Two talking parrots (24 October 2025)

Marcus takes a few riddles, and then talks the closure of another RSA!

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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):
Welcome to your mynam. Miss Marcus s here for you
till midnight tonight, the end of the long weekend, and
that's a good thing. Some of you will be driving
our mindful and I think the labor weekends of the
weekend you go to the crib and road the lawns.
Am I right, So some of you will be heading
away and some of you will be cleaning the damage
around your property. And look, I do feel for you.
I spent the day on the chainsaw today and that

(00:34):
sounds like a big deal. And it was pretty busy
at the still shop this morning because there's trees down everywhere.
I'd a fairly productive day. I did a lot of it.
But yeah, there's massive trees that are down, and big trees,
old trees, trees that aren't at the end of their
life or certainly at the beginning of their life, but
midlive trees that just got blown over with extraordinarily strong winds.

(00:57):
So by the way, they're mindful. There is a lot
of people without power and without water. I think to
a tarpari and OHI are two places that spring to
mind too, So yeah, and I think in OHI you've
got to boil your water once you get it, even
though there's no power, So you got to get a
camp stove or your neighbors cold range. So yeah, it's

(01:19):
because there's no power and they can't run their water
treatment facilities. But look, if you've got questions about if
you're there in the dark and you want to know
when the power is coming on, you've got questions about
your cell phone reception, it just texts me a text
and I'll find out for it. I broadcast on this vessel.
Is this a vessel on this format? Maybe that's what

(01:40):
I need to say. So you will cut a bit loose.
There's the Friday free for alls and slightly more Alex tonight,
So just so you know that, I don't think it
will be about the crisis, but I will be giving
you updates so you won't die wondering what is the
right thing to do. So some of the towns could
be without power for a long long time. I think

(02:01):
Kingston Kingston it could be a week. The thing bad
is something very bad's gone on there. Yep. So yeah,
I will keep you updated with that. But yeah, I'm
hearing you. So if you are out there and without power,

(02:22):
we will do what we can to let you know.
They're also telling people to conserve fuel. Really, you can't
conserve fuel for a long weekend, can you. If you've
got any questions to ask any statements about this, do
come through. And the prison, the Milton prison, don the generator.

(02:44):
It's got power and water issues, So I don't know
how that's gonna cope. I don't know that Queen's Town
actually flooded. Will find some more information about that tonight,
but yeah, I don't want it to all be about
floods tonight because it's kind of fairly. It's a bit dry,
can be a bit depressing. Get in touch of your

(03:07):
talk on internet. The number is eight hundred and eighty
Teddy and nine two nine two detext. I'll tell you
something I do want to mention tonight because I had
it written down from last year. This is the day
apparently when you start ordering your Christmas hams. I know
last year that someone rang up one of the women

(03:28):
rang up from Porka or Bacon, and she said that
this is the day, the twenty fourth of October. I
don't know if it's when they start taking orders, when
you're supposed to get your order. But if you are
thinking about Christmas hams, now the time to order the
if you're a good one. Otherwise you get just someone
sort of at the supermarket, which seems a bit sort
of you wonder where they're from. Nothing worse than a

(03:50):
panic ham is there. I think the ham is the
one thing that shows you probably should be organized. It
shows your running at the whole end of Christmas type
thing with a little bit of calm and dedication. That's December.
The twenty fourth ham you buy from that big bin

(04:10):
at Peck and Save with all that thick plastic on it.
Plea doesn't scream look at me, I'm organized. I had
a good year. That would be my input on that one.
But yeah, there we go. I don't even know if
people are steering away from Christmas tams with that situation.
Today is the day to order those. So I've just
so you know, if you are heading off on a

(04:31):
long weekend this weekend, if you're driving, let me know
what the roads are like. If you've got any road
warnings or conditions, let me know about those. Also, that's
of interest to me. How the roads are fearing. I
think probably the North Island's probably fairly good now. I
think all those roads around the White Cattou have been
sorted out. Yeah, Marcus, it's Crystal. Our power came back

(04:54):
on on Paisley Street at seven thirty to night. Thank god,
I heard the powers off and bluff. Anyone needs to
borrow a two and a half? What generator? We can
spare our one? It's done us. Well, let me know
if I can dri off and need me that from Crystal.
By the way, my boy went to school, an intermediate school.
He's formed one. I don't call it that now. They've
got some godfs sake and name for it. I don't

(05:14):
know why they changed. I think out of a class
of twenty five, I think there was eleven, so a
lot of kids didn't go to school there. I guess
that's because they haven't got power. Well, they might be
helping Dare clean up on the farm. But our boy
went to school. I think that was for the easiest.
So that's the situation too. So yeah, it's quite disruptive
down south. I see they redeclared a state of emergency

(05:35):
down here or something like that, just to enable them
to get the facilities that they need. But those Alsaf
tree surgeons, their trucks were everywhere shredding trees and doing
all sorts of stuff. So there we go. But if
you want to start the whole ball rolling, it is
a bit of a Friday free for all tonight. Do
come through DC or DCT oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two de texts if
you want to be a part of it, looking forward

(05:56):
to what you've got to say. By the way, measles, measles, measles.
There were someone with measles on the ferry and now
we're getting infects from that trip. So that sounds to
me like it might have been a super spriater event
because now there's someone in Taranaki and someone willing to

(06:18):
run that ferry that have got the measles. We call
it the measles. So yeah, just say you know, it's
community transmission, which is actually is quite a big deal.
I think Beca's quite serious. But you do jump throughf
you want to talk on Easterday. As I say, oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine, anything goes,
so as the Friday Free for All but yeah, but
if you've got questions also text those through questions about

(06:41):
flooding or power or cell phones. Ruin this together. Yes,
it's the spirit of New Zealand, isn't it. So yeah,
let me just look at the texts, whether they like
it or not. Warnicle, we'll get a McDonald's. So where
else needs a McDonald's. Why Hicky question you ab out?
Of course they do. They'll kick out Bob's he die,

(07:03):
but they'll love it when they get it. The whole
town is without power. The whole town of ecotoonas without power.
Our substation was wiped out by six big trees. They
have no idea when the power will be back. Also,
no phone or internet overnight. Kerry and Sean, We're here
for you. Hooray, Heray. McDonald's is coming to Warnica Marcus.

(07:24):
Just after seven fifteen tonight the power came on in winter.
That's from Terry, although someone else's textans said they've got
no power in Winton. Let me know about Winton for
those that don't know, Whinton, twenty five minutes north of
in Vicago, famous for not sure Actually Ohen, this is Marcus.

(07:45):
Greetings and good evening.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Welcome yeah, hey Marcus, Hey, listen night. I'm from Clinton,
which is not far from Windon, but I'm not talking
about that. I'm in christ Church. I just I've got
a couple of questions for anybody out there or sports
people know why we have our sports major games on

(08:14):
at the times we do seven o'clock at night for
twenty twenty cricket game with the kids up on a
Thursday night going to ten o'clock? Is it a scheduling
contractual thing?

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't know of, you know.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
I'd like this somebody to sort of tell me. I
thought it was absolutely rubbish. Why we sit around all
day when we've had the international teams here and middle
of the week have a game at seven or ten
o'clock at night. It always amazes me. Surely when you're
in New Zealand you would and like tonight, we have

(08:57):
no sport in New Zealand. So if I'd be interested
to somebody or some knowledge to tell me, do.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
You think the cricket should be in the daytime?

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I just think it should be like if it's a
twenty twenty game, we're talking three years. I mean, I
don't I think it should be starting at five o'clock
for kids. If it's going to be during the week,
it should be, you know, at a time a reasonable
time to watch. Ten o'clock is a great time. I
just think it's pathetic. Maybe it's contractual. I'm not too sure.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I just like to know.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I would imagine if it's England, they're twelve hours away.
They probably wanted so the English people would wait up,
wake up and watch.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
It at five o'clock.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah yeah, well no seven or eight o'clock. It would
be nice. But someone else might have some more information.
And thanks for that sixteen past eight. Keep those texts
coming through too, and any calls about anything at all
tonight too. It is the Friday free for all. You
might have something interesting planning for the long weekend. Marcus
Holy we finally have power. Kingswill and the cargo think

(10:03):
it all. The worker is trying to get our power
back on. That's what we need to know. And keep
those text and emails through if you want to talk
about anything at all tonight. Eight hundred and eighty eight.
I want to question about the cricket. I think Owen's
just brown of because it's no sport on TV tonight.
He's right, Ah, the All Blacks will play on the

(10:26):
second of November, and that's not far away now, and
that's nine o'clock in the morning. You'll be happy with that. Owen.
By the way, does World Polio Day? We probably think
it's a disease. It's no longer around. However, I'm sure
it's around the world, and I'm sure there's still people
and he's affected by polio. I guess that's a situation.

(10:51):
We don't talk about, we don't think about it much,
but it still will be a thing because they've got
the vaccine, didn't they. Doctor Jonah Sulk remember him? I
think it's a Polio Days to honor him in the
achievement he's will contribute its contribution that he has made.
But Christmas Ham if you want to mention that also,

(11:12):
where's your best one? Where do you go? Where do
you go to? My lovelies? Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
But yes, Warnica, they've lodged consent for a new McDonald's.
Three parks is where they want it. Oh maybe that's

(11:35):
where the one they didn't get they wanted one Mountaine.
Now there were three parks is full of all sorts
of tant they can go and there are no problems
at all. Yeah, they have told the ODT they were
in the process of vetting the application, so they've come

(11:56):
up with we all turnate sites number one. Sir Tim
Wallace drive. Oh well, get over yourself, Wonica. I'm sure
you can handle it. I'm sure your town won't go
to hell in a handcart. I'm sure a lot of
you driving to Queenstown for the McDonald's there, Marcus, No

(12:19):
Parrot Woodlands North David, Thanks for that, Marcus. We're in
rivers and rocks. Still no power, but lowing the peace
and quite candles and chatting with a wino. No, not
chatting with a wino. Chatting with a veno. I think
chatting with a whino is something quite different. What's your candles?
It also plays if you've got a power cup before

(12:40):
you go to bed, to just turn everything off that
was probably on before the power hit. Just see what
just so you don't wake up with the flush you
make a grinding or something like that might be annoying
nineteen past eight, but have it go if you want
to have a go. Oh eight hundred and eighty Tay
as I've said, Oh Therese hornets in the country. I

(13:03):
always thought we always had hornets. Yeah, so this is
it first time they've found a queen yellow legged hornet.
They have found males, but not the female. It predates
on honey bees and wild pollinators, so they're nothing to

(13:27):
get fertilized. Looks it looks like a bad beast. This
one have a massive ness that looks like a pinata.
I'll tell you something. I haven't really got a major
topic tonight, but can I just say at the stage,

(13:48):
I've not once gone to a kid's birthday party when
the pinata has fulfilled its function. Always disappointing. I always
thought you hit this thing with a stick and there'll
be sweets and lollies flying all. It never worked like that.

(14:10):
Normally it falls to the ground and some periods have
to sort of tear it open. I don't want to
sound anti Mexican, but always been a very disappointing kind
of a thing of pinata. Who's ever had a good
pinata experience?

Speaker 6 (14:23):
Not me?

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Because the kids think of your grol have a pad.
I'll make a pig always is John, You've got a query.

Speaker 7 (14:30):
Yeah, it's a Friday night free for all.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I guess yes it is there.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, thank you for using that night. It is the
Friday night free for all.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
Yeah, okay, I've got a sort of a quiz for you.
I don't know if you've got a pen and paper.
I'm going to describe a piece of road. And I'm
loving all of this.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm loving all of this already, John, I love the
thing a pen and paper.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
Draw a picture of a road, you know, just two lines, yep,
draw a white line in between, you know, for the
halfway mart yep. Okay. And then on the left hand lane,
draw some park caves. Wow them for example, how many oh, four, three,

(15:13):
whatever you like?

Speaker 3 (15:14):
And a motorbike two oh whatever?

Speaker 7 (15:17):
Yeah, they're all packed.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, okay, yeah, part two cars in a motivate, then
two more in the suv and asdian Yep.

Speaker 7 (15:24):
There you're done.

Speaker 8 (15:24):
Well.

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Right now, on the other side of the road, there's
a what do they call it a broken yellow line
dotted you know, they've got a bit of half met
along stripes down the hill on the on the other
side of the road. So yeah, okay, And the scenario
is now get the bit of papers interesting and tilt

(15:45):
it to make it a hill.

Speaker 9 (15:47):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (15:48):
All right now.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
We're getting twenty eight. So now here comes a car
on the left hand of your picture, comes comes along
and I'm on the other side of the road on
the right hand lane. Uh you know, after the park cast. Yeah,
so I'm coming down the.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Hill the park has on the left ten side. I
think the park has on the left hand side.

Speaker 10 (16:14):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
No, they're on the right hand side, up side down yep.

Speaker 7 (16:20):
Okay, So you're sitting with the park cars on the
left hand side of the road.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
No, you see it on the right hand side, didn't you.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
No, the the cas park cars are on the left
hand side of the road.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
The park has are on my left right.

Speaker 11 (16:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I've got that.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yepp, got that.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
And you've took you've got a paper, So you're made
it into a hill the hell. Okay, And I'm coming
down that hill.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You're coming down my on the right hand side, yep.

Speaker 12 (16:45):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (16:45):
And the car coming up on the left hand side, yep.
Now that car coming up has to pack pass those
packed cars, yes, all right, so it has to sneak
over the right line. Are we bit to do it?

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Oh? Wow, geez? Done a very wide road, doesn't it.
Don't tell me the road with that.

Speaker 7 (17:02):
Now, and so I'm coming down the hill. Yep, he
gives way.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
There's a tricky.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
One, I'd say, the car on the way up.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
Yeah, because right now, here's what happened. This is the
scenario is quite good that a lot of people are
out of ten people today, I asked, he said, what
you send of them? Said today? What you have said?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
We're were these people where you find them?

Speaker 7 (17:40):
Just we're out having lunch and we're just talking to people,
you know.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
So anyway, but where do you have Are you in
a facility? Where do you have lunch?

Speaker 7 (17:50):
I was at a place called Reworker. Oh yep, yep,
you know they're there anyway, And so that's all the
material with it. But anyway, the problem is that you're wrong.
The car coming up the hill is passing a park car.

(18:11):
And there's a rule about if you cross the center
or white line to pass a parked car, you must
give way to oncoming traffic.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Are you sure that's a rule?

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (18:23):
Absolutely? And then anyway this happened to me and I
a person was driving a car opposite me coming up
the hill, went out past all the parked cars and
kept driving up and there was no room. So I
stopped and it turned out it was a lady driving
the car.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
It's that important.

Speaker 7 (18:43):
And I went down the window and I said, excuse me, lady,
but you're on the wrong side.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Of the road.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
She's been quite the day, she.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Said to me. She said to me, in a very
refined voice, downhill traffic must give way to uphill traffic
and drove away. Now that's wrong. That this no rule.
There's no such rule about who gives way going up
or down a hill. It's it's not in the rule book.

(19:13):
It was the dates way back to a long, long,
long time ago. This it's only a miss about who
gives us away. You know, the uphill cars give way
to the downhill cars.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Okay, I'll leave it there, John, But thank you for
that diagram and enjoyed that Muchly, it's twenty six past eight.
You might want to respond to John during it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 13 (19:35):
Oh Marcus, Hey. I've always understood, now pull the horse
ropes and terror rems and god knows what over the
years that the person going up the hill, one coming
down the hill must give way to the people going up.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah, it's my understanding. And on what a Guitari website.
It says, always give way to people traveling uphole. On
steep and narrow roads, it's easy for people going downhill
to give way to people going uphole. This person does
it perfectly.

Speaker 14 (20:05):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (20:06):
Because I worked for a transport yard transport company, and
that young chap was driving a truck that had chip
metal on it and he was going up the hill
and a car was coming down and the car, you know,

(20:26):
didn't move over, so he went to the edge of
the road and the road gave way because the metal
went to the left and rolled down the hill.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Wow was he right? Oh?

Speaker 13 (20:40):
Yes, yes, fiber gay got him out. That's the first
time Martin Mora had ever used the air bags and yeah,
and they got him out. And it was always two
You know, when you wind your window down, so you
either have it up or you have it down. Never
have it halfway. Because his face head was in between

(21:02):
the top of the window in the in the glass
and he got a big puts right across his cheapness. Yeah,
so I've always remembered that either help the window up
or have it down.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I wonder why that guy was so fixated on it.
I wonder it was because he was told off by
a woman who was in the wrong offens. He makes
me draw a diagram and we had to go us
into it. No one's no one's ever asked me to
draw a diagram before you got your pen and paper
cheapers if anyone else got they answers about this? What

(21:35):
about the broken line overtake? Exception of the rule the
call was talking about further to my phone called google
key rules for passing parked cars. You give way to
traffic coming up, he'll so, don't do a handbrake start
by the way. I don't think anyone in Southland or
where the power cuts have been complaining about not having cash.

(21:59):
Dave Marcus welcome, Well.

Speaker 15 (22:02):
You know how it's a Friday free for all, and
you're particularly good at riddles. Just before I did, though,
I was a traffic officer for six years.

Speaker 12 (22:13):
Yeah, sorry, good thing.

Speaker 15 (22:16):
The thing that comes to mind is failure to drive
within your lane. So that was so, whether the cars
parked or not. If you can't stay within your whole
lane and you're leaving your lane to encroach on the
other lane, I think you've got the obligation to yield
right away. And not crash head on into the other person.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Today's right.

Speaker 15 (22:37):
Now, have you got a pen and paper in front
of you?

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yes, of course I have that. I just saw that road.

Speaker 15 (22:43):
Yeah, that was part of the joke. And you know
how you know where Rewalker is in nearly every other
town and intersects him in New Zealand. So I think
you're the right guy for the job. So are you
ready for it?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Yep?

Speaker 15 (22:55):
A little boy girl was born and they were twins.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Hang a little boy.

Speaker 15 (23:01):
A little boy was born and a little girl was born,
and they were twins.

Speaker 16 (23:06):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (23:08):
One was twenty and one was twenty two.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
Yep.

Speaker 15 (23:12):
They were both born before their father, and one married
their mother. Full stop. So there's obviously three parts to it.
So when you're ready, riddle me this, Bonnie clear.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Yep, the twins and the twins are born a girl,
one is twenty one is twenty two.

Speaker 15 (23:34):
That's correct.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
They're both born before their father and one married their mother.

Speaker 15 (23:38):
Absolutely, you're on the mate. Can you just explain that
to us please?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
You said you sound like a cop, then next week
explained it to me please.

Speaker 15 (23:46):
Sorry, now I must still ask what's your explanation?

Speaker 3 (23:52):
So what's the hell I know, not quick enough. Ye,
twenty twenty two, both born before their father and one
married their mother.

Speaker 15 (24:01):
Yeah, easy, pasy.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Well, because they're twins, and what I'm fixated on there's
and one was twenty and one was twenty two. So
I'm trying to work out that's I think that's the
key detail there.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
It might be.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
So they're not two years older, and there's not a
leapier type thing. That's something a bit different. Twenty and
twenty two. Was that their names twenty and twenty.

Speaker 15 (24:25):
Two, no set age.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
They were twenty and twenty two.

Speaker 15 (24:32):
They are twenty and twenty two.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Both born before their father, born before in the year
or born before the father was born.

Speaker 15 (24:48):
That were born before their father. Okay, Dan said, I'm
not allowed to tell you the answer to you beg
for it.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
There's two sets of twins.

Speaker 15 (25:04):
There's only one set of twins. There's a boy and
a girl. They are twins. One's twenty and one is
twenty two. They are twenty and twenty two. Well, I know,
got the gray metal going. I'm loving it.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
One's twenty one's twenty two, twenty two years of age.

Speaker 15 (25:28):
For one's twenty and one's twenty two.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Years old.

Speaker 15 (25:32):
Yeah, tapster's foot quietly while he waits.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
I haven't got a clue.

Speaker 15 (25:43):
Do you want the answers of the first bit or
do I give the answer to dan?

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Is one of the religious is one of them a
religious minister? And they married their mother in a ceremony.

Speaker 15 (25:57):
You got that one. You've got that one.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Both born before their father.

Speaker 15 (26:05):
Yes, you're thirty three percent clever, We love it.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Both born. How could twins be born before their father?

Speaker 15 (26:17):
Tricky?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
We're not talking within the year before. Oh, they were
born in front of their father.

Speaker 15 (26:24):
Being your sixty six percent clever, zero point six.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
So there's two twins. They're twenty and twenty two. Yes,
there's a boy and a girl.

Speaker 15 (26:36):
Yes, silly and sam Oh one.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Was twenty and one was twenty that's what time they're born,
twenty and twenty two the hour. No, that's that right.

Speaker 15 (26:49):
No, nothing to do with timing. They simply are twenty
and twenty two.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
That's not their name.

Speaker 15 (26:58):
No, not their name, it's their age. Go for one
hundred percent for golden still.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Us two twins. There's two twins, a.

Speaker 15 (27:06):
Boy and children. They are twins.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yep, there's two children. They are twins. Yep, one is
twenty one is twenty two?

Speaker 15 (27:16):
Yeah, one's twenty and one's death only twenty two.

Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'm struggling with this, but how could we twin be
two years older?

Speaker 15 (27:26):
Laughing it my three minutes?

Speaker 5 (27:29):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Oh so it's twenty oh? So one's twenty and one's
twenty two and the two is t w double oh
meaning also.

Speaker 15 (27:38):
That's absolutely your one hundred.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Brilliant flop brilliant that tooks some easy easy. They have
things that's very good to enjoy them. Should we have
a night of riddles? They're going to have riddles. First quade,
where'd you get that one from? There was quite a
good riddle. Actually that'll be with the kids with the
car trip tomorrow? Very good, but i'll tell you why
it's a cop anyway. They're brought on leap day not

(28:02):
related here. There we go, very good, that's made. That's
made the hour. Let's turned the free mediocre onto a top.
What a what a free giving guy to ring with
such a good puzzle and stick with it. It's bloody
brilliant and a three parter. Who doesn't have a three

(28:25):
part I didn't get my kid, I didn't get my
kid yesterday with her who was very very smug about
his puzzles and giving me a hard time winking some right,
and did I said? There was a plane crash between
right on the border of Germany and France.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
And I did that.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
And when the and and and where do they bury
the survivors? I asked them, Well, that got them. I
heartbreaking us. The Papa Papa rs as to close. This
is just news through BJ Clark said that on social
media at the AGM that's at DNS dash.

Speaker 14 (29:03):
To do.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
The last post service will be held on November eight,
five pm. This involved the flag been raised as REvil sounds.
I prevounced that wrong, a couple of short speeches and
the last postal sounds, the flag is lowered formally for
the last time. That's the paps are I say, it's
closing soon? November eight, Ray, it's Marcus. Good evening, Yeah, yeah, hi, yep.

Speaker 17 (29:30):
How's it going. So I've got a little bit of
a riddle for you if you can figure this one out,
and all our listeners ready.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
For us, Yes, I'm born, ready, you were born? Okay.

Speaker 17 (29:42):
As I was walking down the lane, I heard two
names that sound the same as I've been and drew
my cane. In this rhyme, I said the name.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Now, it's not Kane, as I was walking down down
the lane.

Speaker 17 (30:01):
As I've been and drew Mike cane. In this rhyme,
I said the name.

Speaker 14 (30:06):
As I.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Bent and drew.

Speaker 14 (30:12):
Nope.

Speaker 17 (30:14):
As I was walking down the lane, I heard two
names that sound the same as I bent and drew
my cane. In this rhym, I said the name.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
It's not Bray, because that's the person you said as
I was walking down the lane.

Speaker 17 (30:29):
No, it's definitely not. There will be some people in
this that can hear us, and they will not. As
I was walking down the lane, I heard two names
that sound the same as I bent and drew my cane.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
In this rhyme, I said the name Andrew.

Speaker 17 (30:50):
Well done.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I thought I had it with Thank you Bray cheap
as jeez, I heard it archar answer to the plane crash,
they buried the survivors in Germany. France only buried the dead. Yeah, okay,

(31:12):
thanks for that. Our boys are seventeen nineteen, but they
are IVF kids fertilized in the same Petrie dish of
the Wendy Petrie dish. One stayed in the freezer for
a couple of years, strictly speak of our twins. Oh yes,
I should have gone IVF. That would have been a
good one, wouldn't It is this John texting again, Dan John?
That made me draw the copper ring? Was correct? Exclamation

(31:37):
make if we crossed the sea line, you must give
ways oncoming traffic. Where was in rewaker asking people to
draw things? She stored her eggs. Someone texted bull sh t.
I wouldn't have bothered that riddle, condescending twit? Well, people
are pretty people pretty triggered by a riddle. Ah, I

(31:59):
kind of thought of anywhere there was gonna be an
RSA would do well at being christ Church. But the
Papa and Ui RSA. That's she's over over the eighth.
They dropped the flag for the last time. I look
at it from Google Maps. See what it looks a
lot sort of building, if it's a smart sort of building.
What it looks like, Oh, it's a big development here

(32:19):
would road. I wonder if it's the land worth too
much goodness? I've got on Google Maps. Now I can't
see where it is. I've lost it. It's disappeared. In
form from me. If you want to talk about that too.
That's what we're on about tonight. Oh, eight hundred and
eighties and riddles. I don't know why we're on the riddles.

(32:41):
So that guy thought it was a riddle night. So
that's good being touched Marcus till twelve. There is something
else you want to mention?

Speaker 13 (32:48):
Good.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
You might be doing a drive, heading to the crib,
mowing the lawns something. It's what you do, isn't it
on labor weekend? But if you don want to talk
on an that's what we're about tonight. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine two de text. I

(33:12):
kind of even see where the RSA is on Google Maps.
I can see the oil change center. I can see
a church. It's not my best Google day actually, this one.
But yes, I tell you what a hard day on
the chainsaw cheapest. Oh well, come through if you want
to be a part of the show. As I've said,
Marcus till midnight, anything else you want to mention or

(33:35):
talk about, then I can handle that. Be a part
of it. As I say, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten
eighty and nine two nine two de text, I was
down a driveway. Well, hasn't got great street frontage. It's
hard for it. Look what it looks like. But if
you go there, let me know. Peperinui RSA behind the
Thai restaurant Po Kit Tie Joon. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 18 (34:00):
Oh hello, Marcus, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (34:02):
Okay, it's loud and clear receiving.

Speaker 18 (34:04):
Oh good, I've been going to Pepnu RSA for years
and be devastated.

Speaker 6 (34:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (34:09):
Well, we will miss it because we knew a few
months ago that had been sold and we probably had
tall Christmas. We have the first Sunday of the month.
We have christ Church country music and it's very good
for that. And we were told last this month that
we would have November the first Sunday, but we're not
sure about December. But it appears that we can probably

(34:31):
have the December if it's the eighth of December when
they November our eight for November. It well, I don't know.
You wouldn't want to build houses there or townhouses or
anything with us. It is behind the shops and it
is You wouldn't want to live there. It would be terrible.
You've got no you know, sort of it's good building there.

(34:52):
It's nothing wrong with the building. It's quite good upkeep.
It's it's tidy, it's very good building. They've got a
small restaurant.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Are they undead?

Speaker 8 (35:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (35:02):
They probably weren't making enough money because you know, there's
less older people. We've been going sometimes over the last
few months on a Saturday. They have music between five
and seven and Dawn a friend and she used to
cook their selling raffles and then we might have tea
there and they'd have quite good meals. And we've been
there other times for meals. They's got a small kitchen

(35:24):
with a you know, just a reason. Quite a small
restaurant but nice and it just doesn't get enough people
because the old older people are you know, becoming sick
and they're not going out so much, or them might
be passing away. You know, there's just not.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Right.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
They might be sick, they might be dead.

Speaker 18 (35:42):
Yes, And of course there's not as many members. But
they have a big job probably get all their members,
all the photographs up, you know along the wall and
all the stuff. I mean, there's this that much stuff
around and an RSA. We've got the Templeton Risa stall
and that's going but they're staff there do it voluntary
bar where they've never been paid. They've always don't volunteer

(36:03):
to do it, so that goes okay. And they have
music there on New Year's Eve, have been there the
last three years. And that's just out of Hornby in
christ Church.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I'll talk more about that, Joan, Thank you so much
for that. Interesting enough, someone says. Someone says that, I'll
read this text about the RSAYS in christ Church, which
I find quite interesting. Actually, Yeah, Marcus, Yeah, the problem
with the christ Church is that it has a lot
of working men's clubs and the RSA is probably competing

(36:33):
with him. Christ Church is quite unique and it's working
men's club culture. I don't know what the history of
that is, but yeah, that might make sense. They probably
are a lot of working clubs there, working men's clubs.
I don't know too much about that. Were they Cozi clubs?
Is that what you call those? Or there's the Wolfston
working Men's Club, isn't there? He might have something to
say about that that would be of interest. We've alluded

(36:55):
that in previous years. But I wouldn't mind revisiting that
as a topic because I said, I don't know if
they're doing well or not. In christ Church, the working
Men's Clubs or the Cozi Club than the likes. If
you want to say talk about that, they'd be good.
I'll be up for that. If you've got questions about
power or anything like that, do text those through and

(37:16):
I'll answer those for you. I'll go onto the website
and look up what you're asking about, whether it's about
phones or anything like that, phones, cell phone, that sort
of stuff. I'll do. I can about that. Marcus, no
power here in Mabel Bush near head Chop in south
and since this day afternoon got the barbecue doing the cooking.

(37:37):
Apparently we man I'll get powered on next week. Would
there be any listeners in the same area as us listening?
Thanks for good laugh for the riddles, Tracy, thank you.
Mabel Bush, got head Chope Way at Southland two by
the way, three away from nine. If you want to
talk here till twelve. Anything else you want to mention tonight, good,

(38:01):
be good to hear you. I'll give you any breaking
news if that's happening, though I mentioned with a long weekend,
everyone's on holiday always seems to having they shut down
the offices quite quickly. Oh, there's been a salmon dip
that's been pulled from the shelves Regal King salmon dip
with hurricanes, capers and dill. And correct use by date

(38:23):
on the packaging. Goodness, you might die. Oh it seems fine.
Used by date of November zero. The correct date is
November ten. Well, that's not going to kill you, is
it seems like they're used by date? Is the other?
Is the other way? Nine oh seven? Welcome, let's call
that seven past nine. What's happening to people? Who's got

(38:45):
something exciting to tell me?

Speaker 13 (38:46):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Who's driving anywhere? Who's going somewhere exciting? For the long weekend?
What's Labor Day about?

Speaker 17 (38:50):
No?

Speaker 3 (38:51):
I don't mean what's Labor Day about? Because we know
what Labor Day is about. I mean what's the long
weekend famously for? Because queen's birthdays, school reunion do, isn't it?
Don't know what people do on Labor weekend. I guess
they go to the beach or go camping. And that's
the spirit they say. Don't use too much petrol down

(39:12):
south because PETREL's been rationed cheap. Also talk about clubs
in christian I'll be curiously which clubs still go well?
I think there's some with very big memberships. I don't
know which ones they are. I think that there's the
Working Men's Club and the Cozee Club. If you want
to talk about that, they would be fun to talk
about it. That there's also riddles. If you've got a riddle,

(39:34):
make sure it's an extremely original and a new one. Marcus,
just to query, what is the passion behind models sailboats.
They always come out Labor weekend on lakes and ponds.
It's not my jam West feels quite British with sort
of ponds with people with remote controlled sailing boats. But

(39:58):
now with drones and the likes, it sort of feels
a bit late. It feels like feeling something quite innocent. Marcus,
you did it again. We've got power and Katahuna. They
said it could take days your magic work like all
callers last night, brilliant, good evening, Terry, this is Marcus.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Welcome, good an Marcus. The The thing that the issue
with clubs and RSAs is that with the change to
incorporate the society's rules under the Act, it has put
a lot of pressure onto well not a press, not pressure,

(40:47):
but it has stated basically correct me if I'm wrong
that the people or the person in charge or as
Vodadim is responsible for a lot of issues, and that
has caused some major confusion between the members because a

(41:07):
lot of them all over sixty five seventies. Getting younger
people to join these issues, join these institutions is the
most difficult thing in the world the young The classic
clubs have a good a good follow the run have

(41:29):
a different facet to what the RSA is. The bowling club,
the cricket club, the football club, who aren't corporated societies
have now found themselves in a situation where hey, you
know old Joe blogs that we used to vote for
as the favorite guy who turned out to be a

(41:49):
bit of a rat bag, and now we've got Charlie
who he's better, he knows what he's doing, but Charlie
hasn't got the attributes or the skills to run a club.
So that you know, there's a tremendous amount of confusion

(42:10):
among a lot of people, and unfortunately, in particular with
the RSAs, getting younger members is quite to join is
quite difficult. But the rules are you do not have
to be a member of the RSA to get assistance

(42:33):
or anything else, and that comes through the Veterans Affairs issues,
and there again is another separate issue in relation to
servicemen and women who served before was the first of
April nineteen seventy four are under acc and acc as

(42:56):
an approach of you have to know, we don't believe you,
whereas under the the I forgot the Veterans Act, you
the you don't have to prove you sorry. You have

(43:20):
to state that your illness or your your disability is
called through service where you're active or whatever, so you know,
and there shouldn't be a lead up see to it.
I noticed just recently that there's quite a dispute coming
on about changing the Act to cut out this that

(43:47):
particular sentence or that that part of the Act in
relation to the benefit goes to the service person and
the committee or the Veterans Affairs or a sec the
decision and you lose it out.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Yeah, that might be a bit beyond our brief to
talk about compensation. I want to talk more about the
But so the reason RSAs are closing is they failed
to change and not interesting to young people, Is that right?

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Yeah, that's well, yeah, that's part of it. But it's
becoming with the clubs. You know, they're each all executive
of vaderan in each year at the AGM. But the people,
you know, the old days of voting president because he
spends a lot of money out of the bar. That's
sort of gone the middle of the school people. People

(44:41):
have knowledge and they don't. And this is part of
the criteria of the changes.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
In the.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
In the act, you are you involved with one of
the clubs? Are you involved with the r.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Say, I am involved in a service organization?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yet are they busy or is it dying on the vine?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Well, we're dying on the like everything is. We're not
the only one. But the small group that we have,
we enjoy ourselves. And the thing is to get younger
meet members. A lot of the retire or the younger
people who've retired from there from their services. It's still working,

(45:29):
so they don't have the time to meet and and
and to mingle and get that social and that community
and the family sort of feeling. And you know, I
just lose my words to you.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
But Terry, Terry, Terry, your club's not an are essay?

Speaker 19 (45:51):
Is that right?

Speaker 10 (45:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Well, I am a member of their, Yeah, But the club, the.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Club you belong the club you belong to with that's
dying on the vine. How many members would they have.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
At the moment we have thirty five?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Oh shades, Well that's not that's not the previously.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Yeah, I'm a secretary treasurer. I'm maybe six years old.
Hell under cane.

Speaker 8 (46:20):
Very rapidly.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
I mean, you know you're on the way, ape me
out and that's your luck. Yeah, you know the small
group is that is the community feeling. The family is
the biggest thing because all of servicemen and women, regardless
of the arm of forces, because the serving maybe AM
Air Force, they're all family and it's a big, big family. Yeah,

(46:46):
and the family has big connections. You know, there's nothing
like talking to Fred who you haven't seen for ten
years or more.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
I'm will live there to you even thank you someone else.
I want to talk on that clubs and declining membership,
but that the situation would like to hear from that.
Nelson Society of Modelers have a train weekends a minute
to trains all weekend. I think it in very cable.
They have a train weekend, the Great Little Train Show, models, hobbies, trains, boats, buggies, retailers. Yeah,

(47:19):
I don't know about that. I'll tell you what it's reasonable,
two dollars for a child. I don't know if it's
been hit by trees and clothes. It's an old poster.
I know that at the stadium a lot of those
gum trees seem to fall on cars. None of the
trees seemed to be anchored very well. Two about clubs

(47:46):
and riddles, and if you want announcements on power cuts.
Some people are going to be out for power for
a long long time, like weeks. It seems why do
they let the power infrastructure becomes so vulnerable to wind?

(48:06):
The answer, I guess it was just a very strong
It was just very strong wines. Maybe that's the answer.
You want to talk eight hundred and eighty Teddy and
nine two nine to de text long weekend, next week,
short week. Obviously that's great. Can't wait for that. Love
a short week. Actually I don't like a short week,
but I'll say that I do. Oh wow, And you

(48:27):
might want to tell me about the service club. What
do you think the service club he belonged to was.
Do you think it was like a game fishing club
or something. I know this probably it's a bit like
local body pollocks. It's probably a lot of sort of
she's probably all about Oh, what can I say? She's
probably it's probably a minefield. Let's just put it that way.
Sixteen past nine, here till twelve tonight. If you want

(48:50):
to be a part of it, you can text or
you can email. No matter what you do, I don't mind.
Anything's good, anything goes hit'll twelve.

Speaker 6 (48:57):
I did like that.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I want to think I made up the riddle himself.
It was very good, very good. Got me going. It's
only helped out by the texters text doors. But be
a part of it. You want to be a part
of the show. If there's something different than you've got,
it's all good. Happy with all of it tonight, here
till twelve o'clock. Some other stuff I've got, well, actually's

(49:22):
almost happening around the world tonight. Oh I apologize there
is anyone seen the Springsteen movie because the guy from
the beer, the actor playing Springsteen, looks nothing like him.
But it's a great story. It's the story of the

(49:42):
album Nebraska, which is a great album album. I've listened
to a great deal. I haven't remembered I listened to
it a great deal. I just thought wow and remembered
all the songs listening to the trailers. So if you
went to that scene, that let me know what that's like.
I forget what it's called, but it's about Springsteen. This

(50:03):
is Marcus, Jennifer. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 11 (50:06):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Thanks Jennifer.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Okay, we've got a wonderful club at Birkenhead, so are.
They've got a restaurant and every Friday and Saturday night
they have a band or a couple of someone with
a guitar and singers, and then they have, uh, once

(50:32):
a month, they have the Auckland Variety Club I think
it is once a month on a Monday night, and
they have jazz club on Tuesday night once a month,
and they have I think they have fishing, snooker, darts bowls,
and they have a couple of bands that will take

(50:56):
you to the doctor or something. And it's only it's
only ten dollars a year if you're eighty and I
think it might be less than that when you're eighty five.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
But uh.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, So they've really gone out into the community to
do that van for the hospitals and stuff. That's a
great idea.

Speaker 9 (51:24):
Yeah, yeah, So It's been wonderful for me because I
get a bit depressed sometimes and I find that the dancing.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Oh and karaoke, Oh of course, what's your Jennifer, Jennifer,
what you'll go to with the karaoke.

Speaker 9 (51:44):
Bobbie?

Speaker 6 (51:45):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 9 (51:47):
Or Midnight's be sure?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
Wow? Yeah, a couple of the classics there, and tell
me about the meals.

Speaker 12 (51:57):
They're all right, are the wonderful?

Speaker 9 (51:59):
Yes that they We've got new, new, new restaurant. People
have taken it over the restaurant and it's very reasonable
now and you get a smogger sports and a choice,
you know, vegetables and things or cheat at tasted sandwich

(52:22):
I think is about ten dollars, and you can get
chips or onions or something else as well. Well.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
It sounds very reasonable. Okay. I can't believe they've got
the very nice to hear from you, Jennifer. Thank you.
Twenty two past nine on the Midnight Special, John, This
is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 8 (52:40):
Oh hello, Marcus. I want to talk to you about clubs.
Over the years, I've belonged to several clubs. The first
club I belonged to was when I was at boarding school.
I joined the Crusaders Club. Now, don't ask me what

(53:01):
we were supposed to be a crusading about, but I
think it probably had us slight religious attachment because at
boarding school we were suddenly, well not suddenly, we were
able to get leave to go and hear Billy Graham

(53:22):
preach at Lancaster Park and it would have been about
nineteen fifty seven, and we all went up on the train.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Wow, yeah, okay, yeah, brou.

Speaker 8 (53:40):
And then we went to the Billy Graham concert. And
my sister went in training nursing at the christ Its
Public Hospital. So going concert, me and my mataw we
decided we're going to visit my sister who has happened
to be on duty or were tracked it down in

(54:01):
the hospital ward, But anyway, that's sort of beside the point.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
But it is.

Speaker 8 (54:09):
The next club. I was the Young Farmers Club. Then
following that as a member of j Stees for many years,
and there were called Drama Club, but it's our name.
From the Drama Club to the Oxford Little Theater we

(54:32):
called ourselves. And from that grew the North Canterbury Drama Association,
which fizzled after about three years. God knows what happened
to the money we made from one.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Why it's fizzled.

Speaker 8 (54:52):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
It's just a lot of bed swoving goes onto those
drama clubs though it doesn't there. That's probably one of
the reasons. Probably everyone fell out once all the marriages
it ended.

Speaker 8 (55:06):
No ours was fairy, particularly the Oxford little Satter know
we were all fairy.

Speaker 10 (55:13):
We know.

Speaker 8 (55:16):
We were all pretty good, but we knew how to party, yes, but.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
All the money might have gone on booze. We're actually
we're kind of talking about we're kind of talking about
clubs like where you dine and drink and play darts,
like cozy clubs or working men's clubs. Because the Arisa
and Pepper Nuize closed that. I found your stories really interesting,
but that's kind of kind of what we're talking about,
those kind of clubs.

Speaker 8 (55:42):
Oh well, the Oxford working Men's Club, they do an
excellent meal.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
Do you belong to them?

Speaker 8 (55:48):
I did, yes, but I left the district.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
But I wonder how their books are.

Speaker 12 (55:57):
Well.

Speaker 8 (55:57):
I would think it's pretty good because they were the
first club in the country to be able to stay
open after six o'clock when the old six o'clock swell
was on because they were the Oxford working Men's Club

(56:20):
and Mutual Society of Arts MASA. Because they had a
little library in the corner. So the excuse to keep
the club open was that people could come in and
change their library book and on a Friday night they

(56:41):
had a license to stay open till ten pm.

Speaker 3 (56:46):
What's the population of Oxford, John.

Speaker 19 (56:49):
Or?

Speaker 8 (56:49):
When I left it it was probably not much more
than the thousand, but today people are commuting from there
to christ Church. It's only he takes about three quarters
an hour on a flat straight road. Yeah, I would
think the population is probably five thousand.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Of the war, Oh goodness, could be that many.

Speaker 16 (57:13):
Jore.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
Nice to talk to you. Thank you so much for that.
Stuart's Marcus, welcome here?

Speaker 4 (57:18):
Am I?

Speaker 20 (57:19):
How am?

Speaker 13 (57:19):
Good? Sir?

Speaker 12 (57:20):
A sort of a change of subject there. I hope
you don't mind, Okay.

Speaker 15 (57:27):
I just wanted to give you.

Speaker 12 (57:29):
A bit of an update. We spoke a few weeks
back about we were talking about that appensic we lost, Yes,
And I'm not like key on that. I'm on the
true lisity as the one that they give you here.
And it's been two weeks ago. I did my three

(57:50):
months you visit with the doctor and I had done
I've lost twenty eight kilos.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Wow, And.

Speaker 12 (58:00):
Now I'm on a that was a single dose. Now
I'm on a double dose for the second three months,
and I've lost another.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Fifteen twenty eight and fifteen did you say twenty eight
the first time I took forty three altogether?

Speaker 8 (58:16):
Wow?

Speaker 12 (58:17):
Yeah, yep, getting close, yep, getting close to fifty kilos.
That's my aim for when I for my next three
my next appointment in three months. And then they have
given me the They've given me the options whether I
want to go to a triple dose or just stay
on the dose of John Matt to maintain, because like

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I've taken, I've been on blood pressure tablets for probably
fifteen twenty years now. When I went back to the
doctor a few weeks ago, he took me off them. Goodness,
he said there's no need for those now. He says,
you've got a heart heart pressure of a twenty year old. Wow,
And I'm it's just a shame he couldn't give me

(59:04):
other parts for a twenty year old.

Speaker 15 (59:06):
But yeah, that's beside the point.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
The brain, the brain of a twenty year old, yeah.

Speaker 12 (59:11):
Yeah, yeah, And even my diabetes that I was diagnosed.
I was gonna ask you about it, he says, He says,
gone punished, He says, stay on the films you're on.

Speaker 11 (59:22):
And you're just maintain great news.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
So that's great news.

Speaker 12 (59:27):
So much good.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, so life changing and life saving for you.

Speaker 12 (59:33):
And absolutely absolutely so. I'm all packed up this weekend
to go away in my mouthus brilliant.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Nice to hear, stud that's a good story. Wow, you
might have anozembic story too, one of those weight loss drugs.
It's been a couple of months. How's that worked out
for you? Working out for you? Getting touched half past nine.
I don't know much about bower birds. You might be
a bower bird person. They're the ones that do those
assemblages of of stuff. I don't I think it might
be a mating ritual. I think that's what it is. Well,

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they live in a bower, I suppose. Is that different
from a nest? I think it might be. I don't
know what a bower is, to be fair, got no idea.
It's a bedroom or a private cottage, or a shady
leafy shelter, a recess in a garden of woods for
courtship displays. Get in touch. We're talking about clubs and

(01:00:25):
which clubs are still going well in which clubs have
problems with their membership. I am in Oxford. I was
at Oxford Hospital recovering from surgery and I escaped from
the hospitel week to the working Men's Club for a
few hours of the early two thousands. I am a
member now of the Richmond Working Club and the meals
of very good Oxford working Men's Club, very strong, fifteen

(01:00:49):
hundred plus members. Why are power lines above ground? Because
we love to do things cheap as always. One day
they realize the hardest part of doing a big job
is just to get that started, and then one day
we'll be done. Our lines will be underground like first
world countries. Goodness, Marcus, could you please stop cutting off

(01:01:09):
people before they're finished saying what they wish to say?
Some of them are reinteresting now which person was unfinished?
That's what I'd be curious to know about Bury the
power lines. Marcus Timidhu has a flourishing Town and Country
club which has the RSA running from the premises. We're
at a cosmic call it and club till early this year.

(01:01:31):
Yay power Just beckon and the Riverton Rocks, but kudos
kudos to power in It a memmoth job. No candles,
but we're still enjoying the Veno, nol Lean and Russell.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
We're on.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
We've got riddles, We've got and clubs. That's what we
are talking about tonight and cutting people off. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty here to or twelve? What have
you got? Give us your be shot. For those that
want to watch baseball that starts tomorrow, that is the
World Series to Toronto Blue Jays versus the La Dodgers

(01:02:04):
left Tupe, it goes to seven. I like a long series.
I don't think I'll be watching it tomorrow. Somehow, it's
better for me during the workdays when everyone's at school
twenty six away from ten. If you want to talk
about this or anything else tonight, that's the plan. You
might be driving good. I like people driving anything else

(01:02:28):
you want to talk about tonight, it will be nice
to hear from you. What person had a question? Somebody
had a question on I can't figure what that question.
Oh and if you've got a zempic stories too, how's
the zempic going for you?

Speaker 13 (01:02:38):
Or that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
I like saying this we Govy. What a great name
for a drag we Govy. So if those things are
happening for you, I know how that's worked out. Are
you half what you once were? Are you eating differently?
We'd have to be, wouldn't you. We're talking about clubs
and societies. If you have some information about those, that's important.

(01:03:02):
By the way, there is a traffic announcement a large
accident the Southern Motorway on the northern side of the
Sylvia Park passover. Six fire trucks and a tenance. It's
just happened.

Speaker 9 (01:03:20):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
I don't know if that is the Southern Motorway or
the Southeastern Highway. Pursumans of Southern Motorway, Well, that has
actually go right over Sylvia Park. But if you've got
some more information about that, do let me know. It's
just there's a type on the text It does say
Marcus Southern w Way. I think it's Southern Motorway on

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the northern side of the Sylvia Park passover. So what's
the Sylvia Park Passover? Oh, I see, I know where
I'm looking. Yeah, thanks for that. It's amazing how that
road goes over Sylvia Park, isn't it? So it must
be around Hamlin's Hill just by there, I would think,

(01:04:06):
So you've got any more information about that litter? So
that sounds quite serious though, and all the lines I
freef we want to talk on it. It will be
nice to hear from you tonight on the Friday free
for all. No sport nothing the guy was right moaning
about sport earlier on. There's nothing happening. It's kind of crazy.
Why would't they have that game against the English team
that was raining? Why would they have it on a
Friday night? Anyway? It feels like that whole competition was

(01:04:27):
just tacked onto the side of something else not good
at all. Twenty two away from ten Marcus to twelve.
It's to be hearing from you if there's something different
you want to talk about tonight. When do fireworks go
on sale? Is that going to be a good thing?
I did see that there's some places now they're advertising
that the fireworks will be for sale here. He has

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been quite windy, but I think it's only three or
four days before before guy fawks. I would be imagined.
I would imagine we're heading into the last decade of fireworks.
It seems as though people's love for them is slightly diminished.
We'll see how that goes, though, Even I've spoken to
people who do sell fireworks, they themselves as they probably

(01:05:13):
the end isn't too far away. That might be something
you want to mention also tonight, Pete Marcus, welcome, Pete good.
Thank you for asking.

Speaker 21 (01:05:23):
They have a bit of trees in on your property, in.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
A lot of trees down, six trees down, six big
trees onto a fence.

Speaker 12 (01:05:31):
Was that right?

Speaker 21 (01:05:32):
So you got plenty of fire with them for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Yeah, But it's big, it's big. What do you call
a lump of what do you call a cross section
of a tree? Round?

Speaker 21 (01:05:41):
Yeah, we call the stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
They're big rounds. They seem to be about they wouldn't
be a meeting across, but they're not much less than
a meter across. They're big.

Speaker 21 (01:05:51):
That's a pretty big big.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
It's a big tree. It's hard to attack because of
course it's all down and resting on the branches, and
you don't want it to roll on top of you
because it's massive. So it's she's a delicate operation.

Speaker 21 (01:06:04):
What's the sort of tree is a sort of name?
Is it a pine tree, a mecha carp or what.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
It's grown up very straight, it's all. It almost is
some sort of macrocarpa, but it's unlikely because there's not
much branches. It's growing tall, very tall.

Speaker 21 (01:06:22):
Lost not lost you Losian?

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Yeah, I don't. I couldn't tell you. It's got those
nuts on like a macro carp It's a nut, isn't it.
They've got those nuts on those little round pine coney things.
What are they on.

Speaker 21 (01:06:38):
Normally? Normally? No, I never see mea campers with.

Speaker 3 (01:06:43):
One of those round what are those round things that
on pine trees?

Speaker 21 (01:06:47):
Yeah, well I'll be I say, to be some sort
of a pine tree.

Speaker 6 (01:06:50):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
But what are those what have those little no, no nut,
But there's like a little like a little soccer ball
type thing with different different segments on it.

Speaker 21 (01:06:59):
Yeah, I don't know. I only know the ones that
I was born the farm with pine trees, a pine tree.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
And I'm curious. I'm curious now to know what they're called.

Speaker 21 (01:07:09):
Yeah, I want to bring it up about it. Is
that true today when he got to attack them parliament today?

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
I thought he was at the debate.

Speaker 21 (01:07:17):
Now I just watching an o some sort of hopes.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
But is it the Oxford debate.

Speaker 21 (01:07:23):
Must be some scam. He's got got a shiner on
his right eye and he's got to cut her on
his nose. You have a look at it. Shane Jones
is the want of his He is setting up some money.
You put some money in, you got you read it
to the clip on there now and you've got some
sort of return for very little money. I don't know
what sort of but you have a look at it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
Where would I go to look at it? Sounds like
a to me, Pete, it might be a it might
be some.

Speaker 21 (01:07:48):
Sort of scamy thing, but it looks pretty genuine. James Jones,
he gets pushed over. When he gets pushed over, you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Just send them some money.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Well what.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Are they asking? Are they asking for your money?

Speaker 5 (01:08:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:08:03):
Well it was sort of like when he's sitting it up.
I got scaranteed money.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Yeah, I don't know much about that.

Speaker 21 (01:08:11):
We're not gonna you'll you'll see it. I'm just trying
to find it out now. It's instant update. I'm just
trying to find it. It'scott. It's got the rights than you.
It's got like the one used Michael in the front,
like a typical you know, media type what.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Website you, Pete, say.

Speaker 21 (01:08:28):
He's here instant instant update sponsored whatever that is. It's
gotta got u in in zif dot com. What's it again,
it's got capital small. It's called like New Zealand a

(01:08:48):
capital go capital in z a hef dot com. That's
that might be something scam, but it's pretty real. He's
over seas, but I wouldn't have an he's over sea.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
He's a tach.

Speaker 21 (01:09:00):
Overseas right now?

Speaker 10 (01:09:00):
Is he?

Speaker 11 (01:09:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Is it the Oxford Debate?

Speaker 21 (01:09:04):
Well, it's obviously a scammed and if you have a
look at looks pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
But Pete, when you say you have a look, I
can't just style something out because some weird stuff on
your Facebook.

Speaker 6 (01:09:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 21 (01:09:15):
I know what I'm on here, but I'm just saying here,
I'm just on I know, just on what's on your mind, Pete, Peter.
It's just in one of those Google sort of things,
you know that all these things that are coming all
around the world.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
You know, and it says what's on your mind, Peter,
just basically just.

Speaker 21 (01:09:33):
Because you put something in there and you say whatever
you want. You know, what you're looking at us though,
what you want to what you want to find out.
But you look at it looks pretty genuine.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
When you say, I overlook at it, I can't just
look at it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
Can I?

Speaker 15 (01:09:45):
I don't know what it is.

Speaker 21 (01:09:46):
But the son I'm just on I know what I'm
on Facebook. When you look at it's on Facebook site.

Speaker 12 (01:09:52):
But it's just look you look at it looks.

Speaker 21 (01:09:54):
Real, real, quite well, however they scammed. It looks pretty generous.
But Mark, he's just doing a normal interview. The next
one of these Americans looks like it's actually in the
Parliament and the and the corridors here. Next minute he
gets he gets pushed over. James Shane Jones is here
as well. He gets pushed over, and you look at me.
He's got a big shine big saying his right eye

(01:10:17):
is going to shine and he's going to cut on
his nose.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Wow, okay, but I can't see it. Pete twelve way
from ten, My names Marcus, welcome, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. She's got me thinking about what those trees.
Why hadn't we thought about that? They have all of
of nuts on them. He must be a cypress, but
it's it's it almost the back looks the back looks
quite red, almost like a redwood. It's a Marcus been

(01:10:43):
on YouTube the last week Juliet's Marcus Good.

Speaker 22 (01:10:49):
Evening Marcus Kay was talking about when she said that
is a stan Marcus if they've been doing it with
lux and genuine coffin and we Barry, Yeah, yeah, if
for you to invest this really what is?

Speaker 23 (01:11:03):
He thanks?

Speaker 22 (01:11:06):
I just want if you want to the job the
bank directly because the not into one have as Alex
security guard. He said, it's a scam.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Yeah, Judy, yes, what's the scam?

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
Was a scam?

Speaker 14 (01:11:22):
What the one?

Speaker 10 (01:11:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 22 (01:11:28):
You hubles if they want you to invest in? Really
there's nothing really, no, there's something there. You should you said,
you should talk to Good. The answers don't do things that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
I now, only Judy could just talk to the receiver
a bit more.

Speaker 6 (01:11:45):
You talking.

Speaker 24 (01:11:49):
Myne husband said, he said that the said that does
not and I have a try and like that on
on the on Facebook and things right there. It's it's
it's the scammed better and going on about it and
she's taken action again and so as even Luck said,
what even Luxton doing it as well?

Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
But why would people give money to a shot with
Winston with a black eye. What's the point. I don't
get how it works.

Speaker 24 (01:12:17):
Well, John said it's some much fish enough, it's not.

Speaker 13 (01:12:26):
It's a scam market.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
It's definitely Dow's a scale. I'm just more curious about
the mechanations of the scam. Grieving need of this is Marcus.
Welcomeat Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:12:36):
The the anything the only two trees that we've got,
and they're part of the world here in New Zealand
that have anything like that that was described to you.
And one of them there's a walnut tree and the
other one as an acorn tree. I don't know what

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that tree is called, but I've always called it an
acorn tree. But they're the only tree that would have
anything going on them. The like was that you was
trying to work out, and the scribe to you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
Here there's your property.

Speaker 10 (01:13:15):
Yeah, it's all right. I've got no trees down and
I've got a heap of high trees here, but they're
in a shelter belt, you know. But I've never been topped.
And so whether I got through it or but yeah,
the kettle's all right and the sheep.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
So you didn't you didn't get the you didn't get
the old You didn't get bettered.

Speaker 10 (01:13:39):
Oh yeah, we did, because on halfway between christ Church
and Rollston, if I went out the gate and I
turned turned to the right, or end up in the Hornby,
and if I went out for the gate and turned left,
i'd get I would go to Rollston, you see. So no,

(01:14:01):
we got everything that was you know, talked about on
the the other people were getting in other parts.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
Of New Zealand here, but no, not laid your damage.

Speaker 10 (01:14:13):
No, No, We've got a two story here and that.
But it didn't get any no damage. There was no
damage at all. Really, it was just you just kicked
away from the windows and things because there was a
lot of lightning and flashing and things going on.

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
But yeah, you get up and down the st you
get up and down the stairs.

Speaker 10 (01:14:35):
All right, Yeah, I know, I got my bedroom down stairs. Stairs.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Oh he what's upstairs?

Speaker 10 (01:14:42):
Oh well, there's five bedrooms upstairs. There's a fireplace downstairs
here in the lounge, and then there's another lounge upstairs
with a fireplace. Ever, but he passed away seven years ago,
so since then, I've I put my bed down here
in the lambs, in the in the in the kitchen

(01:15:04):
here yeah, seeing the bed right from where I'm sitting
here there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:09):
Can you get up the stairs?

Speaker 10 (01:15:11):
Oh yeah, I can walk up the stairs here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
But no point going up there because you got it
all downstairs.

Speaker 10 (01:15:16):
A yeah, but like I'm made, I'll be eighty one
in January coming up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Yeah, so you're eighty.

Speaker 10 (01:15:23):
Yeah, I'm eighty at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
But it's funny how a lot of people's a lot
of people when they get all there and say hell now,
they say how old are you going to be? What's
that about?

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:15:33):
I don't know. It's just that I could have said
that I made at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
But yeah, but I just noticed that today it was
all only one next year, I'm only one in January here,
but ye, it's a good age. How are your knees?

Speaker 19 (01:15:48):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:15:49):
The bagging to any bloody legs? So get Oh I
can't walk away in mutch you know, I haven't got
one of them trolley things that you push around. I
don't need one of them. But just going out to
the letter box, I mean me utes parked in the
drive and going at the letter bowl. So I got

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the youth parked halfway up me drive and I leave
the house the back door of the house and I
go out the end. The first thing I do is
get to the ute and I lean on them in
the back of the youth and then get them, get
them breath back with it, and then go to the
letter box and same thing coming back.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
It is an occupational hazard for your knee. Were your
mechanic on the cool concrete or something?

Speaker 14 (01:16:37):
Yeah, yeah, but no.

Speaker 10 (01:16:41):
That didn't help. But I I got knocked around and
with it when I built ben More Navy more dams
with Yeah, me and twelve other men did that. We're
fighting twelve hundred other mean.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Yeah, when you say knocked around, is it from fights
or from tunneling?

Speaker 10 (01:16:58):
From tunneling?

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
Yeah, yeah, tunnel You got tunnel's knee.

Speaker 10 (01:17:03):
I know you didn't. You didn't get your knees down
on the ground when you had tunnel. But you had
to work jack hammers and things like that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Oh yeah, that were just that would that would just
shake your joints free?

Speaker 21 (01:17:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Yeah, but how much would a jack came away?

Speaker 10 (01:17:22):
Oh no, I don't know. But you take to me
to carry it? Yeah, okay, because it's kind of staying
that goes with it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
No one was jim fitting those days. I just lived
on bear, didn't they. Yeah, yeah, yeah, beer and pies.

Speaker 10 (01:17:40):
See there was we all stayed in perhaps and Teffy
Evans was the cook and he had the cook for
twelve hundred men, but he had met twenty other people
helping him in the cook shop. But yeah, it was

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it was all full on the eSight. It was eight
hundred on the day shift.

Speaker 9 (01:18:09):
Is creepy.

Speaker 10 (01:18:09):
The day shift hang on six handred on the day shift.
And the day shift started at midday and went through
to midnight twelve airs, and then the night shift started
at midnight and went through to twelve o'clock dinner time.
There was the day shift.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
I've got to go for news the but nice to
hear from you. Thank you for that. Ten oh seven,
good evening. The people who's in welcome it to Marcus
till twelve. I hope it's good where you are. A
lot of places are still without power. If that's you,
I hope it's going all right for you. Let us
know how you are coping. You're probably in the car

(01:18:45):
driving around front of drive your phone, because that's the
modern condition. If you've got no parrot home, you're in
your car trying to get your phone going. Ah, seems
to be the thing now they're telling people to ration
petrol in the south yep. Fuel is scarce in Southend

(01:19:06):
Up today. But I didn't realize it was a shortage.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
So I don't know why that is. But do you
in touch with on a talk eight hundred and eighty
LeWitt's Marcus good evening?

Speaker 14 (01:19:22):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus. I was just ringing up about clubs
and societies. As you'll probably know to yourself. The two
ends z F and then the cargo still going and
I think the only other second ends off in the
country is in Gisbon.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
What's and what did you say? Is in South Under?

Speaker 18 (01:19:41):
What?

Speaker 6 (01:19:43):
And the cargo?

Speaker 14 (01:19:44):
It's the second end Z second Expeditionary Force.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Oh yes, okay, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 14 (01:19:52):
I think it's a breakaway of the RSA after the
Second World War because the Second World War veterans weren't
actually recognized by the RSA by the First World War
veterans because I could wrong here, but because yeah, it
wasn't they didn't really class as a World War. And

(01:20:14):
the ironic thing is they actually done the same thing
to the Vietnam veterans when they come back, so they
obviously never learned their lesson during the Second World War.
But the two ends and yes, is that I think yeah,
I'm pretty sure they are a breakaway of the RSA
because there used to be quite a lot of clubs
as a ten Hat Club and various other clubs.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Or hang away for what's what's the tin Hat club?

Speaker 14 (01:20:41):
Ah, that existed? I think No, I.

Speaker 15 (01:20:48):
Don't really know.

Speaker 14 (01:20:49):
I only remember it because I knew one of the
Order finds that was in it. But I think they're veterans.
They may have been in the Pacific during the Second
World War, but there was quite a number of clubs
of course, way back in the seventies and the sixties.

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
I've never heard of that club.

Speaker 14 (01:21:07):
And I definitely existed, not a number Cargo. I'm talking
about Duneding here.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Sorry, no, you're but you're talking about the End of
the f club. I've never heard of that, haven't.

Speaker 14 (01:21:16):
It's in Don Street. It's yeah, it's in Don Street.
It's the Queen Street Queen's Dry at the end of
Don Street. It's one seventy seven. It's got a big
blue sign on the outside.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
And what happens there we have.

Speaker 14 (01:21:38):
It's just i'll get together for victims of the armed services.
Mainly it's basically just like the RSA because there's no
actually speaking of which the RSA is affiliated to the
second nd Z. Yes in the cargo. So yeah, basically

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it's the same as the RSA, but it's just a breakaway.
As I was saying, mmmm mm hm. And we have
nxact day services there and it's quite active as far
as moral services are concerned.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
So is there a standard? Is there a standard r
s A with an vicago just the ends there's an
r s A half but they don't have one.

Speaker 20 (01:22:31):
There was a bluff a r s A and there's
only there is I think there is one at the
Workingman's Club, which is a section, but I don't know
whether it's still active. But yeah, as I was saying,

(01:22:53):
the r RUHA r s A is affiliated with the
two ends.

Speaker 17 (01:22:59):
At the.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
It was the r R ROW or r s A.

Speaker 14 (01:23:05):
They're based. Oh, they were based in Tisbury, but now
they've moved into town with us.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Oh I see they're combined with you. Okay, yeah, yeah,
well that's a bit of history.

Speaker 19 (01:23:17):
For me.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
It's just the same. Do they have the ODE.

Speaker 14 (01:23:22):
No, Well that's one thing different was the two ends
that Yes, they don't have the oath at six or
seven o'clock, so.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
There's no oath at all, no, no, And you can
get a meal there, yes, yes, Friday nights. Is it
open to the public if you sign in.

Speaker 14 (01:23:43):
Yeah, if you signing, yeah, definitely. And they're pretty friendly
group down there.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
But they wouldn't make they wouldn't you wear a hat?

Speaker 13 (01:23:50):
Was you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
They're pretty big on hats inside.

Speaker 6 (01:23:53):
Yeah, that's real.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
I reckon, I reckon. Thers would probably do a bit
better if they just chilled out on their hats.

Speaker 18 (01:24:02):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:24:02):
It's just a sign of respect.

Speaker 10 (01:24:04):
Really.

Speaker 13 (01:24:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
But also too, you're a guest there, and then someone
might know I've been there often with the yell at
people to wear their hats, I think, well, actually, yeah, anyway,
I suppose it's.

Speaker 14 (01:24:12):
Their rules and I speaks you're on an ensat day,
I mean yeah, because if it was.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
People people wear hats differently these days, but a lot
of people wear hats all the time.

Speaker 14 (01:24:25):
Well, yeah, that's right, that's yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:24:27):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
I guess it's their club to it. I found that
very interesting. Thank you for that. Fourteen past ten, we're
talking clubs incorporated clubs find it very interesting. What have
you got? What do you want to say? Oh eight
hundred eighty ten eighty all about this? Yeah, let's be
hearing from this. Something you want to mention? Oh eight
hundred eighty taddy and nineteen nine two text Feel free
to come through. Also, if you are without power, let

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me know more about that and how that's working out
for you. If you need any more information I can
provide you without I can go onto websites. But the
word is well, it's not looking good anyway. Do get through.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nineteen nine two
to text if you want to come through anyway, Yeah,
they do. Get in touch. If you want to be
a part of it. Anything else you want to mention,

(01:25:10):
feel free to come through.

Speaker 4 (01:25:12):
Do do.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
Give us a holler.

Speaker 25 (01:25:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
No sport tonight. I think there is cricket at the
Cricket World Cup. The Women's World Cup seems to be
raining quite heavily. So it's funny. The tournament is such
a dry country and it's rain the whole time. I
don't know how dry it is really, but it's not
the monsoon season, is it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:25:35):
Updates on Kluther and the state of emergency? What can
I tell you about that? The state of emergency has
been declared for the Clither district and Somedane residents face
another night without power after widespread wind damage, and it's
a situation that slightly continue into the weekend. By the way,
a lot of farmers having a great deal of trouble

(01:25:56):
with their milk and shed and no power. I means
it's free hard to dump milk. So you don't know
if you'd be insured for that. Would you be insured
if you're a dairy farm? So I guess the tanker
drivers aren't out and about picking stuff up because there's
nothing to do. Would that be right? We might have
some insight to that. Also, I know that farmers are

(01:26:19):
sort of sharing generators to get all their milking done,
but the cows don't like it. It's fifteen past ten.
If you want to talk about that or anything else, Yes, anyway,

(01:26:40):
being touched you want to be part of the show
eight hundred and eighty taty and nine two ninety text
for anything else you want to talk about, where I
talk about incorporated societies and RSAs, and if there's other
stuff too, I'll keep you out dated with the news
around the world. Also tonight, I can promise you that.

Speaker 4 (01:26:59):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
The other thing too is last year we talked about
Christmas hams and they said this is the time of
year to auder a ham. So you're probably not even
thinking about it, but this is the butchers that do hams.
Or we spoke to Porcino Bacon. They said this is

(01:27:21):
the time they want the orders. So this year you
warned in advance ten twenty seven. Good evening, Josephine.

Speaker 23 (01:27:33):
Hello, I lived in England for quite a number of
years and I did notice that the par lines are
mostly underground, and I think that might be time that
they started to consider doing that here with the storms.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
I don't know why they I guess it's just not
the denser. I guess it's more expensive, but a lot
more reliable.

Speaker 23 (01:27:57):
Yes, definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
I don't know what the any cost would be. And
I presume it's easy to repair them if they're on
power lines, because they could get to them. But I
guess then if they're underground they need to be as
repaired as often.

Speaker 23 (01:28:12):
No, I don't think they do well. They don't have
trouble when there's a storm.

Speaker 3 (01:28:15):
No, No, didn't. Did christ Church before the quake with
all their powerlines underground or not?

Speaker 23 (01:28:22):
I'm not sure about that. I'm sorry, I can't tell you. No,
I can't tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
There's some story that some of them might have been
underground that caused problems, because anyway, I can't remember. I
don't know enough about christ Church before.

Speaker 23 (01:28:32):
I can't remember either. But I don't know that it
would of course much. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
I think probably the most urban areas are putting their
power underground, but probably in rural areas. In most of
Southend's rural it's just probably too expensive, i'd think.

Speaker 23 (01:28:48):
But it's a little bit shortsighted because I live in
a little bit Lache out of christ Church and we
have to have trees trimmed. They you know, they have
to go around trimming the trees and it's quite expensive.
So maybe putting them I don't know whether they could
put them in something under the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
And trimming trimming trees is unbelievably expensive because you go
to all that traffic management to stop the cars going past.

Speaker 23 (01:29:20):
So in the end it might not be so much
more expensive, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:29:24):
I don't, Josephine, I don't disagree with you. Thank you
for that call. He'll twelve. My name is Marcus Wilk.
If you want to talk eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty it do come to if you want to here
till midnight. If there's something else you want to talk about, Yeah,
and if you want to talk about that, that's what
we're on about. And clubs like the Cozi clubs and

(01:29:47):
the likes because the Peppinui Aria is about to close.
Funny on week Monday, don't what are you talking about
on Monday, Dan, Monday, don't know. Tuesday was all the storm.
Wednesday was the preparation for the storm. Thursday was the storm.
It's kind of a weird week with three days of storms.
Monday was something quite different though I don't know what
it was. What was it the first one? Oh, Leonard

(01:30:11):
Skinner and Halloween and asparagus of course, and things wrapped
in bacon. Oh, I'd love something wrapped in bacon in
whitetail spiders or chicken or chicken bacon as this seems
to be the one these days now. If you want
to be on on on the show, that's the plan
for tonight. If you've got any new and interesting riddles.

(01:30:34):
Someone came on with a riddle that were the first
out that was quite good fun, so you might have wanted.
It's risky to say that because some of them could
be duds, but I'm up for it. So if you've
got a fun riddle, not like something that we've heard
from about thirty years ago, so keep it fresh, do
come through. Also talks about the clubs. There might be

(01:30:56):
something entirely random you want to go on about tonight.
You might want to try some new material, but do
get in touch if you want to be a part
of the show. And who's going to after Bejim, I'm snead,
and won't it sneed's on after twelve in the meantime
enough you want to be a part of it, and
you might want to talk about power lines. But yeah,
why would power poles snap? I guess you don't need

(01:31:20):
to maintain them. But does surprise me that that snap?
I guess probably a lot of it is because a
combination of extremely strong ones and the very wet spring,
so the ground is re wet and the poles move
a lot because of that. That would be my take

(01:31:41):
on that one. Back in time, not quite why back
in time. Just oh god, that's what we need to know.
How late was I? Jay, that's a long time, Sorry
about that. It was a slow kettle, paul In. It's Marcus. Welcome, Hello, Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:32:03):
I have a riddle for you. Yes, what's more intelligence
than a talking parrot?

Speaker 3 (01:32:11):
Is it a joke or a riddle?

Speaker 11 (01:32:13):
It's a riddle, two talking parrots, a spelling bee.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
It's very good. Okay, okay, bye bye bye.

Speaker 17 (01:32:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
I don't know if it's a riddle. Maybe it's a riddle.
Maybe maybe I was saying something. Maybe I had something else.
Maybe I had wasn't visiting envisagioning envisage in something else. Anyway,
very good. We asked for those Oh, oh, Mike, because
I think most new subdivisions have underground metric wise. Someone

(01:32:48):
may know if that's correct or not. I'm sure most
places have underground wise, don't they? All the urban areas do.
I'm sure they do. Now they took them all down,
didn't they? Um are the poles power poles wooden? If so?

(01:33:10):
They wrote at ground level? I think most I've seen
fallen over we're wooden, Marcus wise and vocable councils shredding
fallen trees. Why not cut them up and deliver them
to elderly for farwood during the winter. For a good point,
I think there's an extraordinary amount they've got, though they're
probably overwhelmed anyway, Do come through you want to talk

(01:33:34):
on heir as, I say, Oh, wait eighty nine nine
detext Underground power lines create capacitive loss of power, so
pylons and poles are more efficient. Underground cables can step
in earthquakes. Oh and a lot of support about the hats,

(01:33:56):
which is nice to see. Christ Chi still has many
above ground power lots of power lost in the earthquake.
Thank you. I always wondered why farmers don't have big
generators in their milking shed. Sure they are expensively, have
enough money to afford it, and it would be a
tax right off too. I feel for the cows and
pain for not being milk milked. Marcus. Yes, I wear

(01:34:24):
a hat. I even wear my hat to go to church.
One of the reasons is because I have a very
receding hairline and I'm embarrassed to let people see my
run what run what runway where everyone else has grass
on the head. That's the reason why I wear a hat.
I'm sure a lot of people are the same. Anyway,

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do come through you want to talk on their Marcus
till twelve power just came on at my place in
Clifton near Bluff Highway. Yay, thank you for that, and
eighty eight if you want to talk on their. Twenty
two away from eleven here till twelve o'clock tonight, people.

(01:35:09):
I do a quick check of nded TIA to make
sure the roads are open. But power lines and underground
power lines, I guess it will be much much more
expensive and much much more expensive to do maintenance on
because you've got to dig up the road each time
or beside the road. But yeah, the power, and I
guess the power. So many power lines are snapped around
the South just shows how incredibly strong the winds were,

(01:35:33):
unbelievably strong. I don't think we've got the four reports
of how strong they were, but jeep as creepers, and
this is the new normal, so expect more of this,
which is going to be unsustainable, isn't it. We can't
have the powers going out of the time, so I'm
not quite sure what we're going to do about that. Anyway.
Twenty one away from eleven if you want to talk

(01:35:54):
here till midnight tonight, my name is Marcus. Welcome. If
there's something else you want to mention talk about, if
there's questions you want to ask about power or water
or anything like that. If you're struggling with not having power,
just get in touch and I can do the googling
to work out what you need to know. I'll do
that for you. Not a problem. And someone said, as
far as Pauling's that was one hundred percent of joke. Yes,

(01:36:16):
I thought it was a joke too. Had my puzzle
I had my puzzle head on, not my laugh at
a joke head, which was a bit different. Anyway. Oh,
by the way, how's your clean up going today? People?
Did you spend the day chopping down trees? And how
that work out? For exhausting? I thought, but amazing those

(01:36:39):
whole rows of windbreaks that fell over or blew over,
it was unbelievable. But there we go. I guess we'll
beyond that now. I guess that's yesterday's news. There's been
a situation at p Hart tonight. There's been somebody helicoptered
from there to go to hospital. I presume they've been
dragged from the water and they weren't going to survive

(01:36:59):
the road, so they've chopped them out. Seemed to be
like almost nighttime rescue. That one. You don't often see
the helicopter's landing on the beach there. But that's the
information for you. Now we talk about the RSAs and
the Cozi clubs, the Papanui one that is closing, and
someone said a lot of these Cozi clubs aren't or
the cosmopolitan clubs, but the clubs in general and the

(01:37:21):
workingmen clubs are in trouble. Although someone said that christ Church,
unlike anyone else, has a lot of those clubs. You
might be involved in those. I'd be curious to know
how well they are going if you've got a lot
of members. X all idea free firewood for those and
need eg families, those unwell and the elderly. We should

(01:37:42):
build boats and sailing ships. Marcus yellow helmets hornets have
been found in these in does anyone know much about them.
Dairy farmers usually do have generators. Lessons have been learned
from previous weather events. The problem arises when farms are
cut off for the tankers to pack up the milk.
The milk needs dumping. You know, the situation this time

(01:38:04):
is not about the tankers can't get there. It's not
the roads to flood. It's just there's no power. What
they probably need is no I don't know how you'd
work it out, but I've heard people on the radio
say that they've been getting traveling around the whole South.
I'm looking for generators. They've been desperate for them, and
there's none available because of the demand for them. But yep,

(01:38:26):
that's not going to get me till twelve o'clock. Dough
If you want to talk on air, that's what we're
about tonight. You have got an opinion. If you want
to talk, let's be hearing from you. Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine nine Tex. They say power could
be out for a week. I don't know how we've
got on with the Riversdale and the North Island because
they were out. They lost power on Tuesday and that

(01:38:48):
was out for a while. I haven't heard more information
about that, but yeah, get in touch of this. Something
else you want to mention also tonight. Oh and your
plans for the long weekend? That's right, I forgot that's
the long weekend. No Monday yeah, so if you've got
some information about that that would be good or anything else.

(01:39:11):
Let me think what else I can tell you about
what's happening today in the news. By the way, we've
failed to reach the playoff stage and the ODI World
Cup the women. So we will play England this Sunday,
but I don't know if there's anything in it. I
don't have England still qualify. That's unfortunate. It's also World

(01:39:35):
Polio today. You might be someone that experiences polio and
that would be of interest too. It looks like McDonald
is going Wilak is going to get a McDonald after all,
it's just going to be in a different place. They
had a plan a, so that's what they are doing.

(01:39:56):
It's just going to go into a less kind of
salubrious area. It's not going to go near Mount Diane.
It's going to go in the three hour I think
what it's called the big shopping mall. They've got there
full of all sorts of shops. So McDonald's wouldn't ruin
the time because it all seems to be kind of
franchises and stuff like that. Diane, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:40:20):
I I've got a young man, that's he's nearly pulled
the melting down there. It's about twenty minutes away from you,
and it's just repired me to know it's shite here
at the moment.

Speaker 12 (01:40:34):
No rain, it's the winds work, the strongest.

Speaker 11 (01:40:37):
One I've ever seen in my whole life. So much damage. Yeah,
it's bad. Trees down everywhere. We've still got no power.
It might even be a couple of days before we
get powering. And yeah, we're doing it tough. We're just
walking our cows down the road now.

Speaker 21 (01:40:57):
To our neighbors.

Speaker 11 (01:40:59):
Have got a generator to milk them there and his
cow she goes the opposite way to our one hundred
lady cows have to be hand pushed on one by one.

Speaker 5 (01:41:12):
It's a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
How far how far is he having to move the
car to move the cows, Diane, Ah.

Speaker 11 (01:41:18):
Just to his neighbors. Probably he can't get them down
the racers because it's so many trees done. Uh yeah,
it's it's.

Speaker 5 (01:41:32):
Back up north of my can.

Speaker 10 (01:41:34):
Dam.

Speaker 11 (01:41:35):
I just feel useful.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Because you don't think of the dairy farmer has been
vulnerable to power cuts or things like that.

Speaker 11 (01:41:43):
But no, no, And I said, can you not get
gandle again. It's not one in the side down here. Yeah,
everybody thinks counting for them, So so did that?

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Why did you say tell me that bit about the
the power that the rotary shed goes the other way?
Why do they have to push it?

Speaker 11 (01:42:07):
They have to push the cows on because I used
to going in the other.

Speaker 6 (01:42:11):
Way, the opposite way.

Speaker 11 (01:42:12):
I see what you're saying, and they're just not used
to it, so that many cows have to be pushed on.

Speaker 3 (01:42:21):
Did he milk them yesterday?

Speaker 11 (01:42:23):
I know, yeah, he must have milked yesterday morning.

Speaker 3 (01:42:30):
Is he on one day milking you? That's the thing,
because because I mean, yeah, they're going to be some
tired farmers, because I'm sure the fire farmers themselves been
out there chopping down trees and the like too to
try and cure races and things.

Speaker 5 (01:42:42):
Yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:42:44):
It's God, I just feel so much for them all
day on there. It's not just mine.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
It's not nice. It's not nice for the cows. Did
he has he got an idea when the power is
going to come on?

Speaker 11 (01:43:00):
No, he said it's probably another two days away.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
And did he say if he was insured for the
price of trying to get hold of a generator or
the loss of income.

Speaker 11 (01:43:09):
No, he didn't talk about that. He probably is, yes,
he will be hell, just go dry? Now gets the
rest of the season?

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Yes? And how long is until they go dry?

Speaker 4 (01:43:29):
Where are we?

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
But how long? How long for them not to be
milk before they go.

Speaker 12 (01:43:37):
Remember?

Speaker 8 (01:43:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:43:40):
Okay, well ask someone else doing that's a good call.

Speaker 13 (01:43:43):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:44):
Twelve to eleven. Don't forget that, Aurora, that the Eden
Lions Company were caught and are still years behind their
pole maintenance replacement pocketed the casher maintenance, and then the
comments commission at them charged their customers a fee the
second time to catch up. Yeah, that did seem to
be sketchy. There was one kind of advocate about their
poles because the poles on I mean I drive past

(01:44:08):
the poles on the Bluff Road every day and a
lot of them have been on the lean and they
have been maintaining them. But yeah, boy boy, they fell
over like like fainting soldiers. But a lot of it
didn't help. All that tin that blew off from Ocean
Beach the old dairy factory. Now, how can you have
a building when so much tin come off at the

(01:44:31):
storm and is that an accident or is that just
bad maintenance? And I want to say about that evening, Kevin,
it's Marcus. Welcome, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:44:41):
Nice to speak to you again. You were quite rude
to me the other night when I was talking to
you about Bassis. It shut me down really quick. I
said it was in Victoria, but it's not. It's in
New South Wales.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Anyway, I apologize for that.

Speaker 6 (01:45:04):
That's all right.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:45:08):
I'm presently in paraphram. And there's a long time listener,
but no time caller called mister pac Man who'd been
listening tonight. I'll have to get him onto the to
the phone to give you a carey. Is a lovely chap.
Now listen. Gairy cows lactation. I was unfortunately milking in

(01:45:32):
two thousand and four of the Manor of Two when
we had the four floods, and that put how I
was in the choiring region and the lord of Manor
of Tu, and that put told to us getting the
cows to the dairy shed. And of course the day

(01:45:56):
after the big flood there was a massive storm that
went through the Manor two and selled trees, even young
and forest were just flattened, and of course we had
no power. But we had a team of a teen
a group of dairy farmersts that all bounded banded together

(01:46:23):
and we milked out of one shed. We had a generator,
because of course the whole mental two was bigger.

Speaker 10 (01:46:32):
There was.

Speaker 6 (01:46:34):
No spare generators for everybody to have one.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
So we sheared a.

Speaker 6 (01:46:39):
Shed and we used to take turns at walking our
cows around to the dairy shed that was all set
up with.

Speaker 10 (01:46:50):
With the.

Speaker 6 (01:46:52):
What are they called generators, and Fonterra were very very
good because they just like all the milk went into
the chaps vat which was a very big one, and
dairy something dairy farm, a dairy company sort of would

(01:47:13):
sort of they worked out how much milk each of
us would have and pay the secordinary. Anyway, Gary coals
this time of the year. They don't like missing the milk.
They're designed to make a lot of milk and this
is the time when they start to flush up. They've
just carved anyway, and so if you didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:47:35):
Milk them, if you if you didn't milk them for
four days, would they stop lactating?

Speaker 6 (01:47:40):
Oh hell, they'd be follow outside us so it'll be
shocking to them they keep producing milk course, because you
have to feed them, and they'd be it'll be just terrible.
But I already imagine the guys down south would be
set up where they'd be doing similar to what we

(01:48:02):
did in the middle too, where we shared the one
shared with the power and you have to keep milking
them or are your season bug it?

Speaker 15 (01:48:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
Okay, and you couldn't. You couldn't milk them by how
many could you milk by hand in an hour?

Speaker 6 (01:48:22):
Well, back in the old days they used to milk
thirty or so by hand, but we all had in
the those in the early two thousands, you know, worth
three or four hundred cow herds, So no chance of
milking them by hand at all. And how about split

(01:48:44):
second on clubs, Yes, they got a couple of minutes, Yeah, okay,
the Minu of two club. It was ablished in eighteen
eighty four and it's situated on Linton Street and on
the corner of Linton Street and Church Street in Palms

(01:49:04):
North and it's one of the few clubs that have survived.
And the reason it has survived was the fact that
the club was big enough where we could share a
part of it, and the front part of the club

(01:49:26):
was leased out to a company called Bruise Apprentice and
they had a cock tail bar and what have you there,
And of course their rental was helping us, like we
got to the stage and it's still going strong now.
Of course we got to the stage where we didn't

(01:49:46):
need subscriptions from members because the rental that we were
getting from the tenant out front was sufficient to pay
the costs. Anyway, that club's absolutely extant history.

Speaker 18 (01:50:04):
It used to be.

Speaker 6 (01:50:06):
Used by farmers that came to town and they would
do business with seven warriors and they would all meet
at the middle or two club, and there were stables
there to tie the horses. And I'm still to this
day I think as the Queen's charter, which means it

(01:50:30):
can I don't never exercise of the course, but they
can actually sell okay off off premises. But anyway, that's
just a little.

Speaker 3 (01:50:46):
Touch, which was it's still going strong, Kevin, very very
strong and okay capline online. But thanks very much so
that I was going to go to the news, but
be back after. People get in touch if you want
to hit a twelve ree happy to talk eight hundred
and eighty today Roberts Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:51:02):
Yeah, yeah you Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
How are you a good rob?

Speaker 12 (01:51:06):
Interesting that last guy talking about the man Or two club.
I look, if he's talking about the club on the
Linton and Church Street. I think he could be talking
about the Cosmopolitan Club.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Because I couldn't find it anywhere online, so I presume
he was talking about that. I presume it's changed. It's
it's kind of changed its its name. I guess that
was what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (01:51:33):
Yes, yes, well I think they did. But there's an
interesting story behind it, because there was a whole other
infighting when they built this new building and it amalgamated
with I think I'm just going on what I could remember.
I could be wrong, but the bowling club, the squash club,

(01:51:55):
and the Cosmopolitan Club, and then they built these new premises,
and I think the Cosmopolitan Club being the bigger club,
they were socking up all the financials and assets of
the two other clubs. But the members didn't want to
give up, give up, you know, because they felt that

(01:52:17):
they were they were relinquishing their financials and all their assets.
And yeah, it was in court for years and years
and they soaked up millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:52:28):
Are you involved? Were you involved in it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
Oh no, no, not at all.

Speaker 12 (01:52:34):
Look, it was just all in the newspapers.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
Are you Are you involved in these clubs? It seems
to me what happens is that they have a committee,
and the committee seems to be the guy that's spent
the most of the time at the bar. It's probably
the worst person that should be running the joint.

Speaker 12 (01:52:47):
Well, well, the think what they've done, Marcus is they
got these sort of well known one er two icons
and they weren't businessmen and the RSA here had thousands
of members, but they got they had estate and what
they've done is built new premises and they put a

(01:53:10):
motel on it. And you know, they just got outside
of what they knew. And yeah, they've gone broke. There's
no rising palms the north, so yeah, you know, instead
of sticking to what they knew, they try to be businessmen.

Speaker 3 (01:53:29):
And also say icons. When you say icons, what do
you reckon?

Speaker 16 (01:53:33):
Well, well, I don't want to go. Well, they just
got well known, well known one or two people. I
mean you can look it up online and see who
it is. Yeah, and they didn't know that they were hopeless.

Speaker 3 (01:53:47):
You know, with the manage the appointed managers, is that
what they were?

Speaker 12 (01:53:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so they got someone to run it.
It's like it's like having a sheep farm, but you
get someone who knows about pigs to run it.

Speaker 15 (01:53:59):
Yeah, you know, it's just just no idea.

Speaker 12 (01:54:01):
But but here's another interesting thing is that they run
under old rules. Marcus. You've got to sign to go,
and you can't buy a beer unless you're being signed in.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
You can you can't wear a hat or they'll yell
at you.

Speaker 12 (01:54:16):
Yeah, exactly. And if you go into the pokey room,
well I'm not interested in that anyway. But if you
haven't signed in or you're not a member, you can't win.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
That's crazy, because crazy. I think the people think that
people will be staggered by if they go to Sydney
or New South Wales or the Gold Coast. They've got
clubs there that seem to work extremely well and seem
to be upmarket and enjoyable places, which is the opposite
for the clubs in New Zealand.

Speaker 12 (01:54:45):
You're exactly right. I mean I've gone on there and
they said, oh well, just do your shirt up a
bit and pull your socks up. You just signing then, Yeah,
but that's sort of slightly different because I've got a
huge population and you know it's all about you know,
they have thousands of poking machines, half a dozen and

(01:55:06):
restaurants and and but here, you know, the barman's miserable. Yeah,
they're just not very nice places.

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
And they also don't seem to have the awareness that
they're not nice places. They've all been there too long
and are too trying to hold onto it for dear
life that they they can't see that the country's changed
and people want something a bit different.

Speaker 12 (01:55:30):
Exactly. Well, they do belong to a collective. I think
it's the Charted Clubs of New Zealand, and you can
you know, I'm a member of a pool club, but
they're affiliated to the Charted club in New Zealand and
I can go to those things. But I've just got
to be signed in and we're a bloody you know,
they put a wristband on your bloody and a lot

(01:55:54):
like look stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:55:56):
But they also get grant delusions of grand You're like,
they went in christ jur it's the r s A.
They built a big, brand new place and all sorts
of things then that went bung.

Speaker 12 (01:56:05):
Yeah, well that's once again you're getting people in there
that don't know anything a about business, how they should operate.
And the food. You know, you could get a teen
you know, I used to go with my own laws
and you could get a ten dollar roast, and now
it's a thirty dollar roast. You know, it's just yeah,
it's just just expense. And there's a lot more variety.

(01:56:28):
You can get a lot more places for cheaper.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
Now. That's right. Foods change in this country, hasn't it.
They you know, there's been a food explosion. Really Yeah, okay, yeah, enjoyable, Rob,
Thanks so much about thirteen past eve. We're talking about
clubs in RSA. Is is there any future for them?
Or as the world passed them by? I mean, and
you might think we've been uncharitable, but yeah, it doesn't

(01:56:50):
seem as there's any good news stories coming about the RSAs.
They're all just closing. No, there is a one or
two club across the road is the Cozi Club, and
a story of Club Palmerston is not quite right. Club
Palmerston was to be the amalgamation of the Cozy Club,
the Bowls of the Squash club at cos he ruined
all that it was aimed to build a big successful
club like an Australian RSA bowling equivalent somemilar what you mentioned,

(01:57:13):
but cozy stuff. That all up, Marcus. Would there be
some businesses that could help out loading out some generators
for the farmers in need? Also could they get the
army into help in some way as well. It's a
good point about the army because I'm sure the army
would have generators. Don't know why that hasn't been mentioned.
Thank you Sandra for that. Marcus. Tell the farmers they

(01:57:35):
seem to give Pace, Power and Air a call or
an email. They've been helping out to get generators out
of farmers from the North Island in the past fort
eight hours. They have good stock of JCB generators from
small to large Pacepower dot co dot NZ. Marcus, cows
that are used to a hearing bone shed are difficult
to get on the rotary shed hard work. They are
creatures of habit. Who that said a few times today

(01:57:58):
don't like change? Well mind you who does like change?
I hate it? Is that me twenty five to live
in David's Marcus. Welcome Marcus, how are you good, Dave?

Speaker 5 (01:58:11):
You're looking forward to your long weekend?

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
I am, Actually I got a bit to do, but yeah,
I am looking forward to how about you?

Speaker 18 (01:58:17):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:58:18):
Yeah, yeah, Now, I've had an idea. And you know,
these hybrid vehicles produce electricity through running, and so these
electric evs, why can that not they not be hopped
up to provide electricity to supply power?

Speaker 3 (01:58:37):
Yeah, thinking about that, I was thinking about why wouldn't
some like the Froontira chank tankers can generate power? But yeah,
it's a good point. That's something I wonder.

Speaker 5 (01:58:47):
And the top floor of just been the top floor
of you Brighton Workingmen's Club is rented out by a
labor member local member of parliament.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Because I thought the christ Workingmen's clubs were doing really well.
Is that not the case? I don't think so since
the quake or no.

Speaker 5 (01:59:06):
I think it's been a downward trend for a while,
marcause people just aren't going out drinking and they're not
going out eating the same You you hit the nail
on the head of the Aussie clubs. You know, they
provide a very inexpensive meal and I don't know how
much of it was a poky machines. But you know

(01:59:27):
it's there. It's affordable, you know what I mean? Right,
you can go out and give decent meal for not
a lot. And I just think people aren't going out
and drinking the same mate. I certainly aren't. And they've
even done away with these snooker tables. And you're bright
and they've got one snooker table for goodness sake. I
can remember the nights on our Wednesday, Thursday, Friday night
at place used to pumpey go down there with Jag

(01:59:50):
a bear and play snooker or Paul.

Speaker 15 (01:59:52):
And it's just gone by the board.

Speaker 5 (01:59:54):
People just don't seem.

Speaker 10 (01:59:56):
To be doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:57):
And what's changed.

Speaker 11 (01:59:58):
I know this.

Speaker 3 (01:59:58):
I know Christis has got a lot of quite They've
got a good range of eating out places. Now maybe
people just wantch something of it different.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
Yes, think alcohol. I don't think people the young ones,
you know, young one's goodness me, eighteen ninety twenty year
olds just don't seem to be going out and getting
on it like we.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
Well, that's a problem, isn't If they're not doing that,
that seems weird. That seems weird, doesn't it?

Speaker 5 (02:00:20):
It does to me, But not nowadays, I can't be
bothered with it, but back then I used to be
a bit of a persaid.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
How there, how'd that work out for you?

Speaker 4 (02:00:30):
Dave?

Speaker 12 (02:00:31):
All right, mate?

Speaker 5 (02:00:32):
We all grow up, live and learn, don't we.

Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
Nice to hear from your Dave. Thank you too for
another Dave. Dave good evening? Oh yep, Dave number two?

Speaker 25 (02:00:46):
Oh beauty great? Hey. Yeah, look, I'm just driving back
from the Tennis working Man's Club there and it wasn't
pumping tonight. Yeah, yeah, I'll do a little bit of
a shout out. They had they had they had a
guy doing the music there and.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
It was made you're a singer, Yeah, that's right. Yep,
what's your what's your what's your what's your? Kind of
your set list?

Speaker 12 (02:01:15):
Like I have about.

Speaker 25 (02:01:19):
Fifteen set lists that are that are sitting there, and
then I just pick and choose between. So I don't
I don't take a set list. I can just go
into set lists. So if I feel like it's a
danty crowd.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
Do you do weggon Wheelah?

Speaker 25 (02:01:34):
Of course, yeah, yep, We've we've spoken before. Yeah, I'll
sing wagon Wheel at least three times this week. And
I've got to gig tomorrow, another one someday, and I
got to sing it every time, sometimes twice.

Speaker 3 (02:01:47):
Wonder wonder why that became a big song from obscure
it sort of was out of whether it sort of
feel like it became big about ten years ago. Would
that be right?

Speaker 18 (02:01:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (02:01:57):
You know what I mean. I mean there was.

Speaker 25 (02:01:59):
It's essentially a bop Dylan song and then which I
didn't know until it sort of became popular when Darius
Rucket did his version about ten years ago got popular again.
But oh look, it's it's just one of those.

Speaker 3 (02:02:11):
He's the hoody guy, isn't he.

Speaker 6 (02:02:13):
He sure is.

Speaker 8 (02:02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
Did you do any hoody in the Blowfish? And you ever?

Speaker 2 (02:02:20):
I sure do?

Speaker 3 (02:02:22):
Yeah? I mean hoody were good. I mean they were
mocked widely at the time. I never quite sure why,
but you hear their songs on the radio and they
they're good.

Speaker 25 (02:02:33):
Oh look, I love them, you know. I like that
ninety zero stuff. Occasionally I play market kicks and have
played those. That's when I can open up and play
more sort of eighty stuff. But if you have the
rases and the cozies and the working man's you kind
of got to lean into the country and the old
school rock and roll and the fifties, sixties sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:02:51):
Yeah, that's a big night for you, driving all that way,
setting up your gear, performing and driving back. That's ten hours,
isn't it.

Speaker 12 (02:03:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (02:03:00):
Of course getting out of all it takes a bit
longer than getting im. I can get home much. You
fly home. That that Tims Roads just a joy to
drive home on when he's doing.

Speaker 3 (02:03:12):
Yeah, what was your last song? What was your last song?
You played tonight?

Speaker 25 (02:03:20):
Harvest Moon?

Speaker 3 (02:03:21):
A great song. Hey tell me? Are you a Springsteen fan?

Speaker 25 (02:03:26):
I sang, I sang one of there was a guy
there tonight from from Baltimore. Oh wow, what he told
me is from Baltimore, I sang. I dedicated Bruce Springsteen's
you Know got Away and Kid in Baltimore. Jacko went
out for I and I never went back. Everybody's got
a lonely art.

Speaker 3 (02:03:44):
Yeah, great song. I'm just tryed to curious if anyone's
been to that movie. You realize this? There's a Springsteen
movie on, don't you sure?

Speaker 4 (02:03:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (02:03:52):
Look, I'm going to go and watch it. The guy,
the guy that's starring and it was in that great show.
I can't remember what it's called, but it's about it
was a an American version of that Pommy show about
that family that are sort of a bit bit feeral.
Oh yeah, yeah, he's he's one of the sons and
that it's it's and he's great and that. But of

(02:04:13):
course there's a lot of a lot of criticism because
he doesn't look exactly like Bruce Brees.

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
It doesn't look like he doesn't like at all. I
think that's better. But apparently he sings well, isn't it.

Speaker 25 (02:04:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I heard, and I look just
just based on his acting chops, I'm hoping that it's good.
I really liked Bob Dylan. Maybe there was fantastic.

Speaker 6 (02:04:32):
I thought.

Speaker 25 (02:04:32):
I really enjoyed that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Yeah, look goes. I didn't see the Bob Dylan one,
but I'll go so I haven't seen it yet. I
probably will. I will go see the Springsting one because
I love the album Nebraska, so I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 25 (02:04:45):
Yeah, me too, I'm here. I'm a huge Bruce man.
I really, I mean any of that Americans Americana stuff,
those Americans with this singer songwriters like Spring, Springsteen and Dylan.
I really enjoy that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
What's the food like at Thames?

Speaker 25 (02:05:02):
Well, I haven't had a mealia. I've been playing there
a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (02:05:06):
I thought they'd give you a meal as part of
your gig.

Speaker 25 (02:05:10):
They usually offer to all most of the russ and
cause he's offered too. But I'm always keen that it
takes me now to pack up. I played a nine
thirty and so I'm not packing up. I'm not going
till ten thirty eleven, and I've got to kick tomorrow
in Aukland and another one or sundery in Aorbland. And
so the weekends has just worked for me. Just go

(02:05:31):
think somewhere, come home, go to bed, get up and
do it again.

Speaker 3 (02:05:34):
Are you the guy that wears cowboy shirts? Brought on TIMU?

Speaker 25 (02:05:38):
That's met you?

Speaker 4 (02:05:39):
Got it?

Speaker 3 (02:05:39):
How's that working out for you?

Speaker 25 (02:05:42):
I've got tim pants all right now.

Speaker 3 (02:05:44):
I wouldn't have if I'm known that, I wouldn't have
talked to you, Dave, because that doesn't sound good.

Speaker 25 (02:05:50):
Wow TV shirt tu pants, Yep, great stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:05:56):
Is it like a tessel pen or what does it
like a.

Speaker 25 (02:05:59):
I No, no, I wouldn't mind a fear of those,
but no, no, they're just they're just sort of stretched
denim brown fleet.

Speaker 19 (02:06:06):
At the bottom. I guess you call them bell bell bottoms,
but of course I wear cowboy boots, so they suit
those very well because you've got to have a white
from on the bottom of your your pants.

Speaker 25 (02:06:18):
You've got cowboy boots on. Wear the boots on the out.

Speaker 3 (02:06:22):
Yeah. Much traffic, No.

Speaker 25 (02:06:25):
Look, I'm just going past the East Tammicky turn off
and it's just it's just cruising.

Speaker 10 (02:06:30):
All.

Speaker 25 (02:06:30):
I have gone past three crops that have pulled people
over on the way. The crops are all out in
the bout tonight.

Speaker 5 (02:06:35):
Of course, of course they are.

Speaker 3 (02:06:36):
They're going for that zero again, aren't they.

Speaker 25 (02:06:40):
Yeah, Yeah, well I get. I mean, you always aim high,
even if it is impossibly high. You know, there's that's
that's that's the rule of thumb. You know, it's like
your your employee does your your boss alway says I
need this much done when it's basically impossible. But they
aim high so that you get as they get as
much out of as they can, don't.

Speaker 3 (02:06:57):
They Are you much of Kanna? In the morning.

Speaker 25 (02:07:02):
Tomorrow, I've got to get go on the North Shore
an Heat Bowling Club for a line out group and
then someday I'm doing the pam you r R s
A to you.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
The line dancers still around, are they?

Speaker 25 (02:07:13):
Oh, that's that's that's huge right now. Everywhere you go,
even where you go, there's and it's actually it's a
bit of a dage actually, because there's there's a bit
of drama on the dance floors, you know, and a
lot of the rasers they've got they've got a line
on the dance floor and it'll be like two thirds
the line dancers and the other thirds for the others.
And the line dancers are not supposed to encroach on

(02:07:33):
the others because the dancers complain they just want to
get around there to shuffle on the dance floor, and
of course the line take up a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:41):
What makes a good line dancing song, Oh well, four four.

Speaker 25 (02:07:45):
Camp and a bit of an up tempo, you know.
But there's there's a few standards on every night. I'll
do Aky Breaky, I'll do a wagon wheel, i do
bootscoot scoot and Boggie. And then there's there's a few
others that have crept into it. Dance to Night Away, Mavericks,
Neon moon Brooks and done is the wanderer, that is

(02:08:08):
a line answer, that straight hat strap is a line dancer,
that this is a whole heap of them, and you
know now now you just know you put those on
and the dance wall is going to fall with a
whole lot of people who know all the dancers to it.

Speaker 6 (02:08:20):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
Oh, I've re easy to talk to. Dave thinks that
it's been nice to chat. Twenty six away from twelve brilliant.
Of course we should have been about line dancing all night.
They weren't good songs. They were there the line that
didn't like any of the other first run, I think
you meet you like well? Wagon Wheel? I like who
doesn't like wagon Wheel?

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
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