt through their eyes. That's what looks
like tears. That's what with the salt comes out. But
I don't know why it would be dehydrated. Must have
got enough food. They must just get their liquids through
their food.

Speaker 14 (26:33):
Yeah, yes, so they do.

Speaker 15 (26:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (26:36):
I think they go ashore when they're older and they
eat seaweed. They yeah, because I did a tour up
in Hawaii, ran the island and they they were talking
about it, about the turtles. You see a lot more
of them up there in summer, but it's actually winter
up at the moment, so it's harder to see them.

(26:58):
But yeah, but a stranger, the big one like that's
come down here.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Well, it looks like it's been just rolling around in
the surface. It's covered in seaweed and stuff, so it's probably, yeah,
it's probably just getting getting current, getting near its death.
That's probably just on its way out, I'd.

Speaker 14 (27:14):
Think, yeah, yeah, it's probably like probably because they can
live up to about eighty or ninety years old. Apparently.
Oh yeah, according to my tour guide.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
I know that tortoises can live a long time, can't they.

Speaker 14 (27:31):
Yep, yeah they can.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah, those ones like on Galapic assigns that have been
there the years. Yeah, like hundreds of years, like three
hundred years or something.

Speaker 14 (27:46):
Oh oh well, I don't know, but yeah, that there's
some tortoises. Yeah, that's right up.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
There because someone had written their date, wrote the date
on the back of one of their shells. I think,
so they knew how old it was.

Speaker 14 (28:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, isn't they like Darton Darwin's days.

Speaker 14 (28:04):
Yeah Darwin, Yeah, Darwin's theory. Yeah, and well.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
And ninety three years old as a Saychell's giant tortoise.

Speaker 14 (28:13):
Oh wow, Well, Hawaii's got Hawaii is tropical. You know,
it's tropical. The climate didn't change it much up there,
well a little bit, but it's quite warm and the
water will be pretty warm up there.

Speaker 15 (28:27):
Ye.

Speaker 14 (28:28):
Apparently when they get older they come in and heather babies.
Then they they when they get older, they come in
and eat the seaweed. And I'm sounds.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Like it's quite a good two of those. Sounds like
you're almost expert.

Speaker 14 (28:46):
Yeah. I went up the north shore around the island
to it. It's great up there. Yeah, actually just got.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Back so oh just recently hello, Oh okay, well yeah,
I thought.

Speaker 14 (28:54):
I better ring in and shared my knowledge.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
It takes some thanks, and don't every generous of you.
Fifteen to nine someone says the way to aged turtles.
You ask what it was doing when we found out
JFK was shot and go from there. Very good. But
it's first day. About how turt looking at dehydrated? I
just think it's dehydrad It means sick. Oh now, now, now, now,

(29:20):
now now. If you want to be in touch with
the show tonight, anything goes. Oh, eight hundred and eighty,
ten eighty. If you want to text, it's nine two,
nine to two, and let's be hearing from you. So yeah,
get in touch, you want to be part of it.

(29:41):
Fifteen away from nine o'clock. Hurdle twelve, Oh, welcome people,
Hittle twelve Manam, Miss Marcus. Good evening. I hope it's
good where you are. Get in touch, you want to
talk on air, anything goes. It is the Wednesday Free
for All. It feels like a Friday, but it's Wednesday,
and you are more than welcome to par take in
the discussion tonight, some of the other shows that are sorry,

(30:01):
some of the other discussions. Oh, by the way, if
someone can send me through a photo of the TV
guide for Christmas viewing, I'm always king to have a
good look at that. Byther I should have gone and
bought a TV guide. I never know where you'd get
them anymore. Maybe I have bought a TV guide in
my life. It does seem to have the whole listings
things sowing up. But if you want to come through,

(30:21):
that's what we're about tonight or anything else. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. Some of the other stories that
you might want to comment on. The featherstone at Christmas
Tree has been destroyed by vandals. That and Timuru and
interesting story about rural towns fighting for survival as they

(30:46):
try and cope with a rural exodus. I think all
Hacuney has become one of those. The whole central area
is really kind of diminishing, and I guess it's not
helped by the whole chateau and things like that, and
it area. He So, you don't know what you want
to say that it might be some of the that listens.

(31:06):
There a lot of empty shops in the mainStreet of
a Hakuny. I'm sure that sort of could pick up
with tourism. Something big could happen there. You'd think, I
don't know what, amazing outdoor things there to do. Pretty
good for retirement, wouldn't it. You'd think, Bob, it's Marcus
good evening, Hi, Bob.

Speaker 16 (31:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (31:27):
The Eiffel Tower. Now, there's an Eiffel Tower and coromandeler's
at the top of a railway line that Barry Brickle built.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 17 (31:35):
He used to get the pottery used to bring logs down,
and I used to get the clay for the priest
films and make pottery and ship like that. Anyway, he
like this line was the ages, and then decided to
build a restaurant. He called it the Eiffel Towers fell
e y e if u L.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
Tower, Eiffel Tower. I have been up there. Has he
got a restaurant up in there? I know he's dead,
but is there a restaurant up there?

Speaker 17 (31:59):
He built a restaurant up there and it's called the
Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Is there actually a restaurant there now?

Speaker 17 (32:06):
I'm not sure. I have been there for a few years.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
You haven't mean.

Speaker 17 (32:10):
I'm not sure, mate, but I think Ira Mandel it's
being the railway under he built.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
It's a great railway line. It's one of the great things.

Speaker 17 (32:19):
Yeah, well he built the said he built the rail
line originally for getting clay for the kilm and logs
for the killman being made. When he decided to have
it as a tourist thing so that people could go
up there. I've actually been on that sort of thing.
And yeah, and then when he built the.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
Built the tailor.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Every clever guy.

Speaker 17 (32:39):
Well he was, he was. I mean he yeah, he's
a Dutch one too, by the way, You sure, I'm
pretty sure he's a Dutch one.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
What do you think Why do you think he was there?
I think it was from Divenport.

Speaker 17 (32:51):
No, No, I think he's a Dutch one. Came over
here and he decided to do that. It was quite eccentric,
he did it pretty much.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Are you Dutch? I am Dutchess Warner, New Plymouth of
nineteen thirty five of Shirley Waller and Morris Brookele family
moved to Auckland, staying at Meadow Back then sittling in Diveonport.

Speaker 17 (33:13):
Oh well, I stay correct.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah, I don't anything about them's Dutch. I mean, you
can have a lot of people thought was a Dutch one.

Speaker 17 (33:23):
Hey, can I can I bring up something very contentious?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Ever goes what a right?

Speaker 16 (33:34):
Now?

Speaker 17 (33:35):
We don't we know the DNA of the mount?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Oh no no, no, no, no no no no. Jeapess ight
away from nine. Hey, I've got ahead a lot of
texts from people asking me what's happening in Gore tonight.
So text came through at nineteen to nine said what's
going on in Gore tonight? And I just thought that
someone's been humorous. And then something else is what's going

(33:58):
on in Gore? My brothers say there are cops and
ambulances everywhere. And someone says Flight Trekker shows two helicopters
and Gore any news is there a big crash? That's
from Ben. Everyone's got information about what's happening in Gore. Now,
I don't know where i'd find that information actually, because
I tell you what, there's refew newsrooms down in the

(34:19):
South copy that eight hundred and eighty Taddy, if you
want to talk nine to nine two text, Thanks for
the heads up. Multiple evidences of helicopters are responding to
instant and Gore police are attending a report of a
firearm being discharged. Saint John has Confumederis dispatched ambulances and

(34:40):
helicopters to the scene. Multiple ambulances and helicopters are responding
to an instant in Gore. Now there's reports, Dan, can
you get a flight tracker? So, yeah, that looks like
that could be quite serious. Now I'm just looking at

(35:04):
seeing if any of the local news facebook pages have
got anything, and they haven't. I'll just look at there's
a local Gore Facebook page and that's not a good
That's not a good town to type in. So are

(35:29):
there any reporters down here I can get in touch with.
I'll go to the gaur community noticeboard. No, that's yeah.
If anyone has got information, let us know. Well, I
guess you gotta be careful at this time if something's
if it's a breaking news story, to make sure it's
actually correct too. But if anyone has got any more information,
techs that through or email me or call me. Yeah,

(35:54):
if you have got any more information about that, I'll
just do a quick search on X to see if
anyone's reporting anything. But yes, as I say, I've got
no more information. There nothing on flot Someone said there's
a couple of helicopters there on flight radar that are
circling or gone. There is it. Does helicopters come up

(36:16):
on your flight rad I'm talking to Dan by the way,
if they've landed, they don't show up. Yeah, okay, so
I'm not seeing anything online yet, but I will do
what I can to any more information to you. So
if those are just Jordan, there's apparently a what's hard
to know what it is, but apparently that since Sint

(36:36):
John Ambulance has say has said that they have the
multiple ambulances and helicopters are responding withs and Gore Police
are attending a report of a firearm being discharged in Gore.
Sint John has confirmed it's depatched at dispatched ambulances and
helicopters to the scene. Now, of course police won't confirm stuff,
but Sir John is the way that they find out

(36:57):
what's happening there, So that sounds like it is fairly serious.
Greetings and welcome. My name's Marcus said, I'm with you
till twelve o'clock tonight. Yeah, how's it all going? People
funny old night. It had been a Wednesday, but my
second last night. We have the quiz tomorrow night. A
couple of things are going on too. There seems to
be a situation, a firearm instant that's unfolding in Gore

(37:20):
that's involved multiple ambulances and helicopters, that's plural. If anyone's
got the information about that, text us through and when
I'm in information on information, it's just another news sites.
If anyone's got the information, if they are in Gore
and know what's happening. If anyone's in Gore could bring
us and now to know where the sirens and what
way they're heading and what's happening there, that would be appreciated, appreciated.

(37:44):
Our newsroom has said the police are working on a
statement they are about to release. So I will bring
that to you. Is how will that happen? Dan, that'll
come to you? Will will that be? They'll send it
to you or they'll tell you, okay, so that'll happen.
When that happens. The other thing, and I don't want

(38:06):
to be to law and ordery, but sometimes you've got
to do what you've got to do.

Speaker 18 (38:08):
And that.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Just the sence of that news bulletin of Nina's talking
about the Jevon mc skimming sentence, in which I think
anyone feels particularly happy about. They did say that one
of the mitigating factors in him getting home detention was
that about the ability for him to be tained in
a prison with him and a policeman. I was always
under of the understanding, and some of you might know

(38:36):
more information about this that are involved in law enforcement
or in the penal system. I always thought that there
was a specific prison in fuang A Nui that was
a present for people that were cops and traffic officers
and whatever that had gone rogue. I thought there was
a specific present for those people that couldn't be that

(38:58):
were a law enforcement people have that was certainly with
a report so in years gone by that those people
were sent there. Maybe that's a place that no longer exists. Anyway,
is a bit happening out there tonight, And of course
we've got Christmas preparations and things to get ready for also,
so but going on tonight, I will do my best
to bring you the information I can. But yes, there's

(39:21):
very little report so far about the situations happening in
Gore was just alerted to me by someone that says
there's a couple of helicopters there and ambulances if you
are there, and heavy information not just from the new
We've got all the news stories. Do get in touch.
Who Marcus, you asked us how many cruise ships last

(39:45):
week there were in the world? Well, how many aircraft
are in the air at any one time? I think
it's two million? Is that right? I heard it was
two million. Does that seem too many? It seems about right,
doesn't it. Anyway, you might have some information about that
as well. That's an interesting question. How many aircraft in
the air at any one time to me? And sounds

(40:07):
like a lot. But I'm sure I've read that. Another
person texts Marcus, I'm puzzled why no female composers in
the area of Beethoven, Mozart, Hayden and Handle. Am I
missing something? They probably had the spare time. They probably
had other chores to do, I would imagine. I think

(40:30):
the Bronte sisters were lucky to get the chance to write.
But yeah, it's probably an interesting question. I guess if
what you're thinking is that the cream always rises, that
some musical savants would have got the attention and the
wherewithal on the backing to become composers. It's a good question.
Don't know the answer to that. Dial if you want to, oh,

(40:51):
eight hundred and eighty today eighty nine to nine to
detext Hittle, twelve o'clock tonight. I'm waiting for that police
report about what is happening in Gore. I'll bring you
those pattern Okay, we've just got that. That's just come through. Okay,
and that does not appear to be as serious as
you could imagine. Well, let's look at this. Police received

(41:15):
a report of a firearm being discharged in Gorgeous before
eight pm. Two people are reported to have injuries which
are not believed to be life threatening. There is a
cordon in place near Upper Ema Street. Police are an
attendance in making inquiries to determine the circumstance rounding this incident.

(41:39):
Members of the public are asked to avoid the area.
Police do not believe there is any risk to other
members of the community. So there you go. That's a
situation there, and that's heartening that that's come through. So soon.
There we go. That is that So whether the police,
whether the helicopters were bringing defenders or whether they are

(42:01):
taking injuries away. It's hard to tell from that. There
might be more information. I'll bring that to you. So
that's that one covered off now, Oh helicopter and roote
to dened and from Gore Hospital. Thank you for that
information about that also, So there we go. Another email.

(42:24):
Another text says Marcus, I think just as theft as
a servant is a greater crime than normal theft, shouldn't
criminal behavior of a law enforcement officer be a greater crime?
I would say so, Marcus, good evening. Read the sentencing
of Jevon mc skimming. It seems that some of our
current judges have been recruited from Briscoes and applying the
discount system as the way to go. How do you

(42:44):
apply discount remorse only after your court doesn't really add up? Surely,
if you hid what you were doing, remorse is far
from your mind. Home detention, if your living conditions are
reason doesn't see much of a punishment. You can get
everything delivered now. Oh well, love your show with it.
I hope you and your family have a happy and
healthy Christmas. Chair Sue. Yes, the thing was surprising for

(43:08):
me was I heard that in the news Bulloet at
nine o'clock that one of the mitigating factors was that
he would not be treated well in present or something
to that effect. And I always thought there was a
separate prison there. There was a wing of a prison
for all law enforcement people, as they should be, because
people that work in law enforcement need to know that

(43:28):
if they come at crimes, that they will be treated
like anyone else, and that a prison sentence is a possibility.
That seems crazy to me. Oh and someone says about
the planes in the air, that's right, it's two million passengers,
not two million planes. I believe the answer is approximately
twenty thousand aircraft in the air at any one time,

(43:48):
carrying two million passengers. So there we go. Just to
back up to that announcement. Through all the press release
from the police is through a police received report of
a firearm being discharged and gorgeous before eight pm. Two
people are injured who are believed to be not believed
to be life threatening. Cordenon placed their upper Ema street.

(44:11):
Police aren't intendants are making inquiries to determine the circumstances.
Members of the public are asked to avoid the area.
That's the latest information through there. Now I can't see
where Upper Ema Street is. It looks to me like
there is an Upper Ema Street and Gore. That surprises

(44:31):
me that that's the name of the street because the
Upper Oh, yes, there we go. It's just on the
way into town, just past the race course. It appears
to be an industrial area. There aren't any houses on
that street, so I don't know what the circumstances are there,

(44:55):
but that's the industrial area just behind the Allied Petroleum
gas station there and Crumpies garage. So there we go.
That's the latest I've got for you. Sixteen past e
sixteen past nine o'clock, Marcus. I can't say much about
musicians in Beethoven's day, but if you look at YouTube

(45:16):
videos of symphony orchestras in the nineteen sixties, there are
pretty much one hundred percent middle aged guys. It's a
social issue. We've come a long way since then. So
there you go. Welcome to show. You've got to be
a part of it, Marcus. Till twelve oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty, someone's an iHeart listening complaining about
the repetition of the commercials I don't know the answer that.

(45:40):
I don't know. Maybe you should just listen to it
in the real time on the raid to get yourself
a transistor. I don't know. I don't know that. I
don't know the situation. Whether I'm not really cross iet.
I never use it. That's probably a bad thing. So
I'm not a consumer now. And what someone sent me

(46:03):
an email for anyway? Okay, Karen, you've said an email.
I can't see what you're referring to. I can't see
someone with a knife hanging out of their bag, but
it's just me. I looked at the phone and large it,
so I can't see what that is. Nine seventeen here
till twelve, Leslie, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 15 (46:26):
Hello, It's I'm just replying to one of the questions
you asked a few minutes ago. Last year, I went
to the movie called Mozart's Sister and it was a
brilliant movie. And she was actually about eight years older
than Mozart, but she was not allowed. Women were not
allowed to perform in public in those days. And evidently

(46:50):
there's an organization in England that goes through these old
musical pieces and they came across work she had written,
and she said it. They said it was about eight
years ahead of Mozart, but no one ever played her music.
And that's why I probably try Skowski and all those guys.
There were no women competing at that time. But if

(47:11):
you could ever any interesting music could get hold of it.
It is a brilliant movie. It's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Pardon it sounds fascinating, It was brilliant.

Speaker 15 (47:20):
I just went because I thought I'd time. I'm old
enough to start liking classical music. I better go to
the movies and learn something. And Mozart had all the
money and she lived quite poor. Then then she married
someone where's wealthy, and then he died and she had
absolutely nothing and she just lived like a porpa and

(47:41):
a beautiful part of Europe that was absolutely gorgeous. But
I would recommend that, recommend that for anybody. It's called
Mozart's sister.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
So have they found some of her sheep music that
she composed.

Speaker 15 (47:54):
Yes, no, it's it's yes, And it's the club that
it's the club in England that actually spends their time
going through all these old music of the past. And
that's so someone got hold of that sort of museum
too into a wonderful film.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
How fascinating because I would have mentioned in those days,
the wealthy women would have been allowed to play on
their own, you know that they would have maybe not perform,
but music past time for the land of gentry, wasn't it.

Speaker 15 (48:21):
Oh yeah? And of course they and of course they
played for public for money because Mozart was. Absolutely They're
all brilliant in their own way. But I've never been
keen on classical music. But I decided it's time I
actually did something new and stopped being so bored with
my elderly years. And I bet to learn something and
enriven up and it might change my middle age.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
But I think, Okay, Leslie, yes, what decade were you born?

Speaker 15 (48:51):
I was born a year after World War Two finished.
I turned eighteen next week, No, sorry, eighteen next month.

Speaker 19 (49:00):
I probably shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
I probably shouldn't say this, But if you just have
classical music, if you just have concert program on in
your house, you do, you do develop quite a liking,
a liking for it, but you become familiar with the
different styles and it becomes enjoyable. I'm sure it's plasticity.

Speaker 15 (49:18):
My mother loved ballet and we used to go up
to Auckland and watch the valet all the time. And
I learned to love Swan Lake because she played the
records in our living room. Now, funnily enough, my niece
from Canada, my sister's sorry, my sister's children. One of
them is a ballet dancer. She became a principal dancer
in Canada. And now I know all that music off

(49:38):
my heart and I just love it. And I wish
I could buy some tapes and listen to all the
old Once I heard the tune, I love it because
it was very clever.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
And on concert radio from time to time, that's always
a good listener. I know, how do we pay for it?

Speaker 15 (49:53):
And where and where do I get the program from
the listener?

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Again, just have it on the whole time. It's more
just PLU mean, once in a while there's like contemporary
shows on a Tuesday night, but it's pretty your standard.

Speaker 15 (50:05):
Oh good old No, I don't much.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
I don't want to tell you to tune out a
z'd be, but you know, sometimes it can get it.
But you know, it's always good to get a bit
of variety cheap, putting the hands lovely to hear from you, Leslie.
Now here's a text Marcus. For the last two nights
we had a whirring noise on a radio from your station.
Have you got a fan going or something? It's so annoying. Dan,

(50:31):
We've got a giant fan. No, we've got no fan.
It's nothing's changed. I don't think just something. It must
be interference or I don't think there's any fan. It's
not Jan Janner the giant fan.

Speaker 20 (50:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Now, if you want to be in touch, would be
good to hear from you. Eight hundred and eighty to
Teddy and nine nine two ticks. You want to come through?
Anything goes here til twelve o'clock tonight.

Speaker 19 (51:05):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
There seems to be a police instant in Gore, but
it seems to be one that they are not looking
for anyone else. That seems to be a situation that
has that from There are multiple ambulances attending. Police are

(51:31):
attending a report of a firearm being discharged, but the
latest email about that says two people are reported to
have injuries. They are determined to be not believed to
be life threatening according to place Sorry not an apo
Eva Street near up at Ema Street. So police are

(51:52):
in attendance and making inquiries to determine the circumstances surrounding
this instant. Members of the public are asked to avoid
the area. Police do not believe there is any risk
to other members of the community. That's the latest there.
It's threety two past nine. It's twenty five past nine.
Roberts Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (52:14):
Yes, good evening, Hi Rob.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 20 (52:17):
I'm going back fifty odd years ago. Sure, when I
was nine years old.

Speaker 21 (52:26):
Yeah, we used to.

Speaker 20 (52:28):
I used to hear every Sunday morning was roaring noise
up the valley from home. So being a young kid,
the curiosity got the better of me. So I got
my pushbike and went up there, and I met this
guy by the name of mister Smith. He had a
mosquito bomber and a big shed at his place, and

(52:54):
so I got to sit in up with the engines running.
It's the most incredible thing I think I've ever seen.
And that eighty before means that just brought it all back.
And about three years ago I was watching TV and
I saw them throwing the old bomber out in a
really rough condition of it. It's quite sad to see that.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
So where was Rob? Where did you say you were
when you found this?

Speaker 20 (53:22):
Okay, Gardener's Valley by Mark Pua?

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Oh yeah, okay, that's right, Yeah, okay, yeah, okay, because
that was because because John, that was John Smith. That
was the basis for his collection. I think he gave
all that to my He gave that to that.

Speaker 20 (53:37):
Museum.

Speaker 21 (53:37):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 20 (53:39):
But when I got to see it, it was in
mink condition and it's an incredible sitting with the rolls
Royce Merlins just rumbling away.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
So what was his background? Was he just a collector
or is he one of those farmer's shed guys.

Speaker 20 (53:51):
Or what was he? I want too?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Sure?

Speaker 20 (53:53):
Of course he had a few other planes there as well,
and old Message one O nine, but I still had
a few parts needed for it. But it was just
incredible to see this thing then see it, you know,
fifty years later being towed out in rustled in condition.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
So he had an airstrip there. You'd need an air strip,
wouldn't you to get them there and to fly them.

Speaker 20 (54:13):
No, he didn't. This is up into a block of
pines and it's a big shed and he'd put it
together made out of it was all made out original plywood.
It's original bomber. So how he got that there is
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
And what's the bomber?

Speaker 20 (54:30):
Was it mosquito?

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Okay?

Speaker 20 (54:34):
Be twin engine rolls, Royce Merlin motors.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
I'm not really a play guy, but it's called a
the havel and Mosquito bomber.

Speaker 20 (54:43):
I think is that my best one?

Speaker 13 (54:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (54:45):
Okay, yep, which is really oh yeah, and for me
to get to sit in it with the motors running,
and he had it all painted up as well. It
was all like mint and he's just doing the me
on the front of him and got the machine gun
cannons and he's just realigning those on it. Yeah, it's

(55:06):
all done.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
They were made of ply is that right?

Speaker 20 (55:09):
Yeah? Ply woods? Yeah, they were a wooden bombers.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Why would that be?

Speaker 20 (55:17):
I know maybe it maybe more have been cheaper and.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Enough it was because there wasn't the materials in the war.
It made it lighter. But yeah, I'm pretty interested in that.

Speaker 20 (55:27):
Okay, Yes, I've we ever get down to blend among
and I want to go to that museum and an
arts if I can send them, because I'll tell them
the story. Maybe they'll let me sit in.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
The wooden wonder. Oh yeah, fastest operational aircraft in the world.

Speaker 20 (55:45):
Yeah, at the time.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Yeah, and it's pretty interesting once you once you dived
on into the nuts and bolts of aviation history because
it was the amount of development and uh progress they
made in quite a short time was kind of extraordinary. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (56:05):
And one thing and nothing I'd remember about it the
cages they had a like a for recent they're marking
different speeds, but pieces had a lot of florescent but
on them. And he explained to me about the bomber,
you know, like that, that.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
One is now in the museum at Blenham. That's right,
that's what you said while you're ringing about this.

Speaker 20 (56:26):
Yeah, it's in there now.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Yeah, okay, And so it doesn't fly anymore.

Speaker 20 (56:31):
No, no, it couldn't fly back then. You said, the
wings are a little war gone up, so it would
never be able to fly. But I have it sitting
in the shed in the mill of a pine forest.

Speaker 3 (56:41):
Pretty amazing. Nice to hear from your rob. Thanks very
much for that. Also talking about mosquitoes and wooden plains.
And that's the thing for me in a nutshell is
about museums. It's because you go to museums, and yeah,
all those planes will never fly again. And I know
the unreal realisticness of having planes that you can't fly well,

(57:05):
I mean you have you know, you've got to certify them.
Any pilots, you've got to get the hours up. So
it's kind of a it's a tough thing trying to
preserve herplanes because there's not m you can do with it.
Once they're static, they almost feel like the life's out
of them. That's just my take on that one. Twenty
away from ten Peters Marcus good.

Speaker 9 (57:25):
Evening the god name Marcus, You're mother swallow words on this.
But remember years ago you said that CDs are out,
they're gone? What's the later? What's the latest today? On
Met and Tyler show.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
You what?

Speaker 5 (57:41):
Sorry?

Speaker 9 (57:43):
What's the latest on the top of today of meton
Tyler's show This happening? What am I talking about?

Speaker 3 (57:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (57:51):
CDs are back in?

Speaker 3 (57:52):
Ah you whatever?

Speaker 9 (57:54):
No, for real, young ones are buying them again. So
I always see. I've got quite a few of them.
I putting overround five hundred thousand of them boxes and
that I always kept them.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Would they'll be back in I don't think anyone's eyeing them.

Speaker 9 (58:08):
No, do some research. They're backing. Young ones are buying.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
So I've got young ones in the diverboard.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
A C d.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Well Cates, other cassettes were bacon.

Speaker 9 (58:22):
Wow, that's all that's help. Vinyls that came back and
they've been there for a few years, and anybody there
or going to walk into the rubbish them dump and
getting the diggers there digging up the rubbish tip trying
to get there vinyls back to So see these are
backing apparently.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
But yeah, I think I think it was. It was
a dumb kind of a technique. Really, CDs they all
got scratched and kind of No if you looked up.

Speaker 9 (58:48):
If you put them in the cases are fine if
you some people they used to they used to just
chuck them on the floor in the car. They using
as like car mets. You know, they're not designed. They're
not carmets, are they.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
You know, Well, I'll go look for the articles anyway,
you're going all right there people.

Speaker 9 (59:06):
Met and Tyler showing you know, if you listen to
some of that. But they brought it up this afternoon. No,
no quite, uh, they were they were real. They weren't
making it up was the true. What they're saying was true.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
So yeah, I think the article doesn't really say much
about it. Purchases increased eight.

Speaker 9 (59:28):
It's just a normal you'll put a bit like that.
Like the vinyls. They were slowly put them a while
to tick off to kick off as well. No, they're
back in big time.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
But your CDs wouldn't be any good. Would they would
be all you would be? Uh, I'm just trying to
think you'd have.

Speaker 9 (59:52):
I've got all sorts and a bit of rock and roll,
and that's in the heavy metal and stuff. I just
like all sorts of music. And they like the cars
and the A C D C for their bony end.
But they have all that sort of stuff. You know,
I got along all those. See still I still got
a CD thing. I'm okay, you can't be the good
old CD. You took the CD in there and.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
See these CDs are great and cars. I agree with you.

Speaker 9 (01:00:17):
You go to places like Mount Messing, it is there's
no receptions. There not a place in New Zealand. There
is no reception. But if you've got the old CDs,
I reckon it's the worst thing they've done by taking
the CD players out of cars, so they never know
that the CDs and cars might be back.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
And again, when's the when's the mount missing your opening?

Speaker 9 (01:00:40):
I think that's another year or so, two years, that's
still quite away before it actually opens. Marcus. I think
it's still quite a you know getting here there. And
he just got through the through the through the through
the whole there about two months ago, whatever it was.
But it's going to be at least i'd say at
least two years or maybe three before you actually driving

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through there. It's a big, big, big project.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
The less of project big.

Speaker 9 (01:01:07):
Yeah, you got all that same much different sort of
you know figuration, you got swamps, you got diggerlot tunnel.
You can see why things cost so much to build
roadways and stuff in New Zealand. You can't compe of Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
I can't believe they managed to build those railways in
the eighteen nineties.

Speaker 9 (01:01:25):
It's amazing what people did in the old days that
you think of those old tunnels they made, not going
through Wellington and.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
That man unbelievable with pick and shovel and Wheelbury with
a wooden wheel.

Speaker 9 (01:01:37):
I don't know what their life the hell, how long
those people lived for. But men, I don't know what
their life expectancy was, and they when alone, they lived
for those people they worked in those forty fifty years
of age. I pretty worked themselves.

Speaker 8 (01:01:49):
Or they're.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
If you're working with a pick and shovel, your retirement
it's not great because you ate the whole time, don't you.

Speaker 9 (01:01:57):
Ah, definitely, and that's bad enough. Now builders they don't
last long. I've just normal wear and tear of your
shoulders and your wrists and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
It's a lot better.

Speaker 9 (01:02:05):
But I don't know, You're got to take your head
off to those people that build all that indrastructure. I
don't know, hell the hell you're gonna mine.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
They build an infrastructure and the government flogs it all off,
like with the rail had to buy it back. But
it's not good, is it? And the dams and the
power companies.

Speaker 9 (01:02:26):
The I'm all for of getting sort of railway again.
All the logs that are getting carded around the country,
not bugging your roads up. Those log trucks.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
They well, I just look at the Bluff Road, which
is thirty k's from you from inver Cargo to Bluff
and it's swampy land. But there is a railway there,
but there are so many trucks on that road, logs
to the port, milk tankers to the dairy company, and
they are just spending so much money on that road.
It's been repaired the whole time. Just don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:02:57):
It's all on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
It's all on swamp below it all. So it's not
it's not on. It's not good. It's it's it's not
a good place to put roads. They just get wrecked.

Speaker 9 (01:03:07):
Yeah, but they needn't made the foundations marks. They know
the people right fen, I just put layer over layer
over there. They're going to get back. They're going to
get back to the dig and the meter in the
ground and get back to the solids again.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
You know, well, I don't even there are any solids
in that where it's been swamped to just be all
sand down for.

Speaker 9 (01:03:23):
Miles, just ongoing fixing that. It's endless pit of money
going down there. You're just you must just roll it
a roll and just keep on rolling. Hundreds of dollars
of notes every day, but pretty much what you're doing, you're.

Speaker 19 (01:03:37):
On to it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Pete, Thanks for that twenty two to ten. You might
always was always like a sentence says you may as
well get in touch. You want to be part of
an eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine
to the text hit'll twelve. Here's the text that sums
it all up. You can get three CDs from the
op shop for a dollar. They are worthless you. Once
in a while, I've been traveling out to buy a

(01:03:58):
higher a car from one of those old hire companies
like Riverside Rentals or something like that. We just got
the Yeah, just go a op shop. You buy endless
in the CDs for no money. No one wants them.
No one wants them. Marcus. What date are you back
on the radio next year?

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Thank you be sometime twenty away from ten nineteen away
from ten good evening, Ben, This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:04:28):
You know, Marcus, I was talking about the rubbish.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
You know.

Speaker 21 (01:04:33):
Young guys don't want see this, Marcus. You don't piny
shoot for the off shore.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
You just downloads.

Speaker 21 (01:04:40):
Young people just down on Spotify and Marcus teen bucks
fifty a month. You can download your music. You don't
even need reception on your phone to play the songs.
So I'm sorry, it's not why iverything come back.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
No, I don't think so, were you that? Okay, appreciate that, Ben,
Thank you, Richard. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:04:58):
Yeah, hi Marcus. You were asking about why they made
those mosquito planes out of.

Speaker 13 (01:05:05):
Plywood.

Speaker 10 (01:05:06):
Yes, it was basically to preserve the aluminium for other
planes that you know, Spitfires and other ones that used
aluminium that were specially designed to be lightweight but very fast.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Okay, so there were some planes required aluminium, is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:05:28):
Well, that was just sort of way that I normally made.
This one was especially made to be both lightweight and
not use up valuable aluminium resources. But it was very
fast in its early days. It did beat the Spitfire
with three hundred and eighty miles per hour against the
SplitFire three hundred and sixty two.

Speaker 13 (01:05:48):
The early models and their.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Role was just deliver bombs, is that right?

Speaker 10 (01:05:54):
Yeah, Well there were a light bomber, but being so fast,
they could go quite low over you know, factories and
valuable targets and get away so quick. They couldn't normally
catch them, you see, without having any cover, like a
big slow Lancaster bar had to have fighters to give
them cover, you know, But the Mosquito could just go

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in and out, but it was useful lots of other things,
you know, reconnaissance and taking advantage of a speed. So oh,
one more thing that had two rolls was B twelve Merlins,
whereas the spit fighters had one.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
How many crew.

Speaker 10 (01:06:33):
Two?

Speaker 16 (01:06:33):
I think?

Speaker 10 (01:06:34):
Yeah, just a partner navigator. My dad was a part
and one of them, so that was why I know
it about them.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
So he was in the British Air Force.

Speaker 10 (01:06:45):
Yeah, but he went from the in the AREF, but
from the brownising on their force. Okay, but have you
heard of buzz bombs well V one and V two rockets. Yeah, well,
well that'd go over some would guided and some just
round a fuel and drop their dropped over England. But
they had these sort of ramps and they had these

(01:07:05):
launchings lights in France and my dad was asked to
bloup some of those, which is probably a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:07:13):
Did he survived the war?

Speaker 10 (01:07:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, I just died a few years ago.
Well no, sorry, about twenty years ago. He'd be bit
one hundred and ten by now.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
Otherwise was he involved in aviation after that?

Speaker 14 (01:07:25):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:07:25):
Not what's over which is funny, but he just happened
to get into the Air Force because he couldn't get
in the army something wrong with his feet, and they
reckon he couldn't march in. Never any problem with him,
but nevertheless they said, oh, you can't go in the army,
save up the air force. But I think he improved
his chance of survival that way.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
So did the Mosquitos have quite a good record?

Speaker 10 (01:07:46):
Oh yeah, In fact, I think there you always people
hear about the split fire, so famous and the dog
fights and that, but the sorry, the yeah, SplitFire. But
the Mosquito probably did more to win the war. You know,
they just used for everything bombing, reconnaissance and lots of
other things and everything else at the time. Last technol
I was your dad radar on board.

Speaker 13 (01:08:09):
So that was interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Playing great cool Richard, Thank you so very much for that.
Fund that very interesting. I think I might be going
look at that. Be in touch if you want to be.
My name is Marcus Hidle twelve, eight hundred and eighty
to eighty fifteen to ten thirteen away from ten. Hello, Russell,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:08:30):
Hey you know Martius, can you hear me?

Speaker 22 (01:08:32):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
You're loud and clear, Thank you, Russell.

Speaker 16 (01:08:34):
Thank you. Hey, just talking about the Mosquido for us
the Heaven and had a real struggle getting the playing
into production. But during that period of war when medals
were short and he'd come up with the idea making
him out of plywood, it's absolute ty. Can outrun a

(01:08:57):
fok wharf on ninety No thanks? And yeah, they're incredibly
hard to shoot down because the bullets just went straight through.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
H Ah, what a good point. So if you shot,
if you shot aluminium plane, would tell me what the
difference is.

Speaker 16 (01:09:17):
Well, normally they fired alminium planes hit a lot more
structure tourn so they were easy to shoot down. Yeah,
but the bullets you go straight through the mosquito and
they come to the other side, they used to turn
up riddled and they could still keep flying. How did

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they might have been the difference?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Do you know how many? They made?

Speaker 16 (01:09:46):
A few hundreds, maybe a thousand over the period of
the war. It made them be quick because what they
do was all the furniture makers, those people that well,
they weren't doing anything, so they use.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
You get carpenters and furniture makers, woods, cra woodcraft does.

Speaker 16 (01:10:08):
Yeah, that's exactly what they did, and they turned them
out pretty quickly and put those rules. Ros Merlin indued
them and they were are incredibly quick. Like I say,
they could out run a whole one night, so they
were quick.

Speaker 11 (01:10:25):
Bay.

Speaker 16 (01:10:28):
Oh just one other thing. Back in the seventies when
I was a kid at Motach the Lancaster bomber there.
I don't know whether anybody else is, but he heard it,
but they started all four Indians up on the aircraft.

Speaker 3 (01:10:47):
I remember seeing that, but not when it was running,
not when they had them going.

Speaker 16 (01:10:51):
Yeah, they was back in the seventies. I don't know
whether they're either done in the gear or not, but
it was impressive.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
Appreciate that, Russell. Thank you for coming through a night
away from ten o'clock until twelve. For the latest on
that situation in Gore, I've just got an article here
from the ODT. They might have had a reporter there.
I'll just give you that information.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
If I can.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Two people have been herelifted to hospital following the firearms
since and Gore this evening. Please said they received a
report of firearms being discharged just before eight pm. Two
people are reported to have injuries which are not believed
to be life threatening. Hart Horney St. John spokesman said
two people have been helifted to the hospital, one in
a serious condition, the other in a modern condition. Please

(01:11:36):
said there was a cordon and placed near up at
Ema Street. They were making inquiries in the instant. They
did not believe there was any risk to the public,
but people were asked to avoid the area. You know
target any Times reported the scenes said attention appeared to
be focused on a unit on a rare section and
up at Ema Street. Two ambulance and one police remained
on the scene. An armed officer had also been seen

(01:11:58):
standing guard on the driveway. Saint John spokes when you
said three ambulances to operation manager and two helicopter responded.
The neighbors said there was always things going on and
the properly in the small block of rental units. I
don't know if the crackheads or something. He said. Police
were always in and out, and there had been a
three emitst of a couple of weeks ago involving police.

(01:12:18):
Another neighbor told the Otago Daddy Times they heard no
sirens this evening. It was only when a police officer
knocked on the door they noticed anything had happened. So
latest there six from ten Hello Davey Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:12:35):
Oh good Marcus. I just know a little bit about
the Lancaster bomber at the Motet. I was spoke to
you last night about Jenny. Jenny Bngbing, My same employer
was involved with the Lancaster at Motet.

Speaker 15 (01:13:00):
It was.

Speaker 23 (01:13:02):
Gifted to New Zealand or on rather from the French government,
so it's French owned Lancaster bomber that that flew in.
And the deal was that it was on loan to
New Zealand as long as we looked after it and

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uh and and then it could fly out again it
one day.

Speaker 21 (01:13:26):
But of course it's it's.

Speaker 23 (01:13:30):
Your previous quarter that it mentioned that all they got
all four engines running was quite correct. It was on
the basis that there was no one else in the
world that could maintain the engine. That's why it was
on loan to New Zealand because we had all the
expertise here.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
To to.

Speaker 23 (01:13:53):
Maintain it and get it and running. But it's subsequently
it was on display and and and then that the
funds ran out to maintain it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:08):
So it's.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Is there any point in maintaining a plane like that
when it's not at an That's the thing that I
mean that's the thing that I find said about museums
that you know, if a plane, if a plane can't fly,
is it even a plane?

Speaker 23 (01:14:23):
Well, you're quite right, and I feel the same way
as you in that statement.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
I have I struggle with vehicle museums. Will it be
trains or trains, planes or cars, because it's just a
It's a graveyard for them, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (01:14:43):
I share that sentiment. There are some museums around the
world where there are flying museums. Australia has got the
best of them all where you see them on static
display but they are actively flying. If that, oh well,

(01:15:08):
Perth has got a fantastic a static airport museum where
all the aircraft that you can see as we can
walk through, sit and and and and see them as

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they were in the day. But they are all operational
and there are several All the Australians know how to
do aviation museums far better than we do because of
exactly what you've just said. It's a crime to see
them sitting there not capable of doing what they were

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designed to do.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
And yeah, yeah, I'm great seven cheese, but because they
always trying to find all yeah, if you're gonna risk Yeah, anyway,
Oh that's interesting, Davey. I appreciate that. Probably a good story,
good book were written about that plane, that Lancaster here
until twelve, Good evening and welcome. The number is eight
hundred and eighty todaighty text if you want to or

(01:16:19):
email or call. All of them are good for me
at this time of the night. Marcus have a very
soft spot for the Mosquito. Is heavily involved with the
relocation and restoration of Mosquito fighter bomber from Marpoo to
Blenhem in twenty twenty. And there's a picture of it
even made to seven sharp. So that was the one

(01:16:39):
that that man was talking about earlier, that guy Psmith
John Smith might be, that's not his first name, but
the guy had and Marpa and his shed. I don't
know the history of it. Maybe someone can tell us
about that, how it came to New Zealand, the mighty
marpoor Mozzy. So do get touched. You on to talk
hit til twelve o'clock tonight. Anything else, it's what we're
about tonight. We are talking plane. So that's a good thing.

(01:17:02):
It's a good start. Marcus wring to Google a total
of seven seven hundred and eighty one to Haveland mosquitoes
were built made in UK, Canada and Australia. My paternal
grandfather worked for Hawker Sydney during World War Two and
helped design the Tempest and Sea Fury, the last of
the great piston engine fighters. Amazing, Marcus. I'm on the

(01:17:27):
motorway near dur near Drury, Auckland Motorway, then Motorway Auckland Motorway.
I'm on the Auckland Motorway near Drury. There's about twelve
police cars going a hell of a hurry heading south.
Don't know what's happening. We're on it people. Thanks for
the heads up, Thanks for the heads up. Yeah, good
to hear from. If you want to call, oh eight
hundred you know the rest. Hello, Errol, it's Marcus. Welcome here.

Speaker 13 (01:17:50):
You're talking about planes, yesda, one hundred, one hundred years
since Captain Jeffrey D. Haland introduced his first Immortal Moth biplane,
a two seater for weekend flyers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Was today. That was the year.

Speaker 13 (01:18:09):
That's yeah, yeah, this year.

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
Tell me about to tell me about the tell me
about the Heaveland.

Speaker 13 (01:18:17):
Captain Jeffrey D. Heaveland introduced.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
Tell me about tell me about him. He was just
he was an aviator or an engineer.

Speaker 20 (01:18:26):
Well, he was a.

Speaker 13 (01:18:27):
Captain of that must have been a fire or something. Yeah, okay, engineer.
And they sold for seven hundred and ninety five pounds
at the time.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:18:39):
And they were they were they were quite easily produced
on jigs, so they made them quite simple.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
It's pretty amazing that one hundred years ago. Yeah, okay,
I appreciate that. Oh, that's good information here.

Speaker 13 (01:18:58):
So that's where the name the Heaveln comes from. Captain
Jeffrey D. Heavelyn brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
I'm reading about him now, but thank you for that.
Son of a reverend. After graduating from engineering training, pursuitic
career in automotive engineering, building cars and motorbikes, and then
worked for the Wolseley Company. He married a nineteen oh
nineer on almost a bit, embarked on a career in designing, building,
and flying aircraft, which he devoted the rest of his life.

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Built with money brown from his maternal grandfather, De Hevlin's
first aircraft took two years to complete, cush during its
first test flight, he built a fresh biplane, making his
first flight from a meadow in Newbury in nineteen ten.
A plaque marks the event. Nineteen twelve established a new
British altitude altitude records three and a half thousand meters,

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and on and on it goes. It's a good story.
So he was right in there at the beginning. Funnily enough,
we are talking about flight because today is the day
that the rights first flew nineteen oh three. Fun right,
good evening, Laurie, This is Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:20:10):
Welcome, yeah, Hidy Marcus. Yeah, they're a market display. Well,
the whole set up down there. And then talking about
the there's two separate sort of aircraft museums, one with
the old tiger moths and and then there's the it's
divided into the Second World War aircraft as well, which

(01:20:35):
with the mosquito is but there is actually usually a
couple of other, uh, you know, warplanes or war goods
doing flights at the same time, you know, simply either
Harvard or DC three or.

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
You go on them for money. Is that the right works?

Speaker 19 (01:20:56):
Yeah, yeah, you can do.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:20:59):
But in the other little hangars attached to there's guy's
working away on all sorts of projects, aircraft restoring, aircraft
to fly, but it's with the Mosquito had a special
places I think, you know it was the pathfinders was
one of the main uses they had for it was

(01:21:22):
they used to go in ahead of the bombers sometimes
and drop players to illuminate the targets, and then they
would come in afterwards taking photographs basically as well. It's
swooping pretty fast, but in that display, the I mean
one of the one that's most memorable or the planes
that I find from going back. You think of stories

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during World War Two, there's a Stuka dive bomber just
alongside the Mosquito, and that would had a terrifying reputation.
You know, it formed part of the Bitz Creek when
they were invading Poland, and I think when it was
in a dive, it made this high pitched screen and

(01:22:06):
I think you can put some headphones on there there
in the museum and listen to it, and you know,
like the early troops and or even the civilians when
they were bombing, you know, once you heard this this
thing coming virtually straight down with a hell of a
scream and then dropping its bombs, that was sort of
had a great psychological impact as well as the damages
that you're damaged today, just like real vultures, and that's

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a Yunker's uncus eighty eight they were I think that
one down there is an eighty seven, but anyway, I'll
give you an idea. But the other thing in that display,
there's an order of visual It's one of the most
profound things I remember from going through it. It's called
the Stalingrad Experience, and you go in this close off

(01:22:55):
area I think it's about around about ten minutes and
it simulates as if you were in the ruins of
Stalingrad during the sea and with the artillery bombing and
going on, all the deaths that I think obviously the

(01:23:15):
Peter Jackson's had some influence on putting that all together,
and it gives really gives it impresion of being under attack.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
And yeah, I don't think i'd want to do that.

Speaker 19 (01:23:30):
But then after that, when that play is finished, there's
another audio sort of visual thing, and the whole they
ride light up the roof with it's almost like stars,
and I think each they say represents maybe ten thousand people,
and then they'll say different countries how many each that

(01:23:51):
how many people died in each country and I think
you know, and you'll see it light up and I
think you know, in Britain, I think there was you know,
pretty close to four hundred thousand. So they put those
on the flash and you get some effect, and they
go through different countries. The last one they get to

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is Russia, and the lights just keep going on and off,
on and off, on and off up to well equipment
twenty seven million. Yeah, and it's quite a sobering experience actually,
you know, after you've gone through all all the other
stuff that's in there. But it's it's it's, uh, it's

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a wonderful little museum. Yeah that I don't know, you know,
how you your young uns would sort of handle that
sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
That'd be fine. They're they're all there, ten and twelve now,
they fine, they're fine about it. Just yeah, but a
hot summer's day, it's kind of what they want to do.
But we'll see how it works.

Speaker 19 (01:24:55):
Out for Yeah, there's a whole range. I mean they've
got all there's a set up bomb shelters and other
displays there as well. Yeah, it's it's it's it's they
must do. And if you're down there, a couple of days.
A couple of days down there, we were doing a
photography off the strip there, so we sort of had

(01:25:15):
a bit of time to come and come and go. Yeah,
but yeah, no, you enjoy it anyway. But yeah, that
stucor is a scary thing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Yeah, yeah, appreciate that, Laurie, thanks so much for that.
Hold your horse is Richard with you? So in seventeen
past ten, nineteen past ten, Hello, Richard, it's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Welcome, good Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Thank you Richard good.

Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
I was lucky enough to go and see John Smith
at one stage. She is at the mark of a
valley and he apparently there's a few stories about him
and the aircraft and so on, and he used to
roll the split for her out of them out of

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the shed and start up one motor and run some
ab gear through it. Every month he run a couple
of months, you know, and do one motor each side
sort of thing, alternate times. And so you know, you
had this sound apparently in the valley, which everyone knew
what was happening. But he had this house which he

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drove up the drive and he had grass up to
the windows and the curtains were all a bit catty
and everything else. And then my uncle took me to
see him because he was a member of the New
Zealand Air Force and him and John Smith had a
reasonable acquaintance, and so he took me to see him,

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and we took him some bread and you know, stuff,
just visiting calling cars that were and he had this
big shed and outside were Hudson by My engines and
inside the shed was the it was not the split
for other mosquito, I should say, and quite assemblage of

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other aircraft. And I managed to get up and climb
inside the mosquito and everything was there apart from I
think the radio was missing or something I can't I
can't quite remember, but it had this pervading smell of
of old leather in it. And I sort of sat

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at the control with, oh, yeah, this is pretty awesom really,
because not many people would get to do this.

Speaker 16 (01:27:39):
And so.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
He had to climb over things and through things and
under and to get up this up into the measurement,
through the split, through the mosquito, and you know, it
was up aladder to get into it. And as I said,
there was all this torturous path he had to go
through because he had so many things all stuffed in
the shed, and it's quite a big shed. And I

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believe that he had Tiger Moth and its original packing
case in the corner, and I think it was a
P fifty one there, and you know a couple of
other aircraft. Because you know, each of those aircraft takes
up quite a bit of space. You can imagine how
big the shed itself was, you know. And anyway, a

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couple of stories with one my uncle had said to
me that he had had an American heard off to
buy the aircraft off him quite a few years earlier,
and it offered him ten million. That was the story.
I'm not sure one hundred percent, But he then later

(01:28:48):
on recanted this story, and someone said, well, you know,
why didn't you Why did you sell it? You know,
you could have been well off, you could have been well,
you know, I don't really need the money, and I
you know, why would people come and see me? You know,
there's no reason for them to come and see me anymore.
So you like to recan and and go through all
the stories of of what he had done, what he

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had done, and apparently he had bought that off. The
New Zealand Air Force and we had put in his
bid to buy it. He went down there to get
the aircraft and apparently I don't know, not hunbercentualy but
that this is true or not, but just a story.

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The RSM whoever it was, said, I that's your one
over there, but he knew it was another one which
was more complete, and so he had over the years
brought components to recomplete the aircraft, you know. And so yeah,
I say, I said, I was just lucky enough to

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be able to go in there. And I went saw
him another time, and yeah, it was a nice fellow.
Was apparently a bit surly, but I didn't struck that.
And because my uncle him, he was he was quite
a brilliant and quite happy and could like to see him.
So that's pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
Was he a farmer? Is that what he was doing there?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Look, I really couldn't tell you, to be honest, because
all I got to see was the house and drive
up the drive, and it was a little bit of
a hill to get up off the main road that
goes up in the valley, and then you drive up
to his house and go around the back and here's
a shed sitting there and my uncle just taught me
along to see this aircraft. So that's what we were

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focused on.

Speaker 21 (01:30:42):
And and.

Speaker 4 (01:30:44):
You know, he used to go up to Criterions stay
there quite regularly, and he would each each year he
go there, he'd go and see John Smith. So I
always wondered if it was not his real name, but
apparently it was. Yeah, And it's.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
People like that that we can be happy for that
we've got those, you know, those obsessive collectors. It sounds
like pretty focused on that this is the pre Internet age,
that it would require a lot of tenacity to get
all those parts correct exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:31:17):
He like, you know, I talked to some people who
are doing some restoration and they said, well, you know,
without these guys, you wouldn't have these aircraft. You had
bits and pieces, and but you know he had he
had relatively well looked after it, you know, and given
its air frame and everything else, and unable to fly
really because they grew on. The boss would let's go

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and all that sort of stuff. And there's there's a
couple of them. I still think I have been fully reconditioned.
But that one, yeah, I hadn't heard where it had
gone to for a long time. I just didn't get
to go over there to see him, and so on
started talking to some people and I had we passed away. Well,

(01:32:01):
they got off and went and renewed its lease on life. Okay,
really interesting, This pervading smell of old leather that was
in there, and it was just there was just iconic moment.

Speaker 13 (01:32:16):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
I every fortunate to be there, Richard. Thank you for
telling us that someone maybe and just they could text
through and just call me and tell me how many
how many mosquitoes New Zealand had, and did they fly
them in World War Two? Did they get them after
World War Two? At the end of that. I don't
really know too much about that. I guess there was
no point having Mosquitos and New Zealand during World War Two,

(01:32:39):
but you might tell me something about the Royal Air
Force and what we had during World War Two as
far as those planes went. Yeah, Alistair as Marcus good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:32:47):
You know, Marcus, Yeah, yeah, Alistair. Yeah, calling you from
perse I was quite heavily involved with set Mosquito after
passed away, So yeah, I can probably answer you so
many questions.

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
Oh great, you're a long way from You're a long
way from home.

Speaker 5 (01:33:03):
I am, yes, I am yeah. No, I was very,
very very interested in warbirds, as you know from She's
from along Lay as a young kid and I joined
the Air Force in Blenham and of course from Woodburn
Air Base to Mark Pearl was just a motorbile right
across the hill. And I think I've visited John three

(01:33:25):
times as a teenager, and you know, you sort of
had to pass an interview to get let into the shed.
Over the years, he got reason you know, probably gun
shy about collectors and people that just wanted to take
his collection off him. So if you passed the interview

(01:33:47):
to get lead into the shed, it was it was
quite a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
Yeah, And yeah, he just liked to wind them because
obviously once you had them in the shed, there's no
where strip. They're not going anywhere. He reassumed them. He
got them that have to be taken apart to be transported, obviously,
he get them in the shed and rebuild them, is
that right?

Speaker 5 (01:34:07):
Yeah, So he you know, if I remember the shed correctly,
there was a P fifty one Mustang at one end
and the mosquito sort of stood above everything else and
under one of the wings was the Tiger Moth and
then two P forty Ketty Hawks and a Harvard bits
of Vampires and a Lockheed Hudson at the other end.
And a lot of those aeroplanes, you know, the Ketty Hawks,

(01:34:30):
they were scrapped in Hamilton. Yes, so he you know,
he went up there with his Morris Minor and whatever
he could borrow the trailers and stuff, towed them all
the way back from Hamilton across on the ferry to
mark Pua. So that lot those those aeroplanes have been
prepared for scrapping, so they had their wings cut off,

(01:34:52):
engines were missing and stuff. The Mustang had its wings
cut off because the owner and the guy that bought
it and blend him wanted to turn them into turn
into a into a hydroplane. So when he changes mind,
John bought the remains of the Mustang and yeah, so
by the end, you know, by the end of the

(01:35:13):
nineteen seventies, it was just a shed full of full
of aeroplanes in various states of repair. But yeah, the Mosquito,
that probably was his pride and joy. And when he
bought it from the Air Force, they wouldn't let him
fly it. And the only way he could move it
from Woodburn to mar Peul was to cut it into

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into five pieces, and his trade at the time was
a cabinet maker, so he very carefully put the thing
back together again in Marpoo.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
And just hanging on there. I'll come back to it's
going to go to headlines alistair. Don't go away. It's
important that you stay there, I think. So did you
say cabinet makers? That what you said, carpenter, cabinet maker, cabinet.

Speaker 5 (01:36:00):
Maker, I believe. Yeah, yeah, and the sort of part
time orchidist up around Nelson Marpee there and yeah, so
he had to very very carefully put the put the
hand saw through the wings and the fuselage and then
borrow his dad's trailer to tow everything across across the
hill to Marpor and put it back together. So yeah,

(01:36:22):
so it's spent probably a few years with a corrugated
iron shelter just sitting over the top of it before
he actually built the big shed that everything was stored in.

Speaker 13 (01:36:34):
Yeah, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:36:38):
Do you know what the New Zealand's World War two
history was with those planes?

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Well, they were almost gifted. It was after World War Two.
They eighty eight of them were gifted to the.

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
Un zeal In the Air Force in nineteen forty five.

Speaker 5 (01:36:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, pretty well post war.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
Yeah, and delivered, delivered.

Speaker 6 (01:37:00):
How they flew them out?

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
I think eight of them never made it, so yeah,
so very quick, very quickly after that, the Vampire became
the new the new fighter. So these poor mosquitoes, they
flew all the way from the UK and John's airplane

(01:37:23):
only flew seven times when it came to New Zealand
before it was parked up and stored. Yeah, so it's
only got eighty hours flying time on it from new
and brand new. It's only flying for two weeks. Yeah,
so did you ever fly?

Speaker 19 (01:37:42):
And what was it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
There was none flour year and Air Force. It was
done flying then they were there.

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
No, no, so I think I think it lasted for
nineteen fifty two and it flew to Blenham for storage
and they were parked along the perimeter defense of wood
Been Airbase. And John coming and going between Nelson and Blenham.
He saved up as money as a twenty two year
old and bought one of these things. And the minute,

(01:38:10):
the minute he paid for it was therefore says, well, congratulations,
now you've got to shift it. So the only way
you could do that was to put this aw through
it and carefully take it to Blenham to it to
Mark Poor.

Speaker 6 (01:38:21):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:38:22):
So, and like I said, I visited John three times
as a teenager and I did ask him, you know,
are ever going to get this thing going again? And
he said that he wasn't able to because the shed
was so fallen and once it went into the shed,
it never came out again.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
Yes, and that would have been he never would have
intended to. I mean, he never would have. He was
a part of himself.

Speaker 5 (01:38:48):
No, no, No, he was just just he just I
think he just enjoyed technical stuff. And I mean, you know,
when he passed away, we had to remove radios and old.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
TVs and.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
You know there was I think it was fifteen tons
of old radios and stuff that we had to put
into in the collections elsewhere. But yeah, so his family
they decided that one of the p forty kiddy Hawks,
the tiger Moth and the Mosquito could could be loaned
to the museum at at Omaka.

Speaker 6 (01:39:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:39:26):
And after COVID I was I was out of work
as a I eventually became an airline pilot in the minute.
I couldn't fly with COVID. I got asked by the
museum at Omaka to come and look after the reader, disassembly,
relocation and preservation of the mosquito.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
Oh you're involved with that, all that transport, all that
moving moving of it.

Speaker 6 (01:39:53):
Yeah, yeah, it was, it was.

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
It was a big deal.

Speaker 5 (01:39:56):
He was eighty year old airplane. Wouldn't wooden an airplane
that wasn't really made to be disassembled and moved. But
but yeah, our friends from add More that restore mosquit
goes to fly, they came down and helped us.

Speaker 3 (01:40:09):
Okay, so there are people at Aardmore that are restoring
them when they can fly. Okay, tell me about that.

Speaker 19 (01:40:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 5 (01:40:16):
Aspects a business in Ardmore, they've already they've already restored
four Mosquitoes that now fly in the US, and they're
doing their fifth one. So that they had all the
tooling and experience to how to carefully take the airplane apart.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
So they bring them. They're ones that they bring their
American collectors and they bring them across there restore them.
That's in the back.

Speaker 5 (01:40:39):
Yeah, yeah, because it's a wooden aeroplane eighty year old.
Typically you don't get much left over from the wood
that you can use, but there's a whole lot of
you know, metal metal components that get restored. And the
Auckland guys have got the gear to build a brand
new wing, brand new fuselage and make them air worthy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
It's unbelievable, a it is.

Speaker 5 (01:41:02):
Yeah, there are these days a twelve million dollar aeroplane
and John he spent sixty five pounds on his one.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Yeah yeah, are you are you flying yourself now? Alastair?

Speaker 5 (01:41:17):
You got you got back up and yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got back in the air. Yes, I've been flying
my seven three seven back in Australia for the last
three and a half years. Yeah, so, like I said,
a long way from home now based based in Perth.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
But is it is it with Quantas.

Speaker 5 (01:41:34):
Virgin in Australia?

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Oh yeah yeah, not too hot but.

Speaker 5 (01:41:39):
The oh yeah yeah yeah. If I fly a lot
of flights into the Pilburg and oh yeah, of course
we deal with forty five degree temperatures and stuff. Yeah yeah.
But the special thing with John's mosquito was that when
I asked him back in nineteen ninety two, you know,
if he was ever going to start the thing up again.

(01:42:01):
He says, Oh, I'd love to. I'd love to, but
it's just not possible. So when I got asked to
be to kind of lead the team that we won't
say we restored it, but you know we we preserved it.
We left it as as it was wet and gave
it a fresh coat of paint and stuff. Yeah, so

(01:42:21):
it was you family asked me to look.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
After it alistair. Was there ever a sense that that
should have been sent and restored properly to a flight condition?
Was it something that was considered or was I guess
that that I have the money for that?

Speaker 23 (01:42:33):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:42:34):
I think there would would, There would be people that
would that would But like I said, it's it's only
flown eighty hours from brand new. It flew seven times
in New Zealand. You know you better off to get
a basket case mosquito that's rotten, the player, all the new,
all the wood. This this thing is, you know, it's

(01:42:57):
like the call said earlier, it smells. You know, you'd
never you'd never get another airplane to to look like
this one. And you know it got a little bit,
Oh there was there was rodents and stuff that was
inside of it. When we when we when we got
to it. But yeah, there's only one other mosquito like

(01:43:20):
this one, and that's in the to Have of the
museum in the U k.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
And so you think that you think the beauty of
this is that it's that it's in near new condition,
and having in a museum like that is the right
is the right thing for it. When it was flying,
it would it would age and that would deteriorate what
it was like.

Speaker 24 (01:43:38):
Is it kind of what you're saying, Yeah, it would
be so that this one would be a shamed to
restore it, because because it is so original, Yeah, to
have on the museum have asked have since restored the
second one, and they've asked us for advice on how
to restore their one, and you know, and that's to
have one asking for advice.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
So it's pretty cool.

Speaker 15 (01:44:00):
Yeah, And and and.

Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
In the time that we've had it, we're able to
get the engines running on it, so you know, we
can wheel it outside and start the engines up, which
is which is something else and that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
Would need to be done regularly to keep them. You
have to keep doing that, would you to make sure
they're okay?

Speaker 5 (01:44:18):
Occasionally? Yeah, Yeah, we look, we look after them and
the time that they not run, and then when we
wheeling the outside to run it. It's a very careful
method of waking them up again so that it's not
a fright to them.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
I'm gonna run. I'm gonna run for it. Sounds like
you want to be back here at some It sounds
like you might listen all that other stuff you're talking
about it in the contempt time.

Speaker 5 (01:44:40):
I'm a long way from home, mar guess I am. Yes,
definitely are you there?

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Are you there forever? Just for now.

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
While I'm earning money, I'm happy to be here. Yeah,
I am planning on retiring at America.

Speaker 21 (01:44:54):
Definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
Thank you so much for Colin. Thank you for being
so generous with your time and information. Twenty one to eleven.
It's eighteen from eleven. Good evening, Jim as Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:45:06):
Welcome day, Marcus. How you're doing good, Jim, Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:45:12):
Interesting talking about the Mosquitoes. Your previous caller has detailed
some pretty interesting points about You know that part of
them was fuselage on their aeroplanes actually made a bolts
of would The key thing about building Mosquito was to
get the and was to get the plug of the
original mold to build them mine. It's very much like
building a yacht. There were three lamination I understand.

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
Now, okay, so you've got a mold and you're putting it,
you're putting plywood, and you're steaming it. I suppose are
you steaming it? And then I guess once you got
the whole round put together, it will hold.

Speaker 6 (01:45:45):
That was a lot of that was part of I
think there was a Mahogan even there. There was a
bolster and there's one other one. So there were three
three skins laminated together. So you had to have the mold.
And I forget the guy's name that he was up
near ard More he acquired one. And of course they're
like their hen's teeth. So and Warren Dinner, of course
is the guy from the amspects And quite right, you

(01:46:06):
heard how he's got. He's restored them, and you can't.
You don't restore a mosquito because there's nothing left. All
you've really got apart from the wood in the in
the air frame and even the wing spa is one
big spa right across through the middle of the fuselage
that your flight there's only two in the crew. There's
the pilot and the and the engineer navigator, and he

(01:46:26):
sits on actually on the wooden spa, but the engine
cowls and I think the most kind of the only
bits of aluminium on it. You know, there's a fascinating story.
I live in a hangar at you Plum at the airport,
and next door to me is a Vampire that was
owned and flown by a guy called Brett em And
he had died two years ago. He was the New

(01:46:46):
Zealand's arguably the New Zealand's leading warbird international airshow pilot.
He flew and maintained the Catalina, which is sitting outside
of our place, the earlier flying boat Catalina in the
Southern Hemisphere, and Brett kept the because his father flew Mosquitos.
He was a squadron leader in Burma. So Bret the
pedigree of the Hambland sort of poured onto the or

(01:47:10):
manifested itself with the hamp with the Vampire. The front
of the Vampires very much at the front of the Mosquito.
It's all wood and the rest of the aircraft basically
is our auminium. So Brett used to fly this thing
around at the air shows around the country and I
was lucky enough because it was a two seater, a
training one, one of the last of nineteen fifty eight

(01:47:31):
it was built, and the seventy five Squadron I think
operated these out of O'hakia and Woodburn. You know post
the Mosquito prior to her, because I've been involved with
Warbizoover Wonner for many years and prior to one of
the air shows, probably six or eight years ago, I
flew with him across Lake Wanica at three hundred and
twenty knots one hundred feet above the water, and at

(01:47:52):
the far side of the lake, he pitched up into
a barrel roll and turned the aircraft round and we
flew back and landed and landed at Warwick. It was
an incredible experience, very quiet, even though you've got the
old Goblin jet at the back, which are rowdy, but
of all the noises behind you, so you've got unlimited
visibility at the front, and they're sitting right next cuddle
up next to the pilot with this airplane that's as

(01:48:14):
old as the hills, but very interesting and they got
to just tell you about his father, the Mosquito pilot.
These were based at mingler Don Airfield and Burma, which
is where my father, my father threw spitfires, but that's
another story. The mosquito started to delaminate it with the
hot tropical weather, some of the glues began to deteriorate,

(01:48:35):
and they found that some of these aircraft were starting
to literally come apart and fly. So a lot of
time was spent with engineers and regluing the things and
keeping them flying. But Cliff em and he got shot down,
let forced land in the paddy field, was taken prisoner
by the Japanese and he ended up in the infamous
Burma Siam Railway prisoner war torture camp. Now my father

(01:48:59):
didn't know and even though he came from the same
area Taranaki as Brett's father. My dad was flying a
photograph reconnaissance SplitFire across this area. He was based at
the same airfield, and he took I've got the photograph
and Dad's log book. Took a photograph of this prison
of a war camp whilst Cliff Emily was incarcerated there.

(01:49:22):
And after the war they met each other without even
knowing this most incredible story, and he led a breakout
of the prisoners in the latter stages of the war.
They broke out of the camp as the Japanese were
hearing that the Allies were coming. So the stories of
these Tablin guys are quite remarkable. And while I've got
the split fire thing with you, as I said, my

(01:49:42):
dad flew Mark eleven splitfires and Mark nineteen and Mark
ninety was the very last of them with the big
two thousand horsepower Griffin engine. There was one Mark eleven
sky blue was the color left in the world, and
that is coming out to be displayed at Warbirds over
Wanaki at Easter. And the incredible thing about the pr versions, Marcus,

(01:50:02):
was that they were unarmed, so they carried no guns,
no armament was armor plating, and the aircraft all they
had was speed. And Dad had a lot of close calls,
but he said, you had to get down low and
when you're because you had lateral cameras and cameras beneath
the fuselage. And while you're up the canals photographing camouflage

(01:50:22):
barges and shipping and the nine to airfields, you'd see
the zero's Japanese zero scrambling to try and intercept them.
But he had had he had oxygen and this spitfire.
The Mark eleven and also the Mark nineteen would climb
at a rate of five thousand feet a minute, which
is astronomically quick. So he would see a bit of
trace around the place, but he would just haul away

(01:50:44):
and leave them behind. But this credible, there amazing story
of Cliff Emily and my father. Yeah, they didn't know
each other. The guys were dying down below. His dad
took this photograph and it's quite a special entry in
his logbook. So so the the Hablin story is very
strong in this part of the world.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Wonderful to hear from you, Jim, Thank you so much
for that twelve away from eleven. So what I did
get a chance to have Jim talk to Jim about
because Jim had a lot a good stories. So the
bit that I didn't fully understand, and someone might explain
that to me, would the restoration of mosquitoes, right he
was talking about is that apart from the metal frame,

(01:51:21):
it's a total rebuil. Is that what he's saying, because
the woods in such bad repair that you remake all
the external skin. I think that's the point of it.
I couldn't quite understand that you might have some clear
information about that. For me, I spose would. I guess
would Once the borers and there it to tear rates
quite a lot. You need to replace the whole stuff.
I couldn't didn't fully understand that. When he's talking about

(01:51:42):
what restorations would be like, you might know some information
about that. That'd be great to hear from you Hitdle
twelve midnight. Interesting story to those who argue the United
States penny has no value point collected, it's big to differ.
The final pennies ever circlared in the US have gone
on sale. The US mint sold two hundred and thirty

(01:52:06):
two three cent sets for a sum of sixteen point
seven six million dollars. The two hundred and thirty second set,
containing the last three pennies ever made, sold for eight
hundred thousand dollars. The b also got the three dies
that struck those Lincoln cents. That's pretty amazing, although I

(01:52:28):
think probably it's a fairly good investment. They've been minting
the penny since seventeen ninety three, and in those days
of good bye a biscuit or a piece of candy
not anymore. Yeah, pretty amazing. So no, more pennies, but
I don't know if they're out of circulation, they've just
not making that takes a while to mop them up.

(01:52:51):
Loted doubt, lots down the back of couches. I would
imagine everything's down the back of couches. Get in touch
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talk on you tonight. Anything goes here till twelve. I
was only my rent on tvns AD's Christmas Progress. So
we've got the listening for what's on Christmas day. Unfortunately. Hello, Amy,
It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:53:49):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (01:53:50):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:53:51):
Thank you Amy? How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:53:54):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:53:54):
On gdans, I'm just worried about people afications with the
new rolling out.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Hang on, I am, I'm just trying. You're you're not
coming through that clearly because of perhaps your phone on.
You're worried about people on adh ADHD medication because of.

Speaker 18 (01:54:14):
Because of the new drug testing, because they will fail
according to the newspaper articles. How they mean to get
around that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:21):
I think all the testing is free flawed for all
sorts of reasons. So so these will be people on
rittlin that will just come across as amphetamines.

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
Is that right?

Speaker 18 (01:54:34):
Let's stick sam fetamine. I myself am on them for ADHD,
and I am real paranoid now about driving although you have.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
A prescription for it. That's look at the fact you'll
prescribed it, right.

Speaker 18 (01:54:47):
Yeah, But then when I read the newspaper article, it's
that are still going to be stood down for twelve
hours and that is going to impact us.

Speaker 20 (01:54:55):
You have to be what.

Speaker 18 (01:54:57):
We are still going to be stood down apparently for
twelve hours or whatever. It is not allowed to drive
for twelve hours, and it is still going to impact us.
The problem is it stays in our system for three days.

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
I presume I presume you to have to drive on it.

Speaker 18 (01:55:13):
Well, we're normally allowed to drive on it. But with
the drug testing it will fail us.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
According to the ADHD website, right, you're saying they will
not test for amphetamine or metha methyl fenna date. You
will not test positive your eight h prescription medication at
the roadside You Zealand police say, oh wow.

Speaker 18 (01:55:37):
So I just said I had to cool on a
newspaper that it said that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:40):
My medication will Yeah, okay, I'm just having a bit
of a quick look for it. The Drug Foundation of
New Zealand says there's no will my adh demedication test positive.
Police say roadside saliva tests will not detect them fintamines
and therefore ADHD medsine will not trigger a positive result.

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If you test positive roadside salabat test for a different
drug and fiamine based ADHD medications maybe detecting your slave
a sample that is sent to the lab. If you're
receiving a fringement notice, you can apply for a medical
defense on the police website.

Speaker 18 (01:56:20):
Oh wow, so.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
If you test for a different drug. Right, then they
might in the test pick up the ADHD medication because
those tests, once it goes to the lab, it goes
for a wider it's a broader range of tests if
it goes to the lab.

Speaker 18 (01:56:41):
All right, it's more positive and I'm not so nervous.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
Yeah, is it working out for you.

Speaker 18 (01:56:48):
Of the medication?

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
Yeah, life changing.

Speaker 18 (01:56:52):
Massively since they bought it, and since they legalize the
lists and fetamine, it's made a huge difference. It's way
better than the riddlin.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
What's the other stuff called.

Speaker 18 (01:57:06):
Riddling or methampheta day? Is the new ones that have
come in, is it dex emphetamine or no list XM fetamine.
So they're now allowing you to seven make for.

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
Them list x em fetamine.

Speaker 18 (01:57:18):
Okay, Yeah, and it's a huge changer for at all,
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
But riddler itself for them fetamine is it not?

Speaker 18 (01:57:26):
Now it's an mpheta day, it's not an m fieta
means it won't test positive in any former Joe test.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
Okay.

Speaker 18 (01:57:33):
The new ones that they're bought in, which is XM
feta means and list XM feta mean, which they legalized.
I think at the end of twenty twenty five, sorry,
twenty twenty four. They they are an m fetamine based pill,
which is the first time New Zealand's actually legalized it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:47):
And how how how are they better for ADHD than
RITTL And what's the what's the difference, what's the advantage
of those new ones?

Speaker 18 (01:57:56):
Oh? Personally, I find I can still communicate, I can
still function like normal, but I can concentrate. Whereas the
riddle that made me monotone and no personality.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
Okay, you certainly got pussed out of Amy. Thank you
in it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:58:12):
Yeah, here you go, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:58:13):
He listen.

Speaker 8 (01:58:13):
I want to talk about that officer basically that got
handed down nine months basically homed attention to what he's
got have done a roughly about teen as over a
teen year period. I'm absolutely I'm absolutely disgusted based with
from there.

Speaker 3 (01:58:35):
I'm just going to jump in and say that I
could probably fill four hours of people that have discussed it.
I can't think of anyone that thinks the sentence was appropriate.

Speaker 8 (01:58:45):
I think it was absolutely appalling, excellent.

Speaker 3 (01:58:47):
Do you hear what I'm saying?

Speaker 8 (01:58:50):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. But the thing is
like I say, I've better have been an ordinary based
personal Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
And everyone agrees with you in.

Speaker 14 (01:59:00):
That.

Speaker 3 (01:59:01):
Sorry, everyone agrees.

Speaker 8 (01:59:02):
With you, you know, like I say, he should have
basically been handed in a tougher sentence than I mean,
that judge really needs to be based. He looked at
it because he's not doing his job properly.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
Everyone agrees with you, But I've got to say that
the strangest thing was in sentencing they didn't think he'd
go to a jail because it wouldn't be safe for
a law enforcement officer. I thought a there was special
a special present for law enforcement officers that was in Fannui,
because I know one then used that has been mentioned
they'd go to a special wing. I forget what case
it was. And there's even been cases recently of police

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that have been caught and have been sent to just
general prisons. So it does happen. And so yeah, I
don't think there should be a sense that police know
that they will get a lighter sentence because of the
fact or the perception of how they'll be treated in prison.
You don't thin anyone disagrees with you on that, and

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that's certainly what the comments online have said. Marcus, I
mentioned a couple of nights ago, I was having a
knee op. I'm now on the ward and with the
auto five second foot pump, cather a drain your show,
as a god said, onwards and upwards, Marcus. Just a
bit of effect checking here, what is the law that

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yous put it in re Fred to Mick Skimmings, possession
of certain materials questionable when the law clearly states objectionable.
There is nothing questionable what he has done, even it's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (02:00:28):
Hello, yeah, good evening. So I was just listening to
you about that drug testing at last, lady. And I
was in a roading gang for a while running a
few rollers and stuff, and one of the guys tipped
over the roller, so we all had to get drug tested.
And old mate on the grader says, look at you

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watch this, I'll be send home because of my heart medication.
And he failed the drug test.

Speaker 3 (02:00:56):
Was he the guy driving the roller?

Speaker 12 (02:00:58):
No, No, he was on the grader. He was one
of the oldest fellows there.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
Crazy.

Speaker 12 (02:01:03):
The guy that rolled the roller rolled the roller over.
It was always falling asleep of the wheel because he
was on.

Speaker 22 (02:01:09):
The carver or not.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
Oh you're on the carver.

Speaker 12 (02:01:13):
Yeah, and that doesn't pick up on a drug test.

Speaker 3 (02:01:16):
It's probably tired.

Speaker 12 (02:01:18):
Oh yeah, you're always a sleep of the wheel.

Speaker 3 (02:01:21):
I don't think the drug side drug testing is going
to work.

Speaker 12 (02:01:25):
No, because there's all sorts of different variations, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (02:01:28):
I don't know. I don't don't necessarily know that any
of them are performance and peer performance.

Speaker 4 (02:01:33):
Do they.

Speaker 12 (02:01:36):
Well, that's probably the best way to go about it
them get the mound of the car and walk a
straight line.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
Yeah, okay, can on you even think you're nineteen past
eleven hit till twelve whatever away one hundred and eighty
ten eighty. I mean, this is the level of ignorance.
CRIKEI marcus, if you have ADHD and are taking medication,
you shouldn't be driving. Was perfectly safe to drive. So yeah,
there's a lot of people just have it.

Speaker 4 (02:02:01):
Yeah, this is this is.

Speaker 3 (02:02:04):
Driven by paranoia. I think a lot of this. I
ordered my vote so that that's what it is. It's
not going to make the roads to be safer. Whether
we've agrees with alcohol, drink driving is a bad thing.
I ordered my TIMU. Last week Wednesday, Tony just arrived
at the airport in China. It should have been here
by now as I'm a Timu Hollock hope at tear
by Christmas your cop he'll twelve be a part of it.

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David's Marcus good evening. Hi Dave, Hey, good Dave?

Speaker 22 (02:02:31):
You can I come and throw all right now?

Speaker 3 (02:02:33):
That and clear? Perfect? Thank you.

Speaker 22 (02:02:36):
No, it's a different phone made. I found out that
they're phasing out three G?

Speaker 14 (02:02:41):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Is that what last night was about?

Speaker 22 (02:02:43):
Nah? Evidently I got in touch with him today and
look if I really said what I think about it,
because I think it's a racket for the telecommunication. It's
phasing this three G network out, which is going to
result in you, me and the average Joe having to
buy an update in their new phone, their phone.

Speaker 3 (02:03:06):
Well you have just you have to see that.

Speaker 22 (02:03:09):
Yeah, well I basically have mate, quickly quickly on diamond mine, mate,
I worked not far the top end of w a
Cannonarah argile diamond mine for the beers. Yeah, not far
out of cannon Arrah big diamond mine there and a
quickly on rifling speed.

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
Did you ever see any diamonds?

Speaker 22 (02:03:30):
Well, mate, they skin you, mate, the X ray in
the way in the x X ray you on the
way out.

Speaker 3 (02:03:36):
So do they how do they get them? They just
get them in the dirt and just and just put
it through screens.

Speaker 22 (02:03:42):
That's right, Yeah, wash it through, that's right. Yeah, no
crushes with old of course, they just pen and you
wash it. If you don't have If you don't have
ADHD and you take Rittlin or the equivalent, it's a
type of speed, yes, whereas opposed if you have ADHD,
it slows and it allows you to focus. I don't

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have ADHD, but I used it back in the day
as a type of form of speed because of what
I was into. Your X Bodybuilder, bloody with BA fitness
and that that sort of thing. So yeah, I don't think. Look,
if you you've got a medical prescription, there's no way
in the heat that you're going to go down for

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anything like being under the influence a drug testing other
side of the road, anyone who's concerned about that, No, No,
I lay your fears because if it gets to court
then you can just say, well, here's my prescription for
my GP. I do have a DHD, you know. Yeah,
don't don't worry your stress about that.

Speaker 4 (02:04:50):
I wouldn't be.

Speaker 3 (02:04:51):
Yeah, good explanation. Yeah, it seems weird. So if you're
if you're if you're sort of going a bit fast,
it tells your body and overwhelms your body, so your
body is to stop producing. Yeah, it's it's seems counterintuitive,
but I guess it makes sense.

Speaker 22 (02:05:05):
Well it does if you have as I say, if
you do have the ADHD, yeah, it calms you down
as opposed if you don't. It's the other way as
a speed.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
Yeah, and it's the problem is because it's problem the
diagnosis because people will get it to sell. Yes, absolutely,
quite a lot of there's quite a lot of value
to it.

Speaker 22 (02:05:27):
Absolutely, it was back in the day and I should
I assume they're still is now. And I couldn't agree
more with mcscumming case. Yeah, bamboos are and bemused and.

Speaker 3 (02:05:39):
Maybe maybe there might be an outcry and there might
be a real step. I mean, you know, when he's
home with his it's stuck at home with his computer
and PEPs pits. I mean it's kind of biggest.

Speaker 22 (02:05:48):
Belief, the biggest belief Marcus, absolutely, and I know we're
all in agreeance with that. It will seems to be
one law or one ruling for one and one.

Speaker 2 (02:05:59):
For the other.

Speaker 22 (02:05:59):
It's for us average joes if we were going to
go down that path.

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
Of year and may, we're in a special present for
law enforcement officers because I'll tell you what there's you
know they do from time to time come up in
the and a number of them have been sent to
jail in the past and also recently. So I can't
quite work out why that would be a mitigating factor
and not sentencing the person. Justice done and seemed to

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be done and all that. But yes, hasn't gone down
well online. Alistair welcome.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
Oh hi Marcus. Ye're saying you're unaware that per diamonds
were found in India.

Speaker 3 (02:06:40):
Well, yeah, but I'm sort of realizing that probably one
of the great diamonds was from there.

Speaker 4 (02:06:45):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
I just I was just going to ask you the question,
what's the world's most famous diamonds.

Speaker 3 (02:06:51):
It's called the Something of India. No, it's called the
coe nor Oh yeah, okay, has it got a nickname?

Speaker 14 (02:06:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:07:00):
And it's found in the crown jewels. It's either in
the orbaor the scepter.

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
And the Indians want it back, as they should.

Speaker 2 (02:07:09):
I don't think they're not going to get it back.
So yeah, that's probably the world's most famous diamond and
that's some monster.

Speaker 21 (02:07:17):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:07:18):
Yep, No, diamonds have always come from and there that's
what I just thought, I.

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Know, and it's massive, the mountain of light. Unbelievablee hundred
and five point six carrots.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
You've just googled that heavy.

Speaker 3 (02:07:29):
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty interested in that. But I've never
I've never realized that there were there was contemporary diamond mines.

Speaker 2 (02:07:37):
Yeah, yeah, so no, I just I just thought i'd
sort of like, you know that, Yes, diamonds have always
come from in there, so there you go and other
parts of the world. But yeah, that's that's my two bombs.

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you, Thank you for every
much for that. Now, I don't even know where if
they know exactly where that came from. Had a long history.
Are the Kolura mine and Andra Pradesh Yep, the mine
was opened in sixteen nineteen during Yeah, I don't fully

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know whether they were very Yeah, anyway, I gotta do
some more reading about that.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
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