Whatsaname-hole (17 March 2026)

Marcus talks the dramatic police chase in Auckland, street signs that always get stolen, and takes reaction to Chris Hipkins' private family life being widely discussed in the media.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greeting. Is good evening here till twelve. I hope it's
good we or if it's not good, I hope it
gets better by the time I leave at midnight. Feel
free to come through. The number is eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two detects if
you do want to come through. Yeah, so, yeah, that's happening.
Just a couple of things to start off with tonight. Firstly,

(00:33):
there is a fire in Palmerston North and Milson on
John F. Kennedy Drive. Because someone tell me why there's
a street in Palmiston North called John F. Kennedy Drive.
That seems really surprising to me. Why is there a
street called that JFK Drive?

Speaker 4 (00:49):
You know?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
But there are anything about the fire? Do let us
know as we get the whole ball rolling tonight. The
other thing, just quickly, I did see some footage of
the police chase through Auckland. Why do so many people
join a police chase? And now that's what I've got
to ask you. Does everyone is it like a congolin?

(01:10):
I don't want to make light of it. Is it
like a conger line?

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Though?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Does everyone join in? Were there twelve cars? Do they
need that many? If you want to say anything about that,
if you are involved in police pursuit, I couldn't believe it,
So get in touching onto either of those things that
start the whole wall rolling tonight. JF. Kennedy Drive and
Paris to North? Why is that? And how many cars join?

(01:33):
That looked like a record today? I think the first
two cars were who knows who the perpetrator was, but gee,
there was a lot following. So yeah, if you wanted
to comment on that quickly, that's something you might want
to talk about tonight, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine nine two text. I think I did
know the reason there was a JFK Drive in Palmiston,
and I just quickly looked at that, and I know

(01:54):
this sort of thing that someone in Palmiston, North will
know the answer to because I don't. I don't think
he ever came to New Zealand.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
Did he?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm pretty sure he didn't, So the bare reason it
might have been designed the day he died or something
might be something like that. There might be more than
one John F. Kennedy Drive in New Zealand. You might
have seen that police chase today. Yes, it looked pretty
looked pretty lively. So anyway, oh eight hundred and eighty today,
year nine text. I think it's just palm ers to

(02:23):
North and San Francisco for a JFK drive. I don't
know if the word drive is apped either. Couldn't they
call it street Kent. It's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 7 (02:35):
Yeah, thank you, Marcus. Look I saw that. I saw
that chase today. I was standing waiting for a bus
in Victoria Street and cocktow went past us and a
bit of a hurry went through red lights, mosing. About
four minutes later, this white you pulled out of Meral
Drive into going up the hill into Victoria Street, and

(02:59):
they had one of the idiots hanging out the window.
And then like five seconds later a cock car came
from corner, and then another and we stood there. We
counted ten.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, I thought it was.

Speaker 7 (03:12):
And they went up Victoria Street. I think they turned
into Hobson Street, and then the undefender squad came along.
They were there tracing on behind. But then for about
well another ten minutes there were lights and sirens and
helicopter and they were it was. It was still going
on for about fifteen minutes, so they let it. Mary

(03:33):
Chase is what I saw.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I think I saw footage of them going up Albert
Street heading back up towards Klang, a happy road, but
I couldn't. Yeah, I don't know why so many cars.
I mean, there's probably a reason for it.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Look, I think they were chasing them, and I think
that so many went on for so long, so many joined.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, it seems like if you joined in like a
conger line. Were there more than one car?

Speaker 8 (03:56):
Yeah, yeah, there was.

Speaker 7 (03:57):
There was at least at least four of the cars
I counted had more than one confident, So everyone was
joining it. And I think they came from a long
way away because it was actually how they have the
the traffic, the motorway police and like a different color. Yeah,
well one of those is in the middle there and
something else. Marcus, do you remember a lecture at University

(04:19):
of Werner Stringer?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
No, I don't, No, you don't.

Speaker 7 (04:24):
Did you do a computer studies lecture of course in Auckland? Yeah?
So do you do you remember the first professional year
Warren as their anger and and like it was basic
coding or something like that.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
It was basic. Well, I can still remember it, Yeah,
I still remember it.

Speaker 7 (04:47):
Do you remember the guy that sat next to you?
And then we should then shared notes with you and
one took turns sharing notes, so set through because we
were both falling asleep.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
That was you, wasn't Yeah, And.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
We gave we gave the notes back to each other
after every in shadows, I mean in shadows at the
end of the the wee can handle.

Speaker 9 (05:09):
When I wrote down, did you stick with computing? No?

Speaker 10 (05:13):
I w there was a.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Professional year for engineering, and I did. But it was hard.

Speaker 11 (05:19):
It was hard.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
It was it was a it was a hard course.
But yeah, that there was the most boring lecture that
I've ever serious.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
You don't well remember verness to Ringer makes no it
rings no bells with me at all.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
I've got his textbook. I still got his textbook somewhere.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
I often think if with basic, if we start with
basic programming, I mean probably that was at the forefront
of computing. It was just after punch cards. We probably
could have been all a bit but ult Silicon Valley,
but who knows where it could have taken.

Speaker 7 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah, we would be we'll be working for Google
now showing people what to do.

Speaker 12 (05:57):
How is that?

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I appreciate you coming through and acknowledging that anyway, Yeah,
I look that up Old d Ringer anyway, brilliant. Can't
thank you like that? Police chasers, Yeah, just well and
I don't know. I mean, I guess if you're a policeman,
who knows. But yeah, there a lot of cars, ten
cars going around and around getting touched. You want to
talk and also to the JFK. Kennedy Drive in Palmeston,

(06:21):
North if you want to acknowledge why they've called got
that called, feel free to come through obviously to tonight.
You might want to talk about the leader of the opposition,
Christopher Chris Sipkins. I did see his press conference. I
haven't got myself involved in any of the online discussions afterwards,

(06:44):
but I would imagine that there will be some of
you that will be concerned if that is not mentioned.
You are more than welcome to comment on that if
you want. I don't think probably that you need to
repeat the allegations that were made in a private Facebook

(07:07):
post that was since lyd because I think those allegations
are the subject to some sort of caveats that they
can't be broadcast or republished. That's my understanding, and people
have taken those down. But certainly if you want to
have some comment about politicians and their private lives and

(07:32):
whether it is anyone's business or not, you are more
than welcome to comment on that. And I guess there's
probably a whole broad diaspora of opinions there, but obviously
with children involved and it becomes quite delicate. And I
think you could see that in the stand Up Prayer

(07:53):
whatever it was, that press conference, in that interview that
himself was very uncomfortable about that too. I don't know
how much the jo over how of the children are
I would say that there's one thing though, that probably
that that hasn't been mentioned, that Chris Hipkins probably is
vulnerable about.

Speaker 13 (08:10):
Two.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
He says, your private life's your private life. And I
guess some people will say, well, if he has celebrated
wedding shots and things on women's magazines, I guess he
has done that. I think I've seen those images that
might bring them up for But you know, it's a
ratings game, it's a popularity game. You need to get
your name out there. If you're own politics because you've
got to win. So if you don't want to comment
on that, feel free to come through. I know there's

(08:30):
been some emails about that about four or five yesterday
and today, so that might be something you want to mention.
Also to oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
two nine two to text Faith they can remember in
that computer studies lecture after all those years, and that
would be nineteen eighty four. So anyway, Marcus, there is
a street call John F. Conney Drive and Millson. I

(08:51):
live around the corner, and there is thick block smoke
in the sky. I've also heard sirens, that's right. I've
seen seven cops chasing one car through a newmarket over
one hundred k's dangerous and over the top. We live
in a house that John F. Kennedy place, glen Eden. Gosh.
I thot all the streets in Glenedin were named after
after planets, weren't they got funny old names for streets

(09:12):
in Glenedan. I've spent some time there. They're all named
after Well, there's a whole theme. I love a themed suburb,
and there is a themed suburb in Glenedan, but it's
more like are they is it planets or star signs?
I can't quite remember, but you might want to mention
that also tonight on the show. As I say, lines
are free if you want to come through. I've google glenedin.

(09:34):
It's come up in Toronto. Go figure eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two detext. Yeah, and
I don't know if a lot of people want to
comment on the situation with Chris Hopkins or I have
mentioned it because I did want to mention that in
case people did feel that they had some real desire
to comment on that. So yeah, you are more than welcome.

(09:57):
But maybe it's one of those things that people are
waiting to see how which way that one rolls. And
it does feel like it's very much an election yet thing,
if I can say that. But yes, there you have
it eight hundred and eighty eight and detext if you
want to be a part of the show. Yeah, that's
right at Star Signs in Glen Eden. I'm looking just

(10:19):
to confirm that and to sol the road. Also, hey,
keep those texts coming through. Two people, Marcus. I want
to know why the road spikes only go across half
the road instead of the whole road. The ute drove
on the other side of the road. Dibster. Yeah, were
the first two route utes involved, which is the first Dude,
I couldn't quite work it out. Marcus. They're shooting at people, yes, definitely,

(10:40):
but just to be bloody jugs and had hazards is
testosterone overload. Very good, thank you, Marcus. The cops wast
to have watch the American cops on that TV out
the gate, Marcus. I used to call it Keystone Cops.
Welcome Little La Mozzy Marcus. Yesterday I wanted Hopkins to

(11:01):
go Today at the press conference, I saw a dad
who wanted to protect his children. That's from Ben.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Maybe that's the powerful thing about fronting up and answering
the questions. I guess you don't really know until months
past to see whether it's something that was that was
in his interest to do. But certainly I think there's
something to be said for that with fronting up, and
people don't seem to want to comment on it, which
is understandable. Marcus. I agree with you. The police chase

(11:28):
was a frigging joke. I've seeing it many times before.
An Awkland's ridiculous. Yep, you can't get a cop for
anything less. It was total bs, total overkill. And the
other persons I've had not so secret addiction to the
live TV police chases in Los Angeles addictive. Someone said
the car chase was straight of the Blues Brothers. Yeah
that's right, that's really Yeah, that's right. Are they on
a mission from God? Marcus? Sorry, don't know the topic themes.

(11:52):
I can't comment tu to to to BBC, but the
broadcast keeps going on and off. I think because the
radios stereo has got bluetooth. Anyway, do get in touch
you on to talk anyway. Twenty past eight, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Yeah, Bennet's Marcus. Good evening and
welcome you go.

Speaker 14 (12:07):
Marcus. I'm just on a kins like I overreacted yesterday
and I thought that he was just an absolute tool
for you know, what he's alleged had done. But after
watching that press conference today, I actually seen a genuine
dad who was genuinely upset and genuinely, you know, quite

(12:29):
disappointed that this has become public in wanted to protect
his kids. So I'm not sure how this is going
to play out, But I'm not really interested in anymore
in what he's alleged had done. The only thing that
concerns me is is he betraying in public and doing
a different thing in private. That's the only thing that

(12:49):
concerns me.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
I think what became evident in that is that there's
children in this and have to have to have parents
in a public war that could affect both their careers
would be there's no way that can't have There's no
way they can't have repercussions for the children, even if
it's the exchange of children from I don't know who
knows what they have, but that's that doesn't sound like

(13:12):
a good scenario at all. I'm sure normally people thinking
I have to get on for the sap of the
sake of the kids. But that just sounds like a
blow the whole thing up scenario, doesn't it.

Speaker 14 (13:21):
I want a bit overtopped yesterday even online, but yeah,
I think.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
Were you posting the problem posting comments on it yesterday online?

Speaker 14 (13:30):
I posted a couple, but there was based on what
I read and now I actually watched him talk and
what he had to say and actually thought this was
actually pretty genuine and what he think he came across
pretty genuine.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
I mean, what what Why did you think it was
important for you to post comments yesterday because of the
depth of feeling?

Speaker 5 (13:47):
Is that what it was?

Speaker 14 (13:48):
Well, look, after I read the allegations on Facebook, I
was actually a bit shocked. I was like, oh my god,
this is not someone who I want on politics. This
is not someone who I want run in the country.
But then you know, look, they are allegations, and there's
always two sides to the story. So years, but no,
he seemed very genuine to me, and I probably won't

(14:12):
vote to the god, but I'm you know, it's got
to be honest, and you give credit where it's due.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Appreciate your honesty being thanks for that. Twenty six past
eight die in its Marcus good evening.

Speaker 15 (14:21):
Oh yes, Now, lots of people have had children. I
wouldn't worry about it too much. Prime ministers have had children.
I think it's just nosing into business. But anyway, I've
rung about something else more essential is about the field. Now, oh,
quite some years ago some of the bended cars to

(14:47):
run on water. Now, what's happened to this person? Is
he died?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I take it out and killed m taken out and killed.
Oh I don't know. That's always the great conspiracy. I
don't think that anyone did inventor car that ran on petrol.
I don't think it's a press information like that.

Speaker 15 (15:07):
I think they would if they can't get the exports
for the oil and that. But we should be looking
at if that's what.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
We've got cars that run on the sun. We've got
cars that run on solar, and we have got cars
that run on water and it's called hydro electricity.

Speaker 15 (15:22):
Oh, yes, you hear do that we need something else?

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think we've known that for a long while that
the idea was to pivot away from fuel, but it
seemed as I recently we've piwoted towards fuel eight twenty
eight Marcus till twelve. Anyway, Marcus Helensville actually has a
road named after Garfield, a road named Garfield Road, which
was named after President James Garfield who was assassinated. This

(15:50):
is absolutely true regards Donner Helensville. I can imagine that,
I can imagine what all sorts of I know that
we've got a road in the South called the Presidential
Highway and it goes from Gore to Clinton. So yeah,
because when they were I think they're here for Choggham,
but it does go from between Gore and Clinton, so

(16:12):
they caught it the Presidential Highway, because of course Gore
was Clinton's deputy. And actually, I don't want to I
actually had a chance once to interview Al Gore. I
asked him about that, right. He says he's still got
the side in his office, so it meant something to him.
They gifted that to him. Anyway, Get in touch, Marcus
Till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine text,

(16:34):
get in touch. Do you want to be a part
of the show. It'd be nice to hear from you
breaking news when that happens too. Throughout the course of
the evening, people, as we continue to look at the
situation in the unutwell in the United States, the situation
in the Middle East, and that's boy, oh boy, having
to see some of Trump today talking about Cuba looking
for all the world like a mafia boss. By the way,

(16:56):
they are saying that the blaze in Parmes Norton Milson
is a large blaze. Fourth alarm ten crews on site.
A far investigator is also on seen. What building will
that be? People? What sort of commercial buildings are in Milton,
are in John F. Kennedy Drive. You know anything about
that that's of interest to me, Get in touch if
you've got more information. People having to open the door.

(17:19):
It's hot as heck down here. The number is eight
hundred and eighty today. Lines are free talk about anything tonight,
as promised. But if you want to comment eight hundred
and eighty today, I'll get your texts. I've got another
topic that I wouldn't mind floating up there night. I'm
not quite sure which one that will go, and it's
something that's taken some of my thought in the last

(17:41):
couple of days, and I don't know what you want
to say about that, but that is the situation with
the data storage that's going into Southland. It's a massive,
massive place where they will store data. And what a

(18:01):
data storage requires is a lot of electricity. So in
south And you've already got Tea Way and t Y
basically exports electricity because all the raw ingredients come from overseas.
The illumina on the book side all comes from Australia
and they process it with huge amounts of power and
then export it. So basically you are exporting electricity although

(18:24):
it creates a large number of jobs, it's by far
I think either the biggest or the second biggest employer
in South and the biggest might be the Alliance, the
biggest might be t Y. It depends on how you
split it, but it's a big it creates a lot
of jobs. The situation with the data center, with the
data storage is that it's going to require between five

(18:46):
hundred and twelve hundred jobs for the creation of the site,
but then once the site gets going, it'd only have
fifty jobs. So what happens in the South is we've
got great electricity. We've got the Manipuri power station that
produces clean electricity. It's high to electricity, it's got very low,

(19:07):
if any carbon footprint. But if they're using that just
as data storage for artificial intelligence, is that the right
use of New Zealand power. I mean, obviously the power
companies now are privatize, they can do with what they want.
They can sell their power to whoever gives them the
best price. But I wander down the track if there
are other jobs that we should If we've got excess power,

(19:30):
what should we be doing with it? I don't know
what those uses for the power are. I know there's
another crowd up out at one of the other power
stations that are using that to generate or mine for bitcoin.
But I often thought there would be other more intensive
businesses that require power that would be more useful for

(19:50):
communities and for making New Zealand and economic powerhouse. I
just have thought. So if you want to comment on
there's been a lot of discussion online about data centers.
A lot of it's been about water usage, and about
the emissions and about the noise. A lot of it
seems to be based on maybe exaggerated reports. But if

(20:11):
you want to comment on that, if it's something that's
causing you concern or your thoughts on it. Obviously, if
we're all geared towards battery powered cars and stuff like that,
it could be a great thing to do. But then again,
it's no point having all the electricity in Fijorden when

(20:33):
it's needed in Auckland. And I think when it comes
to putting electricity up the network, I think you lose
a febit on the way up, might be up to half. Anyway,
you might want to comment that might be something you
know something about. Get in touch. It's twenty five to
nine heit or midnight. Keep those texts coming through, Oh anonymous,

(20:57):
please about hipkins. I am a teacher and have seen
the worst tactics from parents who both love their children
so much, but it gets competitive. I have seen parents
just about destroy each other mentally, socially and their reputation
as teachers. It's so hard seeing children caught the middle.

(21:18):
Even at of re young age, children try to keep
the peace between fighting parents. Sadly, these comments will get
back to the children.

Speaker 9 (21:25):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
I paid for my new e Byke yesterday six k
down from eight k. Anyway, get in touch you want
to mention anything else? Also, oh eight hundred and eighty
today nine two nine two de text in the Middle
East and fuel my car that costs one ten to
fall now costs one hundred and fifty dollars. And that
was right down to from ears enough from empty to full.

(21:49):
So yeah, that's that's a significant increase. And I've only
filled it four times I think in six weeks. That's
how much that's gone up. So surprising. Twenty four to nine,
looking forward to your calls twenty two to night. I'll
keep you up there with the cricket. I think we
are chasing one threat. No, I don't know that. Actually
he one three, three for five. So tether Afica bat first,

(22:09):
we better first three of us to go. It is
on TV. What if you want to watch the finish?
So how much are we chasing? We're chasing?

Speaker 6 (22:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So why I've got a South African score up? Oh
that was a Bowlder? Okay, copy that Janet's market Sorr.
Are the guys ignore all everything I said? Janet's Marcus
good evenings.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
I turned the radio on three times today and all
three times, so we're talking about Chris Hipkins and his
family and the Facebook rubbish and.

Speaker 16 (22:42):
What it is.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
It's gossip, it's to cemetry, and it's very disappointing that
his ex wife would go public with all that trash,
deliberately demeaning him, and people taking it all on board.
It's shocking, bad behavior, immature, and the fact that everyone's

(23:07):
concerned about his children hearing about it and their schoolmates
and rubbishing them and hearing about it and all that.
They wouldn't have been talking about it on talk back
if they cared one that'd lie over about the children.
So I just wish it would shut up.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Jen. Thanks so much for that twenty away from nine.
I think two of you speaking. If you have heard
the adult children of politicians in New Zealand who were
young when their parents were on politics, they did say
it came with all sorts of challenges and it was
not good for them. That tends to be the that
tends to.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
Be the.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
End result of parents and politics. And I don't always
know what faull Net takes, but yeah, I think people,
probably the kids probably wish their parents had run a
mile from it. But if you want to talk, feel
free to get I think they've been fairy considered comments
we've heard so far. Tonight Juliet's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 17 (24:11):
Hi, I was absolutely disgusted. I'm not a labor supporter,
but I was sut again. I was absolutely disgusted with
the treatment they did of quicklessuptions. All I would like
to do was put my arms around him and give
him a big hug and tell him that everything's going

(24:31):
to be okay one day.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Did you feel that these emotions you've got that since
you saw him looking so upset with the cameras today,
is that when that happened to you?

Speaker 17 (24:42):
Or yeah, basically, whoever it was did that to them?
There's an absolute what's the name hole?

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Okay, what's the name whole?

Speaker 13 (24:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (24:56):
Yes, I won't need to say anymore. Okay, thank you
for listening to me.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
My pleasure, Julie eighteen away from nine of If you
want to comment eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
to two nine two to text, I couldn't. I think
they both must have been on holiday, both sides of
the family. I think he had come back from holiday
as well. I don't know why they're on holiday now,
so I think it's not school holiday time? Is it
what I was most surprised about. I think the teachers

(25:26):
always have views. I'd taking children out of school during
term time. Do you get in touch if you want
to talk eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine two to text. Marcus Palmeston North Fire JFK. I
can see on my camera at work nearby appears to
be either the old night to ten which is now

(25:47):
a storage facility, or the old Easy Buy or Courtesy Ford.
Three big main sheds in the area. Hopefully not too much.
Damna Jewelry. Prominent businesses and tenants in the vicinity get
in touch. If you want to talk, Marcus, you should
have locked a few hundred leaders it on the z
app after you. It was clear this was going to happen.

(26:08):
I had my ute and trailer stolen outside n SP
and Parnell at seven am. Found in go I two
days later. No cops involved. M Now you might know
what NESP stands for non solo Pizza. Didn't even know
that was still there. Looked like a gas station NSP,
doesn't it. I live on Ferguson, driving up a hut

(26:28):
named about nineteen sixty after the Governor General Sue Bernard Ferguson. Mother.
Be in touch if you want to talk. Oh eight
hundred and eighty eighteen eighty, Marcus, what happened in Auckland
this afternoon?

Speaker 18 (26:40):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
There was a big police chase. There was a lot
of cars. It started and how we're going to why
they drove to the city at the last place you'd
want to go. But there were ten police cars following.
I don't know if it was one or two utes.
I don't know if the second was the police or
I don't know if it's see a chase with two
police with two people being chased. But that's what it

(27:01):
looked like I guess I have to wait for the
court cases see what happened there. So, yes, that's the situation.
There was a fairly dramatic. There's some dramatic footage online
of that. They caught them. A dog got one of
them hospital with modern injuries. They got them in Karranger
Harpy Road. They had spikes, but I think the spikes
only went halfway across the road. Must be a better

(27:22):
thing than spikes. Aren't there some sort of thing you
can blast the engine with like a sonic cloud? Thought
those were a thing? Had them in the fast and
the furious, didn't they fifteen to nine, twelve away from nine?
Apparently that fire in Palmerston North is Now where did
I get that information? Ah Marcus? The commercial building on

(27:43):
fire in Palmeston North is the golf distributors Vining Group.
That's a situation there. Oh okay, So here we go
with the police chase. The black four wheel drive behind
the white Ford Ranger is the police STG vehicle or
Armed defender squad. Oh, I wanted to thank you for that.
And there were fifteen police cars involved. Because pursuits of

(28:05):
what police lived for and come from everywhere to join it. Well,
it did appear like that, and I don't know what
the optimum amount is, but it did seem to be
a lot. But I guess your mate's are there and
it's all for one and one for all. It's a
bit of the Four Musketeers spirit, and you want to
actually have back up for your mates or for your
work colleagues, I should say. But it's a lot. Yeah,
and it's a lot of screaming cars for the city

(28:27):
to Oh. Well, I guess they've got research and protocols,
but it's the longest police chase I've seen. I don't
know how many would have started off as there you
go ten away from nine. I'll sort of talk about
our use of electricity and data storage if you want
to comment on that. I think that's going to be
something that we discussed a great deal because if they've
got a future de or for looty to use a

(28:48):
lot of power, which they probably will have, what if
we suddenly decide we need to use a lot of
power in the future. I don't know the answers to that,
But then again, I don't know what the really energy
intense industries are that we could actually attract to this
country that aren't data storage. The PEPs create more jobs
and do more for our economy. I don't necessarily know

(29:11):
that data stories are going to do much for our
economy apart from pay money for the power and employ
fifty people, but there we go. So yes, and also
too if you want to talk about the Middle East,
I'll continue to update you on that. There was a
mysterious streak this morning. It was lighting up the sky

(29:33):
just before the sunrise. A lot of people in the
North Island saw it before six am. Well, the object
did have a halo and it appeared to be some
distance away, so I thought they'd found that, but they
haven't found it. I'm just reading the article about that now.
So the mystery, it said, has been solved. Someone said

(29:55):
looked like a rusted car.

Speaker 16 (29:57):
Now.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
The people from the meteor Chases captured it on camera
and they said they believed it was a man made
unlikely to be aircraft contrail. It appears to be a
contrail from a Russian space freighter. Progress MS thirty one
was a reply ship which took pressurized and non pressurized

(30:21):
cargo to their National space station and has been docked
since July last year, so there we go. Today, the
progress MS thirty one's resupply ship, which docked with the
Russian segment with the International Space Station, was diorbited, after
which it re entered the dense layers the atmosphere and disintegrated.

(30:41):
The incombustible fragment of the spacecraft fell in a non
navigable area in the southern Pacific. That's exactly what it was.
I didn't know the Russians was still in space. So
if you saw that this morning, that's what it was.
There's a great shot of it going over Hawks Bay
and it was here from the International Space Station. They
bring the junk back in. I think there's a special

(31:02):
area in the Pacific where everything gets sent to where
it's not going to harm anyone. I think that's the
way we's eight away from niney you on took before
the news. I'd love to hear from you Data Centers
and Chris Hipkins if you want to comment on that.
And the fire and police chasers fifteen cars. It's a lot.
It feels like something of a record, but it feels rue.
Blues Brothers, Oh, holy Moly, of findings are on fire.

(31:26):
That is gut ranching. They are the nicest New Zealand
family own business and one of my supplies devastated for them.
And what that might mean is that's the fire in
Parmeston North quite involved. So that's the situation. If you
want to be part of the show, if you want
to talk about any of these things, would be good
to hear from you. I will keep you up to
date with the cricket. Also, New Zealand has finished on
one seventy five for six. South Africa is to chase next.

(31:50):
In the situation with JFK Drive and Parmeston North, that's
where the fire is. JFK Drive in Palmis North was
named to commemorate the late US President John F. Kenny
during it following his assassination in nineteen sixty three. The
naming reflector bard a trend of a scattering of Kennedy's
that appear across you at the ano. The wake of
the sixty three event, often a new residential or industrial
subdivisions created in the following year. The street was established

(32:14):
as part of the Kilsby Estate subdivision in the mid seventies,
with records indicating council planning for the area in nineteen
seventy four jeepers seven away from nine. Oh, I do it,
don't I pilot? Err sorry people, if you are wanting
to watch the cricket, just that you know it's free
to wear on TV one, which is good. We don't

(32:35):
forget free sport. But there we go there into twenty twice.
It's a good link for them. I think looks like
deal and ideals. We moved to ten thirty Marcus, Me
and my mate saw it and bro we thought it
could have been a rocket. Well it was, I suppose
an ex rocket. That's the bright light this morning, just
before sunrise, northighn over towards Hawk's Bay, heading towards the Chathams.

(32:57):
I thought when I first clicked on that article, sorry
to make it such a hast of reading, I thought
they must have found it, because we haven't found many meteorites.
But it wasn't that. It was space junk coming down. Unbelievable.
They can work out where it's going to land and
not hit people. If you want to talk on here,
that's the whole plan tonight, get in touch Marcus till
twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. We are
talking about, amongst other things, interesting street names. You even

(33:19):
got any street name that has got a really interesting
story to it. On the back of Johnny F. Kennedy,
which is not that interesting, we just thought, okay, we
may as well go there. Took about police chasers and
Christopher Hopkins and him fronting the press and answering the questions,
I guess is what he did, and no doubt they
will be dissecting how well they thought that had gone.

(33:41):
But yeah, from the response I've had today, people probably
thought that was the right thing to do.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
So there we go.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's a situation there. Anything goes tonight. It's a bit
of a Tuesday free frau. I hope your Saint Patrick's
Day went well. If you got dressed up and did
those sorts of things and ate green food, I hope
that was a good day. You might still be celebrating it.
What is I presume someone died on Saint Patrick's Day?
Is that what it's about. I was trying to explain
that to the kids. They say, why do we celebrate
when someone dies?

Speaker 19 (34:05):
There?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Well, the IRA diaspora, But yeah, I don't really know
what that's about Saint Patrick's Day. I presume he died
that day. Did he sorry? Let me know, no doubt.

Speaker 20 (34:15):
I don't like.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
I don't like the green hats. I think some of
the TETs not anyway, it's not my culture. Well maybe
it's Dave Marcus welcome. I'll get me about of trouble.
Dave good evening.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, yeah, how how are you? Marcus?

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Dave from you?

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I here you too. I'm a little bit bit and
piser but I figured it was Patrick who drove the
snakes out of Ireland?

Speaker 13 (34:38):
Was it?

Speaker 21 (34:38):
Oh wow?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah yeah yeah, you did do well?

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yeah wow?

Speaker 3 (34:41):
What was a good thing to do? I forgot about
the snakes.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Yeah, hey, crack a day here in Krosches today. I
got up to about twenty three twenty four and I
had a swim down the New Briton Beach and the
New Briting Hot polls. I've just noticed why Tomo twenty
four hour New Brighton is three dollars and six cents
for ninety one. I used the ninety one. I figured
i'd hold off till Thursday.

Speaker 5 (35:03):
Now.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
I've just been watching in at Burns Francis. She is
a fantastic good week.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I worked with her in the day Al Jazeera ABF Yeah,
I see now, yes, and I.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Believe Tom McCray is too. I have seen copensory. Yeah, Trump,
he's got himself, being a Trump supporter of he has
got himself and the right quagmire, I would suggest. And
then it comes back. I've done some research. Ninety as
a population of Iran from twenty twenty five was ninety

(35:39):
three million people. Now I got me to thinking, well,
why did M A D or mutual? I sure destruction
not apply to them? And it got me to think,
and furthermore, what would they be crazy enough to actually
use a nuclear weapon or weapon of mass instruction if
indeed they had it? And that got me down to

(36:00):
look them deeply. I see the US American Trump sending
in US is Tripoli. It's more of a troop carrier,
and that's to secure what they must to get boots
and marines on the ground to secure this pinch point
in the Persian Gulf that is a golf, the Strait
of War moos. I think that's the only way. And

(36:21):
then sending the mine clearers to clear the mines and
to secure that area around that tight thirty three kilometer
gap that is the Strait of War moves.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
But anyhow then You've also got a radioactive enriched plutonium
that's in those mountains. So that's a worry too, because
you don't want them to have it, but you don't
want even more dodgy groups to get it.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Well, we don't want the destruction of oil reserves that
are on that island and around that area to be
just to sp spiteful we be destroyed, and that's one
thing I think Trump will not do, and I hope
the Iranians don't do that at a last last ditch

(37:07):
effort to you know, to wreck what they have got
and they're you know, go down as it were. I
hope that doesn't occur anyhow.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I want when Trump gets his reckening. You know, we
kind of annoyed all the countries in the world with
the teriffs and they ask for their help and they
all said no. You mentioned there is a moment where
the penny's going to drop.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
No, I don't think it ever will with Donald Trump, unfortunately,
and this is coming from my wouilds. I am a
Trump supporter and always have been, but I'm starting to
just put a question mark over the whole lot of it.
And you're right, you know, I'm starting to see Beverage's
point of view a little bit.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah, it's the seventeenth it's the seventeenth most popular country.
I didn't realize that it's between Vietnam and Turkey. So
it's a big it's a big country.

Speaker 13 (37:56):
It is.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
It's huge, and when you see the scale geographically it is,
it's actually quite immense, and it's got the popular year,
as I say, ninety some million people. Well, you know, yeah,
I've just said my piece. Hey, what's this business about
Hipkin's allegations? I must have missed something there?

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Well have you missed it? Go online? I can't repeat them,
but yeah, his wife did a Facebook his ex wife
did a Facebook poster and then deleted it. And that's
what that's about. And he's done a press conference come
back from holidays. He doesn't really want to talk about it.
It's about him and his wife and it's private stuff.
And then he talked about it that One of the
reporters asked him about his kids now, ask if it'd spoken,

(38:40):
if he'd spoken to his wife and his ex wife,
and I think he said, well, the kids are with
them now, so it was, and then he'd look quite emotional.
So it wasn't a long conference press conference. I don't
know if you call a press conference. It was just
it was actually hard for me to see it. Kept
saying it was there, and then I kept trying to
rebuffer it and I couldn't see it. And then when

(39:01):
I got on twit, he was already speaking. But that
seems to be the gist of it, and from what
the callers I've spoken to the last hour have said,
it was probably a wise move for him to do
that press conference that people ended up having some more
sympathy for him. Marcus, I'm Irish in March seventeenth. It's

(39:22):
neither his birth nor death dates. The day we picked
out a thin air. He brought Christianity to Ireland. That's
what he's famous for. Dennis. Nice explanation, Dennis, thank you
were there Snakes. If countries don't assist Trump on the Strait,
could you see Trump going nuclear? There'd be no point.
I don't think he say he's going to decapitate the
snake to get regime change. Well that didn't work. We've

(39:45):
just got another harmony in running the show. So yeah,
so Nuki in them wouldn't do anything. They've already just
about used all their weapons, the Iranians, probably the Americans show.
This is interesting talk about I won't ever read that.
Gary says, my parents were acrimonious for decades after this

(40:06):
split put us kids through the ringer chips was doing okay,
and the press of the question the kids came up
and upset him. I always think of the kids when
parents split and remember how it felt. Thanks for that, Gary.
So yeah, that's what we're on about about hipkins. And
to yours interesting street names, we're an interesting backstory to

(40:27):
your street name. I don't know how interesting some of
them are. You get a really interesting one, people keep
stealing it, don't they. That's what happens. We've got a
street invert Cargole and I think it's called Falcon Street. Yeah,
and what is interesting about Falcon Street and Invert Cargol.
All the other street signs go it horizontally. This one

(40:49):
goes vertically, so you can't steal it. I'll have a
look on Google Maps for that and I'll paste it
on Facebook. The street sign if it is Falcon Street,
it's very hard for me to see on Google Maps.
I've got to get that. Oh no, it's back to
a horizontal one. It must be higher. For a while
there it was vertical, must be higher than other street signs. Yes,
it seems to be much higher. I hope it does anyway, Jackie,

(41:10):
it's mark Oh, cheapest creepers. It's fine. I've spiled stuff.
It's not a problem, Jackie. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 18 (41:19):
Hi.

Speaker 22 (41:20):
I just wanted to make a comment about Chris Hopkins,
just that when he got engaged to that lady Grace
or what is her name is, it was all on
the TV. I just he's saying that he doesn't want
his family to be involved with his children to be
you know, protected from or well this. But he was

(41:42):
on the television and he was in an embrace with
his new fiance, and at the time, I just thought
that's not I wouldn't think that's suitable because maybe his
kids go to school and they'd say they called the
father or you know. I just thought that, Yeah, just
just a comment about his actions because what he was
saying in the interview, you they wanted to keep everything private.

(42:04):
And then he was on again looking at that as
weddings coming up, and I think and I.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
Think, I don't know if that's true, but I think
there was a there was some sort of women's magazine
articles about the marriage. Now I better make sure that
is right, but I guess it's the It's a difficult
thing of being a politician and trying to get the
good stories when you can also too sort of because
people want your profile to be out there. He'd have

(42:30):
people recommending him, he'd do things like that. So yeah,
I'm sure he has thought of that, and he's.

Speaker 12 (42:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I mean, publicity is, publicity can be. Publicity can be
a difficult piece, can't it.

Speaker 22 (42:44):
Yes it can't. Yes, it's difficult. But you know, I
just I feel sorry for him, and they feel sorry
for the children and the eggs, all of them.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
You know. Yes, it does not seem to be an amiable,
amicable separation, that's right. Yes, yeah, I'm looking at the
Women's Day. I'm looking at the Women's Day article. Chris
Hopkins shares his romantic engagement and there are post photos
there with that also.

Speaker 22 (43:12):
Yeah, but that's hard on kids, because you know what
kids that's gone say, oh you've got a new you
know your father's got it. You know, they talked the
sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
You know, I want if kids still do talk about that.
I haven't. Yeah, look, I yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 22 (43:26):
I hope they go.

Speaker 20 (43:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
If I kind of think the kids are more are
more reasonable these days, I don't know. That's only on
the evidence of my own children. I've never heard them
sort of discussing anything, although I don't know what they
would discussed, but yeah, I don't. I mean, kids are
their own world in a lot of ways. I think
a lot of ways they just reflect what their parents
are obsessing about. So maybe if the parents are directing
those combinate combinations. Did you did you see his press

(43:51):
conference today?

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (43:53):
I do, Yes, pretty hard to watch. It was uncomfortable
to watch.

Speaker 22 (43:58):
It's uncomfortable. I don't particularly spoke to the Labor Party
or him or anything, but I just thought it was
I just sort of it was difficult. You don't want
people to be suffering, yea. And it obviously might have
called it to its holiday to come back you know.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Soon, which which which no one would would which would
be a horrible thing to do, to have that sort
of be on a holiday and have that sort of
suddenly your phone starts ringing and say, hey, we've got
to talk about this. The other thing probably people have
discussed also too, is the situation with politics where people
and it's I don't think it is in this case.
I think both Hipkins and his partner and his former

(44:36):
wife are all from Wellington. But but you know, I
think probably it's our natural situation where people are spending
half their lives away from their family too, and I
think there's probably that adds to the pressure of all
sorts of things.

Speaker 22 (44:49):
I would think, yes, yes, And then I ag read
that his children, that his children have got disabilities too,
and that sometimes he has to go to the hospital
with them.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Now I don't know that I've read that, but that.

Speaker 9 (45:09):
But that.

Speaker 22 (45:11):
Yeah, okay, yeah, could and you just wonder what he
didn't He didn't say what it was. He just says
his children had something.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
He was talking about the hospital or something wasn't here.
I remember something similar to that.

Speaker 22 (45:24):
He yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Appreciate your call, Jackie. Thank you for that. Twenty past
nine if you want to talk eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine two to text if
you want to come through. But yes, I don't know
what the situation and look I haven't I have limited
interest in politicians children but I don't know, and I
don't think I know that information. There's a horn Blow

(45:50):
Road and much of Corey half the time when I
was growing up there twenty years ago, the sign wasn't there.
It was always been stolen. A lot of road signs
get stolen. I forget what the most stolen one there.
One can to be that always got stolen. I can't
remember what it was, Marcus. What happens at the straight
ofhorn Moves can't be open. There is talk of tens
of thousands of drones, water drones and act like kon tickies.

(46:11):
Ukraine has chased the Russian fair of the Black Sea
with drones. Ragime change in USA could be the end result.
The orange one is a bad apple in the barrel,
if you can excuse the mixed fruit metaphor, murraysys along
with D's I'm going to run out of popcorn. If
this limited military operation carries on for much longer, Marcus,
the house doesn't sit till next week. I'd like to

(46:31):
think the politicians won't get personal and leave Chippy's private
life off the agenda. I can't help but think of
this was a net or act. If this was a
net or act MP in particular that that wouldn't necessarily
be the case. There is no proof that the Iranians
have run out of missiles. Yeah, I thought, well that
was sort of the intel. I'd heard that they're not

(46:52):
firing nearly as many as they once did, which would
indicate probably they're on their way out. But yep, take
your point. Twenty one past nine, looking forward to your calls.
Twenty four past nine, Daniel, it's Marcus good evening. Sorry, Daniel,
bad Daniel, it's Marcus good evening. Ye, Daniel, I copy
that good things.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
I'll hope you know that you're a New Zealand legend.
Oh I know, but thank you you are mate. But so,
the story with Saint Patrick is he was actually stolen
from Scotland when he was sixteen. Oh and he was
the first man to bring Christianity to Ireland.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Was he a priest or a religious person at sixteen?

Speaker 6 (47:33):
He was raised very religious and they stole them during
wars and battles and whatever they did. And he was
the first man to bring Christianity to Ireland. But I
don't know if it's a good thing or not, but
he did it. So that's why he's famous.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Okay, that makes really good sense to be Daniel. Thank you,
John Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 23 (47:55):
Oh Marcus you talking to me?

Speaker 13 (47:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Are you John? John Johns?

Speaker 23 (48:00):
Yes, road signs to get stolen? You happened one in
the Canterbury area, my son.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I'll just remember what it was. Is it muff road?

Speaker 23 (48:12):
No, it was Woodstock Road.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
I think it was a muff road that used to
get stolen a lot. I don't quite know the reason, but.

Speaker 23 (48:19):
Yeah, well I know it was Woodstock In my.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
In my.

Speaker 23 (48:25):
Head was the fact my son bloody well stolen and
it was. It was in his flat for years and
we had a garage sale when he finally decided to
get rid of some of his stuff and that was
the first thing to be sold. It was pounced upon.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (48:49):
Anyway, going back to mister Hipkins.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
There also was a muff There was a muff road
near Orari in South Canterbury and they had to change
that name because it got stolen so often.

Speaker 23 (49:01):
Oh yes, yes, mister Hipkins. It's not about him in
my opinion, it's about.

Speaker 10 (49:13):
The news media.

Speaker 23 (49:16):
I didn't have made a story of it. They should
have left it alone, not touched it. And it's a
media beef up and the very fact that you and
I are talking about it tonight, we're just as guilty.

Speaker 6 (49:33):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
That's yeah, And look I'm into mine to what I'm
going to talk about it, because if I don't say
stuff again, oh, people sort of trying Goldman like Goldman
say oh, well you're.

Speaker 23 (49:43):
Not Yeah, yeah, Marcus. I'm not sure whether you're a legend,
but you're very slick.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Okay, appreciate I'll take that. Thank you. Twenty seven past nine.
I like John's media beef up. Marcus Napkins loved the
publicy of being with his new wife and all that excitement.
Historic expect some blowback and bed publicity from his ex
wife Colin. A good old fashioned hell has no fury
like a woman's school. No, that one well chairs Dion.

Speaker 13 (50:14):
dB.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
It's Marcus. Good evening, good evening.

Speaker 24 (50:17):
Show's going well tonight, as is my habit. I managed
to spend five years living in a street that didn't exist.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
How did that work out for you?

Speaker 6 (50:31):
dB?

Speaker 24 (50:31):
All right, it will work out all right for me.
So the back road at O Tira, where all the
houses are, is, for all intents and purposes, a driveway.
And although it's known as Settlement Road by All and Sundry.
It is not in the Lynn's database, the then information system.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
So if.

Speaker 24 (50:55):
And I had this where I had a cop on
about this bocause he said, I can tell you where
you will. I said, I want five sixty five road.
It is the you are Kumara, I said, I ate
anywhere near that. Wow.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
So that wasn't on their database.

Speaker 25 (51:09):
It don on the.

Speaker 24 (51:10):
Linz database because it's like I said, it's technically a driveway.
But I got hold of Linds because I was interested
in this trick, and they said, oh yeah, well, if
you pay eighty five dollars you can have the name
road named. And needless to say, I have the ideas
of name yet after myself, just to eave the locals,
but I never got around to it. But all the

(51:32):
locals and the postings and everything. No, it is settlement road,
but it's not really. It's never been problemated or gazetted.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
But what I think if you had chosen to name
the road for eighty dollars, that would have had to
go before the regional council for approval. I think that
would be right, would it not?

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (51:51):
More than likely there's bound to be some red tape.
And I wasn't going to pay eighty five dollars to
name the road that's already named that everybody knows. Okay, wow,
but just suited by sense of humor to think I'll
seem I can name it after me or give it
some of the weird names. But bb Place sort of
appealed to my sense of humor.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
It's still a private driver, not a road.

Speaker 24 (52:14):
It's still weird to the best of my knowledge that
still no one has ever done anything about it.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Did you still have you stolen road signs?

Speaker 24 (52:22):
Well, have never had one. Apart from that, I photographed
roads signs, believe it or not that yeah, like they
had my girlfriend's names on it. Yes, but I've never
got around of stealing one.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I think that's the thing that people find. People photographed
people beside names of their of their surname and stuff.
That's a fun thing to do.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 24 (52:44):
I've got photos of all my children's names as road signs,
and there's number plates.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Did you name your children after road signs?

Speaker 13 (52:50):
dB?

Speaker 24 (52:51):
To make it easier, I know they named the roads
after my children.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:58):
I was always obsessed with lush air and glenneness but
thank you for that. Eight and eighty rayots Marcus good evening.

Speaker 19 (53:05):
Who Marcus's ray.

Speaker 20 (53:08):
The petrol the petrol prices we know is going up
now about fifty cents a liter. They just looked up
and we use in New Zealand twenty four million liters
a day. Wow, which on fifty cents a liter, it's
an extra seven and a half cents GST the government
are taking, which when you do the maths, it's twelve

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and a half million dollars a week extra. The government
are making twelve and a half million dollars a week
out of the new The petrol price, and that's only
on the fifty cents has gone up, but it's gone
out more than fifty cents. Forty eight million dollars a month,
forty eight million dollars a month. No one's saying anything
about that.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
I think people I think people have but it sounds
rough to.

Speaker 24 (53:50):
Me, well shocking.

Speaker 20 (53:52):
I think if they get if they get it, they
should be saying, okay, now this is a bonus because
they didn't have to do anything for it. They've that
cost them nothing to get that. Next to forty eight
million dollars a month, they could say look, let's let's
give it to some hospital to build the railway between
Hawk's Bay and Yisbon or whatever. But I mean, no
one's really complaining about that. But that's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Yeap. Nice to hear from your ray. Thank you. We'll
keep discussing that. Someone said, someone in chrost churchs tried
to rub out the Bee and Hornby Road. Don't know why, Marcus.
Did you know that Alexander is running out of dieselers
all the rural community is stocking up, partner said, the
challenge in town here and Darnedana's run out of ninety
one and diesel earlier tonight. Panic buyer is on. Yes,
I went to fill up tonight and they were people

(54:36):
with Jerry farming, people with Jerry cans could see it all.
It was all go, It was all go. The numbers
eight hundred and eighty. Today I have a concert announcement
for you people that I can tell you that Robbie Williams,
the Britpop World Tour is coming Auckland's Eden Park Tuesday,

(54:58):
twenty fourth of November. That's like eight months away and
christ Church's one New Zealand Stadium. Y're today twenty eighth
of November. So big announcement, certainly for christ Church. Tickets
on sale next Thursday at one pm from AXS dot com.
Robbie Williams first concert in christ Church in twenty five

(55:21):
years and the first international artist to perform at the
city's new stadium. So the year Goo, you've heard about
that here first. Now, what I do know is that
what you'll need to do is book your flights. Well
that's going to be tricky, isn't it. But we don't
have to flights because I know if you've got to
get nearly for grab a seat, but I don't even
grab a seat to think anymore. There don't seem to
be any bargains. But yeah, they go on sale on

(55:43):
next Thursday on AXS dot com. Someone has texted and
someone has texted Marcus it was okay to talk about
Luckson's properly investments and wives, Tesla, but why not Hepkin's situation,
Thanks David. I think the situation with lux and the
houses he owned showed that he was going to find

(56:06):
financially profit from decisions he could make. That's where I
think That's not about his private life. That's about I
think we do need to know about politicians' financial interests,
and even as me as a local body counselor after former,
talk about all my financial interests and shareholdings and things

(56:29):
like that, because that is stuff that people are interested
in because it affects decisions. So I do think there
is a difference there. I knew that would come up,
but thank you Marcus. I live in Blue Gene Avenue
in a subdivision called Levi Park and Rolliston. The streets
are Denham Strauss. I'm sure it came from a period
of a snigger and I tell them I address Marcus.
Street names in Lower Hut the suburb Calson. Most of

(56:51):
the streets are named after South Island places, including Invercargil,
christ Chitch, Timuu, Manipuri or et Tayiri, etc. Margaret Yes,
is a themed suburban Waldronville in Donedan, which I think
is all the names of planes. By the way, if
you've got any fuel places running out now. I don't

(57:12):
necessarily know what happened to Muff Road. It was named
after the family of the Muffs. I actually interviewed one
of them on the radio. But if I look at
the old road signs, this is in two thousand and
nine trying to find Alardi's Muff Road. Can you but
of a mission? Not because it's located, because it's street
signs are rotine souvenired. Muff Resident Roger Paine is asking

(57:34):
Muff Road resident Roger Maine is asking for plane is
asking for a name change to overcome the ongoing sign thefts.
So people keep staying the road and no one knows
where the guy lived. Yeah, so I don't know if that.
I don't know if it's ended up being a road
still and twenty nineteen on two thousand and nine they're still.
In fact, it became an international story that so replaced

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the sign, I think to make it easier to not
get stolen. So it's been going on and it's been
keeping the Timdoo Herald going for a long time. By
the way, to do what they've had the car named
roads roads that got stolen. I'm just bringing up that story.
Hold your horses, people, fifty two for three South Afy
can need one two four from seventy one balls. Yeah,

(58:17):
it must be hard for counsel and other parts of
New Zealand, popular signs to be stolen include Auckland's Bathurst
Road and Commodore Drive, while soap fans target Shortland Street
and Melrose Place and Muff Road in South canterbyo is
proving such a popular sign to steal that the Tmadoo
District Council looked at change the name, but that was

(58:38):
opposed by people who shared the Muff family name. The
road was named after, so yes the yego It's all
about the road signs. Get in touch if you want
to talk eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine to text. Meredith has emailed Marcus, I'm a regularst
It's not a felt compelled to write because I'm extremely
concerned and frankly, I've redisappointed about your decision to open

(59:01):
discussion on Chris hoipkins private situation. As a teacher for
more than forty years, I've worked close see with children
going through family breakdowns. I've seen first had the anxiety
and trauma this causes. Children these situations often become hyper vigilant,
withdrawn and deeply distressed. The inkect on them can be
profound and long lasting. That is why it's so troubled.

(59:21):
He called has been allowed to speculate about mister Hipkins's children.
They're not public figures. They are children that aserve protection
from executi this kind of public scrutiny and misinformation fair enough.
I appreciate you briefly acknowledge the need for care and practice.
The conversation has gone well beyond that. You've opened a
can of worms that is now causing harm, and believe
your responsibility to shut it down. After mister Hopkins's press

(59:41):
conference day which where he was visibly upset and made
it clear this is a private matter, it should be
obviously get in this line discussion with thrial damage, particularly
to his children. Talbett Radio has influence whether this comes
to duty to draw firm boundaries, especially where vulnerable people
are concerned. I say this is somebody respect your work,
but tonight you've got this wrong. I urge you to
reconsider continuing with this topic. Kind regards Meredith. In response

(01:00:06):
to that, I have to say that certainly any of
all other media that I was consuming today was mentioning
it and talking about it. I think probably would have
been wrong not to mention it. And I've found from
the conversation that I have had is that most people
have reiterated what you've said that we respect our politicians

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and their private lives to remain private. So, if anything,
I've probably been quite heartened by the response, and that's
what a lot of the texts have said as well.
But yeah, I appreciate your input, their meritith, so thank
you for that. Keep in touch if you do want
to talk, oh, eight hundred and eighty. And to be honest,
there has not been a lot of reaction and that's

(01:00:52):
interesting because in the social media word world online, whether
it be read It or Twitter or Facebook, that the
armchair experts and the keyboard warriors have had an absolute
pylon on this, an absolute pylon. So yeah, I'm kind
of heartened that perhaps the this discussion has been slightly

(01:01:14):
more reasonable seventeen away from ten. But the good news
Robbie Williams coming to christ Jewish and Auckland. Keep those
texts coming through this cricket. If you want to watch it,
I feel free to go and watch that. I have
a bunch of street signs from Bayfair area total on
and from the old Baypark Motor Raceway, many famous drivers
with streets named after them. Was it all become why

(01:01:38):
do you have them? Are they no longer the streets
evening Marcus Binhams or mark a lending housing development. All
the streets are named after planes. Malcolm Stoke BP Highway
two six six six up near Nelson used to be
a right of passage as a fruit pickeet of Motchuwaker.
Scratch away certain letters and it would become Toke Highway

(01:02:01):
six six six Oh love, that's good about the fuel shortages.
There is talk about working from home from the governed,
A lot of people prefer to go into the office.
An interesting text here it says muff is a vulgar
term pertaining to females in case you didn't know. Wow,

(01:02:24):
a lot to unpicked from that. I thought I was
taken as people didn't know what that was. It's also
a fashion accessory which it's a horrior hollow tube of
fabric normally fur that you put your hands into. Don't
see them round so much these days, but you never know.
Free and practical garment. The muff fifteen from ten twelve

(01:02:48):
away from ten o'clock, Brian, it's Marcus, good evening Marcus.

Speaker 26 (01:02:53):
A funny sign or it's not quite what about the
word on the sign, but somebody got hold of a
bus stop sign and put it halfway up a set
of stairs tween two streets.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Every good.

Speaker 26 (01:03:15):
And just another funny one I saw, which was nothing
to do with the street sign, but it was one
of these signs that tells you that some corners are
coming up ahead, and gave you the speed at forty
five kilometers and now. And they were doing some roadworks
in the area and they put some tape across the

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forty five kilometers and our and replaced it with a
fifty k sign.

Speaker 12 (01:03:43):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
So what was that going to try and to prove
well they were.

Speaker 26 (01:03:48):
You were allowed to go fast around the corner. Yeah,
it was quite bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
It's bizarre. I haven't quite worked that one out roan,
but thank you seven away from ten o'clock emails, texts,
road signs. While we're on the road times, we're talk
about John Kennedy Drive where there has been a fire
by the way and Palmerston North. That's what got us
going about that. But interesting roads stories or oddly named
streets or streets you can cross letters out of and
make them something humorous. I think plenty of people have

(01:04:16):
done that. Be in touch. If you want to add
to these discussions here tell twelve o. Weagit one hundred eighty,
ten eighty and nine to nine two to text anything
else you want to go on about. Feel free, yep,
that's the plan. Keeping an eye on the Middle East obviously,
And the latest I can see is Iran and Iraq

(01:04:38):
are holding talks about allowing transit of Iraq's oil tankers
through the straight off for moves. So that's a that's
a turn, isn't it. So now Iran is going to
say who can actually send these ships through there? So
still still see them a lot of power. There's communication
with Iran regarding allowing their passage of some Iraqi oil tankers.

(01:04:59):
The all mins is said. The news agency said Iraq's
all productions have been reduced to one point two million
barrels daily, down from four point three So Tarun has
effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz and now it looks
as though they're allowing which countries can go through. A
Pakistan bound oil tanker passed through the Strait of Hormus
over the weekend. It all comes back to that, doesn't it.

(01:05:21):
I'll be in touch if you want to nine away
from ten o'clock, Catch you soon. Mitchell Mitchell said, if
you join the New Zealand Motorhome Association, you save seventeen
cents alter on diesel at Z and celtechs and fourteen
cents on petrol. Thanks for that line. Street, you want
to talk quickly before the news. Marcus Iran has been
allowing Chinese tankers through. Get on the same side and

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you are good to go.

Speaker 13 (01:05:44):
DIBs.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Why are some streets called dress circle? I get it,
but I don't know Marcus have not already discussed Chief Luxen.
He should be in New Zealand supporting and preparing for
the high fuel cost, not asking for Tuttleton. Some are
frankly embarrassing. Thanks for talking about Hapkins. He's a protected
species in media circles, but we need to know who
could potentially be running our country. There we go, That's

(01:06:08):
what people are saying. For other texts. There's emails also.
Marcus the council street sign maker for got to put
the RD on my street sign, so I cut the
road off the street sign I had here in place
it underneath the faulty sign. It looked good too. It's
been replaced now. Thanks for that and one extraordinary police

(01:06:28):
chase that was if you've seen the footage of that
twelve or fifteen cars. I don't know what the limit is,
the optimum limit, but boy oh boy, they're all in
there for that one. The car behind the white car
was the police, that was the arm defender squad. It's
not called that anymore. I don't think that's happening cricket.
So they ever can need one hundred and eight from
fifty five balls? What's the wind predictor? Got Dan eighty

(01:06:52):
percent in New Zealand's favor over ninety now, so that's
the situation that's happening. Forester on seven, lind On one
sixty nine for five, two wickets in the last two overs,
and Conway top scored with sixty. A lot of twenty
twenty cricket on them, isn't there. It's not my favorite

(01:07:13):
of all the versions, but there you go. But look,
if you want to talk on air about any of
these things money, it's about road signs and interestingly named
streets or humorously named streets. You might have one of those.
Get in touch here'ill twelve. I'm just trying to say
there's aything else that's happening internationally. I need to tell you,
but before we do go to news, British Airways canceled

(01:07:35):
all flights into Dubai until summer. As the conflict enters
the third week. It's it's the third week, fifteen days.
I guess it is now. I hope you Saint Patrick's
day is still going well. You've got two hours left
and if you want to talk on air, that's the
planned people. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty that

(01:07:56):
we are now up to date. That we just send
any more texts before we go to news. Several years
ago fog and we had an issue on the correct
spelling of the city. Residents were divided. There was a
sign of the city bridge indicator the direction to go
to Wellington. Someone added an h to the spelling of Wellington.
Are very good. That is funny. W H E L
L I N G t O N. If you didn't

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get that. South Africa are ninety two to seven.

Speaker 27 (01:08:21):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
We're talking about road names.

Speaker 13 (01:08:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Two for eight now three wickets and five balls, Marcus,
look after our country. Put the price of food down.
Stop living off instant noodles. I've heard people say that
mince pork is much cheaper than mince beef. That's what
we ought to be doing. I'm not really a mince pork.
There's not something I've experienced much. Laureate's Marcus Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
Yeah him, Marcus. Hey, just road names, sir. There's one
assuous way that a little while ago created a bit
of a stir in the residence for petition to have
it changed. They renamed this place called called it Memory Lane.
It has a sort of a part rural block and

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the residence for fairy that'll be ridiculed.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Yeah, what were they concerned about?

Speaker 5 (01:09:16):
Well, those sort of you know, every time they gave
somebody their address, those sort of people, even one as
if they were you know, sort of pasted it or
sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Memory Memory Lane living down Memory Lane. I guess it does.
Did they get it changed?

Speaker 5 (01:09:35):
No, they didn't actually, as it turned out, And as
it turned out, there was a guy Danny I was
a Mechanican parmy. But and he originally had owned the
whole block, and I think he sold it off to
a developer, but he retained he retained one section and
which case, normally he might have had the chance of
actually naming the road. But I think he's highly indignant

(01:09:58):
that this guy called it put in the Memory Lane,
and yeah, there actually some he pulled it down at
one stage and stuck up another cardboard name called it.
I think it's called it Ross Ross Road or something.
I think that Ross might have referred to as a
mountain up on the Royal Heeney sort.

Speaker 28 (01:10:18):
Of just not.

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
But yeah, so that's what remained.

Speaker 24 (01:10:27):
People.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
People get quite prickly about funny street names, don't they.

Speaker 5 (01:10:31):
Yeah, I think they little go to there for a
while anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
But is it still is it? Is it still Memory Lane?

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
Still Memory Lane?

Speaker 6 (01:10:38):
As so as?

Speaker 3 (01:10:38):
Yeah, it does. The more I say it, the more wrong.
I think it sounds down Memory Lane.

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
Not that many people live down there, but it's quite
it's quite pretty modern houses. But in a you know,
out in a rural area.

Speaker 10 (01:10:54):
Yeah good, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Laurie put on my list of places to some other suggestions.
If you're heading from a port to get just belong,
well straight on the right. Looney Road on the Lift
is Toon Road, And I believe there are names related
to the area, but I always smile with Looney tunes.
Toon is t O O N E. Marcus is a

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lovely street in tar it Owe called kent Terrace. That
made headlines in the paper, and the inn had a
while ago. For reasons which you're obvious, the e was
changed for you, much to the surprise to all the residents.
It was finally rectified after a week. Yes, because you
need letters that it can easily change too. I don't
get this one, Marcus. I used to travel down a
shaded road there was a sign warning of ice. Someone

(01:11:40):
edited an inn so the so the sign read nice
and frost. All right, that's quite good. Hello, Philip's Marcus welcome?

Speaker 13 (01:11:48):
Yeah. Can I look. Just just turned on the radio
and I heard Laurie. Well I know Laurie very well,
but he's got the story wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
That's a worry. Okay, he might be down Memory lay
to himself anyway.

Speaker 13 (01:12:02):
Yeah, because I was the server who worked for the client.
And it was actually Murray Williamson who since died. He
owned the farm and it was a third generation in there,
and we subdivided the property in Murray named the private
road Mary Memory Lane. Danny McKenna, who lives down there,

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and a couple others objected it to the idea of name.
They took it to the Manitary district council. The manager
district Council didn't know what they were doing and decided
to change the name. So I advised Murray and about
a half a page and they went back to the council.
The council had to accept that they got it horribly

(01:12:44):
wrong because the council has no power over a private
in this case right of way. It wasn't a legal road,
so the council didn't have any authority over it. So
they had to change the name back. And now it's
a constant battle because the name plate and the latest
thing is the name plate and the posts have disappeared.

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But it'll go back to here was Murray's legacy. They
have it as called as Memory Lane.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Seven nice houses on one side of the street. Looks
quite policial, Oh it was.

Speaker 13 (01:13:16):
It's eight actually dairry farm on the l side, but
that the dairy farm shut down there and it writs
along straight road. I think there's drive away. There's eight
houses of them.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
What did they change the name to.

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
The road?

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
The memory between the two of you. Okay, so it's private.
No one can call it anything else.

Speaker 13 (01:13:43):
Well they can if the if the owner decides to
change the name. He's entirely able to do it. It's
got nothing to do with the council. If it was
a public road, then the council controls the name, but
they can't control the name on a private driveway effectively.
Do we know the residents want to change?

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
Do we know why he want it called Memory Lane?

Speaker 24 (01:14:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:14:03):
Because he had memories of I was faring. He looked
like the property all his life and it was third generation, okay,
and he just just wanted to have that as his memories.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Brilliant.

Speaker 13 (01:14:14):
Look, I think he died about Oh it must be
four six years ago. I can't actually remember that now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
It can't be changing this because he was his it
was his wish.

Speaker 13 (01:14:23):
Well no, no, because it's got a new owner, so
the owner of the land who can change it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Yeah, I appreciate that, fel thank you. It's complicated it
roads fourteen past ten. I know someone who lives in
the cauldal Sack Hidden Meadow Circle. It's a beautiful name
in America. Interesting road street name stories, and that's certainly
the ones out of Partston North taken care of.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Like that a lot just had an ashest brilliant be
in touch anything else. You want to talk about police chasers. Fuel,
You've got more updates how much fuel has run out
around the country. When I went to get fuel today
the first time for ten days, I was surprised. I
surprised how many people were stockpiling. I couldn't find a

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bowser there to do that thing right, to go around
and drive and from the other way, which is always
there's always potential of problems. There isn't. Then you go
to turn around and come back in the other way,
they won't manage it. Nailed it. Always a big believer
when you fill up, guesses at the time to empty
the car of things that should be emptied of. Its
about sixty seconds downtime. Very hard to know what to
do with the downtime. That's my plan with that one.

(01:15:30):
Be in touch if you want to talk on air
O eight and mainly it's about road street signs and
now are you in a road that's got interesting name?
I don't know what interesting is, but I'm sure there's
roads with interesting names or jokes, or roads that are defaced.
I think defacing road signs is fine if it's just
a bit of black tape so people can appreciate the

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humor if I can say that. So there we go,
sixteen past ten. If you want to be a part
of it, hit til twelve o'clock tonight, eighteen to ten.
By the way that Robbi Williams concert, I see, it's
part of the government's event attraction package out, so make
of that what you will. If there will be the
petrol to get people around the country to get to it, Richie,

(01:16:13):
it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
How's it going, Marcus, Richie?

Speaker 12 (01:16:17):
How's going?

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:16:18):
Look, come, I know that you don't like me that
well or rung up.

Speaker 24 (01:16:21):
A few times before, but anyway, let's.

Speaker 13 (01:16:24):
I don't think, I don't think.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
I don't think. I know you are recall having any
feelings either way, Richie.

Speaker 11 (01:16:28):
So that's good here and anyway, he is a trip
down Memory Lane in Northland, which is in fang and a.

Speaker 13 (01:16:41):
Just off.

Speaker 12 (01:16:44):
Just north of the fung And Falls Memory Lane.

Speaker 14 (01:16:49):
Talking about road names and stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:16:51):
You're there, you're there, Yeah, I hang on your words, yep, yeah,
Memory Lane and yeah, just just north of the actually
east probably of the falls, but it pass you forgot that, yeah,
And also about.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
The diesel hang on, what's the name of the road.

Speaker 12 (01:17:11):
Richie memory memory lane.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
I see what? Sorry, sorry, see what. I apologize. I'm
with you now. Okay, so there's two of them. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 24 (01:17:20):
Okay, yeah, all this one's off.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Yeah, I thought you're going to I thought when you
said memory lane, you're going to remind me of something
that I that I'd said about.

Speaker 14 (01:17:27):
You know, I can understand now, Marcus, We're not that
deeply involved, you know, we no fair enough.

Speaker 12 (01:17:36):
But anyway, and another thing I've tried to tell the
old man full the bloody diesel team, cut mate. You know,
we never know what's going to happen.

Speaker 6 (01:17:45):
I'll go.

Speaker 13 (01:17:45):
You have.

Speaker 25 (01:17:48):
What you know?

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
You know you only can store it for six months?

Speaker 14 (01:17:55):
What diesel?

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
We are we getting away with it for a year
out here with okay, old chapters and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
Apparently gets a bacteria in it. But you can put
something in it, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Can get the diesel bug.

Speaker 24 (01:18:09):
Yes, Marcus, yes you're correct.

Speaker 10 (01:18:11):
But can I do a little shout out please?

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Yeah, love a shout out?

Speaker 6 (01:18:16):
You know how you do the little for Joe and Queennas, please,
because for the most beautiful people. So I don't know
who does that little.

Speaker 24 (01:18:27):
Yeah Hi by Joe and gueners.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Love you guys, brilliant shadow, Richie, good on you Richie.
He's won the cricket by sixty out round. It was
a hiding, no contest in it, easy beats. Where was
it there?

Speaker 9 (01:18:41):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
And much there Hamilton? Not a bad ground but not
a great match. Lie all that's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 29 (01:18:48):
Hi, Marcus.

Speaker 30 (01:18:50):
Uh.

Speaker 29 (01:18:52):
I used to have a Commons background, and I've been
really interested in all the press releases. I said, well,
especially with the media releases these days. They have been
coming out of the supermarkets and the food supply industry
and stuff, and I think what they're doing is what
they do always in a crisis, like in COVID or whatever.
That's spoking inflationary expectations in a crisis. So and the

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media just seemed to be sort of just sort of
accepting it. And when prices go through the roof, because
they've only got two supermarket operators, everybody's just going to say,
are you fair enough?

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
So they use it an excuse to part the prices up,
whether it be COVID or the fuel price. They will
just think, okay, there is an appetite for it. People
think that's the reason, and we'll just mess with them.

Speaker 14 (01:19:38):
Is that what you're saying, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree,
you see.

Speaker 29 (01:19:41):
And also, I mean, I'm really sort of perturbed by
the media haven't sort of put our supermarket sort of
industry and historical context. And there I said, there was
a pivotal moment in two thousand and two the Progressive
Enterprises boog start services Progressive enterprises when progressive enterprises, look,
I've had a senior moment. It's a bit late, but

(01:20:02):
basically it went all the way to the Privy Council
and we we from three completely independent supermarket chains to two.
And I was in favor of us keeping the privilege
Council actually because the legal opportunity is a wee bit
to make it. But that was one serious era they made.
And so then we had we've got a sort of

(01:20:23):
a press effora of brands. But basically, you know, you've
got two operators, it's quite easy for I don't know,
you know, to get a bit sort of matey with
each other if you if you catch my drift, and
and and that's a that's a major cause of stuff.
And I'm just really perturbed that the media is not

(01:20:43):
doesn't really put things in the in the economic historical
context or whatever. And I don't mean sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
I think people have always been excited or expecting the
government to do something about it, but there's a lot
of talk about it but no action at all.

Speaker 29 (01:20:59):
Well, I think you can't just do market studies. It's
got to be more like the Commas Christian's got to
be more like the Artment of Commerce of the United States,
which has a thing called the Sherman Act, which has
been around since the eighteen nineties, where the first thing
it was passed to break up the big railroad cartels,
then the big steel cartel. In nineteen eleven they broke

(01:21:20):
up Standard Oil into seven, which has had a huge
sort of monopoly in New orleandustry, and that the little
the spawn now in clined Texaco and x sign and
all these things. And then in the eighties it was
used to break up a government section monopoly in the
United States, Bell Telephone, and it was broken up into

(01:21:43):
six or seven regional companies, and then the technology company
became became the Bell Labs, became Att something rather telephone
and telegraph. But I mean they've stopped after that because
you know, Facebook and act should all be sort of
spun off too. But anyway, they can't keep doing markeat studies.

(01:22:06):
The're going to get people if necessary, because we're all
a bit team mate and we know each other. They've
got to get people from overseas to come and do it,
people who are a bit more hard nowse I mean,
if you if you create, you know, a commercial crime
in the United States, it's like, you know, you can
get the same sort of scene as as a drug dealer.
It's just this is quite interesting that people, you know,

(01:22:27):
game leaders, they know we're game catch jackets and then
carry costs and that where there are a lot of
people in New Zealand wearing sharp Italian suits and carrying
netty releases who are sort of ripping people off lest
right and center too. But anyway, so it's just I'll
make this prediction, and I don't have to be Nostra
Diarmis markets. Our supermarket prices will go up more than

(01:22:51):
anywhere else in the English speaking world.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
Britain's got.

Speaker 29 (01:22:54):
When I was in Britain, they made nine and different
completely separate supermarket chains. And I just googled this this
evening because I thought I might wring you up, and
now they've got eleven, and so there's in a sort
of a market, you know, sort of you can't really
play too fast to loose in that environment. But yeah, anyway,

(01:23:16):
that's just nice to us.

Speaker 3 (01:23:18):
Thank you for making them ale nice to hear from me.
In twenty six past ten, we are talking interesting place names,
interesting street names, humorous street names. Wow, Marcus Spike Milligan
lived in dumb Woman Lane, Bob Marcus. When we lived
in Nelson, we always had a chuckle driving past lusty
place Stoke. I'd laugh at that. We always made fun

(01:23:40):
of Richard Washer Drive. Short version was Dick washer. I
don't know where that is. Never come across Richard washer Drive.
Marcus Amelia here, I was wondering if you pretty please
give a shout to my beautiful mother Amy. We live
in different cities and you in and don't get see
each other anymore, but we love you both. Listen to
your show and have a giggle. I don't know how
to do shout up for one person to another, but Amy,

(01:24:00):
Emilia says, Hi, Marcus, typical TV one. All the venues
for the cricket appear in Maldi, which is no use
to me regards Donald Wamadou support. Donald doesn't know where
Eden Parker is, that's a concern, Donald. Marcus. There was
one hundred kilometers per hour sign in the on the
Takapo planes. I don't know where they are. I look
that up and underneath it said this is not a target.

(01:24:22):
It was riddled with bullet holes. Stanley, it's Marcus. Welcome,
good evening to.

Speaker 16 (01:24:27):
Talk about storing diesel. Yes, back in Y two K,
so that would been just just before then, nineteen ninety nine,
we got a whole lot of plastic drums, filled them
with diesel and hit them in the forest because I
was all paranoid about Y two K. Twenty years later,

(01:24:51):
I went over and got some of it and put
them put it in the ICU zoo.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
Move and it went good, oh good, Hey, Wow, that
must have been a really interesting white two K for you. Well,
how much did you how much did you hide?

Speaker 16 (01:25:08):
I think there was about there's still some over there
in the forest, twenty or thirty drums, and I put
a whole lot of leaves and branches over them because
I was quite paranoid.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Wow, and you're a farmer at the time.

Speaker 16 (01:25:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's over in a
block of bush in the middle of the farm. And
now that this is all happened, I think I might
go over and try some more. So that'll be twenty
sixty years now.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
Did you dig them in?

Speaker 24 (01:25:39):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:25:40):
No, no, they they're just sitting on top of the ground.
They were empty oil drums, and I just know, and
I just covered them over with leaves. And of course
over the years when you go back in there that
they're not that easy to find. It's all the leaves,
you know, from the trees have settled on them.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
God, you farmers, you're a special breed.

Speaker 16 (01:25:59):
But I wanted to tell you one other thing.

Speaker 24 (01:26:01):
What did you have to do?

Speaker 20 (01:26:02):
Hang on?

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
But how was how was New Year's Eve? Y two
K four? We are what we're doing? We're hiding that bed.

Speaker 16 (01:26:10):
No, I was actually upper daggable and we were up
on the top of a hill watching the Uh well,
I work up a daggable and anyway here. We eventually
went to bed, and next morning we got up and
the world was still going.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Okay, And you what's the other thing you want to say?

Speaker 25 (01:26:31):
Yeah, yeah, T Street and vcagodes pardon, oh shade, sorry,
hold hang I'll come back to Sorry, Dina, I apologize headlines.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
Please, you've done well. I don't worry about it my fault.
I apologize to her. Yeah, Tay Street and the cargo Stanley.

Speaker 16 (01:26:50):
Yes, Now, my father's name was Tay short for Taylor.
Everybody called him Tay. Well back about seventy five years
he crashed his motorbike on Tay Street.

Speaker 3 (01:27:02):
Cheapest creepers. What are the chances?

Speaker 16 (01:27:04):
Yeah, and yeah. He wasn't used to the ice because
he's he's from up here in the North Island, you see.
And the street was all covered in ice. And he
gave the motorbike a bit of throttle and it's spun
out from underneath him. And he went down underneath and
the throttle caught on the road and the motorbike was
spinning round and round.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
And what was he doing there?

Speaker 16 (01:27:25):
Oh, he was just on holiday, him and his mates.
They went went down here from up here at Tikaw.
He went down there, toured around and looking around and yees,
so he managed to crash his motorbike on t Street.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
So Taylor, and I'll let you know, you probably know this,
but all the rivers in sorry, most of the streets
and invert cargo are named after rivers in Scotland.

Speaker 16 (01:27:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, well I tweed.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
The fourth to tie on, the sn the nest of
the yarrow, the spade, the iron, the ethan.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
Ah.

Speaker 16 (01:27:57):
Yeah, well you see my father's well, both of his
parents they were from Scotland and my grandmother, she came
from Gervan. You might have heard of that, and that's
where where Richie mccaul's ancestors came from.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Didn't know he chased himself back to GERVI hmmm.

Speaker 16 (01:28:19):
They thought that the church. My cousin went over there,
and the church is still there and with the year
the authors that was their surname in the graveyard. Then okay,
that's all I've got to tell you, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
It's a good story. I'm loving you. Hiding the fuel
like a real like a real what is he? Marcus
has assigned Linda's pass. When you go to Linda's past,
someone crossed out the PA. Thank you for that, Marcus.
Falling asleep listening at the same time as my gorgeous
daughter Emilia and heard my name. Big shout out back
to her from Mum and Maxie. Boy, we love you, Marcus.

(01:28:57):
Gosh looks at that turned into the country and listening
the power of radio. Takapo planes hit'll twelve of you,
and that's bad for even the forgetting the is she
is she gone? Croc? Did you forget to in my ear?

Speaker 28 (01:29:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
There we're two. We're too immersed and we're too immersed
in Stanley's story. But wouldn't be it wouldn't be hard
to Tuckapo planes are out south Woyd too, west of
Wait before Norsewood. Oh, it's always fun. It's always funny
when there's a road sign that's for a ford when
in the outbecks and someone's crossed out and put holden.

(01:29:35):
It's always good. When I mean ford, you know you've
got to cross the river forty head. They get stolen
to the ford signs. Oh oh, classic Oscar story. They
left some names out of the memorial, you know how
they always do that people that have died, They never
get that right. They left out Bridget Bardot and the

(01:29:56):
other one. I don't know who it was, Eric Dane
from Grey's Anatomy. You probably should have had him in
twenty five to eleven. Here Till Midnight. We are talking
about interesting street names or street names that the council
keeps trying to change because they always get stolen. Like
Muff Road and like Melrose Place, you have some or

(01:30:18):
humorous road signs. I don't know about that one in Stoke.
What was it called Lusty Lusty Place?

Speaker 24 (01:30:23):
I do it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know Stoke that well,
Lusty place Stoke. See however, I address, isn't it because
Stoke's the town Lusty places? The street? Oh there it
is got a kink in it too, which is interesting.
Of course it has only ten hours on It goes
down to a park alding a reserve. Lusty Place. I
don't know if that's a sign that gets stolen. Now

(01:30:47):
it looks dry on Google Maps. Must have been a
summer shot dry. How are you going?

Speaker 5 (01:30:51):
People?

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
What's happening?

Speaker 13 (01:30:52):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Eight hundred? You know the rest? Marcus till twelve Marcus.
I used to live in Port Vila, Vanoa to address
number one Rue de Condominium. My first letter came through
a brewd It's one hundred rue to condom. We've got
a post office bok the next day. Streets in Owamatu
are named after rivers in England. Well funny enough in
Bluff they are. Streets are named after rivers in Ireland,

(01:31:15):
although not US. We are living on State Highway one,
although State high one becomes Marine Parade, which is pretty
boring when you're trying to buy things online because they
always comes up Marine Parade, Mount Monganui. I'm always worried
a lot of my stuff has gone there, my online purchases.
Fancay Stanley Harp. What I thought it was going to happen?
We'll never know. Twenty three away from eleven hit til midnight.

(01:31:37):
Oh there's other times you want to talk about the war?
Oh yeah, boy, oh boy, that's going to be interesting
because this is going to become intractable. Now, I better
check what Brent crudes on a We do that from
day to day. But it's below a dollar five. It
could be low a dollar now, but that's kind of
the indicator, isn't it Rent crude a dollar three? So
it's still well above where it was at. How people

(01:31:59):
are saying today that they're seeing a lot of places
having run out of petrol. But Australia seems to be
more vulnerable and more worried than we are. They're going
to lose out big time. You've only got twenty five
days left or something twenty two to eleven. Oh, people
are enjoying the roads. Chat Marcus have a good mate
that lives on Rimmers Road at Woodhill. I've checked it
as a thing. Good evening, Marcus. We have a hooker

(01:32:22):
raven Krost Church. I wonder why Tay Street into Cargo
is the longest, as it is State Highway one and
Tay Street and Chrost which is probably the shortest. Marcus.
Is a street and upper hut called Three Skulls Road,
and also one called Wood Street that to replace Lusty
Play sign with one concreted as normal street sign was
frequently stolen. Sunny Grove one Matta never Sunny Marcus. Taulandan

(01:32:48):
Lane replaced the ancient ice skating rink in so Tourists Road,
christ Church. I don't think the sign has ever been stolen.
To embarrassing Nicky. I think they skated their people. I
think they're named after that because when they toured, they
toured the Wolf stores and they did play in Chrost Church. Well,
I don't know that. I'm on busy on Google Maps
looking at the Lusty Place road sign of seedtors concreted

(01:33:10):
and I love to fact check a listener's story, and
you can do that with street view.

Speaker 13 (01:33:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
Oh, yes, they're right, it's got a Yes, they're right.
It's got a mess of concrete. It's concreted on the ground. Wow,
they really have that? Really must have been stolen a
number of times. Yes, because the street down the road
is a proper I feel like jose Monkey, the street
down the road has got proper signs. But yes, Lusty way,
I reckon you could take that with a guess X.

(01:33:38):
Fancy that so yes to it to put them to
stop it getting stolen. Oh, that's a brilliant bit of information.
Dan for the quiz, what street in Stoke has a
special concrete foundation? I think that's something like that. Apparently
the name Lusty has a strong connection to trucking and
machinery in New Zealand. Oh yeah, I'd agree with that,

(01:34:01):
but it's still funny. We work with what we've got. Tonight,
seventeen seventy to eleven People of New Zealand welcome like
how to ramble through the nation's topics. When do you
think the war all ends? We have a sweepsteak. It
doesn't feel like it's more likely to end today than
it was yesterday, particularly after the Trump asked the people
from around the world to help them keep the traits

(01:34:22):
of all moves open and everyone said yeah. And I
think probably the tariffs were foremost in their mind. So
I don't know what the next move is, but it
seems like Iran is if you deal with Iran, they'll
let your ships through. Maybe we should be doing that. Marcus.
My mum used to live in Buckley Grove. One night

(01:34:44):
someone turned the beat into an effort was quickly changed
back by the council.

Speaker 13 (01:34:48):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
I don't think by the way, Kristen, I don't think
Stanley's father lost his leg in Taste Street. That must
be a different story. I was surprised if Taste Treat
ever iced over. My personal favorite is Nugget Knob in Queenstown.
Is it a real street. I don't know if that
would be true. I'll google that up to check. We're
talking amusing street names. Why, yes, there is a Nugget

(01:35:10):
Noburn Queenstown. It's over the Calvin Heights side. It's a
very short street, like three houses on it. No, it's
actually not over No, it's on the road to the
airport between the main township I can see.

Speaker 28 (01:35:25):
So there we go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
There's that and lines available if you want to partake.
I don't want to go to commercials too. We talk
right up to the news, so thoughts on the war
and I'm thinking too long. I was thinking about that today.
Oysters fish, I mean that's fishing. Boats must go through
a lot of diesel. The price of fish must be
very very diesel related, isn't It must be one of

(01:35:48):
their second biggest or the biggest cost to be quota,
second cost to be staff, the third biggest cost to
be diesel. That must already be affecting it. So yes,
I imagine the oysters will go above fifty bucks a
dozen hurdle, twelve roberts. Marcus, good evening, Yeah, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:36:04):
Beautiful night. Here at Marlborough. There's hundreds and hundreds of.

Speaker 21 (01:36:08):
US men and women driving tractors and harvesters and trucks
going round around in circles from vineyards to wineries, burning
up loads and loads of diesels.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
I heard the Great Harvest?

Speaker 12 (01:36:22):
Is it early?

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
The Great harvest? Or South Island's about on time?

Speaker 9 (01:36:25):
Is it?

Speaker 26 (01:36:26):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:36:27):
Look, we were talking about it early, and I think
it was early for some and some varieties start earlier
than others, the low alcohol.

Speaker 9 (01:36:37):
And the bubbles. But I was looking at my calendar
and I started driving pretty much within a.

Speaker 21 (01:36:44):
Day or two of what I did last year, So you'd.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
Know, how long does that last for?

Speaker 21 (01:36:53):
Well, it might be a bit shorter this time, but
be lovely if it lasted for a months for a nice.

Speaker 9 (01:36:59):
Hotel for me and valley. We're burning through.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
A diesel, yeah, is there any Is there any concern
about the supply of it?

Speaker 12 (01:37:13):
I tried to.

Speaker 9 (01:37:13):
Fill up about an hour ago, and the normal service
station that was closest to where we're cutting into was
out of diesel. And that's on State.

Speaker 21 (01:37:25):
Highway one, and I heard there was a couple of
others out, but the supply is coming tomorrow. But I
managed to get something out of a quarry, so I'm
okay for the rest of the night.

Speaker 3 (01:37:39):
So were you taking the grapes to the They are
processed in the province and not going between islands, are
they No?

Speaker 9 (01:37:47):
No, not at all.

Speaker 21 (01:37:48):
I'm mind cuting from out up the Olitary Valley into
a winery after the wire house, so yeah, it's the winery.
Is there produces the local wine. Okay, Yeah, and there's

(01:38:08):
this wineries all over the place. They're all lit up
like spaceships.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
I can imagine it's probably pretty buzzy there at the moment.

Speaker 11 (01:38:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:38:16):
Look, it's it's always pretty cool the harvest. And there's
the people who's got the new.

Speaker 21 (01:38:21):
People and there's just some some some of the youngers
they follow the harvest and they'll do Australia and they'll
do France and they'll come here. There's a few Kiwis
of met this time as well that are working at
the wineries and driving the directors.

Speaker 9 (01:38:39):
It's an interesting time.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
So the people doing the circuit, where are they normally
from the ones that are doing France and Australia. Are
they Kiwis or Aussies or where are they from?

Speaker 21 (01:38:48):
Some are, but some are Americans and French Argentinians from
all over.

Speaker 9 (01:38:56):
Really.

Speaker 10 (01:38:56):
Oh, they're just coming to harvest.

Speaker 3 (01:39:01):
Do you have a place name for us, rob?

Speaker 20 (01:39:04):
I do.

Speaker 21 (01:39:06):
My favorite is Steint Road and Taranaki and the sign
got stolen so many times that the Taranaki District Council
replaced it with about a two or three tough boulder
and spray painted Steak Road on it, and it's remained
there for years, but it was stolen regularly.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Now I know it was a famous surf break, but
why would it be stolen because of that or because
of mushrooms?

Speaker 28 (01:39:36):
Are Why?

Speaker 9 (01:39:37):
No, because it's a famous surf break. Okay, probably my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
I guess, yeah, okay, I mean it's instantly famous. I
have heard of it. I thought, you know, why is
it fame because south of it's south of? Yeah, it's
halfway round the mountain, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (01:39:51):
Yeah? Pangaray? Who wait?

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Look at one way? Is such a good break.

Speaker 9 (01:39:59):
Volcanic?

Speaker 21 (01:39:59):
It comes into a point and it's got a very bowley,
sucky takeoff. It's quite a grunty wave. So you know,
if you've been I've been sewn up. If I've been
sewing up in the car pack at the base hospital.

Speaker 9 (01:40:17):
Once hit the rocks on.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
The on the tape off, Wow, did they chop? What
do they do? Do they chop?

Speaker 9 (01:40:25):
You?

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
Do you sew you up there at the beach?

Speaker 6 (01:40:28):
No?

Speaker 21 (01:40:28):
No, I was out there and I was bleeding quite profusely,
and a very large hang at the fen or.

Speaker 9 (01:40:36):
A gentleman said to me, a broke I don't want
to get it because of you. You've been a peddler
and fall.

Speaker 6 (01:40:42):
They go, well, wow, and I think it was the
duty doctor at ed.

Speaker 21 (01:40:48):
This has spent a few years, and he said, oh,
I haven't been outside all night.

Speaker 9 (01:40:55):
I'd like to see it. But at sun do you
mind if I sew you up in the car pack?
And that's what he did.

Speaker 3 (01:41:01):
Wow, you're quite right. I'm looking at the street now
there's a palm who with a giant rock with Stint
Road painted on it, and there's a pile with nothing
on it because I guess the signs just gone all
those times.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
Yes, that's right, brilliant Rob.

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
Thanks for that. John, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:41:19):
Yeah, hi Marcus and your listeners. Just a couple of
things I'd like to share with you. Yeah, just when
you mentioned about the oysters, you know, those boats will
be working out there very hard and sucking the diesel back.
But in my day, the Golden Harvest and the Golden League. Yeah,

(01:41:39):
I only, Marcus, I only have to get a picture
of an oyster and I'm done. I've got the taste
and everything. Marcus, I had so much. Yeah, I lived
on that stuff like we used to transport it through
to Dunedin and christ Church and the company was skiek
Skeek Seafoods. So yeah, many many days there of it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:02):
So were you were?

Speaker 9 (01:42:03):
You?

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
Were you an oyster? And John?

Speaker 18 (01:42:06):
You've been there, done that? Yeah, I've got lumps of
the Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've been there, done that. But
I've got a bit of news to tell you. Oh yeah,
I've got to tell you this street and I hated it,
and it was McKenzie's McKenzie Drive, Yeah, I hated it.
It was in twice. It's one big torrent right round

(01:42:27):
in twice.

Speaker 2 (01:42:30):
Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:42:31):
I don't know why they they picked that for Maybe
because the McKenzie and his dog. I'm not too sure.

Speaker 3 (01:42:38):
Y Yeah, but what's the news you got for me?

Speaker 5 (01:42:43):
Ah?

Speaker 18 (01:42:44):
Yeah, Well, the next place I'm out of here, I'm
out of New Zealand, and I'll let you know where
I'm My destination is there you go, and I will
be talking to you, Marcus, and I will be telling
you where I'm putting my head down.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Where are you going?

Speaker 18 (01:43:05):
Probably in another month's time.

Speaker 3 (01:43:08):
Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere.

Speaker 18 (01:43:11):
I'm not too sure. I'm not going to let you
know that. Yeah, you will be Yeah, yeah, I found
that this country is We're in a lot of problems.
You know, there's blasted wars. I've been on the radio before.
Nobody's learned nothing. And yeah, the only the rich get

(01:43:31):
richer and the port goes down the ganga, And yeah,
I don't like what I see, Marcus. I'm so devastated.
All our other ancestors have paid the price. And yeah,
and it's still happening. Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:43:46):
Nice to talk. Keep in touch, John. We'll wait with
interest to hear your report as you travel. Goodness, not
a word I've heard down the ganga. Goodness. Wow, I
don't know what the meaning of that is. Olive and
I wait, people welcome. My name is Marcus good I
think anything goes in the final hour. If you want
to be a part of the show just jumping. Have
you said, oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty street

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names police chasers? That police chase was amazing when those
fifteen cars in it today just any footage of that.
I also probably need to put out the alert about
the situation with a fire that was in Jay If
John F. Kennedy drive and Palmers to North, was there
an alert put out on phones because there was some
talk about that. I don't if that's happened or not.
If you know anything about that, that's of interest to me.

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That's what we're on about so far. So you get
in touch. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty to eighty,
come on, what do you got people? Let's be hearing
from you at the final album Go around tonight. It's
pretty interesting about Stent Road and Lusty Place. These are
all the streets where the names keep getting stolen. But
if you want to talk about these things, that's the
plan for the end. There's something different you want to
talk about. These average speed safety cameras are being installed.

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And also the price of mints. They're any a bit
off going to mince pork stuoloin steak up twenty one percent,
beef mints up twenty three percent, end four or sixty
more per kilo than the same phrase in twenty twenty five.
Increases were constant on red meat rather than chicken or pork.
Lambs up because of strong demand out of China and

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the US. So that'll change. I'd imagine your Hi, Rossett's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:45:22):
Hi, Marcus. Really enjoy listening to your show. So thanks
for that anyway, Just a story about the street signs
back in the day growing up in the Haut Valley,
big crowd of us were really big rolling Stones fans
and made of mind. In his bedroom up on the wall,
he had the street sign Jagger Road.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Wow. Wow, as you would too.

Speaker 12 (01:45:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
Did they change the name of it because I imagined
it got stolen a lot.

Speaker 10 (01:45:51):
Yeah, I would imagine. So I don't know if I
had changed the name of it, but was in the hut.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
It was in the hut.

Speaker 11 (01:45:57):
No.

Speaker 10 (01:45:57):
Actually, one time I was driving back from work and
I happened to look up and read the streets on
Hello and say Jagger Road. And that was a meta matter.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
Oh okay, well okay, I said, got a long way
to it, gone a long way to get it?

Speaker 10 (01:46:10):
You sure did.

Speaker 2 (01:46:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:46:13):
Yeah, so that's all from me, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
I'll look it up to see if the road sign
is still there, or see if it's been stolen. Ross,
Thank you, Jagger Road. People would still steal a Jagger Road,
would they. It's still up there, Jagger Road. No exit,
that's the plan. Ross, Well done, you're coming through. That's
a good call from you. Here's I'm going to rate.
Every call that would be rude, wouldn't it. Here'll twelve
if you want to be a part of it. I wait,
one hundred and eighty Teny, Apparently there's a Trump place

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in Palmerston, North, Is that true? Weird road names? Is
kind of the theme? Or anything else if you want
to talk. Yes, there is a Trump place in Parmiston.
All very short road off rodeo drive. Looking at the
street sign now doesn't appear to have been stolen. Appears
to be a fairy standard standard road sign. Come on,

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let's hear from your people. The cricket also or anything
else for the final forty if you got to talk,
if you want to talk. Oh and these speed cameras,
I was that's gonna say about that? New average speed
safety cameras will come online across Auckland and Northern White
Cutter on the camp I don't know if these are
working well or not. The roll out of the country's
first average speed camera on Auckland's Matakana Road resulted in

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more than ninety number er drivers following the speed they were,
up from eighty eight percent, so clearly they work. Evidence
shows me it can significantly reduce the chance of people
being killed or seriously injured if drivers traveled in speed limits.
And that's why we use safety cameras, so you get
two cameras in their timing across how long you're going
to go. That's the situation people now. If you want

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anything else to mention a talk about, I'm here with
you on midnight. I always like to hear from people
doing interesting jobs, like driving trucks with grapes. It's a
pretty exciting deal or no deal tonight. It's amazing how
they make that show to go for half an hour.
She's got ten dollars two and a half thousand, seven
and a half thousand and fifty thousand. She probably settled
for twelve. I would think, good evening, Steve, it's Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:48:10):
You get a couple of funny street names I know
of around the Nelson area. And and and it's funny
they're both in Nelson and they're both quite parentosal to
each other. You've got lusty, You've got you've got a
lusty place.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Yeah, we've been. We've been talking about and that's not
what I say. And you can't steal that sign because
it's concreted in and then and then you've.

Speaker 8 (01:48:32):
But you've got Quiet Woman Ways.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Well really, yeah, what's the story about that?

Speaker 20 (01:48:41):
I don't know?

Speaker 8 (01:48:42):
But someone I reckon, I reckon one might have been
the wife and the other one might have been the
mistress of the town planner.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
I've never heard of that. You google it quite well
have Yeah, it's like that sort of she she. Part
of it is that Monaco. I can't quite work out
what that is.

Speaker 8 (01:49:02):
That part of the I'm not too sure, since I
know I've seen that the Nelson would have been traveling
around there for business. And and then I had to
crack out when I heard about the Lasty place?

Speaker 28 (01:49:12):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
What is the building it goes right around? Is that
a motel or something? I think, Yeah, yep, it's a
strange name, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:49:23):
It's Quiet Woman Way, so beg Then you must have
been out of I don't know. You're doing a subdivision,
you call a street whatever you want.

Speaker 6 (01:49:29):
It's not quite like that.

Speaker 19 (01:49:30):
Nowadays.

Speaker 8 (01:49:30):
You've got to you've got to ask if the name
or you know, if you were building a street backing
the way called the Rush.

Speaker 21 (01:49:39):
You know, you gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
Are gonna are going to get a lush hair through Steve,
he's gone, but quiet woman way, it's brilliant what she's
done well on the deal. Not who's got twenty grand?
Why she's a firecracker. You would want someone here anyway.
Sick of me saying that. Good even Juliet's Marcus.

Speaker 30 (01:50:01):
Welcome and a very good evening to you, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Julie.

Speaker 30 (01:50:07):
I've got one in Sydney for you. It's called Ruty Hill.

Speaker 16 (01:50:12):
It's called what Ruty Hill.

Speaker 30 (01:50:16):
Ruty Hill is an area.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Just I stayed at Ruti Hill. It's a suburb, isn't it?

Speaker 23 (01:50:22):
Yes it is.

Speaker 30 (01:50:23):
But on the way out there, we followed a truck
with Nibble Nobby's nuts written on it. Wow, and hearing
him are tingy down down the main drag. Here there's
a road called Bookie Pook Road and my grandkids just
love it. If I put the GPS on because it

(01:50:45):
goes the GPS pronounces it Puke Pook Road.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
That's bad, isn't it. You think they would have got
that sorted out by now?

Speaker 5 (01:50:51):
Wow?

Speaker 11 (01:50:54):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
I love your program, Love you, Julie, thank you. In
and out that's what we like.

Speaker 20 (01:50:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
I walked to Rudy hell ip board you with that story.
I walked to Rudy Hell from I walked from Rudy
to Rudy Hill from Palm Beach where they film Home
and Away. I walk right down the coast and then
up the harbor through Paramatta and all got a bit sketchy.
After Paramatta, the walk kind of lost its structure and

(01:51:20):
ended up at Rudy Hill and there is nothing that
stated and that's sort of a big RSL club type hotel.
And I think that's where Ivan Malette was from. Was
it Rudy Hill or Mount Drewett anyway, same places next
to each other, but yeah, right up the Parramatta River.
Pretty interesting. What a great city Australia is Sydney. Vanessa

(01:51:40):
and Denver are in Sydney at the moment. They're at
d Why visiting friends. But she was swimming today and
there was a shark. They had to get out of
the water because a shark. And I think that's where
the shark attack had been recently, but I didn't know
that they patrolled the be I don't know if it
was a drone or what alluded them to it, but yeah,
there was a shark, so yes, every one had to
get out of the wall. She said, there's about four

(01:52:00):
people swimming, so yes, she'ld be back tomorrow. Now let
me think of anything else I need to tell you people. Oh, Steed,
your calls if you want to come to entertain me tonight,
that's the plan.

Speaker 13 (01:52:13):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
I think we got through all the tricky topics quite
well tonight. I got someone there, Ryan.

Speaker 19 (01:52:19):
How are you good?

Speaker 28 (01:52:20):
Ryan?

Speaker 19 (01:52:20):
I just tell you a story about the Quiet Woman way.
The guy who built that development, he also built the
pub across the road, which is called the Honest Lawyer,
And and that's why he named that development that he did.
He said, there's no such thing as an honest lawyer,

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and there's no such thing as a quiet woman. So
that's the story behind the behind that development.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
What year we talk at, what year we talk it'd be.

Speaker 19 (01:52:55):
It'd be in the early nineties. Yeah.

Speaker 24 (01:53:00):
He was a he was.

Speaker 19 (01:53:02):
He was an English guy, really really talented. The buildings
are beautiful, you know, because he built it like an
old English type.

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Is it apartments or is it motels? It's hard for
me from Google Maps to work it was.

Speaker 19 (01:53:17):
It was built. It was initially built as as a
development where people could buy an apartment and then and
then lease it back so you say you'd buy the
apartment and then you could lease it as a motel
type or a hotel type development.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
And it looks it looks quite high speaking beautifully built.

Speaker 12 (01:53:43):
Oh it is.

Speaker 26 (01:53:44):
Oh.

Speaker 19 (01:53:44):
He was a very He had a very good reputation
around Nelson four building very good quality, good quality buildings.
He was a very talented man. My dad actually worked
for his wife for a while just up in the pub.
Just in his later years. He just sort of enjoyed

(01:54:04):
pottering around because we lived down Monaco. So but back
in the day, that was the story behind behind that
you were asking.

Speaker 3 (01:54:16):
So I thought, wow, is it is it a public road?
Because is it a private road? Is a street? Or
is it looks like a street, doesn't it although it's
got jabars and stuff.

Speaker 17 (01:54:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:54:26):
Yeah, yeah, he's made it like that, like you're sort
of driving off off point road and it's and it's
a road that goes around a little village that he built.
He built it was it was. It was an old
English village that looks like it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Do the places have individual titles that you can now buy, Yes, yes.

Speaker 19 (01:54:48):
I mean that was the original thing. People would invest
in the in the building, you know, in the construction.
At the construction time, local people from Nelson or from
anywhere could buy an apartment off the plan and then
it would be and it just helped us, helped them

(01:55:09):
fund the actual building of the whole development.

Speaker 3 (01:55:12):
Oh that's fascinating. I appreciate you coming through right. It's
amazing how you can say something and solve it so quickly.
On the show with everyone listening, someone wonders what the
point of no exit signed durrem inclined to agree. You
don't want to get the vibe of what's going on,
don't you? But here til twelve of you want to
talk about quiet woman's way. I'm enjoying that. Good evening, Leah,
This is Marcus welcome. Hi, Leah.

Speaker 18 (01:55:34):
Are you there, Leah, Yeah, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 5 (01:55:38):
What was that?

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
So it's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 28 (01:55:42):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (01:55:43):
How are you are you there? Yes, I am, I
can hear you now. Great.

Speaker 28 (01:55:52):
Was down by the fire here and farmers.

Speaker 3 (01:55:55):
Oh, Shad's okay, yep.

Speaker 28 (01:55:58):
Yeah, and we like because we've got an alert on
our phone saying that it was happening. So me and
my son came down to the look and it's really,
really bad. Oh well, okay, that's a fourth It was
a fourth alarm full out.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
So you are you there now, Lea. And it's still burning,
is it?

Speaker 28 (01:56:21):
Yeah, it's still burning. They've got the digger in their
demolish in the building to help them put it out.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
They got two. It's been going for five hours, hasn't it.

Speaker 28 (01:56:31):
Yeah, that has It's been going since six thirty to night.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
And they've got so what we're saying, they've got two.

Speaker 28 (01:56:39):
They've got two ladder trucks above the building putting it out,
and they've got the bigger they're helping demolish the buildings
so they could put it.

Speaker 24 (01:56:48):
Out as well.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
What did the alert say, Leah.

Speaker 28 (01:56:52):
It said that there was a large fire in Palmerston North,
in Millstone area and to keep all doors and windows shut.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
So you drive straight down.

Speaker 28 (01:57:03):
Yeah, so I came. Well, I came down and had
a look because I seen it from the hospital of it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
Yeah, okay, is it? Is it the golf place? Someone
said it was a golf warehouse, a golfing equipment warehouse.
That's still right, that's the place.

Speaker 28 (01:57:15):
Yeah, that's a golfing warehouse. But it used to be
very back in the day. It used to be the
old Easy Why building, and then Easy Way moved down
to down the road a little bit, and then it
became the golf place.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Okay, is there a big crowd there?

Speaker 28 (01:57:34):
Not as many people now, but there was earlier when
I came down?

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
Okay? And had you had you been at the hospital
there is that where you've come from?

Speaker 28 (01:57:43):
Yes, I was at the hospital and then I went
came down and had a lot straight away, and then
I went home and then I brought my other son
back to have a look.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Wow, were you patient or you work at the hospital.

Speaker 28 (01:57:58):
No, I was visiting a family member.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
And how long do you think that you seem to
know a lot about this? Do you think me a
long time before they put it out?

Speaker 28 (01:58:06):
I reckon it'll be well and truly into the morning,
early morning already.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
I really appreciate your question.

Speaker 28 (01:58:15):
My sister said that she can see the smoke from
her place in Fielding. FAMI looks like a big smoke
case from Fielding.

Speaker 3 (01:58:25):
Wow, a big what most like?

Speaker 28 (01:58:28):
All hazy like all it is is covered like FAMI
looks like it's just all covered in smoke from all
the way from Fielding. That's what it looks like.

Speaker 3 (01:58:39):
Is the road actually closed so you can get to.

Speaker 28 (01:58:44):
Where Turner's option is, and then you have to turn
down for Fear's road, okay, And you can't get in
from JFK. From JFK and Ranger, you can't down.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Tremendous report, Leah, thank you so much for that. Twenty
five past eleven, someone's asked how many people? How many
sports stars in New Zealand have streets name after them?
Would there be John Walker place? I can't think even
it's Marcus welcome, Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
Good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:59:14):
A couple of street names Snapper and Garnet.

Speaker 24 (01:59:17):
Where are they the water?

Speaker 3 (01:59:19):
Good names? Any other fish stars you can think of?

Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
No, not off hand, But.

Speaker 5 (01:59:26):
That Joger was quite right.

Speaker 24 (01:59:27):
Hey, yep, it's going to disappear.

Speaker 6 (01:59:30):
You're either wrecked or destroyed.

Speaker 3 (01:59:35):
That guy sounded like he was someone I was familiar with,
but I didn't really know John his name was, wasn't it?

Speaker 14 (01:59:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:59:43):
Sad?

Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
Even times are tough. No one's happy.

Speaker 8 (01:59:47):
Yeah, No, I don't know why they don't start steaming
those ships around the outside.

Speaker 6 (01:59:52):
How do you mean did you go through that straight?

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
Well? They can steam around the bottom, can't they?

Speaker 3 (01:59:56):
No, you got it. It's it's it's a no exit.
It's a culder sack. It's not it's not the sewers.
It's not the sewers canal even it's the next one across. Okay, Yeah,
so the oils are it's yeah, it's like a bay,
you know, you have a look at it. Yeah, it's
fair enough. But all the oilers, all the oilers piped
to the from the Saudi to there. So yeah, Donald

(02:00:16):
as Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 27 (02:00:18):
I just want to talk about roads and two towns.
So listen, Parmis North has a lot of major roads
coming in and out of it called not called roads,
but called lines. Do other cities have lines in the line, Yes,
you've got yeah, because Parmis a man or two's flat
and broaden that they're going to go west or north.
I've just looked on the map and I don't live
in Parmas. You've got a mills and line, Setta's line,

(02:00:41):
Gillespie's line, number one line, Maxwell's line, Roberts line, Fliers line,
and there's others what's the line line?

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
Yeah line?

Speaker 27 (02:00:50):
And they have long straight roads that radiate out from
Parmas North. Some go towards Fielding, some go South number
one line flight Ees, I'm not happy with that, and
number one called is now I think it's now called Maxwaw's.
It's now in the city, but obviously at some stage
that they were out in the country. There's no I
don't think the city or town New Zealand has lines,
but there's quite a few in Palmerston North.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
Do you know the history? Do you know the history
behind that?

Speaker 29 (02:01:13):
No, I don't.

Speaker 27 (02:01:14):
I've got a history booked on Parmes and I'll have
to look it up. I don't actually live there.

Speaker 10 (02:01:19):
And the other thing is you're talking about.

Speaker 27 (02:01:21):
Streets changing names. Doubt a lot of people won't know this,
and it was strange an Evely lady Tommy, who used
to live in live In before the war, before World
War Two. We've got we've got State Away one and
the railway line split Livin into two. There's living east
within West anyway, there's roads that go west and roads
that go east. And years ago where they weren't connected,

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they were split by the roaway and the main road.
They both had the same name, like there was a
so and so road west and one to the east.
And after the war they were changed. Because this woman
said to me, Oh, she said, York Street. She said,
I'm sure that Roosevelt Street was York Street before the war.
And sure enough, they just go in opposite directions. York
Street was on the other side of the railways as
well as the west, and it was renamed Roosevelt Street

(02:02:03):
after the war. We've got a covey of road still
Kawyu and that used to go east and that was
renamed MacArthur Street after the war. And also we've got
a Maco Marco Road which also went east, and that
was named Liverpool Street after the war. And well, obviously
Roosevelt and MacArthur will obviously to do with war generals,

(02:02:24):
I guess, but just interesting how they were changed. But
the average person doesn't realize that, I'd say, and this,
they've lived there a heck of a long time, so
they just gave them new names after the war, other
than have an east and the west. But they're not
connected this they don't run into each other. They've got
to go different way to get there. They're not connected
over the railway, you know.

Speaker 14 (02:02:40):
But anyway, I don't know they.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
Told you, otherwise you wouldn't have known.

Speaker 27 (02:02:44):
Well, no, because she said, I went down Roosevelt Street.
So I'm sure that was called York Street when I
lived and live in and I said, was it?

Speaker 9 (02:02:51):
And it was.

Speaker 27 (02:02:52):
It was a York Street East in other words, now
it's Roosevelt Street.

Speaker 24 (02:02:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (02:02:55):
So that's three that I've been told off. Yeah, so
they're sort of named after people and that after the war,
so I just changed They changed them. As I say, Wow,
what's the carwa Kawyu. It's at the north end of
the town and it's quite a long road goes westwards
Lake Horror for Neuer. But as I say, the east side,

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you have to go Hodi Loop and get onto a
railway cross then go north again and it's parallel or
would join if there was a crossing onto what's now
MacArthur Street. I was told that was called Kavia Road
before the Well that's what I was told anyway, Okay,
I wasn't here.

Speaker 13 (02:03:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:29):
Can you see the fire and powers to north where
you are?

Speaker 4 (02:03:32):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (02:03:32):
I don't think so.

Speaker 27 (02:03:33):
It's about fifty odd k But what I'm worried about
is the Ford Dealership on the big mng GWN dealers.

Speaker 14 (02:03:39):
It's next door.

Speaker 27 (02:03:39):
They're loader with new cars and it's very very close
to them. I hope the cars are okay, nice.

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
You'll be concerned. Donald, think you're twenty eight to twelve.
Marcus is a road off Highway five towards Topour south
of Riparoa, where people were steeing the roads on the
Red Handcock Road. Thank you. Marcus Lere is the boots
on the ground journalism we need. Yes, she'd be great.
She was great. It's Rimmer Road to poo up Rimer Road,
Woodhill near Helensville, Donna. Thank you.

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