With the surfboard screwed to the top (1 July 2024)

A bit of a car-themed show tonight, with Marcus having issues with the paint on the road, people modifying the lights on their cars, and those pesky boy racers...

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be I don't want to come on you all
al gae out, but I reckon. It's raining just about everywhere?
Am I right? Where's a raining? I'm looking at rainy
dot com. It's raining most on the North Island and
a lot of the South Island. Pouring in Voicago. I
want to say something. I'm going to say it, don't

(00:31):
take this the wrong way. Sometimes when it rains heavily,
it's hard to see the stripes.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
On the road.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Do anyone else notice that we are we using the
wrong paint? Sometimes it seems as though when there's puddles
on the roads, the reflecting nature of the white stripes
that might be saying give way, or might be lanes
or stuff like that are hard to see. Now. Sometimes

(01:01):
when I say things, I just want to know if
you agree with me? Are we not repaying our roads
often enough? I don't want to come on al simeon,
but yeah, I reckon. Sometimes, particularly down the south with
the flat light, winter comes along, it's quite hard to
see the markings, particularly in that twilight. That dusk is
dusk the same as twilight. I guess it is. But

(01:22):
you want to talk about that, haven't already had done
to shin on road markings? But I think I reckon
we have a bit of a relook at that. They
just don't seem to be good. Dusk is the time
just before night when the don has almost gone, but
when it's not completely dark. Dusk and twilight are the

(01:44):
same thing. Anyone want to comment on that? So what
happens to you the road? The stripes just they're dull anyway,
I'm imagining there's some person driving on. Yeah, I feel that.
I feel sometimes it gets a bit hard to see them,
and my sight is good. You just hard to pick

(02:05):
it up as though the reflecting stuff has faded away.
But it seems that it's raining all the way in
the north und apart from Pep's Wellington and a lot
of the east coast of the South End. If you've
got a weather report for me, it took you with rainfall,
let me know one knows it heads up the country.
Get in touch eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and

(02:26):
nine to text a lot to talk about tonight. I
watched a little bit of the Biden Trump debate, and
when I say a little bit. It was about twenty seconds.
Was a fairly uncomfortable watch. We're playing Wings Span, the

(02:47):
board game, and I said, hang on, we'll just see
how the free world's going. And I watched it. Hang
I'm not gonna watch much more of that. It wasn't
a it wasn't a joyous watch. So there we go.
That's a situation with the political debate. I wouldn't be
surprised his announcements. I mean, there might not be announcement,
but I wouldn't be surprised if there's announcement. Sometimes soon

(03:07):
to say that Biden's tapped tapped out, which I mentioned
Trump doesn't want. So now Trump's saying you thought Biden
did quite well. Anyway, goodness gracious to me. Oh wait,
eight hundred and eighty taty nine text. We are talking
road markings. eOne got in comments about road markings. I'd
like to hear what you want to say about that.

(03:28):
I think the paint's wrong. And I'm not some sort
of roading advocate, because you get sick of them quickly,
don't you. The roading advocate's always hogging the headlines. Brandan Marcus,
welcome and good evening or Brandon, Brandon, Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Hey, how are we doing ten out of.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Ten this end? Brandon? How are you doing? Brandon?

Speaker 5 (03:55):
Oh, it's a bit.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
Rainy here and cross chips.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Mate, you thought it might be.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, just come over from Australia and they don't actually
use reflective paint over there.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Aha, what about use.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh they're just used white paint. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 7 (04:14):
Okayy, just the white stripes.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Just the white stripes. I think sometimes they get quite
dull and hard to see, particularly when they're on the
bottom of puddles.

Speaker 8 (04:24):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Yeah, because when the puddle covers it, your head lights
reflects the water, which means you can't really see them.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
At all, which maybe means that we need to fix
our road so they don't puddle.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, it's possibly sort of a cat's eye line, so
you could see.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It makes sense, Brandon, Thank you. Twelve past eight texts.
Totally agree, Marcus. Have found myself with the main street
city streets with multi lanes and glear from the street lights,
with rain and at night time, totally lots of road markings,
especially lane lines. Is it something to do with those
new led street lights? Perhaps, Marcus one hundred percent agree.

(05:00):
Read the road markings really hard to see when wit Marcus,
Happy Canada. It's candidate tomorrow from James like drisd and
christ Church Chaeres sue oh, eight hundred eighty road markings.
Why you can't see them, Gerard Marcus, Good evening.

Speaker 9 (05:21):
Good evening, Marcus. I don't think I've ever agreed with
you so much, wholeheartedly agree with you. What is it?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Is it the light? Is that the painter? Is that
the roads? Is that the wheat? Is it maintenance?

Speaker 9 (05:35):
Well, I think it's a whole rate of all of
those things. I'm thinking about christ Church quite a while
back when I was working there and cycling around a
lot and driving. There's so much light it just reflects them.
It's more asphalt, I think is the problem. But yes, yes, yes,
I don't think we've ever used eric dis and paint.

Speaker 10 (05:57):
It would be a bloody good idea.

Speaker 9 (05:58):
Perhaps I'm kind of recycled grit into it so that
there's a bit of grip there for cyclists and motorcyclists.
I don't know, I've never.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Really thought about it. But there's sometimes of the year
when you and I think, particularly in the winter far south,
when there's not a lot of light anyway, You get
this kind of the twilight and the gloaming or whatever
they call it, and it just it doesn't it's very
hard to see anything.

Speaker 9 (06:23):
And do you think everyone understands to actually use the
air conditioning to clear the interior properly? You see people
driving around wiping the windscreenslate. Do you know how to
use your climate control?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
How do you use it?

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Jared?

Speaker 9 (06:39):
Well, you use the air conditioning to condition the air.
They basically work like your sinuses do. The conditions the air.
It's not the same as if you're just pulling it
inside the cabin without it going through the air conditioning.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
So which buttons do you push?

Speaker 9 (06:58):
Well, quite often it will be once showing a snowflake
or something indicating cold. But ear conditioning doesn't have to
mean cold, you know, it's no.

Speaker 10 (07:05):
Different to a hip h o.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Here we go. Sometimes sometimes there's a symbol on your
air conditioning that's just got a little thing that shows
it's probably just circling the same air round and round
inside the car. What's the point of that one? You
ever see that button?

Speaker 9 (07:26):
Yes, that's that's just means that the air has been
reticulated as opposed to be bringing fresh air in that
that's that's separate to the air conditioning itself to two
different things.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
When's the reticulating the same air? When is ever that useful?

Speaker 9 (07:41):
I I know a person who didn't get to that
button quick enough who has a reaction to a spray.
I'm calling from Marlborough sense of monoculture here. So there
is times that you probably don't want that cabinet or
have you stuck in. You know, bumping a bumper, traffic
is going on, the air inside your car is going
to be better than the air that it's trying to

(08:01):
filter from the car in front's exhaust.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So you're saying some people ride that one quite high
it what's that button called, by the way, I've.

Speaker 9 (08:09):
Got no idea, I guess, so I'll just call it circulate.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I think you called it reticulate, didn't you?

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I did.

Speaker 9 (08:16):
I was trying to be fancy, okay.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Might give that one a bit of a good night,
Might that one a bit of a work out on
the way home. So I've hit a nerve with people
with the street paints, Marcus Steady, Rain and Hamilton. That's
from Lisa. I totally agree. I no longer drive at
night going down the Moniker Gorge towards Milton. A while back,

(08:41):
the center line was so warmed place as it did
not exist. Yes, I wonder if they're repainting it often
enough or because the road services are bad it doesn't
soak in, particularly in the gloaming. Marcus councils reduced costs
by not using intermissing plate. They use normal plate, which

(09:02):
doesn't work as well, especially when wet. I agree with
you at the lighting is spending christ especially for bus drivers.
Hard to see the bus stops, the sort of an
hour of night where it's very hard to see anything
at all. And I wonder if it's the LED lights. Also,
how are we about those LED street lights? And that's
the only other thing. PEPs haven't got enough of the

(09:22):
spectrum to do everything. I don't know much about LED's streetlights.
That was a big talkback topic about ten years ago.
I can't quite work out if it was a good
thing or a bad thing. Marcus. Just to let you know,
no channels are showing Wimbledon this year. Not happy. Yeah, Well,
I think we live in a golden age of televised sport.

(09:42):
There's been a lot to see it's surprising that Wimbledon
escaped us. There's probably a YouTube channels there. If anyone's
got any tips on how to watch Wimbledon, wouldn't mind
some advice. It's not something that's not a must watch
for me. Things on TV and z plus, which is
a website. Now I know a bit about that because

(10:04):
I've been watching a little bit of the euro on
TV and z plus works quite well. But you need
a TV that's I don't know what it is. When
they're not going to break your back, you get them
at the warehouse or at Timu. Everyone's going on about Temu,
aren't they. You've noticed the crescendo goodness team of this

(10:27):
teamy that the individual finals will be on tvn Z one.
Do we call that TV one Animal Double Finals on
tvn Z plus. I don't think we've had the finals
on free before. That's a good thing. I could talk
all night. We're talking about the weather and about the
road markings. But now knowing this audience is probably someone

(10:52):
that does the road markings, and I don't want to
flog a deadish horses, but I'll tell you what's happening.
Families are getting ready to go on a holiday in
their car on drives and what's happening. The inter islander
has tapped out because of bad weather because the boats

(11:13):
aren't big enough the ships. So yeah, once again, the
country's infrastructure is not as reliable as people require. What
everyone's jetting off to them coke desiour. Some people just
want to drive across islands to see family, but very

(11:35):
hard when you're not You're gonna be stuck with kids
for three days waiting for the fairies to resume shipping.
It's not good enough. And the waves don't seem that
bad and cook straight four to five swells And I
don't know why they're doing it, but I would imagine

(11:58):
if the ships were bigger they would be better with
stormy conditions, which we seem to get very often. So yeah,
for you people wanting to plan to head off over
heading off between the islands not good. It's what they
are saying that, So once again you know they also
it's all very well to have a solution to fairies

(12:19):
in some time, but in a situation where people going
through their school holidays can't get where they want to
go and are anxious because the fairies have canceled because
of four to six meter waves. This is the situation.
Got some more information about that wind up to one

(12:40):
twenty kilometers prow and Wellington, South tallahak Tai Haapi, speng
Ellen fong Ui. All Intron and ferries services from eight
thirty today tomorrow until that forty five am sailing on
Thursday have been canceled due to rough weather. There's gonna
be a lot of weather updates throughout the course of
the night. Roads snowfall warnings are in place for Milford Road,

(13:04):
the Lindis and the Crown until early Tuesday. Porters Pass
and Arthur's Pass have road snowfall warnings from midnight till
Tuesday morning. Lewis passed from three to eighty in the
Desert Road through Tuesday afternoon into the evening. There's an
orange heavy rain warning over Mount Tananaki, the ranges of

(13:26):
Westland District in the Kentry Headwaters south of Arthur's Pass.
Heavy rain is also possible on Monday for the Bolla District,
the Western Tasman and the Tallaha Rangers. So there we go.
A lot happening. Twenty one past eight. My name is Marcus.
Welcome to about the weather and the road markings and
how the fact you can feel you it's certain light.
They're very hard to see. And I'm not one that

(13:48):
normally trends towards traffic complaints, but I just thought, hanging
about there's something going on there. Twenty five past eight,
Good evening markets, Marcus.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
Welcome, good Marcus. How are you, Bud? Good?

Speaker 11 (14:00):
Mark you?

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Thank you cool. I just got back in my car
and I heard what you were saying about the high wind.
Now I quite long and knew it. That's where I am.
And was it a was it a text that someone
sent that saying that there was high winds here? Or
was that on the forecast that you read?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
That's a forecast I've read.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
Oh okay, because I was going to say that did
calm here?

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Well that often it is that. You know they called
that mark, you know they call that Nope, the calm
before the storm.

Speaker 7 (14:35):
Okay, we've had a heavy, heavy rain when I first
started work at five o'clock that I had to send
the boss up to Oakuni to do a job. And
he said the rain and the power of power was
just absolutely atrocious. He didn't say that, he just rung me.

(14:57):
He just wanted to know where he was going, and
he said that the rain was just to richel.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Wow, and you're in a company you order the boss around.
Is it how it works?

Speaker 12 (15:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (15:10):
I kind of do boss my boss around of it. Yeah.
Because I'm senter here in Wanganui. I can't leave Wanganui.
But if a job appear, turns up and tie happy
or who oakuney bulls, I have to send my boss.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Great. Wow, nice to hear from you, Mark, Thank you, Ben, Marcus,
evening you.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Go, Marcus. Just quite three seconds on the serie one
word blue Bridge that's still running the store off reading.
So seems what seems to management.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
What seems to be the case that has become a
parent is Blue Bridge make two sailings a day, whereas
key we Rail make force. So I think they've got
a lot less turn around, so they're a lot more voltage,
they're a lot more vulnerable to interruptions.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Blue Bridge quite often there, did it? Not cong servings.
It's freight only, so that doesn't take passengers. It's just
straight freight, so just straight trucks.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Did you have a comment about the road markings.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Yeah, so they're the road markings. I had trouble like
coming home at nights, fishing itself on beinging real ducks.
Sometimes there's no street lights. Running ach around with other cars,
you know, they've got the lights coming towards you, and
sometimes it's real hard to see the road. So I
need to ripco And I said, what what's going on?
Is anything I can do? And he come out and

(16:37):
he goes, I, mate, get rid of your halogen bulbs,
chuck your ds and he does three times better. So yeah,
I said, you know what's that ref there's about ninety
bucks for the bulbs. And then he said you might
want to check out a light pailer on the front.
That's about one hundred and fifty. And I said, oh
yeah'll get back to you. I jumped on teaming and
got them for sixty bucks for the law.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
There we go twenty. There's a Temo miracle story. I
love that. Okay, how much ninety bucks? And team move
for how much plaid?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Like seventy bucks on team And now there was ninety
bucks just for the lights, and then the light veil
was about one hundred and fifty, so got the whole
lot off team. At the seventy it was the light
bart and the lights chucked them on and it's it's
three times better, like you know, like the headlights coming
towards you don't blind you as much anymore as the puddles.

(17:27):
It just it's like a white light rather than how
can I put it? Like a yellow glow?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Like the hell wow, the old white light.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah. So it's just real bright and it shows up
their oad markings. Great.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Do you pay much for the shipping?

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Shipping is free on team If you spend over thirty bucks?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
How could they make that work? Do you reckon?

Speaker 3 (17:51):
I think they focus on quantity, So yeah, just joke quantity.
And I think that China's government that's actually subsidized, you
know that sort of thing. They've got subsidies and stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
And the light bar? Is it easy to iron? Does
that just come? Where's that wired from?

Speaker 3 (18:09):
The came a wirring kit and you just simply hook
it up to the battery. And I broke a wire
through like a real wire goose because I've got a
truck and it's got an eerie in front of it,
and you just poke it up through there and pop
it out through the dish. And you've just got to
drew a little hole and put the switch and Basically,
all you got to do is do the whole Look,

(18:31):
everything fills the whole kids there.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
And the point of the light barrows to illuminate the
road in front of you, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, So I I only have a you know,
I only have a gen on a dark night and
the there's not much traffic on the road, so it
does it is blinding. So you don't want to have
a garn my you know you're drive them through town
or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
Wow, I'd like to have more buttons. Sposh Ben. Thank
you and thank you for mentioning tmu I because I'm
festinated by how quickly this is transforming the way people
buy things. Can I reckon all the if you're a curer,
all they reckon every third two out of three packages
of now Timu? So there was a neppuler called Timou too.
I mean notether that's good nor bad, but for that
was interesting, Marcus. Dusk is confined to evening as opposed

(19:19):
to dawn, where twilight is defined to civil, nautical and
astronomical twilight. My tip to watch Wimbledon would use your eyes. Marcus,
do you have a view on the orange street lights
versus the white street lights and how this impacts human
behavior and light pollution. Wimbledon is on Tennis TV. Never
heard of it for various packages nineteen nineteen for Wimbledon

(19:42):
or multi month passes. Quite a bit of comment about
Ben and his lights. One consider it text do or
text doors through. It's illegal to fit led lights into
standard lamp housings. It shouldn't pass a waft and Repco
shouldn't be telling people that's okay, probably blinding people coming

(20:03):
towards them exactly, Marcus re sports coverage. No one is
televising the white ferns cricket to with it's now against
England the UK. That's very disappointing. Mary. By the way,
how about that bicycle kick for England? Gee that timing
was good for that fidget spun of that was good Marcus.

(20:27):
I wonder what percentage of listers actually know where the
netball teams that are spoken about on the sports report
actually come from news just says Polsal Steel. I wouldn't
have a clue, would need to google it. New Zealand
I think names its sports teams really badly. I think
there'd be a lot more buying with the super rugby
of people had a clear idea where the teams were from.

(20:49):
To have two teams called the Highlanders and the Hurricanes
is madness. And the netball teams the naming of them
is atrocious. Also have the region first. I don't know
why they don't do it. Look at any other comparative
sports tournament, whether it be the English Premiership League, Crystal Palace,
Mind Joe, the n r L, Brisbane Broncos, Gold Coast Titans,

(21:17):
North Queens and Cowboys, Canberra Raiders, Newcastle Cannights, it's all
pretty logistic with they actually are. So there you go.
I think we've missed a trick with that one. Good evening.
Brett's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (21:34):
Yeah, a Marcus eaton dusing in your car? I mean
in the morning or night or whatever. Put it on cove.
Now what happens when you hit that refucuration button, You
bypass the filter to the pump. The fans not struggling.
The truck is through, so you have a boost of
the ear on your windscreen. Oh you bypass the filter. Yeah,

(21:58):
try that. Push that yeah, and if you come across
a stinky keltruck, get rid of the That's what I thought.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's I thought it would be doing cattle trucks or
hailage or really spraying or beast swarm.

Speaker 10 (22:14):
Yeah, but it bypasses the filter because if you ever seen,
the filters are really big booster. Yeah. Now the LED lights,
I put my mind.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Hang on, hold hold your horses. Save that point at
the LED lights. You're saying, if you're demissing from inside
the car, you bang on that circular button because you're
going to get more band going up. It's going to
be mischief on the inside. Quicker Well explained, Yep, you
should be doing a wiki wiki works page and that
now the lights on the chemic.

Speaker 10 (22:43):
The lights I put DS on my truck because it's
swinging poor volt. They are incredible bright. Took me a
couple of nights used to them. But you could actually
see in the trees beside you like something flew out there.
Were incredible.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
What's it like for people coming the other way? It
sounds like a nightmare?

Speaker 10 (23:01):
Terrible? Yeah, terrible.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Well how could that sit well with you? You said,
like a and you're freaking ls out of the road.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
You see them coming, so you just pick them.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
What about the Paul hour, I think it was morning.

Speaker 10 (23:14):
Oh yeah, Well, you see like animal eyes and that
in the long ground.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I think it's the sun. They think it's the sun.
I think it's daylight again.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
Yeah, well you see some trucks before of them bolted
across the roof. Are the the ground ones?

Speaker 2 (23:29):
You ever killed an owl when you're driving?

Speaker 10 (23:33):
I think I might have had a more pork. I
run over a cat and the rabbit the rabbit. The
cat got the rabbit and it was too quick. I
got them both at the same time.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
You ran over a kit and a rabbit at the
same time.

Speaker 10 (23:45):
Yeah, the cat jumped on the rabbit and yeah, is it?
The was between kem nui and tiker widdy And I've
seen a weasel carrying a little river across the road
on his back leg because the rabbit was quite big. Yeah,
they lifted off the ground. I missed running in over.
I don't like so you feel it.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Feels good to get a weasel there there? Thank you creature.
I can't believe they left those on the ark. They're
a horrible thing. The weasel.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
Yes, we have a good night marker.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Hang on, not first with the bret. You'ld be one
of the smartest pillows have them. Ever met fancy the
al and you were your bright lights whizzing around. Easy
to install, yes there, but you're a mechanic.

Speaker 10 (24:33):
In the warning you've got to hook them up on
a separate switch, separately.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
You ever brought anything from Timu?

Speaker 10 (24:42):
No, the White does.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
No, No, she's got that fliction.

Speaker 10 (24:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just keep the parcels at the door.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Any use.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
Some of them?

Speaker 10 (24:52):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Some not?

Speaker 2 (24:56):
No crap jewelry, Okay, don't tell your wife that. Oh Steve,
it's Marcus. Good evening, good evening, how are you good? Stee?
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
Now.

Speaker 13 (25:13):
I can't see someone in Southland wanting to barrack for
the Otago Highlanders when a patriotic Southlander who was all
there might take a target the rivalry. I think that's
where our team names have come unstuck, as that we're
trying to appease everyone.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
That's good point the team.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
I think it's the pulse out of Wellington. They stretched
right up to Parmas and North and so they're trying
to make money by appeasing and growing all these fans
from all over.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
So you're saying with the Honders, they couldn't call it
the Ottager Honders because that would annoy the Southlanders who
never felt part of the franchise. They could call that. Yeah,
it's a good point you make. What else could you say?

Speaker 13 (25:57):
Probably more so for people up up here in Northland,
we could never called ourselves fans of the Auckland Blues.
So I believe that's why that the names have very
generic meaningless But I think you're right there isn't a
lot of passionate voats from the names.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Welthough, I think the province of Auckland goes right up,
doesn't it. I mean, but I know what you're saying
because for Northland people.

Speaker 13 (26:22):
Yes, But also I think even the patriotics of North
Harbor art Rvals was probably less so nowadays. But when
the Blues were founded in nineteen ninety six, Aland and
North Harbor could not even get in a boardroom together,
which is why North Harbor actually merged with the Chiefs
and were part of the Chiefs for the inaugural first

(26:44):
couple of years before they realized it was a bit
stupid and funny.

Speaker 14 (26:48):
How crazy?

Speaker 2 (26:49):
How crazy is that?

Speaker 10 (26:53):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (26:55):
Yes, the bettle of.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
The bell of a bridge is the big deal. Where
did they Where's North is North Harbor still playing its
rugby at that stadium with an X over its head?

Speaker 13 (27:06):
I believe so. But no one turns up, so you
could put the stadium could disappear and no one notice.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
It's a good bus way that goes up that way
that takes pretty much. It's a good point you make.

Speaker 13 (27:21):
They trying to grow and pease everyone and therapies and
no one. So to your point, maybe they should just
call themselves where where they are baked the predominant amount
of time. So there's the one in compulse should be there,
the well in COMPULSI be proud of that you come
from from your main town. I think maybe that might
be a better way of trying to create some passion

(27:43):
and tribalism towards sport.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Well, maybe if they'd managed over time to grow the
super rugby out of the NPC in some way, take
it slightly, in a more gradual way. But they're always
so concerned about television dollars, aren't they so? Because you know,
they killed one for the other and the other is
a is a queer beast at the best of times.
The Super fifteen teams, it's it's still Super fifteen on
that's super forty next.

Speaker 7 (28:07):
Year, is it?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (28:10):
Sometimes why they have different Netball and rugby have the
same team names to create, you know, the pride of
your region and then it'll.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Come from and then it'll come from the shed, clubrooms
and stuff. But that's the whole thing is our sports
now seems to not come from the clubs, does it.

Speaker 13 (28:29):
No, it's all driven by the boardroom I believe now.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Sadly Yeah, to their own detriment, Steve. I enjoyed that
care more than you could imagine. For a good point,
you've made a high A ten away from nine O.
Hi Allison, it's Marcus good evening good.

Speaker 15 (28:45):
Hello, A cheapest Creepers markets. You mentioned netball then now
the Tactics used to be the Mainland Tactics, but they're
now called the Canterbury Tactics and also the Magic team
of the Bayer plenty Magic. So some of them do
have the names. They're Southern Steel while they're just called out.
I don't know, that's not really an area really that one,
but definitely the two main teams that I follow anyway

(29:07):
have their names in the front or I wanted the
home final for the Tactics. That's all I wanted wanted
to get to the final and have a home have
the home final in Canterbury. That's all I want for
that one.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Do you still go? Do you go to the matches?

Speaker 8 (29:21):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (29:21):
No, no, I don't go here any No, I just
watch it on the TV, but I do follow it.
I Well, the coach of the Canterbury Tactics is for
the last year this year, so I'm wanting them to
win this year. That's really what I'm wanting.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yet, I kind of get how many weeks has that
got left to go?

Speaker 15 (29:39):
I'm not too sure getting down to the final one,
probably three or four something like that, I think. So
it's not down to the final three.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
It's not a winter sport per se. It's one of
those ones. It's more like in the autumn, and like
basketball seems to happen from about April to July, which
is a bit needs to be summer and winter.

Speaker 15 (29:56):
Didn't they Yeah, that's right, yea, yeah, it's getting down
of the final bit now down to the final three
or whatever to the final bit at the moment, so
it'd be another two or three weeks to go something
like that.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Do they play at Horncastle?

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (30:11):
I think so.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Would be called horn Castle anymore, is it?

Speaker 15 (30:15):
No, one of it. One of the players and the
technics actually doesn't actually live and she lives in Wellington.
She only comes back once. Jane Watson only comes back
once a week to play. So she's so good that
she doesn't need to practice for just once a week
or something like that.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Anyway, Mam wowe herself at home.

Speaker 15 (30:31):
Well probably she's got a young child and their family.
Then you know, probably works there. But he's got such
a great connection with Karen Burg and one of the
other players that she doesn't have to come back and practice.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Wow. All good to hear from. Thanks, that's a good explanation.
There you go, that's that's the way of the world.
With the old knitball was also follow I follow a
little bit of the basketball with the South End Sharks.
They've won two on the trot the first time all season.

(31:03):
They're not ever on particularly well, but you know they've
had a fairly good Always like to see what they
wheel out at halftime. Well, of course this time it
was one of the guys from radio. He's involved in
a Mum and Mia. There we go. There are some
of the people coming out singing, some of the songs
and halftime to promote their musical don't seem like a
bad thing to do. There used to be a lot

(31:26):
of dancing, like amateur dance groups. Not so much this year.
I don't know where they've gone. West think it's not
an organization to get everyone along for a halftime show.
You've got long and now they are halftime in basketball either?
Have you not much you can do anyway? Mark?

Speaker 8 (31:44):
Is?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
The problem is sports news never says can to be tectics.
I do you say tactics? So I don't know which
team comes from where tactics? Why aren't we in the
T twenty anymore? Even after we won our last game.
I don't think we're good enough. India one with a

(32:07):
superb catch right on the outside line, we're knocked backing
and catch ooh, Marcus Ken out the good work. Love
listening to your regards. Then you bought my first Metallica album.
Now what do you think that means? You bought my

(32:27):
first Metallica album? Tell me a bit more about that, Leamne.
Someone told me to have the temp on twenty one
circulate an ac on plus Frint World Front Window to
mistic on works quickly fill Mike is the best name
in sport is the Dallas Mavericks. It's a great name,

(32:48):
got a great wing to it. Such is the tribalism.
No London football team has London in their name, Marcus.
New vehicles come out with LED lights, so not illegal
to retro fit high Marcus former warrant of Fitness Mechanic Here.

(33:11):
Light bars are illegal to use on public roads and
only for off road private roads. Ninety nine percent of
them don't meet our approved standards for lights either. Well,
it's been an eventful hour, someone says, imagine asking Manchester
United and Manchester City to join up and be a

(33:33):
Manchester team and a new English Super Football English League,
or Liverpool and Everton to tune up and be a
single Morsey side team. It would never happen. Rivalry is
based on tribalism. It can't be manufactured by an NDRU
marketing team. Get rid of Super Rugby and give us
back a local MPC derby like Battle of the Bridge.

(33:54):
I'm inclined to agree. That's what people want. They want
their town or they're part of town, going up against
the neighbors, bragging rights all of that. Marcus guys are
obsessed with big lights on their heads, cars, et cetera.
I drive a four by four wagon until big mobs

(34:15):
of kangaroos plague is in roads. Then I'll stick to
the original bulbs. That's from Charlie. So people have quite
strong opinions on what lights to use and light bars.
I've never heard of light bars. It was something that

(34:35):
Darth Vader used. What's been for illuminating tonight? Get down
and get amongst it until midnight tonight. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine two to text
if you want to come through until twelve o'clock tonight.

(34:58):
A family's been stuff and the sky's stuck in the
sky tower lived for forty five minutes. Yeah, they said
they're traumatized. They went and at seven they stopped abruptly
on the thirty four meter floor, thirty fourth floor. They

(35:19):
assured us a technician would be dispatched, but after ten
minutes with no resolution, we called again, only be told
the technician was off site and the ETA was uncertain.
As time passed, my wife and kids began experiencing breathing difficulties,
particularly my wife, whose condition worsened alarmingly. Don't think you'd
suffocating a lift. Our children now plagued by nightmares and

(35:42):
my wife continues to suffer from the traumatic experience. Goodness,
see there's changes it fought at the Old Range or
a New World.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
One.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Lot's moving on. The chaps from Wigram are coming across
around the Range Era one. Well, don't be disappointed the
people of Ranging Or because I've been to the Wigram
it was very, very good thought. It was one of
the great new worlds. I don't wally shop a new world.
By the way, I have been enjoying my card at Countdown,
my rewards card, although I had a long survey, right

(36:17):
had a long survey from Countdown a Willworth. It's now
could ask me a lot of questions because obviously I've
just become a new rewards card user, and a lot
of the questions were about the rewards card. Sounds to
me like they're not that committed to it, just putting
it out there. Someone else gave me a text alert

(36:40):
about that. They reckon they're not that committed to it either.
What I do like, I like a rewards card on
my phone so I can just scan it. Some of
you cashist cowboys won't. Yeah, some of you cash cowboys
won't like that, because I know you like to do
everything by with cash and notes and old school.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
Go you.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Seeing. Some people have reacted with a great deal of
emotion to the Selene Dion documentary. Anyone seeing that, I haven't,
But they reckonds. I mean she's got standing still syndrome
or something. But yeah, peers heartbreaking. The documentary stuff up

(37:22):
a stiff limb syndrome. I should. I mean, it's a
very serious disease. But if you've seen that documentary, wouldn't
mind hearing from it? They say it's very good. It's
called I Am Selene detailed her life, career accomplishments in

(37:44):
Battle with stiff person syndrome. I'm not a huge Selene.
I know some people love Selene. I mean good, but yeah,
if you've watched it, I'll be curious to know what
that was like. But mainly we talked about light bars.
What's the point of light bars? How about that guy
scaring an oil out of the tree. Oh, in fact,

(38:16):
by the text, most people hate light bars. Marcus, my nephew,
played for the Chicago Bears as a rookie the pay
if he was on the field was four thousand per minute. Goodness,

(38:40):
police trying to take credit for greatly reducing ram raids.
Wouldn't you think this number is down as so many
shops now have installed concrete on metal. Billard's ak concrete Policeman.
Thanks Wayne.

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Like a lot of things in life, there's always a
myriad of reasons that would be my estimation. I don't
at what's going on with boy racers, and I didn't
think of mentioning that as a topic tonight because in
my life I've seen a heartache and pain. No, in

(39:22):
my life, I never ever, ever, ever ever witness boy racing.

Speaker 9 (39:32):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
I didn't see it. I don't know if that means
my world's too small, but yeah, I wouldn't mind knowing
what the state of play with boy races are. Is
anyone living anywhere where they get absolutely their life is
ruined by boy I mean, where's it, Big Whenevery so
often it happens. I mean for a while there it

(39:53):
was christ Church that had a huge boy racing problem,
Then it was the White Cato. Now it seems to
be living. But I'm curious to know from you, where's
the old what's happening with boy racing. It seems to
even flow. I don't know what what that happens if

(40:15):
it goes with the Fast and the Furious movies, or
it's the sort of cars that are around, or it's
about policing. Do you have anything to say about They
would like to hear about that, because it does seem
to be in the news. But I think there was
a bit of but I think they kicked on a
bit in Levin and the police got caught out and
now they're sort of stamping down hard on it. Oh,

(40:39):
eight hundred eighty nine nine two text. But also to
the fact that you can't see the road markings this
time of the year, combination of the paint and the
ashfeld and the weather and the LEDs. You might want
to mention that. I won't repeat the text, but number

(41:02):
ending eights even one thing that's quite funny. Boy racing
big and part North. So anyone out there is life
affected by boy racing. So I hear'ds some news by it.
They're saying the police are saying that police saying people
are sick and tired the boy races are I notice.
I just wonder how many people are affected by it
or sick and tired of it. I don't ever hear people.

(41:22):
I've never heard anyone compact ring on the show and
complain about the boy racers. It's not normally on country
roads where no one's around, isn't it. I'm not saying
it's a good thing. I'm not saying it's not dangerous.
But I think most of us are the second tie
of it because we never experience it. So yes, it's
something I'd like to talk about. Boy racing, which probably

(41:46):
now should be called young person racing, although that's ages,
isn't it as you just call it car racing or
illegal street racing? Probably? Yep, get in touch. My name
is Marcus Welcome eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two,
nine to six with him till twelve o'clock nine fifteen.

(42:11):
Changing the bulbs on your car? Is it legal? Is
it illegal? Light bars? What are they about? Not something?
Got much experience with boy racers and Selendon already there's
too many topics. I but I can handle that. And
ye if you want to add to that and the
bad names of New Zealand sports teams because you don't

(42:31):
know where they're from, you might have something to say
about that also, So there we go. That's the way
of the world tonight. If there's any breaking news, I'll
bring that to terrible weather around the country. It seems
to me it's raining most places. If it's not raining,
it's about to rain. Christ's Marcus, welcome and good evening.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
Good evening. Marcus Slendon has a disease that's related to
hemo primatoses. Yes are you there, Yes, hemo primatose. This
is a disease where basically the body just shuts down
and all the bones turned brittle and flem and in

(43:16):
the end they are lungs. I can't even breathe or anything.
And she's in the same family as that. It's like
Parkinson's and Huntington's and that, and they're all in the
same family. Well, her disease is in the family of hemochromatosis,
which is actually relatively it's quite well known. A lady

(43:36):
friend of mine, her husband died of it and he
was the longest lasting person in New Zealand at the time.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
It took them six years to die.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
He was three years.

Speaker 6 (43:46):
In a wheelchair in basically a paralytic state.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Okay, I didn't realize it was that serious for her,
for him, for her, no, not your lady friend, but
for Selene.

Speaker 6 (44:05):
Oh yeah, no, hers, Hers is like Huntington's is a
minor version of Parkinson's.

Speaker 13 (44:12):
Do you understand what I mean a little bit?

Speaker 9 (44:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Well, see, there's these groups of different things that affect
the body. There's another one that it turns all the
muscles into iron and they just snap. And I knew
someone that had that, and I forget what that's called,
but basically that all that has to do is move

(44:36):
their arm quickly and all of a sudden their muscle
would just snap.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, are you sure this is? Are you sure this is?
Because I thought with Celine Dion right that her condition
was neurological.

Speaker 6 (44:56):
Yeah, well it is neurologically based, and it all comes
from the brain, and the brain sets off the triggers
to the rest of the body.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
The that stuff's all to do with iron build up,
isn't it.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
No No, no, no, not not not correct at all. No,
it's also zero with the brain and everything. It's very,
very complicated. I could actually go into a five minute
spiel on it.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Oh look, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure you could.
But I just what I just want to put the
brakes that started, because I can't see a thing that
written that says that that's what she has got.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
No way she doesn't have that. But what I'm saying
is it is one of the cousins of that disease.

Speaker 7 (45:45):
It's in the.

Speaker 6 (45:46):
Same family that slows the whole body down and all
of her limbs just gets this and everything, and it's
basically yeah, yeah, another person in that, Mark Boldin, had
it the same that she had that she's got. Remember

(46:10):
Mark Bolan, Yes, your Mark Bolan had that slow person's.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Disease, stiff person's well, stiff.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Persons or slow persons, whichever one you want to call it.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Yeah, is also called slow person's disease.

Speaker 10 (46:27):
I think I've got to see.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
I've spent a lot of time in Australia, and in Australia,
they they have this thing that they turned things into
other things, the names. I mean, you know, I don't
good on you.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Thanks Chris. Twenty two past nine, Patty, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (46:46):
Yes, hi, Marcus. I watched a little bit of it documentary.
I didn't see it all unfortunately, came in so when
it was halfway through that the thing is with her
ones and her disease, and I'm not experienced enough to
know the exact name of it, but she did say

(47:07):
that it was attacking her when she was in her
twenties or thirties, so she wow, yeah, it was quite
twenty at least twenty or thirty years ago it had started.
So that was what she said. But I'm not it
is a neurological disease, you know. Unfortunately, it's an illness,

(47:31):
you know, just like you did say. But yeah, you know,
and she's gonna you know, she's going to fight like
like most you know, she's pretty gutty lady. No, she's
been through a lot, so she'll be trying her best
to find it road.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Is she going to stop performing? I don't know much
about Celendi, and I know that people love her voice
and she's a Canadian.

Speaker 17 (47:58):
Yeah, that was the question the lady asked her on
that documentary that you know, they all want the best
for you, Selene, but is the one last concert for
them to go to? You know, is there one last time?
And you know, I guess that's the question still has
to decide. As another couple of years going by, and

(48:21):
it has more treatment to see how she can navigate
her way through this. Yeah, sure, you know, as it's progressed.
And sometimes I think in her particular condition, it gets
brought on more by some sort of circumstance or some
sort of stress that she might be going through at

(48:42):
the time. And who's to know, you know, we've all
got stress and who will that will accelerate? It can
differm where you already have.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
How does it think to do? Does she become stuff
and can't move it?

Speaker 17 (48:58):
And you can see you could see and I saw
her last time she came out and you could see her,
you know, just quite nervous about it. It may have
just accelerated in the last couple of years, you know.
And but she did say she's been living with this

(49:20):
condition for quite a while, I mean many years. Yeah,
So okay, and.

Speaker 18 (49:28):
Equip effect.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
I know people love her too, Patty, So thank you
for coming through with that. Of course too. I have
a soft spot for it because you always did Johnny
Farnham's You're the Voice with Johnny Farnham, remember with the Bagpipes,
the Ultimate power ballad twenty six past nine, Marcus Till Midnight.
We've talked gone from halogen lights to celine dion stiff

(49:53):
person syndrome rare. Marcus Realy entry on the cancelations. It's
been my experience at those passages that the Vard may
be taking across Crooks straight because of what appears to
be carbonages and went into picking harbors. Are the first
to go crying to the media and how their lives
are endangered by monstrous sees, everyone being sick and the
crew refusing to serve them. Bluebridge are monitoring the situation

(50:15):
and will probably cancel as well. In the end, whether
to sail or not is dictated by maritime muz and
this is to stop the old practice of sale. And
be damned that Marcus. That bloke is totally wrong about hemochromatosis.
It's too much iron in the body. He's clueless ex

(50:36):
medic here, Yes, I thought I was surprised at how
clueless he was. I of hemochromatosis, have never heard of
what that man is saying. It's iron overload, Marcus. Hemochromatosis
is where the body produces too much iron. My uncle
died of complications of a liver transplant after cirrhosis caused
by hemochromatosis cheers that last talk has no idea what's

(51:02):
happening when he's talking about regarding to hemotromicrosis, so he
gets a very poor wrap. As far as hemocrepatosis, boy racing,
they're going to stamp it out because it affects us.
Always thick of it. Although I would say that probably
and look prove me wrong if you can. I'd say
very few are affected by boy racing. I'm not saying

(51:24):
it's not bad or illegal or dangerous, but I think
for most of us we don't experience it. I know
they used to have the illegal drags. I think over
the years it's been an all. I think where they
used to have them in all c in the seventies
and eighties, it was always odd than news. I can't
remember where it was. There's some famous road they always

(51:49):
talked about. I guess as cities have grown, the place
they do the drags has moved outwards and outwards. So
I am up for that discussion tonight on the illegal drags.
Although I don't know if they do illegal drags or
they do burnouts. It's not really my thing. Even as
well I was young, I wasn't a car person to

(52:10):
go to the burnouts or drags. But yeah, I've got
a text from a policeman twenty eight to ten. Boy
racing has been around for decades. I used to be
involved in car groups in the early two thousandths. Then
it was about meeting up with people with similar interests.
Of the cars would park up in keystren Auckland Drive
to Mission Baying, all around the city. Yes, there were

(52:32):
some that did burn out, but that was never any
violence towards the police. There was never advance towards the police.
I am now a police officer. I have no issue
with car enthusiast parking up displaying the cars. I'm in social.
What I do have an issue with is the burnouts,
the danger they put themselves the public in the racing,
and the violence towards police. The anti social behavior display
in cites violence. Marcus. Boy racers don't really do drags anymore,

(53:02):
just burnouts, Hi, Marcus. The Selene documentary is exceedingly sad.
I doubt she will have one last concert. She completed
the documentary to think her fans, as she had not
been honest with us for the last fifteen years or more.
She was asking audiences to sing, putting the mic towards them.
She was having difficulties singing. We cried watching the documentary

(53:23):
to think we have lost a voice. Wow, it seems
to be her over Eh goodness must have been here
about three years ago in New Zealand. Did people know
then that she was on her way out with it?
I don't know. I guess we can console ourselves with
her videos because I think she's probably one of those

(53:45):
performers that produces super fans, people that can't get enougher
and go from country to country watching her. I mean,
people seem to adore her a text or as text
to her, and I'm pretty sure that's true. They said
in the day that the street drags were in Beaumont Street,
and I guess that probably was in the sixties or

(54:08):
the seventies. Beaumont Streets down there by the viaduct was
sort of an industrial area then, and I'm pretty sure
that's where the police were, the boy races, congrad and
big numbers was kind of one of those things that
people always thought, oh well, but yeah, we were always famous
the Beaumont Street drags. But that would be the seventies

(54:30):
or eighties. I would think Marcus I was a boy
race from the early two thousands. Used to be five
hundred and six hundred cars back then, and before that
they're doing the seventies and the eighties and the nineties Marcus.
One of the main drag roads in Auckland was Ross
Common Road. Also, as more evs appear over time, all
the boy racers transitioned to modified tesla's with neons and spinners.

Speaker 19 (54:54):
Probably hi val Hi, I just wanted to talk about
the school racers. I mean, my children all growing up
and gone, but they when they're young, they like doing
those stas. And I just thinking, why can't some of
these speedways open up and meet them, pay a fee
to go in five or ten dollars, and if they

(55:14):
make a mess they should clean it up. At least
they'd be just going around in circus and doing something,
and that might just let the steam off.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
I think what happens. I think people living in cities,
they just like to go and stand by their cars
and talk to each other. And I guess probably most
of the drag racing places are a bit more out
of time. I know that often they do provide the
but you get into those you get those car clubs.
There's always there's always kind of management, and there's groups,
and there's bosses and committees, aren't there. It kind of tough.

Speaker 19 (55:42):
I think, Yeah, I didn't think they'd just have to
join up or something if the places usually older people
just say oh, well you could have it on that
Saturday night, but you've got to do it like this,
and then if you make a mess, you've got to
clean it up as part of the rules. I mean,
that's the sort of thing we would have had to
do when we were young.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
And I don't know how dangerous it is. I mean
they seem to do burnouts, not drags, and I guess
burnouts can go wrong. Will find out ow thank you,
someone said too, And this rings a bear with me. Also,
they've said that in the day in Auckland it used
to be in Nielsen Street and on he hung out.
I'm pretty sure that's true also, but yeah, it was

(56:19):
definitely Beaumont Street there for a long time and ross
Common Road to that kind of byway. That was a
big place. But Auckland's always had places, and I'm sure
christ just had also, I know christ Church they really
tried to stamp it out. I don't know how successful
that was, but thank you for all those people. Marcus,

(56:44):
are the police chasing boy race at the moment when
in pursuit or letting them go? Cheers Jim Marcus. The
council put a number of speed bumps along the main
road and one UTA in order to slow down the
boy races. The boy racers simply used the speed bumps
as the starting point to do their donuts and burnouts,
becoming more of a nuisance than they had previously been.

(57:07):
I'll tell you where you never hear boy races? Dunedin,
guess they must have them, christ Church a lot. Wellington
you don't hear so much about it. But I guess
up the Hut people will know boy racing. It's back
in the news because the government have said something about it,

(57:28):
crack down on it. Or by the way, Michael Jackson
when he died eight hundred and nineteen million dollars in debt, goodness,
the kids wouldn't even hear it much, then, would they.
I guess he's probably earned all that money back now
with his back catalog boy races and the drags Where

(57:50):
they used to be, where they are now and who
it's affecting probably emphas on the last question. Also, Marcus
Christchurch was Carlisle Street drags McLean's Island where I live
as a full circuit. Heard some boys out there tonight,
but ideal for the police they could close off both
ends of the island road. Morve Collins from McLean's Island

(58:13):
thanks move drifting in the Marlborough Sounds Road safely with
walkie talkie's warning on coming traffic with a few people Daniel.
After the president or debate, Gavin used some odds to
win the presidence. He dropped from twenty eight to one
down to seven to one. I wonder who's betting the
money we're on that one seems quite complicated. Arcine. It

(58:39):
seems possible to get rid of Biden. I just don't
know if they've got the will to do that. But
it's going to be a number of elections over the
mass coming days, weeks, months. France is happening, although they
go to a different round, and this is the election
for prominence, not the president.

Speaker 8 (58:58):
I think.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
England's the UK's is on Thursday. Marcus, we just built
a sleepout on our Christch property. We bought all our
door handles, locks, lighting and plugs of Temu. We saved
over twelve hundred dollars. Quality was just as good of

(59:23):
not better than Bunning's. Only difference as Teu only offers
thirty day warranty. That's from Hamish, Thanks Hamish, Marcus. Burnouts
these days are a form of tagging. The more risky
or hive is the location, the more claim they have
to the fame. Oh I see, so burnouts has sort

(59:47):
of become a performative deer, Marcus. I think the cook
Straight is the fifth most dangerous water away in the world.
Bed to be safe and not when it comes to ships, David.
Thanks David. I don't know how you worked that out.
Would that be the dangerous per number of people that travel?

(01:00:09):
I think there probably a few number of ways you
could do those sums to work it out, Marcus. The
name boy Racer holds a certain prestige for them. Can't
we all just start calling them dick races, more apt
and less glam you know, I just wonder how many
people glamor. I mean, it's it's no surprise that young

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people love their first motor car. That's what it's about.
Independence and travel and all that sort of stuff. This
is nothing new. They love cars. I love to congregate
with their cars. It's always happened. But it seems now
that I don't know, we've got this tough Laura, And
it seems as though there was a situation in Levin

(01:00:52):
and I don't know if that was poorly handled or
got why it got out of control. But as a result,
now that the boy racers are back in the news
and there's it's one of those real emotive to a
boy racist. But I wonder how many people boy races
normally do effect because for most of us we never
see them. So yeah, I mean, it's easy to read

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stories in the histories of me about boy racing thing,
but I wonder what the reality is. I'm sure the
majority just feel the very passion about their cars. But
if you are affected by boy racing, let me know. Marcus.
Auckland's population is now nearly five times the next biggest

(01:01:37):
city in New Zealand. Reinteresting there are only two above
four hundred thousand. After that small numbers time for the
government to incentifize real growth outside Auckland. You'll always thought
that after they christ Church quake, they really should have

(01:01:58):
endeavored to really reach out and make christ Church a
real big population center, and no one in the rebuild
had any idea about how big christ Church was going
to get. I think they needed to put the public
transport and get everything worked out for a million person city,
and they didn't do that because of course christ Church
now everyone wants to live there. It's one of the

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real success stories when you've got to build safely because
it's quake prone obviously, But I think the economies of
countries work better when there's several great urban areas, not
just one, and that's the way most countries kind of develop.

(01:02:42):
So I think it's going to be very good for
the South End to get a million person sity. I
don't know how long that's going to take, but I
think that was, you know, because all sorts of economies
of scale go then. But I hear what you're saying.
That's a good point. Marcus the caller boasted of getting
door handles and other fittings from TIMU and saving over
a thousand dollars. They also have got a three month

(01:03:02):
warranty for the new build that would have run out
before they moved. And have they saved money? Who knows, well,
I wouldn't think that door handles are going to break,
are they? And I'm sure they've come from the same factory,
probably Marcus Beck. In the day, the generic name for
them was Hoon's. I think now they're called Honigan's ruben

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as Marcus Good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:03:27):
Evening, How are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (01:03:30):
Trawling up about the boy racers. Like I used to
be a boy racer back in the day over in
Tarraga and Mount Mongano. And I remember, like when I
was in my early twenties or something, I guess, like
especially around New Years, like there used to be in
every weekend. You know, there used to be just heaps
of boy racers driving around the mount, parking up in
the mount and we were all used to meet up

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at Sulfur Point, you know, and want to circle and
do burnout and you know, and there's just none of that.
That's like, there's no boy racers around anymore in Tarraga.
So that's you know, my my way.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Much how many So the illegal stuff was only the burnouts.

Speaker 11 (01:04:08):
Right, yeah, the burnouts and the speeding, I guess, you know,
if we're traveling from one destination to another, you know,
we might raise each other and things okay other than that.

Speaker 17 (01:04:17):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:04:17):
But you know, nowadays, like I said, there's not you
go out on the weekend, there's not even there used
to be massive drag trains that went all through the town,
and you know, there is none of that anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
So yeah, I wonder why I never hear about apart
from that situation on Lavinaville places, which sounds like a
bit of a bit of a beckwater. So I don't know.
I don't know how big a problem it is anymore.

Speaker 11 (01:04:38):
I don't think it's much, you know. Yeah, we used
to do it every weekend, and you know I used
to get in the papers and then I used to
have to go to vatns in and change my number plate,
like after doing burnouts every weekend, you know, go to
the testing session, put different plates on it, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
And why would you put plates on because I'd catch
you with cameras from the burnouts or how would they
get you.

Speaker 11 (01:04:59):
I don't know, I don't know. We just used to
do that, you know, just put different plates on and
I don't know. Yeah, I used to like to lose
my long well I did lose my license and you know,
but like I was young then and yeah, I guess
that was kind of like what we did. But like,
these are no young people that do that around the
mount call Cawner anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
The sad thing is the people were playing. The sad
thing is it probably were playing video games at home,
which probably not an outwards out socializing exactly.

Speaker 11 (01:05:27):
Yeah, like they might they might meet up, like there
might be a Facebook thing whether they meet up once
a month or something, you know, but yeah, it's not
like it used to be every weekend, you know. Well
you just drive through the mountain, you know, and then
like we want to be parked up on Friday or
Saturday night and yeah, but none of that anymore. So, yeah,
I don't know how big of a problem it is.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Well, I this is the worries the mounts all old
people now. Yeah, we don't want to fend anyone. That's
the way it's going. Thanks Reuben. Fourteen past ten, Marcus.
There are band boy races areas we have to weigh
over around four ton between suit now is even if
you're congregating, you are still breaking the law. They have

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been around since two thousand. There you go. So there's
some areas, industrial areas where they take the truck, So
you can't have boy racers. There we are talking boy racing.
You might be one, you might want to be one,
you might have been one. Always curious to hear from you.
I'm not prior anti boy racers. I'm just curious to
know what the reality is out there. I don't know

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if people are sort of buying those rotary cars anymore?
Are they those fizzy little ones? I guess it was
all in the Japanese imports with everyone kind of had
their new cars. But maybe pe'ld have gone indoors to
play video games. I don't know the answer. But getting
Touch fifteen past ten. If there's something different you want

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to mention, here we go. Here's some tail of the tape.
Marcus Summer, sixty five year old woman living in christ Jurch.
Boy races are out every Friday and Saturday night, driving
around the four avenues in the center of christ Jurch.
I find them reintimidating as they are dragging each other
off from the lights, coming up beside other cars, and

(01:07:12):
cutting in front of people. They don't just cause issues
doing burnout's Carol Well, the police enforcing the speed limits
on the what's it called the four avenues. One thing
I haven't asked about yet tonight is the review of
the kmart in Dunedin any good, Although I suspect one
person is going to say that. I'll tell you what
the other. The old Camart in Dunedin was a disgrace,

(01:07:32):
the one of them all to hopefully the new one
is better. We'd gone up from Vcarden and someone's seen
us to kmart to get something. I thought, wow, goodness,
like a bomb side. Everything was just scattered around. That
was my first kmart experience. Not cheapest, but who's been
drinking the kool aid? Just empty shelves and kind of

(01:07:55):
it was like a like a linen dump. Marcus, these nutbags,
it's not about their cars. It's about their attitude and
their right sciousness. They think they can do whatever they want,
wherever they want, and stuff anyone else. It just doesn't
lead them to good places or behavior.

Speaker 17 (01:08:14):
Jeckie.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Well, yeah, I don't know if you're right, Jackie, because
I would say with most boy racers, just people driving
their cars to places and just sitting around. But live
in fear if you want to. But yeah, I would
imagine that. I mean, no one really has rung up tonight.
Apart from a couple of there's a couple of text

(01:08:37):
that said in Christ it's noisy and they try and
drag your off at the four revenues, but seems that
people aren't really affected by boy racing. You're Jamie. Nice
to hear from you, Marcus. Here, good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
Yeah, hey, Marcus, I hope likes is quarterly budget there
with the police is to pay them a bitter wage
or at least sit back at the table and negotiate,
because the four buggers can't strike, so they have no
way of getting you back at the table. I hope
that that's in this planet. I rang up on your
boy races man. You know, like in my age, you know,
we didn't have the cars these guys had, but we

(01:09:11):
had bikes, skateboards, and I hear all the same complaints
about you know, my use and you got the cars.
Now soon it's going to be the guys on the motorbikes,
you know, the dirt bikes and the four wheelers riding
around your streets, and everyone's going to know about that.
The young men, they don't really have idea of consequences
in their brain. That's why we put them in the

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army at eighteen. You know, it's easy to tell someone
to go run into a bullet when you're eighteen with
no consequences, but hard when the guys forty and actually
knows that bull's probably going to kill you and you're
not going to run into it. They're just you know,
young people need you know, if you're going to get
hard on them, you need to direct them in the direction.
You can't just tell these people, oh, I don't do it,

(01:09:54):
because every generation has done it, just in its own
version of the time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
Did you come across it at all?

Speaker 12 (01:10:02):
Blue races?

Speaker 8 (01:10:03):
Yeah, man, I'm in nature.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
They're everywhere ridge lit, the white guys.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
So where do they congregate.

Speaker 8 (01:10:13):
I'm not too sure where they congregated, but I'm on
pretty Unity Road, which is the main drag in maybe
so you know the lights are there, they said there
seeing lights change, So it's kind of the drag strip.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
It's not where they're going to sit there racing their speeding.

Speaker 8 (01:10:29):
Oh yeah, and if you come through Napier. Now, if
you take any road off Kennedy Road, you're a fig
that we're going to hit speed bumps. There's no When
I first moved to this town, I don't really like
the town.

Speaker 13 (01:10:39):
But when I.

Speaker 8 (01:10:40):
First moved here, there were just sirens all the time,
cop chases all the time. It's just passed your house.

Speaker 10 (01:10:46):
It was it was it was like we're.

Speaker 8 (01:10:48):
Listening to TV with in New York. You know, you
hear just sirens all the time. Now none, so the
police them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Hang on Jamie. So you're saying that there was a problem,
there's not a problem now because of speed bumps and policing.

Speaker 10 (01:11:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:11:04):
So I'd be guessing if you're a boy racer, the
only place you're racing around in Navier is Kennedy Road.
You know, they've diverted you out of town. But those
speed bumps, they're not racing over those things with those
lowered cars. Mate, they're going to your town if you
don't have them. So all those guys complaining about them
and then complain about the speed bumps, but then complain
about the boy racers. Take a couple of whopper speed

(01:11:25):
bumps in your street. You'll never hear them. They don't
want to go over them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
I'm slightly confused because why to start discussion about boy racing.
You said they're everywhere and NAPI, but they have just
said that they've because of speed bumps and stuff they
have managed to get rid of them.

Speaker 8 (01:11:38):
Well, no, you know, you know the boy race k
you drive around. They don't necessarily have to be doing
it because early miles an hour and burnout to know
that guy is a boyd racers you see breaking and
that might be, and that might be.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
The points of people are just triggered by people that
have got the sort of cars that are the same.

Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
And there's like people who don't like guys riding and
groups of by the sound and the best there you know,
whether they're breaking the law or not.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
No, yeah, I'm inclined to agree with the Jamie. I
think people are just yeah, okay, thank you, Marcus. I
watched all the debate, and while there were confused moments,
Biden also had some comebacks, some good comebacks PEPSI had
medicated for as cold and over prepared. Trump was nasty
with lots of lies. Too late to replace Spider, Nicky, Well,
I agree with everything you say, Nicki, apart from the

(01:12:30):
according to the experts, it's not too late to replace Biden.
And there's two schools of thoughts on that, Marcus. We
have laws limiting vehicle noise, vehicle speed and sustained loss
of traction. All the cops need to do is enforce them.
The rest is hype over young cars, folks having fun bears.

(01:12:51):
Will they sit the cops ever do anything about those
Harley's with the make the huge noise the whole time.
I know, because they come on every year for the
Bert Monroe and they've all got those beffels or whatever
they're called, and it's pretty inconsiderate, but people seem to
like it. Well, the by coders seem to like it. Hi,
David's Marcus.

Speaker 18 (01:13:07):
Good evening, Hi Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 8 (01:13:12):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Good, Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:13:12):
Deb.

Speaker 18 (01:13:14):
I was just ringing about the boy racers. This was
my first time on the radio. Actually good, yeah, but nervous,
and about the boy racers in Mount Mongonery. And we
went up to Mount Mongonery in Februy for the first time.
It's a beautiful spot up there, but I came home
saying the boy racers were a real problem.

Speaker 12 (01:13:36):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:13:38):
We were dining, you know, for lunch or dinner in
the evening. They were just so noisy down the main
road and they just went round and round and then
you'd hear them at night, you know, they'd wake you up.
And then round by the seafront as well. Yeah, and
then motorbikes as well, very noisy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Yeah, so the noises. Yeah, because you've got motels and
they're basically you're staying in an accommodation by the street.
There's nothing worse such the noise.

Speaker 18 (01:14:08):
Ah yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, it's the noise.

Speaker 10 (01:14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:14:12):
And they just don't seem to have any consideration for
other people.

Speaker 10 (01:14:15):
Really.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
Well, I guess when you're eighteen with a brand new
car or of the brand new second hand car whatever,
you're driving that with your mate, you're not thinking whether
it could be people that are asleep. I've got to
wake up.

Speaker 13 (01:14:27):
But yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 18 (01:14:30):
Yeah, Well down the main road like animal other day
and stuff like. Yeah, it must restaurant ears and the
shops and there. It must drive them crazy. Actually, I
don't know whether it's a certain time of the year
or not they do it, but differently in the summertime. Yeah,
it wasn't wasn't so good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
And I don't know if the police will have the
ability just to stop them just driving around. What do
they call that? I think there's some I think there's
some signs in christ you're saying you can't just cruise
around but anti cruising laws. But I wonder what that is,
how practical that is.

Speaker 18 (01:15:03):
I don't know. I have had an experience, for I
live in christ Church and I had had it had
an scary experience with the boy racers coming home one
night probably it probably was later in the evening and
in the weekend, might have been a Friday night or
Saturday night around going down Fitzgerald Air and I was

(01:15:26):
in the middle lanes and they came up beside me
each side and it was quite scary. Actually. So now
when I drive home if I am out later, we
have family sort of over the other side of town,
and I will always make sure I go in the
left hand lane so that no one can go so

(01:15:49):
we're not stuck in the middle. Basically, yeah, okay, no,
and thank you. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Because it does say Christchurchity Council has a bilor been
in cruising on specific roads between ten pm and five am,
seven days a week. I wonder why Mountain Long and
He doesn't have that? Is it because they've got a
dysfunctional council that seems as though every council has the
ability to put an anti cruising by laws. The fine

(01:16:19):
is one thousand dollars if prosecuted through the courts, or
one point fifty on the spot infringement notice. I don't
know how widespread those are anti cruising laws. Scott Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
There you go, good Scott, it's good boy races. Yeah,
I don't know. We're all young, one snake. We've wedd
a bit of fun. When we're at night time, when
guys are trying to do these jobs or people are
trying to head home, we shouldn't be really kill added
by them because if they would have brought my driveway

(01:16:59):
when I got motored something, how would they like Advisor
ses bonded on my truck and just shundered them out
the way?

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Are Scott? Let's just talk about the facts, because boy
racing is talk about catt and a lot of people
just want to go on about it. I just want
to know how much people have experienced it. Are you
coming up?

Speaker 19 (01:17:20):
Scott?

Speaker 10 (01:17:20):
Scott?

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott. I just gonna ask a question.
Have you come across? Are you a truck driver?

Speaker 14 (01:17:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:17:29):
I am?

Speaker 8 (01:17:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
How often do you come across them blocking where you
need to go?

Speaker 17 (01:17:35):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
Most most at least once a month. Once a month.
It will carry on, or you'll go down a side
road and Christ should go unload. He can't get in
the gateway, mate, Yes, and the mood you could abuse?

Speaker 12 (01:17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
Ago that Scott which.

Speaker 10 (01:17:53):
Wrote down softboon trustles rode.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
Is that one of that? Is it in the no
cruising area?

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
I don't know one hundred percent. Okay, I'm not sure there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
But have you have you driven your rig into them?

Speaker 8 (01:18:14):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
No, But next time I get abused by them, I
might do it. I know I'll get in trouble, mate,
but maybe we need to make a stand.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Okay, good luck?

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Why should I be abused?

Speaker 4 (01:18:24):
And I know a couple of guys that have had
ther trucks damaged in the past, bottles, beer bottles, trying
at them. Now, our machines that we drive we look
after just as much as they do their cars.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
Don't doubt that, Scott. Thank you. Fifteen to eleven Jamie Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:18:46):
Hey here you're going. Sorry, I'm just tuned in. I'm
on your boy race and chat and being one at heart,
I thought i'd give you a call.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Yeah, okay, you go.

Speaker 5 (01:18:57):
I just remember it being some of the big times
in my life, obviously in Australia now. But you know,
you meet up with your friends, friends, race, you do whatever,
but some show up you get moved on. I think
it's just older generations just lads to bang the younger
no matter what they do, these older people are never happy.

(01:19:19):
But while I get on great with my neighbors, but
the neighbor's toodles down. My young fellow was making plastic rockets.
He fill the full of water and you got the
air compressor ands firing them up in the air. And
they came out complaining it to me, going it's making
too much noise and because the odd the odd plastic
bottle would blow up. And I'm like, I said, what

(01:19:42):
would you rather do?

Speaker 17 (01:19:44):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:19:44):
And they go, well, he should be inside playing games,
or should be able in the part playing ball. And
it's just like, no matter what they do the young
kids do, they're not happy, but not happy, you know.
I don't think it's the same with the boy races.
Like it's just like, yeah, the noise, a noise part
of it, I can understand, but that's all that's all
part of it. Like I've on my holder, I've got

(01:20:06):
the external waistcat of the black olves, you know, all
that stuff peak boy racer and like, yeah, that's all
put a smile on my face. And I guess the
noise is only when you can't go far. Only hear
it for a minute and then it's gone, you know,
Like I don't, Yeah, I don't really, I don't think
the noise is really I then intimidation. I don't quite

(01:20:31):
know if I buy in to that, Like, yeah, I
guess it's scary. And you have a hole for loud
cars all going down the streets following each other, but
they just want to hang out and talk car and
talk what they've done.

Speaker 8 (01:20:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
I imagine most of us just people sitting around talking
how much all he gall it when you're a boy racer,
how much how much of it was burnt out and
illegal dregs.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
Oh, it was definitely part of it, Like it wasn't.
You're all there to watch some cars race, but you're
there as well, and it's just hang out with your
mates and have a good you know. So imagine it's
the same now you just can't. Yeah, there's well I
was sort of well they if they gave up there

(01:21:16):
and they started round rating. The older people would be
moaning about that too, like you can't when you really
did you get many tickets either, Yeah, she.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
For what Mainly.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
I was a bit silly, so I was the one
that would have no warrant, no regio, and then I
have a cup of springs in half to make your
car look cool. So I don't know, it was like
a never end the story. You know, they would come
and give you a fine and then you'd get your
car would be unroaded, really or I wouldn't have a
waft and then find you for that, and then I'd
think sicker, and then you're going get the pink thicker off,

(01:21:55):
put your springs back into the next week that you
can't again, and then if you'd go you know, it
was like that's never any stories. But yeah, like the
police back then, imagine it's the same and now it
was pretty heavy handed. Onesday though, thousands of dollars in
fines and paying them two hundred dollars every week, you know,

(01:22:16):
like that was that was I was only earning eight
hundred dollars. It was a lot of money that was still,
but it was not to parents. We were having fun,
you know, it was just it was just part of it.
They come up, you're getting fine over every six months
before I lose my license for three months. But it
was just I don't know even just go to work,

(01:22:37):
catch the bus for three months, your mate to pick
you up. And then that was just oh, no, I'm
doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
Did you grow out of it? Missus tell did you
grow out of it? Or did your missus tell you
we're allowed to do it anymore?

Speaker 7 (01:22:49):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
I still here. I still do it like I've got Yeah,
I notify the honder like I say, I've got a chair,
a honder down and makes all the cool moses. Basically,
I built the car that I drinket of when I
was fifteen, when I couldn't afford it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
But I still doing the dregs and Brisbane or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:23:10):
Ah No, not really because I need my license for work.
But someone mixed me in the lights. We we haven't
been of a game.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
People are what Jamie. People want to know what is
your dream car? What's the I mean, what's what's the dream?
What's the dream car you've got? Now?

Speaker 5 (01:23:32):
I've got a Honda Integra DC two turbo, then I
turbo and yeah that's pretty cool. And sorry the dream
is the dream car, but yeah, pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Cool, I look at it. Jamie, nice to talk to you.
Thank your other side. Julian ats Marcus, greetings and good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:23:54):
Good evening, Marcus. I'm sixty eight, well sixty nine years old,
and then back in the day I would have most
really been classed as a boy racer. I think the
different was though that my car was a an old Mariate,
had a little bit of pair but not a great deal.
And some of the cars you see now, you know,
are worth a few thousand dollars. I was driving back

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from Amaru a couple of weeks ago on the motorway,
just got to Roliston and heard this roar behind me,
and no kidding, there must have been two hundred cars
all in a row, just screaming. I was on the
inside lane, they were on the outside lane. A couple
of them sort of stopped and looked in the window

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and gave me the I know that the signal they
give with the thumb and the little finger. I think
I think it was a complimentary.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Ah, what were you what were you driving? What were
you driving?

Speaker 14 (01:24:51):
Yeah, well, look, I drive a black Toyota Saura B
eight two point five liter.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
Is it a good car?

Speaker 14 (01:24:58):
They most most probably thought, oh, here's an old guy
doing doing the thing. So I you know, I was
in the crew for most probably about twenty minutes while
they all go past. But I could see how it
could be. You know, if you're you know, you've got
these cars outside your house out, it could be quite intimidating.

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
I think that's loose. I think that's tang loose. The
thumb and the little finger.

Speaker 14 (01:25:24):
Well, I was hanging loose with the crew, but I
could see how people would be quite intimidating.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Yeah, I guess probably the thing that is the real
curse of the Boy races is the price of fuel.
If the fuel up, if the fuels up, I guess
we don't have many of them. The fuel comes down,
but they spring up again.

Speaker 8 (01:25:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:25:46):
Well it's you know, with the with the old Murray.
I mean I used to put I used to put
ten bucks a week in the Murray. I used to
pick three mates up on the way to school, and
that that fifteen bucks would last us a week at least.
You know, the tires were most probably ten bucks each.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
We had Julian and your day. Where would you congregate.

Speaker 14 (01:26:13):
Out of haswall? Yeah, you know there were It was
just open land out there. It was Look, we had
the old mriate. It had a We screwed a surfball
to the top of the car just to make it
look cool. None of us could serve. We had a
loft speaker in the in the under the bonnet, so

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that if we saw a nice girl we could let
her know.

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
How would you how would you let her know?

Speaker 14 (01:26:40):
You just say a few things out of the loft speaker.
And it was like a loud hater sort of thing
might make his dead. Was a sparky. So he rided
it up and look, it was great. Times had a
lot of fun. And yeah I would have I would
have been a boy racer, but maybe a slightly more

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upmarket boy racer.

Speaker 7 (01:27:03):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
Do you rate the car you got?

Speaker 8 (01:27:05):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
What do you got to you? What Taurus say?

Speaker 14 (01:27:10):
Pull electric convertible black? Yeah, it's a it's a nice guy,
it's a lovely drive.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
Go you you come a long way from the lorry, Yeah,
just a little. I imagine that. I imagine the things you
shouted from the front seat of your car would no
longer be that appropriate.

Speaker 14 (01:27:32):
Oh, Marcus, where can you say that?

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
I'm just suspecting if you're nineteen sixties with a surfboard
and you're seeing women that were yeah, well yeah, anyway, Look,
I'm not judging, but look.

Speaker 14 (01:27:45):
We will bo't go down that story. But Wayne, I
think Wayne, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
It's I think it's fair to say. Haven't got the
speaker in your turn of sra have you?

Speaker 15 (01:27:54):
Hey?

Speaker 14 (01:27:55):
I had thought about it, but not not not for
the same reasons. But Wayne Cooper, Tom Chandler and Rob Deacons,
if you're listening, remember back in the day.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Guys, Yeah, great sut out bragging Today your imagine what
they're shouting to each other. Goodness texts, Marcus, is car
cruising the car version of loitering neither a crime? Sounds
like huge overreach to be able to tell someone not
to drive down public roads.

Speaker 15 (01:28:25):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
I don't know how that would work with the whole
legality of that. Were the anti cruising laws, Marcus. The
government wants to go hard on boy races as part
of law and order, but they are keen to put
sensible eighty k limits on dangerous whya out of roads
up to one hundred k's so hypocritical. That's from John.
Pretty good point, then, Marcus, around Lower Hut the boy

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races do burnouts at Eastern Hut Road and Reynolds Batch Drive,
Harcourt Way Drive and Fraser Park Entrance, or go turna
meters down the road to Percy Cameron Park Street and
Harcourt Werry Drive. But the worst one is Gracefield Road
at Hart Road Park and I've seen them race over
turner Ky's down Hut Road in Gracefield. Marcus a danaf

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contract opened up his yard which was re rural for
the boy racer to use it a burnout pad, safe
off the road away from the Bulabarias, and the council
shut it down as it wasn't consented. There you go, Marcus.
Mothers of the boy races are mentally affected. Knowing your
son loves going out in a high powered cars that
you didn't want your son to own, skidding in donuts

(01:29:32):
and all that. You try to switch off as is
nothing you can do about it. When they're over eighteen,
it's hard being a parent knowing the consequence and trouble
they can get into. From Jan, great text, Jan, thanks
for making that point. I watched the debate right through.
Trump led all the way and Biden was like a zombie.
He seemed medicated. I read from a top neurologist in

(01:29:54):
the UK that Biden shows all the signs of Parkinson's,
not dementia. I feel angry at Joe Biden. She should
be encouraging him to stop now and enjoy the family time. Well,
the family times was in Biden in prison?

Speaker 17 (01:30:09):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
What's his name? The Sun and Hunter Marcus two types
of boy races, the menace that come out at late night,
which organized car meets ice skids, and then you have
car enthusiasts, people who have passioned for cars. My son
has two vehicles which are classed as boy race of vehicles.
He goes at daytime meet shows and track days. He

(01:30:34):
refuses to take them out at nights he doesn't want
to bring on attention. Instead he takes my car out person.
I don't have a problem with him. They just need
to do it legally, so maybe more events or venues
for them to attend. I come from a family of
car lovers. Times I've discussed this. It seems over the
boys go at or the boy races go along to

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sort of the car clubs. It's sort of right. There's
a generational gap there. It's run by sort of the
old people that don't want to give up power, and
it's too many rules and it's too restrictive. Marcus. There
is a massive car park and Lyle Bay shopping here
every few weeks to get to peck that at night
with mostly male but a few female boy races. They

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seem to cause little trouble. They're looking admired each other's
cars and then take off at a convoy around the
south coast. I was blown away the first time I
saw them all. They seemed to cause no trouble. Peter,
look May sometime I was walking home in Auckland. You'd
go to around Key Street. You know there'd be there'd
be one hundreds and hundreds of cars, but money. They're

(01:31:39):
just sort of wandering around talking to each other, looking
at their cars. It was pretty much just like a
car meet.

Speaker 13 (01:31:45):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Twenty three past eleven. Hey, nice to hear from you, Alec.
Good evening, Oh good evening.

Speaker 12 (01:31:55):
You mentioned about being the country of cars and other
avenues to do zo driving schools not real really driving
forward driving speedway and racetrack that's it. Yeah, I just
I just knew a couple of good old cops used
to go around and give you a veable, you know,
and tell you to pull your head in and we'll

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go around and see you appearance or something. And I
don't know if they police like that anymore. They just
took the hardine approach regas this time after the live.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
In and it what actually happened in Levin. I can't
quite work out if Lavin was a are you in.

Speaker 12 (01:32:29):
Livin now I'm in the capital.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
I don't know if the people were from Leavin or
that'd come from elsewhere.

Speaker 12 (01:32:39):
Yeah, I know they think think that someone's counted about
two thousand cars and family or something not long before that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it was a big it was.
It was a big event, But I don't know if
it just was were they all?

Speaker 12 (01:32:53):
I reckon it'd be good to offer you five percent
of those drivers, you know, opportunities in the motor motor
and motor racing sectory, and they could slowly pick away at it,
and the heats of his mates will follow them, and
they'd slowly pick away and they wouldn't end up getting
shot out or anything like that. You know they could
just do it quick slowly, but surely you know, but

(01:33:13):
I guess they haven't taken their approaches to me.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
It seemed as though two hundred cars showed up at
the event on June one.

Speaker 12 (01:33:21):
Was it maybe I got my fix wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
I think you got them right.

Speaker 12 (01:33:26):
Oh yeah, so five percent of Thatt's like like five
five drivers out of there, like maybe one got away
and you couldn't believe how this particular driving was. You know,
they could offer them rally of scholarships or something, you know,
to try and sweating around there with some people, but
they team their old policing types and give you could
sort cick up, but that's not sort of these book

(01:33:47):
two PC now gues.

Speaker 2 (01:33:50):
It seems as though ten of those cars have been impounded.

Speaker 10 (01:33:55):
Yep, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:33:57):
It's so that's why they have to probably probably put
a budgeting going on here and then have taken some
support racing, yea, the some sponsors and whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
But from what we've heard tonight, quite a few of
the quite a few of the boy races have become
have joined the police force.

Speaker 12 (01:34:17):
Well, I guess you know it's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
I guess you drive your car around, you can go
with the speed on an occasion if you want to
pursuit they we're.

Speaker 12 (01:34:23):
In a net seat, there being another ct that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
You're under a nice to hear from you. Twenty six
past eleven because someone explained to me what happens when
you've got the garage. You got an urban garage and
there's cars in the garage, Like I sat afternoon, they're
rivving the whole time. What are they doing? Are they
just tuning their car because it's annoying? Well, I say,
the worst noise is a chainsaw. You haven't done the

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worst noise sound for the worst noise on a weekend
is the endless, nagging, gnawing sound of a chainsaw. It's
for some reason, that's the noise that really now, what's
the fresh and the young views? It really grinds my
gears or the enners. High riving of a car and
it's actually in a garage 'er on blocks. I don't

(01:35:08):
like that. Where's the sound of a car on the
road is much preferable to that the endless reving? Get
in touch, Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten

(01:35:29):
eighty head on midnight. My name is Marcus. Welcome Marcus.
If all headlights on all vehicles were legally allowed to
be dipped downwards instead of straight ahead above the roads,
surfers heads blinding and oncoming traffic, perhaps it was used
nighttime fatal car crashes. But I kind of rest my
case that no one seems to be really that affected
by boy racers. I kind of asked, you know, who's

(01:35:51):
been affected by them? And a couple of people in
christ Chichen, one person in Mountain Mongnui that said that
they're on holiday. So I think it's the situations a
lot better than it once was with legislation and the
anti cres in legislation and not allowed to go industrial
Exauce's where they would go industrial areas because the roads

(01:36:12):
were abandoned were empty. So yep, and no one to
Rylander from tomorrow night until Thursday on. This was quite interesting.
I just read this article. I bring this article up,
but yeah, be good to hear from you want to
add to this discussion. I'd like that muchly, But yeah,
I haven't read you this, but let me just bring

(01:36:33):
this article up. People, we've just got to do a
few clicks on this talking about money. Many and new said,
and many people still carry notes and coins in their wallets,
and the amount of cash in circulation has doubled in
the last ten years. Doubled. I in seed that fewer

(01:36:57):
than one percent of banking transactions were now made in person.
For every one thousand transactions, nine hundred and seventy four
were digital Twitter ATM, fore fither bank's contact center and
just one inside a bank. Oh so number of ATMs
are disappearing also, that's probably not not something that I
was ready fully aware of. B and Z's had three

(01:37:21):
hundred and twenty nine ATMs across New Zealand, half of
the number in two thousand and eight. Of course they're
getting rid of those because no one needs cash. And
Susan Guthrie from the Reserve Banks in New Zealand currently
had nine billion dollars in cash. It's a lot of

(01:37:41):
money per person. That's the money that was issued, that
is carried around in the street every day, and it's
double to what there was ten years ago. Our lotus
latest stats show that those who depend on it withdraw
cash a lot during the week and use it for
spending is actually growing a little and the other extreme,
those who don't use catch are using it less and less.

(01:38:05):
It seems like there's a bit of a twist in
the market. Some people really need it, some people don't
think they do, but everybody says they like the option
of it, so we're committed to making it available. While
some people under the impression all businesses had to accept
cash as a form of payment, Guthrie said this was
not the case. You have to accept cash as a

(01:38:26):
repayment for debt. But while they've got to sign up
saying hey, we're cash is you can't pay with cash,
then you're then you're contray out of that option. You
have to pay with something else.

Speaker 9 (01:38:42):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
I think Krispy Kreme that does the donuts are cashless
to stop robberies, and they reckon where they say cash
is king. Most people whip out money anyway. Twenty away
from twelve, Joe Anne, it's Marcus. Welcome and good evening, Hi,

(01:39:04):
Joe Ann.

Speaker 18 (01:39:06):
Philonarchis.

Speaker 20 (01:39:08):
I was just a comment we just made a few
moments ago about perhaps we need larger ships crossing the Strait.

Speaker 10 (01:39:19):
Are you there, yes, yes, It.

Speaker 7 (01:39:22):
Just a bit of history.

Speaker 16 (01:39:23):
Really.

Speaker 20 (01:39:23):
It just brought to mind back in nineteen sixty when
I was a young teenager our family moved from christ
Church to Wellington and we came left from Littleton and
came overnight on. I think it might have been the Maoris.

(01:39:46):
Now whether that was quite a large ship, whether it
was probably larger than in the series we have now.
And it was just you saying, perhaps we need bigger ships,
and it made me think of that clip and as
I say, overnight. So we had a cabin there before us,
our parents and Mark Mey and the sister and we

(01:40:07):
had a cabin and you know, our bunks with crisp
white seats, and that's how we came to Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Yeah, did you get Did you travel with a car?

Speaker 20 (01:40:18):
No? No, No, we didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
No, I don't.

Speaker 20 (01:40:21):
Think we did.

Speaker 10 (01:40:22):
No, we didn't.

Speaker 20 (01:40:24):
My father was moving for work and I remember coming
along the Hut road and everything was so green. Of
course we'd come from Canterbury and where everything, you know,
the hills are brown and everything. I remember it quite vividly,
and I've lived in the valley ever since. But it
was just you saying that about the largest ships. They'd

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think about the Maori and you know, perhaps we could
have a ferry which leaves it would still had to
cross the state of course, but going from Wellington to Lyttleton,
of all places, rather than Pickton, that seemed to me.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
I mean, people seem to like that service from Littleton
the overnight s us. I guess, of course the demand
was a lot less. Then you probably need a lot
of boats to fulfill the demand.

Speaker 20 (01:41:11):
But yes, yes, that's right. No, it just brought it
to mind. And as I say, it's many many years ago,
wait back in nineteen sixty. Anyway, That's all I wanted
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
I wish that was a fairy service that I had
the chance to experience, because it always sounds very exciting.
Go to sleep in Littleton, wake up in Wellington the
next morning. Good evening, Joan, AND's Marcus welcome?

Speaker 16 (01:41:35):
Oh hello Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
Thank you Joan good.

Speaker 16 (01:41:39):
I still use them cash and I draw out money
out of the AMT ATM machines and they are removing
quite of them. We've yeah, and one down Wireki Road
the shop they didn't want it in the in their premises,
and then they removed a Westpac at avonhead More. And

(01:42:03):
you get used to where they are. But I like
to draw it. And I mean I've got a few
groceries today and I paid cash because I had it
in my wallet. But if you keep using your card,
you know, you can keep using it and then think, oh,
how much money I got left if you're not bookkeeping
it sort of thing. But I know what I'm doing,
you know, I draw out what I will need for

(01:42:23):
my spending to go out and get some groceries, and
I've got more idea what I've got left in the bank,
So I think we've still got to have money. You know.
I don't want to get around with no money on
me and you work my card all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
No, and look, and that's what the Reserve Bank said.
They realize that they're not going to get rid of cash.
Some some premises legally can say they're not accepting cash,
and they've got every right to do that.

Speaker 16 (01:42:49):
Yes, yes, but for me being a but old school
in that we've got to go into the bookshop to
pay a bill and things like that. And then of
course these power accounts, so they don't want it that way.
They want to take it out of your bank and
you've got to organize that. I don't like changes very much.
So anyway, we do get there, and we do do it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:07):
You know, yeah, because I tell you what, very few people.
I mean, I'll tell you what. No one ever uses.
No one ever uses ATMs much for depositing money, do they.
That was always a book putting it in that envelope
and checking that. I don't even know everyone does that anymore.

Speaker 17 (01:43:23):
No, No, we're doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
I guess we got paid in cash. We had to
deposit it.

Speaker 16 (01:43:28):
Yeah, but people go on the bank now to deposit
us or both. Can I make a comment about the
boy racers please? As I'm coming home from a club
and like it's fitzgialdev or b Llev My god, do
they race down there? I mean, we are driving home
and you've got all these flashing lights going and they know,
damn well they're going to get a ticket. You know,

(01:43:50):
I can have free stop and you know, crush it's
really well b d ev Yes, And you know they
can be And they're always usually young ones in their gars.
And I'll be driving along and I'll be going fast
past me and they're changing lanes and I think, do
they care about getting a ticket or or don't they
pay their fines? Perhaps when they get them? I don't know,

(01:44:11):
but you know, we don't want those people on the
road that are going as you know what, two or
three lanes each side.

Speaker 2 (01:44:17):
They'd be people. They would be Christian people from out
of town. Would they that come in.

Speaker 16 (01:44:20):
For the excited No, I don't know, just maybe the
young ones that see sometimes they can do it around
end of our street. They go weely around one night
years ago there's someone doing really outside our place about midnight,
and the next day is the black lines you know,
around the on the road. But they don't care. They

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think it's great fun to be doing those things. I guess.
But if they get a ticket, I mean, I wouldn't
be doing that. But these are men with their cars
because they're like their speed, don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Yeah, I guess. So nice to hear from you, Joan,
Thank you. They say, it's almost time for me to go.
I don't think I'll be watching the clean deon documentaries.
It sounds heartbreaking. Who are there stiff persons sing?

Speaker 17 (01:45:07):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
So yeah, that's worth watching. That's on Amazon Plus apparently
if you want to go and watch that near far
wherever you are. Our life will go on and on
and on. How long has it been since the Titanic movie?
Is the twenty forth anniversary of that. I think it

(01:45:30):
might be twenty five years. I hate to say, it
doesn't seem that long ago that it was on. I
think it might be the twenty for the anniversary of that. Anyway,
that's it. Ninety seven, Oh you must have been last
year was a twenty for the anniversary. I thought there
was something. Hey, I'll be back tomorrow. People. Enjoy your Tuesday.
It's moments away. Thanks for the call, thanks to the discussion,

(01:45:55):
good old boy racing, eh, moral panic, and I'll catch
you again tomorrow from eight pm. Enjoy your Tuesday. If
you want to be first to keep a Roman, give
him a call now and I'll talk to you again
tomorrow night. Email them if you want, but I won't

(01:46:15):
get it till tomorrow night. Good night.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
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