You don't sound like an Anne (13 October 2025)

Marcus reviews the dismal turnout of the local elections, before turning to the woes of having a common name. And should you keep a ram as a pet?

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Greetings, welcome Marcus Lush, here to midnights. And i't I
hope it's good where you are, but it's not good.
I hope it's better by midnight tonight. I hope things
get better in the remaining four hours that we have
for the thirteenth of October twenty twenty five. By the way,
this day fifteen years ago, remember this, fifteen years ago
everything what might have happened fifteen years now, I won't

(00:35):
make your guess. Fifteen years ago, the Chilean miners were rescued.
Now remember that they were way way way down and
they had to pull them up in a capture. It
was great to watch. I don't know what happened. I
don't know what they're mining for silver or gold or
coal or something, but they got stuck and they're there
for a long long time. And I think they made

(00:55):
a narrow hole down there and fed them food and things,
and then they put a capsule down and pulled them
up in the capsule like a metal tube. And as
legend had it too, that there were wives would went
down to meet them. At their wives and their mistresses
all went down to meet them, So there was some
sort of comfocation at the end, but it was quite
a big story. By the way. I'm looking at the TV.

(01:16):
Trump is there. Trump's arriving, and I think I want
to say Egypt. So the limo is there, it's not his.
I don't know if it's limo from Air Force one.
Be sitting there. Looks like he's grizzling about something that's happening. Also,
so I got TV and there's a double screen one
of or maybe he's at the maybe he's at the
Bengarian airport. Nobody get that right? Do we know where
he is? Trump? He's in Israel now, so he was

(01:39):
in Egypt. Now he's in Israel. So he's there, And
there are pictures of the square. I think it's called
Hostagees Square. I think it's been renamed that. And tell
avivn Israel, it's ten await in the morning there that's
where the hostage has been returned. So fairly big story there.
Looks like there's pretty extreme security around Trump's limo. He's

(02:00):
got the men there that are sort of well surrounding
surrounding his car. The diplomatic protection or whatever they are.
They're look highly well. Yes, I guess it's a dangerous
territory to go into, so no doubt there'll be some
reports about that. But yes, fifteen years ago for the
Chilean miners, big story. They're not long after. I think
there were those miners that got stuck in Tasmania, remember them,

(02:22):
And I think they got into the Foo Fighters the Fuies. Yeah,
and I think the Fuies singers said that he would
come and play for them and perform from That was
the other big story. There was a while there. Every
week there was a different trap minor story.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
I have.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I have I over emphasized that story. I think I
have David Krolz the guy's name obviously. Anyway, Oh, eight
hundred and eighty e Taldy. It's ten past eight head
or midnight, so yeah, it's Monday night talkback also for
all that entails, by the way, too, local body elections.
I heard the news story with Nina Uh. I don't

(03:03):
know why people aren't voting. I don't think. I know
there's been some talk about this, and I know people
don't probably really care. I don't think the voting system
is that difficult. I when it gets delivered to your house,
all you've got to really do is just find someone
to tick and then drop it in one of the bins.

(03:23):
It's pretty straightforward. I suppose the next thing to get
more people engaged would be just have an app you
download on your phone and maybe voting from your phone.
To the answer for that, I haven't got much more
to say about that, but people are disengaged. I think
for me, what really the disengagement about is, well, certainly
in the rural areas or the smaller urban areas, is

(03:46):
the decline of local probably print media. But there's very
few stories about candidates. They don't really interview the candidates,
they don't talk to the candidates. There aren't stories about
the candidates. That seems. We've read a little reporterage on
the ground level of candidates and people that are running.
So whether that affected, I don't know. That's what it
feels like from my end, But just a general death

(04:13):
of local media and a disengagement from local politics, I
guess that's really what it's about. And yeah, I mean
every everyone's now exposed to media all around the world,
so there's probably we've got our cell phones there's probably
more interesting things that we can spend our time reading

(04:36):
than squabbles between local body candidates. You might want to
comment on that. I don't really know what you'd say though,
but yeah, I'm just interested to hear what you want
to say about that. How you'd rejuvenate local body elections.
I don't think they will get rejuvenated. I think this
is probably a one way trend. If you look at
the graphs every year, it's set where every three years,
every trianeum, there's less people voting. I'd imagine that will continue.

(05:04):
Is it bad for democracy? I guess probably when you
get mayors that come and that probably get about a
seventh I think in our situation it's a six or
seventh of the population has voted for them. It's not
really the most resounding mandate. Just watching Trumps motiicate now
is about forty cars involved with it. It's pretty extraordinary.
So get in touch, you've go anything to say about
that when cover that off them and got to the
other topics. Also, I wouldn't mind some calls on local

(05:25):
body elections, just your thoughts on that. But also too,
there wasn't much media coverage of the results. I don't
know if once upon a time they have special TV specials,
but certainly this year they don't. And there wasn't much
promotion either for the elections. I don't know if people
missed out and realized it wasn't on, But normally we
have the Orange Man and stuff like that. That wasn't happening.
So yes, if you want to talk eight hundred and

(05:47):
eighty tady nine to nine to detect local body elections,
we will talk about that tonight. Yep, Pia, get involved
if you want to. There be other topics tonight. Also
there might be stuff that you want to mention. You've
got something to say about local bodies or anything else,
do come through. But yes, very much. Fifteen years ago
those people were trapped in them mine I would have

(06:07):
said it was about eight years ago. So time's going
quickly quickly. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to
nine two de text, looking forward to what you've got
to say here till twelve o'clock. As I said, anything
else you want to mention, do get through. As I say,
oh eight hundred eighty ten day, just resend your email down.
I don't know I've accidentally deleted it. I don't know

(06:28):
why that happens from time to time, and for there's
breaking news that will happen in our show too, I'll
keep you up to date with that. So in Israel,
the first seven hostages have arrived, as well as President Trump.
I'm not entirely sure of the purpose of Trump's visit there,
apart from being seen to be there. I don't know

(06:50):
if he's going to do anything or meet the hostages.
I guess probably that's a fast the fast moving discussion
there By the way, I can tell you to the
boil water notice in central Targo and Ofa and Omaco
that has been now lifted so you can drink water
to your hearts content.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Free.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Good thing to do, I would imagine, by the way,
there are metservice rain warnings heavy rain for the Central
and Lower North Island and the Canterbury high Country. And
also to the Pike River movie that premier is in
Graymouth tonight. Hopefully we'll speak to someone as they come
out from that. Good on having that in Greymouth. I
haven't seen the movie. I haven't heard sometimes it's preview coppers.

(07:33):
I haven't seen the movie or heard about it, so
I'm not entirely sure how that will be great actors
mel Lynskey, Robin Malcolm. But I guess too that's sort
of a sadness too. You'd have to sort of contend
with by going to see that. Anyway, it's enough for me.
It's fifteen past eight. The number is eight hundred and

(07:54):
eighty to thirty nine nine to text. You want to
be part of it, here's till twelve o'clock. Feel free
to come through. If there's anything else you want to
mention tonight. I will keep you a cross all of it.
By the way, those people have been hostile for seven
hundred and thirty eight days. That's just two years and
longer than that. The other thing I wouldn't mind mentioning.

(08:15):
It's something we haven't talked about for a while, and
that is names. We still got them Christian names and
we first names. And I'm just reading an article about
the most popular names out for this year. This is
a I think it's a British list, but it's probably
appliable here. I think the British names Theo, Leo, Freddie,
Noah and Luca, and girls Lily, Poppy, Emelia, Eiler and

(08:39):
Freyer and Arthur Oliver, George, Archie and Oscar and Ruby,
ivy Els, Olivia and Matilda. They're all the same every year.
The question I was going to ask you, and it's
not something I've ever thought about or discussed. Should you

(08:59):
avoid common names? Is it a problem having a first name?
Are you someone that's had a first name when you've
gone through school in the office and there's always about
six of you in the building, have you been a
Jessica when there's tons of Jessica's. Has that been a problem?
Have you always hated having a common first name or

(09:23):
enjoyed it if you're a Joel, or if you're a Steve,
if you're a Sarah, all those things. Is it horrible
having a first name, or let's broaden that out of it.
Have you always hated the name that you had? So
people that hate their first names, or people that can
tell me it's a bad thing to have a common name,
because then you always become Jessica with or people say

(09:48):
things to try and make it sort of slightly more interesting.
I guess that's what I'm angling towards. So have you
hated your first name? Is it bad to have a
common first name? Have you always hated going through life
just been another John or another Kylie. But Chris know
what it's like about that. My name's either, but my
name's always been fairly neither here nor there. But curious
that what are you going to say about that? James,

(10:08):
it's Marcus. Thanks for hanging on there. Good evening, you know, Marcus,
you welcome. James.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Hey, right, let's talk the local politics. And got a
little bit to say about Trump.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
As well, Yes, if you go.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
So local politics. Looking at I received in the mail
the information about the candidate approaches to the local election.
The first page opened up to see who we were
looking at voting for it was it was I'm not

(10:47):
gonna say it was laughable, But what I was looking
at were people that were so interested in what was
happening on their own street. But there's one guy who
I think there was a proposal to narrow his street
and maybe the street deside it, and it was it
was going to be so narrow that the rubbish trucks

(11:08):
couldn't go down and they would have had just done
a ten point term to get back out right. So
he was that was a key part of what he
was saying in the brochure. There's another guy there who
was whose name came up during the the Mosk attacks,
which you know, he was just looking to sort of
clear his name.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
You know.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Other guys they're talking about cannabis and how it's the
big news thing, and the other two or three people
were actually, okay, that's major, and they're a temperatent. There's
someone else there who I thought was come are right.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
But because it's a ward system in christ too, is it?
So they've trying to find a local issue to really
capture people's I'd go for the guy in the narrow street.

Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, we've all got something to say about the councils
doing things to the roads in the street. But yeah,
that was one thing. I mean, it's very easy to
get to start and looking at just looking at that
brochure and you know, so it really but.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
What else can they? I mean, the council puts out
the council puts out that the council that I was
involved with also put out a sixty second video that
you had to go and do a video of answering
different questions, which I don't know of anyone that watched those.
I mean, there are so the councils have tried, but
I don't think the count you know, there was no
cut through. I don't know anyone that saw any of them.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
No, I never, I never saw anything like that.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Did you vote, James?

Speaker 5 (12:32):
I certainly did. Yeah, And like you said, it really is.
They can't make it any easier, can they?

Speaker 6 (12:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (12:39):
I don't know. I mean Andrew who Andrew get us
on the news saying, you know, it's too much fair
figure around having to look for a bin. But the
bins were everywhere, and I thought it was really straightforward
what there were bins.

Speaker 5 (12:51):
But I mean, I would have assumed that this was
the same for all. But I just chucked mine in
the return envelop and yeah, I just I mean, I
had it for about it's set. I had it for
about three or four weeks and it's set at home
for about two reconths. I'd better post that I posted
over a week ago. And you know that's I don't know,
that's just did.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
You read all the candidate's profiles? Because even I don't
think I got through them all I.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
Did, And that's what I'm talking about, that I was
going through. Everyone's got their own little agenda and there's
a massive part each candidate goes on about. Now I'm
not I don't have a problem with us necessarily, but
there's there's such a big lean and such a big
skew towards talking about things like the environment or the
strings and the rivers, and and it's just like.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Well, what I found is most candides start to.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Of the population really care about that. I mean, we all,
we've all been we've all got that stream some somewhere.
But is it that bigod bluddy thing?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
What what most of the candidtes I came across with
saying I'm a great believer and you know, standing up
for common sense, which I think is a funny one too,
because I mean, what is that? What does that mean?
When everyone everyone would make out they've got more common
sense to the next person, it doesn't. It's been they
know much? Does it?

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Typical sort of politics that's just be as ambiguous as possible.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
And I don't know, Hey, James, you always been happy?
Have you always been happy with your first name?

Speaker 7 (14:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, I have yeah, because it's quite common. Yeay, wasn't
thought you had a name that was more distinctive or distinguishing?

Speaker 5 (14:26):
No, definitely not. I just had a daughter we named
heir Ella.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Which is common? Which Ella is common? A.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Yeah, we liked the traditional good names, yet no, I
just didn't have any desire to go for those.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Okay, good to talk, James, Thanks for twenty five by
state first names and common first names. Are you happy
with those or would you like them change? Did you
have a common name? Would write while they have a
wacky doodle name? Did you have a wrecky doodle name?
Or would rather have a long name? Marcus? I get
up tight when people shoot my shorten my first name
without asking first. Most Williams are asked if they're called Bell. Likewise,
Roberts are asterally called Bob. But people just shortened David

(15:03):
to Dave without a thought. You said a mother we
hate and every name shortened Marcus, evening Marcus back on
the night shift. We have Rick here at work. We
call him slick Rickbley loves Ricardo from his boss Blake
Lake Shift Nelson Pine Marcus. My name is Beryl. My

(15:25):
mother made it up as No. One Denmark, where I'm from,
has that name pronounced b roll wow, Marcus. Local body
elections only affect rate payers, about a third of enrolled voters,
does the third turn out the rest pay rent. Yeah,
that's really I mean they affect people that pay rent

(15:48):
because the rents are a proportion of their rates. So yes,
I actually gives a lot of people that a lot
of people have the misconception you gotta have to be
a homeowner to vote, which of course is not true.
Get in touch. We are talking about names. Twenty seven
past eight eight, eight, ten eighty. Maybe they need to
do some publicity around that. Nicholas, it's Marcus welcome in

(16:13):
good evening. Hello, Hi, Nicholas, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
That's quick. I'm a Nicholas.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (16:23):
Variations on my name Nicholas if I'm in trouble, nick
if it's a mate or a couple of beers, Nicky
if it's female and sort of been a kind of
friendly relationship for some reason, I don't know why, Josie.
Variations on that are tim bums in nichol As.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
I've never heard of those going that way.

Speaker 8 (16:50):
I've been called copper bottom. That's one my father used
to say when they when we talked about my name
when I was a kid. I can remember him saying
that I was named after old Nichola devil when my
mother said that I was named after Saint Nicholas, the
patron saint of children.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
So you've never loved it or disliked it, always been
quite happy with it.

Speaker 8 (17:14):
I mean years I was called big Nick when I
was working in trucks. But one one way or the other,
you know whatever, adults your daggs and we are.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Called big neck. We are called big nick because you
were little or you were.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
Big oh six or three and twenty stone?

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Okay, so you weren't called Ironically. It's funny, isn't it,
Because if I hadn't, you know, a big neck, I'd
call him little Nick because that's the way it works.
It like little John gee, guy that sounded has sounded
smaller than his His voice sounded smaller than his size,
didn't it? You can't tell? Can you hold your horse?
Of you there?

Speaker 9 (17:47):
Holding?

Speaker 3 (17:47):
I get you before? Too long? Numbers? Eight hundred eighty
ten eighty Did you ever crave for a common name
or vice versa vice versa? If you want to talk
about this? Eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine to
nine two detext names names names. If your names are common,
have you always hated that or been quite happy? Is
it bad to be in a classroom with six Jessicas.

(18:09):
I don't know what there's just an example. It's probably
the more common on these days. Ella or James or
Oliver or Olivia. They're like, it seems to like names,
lots of valves. I'm not quite sure why I get
in touch here till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Kathy Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (18:23):
Hi, how are you Marcus?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Thanks Kathy, that's good.

Speaker 10 (18:28):
When I was born in ninety sixty nine, fifty six
years ago, and I had three Lisa's and five Jasons
in the class, so that was the name of the year.
It always seems to be a name.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Of the year.

Speaker 10 (18:39):
Yes, correct, Lisa Marie. And when my son was born
thirty one years ago, he had five Jordans in his class,
and that could have been a girl and a boy's name.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Oh yes, it's one of the mb one's Jordan, isn't it.
That's right, yes, yes.

Speaker 10 (18:55):
And my daughter, golly golly, she's an Olivia. And how
many of them? Maria and her dancing class when she
was eleven out of forty girls, here was six Olivia's.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I thought you might have been at the head of
the pack, ahead of your time with Olivia. But that
was popular popular then as well, was it?

Speaker 10 (19:14):
Yes, thirty one years ago, it was very popular. And
my name's Katherine, and I can't stand it because when
I was a little girl, everyone called me Kath, and
I felt it was far too old for a little girl.
And my dad didn't like Kate, so everyone called me Kath.
So when I got to South.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Kay, Kat's a bit hard, isn't it Keth?

Speaker 11 (19:37):
Like Keath for a little girl?

Speaker 10 (19:40):
It is when you're quite young, Kate's sure, but my
dad didn't like it. So when I got to Southern
Girls High, I told everyone I was Katy. And of course,
now that I'm in my fifties, I can't stand Katy.
Are much for Katherine And it's a classic name, and
I look back now and I think it's such a
lovely name.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Well have you told us you're Kathy, because.

Speaker 10 (20:03):
When I've just everyone's used to that. Now they don't
me as anything else. So yeah, if I could change
it again to Katherine, maybe I should like to talk.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Maybe someone's changed their name sou by deed poll Marcus
noticed there's no babies called Kevin or Bruce. Anymore. Probably
not a bad thing. I like a kevy Well, Bruce
or brucellosis. My mother was Felice Tar named after his
father Felix, usually shortened to Felice. Some people call it Phyllis.
Then when more women from the Philippines arrived in New Zealand,

(20:34):
people spell it Fellice. Marcus. I used to graze my
dairy heifers at a farm in South Tartanaki. The name
of the grazier was William Dickey. His name for short
was Willie Dickey. True story, man, I would be straight
down to the courthouse to change that. Mike Marcus. The

(20:54):
Carpety Council filmed their Question Answer evening with meyoral candidates,
which I saw on their website was ninety minutes and reinformative.
It helped me see who might be a good leader
and who wasn't my choice one. So I'm happy. If
you want to know what the Kens stand for, it's
not hard to find out. The process could be easier.
Cheers Chris and Marcus. Welcome Halloween.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Hello.

Speaker 12 (21:17):
I thought i'd let you know that many years ago,
when I met my late husband and I went over
to Ireland to Chris House in England then to see him.
His dog was called Marcus, and the dog wouldn't the

(21:38):
dog wouldn't come near me. He was jealous as anything.
It took us ages to form a relationship. He was
definitely felt pushed out by this woman appearing in his life.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
That's funny, isn't that. What's the dog?

Speaker 12 (21:54):
Yeah, he's lovely dog. I don't know what thought he was,
but he was a very nice and he got to
know me because I love animals, bit by bit that
he would just let me just get we're a little
scratch and we actually became very good friends in the end, So.

Speaker 13 (22:10):
That was good.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
And are you happy with your name or is it
just a non diplume? Is it? That's tricky? Yes, God, God, why.

Speaker 12 (22:28):
Did you think that? Why did you think that?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Oh? Because people sound like people sound like their names,
and you don't sound like.

Speaker 12 (22:40):
An n Well that is my second name.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Yeah, but you're more you'd be more a Sureley or something,
are you?

Speaker 12 (22:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Gosh no, okay, okay, we'll just we'll just keep that
as today's mystery. I don't want to start a night
of a game a name guessing. I think everyone's got
if I was calling the radio.

Speaker 14 (23:03):
I'd have a.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Radio. Yeah, I don't know why. I just would feel better.
You give so much. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve.
You hate your name? Or is your name? Is it bad?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I guess the real thing I'm trying to distill. Is
it really bad having a common name? Do you think
it's a bit of a cookie cutter and it makes
you seem a bit boring? Marcus. I worked in an
office in the seventies. There were six Michaels and we
were all called Mike. It was Emma and Jane with
us four Emma's three James. We had a lot of
other kids, clothing and shoes that came home. Oh it's

(23:39):
a good point too, with your clothes, with your clothes,
I've forgotten about that. My son is Nathan, which is common,
nicknamed Nate dog. My daughter is Palin, which is unusual
and no one can spell properly. Both like their names,
but it's easy to be Nathan. It's easy to buy
Nathan southanirs and I've never heard of Palin. That's p

(24:02):
E Y l I n dB. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (24:07):
Funnily enough, I was just this weekend looking up how
I should describe my name because I thought I always
referred to it as a serberque a name, take it
on by someone. But that's just French from nickname, and
dB is not my nickname. I now understand it's my pseudonym.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Oh, yes, yes it is.

Speaker 15 (24:33):
Because it's the name, because I introduced myself simply as
dB in real life, not just on the radio.

Speaker 16 (24:39):
Yes so.

Speaker 15 (24:43):
And in fact, I was a a gathering of classic
bus collectors the other day. Shut up, and when I
introduced myself what other people said twenty years ago at
the trolley bus convention there was a dB there and
I said, yes, that was me. So he didn't reckon

(25:06):
remember me as a person, but that name didn't.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, that's goods.

Speaker 15 (25:13):
And it's been thirty years. I think nineteen ninety I started.
I became DV. And I was complaining to one of
my managers one day that on a list of people
going to a meeting, you know, he had Mary Janes
and Joe Blogs and DV. And I said, I've lost

(25:33):
the last name, and he says, that's brand recognition. After
I changed that day, I became DV.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
So are they your initials for your first and second name.

Speaker 15 (25:50):
Yeah, okay, because as a train control I had to
give them out all the time when giving out signing
work because they're all official forms, you know, your initials
and last name. And then people started just coming back
at me as the because I never thought was of
a day was sort of more more cool.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
V is great because's a classic beer as well too,
so that it's great.

Speaker 15 (26:19):
Well, one more thing when people look at me when
I introduced myself, I go spelt the same as a
beer as the beer, but I give more headaches.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Yeah, very good. It's a classic comping. I feel sorry
for the trolley bus enthusiasts because without the wires, they
can't do much with them.

Speaker 15 (26:34):
Can they do anything?

Speaker 11 (26:36):
It was.

Speaker 15 (26:38):
You wouldn't You.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Wouldn't bother, you wouldn't bother restoring one because there's nothing
you could do with it.

Speaker 15 (26:44):
I don't know that mister Little and Foxton used to tow
a trailer with a generator on it, and then.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Really, yeah, so are they? And over does some hobbyists
have overhead wires where they can still run them.

Speaker 15 (27:01):
Well, Foxton did have it until Ian Little passed away,
and then that's all been removed now, but you've still
got a couple of places. Ferry Meat, of course has
got a trolley bus.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Section with trolleys with with wires.

Speaker 15 (27:15):
Yeah, I think so, because there was a couple of
their buses up at the Wellington trolley Bus who holdown.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
It was an ever it was terrible technology, wasn't it.
Here we go? That was great, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (27:32):
Well Wellington bought brand new trolley buses. They'd asked, what
five years and they pulled the wires out. These buses
had the ability to drive off the wire if necessary.
They had keep going batteries on them. But yeah, you
are sort of constrained by your by the wire.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Okay, well do you mean that's the things that's start
enjoyed that about your name? I appreciate that, Kivy. This
is Marcus Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah, good Marcus, heals again, Mike good Thanks Kivy. Hey,
I thought I'd produced himself as kV because of a
while ago you said sort of plaid that name was
out of fashion or whatever. So they thought I'd just
take a little bit there with you. What I was
we're bringing for me. They I've been in a little wool
for the last thirty seven days and trying to get
free to the staff. I've got a surname which also

(28:22):
can be used as a Christian name. Okay, yep, my
name is Kevin Barry. So these nurses and staff they
cannot get it around their head that my Christian name
is Kevin, and they call me Barry all the time.
And the person next to me, of course, his Christian
name had to be Barry, didn't it. They come into
the room in the middle of the night, you go,

(28:43):
barrye And I'll wake up thinking, hey, they're talking to me.
When they're talking to me roommate next to me, and
I was so pleased when he left because now they
just called me Barry. I'm the only Barry in the room,
so I know it's me.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Is it an end in sight? Kevy? Is there a
release date?

Speaker 16 (29:00):
Two weeks?

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Question?

Speaker 16 (29:01):
Mate?

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Good luck with that, Kevy Hobe it goes well for
sixteen tonight. I'll get to the texts and you too,
if you want to. Hard case Yeko went through Marine
Fight firefighting school in France. Five named Craig three Zavia
and some very cool French woman Roger. Roger inning Yes,
was on the walkie talkie with a what a Fiesco

(29:25):
Keystone cop scenario passed the exam. I spoke no French
as well. I learned to fly a plane in France.
Also past that. I love my past Andy. My mother
didn't like her unusual name, so decided to give us
free plane names Anne and Margaret. Then everyone thought we
were named after the royals. And my sixth form class

(29:46):
of twenty there were five Margarets. Marcus visits to fiy
meat can have a ride on a trolley bus. I
don't go to those. I don't like places for people
dress up old time and that's what freaks me out.
I've got an allergy to old time dress. Brian, this
is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (30:06):
How are you mate?

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Good things?

Speaker 17 (30:07):
Brian, good hey, it's just when you talked about that
was mats like my name. I mean, I love it,
but you don't hear it very often nowadays, particularly even
of people under forty. But I had to laugh. I
was in Amsterdam in the winter at the Science Museum,
so it's a great place. It's full of kids and
whatever you and there's an American lady trying to get

(30:28):
the attention of his little fellow kid was probably about
five or six, just in a sharp American accent, Brian
Brian and I actually just got there and laughed out loud.
What's the funniest thing?

Speaker 8 (30:38):
You know?

Speaker 17 (30:39):
I just had hadn't heard it for years of very movement.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Well, I guess, I guess the life of Brian was
big for you guys too, wasn't it?

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (30:48):
Totally? Yeah, I'm all about it.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, are you with? Are you with a wire?

Speaker 17 (30:53):
And I I'm an eye mate a correct way?

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Are most more eyes or more wise?

Speaker 5 (31:00):
I don't know actually, but he sort of.

Speaker 17 (31:02):
You know, every now and again you'll come across people,
you know, a number of you know with the why
it's Yeah. When I was growing up, I didn't realize
when I was a kid. I didn't realize there are
two ways of spelling it until I was a bit older.
But I think it's probably fifty to fifty to be honest.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
And you can't shorten it, can you.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
No?

Speaker 17 (31:19):
No, I have had it shortened to bry one of
my Brian always looks.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Like a African barbecue.

Speaker 17 (31:26):
Yeah, I know it's a bit bizarre, but I think
she sort of does it as a sort of take
the Meca bit as much as anything.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Right, It's not good. Yeah, I'd go more like Brian.
Could you shoot? You couldn't shorten it to Ryan because
it's not any sure, is it?

Speaker 16 (31:39):
Or absolutely? Yeah?

Speaker 17 (31:42):
Yeah, yeah, totally yeah, yeah, a lot of people don't.
You can't really shorten it, to be fair, It's only
only one of my sisters that I've heard.

Speaker 16 (31:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's long.

Speaker 17 (31:54):
You can call me anything you like.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Call me late for dinner, you know, brilliant Love that
when that one comes out. What about names that you
think are shured for something where they're just really sure,
like Ian or Gus Mag's my sister's called Lisa. My god.
The people who couldn't pronounce it was hilarious. The best
will lever Lever Lever louver Lisa maybe the best time teasing.
I'm a Jennifer so pretty sound but shortened a genuine

(32:17):
overseas I'm a Gin. A lot of people love dB.
Thank you handle twelve names. Have you hated having a
common name all your life? Or of you're someone that
wishes you had a common name because you're called Tarquin,
indigo or something. I don't know if you called that,
but you can't know where I'm at with that one.

(32:37):
So about to know if you want to talk eight
hundred and eighty, ten eighty anything else N nine to
detext it's names and a little bit of local body election.
But I feel people are sort of disengaged from the election,
so they probably disengaged about talking about it, but they
might be disengaged about complaining about what happens with their rates.
That's what I imagine. I imagine I'll be engaged with that.

(33:01):
My grandmother was named Waldemar after her father, Woldemar. He
died three months before she was born, which she was
known as Eddie. How do you get Eddie from Woldemar?
I don't know about that. We are talking about common names.
If you've had common names that you've hated, or rare
names you've hated, what's better? Are you something that's always
been sick of being the one James of eight in

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the class or the one Kylie of nine? That might
be that's kind of the vibe for tonight. I've always
kill on names that can't be shortened. What's interesting when
they make names longer. I can't think of an example
of that, unless it's any I can't even work out
where you go with that one. Any breaking news will
bring that for you. Trump is in Israel now. He's

(33:44):
standing on the tarmac of an aarodrome with nit Yahoo,
doing a lot of touching of shoulders and things, a
lot of power moves. I don't think the hostages have
arrived yet. I think they go to the border and
then go into some form of ambulance and go to
hospitals for medical checkups. I don't know if they'll be

(34:04):
seeing shots of reunions on TV tonight, so we haven't
got that. But yeah, certainly not a photo opportunities for
At the moment, I didn't even know he was heading
off there. I think that must have been a fairly
rush to all the whole thing. It seems to have
been quite well changing quite quickly. Get in touch, you
want to talk on air, Marcus till twelve. It's about names.

(34:25):
I think there are people you can have initials as
your first name. Also, that happens too, I don't know
how often it happens, putting on things the name bored Oh,
by the way, too. Diane Keaton is dead at seventy nine.
You might want to remember some of her movies. I'm

(34:48):
feeling like she was big in the late seventies, but
there might be. Sure, there's plenty of roles that I
didn't know that she had done. But get in touch
if you want to talk about that. I shouldn't. The Godfather,
it's we first made year old and in Godfather two
and Godfather three in any Hall, which she got the

(35:12):
Oscar for Best Actress Actress. Four away from nine with
you till midnight tonight be a part of you want
to talk as I say, eight hundred and eighty eight
and nine to nine two to text, uh Roman will
be along from midnight brilliant four away from nine, Linton,

(35:37):
This is Marcus good evening.

Speaker 19 (35:40):
Yeah, you were talking about names that couldn't be shortened,
and we named their boys d D A N and
Todd to d wow and their friends called them Toddy
and Dino.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
What does that tell you about life? Everyone likes to
do something of a different, does it. I don't know
what that. I don't know what to take make of that.

Speaker 16 (36:10):
No, that's the way it was.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
Because short names, you're linked in a Dino, every one's
called Dino Toddy. But then you got a name like
en and you can't add on to that. Get you
can't go enough?

Speaker 16 (36:21):
What you could have you wanted.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, it sounds a bit weird though, doesn't it. I
like that, Linton, thank you, Dino Toddy, Yes, that's right.
With the short names, Gevo Well, Keith, Keith, Oh, Keithy, Keithy, Dino,
todt O Toddy. I'll take your input on this. Two
people hndle twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. That's

(36:45):
the numbers. Emails, if you've got them, I'll check those, always,
always checking. Chick chick, chick chick, always chicking, chick, chick, chickchick.
My mother's name was Margaret and always addressed by her
friends as Peggy. How do you get Margaret into Peggy?
Is it a common thing? Some names have really weird shortening?

(37:06):
But you'll know that if you're want of those. I
can't work out what they all are. Oh jeez, at
the time. Hey you back after the break? People hit
till twelve, feel free to get in touch head on
midnight tonight. It's all about names, names, and it's about
names that are shortened or names of the lengthen, which
I find interesting. A lot of people gave their kids
short names because so they couldn't be shortened and then

(37:28):
they found those names got lengthened. And what's it like?
Should we avoid giving our children the most common names
because they'll be in a class with eight other Olivers
or nine other Alids, or I'll live in other Henry's
Harry's Harry's. I think pop put them over. So that's
it about the And did you always hate your name?
Who hated their name? They must be put out there

(37:52):
to hate their names, because they're sort of disrespect for
your parents to go and change it. But yeah, I
wonder how you've got on with that. Or maybe you
felt you didn't suit your name. Maybe you're Kevin, you
felt more like a Joshua. Don't know what you feel.
More like they're talking talking about names. I'd read the text.
My daughter's name is Harry, but we just call her
Harry with an eye on the end from Dino Marcus,

(38:15):
great subject. What is dig is short for digger? Ready?
I don't know. My husband shows Evan and Kylie for
the children, as they couldn't be shortened, But then they
got Evie Kevy and Kylie Wiley Woo or KWW for
short Kylie Wiley Woo, a real awkward name. You hardly

(38:35):
hear now is Dwayne. They've said thank goodness a bit
a bit judgmental. I don't know how Margaret becomes Peggy
or names that have got really weird shortened shortening like
Christopher and Tofa which is Terry. I think it's a
kind of a blue blood type thing. It's bizarre. But

(38:59):
get in touched Marcus talk talking about names. Names are
getting repeatitis a bit these days. Names names, David, this
is Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 20 (39:17):
Thats just a couple of strange names that I came
across way back when I was only eighteen. I had
a girlfriend whose surname was soul as in sol E,
and her father's Christian name was Robert.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Oh yeah, which is.

Speaker 20 (39:42):
A rather cruel thing for parents to do, especially when
you were when you have a role call the having
that guy of that and the second instance what I was.
This is all going back from seventy years ago, sixty
five odd years ago. I had a job who was,

(40:05):
which was involve people having to produce their certificates as
part of a legal process, and so I've never forgotten
the name who is. Chef's surname was Crapp and his
third Christian name was Pyle.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Oh yeah, okay, god the David thanks for that ten
past nine, well eight hundred and eighty sums. That was
almost called Nigel Fuel. How could you almost get called something?
I suppose you could. They could change the tune. Jeff Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 11 (40:50):
Jeff Yeah, good anything Marcus. I've got quite a funny
story about names.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Are you.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Are you happy with your name?

Speaker 14 (41:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (41:02):
Very happy, No problem.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
You don't get called Jeffrey?

Speaker 11 (41:07):
Yeah, well call me Jeff. Just don't call me late
for dinner.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
That's all everyone says that, don't they. That's like the
great jokey.

Speaker 20 (41:17):
Listen.

Speaker 11 (41:18):
The story goes that my father in law in Australia
was a printer and he did a lot of wedding
wedding invitations and this couple turned up at his office
and one of the invitations done, so that's okay. He
goes through the whole procedure and what they want inside

(41:41):
and he says, he says to him, oh what what
what's your name? And he says, oh, Richard Dickey and
he said, oh yeah. And he says to the good lady,

(42:03):
oh what's your name? And he and she said a
failure Rochardson and.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, I think I see we're going with that one there,
and Jeff, I think probably. I think a lot of
those things that have made up those jokes, I don't
think they're for real. But yeah, it's not kind of
the angle I want to go with the show, Jeff.
But yeah, I'll just cut that one off where I can.
But thank you. It's just as bad jokes to me.
Christas is Marcus, welcome, good Chris, thank you.

Speaker 21 (42:36):
Well, I'm just enjoying the show about names, and I
wanted to present a couple of pretty names. I had
a girlfriend once called the fun Wen It is it?
Well wonderful Welsh? Yeah, yeah, the fun We. I thought
it was one of my Even though she was one
of my first girlfriends, I still remember her vividly. She
was a lovely girl.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
In very few veils for a long only one veil
and a long name, which is weird.

Speaker 21 (43:01):
He exactly exactly. And I had a Mitzi as well
around those stages. I wasn't sure that was short for something.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
But she it was. How was mitsy m I t
z I.

Speaker 21 (43:12):
Uh m I t s I I guess I don't know.
I was eleven years.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Old, Mittphie, if if for Freddy.

Speaker 21 (43:22):
Mit c am, I am I s T I I
think mitt c.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Copy that.

Speaker 21 (43:29):
Yep, yeah, but I always remember my fun with you, sir.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, liking that lot there, Chris, thank you for that.
Getting touch here at twelve. Oh, Marcus. Last name is Ireland.
Dad wanted to call one of his husband Stuart, but
Mum always vetoed it could be Stewart Island. My name
is Anna Marie, shortened to read because auntie or nanny

(43:54):
is ridiculous Auntie ree or nanny ree. I know this
girl called Tabitha. Some of that she gets called Tabby
Webby webbykins. Marcus, my nephew is called Stewart Stueton to
stue most of us times, but shortened by his work
makes to pid what does that mean? Oh, it's stupid.
I see that that we've got to say, yeah, that's yeah,

(44:16):
Sorry for that one, but yes, is it bad to
have a common name. That's the kind of bit that
I feel that we're gonna go with tonight, or names
that can't be shortened to get lengthened, but not those
sort of weird stories. I met mister such and such
was marroring miss such and such, and the names. We're
going to be You know, there's a different shows. It's

(44:38):
a different show altogether. Hitdle twelve marcust on midnight. What
do you got Let's be hearing from your eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine two to
text anything else you got here for your people? You
might want talk about the local body elections. No one
much voted. Less people voted every year. It's down about
forty percent, maybe about thirty three percent. I don't know

(44:59):
why that is. I think the death of local journalism
has probably got a lot to do with It just
doesn't get cut and no one reads the local papers,
and probably a lot of local body polities are not
really that interesting, so it's hard to make it interesting.
It's hard to get people engaged with it. I guess

(45:21):
it's interesting if you're involved with it. But yes, that's
just the other back topic for tonight. But mainly it's
about the names. Get in touch, keep it going Headle twelve.
Oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty Herefore, if there
is anything I you want to talk about too, By
the way, I'll keep you updated with news as it
happens throughout the night. Tonight but yeah, I've just seen

(45:44):
what I can to find out. What's in the news
on he Hunger. Christmas parade is called off funding squeeze
resources limited capacity. Didn't even know they had one. But
how much were it cost to put on?

Speaker 22 (46:02):
Chris?

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I guess most of the cost is the silly old
traffic management. Did you read about the Cone hotline? Did
you see how many cone the cones the Cone Hotline
had got rid of? Do you see the article on
the weekend? It wasn't good? The Cone the road Cone

(46:24):
tip line has got rid of two hundred traffic cones.
This was introduced by Workplace Relations Minister Brook van Valden.
That eight hundred calls and two hundred cones removed ridiculous.
I'm sure more people remove cut that many cones out
drinking on a Friday night, wearing them as a hat,

(46:45):
or put them on statues. We're taking them back to
your student common room. Sure, that's what people do. It's
all about names and names that are shortened. Well, names
that you hate. That's the thing I'd like the most.
You've got a name that you've never liked but always
been to respect for your parents to change it. Oh yeah,

(47:06):
it's Marcus. Welcome, Oh, Marcus, tell you good, good, thank you. Deborah.

Speaker 23 (47:12):
Yeah, I'm just.

Speaker 24 (47:12):
Gonna tell you my sister married in Ian and which
was fine. And then one of they I have three children,
and they want to know what En was short for.
They had fought for years that his name was uncle
Ian the letter.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Oh of course, I'm thinking about that because I'm very
much into my cryptic crosswords at the moment. Suddenly I'm
I because it's just just the letter, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (47:42):
Yeah, And that's what they thought his name was.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
What's the only name probably where you just put your
name down is En and N Your name is your initial,
isn't it? No, it's not I. That's weird.

Speaker 24 (47:54):
They just thought because that he was always uncle En
to them.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
But I'm sure in the deep dark days that Ian
was short for something, was it?

Speaker 24 (48:05):
I don't know you as sure that one leer.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
No, we'll find out from some ends. Maybe we're away now.
I wait her at eighty tod eighty twenty one past
nine heit till twelve helda. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 13 (48:23):
Hello, how are you?

Speaker 11 (48:24):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (48:26):
That's good.

Speaker 16 (48:27):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (48:27):
I just got a story about names. When my my
grandmother very long time ago, maybe in the sixties or fifties.
I think she felt pregnant but didn't know and her
her mother rang up from Wellington and said, you're having
a boy, named him Tiaova. And she ended up having
a boy, well obviously, then she went on had a girl.

(48:51):
Then she went on and had a boy, but they
named him a son one last name because his father
was someone. And then she had another girl, another boy,
a girl boy, and then another one that she didn't
know about was like her mom rang up and said
this one you're having a boy, named him color toney,
which means in Maori, don't cry. And that year that

(49:13):
my uncle was born, my great great grandmother was run
over in Wellington and dragged about one hundred and eighty
meters in left for dead on the side of the
road and she ended up in a vegetable state. But
she made a recovery, but her memory was lost in
to the you know, she couldn't remember things for a
day longer than a day, so we had to be
reintroduced to her when I met her in the eighties.

(49:35):
But yeah, there was a beautiful story. So you know,
she was a tallner, so like a sign reader, you know,
and Mary, I don't know if you know what they are,
but yeah I did know what.

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Yeah, I'm aware of that. And what did you say
Malory for don't cry?

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Was car is tiny?

Speaker 13 (49:50):
Ca wows? Don't cry and get into the road cones?
How ridiculous is that, Marcus, two hundred road cones? My
bro from an actual minister. Yeah, actual minister was in
charge of this.

Speaker 20 (50:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (50:05):
I wouldn't liked to call or a minister, to be
honest with you, but yeah, unfortunately we have to because
apparently if I hadn't known this, Marcus before I was
raised in the system and grew up as a criminal
and did all the stupid things you know that we do.
If somebody had told me, boy, you don't have to
have any qualifications to be a you know, to be
the prime minister of this country. You don't have to
have any qualifications to be an MP. You just have

(50:28):
to want to be one and keep your nose clean
and do the right things and have a good waha
and know how to talk to people, and then you
can be a politician. Nobody ever told me that, Marcus.
You know, I grew up in the system. That pretty
much just hit me up for failure every turn. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
That's talk. Thanks so much for you. Hanade twenty three
past nine, Hey til twelve, Karen Marcus, Good evening.

Speaker 25 (50:49):
Good evening, Marcus. My little story is that I give
them up as a year old and have to do this.
So the system anyway, then to adapt time and aventure.
When I was thirty seven, I had through the opening

(51:11):
of your doctors.

Speaker 26 (51:13):
I went back and I found my mum and she
wasn't really all that well, however, she said to me,
and she had five children, and she said to me
parents guests of love of all my children. I knew
you'd be the ones to come back to me. Well,

(51:33):
so I've bought all my life recalled parents, not parents.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
So what's the difference there are most are? Most people
are most Karens or Karens.

Speaker 27 (51:45):
I think most Kiwis called are Karen And so it
spelt with an e. Mine spelt with a y, which
had been transferred.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
The Dutchess.

Speaker 27 (51:59):
With double I, and the Kiwis couldn't cope with that,
so they changed to a wife.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Okay, yeah, okay, So Karen k I in because like
Sandra and sounder the same name of pronounce the two
diferent ways in quite different sounding, aren't they That's correct?

Speaker 14 (52:16):
That a hy in.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
But yeah, i'd love to hear from you, Karen, Thank you, Ellen.
This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 20 (52:24):
Yeah, good a Marcus. I don't know whether I've actually
told you before, but I don't mind mentioning it. I'm
and what's called an albino? No I have hear there
you are?

Speaker 16 (52:39):
Didn't you know that?

Speaker 11 (52:40):
No?

Speaker 20 (52:41):
No, no, no, you are. The reason we're saying that, though,
is because I have absolutely pure white hair and very
fair skin. And the problem for me is that I
used to get people men, particularly referring to me as
snow Oh yes, yeah, and that used to really quite

(53:05):
upset me.

Speaker 3 (53:06):
I can't I can understand that.

Speaker 20 (53:09):
Yeah, but they all mostly used to do it. Men
would do it sort of, you know. So listen to this.
You know Sam's using Allen. Why don't they that John?
What they can see anyway? So that was that was
my sort of a beef that.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Oh that's a horror. And my heart bleeds for those
stories about albinos in Africa too, where they just have
such a where they just chased. It's just it's just
I can't believe that still goes on. It's just it's
just it haunts me, those stories.

Speaker 20 (53:36):
It does, it does still go on. I actually am
one of the lead trustees for a group called Albanism
New Zealand and we're about educating the general public on
living with Albanism and succeeding in life in spite of
you know.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Have the hurdles been lowered?

Speaker 20 (53:59):
Ellen?

Speaker 13 (54:00):
Have they won?

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Have the hurdles for life for young Albino has been lowered?
Are things easier or or still challenging?

Speaker 17 (54:08):
Ah?

Speaker 20 (54:08):
We we have a World Albanism Alliance and for a
younger person we've done a lot of public education and
we've got some very good people associated with us in
the political arena at the u N. So that's been

(54:29):
quite a big, a big positive step.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
But there are always the villains and movies too. There's
never been a positive sort of TV role model or
anything has there.

Speaker 20 (54:41):
You're a dead right, They're a dead right. I have
a friend of mine who is from South Australia. He's
an academic up in Canada now and yeah, he's well
one of these funny people called Nelbino like myself, but
an astronomers astronomy. Yeah, he's a professional academic with the university.

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But he's a fabulous person and he's leading the world
and in his particular area of science. So it's quite
quite good. So you are, my man. That that's the
news I've got for you.

Speaker 11 (55:21):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (55:22):
One other thing, wonder if I can just I know
there's strict guidelines and policies around it, but I personally
wanted to sincerely congratulate you on your election to council.
I really mean that, you.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Know, I appreciate that. I think I think two things. Look,
thank you for that, and I do appreciate it from you.
The two things about it. I couldn't talk about running
before it because of the laws of you know, I
had to give everyone here equal equal time, so that
it was easy not to do it. Now probably I
have now, probably have been elected. That's fine, but yeah,

(55:58):
so and probably on my job, this job, it's probably
not my job to talk too much about my time
on the council. But you Ozbreg it was a great
izbrick excited to get that get that news through on Saturday.
I thought that was and thank you for looking it
up too well. And I'm impressed with it.

Speaker 20 (56:14):
Oh jogh, I should take an interest in these things
you see, but you know, quite frankly, I think it's
a tremendous achievement. And yeah, well done to you mate.
You go and enjoy being and doing what you do.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Thank you so much, Ellen. Nice to hear from me,
and thank you for what you told me today too,
for every interesting eight hundred and eighty today, year nineteen
nine to the text here Tel twelve looking forward to
what you've got to say. Anything else you want to mention,
feel free to come through text today in South indein
they've paid a few lines on the small backs Ford section.

(56:48):
They could have got rid of another turned cones. I
reckon Hannaly need his own show on ZB that's from Murray.
Thank you, Murray Mina. This is Marcus.

Speaker 28 (56:58):
Welcome, good evening, Marcus. Drinks are on you and we
will celebrate.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Oh yes, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 20 (57:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (57:08):
Well I'm Veronica after my Scottish grandmother and I'm will
Helmina after my Estonian grandmother. When I was at primary school,
a little girl came up to me and she said,
your mommy and daddy didn't love you, And I said,

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why not? With great, big tears in my eyes, and
she said, well, fantasy having a name like yours. And
I don't know where it came from. But I turned
around and said, well it's being called Betty.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
Yeah that's right. Yeah, I don't know. I don't enough
people get I don't know if people get us had
a hard a time of their names these days. I
don't know if kids get teased for bad or strange names.

Speaker 28 (58:01):
Well, I am talking about over seventy years ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm very different.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
I'm just trying to think of children still get named
Hans for the I'd like to think that people have
moved on by that now. I don't know that that's
the I don't sari that, No that's the case.

Speaker 8 (58:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 28 (58:25):
Well, when I'm in the supermarket and here mom's calling
their children, I think, oh, fancy calling your child.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Yeah, it's very easy to judge, isn't it.

Speaker 28 (58:37):
Oh it is it is, And yet the children are
so sweet.

Speaker 25 (58:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Oh yeah, there's no doubt about that. Mean a nice
to talk, thank you. Wow.

Speaker 7 (58:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
I don't know about if kids get a hard time
for their name. But you know, there are we have
a lot more, We have a greater variety of names. Now,
don't we We're more diverse. Yeah, I guess it's what
I need to say. Hittle twelve. You ought to be
part of it? Twenty seven away from ten. David Marcus.

(59:09):
Welcome by Marcus.

Speaker 29 (59:11):
It's David the Bristo and Bronco supporter here.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
Oh god, wow wow.

Speaker 8 (59:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 29 (59:18):
Now I my friends now call me Davy Crockett because
I thought, well, I thought, I don't really deserve that.
I only had them for the top eight. They weren't
supposed to win the company.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Oh I see, no, I remember what you were saying.

Speaker 11 (59:30):
You.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Now, this is a strange story, right, So you don't
have a banking you don't have a bank account, but
use tab as your bank account and your savings plan.
So every week of the NRL twenty three weeks or
whatever you bet on the NRL to make to make
the top eight.

Speaker 29 (59:50):
It's correct. Yeah, and so yeah it was. They weren't
supposed to win the competition. I wish i'd I wish
i'd had them for that. I'd be a wealthy man
if I do.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
How did it work out for in the end.

Speaker 29 (01:00:07):
Oh, I got a bit of money out of it,
and not as much as Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
But it was safe where you couldn't spend it. That
was the point, wasn't it.

Speaker 29 (01:00:15):
Yeah that was yeah, that was because it was safe
because I couldn't touch it. But if I had them
to win the competition all year, well yeah, I wouldn't
have to work again. But I might have to have
another game next year. I suppose you must. Yeah, I
might have to go through maybe Top four or something.
But yeah, for them to knock off Canberra, then Penbra

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and then Melbourne for extraordinary, they must have saved it,
saved their best to last.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Is it what you're rang for?

Speaker 19 (01:00:50):
Yeah, just to say.

Speaker 29 (01:00:52):
I was just to say I get called Davy Crockett
now and I thought, well, I don't really deserve it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
You get David Crott. You get David Crockett often, uh yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:01:02):
Quite often, Yeah, but more so now, I suppose. But yeah,
that's all I really wanted to say.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
It was David Johnny Davey Crockett jokes.

Speaker 29 (01:01:14):
No, don't you But I don't know. But I do know.
He was the King of the Wild Frontier and he
was born in about seventeen fifty something.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
I think, do you know what?

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Do you know what was unusual? About him.

Speaker 29 (01:01:29):
No, not really, other than he was the king of
the Wild Frontier.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
But he also did you know that he had three ears?

Speaker 29 (01:01:37):
He had three ears?

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
No, really did not know that.

Speaker 29 (01:01:43):
Where was the third one?

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
We had the left ear, he had the right ear.
They had the wild Frontier.

Speaker 29 (01:01:53):
Oh, thanks for that one. I'll keep that one.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Yeah, tell them at the TAVA. That's one of mine
to you. Thank you. Twenty four to ten. Someone says, observedly,
I think in the first hour and a half of
tonight you've had five David's. That's right, we're big on David's.
And and we don't know what Anne was. She didn't
say it. Kenny, this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 30 (01:02:16):
Yeah, he yeah, you go, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Good. Thanks Kinny.

Speaker 30 (01:02:21):
My name is actually Kenneth Ronald and then my last
name started them, so I used to get from my mum.
She always called me Kenneth. My family always called me Kenneth.
I went allowed Mum wouldn't let him call me anything else,
buck Kenneth. I'd go to school and I'd get a
letter sent home or something like a report card with
when my report was sent home, it's just sent home

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under the name Ken Morley, and everyone at school either
called me Kenny Koala or Oneald McDonald. I always got
those stupid nicknames. But yeah, I always got called Kenneth school,
and Mum used to go. Mum actually sent the report
card back to school, signed and at the top she
put my matt son's name is Kenneth, not Ken. Please

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refer to him as Kenneth. But it's got called Kennet
school because that's the way I introduced myself. It was
just easier. And then when I came back to New Zealand,
that's when I started getting called Kenny white people. And
I was like, oh okay, I said, why are you
calling me Kenny? And they go because Kenny Rogers, you know,
don't tell you remember your name?

Speaker 16 (01:03:21):
So yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
You're happy with Ken, Kenny or Kenneth.

Speaker 30 (01:03:24):
Now, I will say Kenny now, yeah, I just yeah,
I went with a fly over here and yeah, that's
that's that's my name. I get called now it is
just Kenny.

Speaker 3 (01:03:33):
Isn't Kenny Rogers.

Speaker 8 (01:03:34):
You can say, hey, yeah, Kenny Rogers.

Speaker 30 (01:03:37):
Yeah, let's remember my name now.

Speaker 13 (01:03:38):
That's what I usually say myself.

Speaker 3 (01:03:40):
Good on you, Kenny, thank you, hello, Debbie.

Speaker 31 (01:03:44):
Oh hi Mark, So my little story is that my
mother was called Euphremia, and her mother was called Euphemia,
and her mother before her was called Euphemia. And then
when she came to New Zealand, because she's Scottish, she
got called Fay and then she got she was pregnant

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with my sister and I had twins, and my sister
was going to have to get called Euphemia and there's
no way Mom could call her Euphenia because you thought,
there's no way, so watching because she was the oldest,
and I said, oh, thank God for that. So she
called her Amanda Mia Mia, which was the last three
letters of Euthenia, and she called me Deborah Kim. So

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then when I went to primary school, there was about
sixtyvies in my class. And then when I was my
kids were born and they went to primary school, so
it was all these Debbies at the primary school, these mothers,
and we all ended up on the PTA together. So
everybody on the PTA was called Debbie, which was bizarre,
and one of them became my best friends. So my

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best friend is called Debbie. But I think it was
just because of their era in the sixties where everyone
was being called Debbie. So that's what it was. But
funny about you talking about Margaret. My auntie, she was
called Peggy, but her birth name was Margaret. But on
my mother's side, her brother, Raymond, he was called Dewey.

Speaker 14 (01:05:11):
Was just coming to that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
Does Margaret become Piggy?

Speaker 31 (01:05:14):
Yeah, bizarrely. Yeah, I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
I didn't know that. We'll talk to some Margaret, soy,
I'll find out more about that. So what was Dewey's
real name?

Speaker 31 (01:05:22):
His real name was Raymond, but he was called Dewey.
And do you know why he was called Dewey? What
the name Dewey? Where it come from? It was because
he breed pigeons. Yeah, so everyone called him Dewey because
he bred pigeons.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
What do they called pigeon breeders Dewey?

Speaker 31 (01:05:42):
I don't know. Maybe it's because of what the pigeons do,
but yeah, it was. He was called Dewey, which was
really bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Did you you know, Debby, did you not like having
such a common name with all the debbies have uphen?

Speaker 31 (01:05:56):
No, I like, did they all? My full name is
the full spelling, and then when I went to high school,
it had to be called I had to spell it
that way and with the eight on the end and there.
But everyone calls me Debbie, but my nickname is Debster.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
I like Dester. I love Debster. That's that's that's out
to play fun, no nonsense.

Speaker 31 (01:06:18):
Yeah, it's d E B S t A. And it
was given to me. It was given to me by
a work colleague because I drag a whole lot of
rum and it was called down by the did stuff
and that stuck brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
How much?

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
How much?

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
How much rum did you drink?

Speaker 14 (01:06:36):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (01:06:36):
I couldn't remember. It was the work conference, you know
what things. You're like a load days. But you know
it's like everyone and my number plates Depster, so everyone
knows me so well.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
You went big on it with the plate, the Dibster.

Speaker 31 (01:06:48):
Oh, my husband, My husband gave me the plate when
we were first courting, and he gave it to me
for my Christmas when I got my first car. I
bought my own car and he gave me the plate
back in the day when number plates first started. So
I've had it for years and and then he got
then I got changed to one of the black plates
for Christmas, this which is really.

Speaker 14 (01:07:07):
Nice though, you know I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Ye what and Dibster. I'll look out for you.

Speaker 31 (01:07:14):
I'm an Auckland market and the Northland as well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Between the two.

Speaker 31 (01:07:20):
We live at north and we live in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
So brilliant living the life. Dipster probably the best nickname,
best derivation of Dibster. I love it. Dibster just dumb.
Can't help but sorry DIBs. If I saw Distpster, you
see tomorrow you see the dibster. Will let's report where
she is Dibster. It's been live, you know, hasn't it?

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With old Ellen's I didn't ask this to Allen, but yeah, no,
I thought it was straight. They called him Ellen. Anyone
else think that? Alan the Marcus and most classes at
primary school there was four of us named Shane Shane Marcus.
I'm planning a European with a cruise Amsterdam to budap

(01:08:06):
next year. Is this a subject worth discussing on your
show regards Trevor, Yes, but not tonight. I don't want
tropic creek topic creep debster. So maybe we can work
out the best name, extension or contraction that you've got.
You might have been a deb that's become a depster.
I don't know about Margaret and Peggy. Someone will explain

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that to us. No doubt, Debster wouldn't be a bad
first time to give someone Debster, but probably bit informal,
is it? I know some people a bit funny about names.
Debster fifteen to ten for the halftime stretch. Get in
touch if you want to away. One hundred and eighty
ten eighty twelve to ten. Kristen Marcus, welcome, good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 32 (01:08:56):
I don't know the of Mark, Witch.

Speaker 24 (01:09:02):
And Piggy, but I'm married.

Speaker 32 (01:09:04):
And who an Irish kid? Click family here in the
cargo years ago, Margaret was always known as Polly and
Mary as Molly.

Speaker 19 (01:09:20):
Oh yeah, just yeah.

Speaker 32 (01:09:24):
And and they were two sisters and their endearment Irish names,
you know, their wee nicknames were. Margaret was Polly and
and Mary her sister was Molly.

Speaker 20 (01:09:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
So why is why does Margaret keep going to Polly
and Peg?

Speaker 32 (01:09:46):
I don't Maybe maybe it's English, Maybe Peggy is an
English endearment or maybe a Welsh endearment, but endearment in
Irish Margaret was Polly and Mary Molly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Makes those sense to me? Okay, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Kristeno Huddle twelve namers, Marcus, welcome o eight d eighty
ten eighty names shortening and lengthening of names, and is
it bad to have a common name? Is it bad
to be in a class with eight other Johnny's? Well,
John's not that common anymore. For a while it was

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all John and Stephen Peter, wasn't it? Are they biblical?
Is there Steve in the Bible? Guess said Stephen's as
there must be of course Steve Stephen. I think probably
the disciples in the Saints had a lot named after them.
But let's changed these days, hasn't it? Are stone to

(01:10:53):
death with Steve? Yeah? Yeah, anyway, do come through if
you want to talk about this or anything else tonight
tonight tonight, but a local body stuff. Not a lot,
but a bit, but a lot of results are still
an into cargo. There's still nine hundred votes that haven't
been counted. I think they might send them away to
be counted. They might go to christ Church. I don't

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know that, so I didn't quote me. Oh wow, Marcus.
My name is Kim. I've had a few names, but
the most recent one has stuck. Timothy. It's a great
that's a ripper that's a ripper. This was given to
me at one of my jobs. It seems to have
stuck with me all this time. I like Timothy is great.

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I think if Tim is Timothy, then why can't Kim
be Timothy. In my first office there are eight men
employed in it or visiting at least twice a day.
Five of us were called Peter. I'm a dominic and
often it's lengthened to condominate Trix. Marcus watsed his steps
to drive a doubby lull. Marcus just wondering, do we

(01:12:01):
know if Pete from New Plymouth got on the council. Look,
I didn't look up Pete's results on the council and
he was in the mottolo. I did look him up,
and I think he got I'll look up the results
for you. He was someone that called last the week
before last was going for the council because they had
a good platform. No nonsense. Now I can't quite find
the I'll google you Plymouth results. Yeah, I think it

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was in the Kataki nam nam More two ward six seats,
Gordon Brown two seven eight five more, Irving George two
four nine two Graham Chad two four eight four, Damon
Fox two four three eight, Kerrie Vossler two three four seven. E. J.
Barrett two three oh one one two three four They
were the six. Then it goes Brian Vickory two one
five oh, Adrian Soel one three six three, Peter Mehra

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seven six seven, Ewan Darling six seven seven, Ross Johnson
six two five, Nicki Truman five three two, mauz Wigdowell
four six seven, Pete Bwis four three nine, And it
was so there was one two three four five six
behind him, so certainly didn't disgrace himself. That was great.
He'll be back. He's got a taste for campaigning. I

(01:13:10):
can sense it now. He's got the spirit. How does
it like those doesn't like those cycle ways anyway? Seven
from nine ten, heading up towards the news. We're talking
about names and changing your own name, lengthening it or
shortening it. Did you hate having a common name? No
one seems to hate it. Did you have a real
obscure name that you didn't like because people kind of

(01:13:30):
I don't know what they would do. I think people
get hassled as much for their names these days, get
hassled for other stuff, do they? I don't know. Maybe
cone hastling each other, be nice. It's all about the
names tonight, seven past ten here till twelve, So get
in touch. That's what we're talking about. And maybe you've

(01:13:52):
developed your own nickname from your name too that you're
happy with, like Kimmothy is so getting on that. And
maybe you've got a common name that you hate.

Speaker 16 (01:13:59):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
The reason I started discussion was I'm saying there's been
a warning for people. Say, you know, they've published a
list of the most common names, and they say having
a common name is not always a good thing because
you go to a class and there's eight of you.
Hedn'try thought of that. So I'm just asking if it's
been a downside to you a Debbie Dowder have had
a common name. That's what I'm talking about tonight, Great,
good evening, Elaine. This is Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:14:23):
Hi, Marka's here. When I was born, Mama was a
home in the hospital with another lady next door to
her and her baby had died and called me Margaret,
and then the lady says to her, Oh, it's too
big a name for a little shold like that, because

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I must have been only tiny, which I still ave,
so it makes the difference. And then Mum said she'd
think about it, and that's her. I ended up with
my name Elian. Oh so because mom didn't like the Margaret,
or she did like the Margaret because she liked the
royal family.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
So were you named after the person that was that
had died next to her? Yeah, she was a Margaret.

Speaker 22 (01:15:07):
No, the lady that was next to her, her baby died. Yes,
and Margaret my name named for me Margaret because the
Princess Margaret for the royal family name.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
The name was nothing to do with the baby next door.

Speaker 22 (01:15:24):
It was the baby nixt door that died. She was sorry,
she was going to call her baby Elaine.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Copy. I understand that. Now that's perfect. So you'll called
Elaine after the baby that died. Yes, that's a nice story, Lane,
Thank you. Well, this is Marcus Nick. Good evening.

Speaker 33 (01:15:44):
Yeah, Marcus, Hey, just last week he had a couple
of couple of callers, Gary on Tuesday and Dave on
Friday to do it for the Greyhound Greyhound set and
Dave was a fellow who lived in the Becagary rung

(01:16:05):
up without the parking spots, and he mentioned that he
was a photographer for he traveled to christ Church for
the races. I'm a I'm a license greyhound owner. I
own own dogs and I just like to have a
big shout out for Dave. He doesn't know me and

(01:16:28):
I don't know him, but he took photos of my
my greyhound who who won one nineteen races. I never
got the same Sam race in person. So I'm I
live in the North Island and he slowly raced in

(01:16:49):
the South Island. And I think your show is great
and it's it's fantastic that.

Speaker 16 (01:16:57):
I was.

Speaker 33 (01:16:57):
I was listening to your show last week and could
her Dave and Gary talk and and it's it's it's
just neat that it's a it's a it's a small world.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
What was what was there of your dog one of
those races?

Speaker 33 (01:17:17):
So his race name was was High Dreamer. Yeah, his
race name was High Dreamer. His ken kennel name was Richie,
Richie Stuck. And he's he is retired on the couch.
He is he's living out his retirement here. I go

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down to why did.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
He race in a different islanders? Use it because of
the trainers in the South Island.

Speaker 33 (01:17:46):
Yeah, the trainer the trainer. I chose Mel Grant. He
trains in the South Island and I just always liked
him as a trainer and it was fantastic. He he
actually won his first racing in the Cargo and it

(01:18:09):
was it was fantastic. It's a great, great, great experience.
And he's living out his days days up here in
Taranaki now and my girls girls love nd the bits
and and take him for walks around town and people
look at him and and he's he's a strike striking dog,

(01:18:33):
but he's just a gentle giant and he's living out
his days. And you know that, Dave, you're listening. Shout
out to your man, like your photograph of my dog
a lot of times and I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:47):
How many how much in steaks for that dog, don't you?

Speaker 33 (01:18:52):
He won thirty six and a half thousand dollars for
his total stakes that was going back. He's been retired
for about five years now, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:19:07):
He's ten.

Speaker 33 (01:19:08):
He raced through to just before he was five when
he retired, and that the state state money is better
now there is is more more more state money on offer.
But he was a sprinter, so he just slowly ran

(01:19:29):
over the sprint races.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
That's that's that's a high owner, is it. That's a
lot of money.

Speaker 16 (01:19:38):
It was.

Speaker 33 (01:19:39):
Yeah. The dogs nowadays earn more you can. You can
some of the dogs now earn a really good good steakes.
But but it was good, good back then. Yeah, yeah,
it was good back then. It was just a huge
amount of fun. It was just and it just piqued

(01:20:02):
my interest when when Gary called on Thursday and Dave
on on Friday, and it was just I was drive
around in a truck on Friday when Dave called up
and when he mentioned to your Marcus that he was
the photographer, Well, this this is the guy the top
photos of my dog all these times. Good.

Speaker 3 (01:20:22):
Nice to hear from you. Thanks for making that call. Deck,
appreciate that. I'm Acuda. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:20:27):
Hello Max. It's good evening.

Speaker 20 (01:20:29):
Right.

Speaker 22 (01:20:30):
My name is Amakuda, and it's not a common name,
but I've had it for many years now, named after
my father's sister who died of a high datus. Would
you believe.

Speaker 23 (01:20:44):
Wow, one before.

Speaker 22 (01:20:45):
That died also, and I didn't know what the cause was.
But I always used to think, oh, not always, but
often used to think, well, I'm I next. You know,
one of my day is that I'm still going.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Did you say she died? Did you say she died
at six?

Speaker 22 (01:21:02):
Yes, I'm the last Amacura did. Yes, but many years
ago now, So I'll just go through what I get
and over the years what I've gotten, And the good
news is that that people now, you know, if I
go for appointments, people will always have a good go at,
the particularly professionals, have a good go at, you know,

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pronouncing my name, whereas years ago they didn't. So my
name is Armakarrah, and that's really mostly what I've always
been called, but correctly pronounced Muda. I get Armo, I
get Armor, I get Ama, and then I get the
last part of my name, Kua khoa. And when I

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was also growing up and the boys used to call
me by my surname, thy luis hey ty leuis like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
Well, that's quite hard. That's quite heartening that people are
now making the effort. Where did people start kind of
getting it right? Has that been within the last decade
or longer than that?

Speaker 22 (01:22:07):
Yes, certainly in the last decade, yes, No, No, further
back than that market, Yeah, and it's school.

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Did teachers did keep did teachers try with it or
was it always kind of?

Speaker 22 (01:22:19):
I went to the last of the native schools in
the that'd be good. And even though the school teacher
was English, he pronounced my name well, you know, not
many people pronounced it armor kudas, which is the correct pronunciation.
And yeah, I know, I always know who's who I'm
talking to on the phone, who's ringing me up? Because

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the way they pronounced my name.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Is it has it become a more common Christian name now.

Speaker 22 (01:22:47):
A lot more common, I think than when I was born.
I did.

Speaker 7 (01:22:52):
I do know that.

Speaker 22 (01:22:53):
I did know that there was one person, at least
one person, and that was a few years ago in
the North Island with it, and in the South Island.
I think someone named their child after me, or you know,
they didn't know the name till I heard mine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
It's a very nice sounding it's a very nice sounding name,
isn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:23:12):
Well, yes, people say that I just was born with it,
but all different variations truly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
And I guess with names like that, I don't know
much about the situation with multi names. Will imagine probably
it's not It's not the thing to shorten them, is it.

Speaker 22 (01:23:29):
No, not normally. But my friends in our school, you know,
mostly at school, that's where it all started. It was
shortened from there onwards. And then my my you know,
as I grew up teenager and older, my friends did
shorten it. But a lot of people don't. And and
particularly now they you know, they keep they look for

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it and think about it and pronounce it pretty good because.

Speaker 24 (01:23:57):
They are professional.

Speaker 22 (01:23:59):
People will come out and on the way back into
their rooms, they'll say, did.

Speaker 34 (01:24:02):
I pronounce that right?

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Is that as they should? It's just curtesy, isn't it.
But you know, I guess for a long time it
was too difficult for us because there were new sounds,
weren't they.

Speaker 6 (01:24:12):
But that's yeah, that's great and it never bothered me.

Speaker 22 (01:24:15):
But as I say, I always know who's talking to
me because the way they pronounced my name.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Love you to hear from you. Thanks so much for
coming to I'm a eighteen past ten, hold your horse
from there on, hold on, get to you soon, Beck
in a bit twenty past ten, Lauri, it's I suppose
you're a Lawrence? Are you Lorry?

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:24:34):
No, I'm definitely a Lorry.

Speaker 14 (01:24:36):
I did.

Speaker 18 (01:24:36):
It's a lot of people at school they always want
to write down. Write it down is Lawrence, But it's
actually the surname of one of my grandmothers apparently. Yeah,
that's where that came from. But yeah, I've been happy
enough with that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
You can't shorten, you can't. I suppose the only thing
is short has Laza.

Speaker 18 (01:25:00):
Yeah, I get that occasionally. But hey, congratulations on your
polling result.

Speaker 3 (01:25:07):
There, thanks Laza.

Speaker 18 (01:25:09):
Yeah, did you how did you come in the pecking
order from you know, your previous time that you you stood?

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Okay, I stood once in a by election. Yeah, and
I got about eight hours. The next person was about
not many at all.

Speaker 18 (01:25:27):
Yeah, okay, And and.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
That was the first time I've stood with every with everyone.

Speaker 9 (01:25:32):
So oh oh.

Speaker 18 (01:25:34):
They're still still You're still up on the eight thousand
mark basically, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
Yeah, and they're still looking. They're still counting vote too,
I think probably. And look, I don't know if the
order you come and means anything to so yeah, I
don't really know much about I've to have meetings with
people and stuff, so I'll tell you more about that.

Speaker 18 (01:25:48):
But it was interesting that you mentioned nicknames. And I
see it looks like in some cases you're allowed to
have the option of having your your your your nickname
attached on the voting if you look, if you look
in your in the licensing trusts or election down in

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the cargo. Two people missed out. There was one, a
guy called Big Daddy.

Speaker 3 (01:26:17):
Oh yes, yes, that's just the point. He didn't get
aim actually because he's very good at the basketball. He
does all the he's the DJ at the basketball, does
all the does all the hypes the crowd. He's a
he's a very credible person. He should have got it actually,
So yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:26:29):
Well, especially if he had his his nickname then. And
there's another guy, Ronnie had his nickname as well. But
one one guy that did get elected Kai Hawksey. Oh yes, yes, yes,
so he put your nickname.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Are you very interested in that? You're interested in the
cargo results?

Speaker 18 (01:26:47):
I just cruiser Suzanne Prentice.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
On the Yeah, yeah, they don't go don't go away.

Speaker 18 (01:26:53):
Pretty sort of after position there on the Arcenin trust obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
Well, a lot of pokem money. I think they've got
ninety million dollars to give away or nine million. How
they give away a lot of money every year.

Speaker 18 (01:27:05):
Yeah, yeah, very important.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
I think well I think you can give you I
think you certainly have some say in the groups that
get it, which would be I amasedly pretty contentious.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
Oh yeah, yeah for.

Speaker 18 (01:27:14):
But mcdaddy sort of on the air. The only I
see amongst the councilor is the only one that actually
put her or she put her initials up as an
optional name.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
C J said Jasper. She came.

Speaker 18 (01:27:25):
They had last anyway on the writing. But you're quite
quite high. I guess something like forty four percent voting
down there down there from the sound of it, that's
fin Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
I did say it's least from last year, but it's
it's it is high.

Speaker 18 (01:27:40):
I did glance at the Hokatika one. I had lived
in Hokaticker in the past, but they were up around fifty,
well over fifty five. But there was an interesting name there,
a surname of somebody called the surname was in I
n oh, you wow. And this Christian name was Flow.
It could be male or female. I don't I don't

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think they got elected. I think they might have missed
out flow the yeah anyway, and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
What interesting enough. I do know too that that you
probably know this, but I know. And the Indo Cago
elections on the voting poll, the order is randomized, so
you know, if you're if you're Alan Aardvark, you know
you're not at the top of this the whole time.
They randomize it, so people just tip the top name.

Speaker 18 (01:28:24):
I just wanted to know. I think they do the
wrong air ones too. But I see the guy, you know,
Steve Broad, I mean, he was polled the most by
considerable amount. Yeah, so whether he must be well known or.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
I believed because it'd been on it's been on, it'd
been on an X Factor or something, and it was
on one of those ones you know where he's saying,
I think that's right, saying pretty well, I forget what
it was.

Speaker 18 (01:28:49):
So the clerk that stood that wasn't Nobby?

Speaker 16 (01:28:52):
Was it?

Speaker 18 (01:28:52):
That was his brother? Was it that?

Speaker 8 (01:28:54):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
His brothers? And Nelson?

Speaker 18 (01:28:57):
Yeah, you know he's apparently stood for two places. Nelson.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why you would.

Speaker 18 (01:29:04):
So Nobby's all done there, Eh attacked them?

Speaker 11 (01:29:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (01:29:09):
Oh very good.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Yeah, you've had some you've had some good week in
reading reading all the results around that, you know, good
democracy reporter, just blessing and no, I just how was
Palmerston North the usual suspects?

Speaker 35 (01:29:23):
No?

Speaker 18 (01:29:23):
Actually, yeah, they did return a hell of a lot
of the counselors in the same mayor. Yeah. Uh, it
was pretty business as usual. Yeah, not no surprises, no.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
One bringing, no one bringing the plane back through the square,
the train back through the square or anything interesting.

Speaker 18 (01:29:36):
Are they nothing quite that traumatic? No? The big contentious
was all the divergence they put on feathers and streets stay.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Changing successfully or unsuccessfully.

Speaker 18 (01:29:50):
Well, well it's it's depends what time the day you're
down there. I certainly noticed that pre election those that
had apposed that were making it pretty clear that they
had to pos it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Yeah, so what has it gone one way? Or are
there perfect.

Speaker 18 (01:30:09):
They put bus stops in the boody in the lanes.
You know, it's a real bottleneck, and you've got a supermarket,
and you've got McDonald's and the biggest one of the
busiest intersections in the south at Lower North Island, and
you know, a couple of schools all bunched up together,
and you're really good at a hell of a bottleneck
that was supposedly, I think, put it there to really

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have cycle safety if first kids coming to going from school.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
But which sounds like it sounds like a fairly worthy
thing to keep the cyclist safe, doesn't it?

Speaker 18 (01:30:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, I avoid that. I've found another
way to go.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
Basically that makes sense.

Speaker 18 (01:30:52):
It's political.

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Yeah, okay, Lawrence, I bet to let you go twenty
seven past teen. Keep your calls coming in. Haven't heard
anyone called Pip for Philip? Maybe old fashioned for today?
Cheers David. Someone says, probably all the compulsory m all
the papers university level, behind all those professionals putting in
for the pronunciation of maldi names. Sees how the best
approach the Maori people with effort in the field manna
enhancing when you give people's name a good crack Marcus,

(01:31:17):
my name is Tanya. I absolutely hate it. Into One
of my flatmates when I was in my twenties could
never pronounce it. To call me Tony, and it's stuck
ever since. I used to get mistaken for Tani, which
was com the late sixties. When I was born. A
few people spelled Tony with a y, which makes me laugh.
There are four Olivia's and three Noah's in my daughter's class.
It's really a problem. People love her names with lots

(01:31:39):
of vowels, and now don't they Marcus. Name is Matthew
or matt Friends know me as Mattress. Just tune. Are
you talking and you are talking names. My mum's name
was Magritha Margaretha and wait, her middle name was Nessen
spell it back to front. It wouldn't matters. She absolite,
you hated both. So shorten her name to writ from

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Margaretha to writ. So me and everyone else knew her
as any other name, but that she decided children were
not going to have We're going to have one syllable names,
hence Fay and Joy. God help me. Then the baby
came along Terence, which got shortened to Terry, cheers Joy Marcus.
On the common names my mother, grandmother, and great aunt,

(01:32:23):
the first name is all Elizabeth. I'll get to better
my ex mother in Laura's stepsister. Plus my stepdaughter's middle
names are also Elizabeth. My name is Patrick Patty to
friends and pat at work. Marcus. Jemimah is a family
name given to the oldest grandchild, So there's a lot
of ina, ina mina minus in the family name in
the family tree. I see it's short for as Jemimah.

(01:32:44):
My grandmother refused to call my mum Jemimah, and didn't
want to insult her in laws further, so I didn't
give Mama a second name. She's Dorothy, which is shortened
to Dorry or dot. I was supposed to be Jemima
was called Jennifer and it wasn't to be shortened. But
my older brother called me Denny. At teachers College too
are five Gennys in the English class. We called our
son Eaton and when he was at jazz school he

(01:33:06):
thanked us for his unusual name. Everyone everyone knows him
in the Wellington jazz scene. He's named after Ayrton Senner.
Our surname is Foot and believe it or not, there's
an Ayrton Boot the same age. Marcus, my husband and
I can't seem to find out who was elected the
mayor of Total Long And do you know if Mahi
Dry's Dale was re elected? Is he moved there? That's

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a good point you make about that. Do they have
elections or was it it might have fallen out of
the ring. No, I can't work out why that's a
good point you've made, because why can't doesn't that come
up straight away? I've got preliminary results here. I don't
know why there's not more results about that Cambridge. I

(01:33:50):
look up tot on election results. I don't know why
that's hard to find, because you're right, I don't hear
anything about that either, unless they've because I know they
had statutory managers that might they might be in a
different term. I don't think they would be, though there's
not one. This year was certainly the twentieth of July

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last year, so the next election is twenty twenty eight.
So they're out of sync because of the they had
a and Tolly was doing. They had an appointed administrator,
so they're out of sync with the cycles. They should
reintegrate that. That's what's happening there. Twenty five away from eleven.
This is Marcus how A. What's happening Marcus the young
UNI student in the nineties. I learned about networking. My

(01:34:32):
name was a common mumbler changed his spelling so people
would ask me how I spelled. It worked every time
they only repeated my name, but never forgot it. Oh,
so it's good to have an unusual spelling of your name,
like Steve with a P or something like that. Uh huh.
Twenty five to eleven, twenty three to eleven. Surely it's Marcus.

Speaker 6 (01:34:54):
Good evening, Hello Marcus, and before I sat, congratulations on
you're well deserved a local body election.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Thank you, Shirley.

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
I'm an Ardent fan since my husband died and you've
actually don't know it, but you've taken his place in
the bedroom on the floor. So thank you for that.
You've filled in a huge part of my life.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
So when you say on the floor, is the radio
on the floor.

Speaker 6 (01:35:21):
No, the radio is on the bed, but you're on.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
The floor, I've got to understand that. Okay, thank you
very nicely. Yes.

Speaker 6 (01:35:28):
Now the other thing is, have you ever noticed how
sportsmen always say sbl Sonny Bill Williams. They never ever
call him Sonny Bill. They always used.

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
And a lot of players have three names, Like there's
RTS Roger Tavasak, and there's a lot of them have
the three I quite like it.

Speaker 6 (01:35:51):
They just used Like our friend KR Tremaine, he was
never ever called Tremaine. He was always called Kr. And
Peter Williams was always called Pete W. So all the
sportsmen always just I don't know whether it's lazy and
us or whether it's just a common thing among sportsmen.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
I'll be the commentators need to save time with long
names or something.

Speaker 6 (01:36:14):
Maybe. Anyway, thank you for your magic program, well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Prepa, thank you for your support studio. That means a
lot to me that I'm on the floor. That's for God.
Thank you. Twenty one away from eleven Headle twelve. Yes,
oftenly I've had I don't like my initials m L.
They're not really that they're not catch your initials. I
think el to it of a dud surname letter L
because you can be JT or kat or if it's
a tea or a rhyming thing to it is rhyme.

(01:36:38):
That's good. My kid's having got great initials either actually
not nicknameable. Marcus and the sixty to School with Juliandrews.
The Ullbecks played against Harry Potter a couple of weeks.
So that's why I saw that with Harry Potter, which
was weird because he must have been a well, he

(01:36:59):
must have been named after the books came out. Marcus.
I'm born in ninet eighty nine. My parents gave me
a middle name, Lama, after a song buscar when he
was sinking about lonely. Lama used to hate the name,
but now I don't mind. I've never met anyone else
with it. Someone says a number of family and friends
who named their son after me. What's your name, Marcus.

(01:37:22):
My mum's name was Pansy Violet Mayrose, Glastonbury. My dad
said it was too much to fit on a marriage
certificate since you changed your name to Patricia Violet and
no election in total Long and that's their out of sink,
it's their journey. I don't know if he's moved as

(01:37:43):
he moved to tot Long he yet he brought the house.
I don't know if he's moved there. Lasso whod was
paying for the coffees. I think that was a big
story for the local news. If you want to be
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of it. The hostages are all have all been released,
and Donald Trump is in Israel. Yeah, so I'm not

(01:38:32):
entirely sure why he's there, but there's certainly been a
lot of photo opportunities. He did sign a book and
a giant sharpie to say this is my great honor
a great and beautiful day and new beginning with that
very familiar signature that we know from the Epstein birthday book.
Oh yeah, make of that what you will anyhow, Hettel twelve,

(01:38:56):
let's be hearing from you. There's something different. You want
to talk about romance from twelve if y? I so
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the cannesset A positive pronounced that wrong as I'm looking

(01:39:18):
at it. I'm sure it's got some strange pronunciation. But yeah,
I'll find that up at one day. And unless global
heating is reduced to one point two degrees as fast
as possible, warm water coral reefs will not remain at
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named their child her name or put her name is
the middle name. Her name is a n et pronounced Annetti.
And with me and all of my siblings, we have
a full we have all we all have to have
an R in our name because she says it's a
strong letter. Wow. I have four siblings. Our names are Henry,

(01:40:24):
which is me, then Eleanora, Rasasia, Elvira, Margo and that
all of us. By the way, has anyone got a
family with themed names? Like all the names are the
same letter, all the names are animals or anything like
that or flowers. Theme families are of interest to me.
While I was studying Aukland udiosa driver around a yellow
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(01:40:45):
down to me. And because the unimpressiveness of this, oh wow,
I won't read the rest of it because it's profane,
but yeah, appreciate that, Mike, thank you. Getting closer and
closer to Christmas. How's it going to be for those

(01:41:06):
on the keito diet doesn't work? And how did avocados
become carbos? Are they carbos?

Speaker 14 (01:41:12):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:41:15):
I don't know. The avocados were full of carbohydrates. It's
fourteen to eleven. If you want to be a part
of it. Welcome this day and history. Fifteen years ago,
what happened fifteen years are the emails working?

Speaker 11 (01:41:30):
Then?

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
Fifteen years ago those miners that were stuck down the
mine and Chile were released. They were the ones that
came out and the capture. I think it was live
on TV. It was exciting to watch. Have we had
five Davids yet today it was just two? Someone said
it might be two, felt like five. We're having Filma.
This is Marcus.

Speaker 23 (01:41:52):
Welcome, Hi Marcus with Thelma back. How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
Thank you Thelma.

Speaker 23 (01:41:58):
I just wanted to say, well.

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
Job, well done, thank you.

Speaker 23 (01:42:03):
I would leave the twenty one years and I know
what it's like. I wanted to I also wanted to
say to you that I think it's time that the
cities of the South Island got together and give some
of the right rule rump up over this way you
have to vote, and how long it takes for the
people that are waiting to get the results when we

(01:42:24):
all used to do our own.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
I can't believe everybody. I can't believe. I can't believe
how how slow it's It's ridiculous. And and there's been
people on and people off. So they send them to
christch Do there's that your understanding?

Speaker 23 (01:42:37):
They send them to christ Church, we reform, We fall
lairs out really quickly. I think you might have got
a few bits from my mates around here and we
make sure that they got there. And they were still
sending them to christ Urich on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:42:58):
If they send them to christ Etach on Saturday, why
can't they not be out until Wednesday? I can't understand it.

Speaker 23 (01:43:04):
It was one that when that's the final, when it
comes out next week, that's what everybody's got. And I
think it's I think it's appalling the way that they
criticized the rate payer for not doing these things, and
when they do them, they don't keep their end up.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
Well, you lose it, lose the bang of the result
if you've got it, if you can't. It's just ridiculous
because I would think, and I think I would think
they would they would that because they come in earlier.
I know in national elections they count the votes earlier,
So why wouldn't they start counting. I mean, if it's mechanized,

(01:43:43):
they could probably do that. It's all they're going to
do is count those ones on the day and then
the special ones.

Speaker 23 (01:43:49):
Yeah, Well, I started voting years ago when when amyor
Paul was alive, and I remember the first place I
ever went to was a was the old building that's
just been on fire, the Brisco building, and they had
they had a You went in there and you voted
and knee and they had everything just sort of like

(01:44:09):
they do for the national you know, the and it
was it was very successful and everybody turned out. But
then it's going into this and now they're saying they're
going to do something else. Now, when we had one
of the things for the earlier on the share or

(01:44:29):
last year, I should say I think it was might
even be longer than that. Time goes so fast for
people to vote for you had to do it on
the computer. Now, I've had a computer in those days
because I needed it for my accouncil work. It was
my own and I had heats of people come around

(01:44:51):
here because they didn't have one. And the whole thing
just spell over the Department of Statistics thing that they
were doing for that year because hard to anybody, they
don't take into account there is people that can't afford
a computer. That's people me that are now granified and
finish their day and get rid of mine because I'm

(01:45:13):
I'm just stuck to a phone and it just doesn't work.
You cannot get people to do it on a contender.
Let's go back to the old ways that worked.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
Back to the old days of polling votes. At least
that wasn't a sense event for people.

Speaker 23 (01:45:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. I'm really pleased to got in
any way. And if my aching body are all obviously,
I might trot up to the council the night just
all get sworn in and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
Lovely to see a family, Thanks so much for that.
Fifteen past eleven, Hello, sell one, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Yeah, Marcus on the Sidney Shop, which to me is
a bit of a lame program. There was an article.
There was an article, Well, I before I go any further,
don't give up your night job, please. The best thing
going at the moment. There's an article about a young

(01:46:10):
woman with a pet ram. I think it was called
Kelvin or Kevin or something like that. And when I
looked up, I turned this sound. When I looked up,
he was bunting a bucket and she was playing with
us ram as if she was a matador and swing

(01:46:30):
through bunt the bucket and then she'd swing back around
and had bunt the bucket like a matador with a cape. Well,
she's a slight woman. I don't know if she's got
children or not, but she's got to get rid of
that buddy Ram. Yeah, bloody killer. Yeah, Okay, we talk
about them. There's an elderly couple in Northland that got.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
Hin They weren't here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
I had a sister in law who got killed by
a pet ram three years ago. It was seven or
eight year old Ram and knocked her over in the
garden and she got the boys, her sons to get
rid of it, and they took it out the back
of the farm. But anyway, they went away for the
weekend and she went out the back to shift some

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sheep for them. She got out of the side by
side open the gate. This Ram come up to her,
knocked her over and beat her to death and killed
her in the paddock, and she wasn't discovered till the
boys come home next day. And that woman has just
got to get rid of that thing otherwise it'll kill her.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
You should probably call it. Yeah, I'm just going to
look at it because that's yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
And then she bent down to kiss it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
Oh that's not.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
And she was right face to face with it, and
that Rams. They ain't got to lurch forward a few
mills and she'll had broken eye, sockets, broken teeth, broken
mouth broke and lived in concussion or whatever. They got
the power of a ryanoceros, those bloody things. Yeah, worked
on farms them. I've had them wake me in the
side of the leg and give me a Charlie and

(01:48:09):
you can't walk for a bloody week. So it's been
warning me all like that program and I.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
Clearly have you seen it, Dan, have you seen the stories?
To our producer, Yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
I's got to get hold of her, just give it
to the butcher and turned it into bloody sausages or something.
It's just it's been warring me all night. And I
didn't want to interrupt your program at.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, it's important. It's important that
you actually said that, because that's because yeah, look, we've
done shows on RAMS and I've got a Ram that
I'm not well going to Ram that's quite young, but
the neighbors looking after him for a while because I've
got a different paddock for my sheep. But it's kind
of having the top peddic on his own. But then
I thought, well, I'm up there a lot. I didn't
want to ram on his own.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
So no, he'll knock you down too, Pitt's dad. They're killers.
I'm telling you, she's got to get rid of it
for Christ's sake. You just don't know when striking if
it knocks her down.

Speaker 30 (01:49:10):
She was.

Speaker 3 (01:49:12):
The lifestyle kind of a block that she had.

Speaker 16 (01:49:14):
Was it, Well, I resume it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
But you said her on a farm, so it sort
of had me baffled. I thought, yeah, but she's quite
a young woman. Oh no, just scared me. All life
be worrying me. I can't even go to boody sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
Okay, yeah, I'll find it some more. Some stuff to
say about the ram cut. Appreciate you on that, so
and thanks for that. Eleven two. Christ's Marcus. Good evening, Oh,
good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 36 (01:49:44):
Just listening to the gentleman that was clearly upset about
givin the ram or the sheep. I watched it on
seven sharp tonight and the lady actually raised it in
the home and inside on the sofa from a lamb,
So I don't know if he was aware of that
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:50:03):
I think they probably makes it. I think they probably
makes it worse. Yes, well, I don't know if the
if they if they're used to it. It's the ones
that have been kept as pets that go quicker.

Speaker 36 (01:50:13):
I think, oh, raising sheep like he sounded in yourself
even but I just thought, how did it end up
like that? When it was raised like a kitten or something,
you know, or puppies, you.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
Know, if they're raised like that. That's the ones that
go real bad, are the pet ones because they identify
they're trying to play with humans who they kill them?

Speaker 36 (01:50:35):
Oh really, That's what struck me watching it at the time.
So I thought it would have been the other way around,
like more lovable and not do that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
No, oh no, that's dangerous. She just just looks. She
just looks like I'm just watching it now. She's a
young looking thing too.

Speaker 36 (01:50:54):
Yeah, well, I don't know how many well she she's
a slight woman, but I don't know how many other
people would be around that same sheep or was it
a ram or a sheep.

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
Said it was a ram?

Speaker 8 (01:51:08):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:51:09):
Anyway.

Speaker 36 (01:51:11):
I have heard the stories of people being attacked by
their own pets killed by the name.

Speaker 3 (01:51:17):
Oh that doesn't it looks looking at it looks really sketchy.

Speaker 36 (01:51:22):
I'd say unpredictable and I wouldn't like it around young children.

Speaker 23 (01:51:26):
No, was a feral dog.

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
Yeah, particularly fielding it for the Instagram HTS. Thanks Chris Jenus,
Good evening, Hull.

Speaker 35 (01:51:37):
What another story about another ram? My uncle on his farm.
They did have a pet ram who was allowed in
the paddock close to the house. So one weekend my
uncle washed the ute because it was all covered in mud,
and he went back into the house to have a
cup of tea. Then he heard the strange something noise,

(01:51:58):
and of course the ram had seen his reflection in
the car door had attack. He attacked the whole side
of the car and your tremendous damage, a huge panel beating, Bill,
because you just entered the whole side of the car
where he saw this reflection and saw that it was an
invader on towards sutory.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
Did you see the show tonight?

Speaker 35 (01:52:24):
No, I didn't have only heard what's been seen on
your program.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
Yeah. What color was the car to reflict like that?

Speaker 8 (01:52:30):
I wonder that was white?

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
You must have done that, Okay, appreciate that Jennis. Thank you,
you're Dave, Marcus, welcome on.

Speaker 16 (01:52:40):
They're known to butt heads, aren't they, the old ram.

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah yeah, and they've got a solid
air's skull, so.

Speaker 16 (01:52:49):
Hard heads Marcus that like myself now the teachers trt
goodness me. Surely students' education should come first, Marcus. Now,
congratulations Donald Trump and and you yourself with making a
counsel law, what is your goal do you wish to achieve?
Marcus as a counselor.

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
I don't think. I don't think. I don't think this
is the forum for that, to be honest, Dave.

Speaker 16 (01:53:15):
But I'm interested or is it just a learning caves
for you?

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
No, No, I've been on there. I've been on there
for a year before, so it's king.

Speaker 8 (01:53:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:53:25):
Yeah, oh I didn't realize that.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
Yeah yeah, it was a long story, but I'll explain
it to you one time.

Speaker 16 (01:53:30):
Well, I just wonder whether it's a part time gig
or what sort of hours a week? And I'm just interested.

Speaker 3 (01:53:38):
Yeah, I think I think they have meetings about at
these they have meetings once a month, the council meetings,
and then they broke it up. I think now they
have meetings about three times a month. But then there's
other subcommittees as well. It depends on which subcommittees you
are on, but most counselors have full time jobs as well.

Speaker 16 (01:53:56):
Yes, I won't ask to pay. It's probably none of
my business, and you tell me that it's none of
my business. But anyhow, you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Could probably look up I think the remuner I don't
know what the remuneration is actually, but I know we're
about thereabouts kind of where it is.

Speaker 16 (01:54:12):
I'm not really that interested. I'm just curious to know, mate,
And I wish if you, if you have a goal
or something you wish to achieve with change or whatever else,
then I hope it goes well for you. And well
done Donald Trump. Someone's going to give him some sort
of because I don't care. I don't care. I know
everyone in an old station wants to bag him, but

(01:54:32):
I think them, good on them, a jolly good show.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Well, he's certainly, he's certainly, he's certainly dominating the new
cycle today. There's the standing ovation after standing ovation in
the Canesset and everywhere. He's Yeah, he certainly knew what
exception he was going to get and was there pretty
quickly to get it. So yep.

Speaker 16 (01:54:51):
Well, well at least they were those hostages and whatever
else the prisons.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
And they're already out. Did you vote, David, you get
involved in your election?

Speaker 16 (01:55:01):
Yes, absolutely, and went the right way, the good way.
Major and co who is very well, he's good for
the city. I think he's got us his heart in
the right place and he wants he do good for
christ Church City.

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
And can I just take a moment to just acknowledge
that everyone that christ churches flavor of the month. Every
day you pick up an article about people saying that
christ Church is the pick of the cities and moving
there and what they've done. Right, Boy, it's come right,
hasn't it.

Speaker 16 (01:55:30):
Well, I don't think it was ever wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:55:33):
Well, there was a quake, yes see, I know I
looked through it. In the picking up here.

Speaker 16 (01:55:40):
In the east, they're picking up. We've got the hot
pools and a lot whatever else and things in the
east here, and rightfully so we deserve it and a
bit of But I think christ Chi is on the
up and up.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
And you know, entirely, Dave, who was whose vision were
those hot polls? Because it doesn't sound like a great vision.
But boy, the way they carry that off was great.
I thought they're fantastic.

Speaker 16 (01:56:03):
They are, absolutely and I've joined there years membership and
I'm pleased I had. I can walk there from my place.
It's just out of two kilometers and it's kept clean
and it's always busy. It's generally booked out at two
hour time slots, and it's an absolute victory. It's a
wind for us in the East and well deserved. And

(01:56:23):
I'll tell you what, Marcus, We've got the big pools
opening up in the center of town later next month,
I believe. But my thinking is, Marcus, we could have
got almost five of these hot pools for their price
of that one. And I'm thinking, you know what I mean,
I'm not angry yet at all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Whose idea envision were those hot pools?

Speaker 16 (01:56:47):
I'll have to look there.

Speaker 3 (01:56:48):
I don't.

Speaker 16 (01:56:50):
I am interested, no, But at the end of the day,
it doesn't really matter because it has been a win
in the victory for us in the Eastern Land, for
christ Edge as a whole.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
Yeah, okay, I agree entirely, Dave. And I was skeptical.
I thought, well, there's no hot springs. Why would you
build hot pool when there's hog to spring? So we
went last year, and what they did is during COVID
they limited the people that could go there and you
had to book. But it worked so well they kept

(01:57:20):
going that way, so it's not crowded and you kind
of know where you're going to go and what you're
going to get. Works very well. Incredibly impressed by it
because you're out there and people talk to you too.
It's it's it's a it's a nice vibe. Yeah, I
thought was great. Hitting back there next month, Dot Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 34 (01:57:37):
Hi there, Marcus. I've had a ram. It was a pet.
We reinherited it, but it would always go for the
males for men.

Speaker 3 (01:57:49):
Yeah, and going quite a dangerous way.

Speaker 14 (01:57:53):
Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 9 (01:57:55):
You're quite right.

Speaker 34 (01:57:56):
They're not safe to have them improperly. The ones that
retain are probably more you know, I'm more inclined to
do to do that. Nothing, But like the gentlemen said,
their heads are.

Speaker 26 (01:58:12):
So so tough.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:58:15):
Yeah, And did you see the story tonight on TV dit.

Speaker 34 (01:58:19):
I didn't catch quite all of it. I was doing
something in the kitchen when I played, so I may
may reminded myself when it was twenty past eight to
go back on one plus one and half a lot
when I missed a.

Speaker 3 (01:58:36):
Bit of it, well even from a quick watch of
it that even right now, the ram is really ramming
into her, I mean, and she's sort of enjoying it
and milking it a bit to put on her social media.
But it's yeah, it's it's terrible to watch dop but
thank you for that. Twenty nine to twelve, Hello Colin,
This is Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:58:54):
Good evening, Greatcus.

Speaker 37 (01:58:57):
Just a quick wirrel of the names. I'm Colin Ross.
My wife when they are you know, this was born,
wanted to name him Colin also after my father who
was Roy. So we had a Colin Ross and a
Colin Roy. Didn't sing anything on until we got a
bit older and he started to get mailed at our address.
You have two crs, you know, with the last the

(01:59:18):
same last name. Ye, just a minor thing, so.

Speaker 31 (01:59:21):
Just be careful.

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
So tell me what what the what the end up is.

Speaker 37 (01:59:26):
He was, I was Colin Ross and he's a Colin
Roy with both bocotton obviously, but so with the mail
and things like that, and.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
I see so you got the same you've got the
same initials.

Speaker 37 (01:59:42):
Yeah, So he started as junior and unknown as senior.

Speaker 3 (01:59:45):
Yeah, that makes sense. So that's that's something we're thinking about,
isn't it.

Speaker 37 (01:59:49):
But it's bullying and sort of a time, but you
know we were young and and sort of stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:59:53):
Hey on the.

Speaker 37 (01:59:54):
Rams, my wife has got the kind of soul she
will find a truck chapter the eggs out of the
mess because you know, the chickens can't get out, and she'
rescue the chickens out of the nest and kill mother anything.
And she's just got the kind of soul. Of course,
we had a Ram ram Lamb doing suis. He was

(02:00:17):
actually competigory Ram Lamb, and we were supposed to take
his pools out but never got around to it, of course,
because he produced some beautiful, beautiful stop for us just
on our twenty acre block. But of course, being a
pet Ram, as he grew he became a real problem.

Speaker 8 (02:00:34):
And you know.

Speaker 37 (02:00:35):
He had heard fear of you as one that lady
will fight out sooner related either to a detriment or
to a fashionee or something like that. Hopefully it's something
that made you. But you know, you can think they're
as fremely as anything that well it is it's just
a natural instinct and you could not turn your back
on this Ram did have you a flat on your
back before you realized that he'd take your legs out

(02:00:55):
from underneath end and pe out on the ground, and
you know, asked like he could. He bought me a
couple of times from behind. And I'm a big strong
bugercause they would have wrest leaned down, but you know
a slight.

Speaker 15 (02:01:07):
Woman would have he would have.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
It's just slide. Yeah, so yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 37 (02:01:15):
No, no, sorry, but I totally agree with the guy round up.
I know this was very very worried that sort of stuff.
You know, you can't tell the young ones. She won't
listen until you know, and I happened to her. People
can tell her until she's flow in the face, but
she probably won't listen. She'll think everybody's talk a whole
lot of who and who. Ram, we're going to do
that to her. But it's like balls. You know, we've

(02:01:37):
raised balls on the place, and you know, raise them
to sell them, and you know the farmers have bought them. Said,
you know that the most beautiful animals, that quiet, that
passive biking, you can't turn your back on them because
I don't see it and you know, it's the same
with any of the you know, the males camp or bulls,
or or rams or anything like that. But she'll find

(02:02:00):
out the hard way.

Speaker 3 (02:02:02):
Nice to hear from your colin. Here's another text. I
just watched the ram video. He knew not girl over
and needs a bullet. When you rare farm animals like
family members, they have no respect the ram. That ram
will be full on. They have heads like concrete which
they used to ram. Other males easily kill the young woman.
V Knox her over had a pet ram battle one
of my nieces that went in his panic. She was

(02:02:23):
lucky he got her out. I am a sheep and
beef farmer. Handrailed cattle hand red cattle can be similarly aggressive.
Cheers Sharon. Yeah, wow, I've found it quite disturbing just
for the but ia of it. We had a sheep
teather in our courtyard and Morocco. I just baked some
cookies which were calling on the kitchen bench. All of

(02:02:45):
a sudden there was a mighty bang and glass when
everywhere the ram had seen it's reflection in the mirror.
Had to throw away all the cookies, clean up the glass,
and get a new window. Elizabeth chris is email about
the pools at Brighton. The man who had the dream
and pursued it for years was Jim Reed. He lived
opposite where the pools are now. Unfortunately died before seeing

(02:03:11):
them built. His widow lived in the home until recently.
Hear my father Dennis Blakelear on the Peer and Foreshore
Committee for years. They ran the Sad Day Chocolate Wheel
and them all to raise funds. They were both English.
Had wonderful times with them talking real cockney. That's from Chris.
Thanks Chris. I tried everything in the great Library there
on the Peer than they had the Peer itself or

(02:03:32):
the Peer then the library. But yeah, nothing's galvanized like
that has remarkable and boyd Dave's testament to that. It's
got Dave walking two k's there. He's a life member
or annual member. Brilliant. Good evening. And this is Marcus.

Speaker 11 (02:03:48):
Welcome, Hi Marcus, yes week.

Speaker 14 (02:03:52):
The man that rang out before that was so admant
about people having to get rid of the ram. I
can't agree more. We inherited one. This is years ago
and it was a pet lamb. But we didn't know
much about sheep back then.

Speaker 6 (02:04:11):
We had a bit.

Speaker 14 (02:04:12):
We had four about four acres, and we used to
run about just half a dozen sheep as lawnmis really,
so we got this ram name and his name was Barney. Well,
he got my husband. He bowled him over one day,
and my husband was a big man. But then he

(02:04:34):
took a liking to me as well. And I'd be
helping my husband. He used to wreck cars and things
down the back. And one day we were down the
back and I was just helping him and.

Speaker 20 (02:04:48):
Trip.

Speaker 14 (02:04:48):
My husband goes better, look out, and here comes Barny.
And Barney had come around the corner of the shed
and spotted me, and well, I looked around for something.
I spotted a bonnet of a car. I picked up
this bonnet and I held it in front of me. Well,

(02:05:08):
he's trying to get at me. Was struck through the bonnet.
But he didn't get me, of course, But but he
did get me one day, and he got me in
the side of the league, and honestly, the whole from
my knee to my hip was absolutely purple. And no,

(02:05:29):
anyone should never have.

Speaker 11 (02:05:31):
A ram lame.

Speaker 14 (02:05:32):
They're just so dangerous.

Speaker 3 (02:05:34):
Did you get rid of did did you get rid
of an inn?

Speaker 14 (02:05:37):
Oh, yes, yes we did. We gave it to someone
that had a farm, you know, that had a big farm.
And so, oh no, you can't never have a ram
lamb for a pet.

Speaker 3 (02:05:50):
And did you see the story tonight?

Speaker 9 (02:05:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
I didn't, no, because I think if you saw it
you'd be really surprised at how aggressive the ram was
already with it. I didn't hear the story. And I
presume it was a ram. It might have been as cheap.
I didn't say it, but that I think Selwoyn, who
seemed to know what he talk about it, said it
was a So I am assuming that there's a ram.

Speaker 36 (02:06:09):
Oh no, they're so aggressive.

Speaker 14 (02:06:11):
And I heard another lady just before say, oh they
like come men.

Speaker 6 (02:06:17):
No they don't.

Speaker 14 (02:06:18):
It doesn't matter who it is, male or female. No,
you just cannot have one, you know, you just can't.
They just there and they're so strong. I don't know
whether you've ever heard. Years ago we had a couple
of rams in the paddock. They weren't tame, though, but
they were head butting one another.

Speaker 34 (02:06:40):
And honestly, their.

Speaker 14 (02:06:42):
Skulls must be so strong, because you could just hear
this cracking noise as they actually so One of them
didn't do damage to themselves, but they didn't you know that.
The noise of when of them butting heads.

Speaker 15 (02:06:57):
It was terrific.

Speaker 3 (02:06:59):
Yeah it does sound bad.

Speaker 14 (02:07:01):
Yeah, yeah, so no get rid of any ram lambs
you've got, especially if I've been bottlefeed They're all right
when you to bottle feed them until you know I'm
wings and then you got to get rid of them.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
Nice to talk any thank you. Fifteen to twelve. We're
talking about the show on seven sharp tonight about a
ram that just appeared to be making fun. Well they
made the story seems to be fostering this woman pulled
woman fostering and encouraging this ram that's very boisterous with her,
and it beck up a bit of an internet star.
But yeah, it did seem to be a very sketchy practice.

(02:07:39):
Hello Clive, Oh yeah, good time.

Speaker 4 (02:07:44):
Hi.

Speaker 9 (02:07:45):
I pitt Ram when I was a young fellow on
the farm.

Speaker 3 (02:07:51):
Yep, tell me more.

Speaker 9 (02:07:53):
And yeah, his name was Timmy.

Speaker 35 (02:07:57):
Then.

Speaker 9 (02:08:00):
My family didn't like them, well, my grandparents and everybody
Unclenette didn't like him. He had a panic of his
own and I could go out there. I put him
up when he was a little lamb in that put
him on the bowtle and all that. I could go

(02:08:22):
out there and honestly, I could kick him in the head,
kick him in the guts, punch him in the guts,
punch him in the head and everything like that, and
he would just stand here do anything.

Speaker 3 (02:08:38):
What would you be doing there?

Speaker 9 (02:08:40):
Oh no, no, I just there was just him and
I used to play. Yeah, okay, he wouldn't he wouldn't
have hurt me. I went to school and he used
to follow me down the old tanker track when I
went to school. When he had used to follow me

(02:09:02):
down there. When I got to the kettle stock and
went over to catch the bus, I give him a
hug and the cattle and said to him, oh, see
you later when I come home from the school. And yeah,
he used to go back up. And then when I
used to go after off the bus, he'll be down

(02:09:23):
there at the cattle stop waiting for me.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
Do you have a name?

Speaker 9 (02:09:29):
His name was Tammy.

Speaker 3 (02:09:30):
Oh you said that. Sorry, I appreciate that. Club, Thank you.
Ten away from twelve seven from twelve Hypauline, Oh Mac, I've.

Speaker 7 (02:09:41):
Got never have a pet male sheet. We had a
pet friend man who we dipped and came over with
a winning about three years old. He has a pain
in there. He was ran with a bunch of yos,
and when I came in the yard, you know, he
was just a pain. In the particular day, my husband

(02:10:02):
was a live stock agent and he was drafting us
for me, and this friend went through the race and
my husband put to one side, and anyway, later on
had turned around this pet Weather who was three years old,
then just ramp in the back and put him to
the ground and he went with the work shoes on
the truck. That afternoon he was gone. And the farm

(02:10:26):
I worked on of three and a half thousand and
eight because we had a pets there Hereford's there, which
was about two and a half years old, and we'd
all went out on the farm one day, came back
to the homestead, which is a big old time.

Speaker 23 (02:10:42):
No doors were ever locked.

Speaker 7 (02:10:43):
And there walked in he's this pet stare in the house.
There was crap everywhere. Chad, it talks about the advocated
out of the house. And then about two weeks later,
because he was a pest, he we kind of went
to feed the horses from there. He'd been the gateway
and you'd have to push passed.

Speaker 20 (02:11:06):
Stance.

Speaker 7 (02:11:06):
He'd been in the house and Cherty College people came.
Men came down the driveway and look at getting a
kettle bay and my boss, he sat here.

Speaker 18 (02:11:17):
You can take that.

Speaker 7 (02:11:18):
Steer because he was he was just dangerous, but he
was a bloody newisom.

Speaker 3 (02:11:25):
That much damage in the house as you tried to
get him out.

Speaker 7 (02:11:28):
Oh yeah, a couple of windows got broken because I
push up windows and it was there. We had to
get carpet cleaners and he'd been in the house for
a couple of hours. Yeah, it's just quite dramatic getting
out of the house.

Speaker 30 (02:11:49):
This was a big old homestead.

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
Did you see the Did you see the story today?

Speaker 1 (02:11:55):
No?

Speaker 14 (02:11:56):
I didn't.

Speaker 7 (02:11:56):
I just got into the radar on but yeah, no,
pit lands they are dangerous where if they get older
it to be sheep.

Speaker 3 (02:12:07):
I completely I completely agree with you. They're pulling and
if you see the story, it's alarming. If I can
say that, Hey, that's it for me. Thanks for all
your people that call through for you.

Speaker 17 (02:12:17):
Good night.

Speaker 3 (02:12:17):
I should be back.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
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