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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be Thursday with the five of it in December,
December the fifth, twenty twenty four. Welcome. Oh I wait,
my name is Marcus. Good evening. If you've been going
on traffic wise tonight there was that big well, there
was that broken down concrete mixer in Auckland. Today there
was traffic back back backed up for ten k's. We
got seventy three closed with a fire. And just so

(00:33):
you know, man, oh man, it is blowing a howling
gale down south. There are winds like I've never seen
before abound an hour. I got home last night to
secure the premises. So she's really blowing. So whether that
is that windows moving up north or coming down south,
I don't know, but I imagine there will be concerned

(00:53):
about this fire if you're and eyewitness to the fire.
I got any updates and no, I know that seventy
three is closed. I don't think there would be update
affecting Kruckees too much because not a lot of truckies
would be doing the arthurs passed. I wouldn't think threey
do the lowest. Not so many the authors if it
is affecting you, if you've got traffic updates, so you've

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got a visual on that, let us know reinterested in.
This seems to be the first big far of the season,
and it's kind of blossomed and grown progressively throughout the
course of that day. Yeah, so if you want to

(01:37):
talk about that eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. The
other thing I want to talk about is a situation
in ash Burton where there are major dramas there, there's gridlock.
I couldn't be bothered reading the whole article, but drivers
are waiting forty five minutes in gridlock to get through Ashburton.

(02:01):
So why would that? I mean, how frustrating would that be?
Says did It and base Stop can usually make the
trip to Christips in five and a half hours of
legal driving, but I now find themselves in breach of
law if I have to wait forty five minutes to
get through the Eshburton traffic on many occasions also animal
welfare concerns with stock and trucks, So you're going to

(02:25):
talk about that. I don't fully know why it's like that,
So if you want to talk about that, I'll be
up for that also eight hundred and eighty today. So
if your trucking that's affected by Eshburt, they doesn't know
what's going on there. I think it's just capacity and
bad planning. So if you want to comment on that,

(02:50):
if you are at Eshburt you got some intel on
why there is this gridlock, I wouldn't mind hearing from you.
Andrew Marcus, good evening, Hello, how are good?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thanks?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Andrew?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
What can you tell me?

Speaker 5 (03:02):
See either of the coast run a day? So I
go over over the lowest and come back over halfs
so you know, I had to come back over the
Lewis And when I sitod around the culvert and straight
around that area, you could see the haze and the
smoke around the foothills.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Wow, because it's like fifty that will be fifty or
sixty ks away, wouldn't it from the gold and Strip here?

Speaker 6 (03:28):
Yeah, decent blaze. If you can see the haze from there.
It was all the way along there sort of three
culvert and yeah, it was not looking flash.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Was the coms the right for you? They let you
know in time that you weren't allowed to go over there.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I found out about lunchtime, just as I was leaving Hoky,
I sort of listened to the views and heard about
the fire. So yeah, back up through the Lewis.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
An extra hour and a half, extra two hours?

Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yeah, an extra hour.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Okay are you doing Did you do that daily?

Speaker 8 (04:02):
Andrew? No?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Once once a week.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I don't know if it's going to be driving on
a postcard. Yeah, it's a beautiful run. You've got a
is it? It's been blowing in guff and bluff steadily
for the last twenty hours? Is that when moving up
the country or have you already had it?

Speaker 9 (04:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (04:23):
When I went over the Lewis, that's four o'clock with
morn views through how the gale leads?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Okay, okay, maybe it's sure, maybe.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
It's Yeah, she's pretty rough.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Going over it seems to vista bit has it?

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah, on the back of christ found it's not a breath.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Of with here. Okay, good untill Andrew, Thanks so much
for that. There we go, like driving in a postcard,
working in a postcard. Eleven past. Also the situation Ashburton.
We actually haven't dealt with an Ashburton local issues for
a while, so come on, Ashburn, what's happening with your oades?
What's going on there? What's the gridlock? Is the second bridge?
What's happening? Is it bad planning? Is it just because

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you've got one bridge over the river. So the truckies
aren't happy. If you are a truckie that's got situation
in tell on Ashburton, I wouldn't mind hearing about that.
I want to do a little bit of a roading
and bad roads kind of a theme for the beginning
of tonight. I don't want to say that's going to
be the whole show because people are runn because that
doesn't sound that interesting. But I reckon we can make

(05:25):
it interesting because we could talk roundabouts. The trouble with
Eshburton not enough bridges, because I'm looking at the river,
the Eshburton River. You got one bridge, State Highway. You
go from the sea up, you've got one bridge Eshburton.

(05:53):
The next bridge cheapest creepers your miles up Flip Thompson's track.
For goodness sake, that's almost almost all the wapup to
abount some So yeah, not enough bridges, that's what the
Tory should have come up with. We'll do it rather
than motorway, We'll do a bridge over the Eshburton. So

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if you want to talk about that now local Issues
section of tonight's show, give us a call, because I've
always found it quite difficult to get across the air
in fat One time I was driving home and I
got diverted. I can't remember why that was. I think
the bridge was down or something like that. So I've
got some situations, some intel about that. Let us know

(06:36):
this is Ashburton and you're a truck driver. They've got
to wait forty five minutes, Eshburton. They need another bridge.
Too much congestion. I'll put a line under that. And
of course it's vulnerable to the floods. The last time
it flooded, they've gone. Did they get damaged or the

(06:56):
rail one get damaged? So I'm all about that tonight.
Be good to hear from you. Eight hundred eight yep yep, yep, yep, yep, yep,
yep yep. By the way, they're later stats around on
New Zealand sheep numbers. We wait with that for that
with interest every year. Always used to be sixty six

(07:16):
million sheep. I've always thought, now per person, we'll start
with how many sheep there are. There's twenty three point
six million. That's four point four per person. At the

(07:37):
peak there was seventy three seventy point three million, which
was twenty one point nine. Call it twenty two per person.
It's off the cliff and it doesn't seem to be leveling,
so there you go. But many it's about Ashburton tonight
and roading also too. There's been a bit of talk

(07:59):
today in the news about the intersection in walk with
New Zealand's worst intersection. I don't know if it is,
but they're calling it New Zealand's worst intersection right, and
this is at Hill Road. That's the intersection where there

(08:22):
are fifty five different tuning combinations. You can go to
Pooh hooy, Welsford and Matakana and Snell's Beach. It's referred
to by locals as New Zealand's worst intersection. When there's
a band, we all run out such a walkwor thing
to say, you get the screech of breaks a couple

(08:43):
of times per week, says Liz, who owns a nearby
walkwor lodge. Fifty five different turning combinations, for goodness sake,
fifty five New Zealand's worst. I don't know how you'd
fix it. I chuck around you in there. I reckon

(09:03):
funny enough. The director of regional relationship for the roads
is called Steve Mutton. Talk about Mutton a lot in
the last couple of days. So there we go, or
money Mutton Hams. I think they are looking to put
a roundabout in there, but it's not going ahead with that.
That's not going to happen. It's the word. It's been shelved,

(09:30):
pushed back again. Becomes a pinch point during the holiday
periods with queues going back kilometers, but now you passed
it with the holiday highway. So there you go. You've

(09:51):
got to talk about that they did want to replace
it with two roundabouts, and that that they've shelved it
was supposed to be starting this year. That's something else
you won't want to about. So ash Burton Walkworth. That's
a bit of a roading issue tonight, Marcus. What was
the summary of the Ham discussion? Oh well, I reckon online,

(10:15):
but I reckon the internet's your friend. When you go
to getting a Ham, google it up. You'll pay morphan
using and sourced ham. You'll pay more for Muttenham, but
it will give you the warm sense of Nostalgia Marcus
restoring a church in Timaru. We had to leave at

(10:39):
one point thirty to get home by five in christ Church,
ash Burton a big balls up. They need another bridge
and the Ashley Bridge in North Canterbury needs updating. Two cheers,
Andrew Marcus. What was on your spell of Spotify Wrap today? Well,
I got a special mention for I got a special
video message from Taylor Swift. Because of the amount of

(11:01):
Taylor Swift I've been listening to. I think that was
the children the top point zero one percent of the
country of the world for the number of times I've
listened to Journey, Stop Journey, Don't Stop Believing, And I

(11:21):
think there was money of the kids. But I was
pretty excited. I was pretty excited about that. Yeah, I
think that was my number one Actually, don't Stop Believing.
I don't listen to Spotify much. It's not even when
the kids are in the car, but yes, I go
special mentioned from Ta Takes. I've listened to so much

(11:43):
of her, which is pretty exciting. I thought Roger Whitzeka
would have featured more highly. The ship Lies Riginary in
the Harbor. Oh, come on, let's be hearing from your traffic.
It's a bit of traffic tonight discussed because there'll be

(12:04):
people in their cars, particularly walk With and esh Burton.
I don't know why they don't put more bridges across
the river in Eshburton. What do you reckon? The worst
intersection of the country is Have we got a new

(12:28):
contender for that? I think Glenham gets a bit tricky,
But yeah, jumping if you want. If there's anything else
you want to talk about tonight. And the sheep population's
gone from seventy point three million out of twenty three
point six. We've got the same number of sheep we
had now as we had in about nineteen eighteen, just

(12:53):
before the war or just in the middle of the war.
So yeah, there's a few peaks and troughs four point
four per person getting touched. My name is Marcus Hddle twelve.
Looking forward to your jumping in tonight. Let us know

(13:17):
what's going on. Oh eight hundred and eighty eight to
nine nine to de text. Oh, but particularly a Spurton
or the one there Walkworth. If you got a castle
Hill update also, I wouldn't imagine there'd be many residents
of Castle Hill Village out there didn't even know Castle Hill,
head of village five hundred and thirty five hectares. It's

(13:44):
a thousand acres bag fire. Possible, not probable. We'll reach
the village overnight. Good evening, Dan, It's Marcus will wrong
mouth Stan, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 10 (14:03):
I'm Marcus.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
Yeah, good Dan.

Speaker 10 (14:07):
Hey, I just sent your text was with what I
reckonize the worst in the section in New Zealand. So
it's sustained. I don't what do you call it? Is
it across in the section with just two roads across
each other, not a tea in the section? Because it's
it's just what's that called?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Dan, Dan? Dan wouldst Dan? It's called across in the section?

Speaker 10 (14:29):
Apparently, let's call it across. So if it's just a
standard cross, or what they decided to do was put
a round about in the middle, and then traffic lights
staggered all around the roundabout. So when the traffic lights
go on, you travel halfway round the roundabout and then
stop on a red, and then when that red goes green,

(14:53):
then you carry on round the roundabout. And so you
can open the roundabout, remove all the lights and just
make it a standard cross in the section, and it
would say, peeps of accidents.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
They sound like they haven't already committed to the concept
of the roundabout.

Speaker 10 (15:08):
Well they're kind of what the traffic lights at the roundabout,
but it's just crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Where is it?

Speaker 10 (15:13):
Where is it that I sent you the link and
the text message? So to work a welcome bay tower of.

Speaker 11 (15:20):
Their you was going to be yeah, can you click
on the link and the text message and go to
Google Maps.

Speaker 10 (15:29):
Otherwise, yes, it's a welcome bay near high Reening.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
So what was what was the problem that was trying
to fact?

Speaker 10 (15:38):
Well, they used to have a round about there, but
there was a lot of congestion, so it was just
standing around about. So rather than remove the roundabout and
put stand the traffic lights, they left the round about
and put traffic lights and multiple traffic lights like all
the way around the roundabout, so that nobody really thought
about it and decided, well, let's just remove the round

(16:00):
about and make it a standard cross in the section
the traffic lights. So that would have been simple, but
it's not. That's so dumb. Yeah, anyway, that's my vote.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
It seems so it seems really dumb.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
Yeah, very very Yeah. I'd like to meet the person
who designed it and have some why did you do that?

Speaker 2 (16:18):
And hang on this two roundabouts next door to each
other as well, aren't they?

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (16:24):
Yeah, traffic lights at that roundabout as well.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So it's just that's crazy. Dan thinks we've got to
continue on a winner already. Eshmarcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (16:37):
Right Marcus. Yeah, I just wanted to add him my
two cents worth about our land Transport agency Rocker Kotah
great and yeah, basically what they do and what they
don't do maintaining our roads and yeah, just a little
bit about roundabouts. Wasn't it the French that that founded

(17:02):
the roundabout?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I don't think so, really are you thinking? Are you
thinking of the Art de triomph for something.

Speaker 12 (17:11):
Or the Yeah, yeah, in particular, but I'm not quite
one hundred percent certain, but I'm pretty sure that it
was the French that introduced the roundabout. Yeah, okay, yeah,
because to be honest, that's probably the best way with
dealing with traffic and getting traffic through faster and when

(17:34):
it comes to intersections, is just putting roundabouts everywhere, you know,
and well things should flow a lot better.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
The psychology of the runabas interesting because it empowers you,
so if you make a mistake, you cop it. So yeah,
so people are on their best behavior with traffic lights.
You surrender your power to traffic control and that's not good.

Speaker 12 (18:00):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that is the downside to it.
But yeah, like I just I just find it at
the moment that they're not ka Kota here is that
the not doing a particularly good job when it comes
to our infrastructure.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And what is what intersection are you talking about?

Speaker 12 (18:21):
Oh, multiple, we've got problem down here because I'm from
Towering It and I stay in the Mount and there's
just all the time. For almost two years now, there's
been roadworks all throughout the Mount and Towering It and
there seems to me like they're just doing it all
at the same time. And then also they go and

(18:42):
spend it a certain amount of money on wasting it
on road cones.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Well, it's growing three quickly.

Speaker 12 (18:48):
Esh, sorry, what was that?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
It's growing free quickly, So there probably there's been no planning,
so they're probably fighting to catch up with the way
that the city is growing. But people are leaving it,
well they're not living when some are leaving some are
going there. But you thank you Ash every time we
have had a discussion about the wisdom sections. People don't
normally talk about Mount mong Andou your Totonga. Do get
in touch if you want to talk. One him is

(19:11):
Marcus Hurdled twelve Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten
eighty Dan, Marcus, Welcome, Hi Lushy.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
How are you man?

Speaker 13 (19:19):
Good Dan?

Speaker 7 (19:19):
What's up?

Speaker 13 (19:21):
Bro?

Speaker 7 (19:21):
I want to talk to you about tearing a traffic
and just back up that last feller. I've lived here.
I'm in Exaukland and mate, so I know all about traffic.
But I've lived here for seven going on eight years now,
and I live in Ohawiiti, which is five minutes drive
with no traffic from Maungatapoo School which my kids go to.

(19:42):
Yesterday morning, that drive took fifty minutes.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Oh, don't stop, don't make stuff up.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
I'm telling you the honest to God truth. Swear on
my life, Marcus Good. We left home. We left home
at eight twenty five in the morning and we got
to school at fourteen minutes past nine. Is this and
we'll we're three kilometers from school and I know there's
a bit of road or whatever going on, but the

(20:08):
traffic down here is they call us Minnie Auckland. I'll
tell you what, mate, We're big Auckland.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
So was it was?

Speaker 14 (20:17):
It?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Was it the major highway that was the clog point?

Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah, definitely. So in between ohaw Eati and mong its
Uppy there's a big highway that runs through which all
but they've got road wicks on there. So one lane
was down to two for about one hundred meters. But
it took forty five minutes to get to school and
seven minutes to get home going the other way.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Where are people heading to?

Speaker 7 (20:43):
I had no idea, mate, absolutely no idea. It's absolutely insane.
Like I said to my kids, I was like, this
is why we left Auckland.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Guys, wow wow.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, they might need a bike.

Speaker 15 (21:00):
Well.

Speaker 7 (21:01):
The funniest thing is the school bus was behind us,
two cars back, and they followed us the whole way.
I was like, you guys, to be on the bloom
of buffet home.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
After school, wouldn't it Because it's not Russian.

Speaker 7 (21:13):
Three o'clock. Leave it one minute past three home by
ten pers you know. But the mornings are just towering.
Is like Chaotic's not the word, mate, It's just I
just wanted to back that last guy up like that
is insane down here and that.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
And it seems to and I guess this is because
it grew so quickly with no planning. Is the school?
What roads to school on?

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Among a tuppy road?

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (21:38):
And we're and we live in Ohaw easy, so it's
it's at least than four karmeters to school from the house.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
It's among a tap Whose school? Is it?

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah? Man? Great school to go through.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Those two into six as you go down that road
and it's just not goods.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
Down that main highway up up through the double roundabout,
through the intersection into school like it was. I could
have but I could crawled quicker man.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, you could have crawled. You could have crawled anything.
You wouldn't do that quick?

Speaker 7 (22:07):
Actually no you did, right, So he's he's and before
that we lived in papate Moa and that was mate,
that was almost as bad like it's. It's like Auckland,
a lot of traffic, but they've got the infrastructure for it.
We've got no infrastructure and all the cars. It's insane, mate, insane.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Is the rower sorting it out?

Speaker 13 (22:30):
No?

Speaker 7 (22:31):
What the role for Cambridge?

Speaker 11 (22:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (22:34):
Yeah, he doesn't even live here. I'm not sure.

Speaker 15 (22:38):
Does he not?

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Does he not even live there?

Speaker 7 (22:41):
He has a moving yet may he does not moving.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Until the next year because embarrassing.

Speaker 7 (22:46):
He doesn't want to pull his kids out of school
in Cambridge, so he's not even here mate, Well.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
He should have thought about that before.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
He ran.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Marcus.

Speaker 7 (22:54):
Marcus, before I go?

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Can I get tea one last thing?

Speaker 7 (22:57):
Yeah? Before before the rower? Sorry, the first thing the
rower commissioned when he was in tower.

Speaker 11 (23:04):
Do you know what it was?

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I did hear something, but you better remind me.

Speaker 7 (23:08):
It was a rainbow crossing that costs ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Okay, Hey, hey, do you do you go somewhere once
you've dropped the kids off? Are your work from home
or are you the key giver?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
A wee?

Speaker 7 (23:25):
I'm actually I'm I'm a solid dad. Yeah yeah, yeah,
So I came home and just do everything I've got
to do. But I just like I heard the last time,
I thought, God, mate, you're you're living in my world.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
I reckon it might be worth while you walking?

Speaker 7 (23:45):
Well yeah four k you probably did, right am I
talking to I'm talking to Marcus last?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah about your school? I'd walk Let me know, Dan,
I welcome Riley. It's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 16 (24:01):
Oh good day, Marcus. How are you good?

Speaker 17 (24:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 16 (24:03):
Rally Oh that's good mane. Yeah, yeah, just carrying on
that conversation that old mate was having before, just about that,
those bloody road cones and all that, like far. Sorry,
I'm from the Queenstown area, but I hit out a
lot for work in that. But yeah, whenever I go back, mate,

(24:24):
it's just outrageous. I tell you that, it's just congestion
after congestion. They building a new bloody roundabout and god,
it takes you hours to get there, you know, like
to just to get to the shop to buy that
bloody overpriced milk. You know, it takes takes bloody ages.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
I don't think I don't think Queenstown's fixable.

Speaker 16 (24:50):
Yeah, I think you're definitely onto something there. Like it's
you know, constantly there's something to be done. You know,
there's more people coming in, there's something to be done.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
So when you look at that, when you look at
the geography of it, right, you've got massive mountains and
a couple of valleys with everyone wanting to are around.
No transport much. The buses are okay, but no one's
catching them. You got the airport bag in the middle.
It's good like the hold the whole end. And now
they've got some plan to put a hood of traffic
lights between us and O between Shotover Country and the

(25:23):
roundabout where the guess he is and Burger King. Well,
that's not going to.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Work, mate.

Speaker 16 (25:28):
It's unreal.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 16 (25:29):
I'll tell you. There's there's no worse spot for an airport,
you know, like obviously they put it there before they
put everything else there. But it's it's just a real
really put in the worst spot possible. And that whole
round road going around it is always going to be congested,
you know, it's yeah and yeah roundabout.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
So what the airport, What the airport means is you
can't get anywhere because you've got the airport in the.

Speaker 16 (25:55):
Middle pretty much you have to take a massive detail,
which everybody else is going as well. So yeah, you
know you're stuck there with all your all your tourism traffic,
your ski traffic, and you know your people going to
school picking up from school. People find that overpriced milk
as well.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Where's the big new subdivision I saw a thousand? Is
that that's down beside, that's down by Shadow, that's down
by Lake Hazer State is it? Where's where they're going
with it?

Speaker 16 (26:23):
So that done felt like a Hanley farm in that,
which is out by sort of remarkable.

Speaker 10 (26:30):
Jack's Points.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
But there's there's there's another one that's just been consented,
isn't there was that? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (26:36):
That's down yeah, a bit past your shot of the
country and that. Yeah, there's there's always new subdivisions down there.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Okay, look up in the new one out every year.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Looks cold in the winter down there, I reckon, I reckon,
looks a bit grim.

Speaker 16 (26:53):
Mate, May you get up? It's minus ten.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's like it's like that a lot you watch that
show Alive, It's like that, are you getting up? And
you gotta.

Speaker 16 (27:03):
And you're fighting for your life there? Yeah, wait for
the bus and the minus ten?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
So where's your commute? Oh you're all around?

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
You get out and about a bit do you?

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (27:13):
So yeah, But when I'm down there, it's like Calvin Heights.
So yeah, you get caught up in a lot of
the ski traffic round winter season, and you know, it's
a rete a bit better coming into summer, but not
a whole lot because you've got your New Year's goers
and your party goers and that.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Nice to talk. Roddie, thanks so much at eighteen to night.
My name is Marcus. Welcome Headle twelve. The worst intersections
and the worst traffic. It's always the same Totong or Queenstown,
I would imagine or Walkworth. But I want to hear
from Eshburton because how often on talk Beat wevn esh
Burton focused story. Hardly ever, but trucks are waiting forty

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five minutes to get through. Someone says, why do they
call it rush hour? You probably needs to be renamed.
What should it be called? Not a rush? I think
probably some of these places queenstowne to work better for
mainly they just targeted people that are working from home.
Even as a rando when I go to Totong, I
can't find my way around. It just seems to and

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getting out, you know, getting out of there with flipped
tolls and all sorts of carry on. It's not a
town that makes sense to a newcome you arrived there?
I think cheapest creepers. What's going on? Where am I?
I don't want to get down on the place, but
you know, actually Honestly, if you asked me about Todonger,
I'd say I love them mount But the thing that

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freaks me out most about it is that historical village.
Nothing freaks me out more than an oldie time village.
That you've got a couple of old kind of villains
and and old things, and people dressed up like in
a blacksmith's forge. I don't know if they've got a
blacksmith's forge. I seem to remember they have. That's what
freaked me out last time was there. I ended up there?

Speaker 18 (28:57):
No good.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Good at what it's called. Is it called the old
time village or something? Anyway, it's at a conference there
sixteen to nine Marcus till twelve, all about the worst trail?
What about what about? What about that one in walk with?
And what about Ashburton? And they should have built that
new airport at Terrace and given up on that airport

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at Queenstown. Congested hour or slow hour, that's what people
think they should call rush hour. Glenn Marcus, welcome markets,
How are you, buddy?

Speaker 7 (29:30):
You're good, Ben, good good.

Speaker 19 (29:32):
You're just talking about the bridge in Ashburton.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Sure, off you go.

Speaker 19 (29:37):
She's a bit of a shocker. I traveled down there
probably two or three days a week from christ Church
and when on going from christ Church to Ashburton, probably
about an hour and just to get over the bridge
sometimes forty five minutes they're saying, so almost as long
as to get across the bridge than others to drive
from christ Gesture.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
How frustrating is that? In the article it mainly talks
about trucks, but this is all vehicles or are you
in a truck?

Speaker 19 (30:02):
No, no, no, I'm just a normal vehicle. Look, it's
all about the congestion times obviously. You know, if you're
not traveling when the congestions hide, then you'll probably get
a property smartly. But at school or rush air or
like you said, is that the right thing to be
called Rushia snail hour? Yeah, it's just it's just bloody ridiculous,
Like there should be a like I don't know why

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they want the trucks going through the town anyway, Like
you know, there should be a bypass built with a
good bloody bridge there that's above you know, the flood
level plains and then basically you got no tracks through
the town and just let the general traffic go through.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Is the congestion the whole way through town then on to.

Speaker 19 (30:41):
Bridge basically like as soon as you in to ashburd
and if you want if you want to, yeah, if
you want to go to the other side. The most
where you're coming from is he one one way across.
Like you said, there's only one bloody bridge and if
that gets you know, blocked or whatever, then you've got
a long, bloody long, long way to get around the
other side.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
So you come it was off and do the back
roads and come back on because then you get stuck
out of a queue, won't you.

Speaker 19 (31:08):
Yeah, Oh yeah, there's no way. It's pretty narrow sort
of traffic to get there, and there's no way sort
of zigzagging your way, you know, closer to the queue,
that's for sure. So and the trucks are bugget you know,
like they're just you know, and people were in the
way they drive, and traffic lights before you get to
the bridge, you know, the chopping and changing every five minutes,

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people crossing the road and that type of thing. It's
just yeah, there's definitely a need for a second bridge,
that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Anyway, an absolute need for a second bridge. And I
can't work out why they're not on it already.

Speaker 19 (31:44):
Like I said, stop, stop a few of the crossings
at the building, and you put the money into the bridges, or.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You could always do both. Keep this particularly to talking
about esh Burton. Oh wait one hundred and eighty Teddy
at nine nine to text Marcus. The new motorway to
walk with takes the traffic past that town. Hence it's
now most of the walk with bottleneck. When a highway
one used to stop at traffic lights. High ash Burton traffic.

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It can be any time of the day, not peak
hour traffic. The roundabout of the intersection of Coronation in
Glenfield Road allsours traffic lights on each exit entry reconfusing
rush hour and Auckland could just be renamed like every
other hour, Marcus and Auckland. It's two hours long, the
rush Hower, So how about the rush one twenty? Very good, Marcus.

(32:39):
It could be worse. We could be stuck in traffic
in New York. Actually, to be honest, it'd far preferred
to be stuck int York traffic right now. Are James
call it crush ow? Everyone jammed together? Or road ranger
clock or gredlock stock and two smoking exhaust pipes. Two
people going with that, aren't they? The country's worst intersection.

(33:01):
We are talking about New Zealand's and the situation nash
Burton are also to this fire castle. Oh that's serious.
There's a lot of fires in the South are the moment.
There's one at tai Mouth, a number of fires and
o Targo also just because it's incredibly windy, it's incredibly

(33:25):
hot and that was expected. And if there's something different,
you want to mention good, Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine nine text be good to hear from you.
But yeah, I'll keep your dad with the news too.
So that fire is quite serious. Depends on the wind.

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Speaking to a guy earlyer coming down to the cannab
we said, the winds drop right off. That's a good time.
He's been very strong wind and parts of the South
are like as strong as they get. So and if
there is other news, I'll bring that too. There's been
some sort of an explosion in north of Sydney, Gosford.

(34:06):
I saw that was breaking news. Ossie City is rocked
by a series of explosions. Fire bobbing attack sparked a
major men hunt. I think it's in Gosford Old Gossie,
so yeah, and kindree devices and things. It's been a
fairly kind of lively day for news, hasn't it a

(34:29):
lot happening? Not much of it good if I can
say that, But yes, if there's it's only about the
country's worst intersections. I think we've discussed this before. It's
always that intersection totally and it comes up the roundabout
with the lights. Just can't work out where everyone's going.

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It also can't work out they build a city with
no planning at all, and you put all those people
everywhere and eventually they're going to want to go somewhere
for shopping or go to the mall or fashion city
or whatever it's called. It's not the roads for them, Marcus.

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I've just moved from Snell's Beach to Cambridge. The intersection
at Walkworth is the worst I've seen anywhere in the world.
I would discuss it with friends when we lived there,
and the consensus was that the town was planners must
have been drunk when designing took place. The issue is

(35:32):
at it's the excess point of several small towns all
meeting and the result is chaos. It could easily take
close to an hour to travel from Snell's Beach into
walk With the whole setup is just embarrassing to the
point that somebody should have been held response when asked
to explain. And there is no easy, in cheap fix.

(35:53):
Whatever the answer is, it's going to cost. That's from Mike.
Also talking about the fire at Castle Hill tonight. That
seems to be an evolving situation. It is still light.
John AT's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 15 (36:06):
Marcus, love your work. I'm a permanent resident here at
Castle Hill Village. Have been for a number of years
very smoky in the village tonight. I've watched this fire
throughout the day. It began at Bridge Hill and beyond
towards Flock Hill. Largely the northwest wind pushed it away

(36:27):
from the village in an easterly direction and as a
result down the way Mcadeer the valley, and that's why
it was so prominent as far as smoke cloud was
concerned in places like Oxford and alike. I'm still here.
Ben's have been around that have been absolutely magnificent and

(36:48):
a huge shout out to the men and women that
are fighting this. It's been a very arduous task. I'm
confident that I can stay fens simply wanted to know
who was staying in the village still and our phone numbers.

(37:11):
I can't see fire on the horizon as yet, but
I am semi packed and we'll get out of here
if I have to.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
How far away in what direction would the fire be
from where you are?

Speaker 15 (37:24):
Probably eight to ten k's as the crow flies.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
And what we're read in what direction?

Speaker 15 (37:32):
Looking in a northerly direction for me, okay, though certainly
heading south because of the northwest. It's all heading more easterly,
I'm sorry, because of the northwest wind as it has
done all day, so not heading towards inhabited areas, but
obviously a lot of risk and damage to palm land.

(37:55):
Having spoken with some of the local people at Castle
Hills Station this afternoon, they've safely moved stock. They have
been monitoring things. They called in just a little earlier
to say high and hope things were okay. And there
are a few a few of us still hanging in here.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Sure, but you know, and you're and you're you're. Your
evacuation will be seventy three south right it head south?
Is that where you'd go?

Speaker 15 (38:25):
Well, it would Our only way out would be over
Porters Pass, which is more of an easterly direction from here,
and then you would pick your place accordingly.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Okay, I haven't ever heard much about Castle Hill Village.
Is that a holiday place of retirement? I mean, I mean,
is it holid? Is there a big permanent is there
a big permanent community there?

Speaker 15 (38:50):
Oh, that's a good question, retirement? I have have a
week snigger at Yeah, just very briefly. When I bought
here thirty odd years ago, I think there were thirty
five hours.

Speaker 13 (39:02):
Sure.

Speaker 15 (39:02):
Now we're probably about one hundred and fifty houses. Yet
there is only a permanent population of probably or twenty
eight thirty of us, and no stores or anything of
that nature. But we're probably a very busy summer and
winter destination, especially with the skiing being right in the

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heart of the Canterbury Hite country.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
Okay, have there been fires at this place before? Was
this unseasonal?

Speaker 15 (39:33):
Not in my experience. Markets We've had very very warm
weather last night that the northwest screened the house shook,
and it's been as I say, very warm for a
couple of days, so this was possibly on the cards.

(39:53):
We've always felt it more, especially since that terribly tragic
business at Lake Oha a couple of years ago. We've
banged on with our local council s. See, and I
think there'll be a lot of questions asked after this
about dangerous fuel that has been still evident in the area.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Just look at your village. Your village appears to be
a lot there seems to be a lot less foliage
your trees than the Ohai village. Will that be fair
to say?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (40:29):
Yeah, And when I say fuel, I'm talking about trees.
We have a lot of beach here which is more
fire retardant, but there is still yet a lot of pine,
larch and various other things that unfortunately will have to
go at some point. Otherwise you know, we're just another
accident waiting to happen again.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Okay, look tremendous to talk to you, John, anything happens,
any developments, let us know. That's great to talk. Abou's
a great scene setter for us too, So thanks so
much for that. David's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 8 (41:03):
Hello Marker, here are you mate?

Speaker 20 (41:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (41:04):
Good?

Speaker 8 (41:04):
Dave live in Fielding now Denbi Street and Derby Street.
They flow on through a main main road. I think
it's high A fifty four through Comboltont Road and there's
no roundabout man, And I'll tell you what, it's absolutely diabolic.

(41:25):
Or sometimes you're sitting there for so long you've got
to turn left and then turn right and go around
a situation.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
And what right we're talking Derby did you say, yeah.

Speaker 8 (41:37):
Demby Street and Derby Street and Fielding.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Well they have two streets with such similar names.

Speaker 8 (41:45):
I don't know cheapers, okay, But the thing is you
can't get across the road. Rules say you can't sit
in the center because it's illegal, So you've got to
sit where you sit, and there's the problem. Then further
down where we got by the roaway line there from

(42:07):
Churches Street by the BP petrol station to b in
the in the police station round about there no problem,
flow through, no problem. But they tell me it's about
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to sit around about
in addiction.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
So we're talking. I've found them on the maps. They've
got Kimbol too, which seems to be a two way
road with a split in the middle that with trees
right correct, Yes, it's half the problem. You've got Den
Street and you've got Derby Street parallel? Where are you
going from Denby Street into Combultant Road? Is that the problem?

Speaker 8 (42:42):
That's the problem in Derby Street? And then there's further
up Linden Street as well. It comes from East Street.
They tell me that there's going to be traffic lights
pot there in the next year or two.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
You need roundabouts, Yes, that's the point. How long you
got to wait?

Speaker 7 (43:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 21 (43:07):
I don't know, mate, if you're living in if you're
living in Hello, you got away to that intersection because
you're living in Fielding, you'd want things to be fairly straightforward,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 10 (43:17):
I know?

Speaker 8 (43:18):
But there go so yeah. So I've just thought I'll
let you know. There's the problem we got here. And
it's so frustrating when I go up to Denby Street
and I see the traffic flowing all ways. I just
turn left, go up and turn right into Derby Street
and go down the long way, and I'm okay.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Who's in charge here? Is it still war boys?

Speaker 14 (43:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
No?

Speaker 8 (43:45):
Helen? Yeah, she lovely lady.

Speaker 21 (43:47):
Good, she looks good, top me.

Speaker 8 (43:49):
Yet we don't hold it against her. She's top lady.
But it's just a system, mate, Okay, maybe there's about money.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, sure it is, Okay, I appreciate that it's all
about rates and water. They spend the money on the
water pipes. Thanks for that. Nice to go one hundred
and eighty. Well that's a powerful half hour. Ashburton. We've
got problems there, we've got problems and fielding, we've got problems,
and walk with the problems and tod on. No one's
mentioned Hamilton has been bad. No one's mentioned Auckland has

(44:20):
been bad. Bluff not a problem. JT. It's Marcus. Good
evening and welcome hello Marcus.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Just on that last caller, making turning an intersection like
that into a roundabout is not necessarily the solution because
Ashburton had a major round out at the Domain corner
and that caused problems because when there was a constant
stream going north and south on State Highway one, the

(44:52):
traffic trying to cross it. Yeah, that couldn't get a
break in the.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Traffic as this old will not have. Yeah, so I
reckon half of Ashburton's problems as they got the road
on either side with the railway in between. It just
is kind of a bit of a an I'm pro
rail but because then you've got you got two major trends.
Era reached through town, have you the East Street and
the other one the west.

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yeah, I was going to mention. I was going to
mention the railway line, and that's part of the problem.
We have three trains that come through during the day
on weekdays, and yeah, everything sort of seizes up for
a couple of minutes. It's not quite so bad now
because now that we've got the fare and freight hub,

(45:36):
the inland contain a port north of the town. The
trains travel at eighty kilometers and now through town instead
of fifty or forty order they used to. Yep, but yeah, roundabout,
so I think they didn't come from France or at
least the continent. I remember on MythBusters once, the TV show,

(45:56):
they compared a crossroads intersection with a roundabout and found
the roundabout to be a lot more efficient. But yeah,
once they get overwhelmed, well there's an uneven fly of traffic.
Then you've got to go to the traffic lights. Now,
Ashburton only used to have two sets of traffic lights
and around about on the State Highway, but there's been

(46:18):
three new sets of traffic lights added over the last
couple of years just because of the volume of traffic.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
So what's the problem with the trucks. Why is it
specifically trucks that have to wait forty five minutes? Is
it because the other cars have bypasses they can go
that aren't suitable for trucks? Is that what happens?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
No, the cars. The cars get caught in it as well.
A lot of the time, especially at a long weekend
or whatever, the traffic can be bumping a bumper for
the full six kilometers that it takes to get through
Ashburton on State Highway one.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Okay, And that's mainly because there's just one crossing. There's
just one bridge across the Eshburton River.

Speaker 13 (47:01):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Yeah, that's right. They are planning a second bridge, and
Luxeon promised that in his first that construction would start
in his first term, And there was a story last
week saying that it looks like they're on target for
that because the big problem is half of the traffic
going over that bridge is actually local traffic.

Speaker 15 (47:26):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
As Tinbald back a couple of decades ago, they didn't
allow any new subdivisions in Tinbold because they knew that
this was going to be a problem, but someone took
it to court and they ended up getting permissions. So
there's all those subdivisions over there, and I reckon that
if you live in Tynboard and work in Ashburton, some

(47:50):
of those people could be crossing over the bridge like
thirty times a week or something.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Yes, it seems crazy.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
So it does add up because a lot because there's
no decent there's no large supermarket over and Tinbold Nope.
And another reason why a new set of traffic lights
was put in because when a second countdown was built
near the river, part of the resource consent was that
they had to pay for a new set of traffic lights.

(48:18):
So just having all these traffic lights, it just slows
the traffic down.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
And so you got what like hood, what's going on there?

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Yeah, there was a lot of people live down there now,
although they all seem to be people from out of
town because for locals it's too far, too much of
a commute, even though it's like eight kilometers. Also, living
at the lake there, it makes a temperature colder because
of having that large body of water and the wind

(48:48):
blowing over it makes it colder than town.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
And I wouldn't be surprised if Lakehood doesn't have end
up having water quality environmental issues a bit like the
wad Oft Pigasus, because artificial lakes are always problematic, aren't they.

Speaker 4 (49:03):
Yeah, they have had a lot of problems.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Have they teld me about that, because I've often wondered
about that.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
They did. Initially they had a lot of quatic weed growth.
So then they got a license to release some carp
because they can't get out. They can't get out because
the barriers and that. And then yeah, over the last
decade or so, it's the water qualities been up and down,

(49:30):
and they've tried adding they chucked these hay bales in it,
and that's meant to improve it somehow.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
How would that hurt?

Speaker 4 (49:39):
And also there you go, it does something to the word.
But the other thing was a guy mentioned the possible
bypass of Ashburton. But because the state highway won so straight,
you know, any bypass is going to be like six
kilometers because at the time it goes around the perimeter
of the town. I mean, the town's getting big. It's

(50:02):
grown by fifty percent over the last thirty years from
fourteen thousand the twenty one thousand, so the bypass is
not necessarily the answer.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Okay, I appreciate you coming through. That's good and tell
about that. JT. Thanks so much for that. We are
talking esh Burton in the traffic Wise break has lost
seventy to ninety seven twenty six past nine Rajishitz Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 22 (50:25):
Hy you grieving Marcus?

Speaker 2 (50:26):
How are you holding good things? Raggie?

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Okay, I'm just going home. I'm a bus driver.

Speaker 22 (50:34):
And then just top to give you guys a call
because I've heard you guys having a good topic going
on at the moment, like every day, like we fill
that why it's happening with the drivers like a public
transport we provide, you know, and the road condition if
we see like there's real roadwalks happening here and there

(50:54):
in christ Church, you know, like it's been a way
beyond the expectation, and like if we don't know what's
going on, you know, yes, so like if someone can
know shere a light on this thing, like they're like
if the road walks can happen at night time, you know,
like that would be really bad, I knowledge, because in

(51:15):
the during the day, like there's a lot of traffic
and plus road books is happening, and these a lot
of detours we do during the day. It's not helping
anyway enough.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
So you just want them to be more considerate with
when they do the roadworks. Is that what you're saying? Yes, yes, okay,
I appreciate that. Thanks for nice to hear from you.
Get in touch people eight hundred and eighty Teddy and
nineteen nine text it's all about the roadworks. Yeah, we're
the worst intersections. Napier is looking like having a very

(51:46):
bad drought. Marcus a Daubin Street and Lauri Street. You plymouth,
these are half roundabout for goodness sake. Really. Of course,
Todedan's got a peanut roundabout which seems to have been
quite successful, no complaints. Haven't seen the half one though,

(52:10):
I'll check it out on the old Google maps. I
know kind of your plumouth, kind of well.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
On it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I'm just looking for it now people, sheeople. Anyway, get
in touch if you want to talk. My name is Marcus,
head of the End Saint Alban of Pennant, and I
can't see it. I have it's on Saint Auban before. Anyway,
get in touch if you don want to talk. My
name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh wait one hundred and eighty

(52:47):
text anything else you've got, beautiful, be good to hear
from you. Yeah, I'm almost there. Who anyway, how far
down is it? Where's Luis and us to know where that? Oh? Yeah,

(53:11):
see where we are? Oh, there's a half aroundabout? Oh ye,
that's I think there's always been there. I think that's
been for a long long time, hasn't it. I know
who spend a lot of time with my grandparents in
Seaview Road, so often used to walk that way to
the Monorrower shops. Yeah, I think it's always been there,

(53:35):
the old half around and maybe not maybe right anyway,
that kind of the four square Monorrow that's kind of
got an old school vibed. What hasn't it still? Anyway?
I appreciate that. Thank you for that. The old half
a roundabout? We know how that works. I'd like to
see the insurance claims for that particular part of town.
I reckon there'd be mini And we are talking about

(53:55):
bringing attention to the intersections that need work, the ones
that are driving you crazy, the ones that are causing you.
But fancy that guy spending how long to table to
get to school? Like an hour for three K's gods
kids to at quarter past nine were the school bus
behind them, while We'ren's kids on the school bus. Out

(54:16):
of interest, Marcus. If you look at a map of
totong Or when you fly, it's clearway. The roads are
difficult with so many bays and inlets, bears exactly. So
if I'm thinking, if I was in charge of running
a place like Dold Hunger, what you would be doing
is you think, Okay, we are a lot of bays
and a lot of in let's let's plan and let's

(54:39):
plan the way our city is growing. There appears to
be no planning whatsoever? Got those thousands of houses down
Papa moa huge amount of people there with a bottleneck
for them to get into town when they are tired.
People they want to go somewhere because they want to shop.

(54:59):
Not everyone's going to say it's stay pot Then you've
got the place. The place is like oh Macro, places
like that though week having to town to work, it's
the biggest muddle. No planning, and I don't know what
that's about. I know they haven't had good governance at
a temporary the mayor kicked out and someone put it instead.

(55:21):
I think your council's probably got a fair bit to
answer for there it looks unworkable. I agreed, Tyley. I
reckon gondolas might be the answer from the top of
the hills. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve. You've got

(55:43):
something different. You want to bang on about good intersections
of shame, Marcus. I grew up in the East Valley,
Dunied in the Northeast Valley. Oh, you must have a
Muttonham Read the Derby Denby Street confusion. We lived on
France Street. Just down the road was Frame Street, and

(56:03):
those days all mail was written by hand. To half
the mail ended up the wrong address, so they changed
France Street to Paris Street. Rent Is it there or
is it in Fielding Derbi Denby? Marcus, My kids went
on the bus. I like dropping them off, going into

(56:23):
their class and checking out their hard work for the
days before. As a single dad. These are things that
keep me going Love you with lashly great Kiwi. Why
are all road cones orange? Why can't we have fluoro
pink or fluoro yellow road cones? It's a very good question.
When I don't know the answer to different cones, different meanings.
It could be like the lights on the sky tower.

(56:45):
Different fundraisers could be different a weeness week, you could
turn all the road cones yellow fur. What's lego? Legos
put out some special Lego for something? What's that for
kids that are don't like loud noises or something? Did
you see that there's special Legos like some lego. I

(57:08):
wasn't quite sure what the cause was those kids that
don't like banging or something. What was that lego story?
Did you see that? Like two days ago there was
some special lego? Oh yes, for children for people with disabilities,
hidden disabilities such as autism. Sunflower lanyard to help you.

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So Lego has got some of the characters. Will were
a sunflower lanyard warmly received by children.

Speaker 7 (57:40):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Go there, don't fully know what happens with a lanyard.
I have to read that article of bit more clearly.
I think marcus absolute biggest debomination of around it. At
State High one, Blenham has five exits and the railway
lines goes through the center of its scott.

Speaker 18 (58:06):
Is.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
I booked a hotel near there. Once I went to
the room and there was a whole big fish goldfish
bowl full of ear plugs. I thought, Jep, you shouldn't
tell me about that fantastic chat tonight. About the time
that got talked about. I thought I got talked about endlessly.
But every time I actidally turned on talkback ready to

(58:27):
talk about traffic cones. I'm pro cones by the way,
because you've got to I mean roadwork, roadworks. They've got
to be safe. You don't want them getting run over. Marcus. Unfortunately,
our town plans have always been run by a Brenda
and Malcolm who will say it's always been done this way.
We need fresh blood with new planning ideas to save
our towns and cities. I would imagine the way local

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government works that most of the planning has been involved
with people that they have a cozy relationship with developers,
and they think develop and sell it and be damned
and not worry about the consequences. I think most councils
are probably not that transparent. Trevor, here, you gonrever ten

(59:14):
out of ten this scenes yourself.

Speaker 23 (59:16):
Yeah, could Mate just just tuned in the roundabouts. I
think if you want to have a talk to people,
it would be the roundabouts between caddy Kat and Tarunga.
They've chucked about five in there, and here's a classic
example of what they've actually done. The roundabouts weren't the problem.
It was actually the Cheese Greater as they stuck down
the middle of the road for some unknown reason, costing

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a fortune right the lengths of the roundabout. If you
google Rights Road and ask the people on Right's road,
here's an example of what actually happens. Friend comes from.
Why he to go in his truck and trailer unit
to omkaror he has to drive past matter who he
rode roundabout to get into Right's road. He has to

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then go into Morton Road, go round the roundabout and
come up the other side to Right's road. Then head Look,
you can't go back out right soad he has to
go left up no matter who he rode and then
back down to Morton day to head to Tarrana. So
he can't get across the road because there's the Cheese
Greaters in the middle.

Speaker 13 (01:00:17):
Of the road.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Is this in why he itself?

Speaker 15 (01:00:22):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:00:22):
No, no, no, no no no, go out of Caddy
Cat in the way to Tarrama. Yep, So on a
tick to you, there's a Morton want Toy just on
the right hand side on the way to Tarrama and
there's a road rights road after that. They've stuck Cheese
Greatest down and people must have turned right to head
back to Tarramer and so they've taken the cheese graters
and put bollards down the middle, so they can't do it.

(01:00:46):
But there's there's been some signage on the side of
the road, people wanting to take the you know, roading
people to course.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
People write their own signs. It's a good release.

Speaker 23 (01:00:57):
Yeah, but can you imagine the frustration you want to
go to Tarry?

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Did you mention matter who? He wrote? I found that
one yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 23 (01:01:07):
So head to Tarong and now yep and on the
right hand.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Yeah you're onto it yep.

Speaker 24 (01:01:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:01:16):
So you can't you can't turn into right road if
you're heading to Terong. And now you have to go
all the way down to the next roundabout at More
Roundabout Road, which.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Is found there for cheapest creepers, and.

Speaker 23 (01:01:32):
That's all the way to Teong. You've got this on
all the way to Tearing because they've put the chief
graders all the way down.

Speaker 7 (01:01:36):
The middle of the road.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Who are they good for.

Speaker 23 (01:01:40):
Not good for motorbikes. And I lost a really good
friend that got stuck in one in a car because
he didn't he got a car come across the centerline
and took him out and he had nowhere to go
because the chief grader was holding him off the side
of the road. So yeah, that was sad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
They stopped the cars flipping, do they.

Speaker 14 (01:02:04):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:02:04):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:02:04):
No, I thought right right at the when they first
started putting those cheese graders, and I thought the idea
of them was to stop people going off the road
and hitting power poles. But they got somebody down the
line the sleeping with their light on them and at night,
and thought, this is a good idea. Let's put it
down the middle of the road and now the cars
that hit them and then the traffic guys have to

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come along and fix them up. Just a head just
the heads up for your roadworks guys. I've had them
on my road and they're not allowed over Christmas period.
They have to put their tools away for two weeks
over Christmas, so there will be no cones or truckload
of cones, but no roadworks guys that go to stay
off the road for two weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Does your mate working rights Road?

Speaker 23 (01:02:51):
No, he was carrying dirt from Right's Road. But to
get to Oh Michael Row, he had to he had
to go down around and then come back again and
then head off to Micha.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Anyway that would people live in? Would people live in
why He and work in Tonga?

Speaker 13 (01:03:10):
Is that what they?

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Would they commute from there? In Kaddy Keddy? Is that
what happens?

Speaker 23 (01:03:13):
Definitely. I've got a friend that works and I love
the no Mocker rare and it's easier to come out
of Tara and work in why He and then go
back the other way.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
So's that's madness mmm shapes. So there's all people going
all the different directions. They need to swap houses or
something nice to talk forever. Thank you. The other topic
and other adjacent topic right is we could be talking
about nearby roads similar names that are confusing because one

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hates a like Derby and Denby. But I don't know
that the guy said that was in Dunedin, pret because
the other guys that was in Fielding the one guys
that was in the northeast Valley. But I don't know
where that is. I don't know where the north but
there's no Derby Road there. Derby Dooby, Dooby Marcus. My
mate went out with this girl when we were teenagers,

(01:04:09):
and he went down to get some beers with his father.
When they were coming up to the bishop a roundabout
in christ Church. My mate said, one absolute ball toy
made of this. The father was a town planner and
he designed that roundabout, and he said, tried doing the
best I could with the land I had. My mate
had no idea he was a town planner. Wow, don't
fan hear a story involving a town planner. Some people

(01:04:32):
don't seemed very hapy at all with what's going on
with their roads. Fortunately for most people've got a chance
to actually do anything different. It's kind of out of
your control. If you've got a bad road or a
bad place, you've got to go. Yeah, that's what I'm
on about tonight. Eight hundred and eight Lake Road, the
Lake Road, lower Lake Roads, selling Lake Road, least in

(01:04:54):
Lake Road, all within a few oh and also confusing
roads roads nearby that are confusing, like Derby and Derby,
so I'm not entirely sure where they are, which about Fielding.
Then I got to up in the northeast Valley and
on France Street that got renamed to Peris Street. We've

(01:05:16):
got our men on the spot and the fires if
they catch you. On further in the village, we've got
someone there Castle Hill Village if you want to talk
about that also. Good good evening, Barbara. It's Marcus. It's Marcus.
Welcome high Barbara.

Speaker 25 (01:05:37):
Yes, good evening. It's my grandfather. Was still in the
facial character, lived on church corner of a riciton. I
was six survey nineteen nineteen. There was a vex that
was put between a car and a spring chat.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Hang on, hang on, Barbara, this is your grandfather. Yes,
in nineteen nineteen between a car and a what a
spring chat?

Speaker 25 (01:06:06):
Of course strawn cat. Goodness they we're doing an estimated
ten to fifteen miles an hour. Now, what happened if
the shaft one of the shafts broke on that was
attached to the horse and the cat was of course,
and the broken shafts pierced his cat and he died insanity?

Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
Goodness? Was he on the cart?

Speaker 18 (01:06:30):
He was?

Speaker 25 (01:06:31):
He was in the car. Now, how many fatal accidents
would have been in those days? And that was on
the church corner in first church.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
There wouldn't be many, you would think, no.

Speaker 25 (01:06:44):
Were the odds of having, you know, the one of
the shafts pierced his hat.

Speaker 23 (01:06:53):
But he was in the car.

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
I can't know the make of a.

Speaker 25 (01:06:56):
Car or anything else, but it would be pretty primitive
by the today's stance.

Speaker 26 (01:07:00):
How old was he fifty nine?

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Goodness? Well, and they reckon it's still not a good intersection.

Speaker 20 (01:07:10):
What road was he on?

Speaker 14 (01:07:14):
What was this?

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Which part? Which road on that intersection was he on?

Speaker 25 (01:07:18):
It was at the intersection of Mainst Great Shas Road
and the Ulchess Road Church Corner. I'm sure because he's
buried there, of course they would be brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
That's handy, Thank you, Barbara. Someone's done my research for me.
That woman whose grandfather was killed at Church Corner nineteen nineteen.
I couldn't find out what the road toll was of
that year. However, someone's texted me real question about the
road top for nineteen nineteen. Ministry of transmits a web
page with historical road tolls. It only goes back to

(01:07:50):
nineteen twenty one. There were sixty nine deaths on our
road that year. It's quite a lot. Sixty nine in
nineteen twenty one, because it wouldn't have been many cars,
and the cars would be going very fast. So I've
got all sorts of questions. I presume if the car
had a horse, that would count as a road toll,

(01:08:12):
wouldn't it. And I'd imagine too they didn't have the
duels of life, and probably if you got to hospital
or could afford to go there, you're probably your chances
of surviving weren't great because of the primitive and a
lot of people might be about war. Very interesting. Sixty

(01:08:34):
nine deaths on the roads in nineteen twenty one. We're
talking about bad intersections. It's been a while and people
still seem to have a get freaked out by roundabouts.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
We haven't had the reminder about indicating on roundabouts. Well,
most of you don't know how to indicate on roundabouts.
I know that I see you driving through them. If
I said to you, do you indicate when you go
straight through a roundabout? Most of you would say no.

(01:09:18):
Was the answer as yes, indeed, But thanks for information
on the roads. I f howe very interesting yep, as
I say, oh wait eighty now, oh yeah, you know
the break has got thresh Day twenty nine points in

(01:09:39):
it Marcus Hill Street walk with the city section of
tangle of roads with traffic. It's funneled in five directions.
Some say it's the worst intersection. New Zealand Transport designer
Roger Williams called it the worst, most difficult intersection I've
ever seen. That's changed a bit because it's not the
pressure on that now because there is the bypass on
the motorway. But if you're off to Snell's Beach or

(01:10:02):
Matakhana or one of those ones, you'll probably go around it.
And it's never that straightforward. Yeah, I imagine you have
arguments with your partner going through there, and also streets
with confusing names like neighboring streets with the same similar names.

(01:10:25):
So where's a good one? Graham AND's Marcus? Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Hey, how are you you living in the mccagle.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
Sir Puddon, you live in the Bluff Bluff?

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
Okay? Have you been to in Thecago recently? Or do
you know in Maccaguloit. Yes, have you heard of the
Killdeer Streets or street area? I can't find that. I'm
on map for some reason, I may have lost the map.
I'm trying to refer to. But if you looking at
an Inbicago map top right hand corner northwest corner, cool

(01:11:03):
deer drive, coll deer meuse dear close, kill deer place.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
That's madness all and they all off kill drive? Why
would you? Is it a failure of imagination?

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Okay, okay, now that man must have developed it and
got naming rights. But just think about it as a
joking side measure. If you come home one night and
you see to the taxi drive and you went to
the old street rowhouse, you've got.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
To kill their driver, killed the music, killed their view,
are killed their court and a kill their place. That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Yeah, I know. And nobody has ever better than I
did about it. It's been there for years.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Yeah, well I've been. I've been involved in some of
their street naming discussions. There does seem to be a
absence of imagination. They seem to be very very keen
to give the street naming to the developers.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
You're another one which is in christ Church London Street
in Chross Hut if you know it, yes, and the
London Street and Port in Littleton.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Okay, when when Texi driving a few years ago, I
got a job on London Street to go to the airport.
They didn't tell me it was London Street and port.
I turned up on London Street and crash itach and
then then I ended up going through the tunnel to
give the job.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
I imagine for Christmas the people have killed their drive
Court place View Mews would be having a terrible time
because you wouldn't know where your career parcels.

Speaker 11 (01:12:30):
Going to go.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Okay, here I get read another issue for you which
you may touch on talk back.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
You're a good caller.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
You do you know Chuss? It's very well? Yes, okay.
Do you know south Shore every bottom of South Brighton
and south Shore? Yes, okay, I'll give you a question.
I'll give you the answer as well. South Shore to
the airport and christ Edge is further than regular to
the airport. No, yes, it is. For goodness sake, it's

(01:13:03):
a dearer taxi fair and it's longer, take longer to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Wow, they say I could have gone for Is it
the furthest you can go within the the area?

Speaker 10 (01:13:13):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Well, I'm sure you can't go any further because there's
an ocean.

Speaker 14 (01:13:18):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
I realized that, but would it be further? Would it
be a longer trip than Sumner.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
No, some there was more, okay, because something spred around.
We're not drive a few years ago. You know, someday
you're looking into the airport of about seventy five eighty
dollars a lot more now.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
It would be a very interesting taxi drive with all
your information.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
I've done it for twenty twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
Are you still driving?

Speaker 18 (01:13:42):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
No, no, no, but I've still got the knowledge.

Speaker 12 (01:13:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
And was it many in Chris Is it many in
christ Church that you drove?

Speaker 18 (01:13:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
All in christ Cheese? But also did the taxi school.
I taught drivers, I did taxi tours, I did dispatching
on the radio, all the anything to involved with it. Yeah,
very interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
But how do you know about the killdeer? And in
the cargo there as well?

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Just through map reading? I was doing it one day
with someone else. Oh I see, It's just one of
those things.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Is I presume killed the town in Scotland?

Speaker 10 (01:14:18):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Yes? It is Scotland. Yeah, yeah, one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
Not at Ireland County killed here? Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Watch what's the biggest fie. What's the biggest fieve you
ever had?

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Rush put to o'marama jeapis a glider four four hundred
and something dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
What was the hurry.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
He had to get there? He was a tourists coming
to down. He had to get there for his buddy.
But another one was another one was sending at the report.
One day five people came out and get in the
car and they said how much to pict them?

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Cheapers?

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
So I took them depiction because of that time there
was an air strike on little aircraft or off? Did
you give then they went across the Wellington on the ferry.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Did you give them a fixed rate or did you
quote them or did you just.

Speaker 3 (01:15:14):
Make it's quite a quote in the rate. Quoted the
rate which was in the book four hundred and then
they know I picked him was back then with two fifty.
But yeah, you quote them a rate what's in the book,
and then it's negotiable.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Did you get a return? Did you get a return fair?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
No comment, but yes I did not sugar lot of
return fair. I picked up a hedgehike and he offered
me some money for cares.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
Yeah that's good. Okay, what else we're gonna say?

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
Other one's sitting at the airport one down the tourist
walks up a lot of luggage because I had a
bigger eca. He gets in the car. He says, I
want to get a mount hat. I said, well, okay,
he said, I've got fos. I said, you can't do
fos at mount hat because it won't work, so we
stop it on me more. I said, right, I'll approached
you three hundred and fifties in the book says I'll
do it for three hundred. So we saw them.

Speaker 11 (01:16:03):
We more.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
He gets out of the money. I said it was
three hundred. I prooted that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:06):
I'm ha, you were that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
So it gets out the three fifty years. She gave
me four hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
Wow, American American years.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
A lot of gear had to get to mount up
for instruction purposes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Generous.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Yeah, he didn't mind, didn't care the chair.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
They sit in the front or on the back. On
the front and chatted the whole way.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Oh yeah, yep, no worries.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Brilliant, what we're doing a travel Good on your grave.
That's been a good call from you. Thank you for that, Helen.

Speaker 24 (01:16:36):
Yeah, it's good evening.

Speaker 15 (01:16:38):
Yeah, how are you good, Helen?

Speaker 24 (01:16:40):
Great? Now there's a major intersection. I'll try to describe it,
but you'll see it on the on the gurgle you're
coming from coming out of Funk. Oh, you've got a
fung ray. You're going towards Darkville and that becomes State
Highway fourteen, and then crossing that is Western Hills Drive,

(01:17:05):
which continues on and that becomes State Highway one. Now
it's a big it's a good edge section. But when
they put the when they put the traffic lights in
at the hospital, which is.

Speaker 15 (01:17:18):
Further up.

Speaker 24 (01:17:21):
Going towards Dargaville, that then shortened the road so that
when you get so you're coming down Western Hills Drive
and you want to turn right when you get the
green arrow this and then the lights at the hospital,
you end up with traffic coming around Western Hills Drive

(01:17:43):
and going right have not not able to sort of
get get through completely, and so you end up with
all these cars at the halfway around.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Then it looks like it looks like a terrible intersection.

Speaker 24 (01:17:56):
Yes, it's not. For it's well, I don't know what
they're going to do. It was all right until they
did the lights at the hospital, and now it's the
shambles and it will only get it will only get
work because they're wanting to open up the North a
lot more. And so that's that's the major you know,
coming down from the North and getting out of sung
array and with more and more people and there's more

(01:18:17):
and more traffic, and it's just Yeah, I got stuck
in a car shop car park yesterday with just traffic
like I've never seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
And yeah, it was when you say stuck in how
does that work? Oh, well, talk to me about stuck
in a car park and a shopping center.

Speaker 11 (01:18:41):
Well, it was.

Speaker 24 (01:18:42):
I went to the Putty Putty, a health center, a
health shop there, and it's it's got three parking spaces
that in the shop. You know, you turn in there
and park in front of the shop, and then you're
trying to get out of there and there's just you know,
it was part of a clock or something, and the
traffic was just on and on and on and on

(01:19:03):
and on, and eventually the kind shopper and he came
out and he actually took me around to reverse able
to get out of here. But I don't know how
long I would have been there if he hadn't. Well,
what had happened was I got my car stuck with
a box. It was was there, and he came out,

(01:19:25):
excuse me, we got this box stuck into your car.
So then I said, well, how am I going to
get out of this place?

Speaker 15 (01:19:30):
You know?

Speaker 24 (01:19:31):
I went and so he was, I've been going there
for years, so he's really nice.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Man, was the box in your car?

Speaker 24 (01:19:37):
No, it was, I got it was stuck underneath the
front of my car. I didn't realize when I drove
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
For goodness sake, really and it had a box, yes.

Speaker 24 (01:19:48):
And it got jammed underneath, so it was no had
stuff in it, your own stuff, no stuff for the shop,
because they had boxes outside the shop and just one.
I didn't see it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
It doesn't sound good. And why did he have to
tell you to reverse that? What were you going to?

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:20:07):
I was?

Speaker 24 (01:20:08):
I was, you know, I was there, and I said, well,
how the hell am I going to get out of here?
Because I've been sitting there and sitting there and sitting
there in this traffic never never seemed to cease. I mean,
it's getting getting really congested up here.

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
Now Auckland does.

Speaker 24 (01:20:25):
Sorry in trying aray.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
It is appear from Auckland moving up there, I presume. So, yeah,
they're up there talking about how much I sold their
house for and what it's like.

Speaker 24 (01:20:33):
But that intersections, I'm quite problematic, and I really don't
know what they're going to do about it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
You've got to move, you must. They really need move
to Dargaville.

Speaker 24 (01:20:42):
That's kidding. That's starting to happen as well.

Speaker 7 (01:20:47):
Up now.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
I hope that go to Copado or something like that.

Speaker 24 (01:20:52):
I hope that they never make that Highway fourteen only wider,
because it's a shocker for a road.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
With the sun strike, people still get sun strike?

Speaker 13 (01:21:04):
Do they shocking?

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Really sucking?

Speaker 18 (01:21:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
I thought that would have got rid of that by now.

Speaker 24 (01:21:09):
No, no, no, no, no, You'll have to tell God.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I've got a north South. I'm not getting much sun strike.
To be fair, I think I've ever had sun strike
down South. No, I've never had sun strike. It's fair
to say I had a wind strike. It's not good.
I'll tell you what. We're not that into a New Zealand.
Oh no, we are a little bit. But you know
how in America they have second AV and third EV

(01:21:38):
and fourth a F. I think Hastings has got a
bit of that and Totong has got a bit of that. Yeah,
sometimes get male that goes to We're on Marine parade.
There's quite a few marine parades. Is one in Napier
and one in Totonga. Although our street what our street?
Our street is State Highway one, but then it goes

(01:22:00):
onto black watery Gore Street. It's about four names by
the way, is it interesting? But boy, I got home
last night and I just about took the door off
with that wind. I would have parked into the wind
if Fannis had't got a ticket last week for parking

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on the wrong side of the road. But I think
I could have taken it to court. And so because
it was so windy for about now when I got
home to secure the house, I had to do the
quick circuit of the house at twenty past midnight. Everything
was moving around, unbelievable. The air in the wind a

(01:22:51):
westerly like no other sharky Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 27 (01:22:58):
Get the Marcus, I see your video. I don't know
if you got it to the email of a car
coming towards me yesterday on the Expressway in Hamilton. Sure,
because you know I drive trucks and the car was
coming down the south in the actual northbound lanes and

(01:23:18):
the expressway and just about hit the front of my truck.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
And yeah, so there's a lot of did you see
I've just seen that? Did you see that? To the Feds?

Speaker 27 (01:23:30):
No, because there would have been police cars that came
after and around about five minutes later.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
But that's a victim of the confusion of the roading,
isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:23:41):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (01:23:41):
I think I think so. I think they were confused
and didn't know what the road layout was. And and
you know what's going on at night is there's so
much roadworks. Like I've just left our yard in Penrose
to go back down to Mount long Annui and I'm
at East heading towards East Temmicky Road. They've closed the
motorway here to go all the way to read Out road.

(01:24:03):
Now the traffic has just diabolical.

Speaker 22 (01:24:05):
I've heard that, uh what half ast teen at night?

Speaker 27 (01:24:09):
And when I leave here and I get back on
the road down at Mannecare, I guess I'll run into
more roadworks Bombay.

Speaker 2 (01:24:17):
Where you pick where'd you pick up your concerts from? Sharky?
I did it from Pinros at what time?

Speaker 27 (01:24:25):
So I was at Pinro. I loaded at Pinrose there.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Half half nine, so it's been an hour to get
to Redoubt Road right, Yeah, just to.

Speaker 27 (01:24:36):
East Temmicky Road to get off the motorway. So I
have a five So you you said four and a
half hours before, it's actually five and a half hours
of driving time that we're allowed before we have to
have a half hour break. Yeah, but a maximum of
thirteen hours driving time in that day.

Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
So where were you bound for?

Speaker 5 (01:24:59):
Sharky mountainin Anui?

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
That's where you drop the stuff off.

Speaker 7 (01:25:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:25:06):
I park up the truck for the night down there one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Time, a little bit past one, no, one o'clock.

Speaker 27 (01:25:17):
Yeah, no, with the traffic, I probably won't get down
there now for about three in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
And what time do you kick off tomorrow?

Speaker 27 (01:25:25):
General, Well, I left Mount mung And the year it's
five o'clock this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
So yeah, it's really impactful on your work, isn't it.

Speaker 27 (01:25:36):
It can be. You know, you get frustrated. It's I
can understand and wanting to, you know, need him to
do the road works. But man, it's just it's like
this is an actual just a mess reeling that that's
happening at East Temmocky right now.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Can you see what they're working on is at common knowledge?
What they are working on there.

Speaker 9 (01:26:00):
No, I.

Speaker 27 (01:26:02):
Didn't even see any notifications on any of the Facebook pages.

Speaker 19 (01:26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:26:07):
Yeah, but that.

Speaker 27 (01:26:08):
Video of that car coming towards me last night, hero Oh,
lucky I saw it. Lucky, I saw it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
But you went in the same lane as it were.

Speaker 15 (01:26:18):
You.

Speaker 27 (01:26:19):
I had only just gone back into that left lane
after passing another truck. So if it had been like
a few seconds earlier, yeah, it would have come.

Speaker 7 (01:26:32):
Straight for me.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Well, they must have realized quite quickly. You don't know
what happened to them. I suppose you did. It's all
in your rear vision mirror, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (01:26:39):
No.

Speaker 27 (01:26:39):
Well, I was flashing my lights to try and you know,
hey stop.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
Yeah, that looks heroing. So I'm surprised it must have
resolved itself fairly quickly.

Speaker 8 (01:26:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:26:50):
Well, I did see the police cars going south in
the South Found lanes about five minutes after that happened,
So someone obviously had rung the police and told them
that the vehicle was going in the the expressway in
the wrong lane.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
Nice call from me, shaky, thank you got him. Last night,
the New Life of Bread was moldy, So that's two
rows life. Something's going on there. I just mentioned that,
and I don't want to fixate about that. That was
yesterday's topic. We're just saying is a revisit. So that's
happened also, But if you want to talk on air,
that's what I'm about. Maneamer's Marcus good evening. Keep those texts,

(01:27:31):
but mainly it's the calls. That's mainly what I'm after tonight.
I eight one hundred and eighty nine text Marcus and Hastings.
There is a Frienly Road, a Frimly ab, a Frimly place,
all in the suburb Frimley. I think that's where we

(01:27:53):
heard about Friendley last week when there was the fire
nearby the pecking shed. Never heard of Frimley before that,
but I think that's where that pool they're closing is
at the Friendly Pool. That's what's happened. Nineteen away from
eleven Moneamers Marcus could evening and welcome. I hope it's
hope you're having a pleasant night. You might be winding

(01:28:13):
in your way home from the office work party. Always
like a reveal about that.

Speaker 21 (01:28:20):
How was that for you?

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
They say this year most people aren't going to a party.
They're going to do an experience, like an escape room.
I wish I'd love it if work set me on
for an escape room on my own. Anyway, I'm sure
I could probably do it myself. Jamie, it's Marcus. Good

(01:28:46):
evening and welcome Hi Jamie. You're not You're not bad
as yourself?

Speaker 7 (01:28:50):
All good?

Speaker 10 (01:28:52):
Yeah, Jim.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
And what do you got to say, Jamie?

Speaker 20 (01:28:57):
Just the roads generous out south, deep south, and trying
and ride a motorbike on that road, get around in
a poll drive or trunck something like that. And they
get around on a bike and get a bit of
rain on the surface and the loss of select And
he gets a big popholes to ten words of just yeah,

(01:29:17):
not everyone's commuting these days in a cool drives.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
I'm hearing you are you are your truck driver as well?
Are you out driving now?

Speaker 20 (01:29:28):
I am driving while ut now, but yeah, driving through
the Cross Church tonight, so from from downtown. So he's
got seven odd air drives in my hands, but he
had cross trench.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
I also I also reckon, particularly down south. It's something
to deal with a light. But the the road markings
can be really hard to see.

Speaker 20 (01:29:46):
Also, yeah, I mean road markings are one thing, but yeah,
trying to keep the motorbike tyre sisters only so wide.
There's not a lot of rubber on the road. And
then the roads are in the subpar conditioners. They are
in a lot of areas, and then you find where
they where they get use and they get patched. It's

(01:30:08):
patches on patches on patches. Before you know it, you've
got different areas of the patches letting go before others
are just turns into an extent like a roller.

Speaker 10 (01:30:19):
Goes to right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Yeah, has it put you off motorbike?

Speaker 15 (01:30:23):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Has it?

Speaker 20 (01:30:25):
You're very aware when you're riding. It takes a lot
of concentration.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
And it is dangerous well, particularly with people texting and
stuff when they're driving and not paying away. When that's
your I mean, that's your thing, is that they might
survive the motorbike excident, but you're not going to.

Speaker 20 (01:30:44):
Yes, yes, plenty of that plea to get that going
on as well.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
As it much wind up the country, Jamie. As it
died down, uhs died down.

Speaker 16 (01:30:56):
It is gale force like.

Speaker 20 (01:30:58):
In southern when I left and all days. That is
absolutely atrocious down there at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
Yeah that's my that's yeah, I thought so. I just
didn't stop, so it make me won't do anything in
the garden. Nice to talk to Jamie. Thank you for that,
because let's face it, talk back doesn't fix much. Yeah,
and it can depress people if you overly focus on something.

(01:31:35):
I'm not saying that we do that, but anyway, just saying,
keep it bright, tight and real. What are the good
news I don't want to go all good news stories,
but what are the good news stories.

Speaker 7 (01:31:47):
I had?

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
I had parent teachers interviews to that school. Get this,
they call it a three way. Yeah, they call it
a three way because the teachers, the parents, and the pupils.
So we had our three way today. So I said,

(01:32:13):
I'm here for the three way, although there was actually
five of us because the two kids are in the
same class. So there was the teacher, the two children
in the same class, and me and my partner. And
then the teacher said any questions, and I said, yes,
which of the children do you prefer? And she wouldn't

(01:32:38):
answer that, which I thought was very fair. But anyway,
that was kind of how it went. It was the
three way, which was the five way. So anyway, it
was good, very good. Nothing like the joy of sitting
on a child's chair, as you always do for the
three way. Anyway, that's my story. That was I had

(01:33:00):
some other funny things. I said, I forget what they were.
Let's get a bit of a high going back into
the classroom. Anyway, that was that. That was all very good.
Kids were delightful. I'll be two scared of a child
to go along to a three way, But the kids
loved it, didn't they go. They liked the teacher, so

(01:33:22):
that was exciting. Then I just went into a ramble
we planned for the holiday's discussion. That was good, saying
that was the three way, and they cause you just
have six more days of school. Yeah, I've got the

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Bluff Parade this Sunday. I was at the Sea Scouts
yesterday helping them decorate the boat for the parade. I said, well,
you pick you there. If it's windy, I don't think
we'll be doing It's that was fun, all the tinsel
out and stuff like that. So if you're board on Sunday,

(01:34:05):
that's the Bluff Parade. I don't know if it's be
in New Zealand's southernmost Christmas Parade out of Stewart Island,
has Well. I to speak the probably would be, so yeah,
that could be good. I don't know how many floats
it will be. There'll be the Fieries, the fire Brigade,
there'll be the ambulance, There'll be the Sea Scouts. I

(01:34:26):
don't think there will be the police. I think they
are there at the event afterwards. I think what the
other parades are pretty much anyone can go and anyone's
got an interesting car or something, even a car that's
like ten years old. There we go put that in.
So yep, that's the old Christmas parade, just something who

(01:34:47):
they have had the other years. What it says about
twenty parades are twenty. Oh, there's those sort of what
do they call those? Those steampunk people always lurking around,
desperate for excuse to walk down the street down't there?
They'll be there. I'm not quite sure what that's about.
Freaks me out of it freaks me. Two things that
freaked me out steampunk and historical villages. Marcus been in

(01:35:11):
relatives from England to visit Ashburton. They are shot by
the width of Walnut Avenue. It's probably forty meters wide
compared to the narrower English road. JT. She last time
I was. I had a very good look around the
Britannic gardens at Eshburton. They were well worth a look.

(01:35:33):
Found those most interesting actually, some interesting trees of significance.
They say it's the duel and ash Burton's Crown, and
I reckon they're right. It was the same place I
managed to fall in the fountain unassisted. I don't quite
know why I managed to fall in the founder and

(01:35:53):
it was a really bad day, but just happened to
fall in the Burton fountain. Marcus so of This question
has been asked lots, but just wondering when is your
last day of talkback? The last day of talkback for me,
I don't normally go on about this. I normally just
do the Irish sideway with my holidays. It's not this Friday,
which is the sixth, It's not next Friday, which is

(01:36:15):
the thirteenth. It'll be the twentieth, that's right, There'll be
the twentieth of December, and then I shall go walk
about and then I shall return later in January. January,

(01:36:36):
unless there's any youth chattering news that happens, I'll come back.
When's Trump getting inaugurated, I'll come back. Frog Trumpo, because
I'm sure things will happen quite quickly when he's in charge.
I'll be back for you know, and I can't imagine
it'll be happening in a good way. I'll be back
frog Trumpo. I'm complaining about how many how many people

(01:36:59):
came to inauguration and no one reported it promptly. Oh,
she's going to be predictable at this time of the year.
I always offer a service. There might be someone that
wants to buy a gift for someone for Christmas and
doesn't know where to buy it. I can help you out.
We can ask people you might want to get someone

(01:37:19):
might want to get I don't know, a smurf, whiskey, decanter,
or some unusual gift. Mind. Every year I say that
not people are slow to ask for advice. Sleepless nights ahead,
thirties in some parts of the coming week, eight degrees

(01:37:44):
above average, yep, eight degrees above average. Let that sink in.
So heat alerts have begun for the summer season. So
the very old and very young need to be war

(01:38:07):
that's eleven past eleven, Come on, Marcus or twelve. Anything
goes hit on the end head on midnight. My name
as Marcus. Welcome, there's something different or yeah, someone wants
to know how to get rid of ants. Never wrong
it's the only answer for rance that works, always works.

(01:38:30):
I don't know what di in it, but never wrong
is great for ants. I can say that with great confidence.
I don't know what dinner, but you might want to
talk about that also, and then mold on bread and
mutton hams. That's our two back topics. What can I

(01:38:52):
buy my grandson's new girlfriend age twenty thief for Christmas?

Speaker 8 (01:38:56):
They do?

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
That's good. A grandson's new girlfriend twenty thief three for Christmas?
They don't drink. What a twenty three year old female
want for Christmas? That doesn't drink? Twenty three? Don't know
any twenty three year old females. I can't imagine. If

(01:39:17):
you're twenty three year old female out there, what would
you like for Christmas? You won't get it, But this
woman's grand this woman's grandson's girlfriend will get it. Twenty
three year old female, got no idea. I'd just say
a scrub daddy, Catherine Marcus, Good evening.

Speaker 18 (01:39:41):
Evening, Marcus. I've got a fuller grown water in my
kitchen under.

Speaker 14 (01:39:46):
A ball on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
It's going to be hard, okay, because can you slide
a bit of cardboard underneath it?

Speaker 18 (01:39:52):
And they slipped it outside, Well, I'll say to you,
but I can't get it up far enough in the ball.
I don't want to kill it because they're in endangered.

Speaker 2 (01:40:02):
Now, No, you don't want to damage its legs or
it sings with the cardboard. Why why did you say
you can't get the carbin underneath it?

Speaker 18 (01:40:08):
Because like I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough I would be too. I
think you're stuck. Is it a metal bowl?

Speaker 7 (01:40:26):
You know?

Speaker 18 (01:40:26):
It's a porcelain one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Topy tails So you can't really slide it towards the
door either, because then that could kind of damage the water.

Speaker 18 (01:40:41):
Also, oh, I can't because it goes for the kitchen
onto the castet, So you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
Wouldn't be able to slide an oven tray underneath that bowl.
You may work, yeah, because it's got a bit more
rigid than cardboard, isn't it mm hmmmm. And then maybe
just they just take it outside and just leave.

Speaker 18 (01:41:03):
It all right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
They are quite, say they are quite. I mean they
look scary, don't they. I Mean, I don't mind wetter,
but I can understand what.

Speaker 6 (01:41:12):
You what you?

Speaker 18 (01:41:13):
Yeah, it is in my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
Yeah, which part of the country are in? Ktherine? Oh okay,
I'll see if anone else has got any advice, But
that would be that would be my advice. You want
to critique my advice, but I would say an oven tray,
slide down to the porcelain bowl, take it outside, and
then just take the porcelain bowl off the oven train
and run and side. When they're not quick move, They're
not going to bite, but they are creepy looking. So yeah,

(01:41:40):
anyone else got the advice for Katherine or for twenty
five year old? Was she twenty five? Twenty three? Marcus?
I'm twenty five and probably like a mecha voucher or
a shower of products e g. Lush products, Well experiences
are also ready cruel. Make your own perfume. I'd like
to make my own perfume, as decided by two brothers.

Speaker 10 (01:42:02):
To you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Every night, even though we're in different countries and always
having grown up to thank you for keeping us connected.
We always discuss your show goodness, Isabella Marcus. I think
a perfume from the chemist warehouse or a double movie
voucher or a nail voucher.

Speaker 21 (01:42:26):
What about a.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Mutton Ham textures like a Muttonham Probably not Marcus. Some
ideas lush bath products, book voucher, body shop, body butters.
A body butter would love you to remind listeners in

(01:42:48):
the Widered Apper of recarted in Christmas at Carroll's and
Carrington Park this Sunday. I will send my Wider Apper contings.
I know a couple in the White Apper. Twenty three
year old female would like perfume. Marcus is an eighty
percent off warehouse sale for Sea to Cruise and Dickie's
clothing and marng and the Auker over the week in

(01:43:09):
eight to three, Tony, Thank you, Tony. A twenty three
year old girl would like a Stanley cup. That's a
giant cup. I think a twenty three year old yeah,
I would. I'm not a great gift buyer. I reckon,

(01:43:35):
you can't go past a novelty gift. What about what
do they all wear these days? They always wear eyes,
but it's probably a bit personal by clothing. If she's
your grandson's girlfriend, you can't really buy a sort of
a or that. What do they wear those these days?
They want into that sort of leggings legging stuff, aren't they.
That's probably a bit sort of full on because she

(01:43:57):
might be a leggings I presume you've met her. I'd
like a jigsaw, but that's me, not you, isn't it?
What would I if I was a twenty three year
old girl? What would I want?

Speaker 15 (01:44:12):
I like? So?

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
Yeah, anyway, like a multi tool? Probably not for here?

Speaker 13 (01:44:17):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Good evening?

Speaker 3 (01:44:19):
John?

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
AT's Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 11 (01:44:22):
Yeah? Marcus, I wasn't going to ring. I was ringing
last night. But this business about the bread dog getting
stale and moldy, we never have any any trouble with
that at all. We've got one of those new clip
type sealed plastic bin things. You know they've got a
blue handle on each side.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
Oh you like systemics or something.

Speaker 11 (01:44:43):
Yeah, that's the one. That's the one. That's one. Well
you're going to get quite a big one. But we
just put the breed in there, clip down the four sides,
good in the prints. Never have any trouble with the
bread moldy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
It's a good idea. They should do a specially, shouldn't they.
That's what you want?

Speaker 11 (01:45:00):
Now? Do you know what to give this girl? For
twenty three do you know what to give her?

Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
This would be interesting.

Speaker 11 (01:45:07):
No, I'm a lady eight year old? You ready? You
were a kind look yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Okay, she's not she's not my she's not my Yeah, okay,
fair enough, thank you, John kind luck. I reckon it's
pretty nice the granddaughter. The grandmother wants to give the
grandson's girlfriend a present because she's a new girlfriend. Because
if you're buying the granddaughter's the grandson's girlfriend the present,
you're buying a lot of people presents. Oh it might

(01:45:41):
be grandfather too. We don't want to be too gender specific.
I can go through the pre I can do a
deep dive. What can I buy my grandson's new girlfriend?
They don't drink, they want to start drinking. I reckon
a candle for the young woman. She's not going to
get drunk and locking over. I reckon a candy. You

(01:46:02):
can never never have enough candles that my vote get
a can mean a candor like but you know, a
proper go treasure. It's Marcus, good.

Speaker 15 (01:46:12):
Evening, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:46:16):
About the wetter I think the lady should leave a
door slightly open. She before she lifts the pot off
the or the bowl off the weather she should have
a cannon brush ready, just a small kitchen cannon brush,
and then lift the bowl up and scoop the better
onto the pan.

Speaker 13 (01:46:33):
And then run out the door with him and put
him at the base of a tree.

Speaker 28 (01:46:36):
He'll be absolutely terrified. I've rescued lots of wetters, and
as long as she puts some, don't throw it down
on the concrete. Make sure he can get under some
leaves or so. He doesn't want to be in the house.
He hates it there, and he hates being in the bowl,
and the nicest thing she could possibly do is to
scoop him up. He'll probably try and attack the brush,
but he won't hurt her. And even if he nips her,
it's not can't harm her.

Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
So probably meant it when you try to slide something
in the bowl, because its easy to damage animal that way.

Speaker 9 (01:47:04):
Isn't it cut his legs off?

Speaker 28 (01:47:05):
Yeah, she should lift fole off, make sure she's got
a door, open, a pan and brush next to her,
and the moment she scoops him into the pan, into
the you know, I'm talking about the small kitchen I
was waking room, and she can drop him outside and
put him under a tree with us and leaves, and
he just wants that's where he wants to be.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Very kind Trisia, like the way you've said that, Thank you,
Janet's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:47:28):
It was very nice what she did.

Speaker 2 (01:47:32):
With great kindness.

Speaker 26 (01:47:33):
Yeah, looking after the winter?

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
What what what have you wanted for Christmas when you
were twenty three?

Speaker 7 (01:47:41):
Jen?

Speaker 26 (01:47:42):
Oh? A box of cad Breeze chocolate never went wrong?
Or a turn of toffees you know got are wrapped
up in a nice turn.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
She might be she might be diabetic.

Speaker 26 (01:47:56):
Oh well otherwise soap, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
So that's right, Well make your own, sob I'd like
to make mind, So give that to wrap it up
and interesting why here?

Speaker 26 (01:48:07):
Yeah, nice paper. Now the wetter what I would do
is get an empty cake tin and just use the
lid of the tin, like lift the bowl off. Wetters
can run really fast and I've been nipped by one
and it hurts. So just have a tin ready and

(01:48:30):
with the lid of the tin, you just sort of
gently toss it, not toss it gently, encourage it to
go in the tin, put the lid on it. Then
you're safe because she might trip over or something running
to the door. Open door and all that, so she
could just pop it outside until the morning and then

(01:48:52):
put it under the leaves in the morning.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Oh she could trip. I thought that was good, as
she said the leaves too, that were not in the
concrete and the leaves.

Speaker 26 (01:48:59):
Yeah yeah, and do it gently so wetters if they
do drum hell of a first and then going to
your heel with your feet something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
A speedway to thank you, Jen, Hello, Todd.

Speaker 13 (01:49:18):
Heya Marcus. Just earlier on I heard you talking about
roads and roundabouts and you might want to google this,
but one of the legends in the UK is the
Magic Roundabout in Swindon in Wiltshire. It's five mini roundabouts
on one roundabout.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Because probably on YouTube too, is that you watched live
video of it? Is there a live video? I've seen
pictures of it, but I haven't seen it.

Speaker 13 (01:49:40):
Next No, I saw there's a quite long winded one
where a guy wants to explain to you. I think
he's a driving instructor how to use it. But I've
seen it and it's like watching cars through ballet. It
works tremendously well. I don't know how because it's very
looks very confusing, but once you get on it, it
sort of makes all sense. Really.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
What tell me about Swindon is that, like the beck
of Beyond.

Speaker 13 (01:50:07):
It's uh, I think a lot of I you went
in there, it's off.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
I feel it.

Speaker 13 (01:50:13):
It wouldn't be on your tourist radar. It's not special.
It's sort of I would put it with Milton Keynes.
I mean, I don't know if you've heard of Milton
keys a Coltree Cow and it's it's very much built
on the American system. It's all well, lots of roundabouts
which the Americans don't have, but very wide streets and

(01:50:35):
it's all gridded sort of thing. Not very I think
it was a Margaret Patch's brainchild. It's very quick to
get into London. It's thirty minutes on a fast train.
So but yes, Swindon wouldn't It's close to bath and
and all those sort of places that you wouldn't be
going to Swindon for anything but to see the magic roundabout.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
Really, the video is quite I've watched about watch the
video and it's very complicated, but it seems to work.

Speaker 6 (01:50:58):
It seems.

Speaker 13 (01:51:01):
Yeah, well they reckon. It's one of the something I
don't know if it's they said, the best roundabout system,
but it was designed by some guy and it's I mean,
I guess the proofs in the pudding that it was
back in the seventies, I think. And there's no other one,
so maybe it's a one off.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
But you can imagine the guy you measine the guy.
You imagine the guy council trying to get approval for it.
What you call about five roundabouts around another round It
is quite good, these aerial dome it had worked quite well.

Speaker 13 (01:51:29):
Yeah, he must have wanted some stressings, like he would
have wanted five extra planning permissions, I would assume. But
who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
Nice to hear from you, Todd Dave, twenty three year
old woman. What would you get it for Christmas?

Speaker 7 (01:51:43):
I'd get it a Christmas card with a fifty dollars note.
Ye can't go wrong now, Marcus. I had to look
up what I went. It looks like it looks like
you're a grasshopper, don't they?

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's that you're onto it.

Speaker 7 (01:51:56):
Oh so I don't have any more answers about from that,
But I don't know to get too far wrong with
the old coinage in a card, Marcus the.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
Old Dora me someone someone might think that might be
a bit of a crisis of imagination to give some of.

Speaker 7 (01:52:15):
The money, well for lack of you know, doing something
that may not you know, you can always utilize a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:52:26):
Of a bit of cash with a cash Okay, thanks Dave.
I know quite often now you go to dairy get
vouchers like came ut quite often week people are yeah
camart vouchers. I got given a voucher the other day
for doing a survey. Women came to the house about
eleven o'clock in the morning to ask me questions about
the tea way, aluminium smelter, what cheap is here we go?

(01:52:48):
She was a delight, but I think probably the whole
process was more that the smell to want to think
that people will been listened to. I don't think the
answers were going to be adhered to. That was my suspicion. Anyways,
she gave me a voucher, a ten dollar warehouse voucher.
I think it was go it to the kids to

(01:53:11):
make me a cup of coffee. But they've got no
use for it. They're not wanting I don't know if
it's a warehouse or I shouldn't know where it was from.
Now I think it was weird. It might have been Kmart.
I'd like to avoid those shops. The only thing I
ever go to the warehouse for his colored pencils. Too
much stuff for me. It's the thanks it's the Halloween

(01:53:34):
that does my heeaden. All those plastic pumpkins you know
people used to talk up came out. I find it
the most depressing of the big shops. Really terrible, all
that tet anyway, even the kids stuff's not great Marcus.
I think perfume is tricky to choose for rather person.

(01:53:55):
But a jigsaw is a great idea gift for twenty
three old. Gourmet hot chocolate mixed with marshmallows. Nice ones
in the gift bag you a nice tea to tea
with a tea cup or tea. But I have a
twenty year old daughter and her friends love these. A
long duster. They will grab that. Oh it's for the wetter,

(01:54:17):
not for the girl. Won't get her a long duster.
There are some wonderful ind or plants for sale. They
have becomey. Probably be a great present of twenty three
year old. I want to help with the gifted gesture,
and I don't know what the twenty three year old
identifies as well. I think she identifies as It does

(01:54:41):
say that she is the grandson's new girlfriend, so I
think she identifies female. That would be my reckoning. But
if you want to make it more confusing for yourself,
you buy something that's gender neutral, like a jigsaw or

(01:55:04):
a candle. Hello Jonath, Hello Marks here, Welcome Jonathan. Good evening.

Speaker 14 (01:55:12):
Good evening, are a good gift for the twenty three
year old lady. There are out now some very very good,
high quality umbrellas goodness. They've got extra spines for support
so it doesn't blow inside out. The button on the

(01:55:35):
bottom of the handle opens up the umbrella also closes it,
and the handle was designed like a steel clip so
you can bend the spring back and hook it onto
your belt so it doesn't pull off your belk. The
umbrella comes in various colors. I can't think of the

(01:55:57):
name of it at the moment, the one I'm thinking about,
but there comes in various colors, one of them being white.
The gift can be wrapped up in paper or put
in a sort of long rectangular box so it looks
nice as a gift. It's a sort of gift you
can give a lady or a man and it's useful

(01:56:19):
all the year round.

Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
I've never been given an umbrella. I have runed an umbrella.

Speaker 14 (01:56:25):
Well in Wellington. You need money every day. But I
used of in Wellington and I gave my daughter one.
She now lives in naper so doesn't use it as much,
and I live in Otechi, but I know there some
very good ones around. This is a collapsible one, and
I'm sure if the grandmother shocked around you've able to

(01:56:45):
find it. The other alternative is a blunt umbrella b
l unt. They're quite expensive and they don't collapse. But
you often see the sports presenters using an umbrella on
television if it's raining.

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
Now, where did you discover this brandom umbrella? Where did
you come up across this?

Speaker 14 (01:57:07):
I was googling something the other day, and of course,
like when you get on you're looking at something, all
the ads pop up. But I'm sure if the lady,
you know, I went to the trouble of googling umbrellas,
it would pop up. I'm not too sure if they're
available in retail shops from where you've got to buy
them online. But I had bought still umbrellas for friends

(01:57:32):
in different occasions and they gone down a real treat.
And I think, and I think twenty three year old
young lady would love a gift like.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
That, brilliant quit of a downer seasonally, if you're having
a hot summer time, you got a winter umbrella. But
you know, I mean it's tried and tested for you,
So good on you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
Ollie.

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
Hello, Hello, Yeah, Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (01:57:57):
Yeah, I've got a bit of a story about a
weather good. Yeah. Well I always thought weathers were pretty harmless.
And anyway, my son is about twelve years old and
I we've seen waters and he was scared of him,
and I was kind of scared of him as well,
but I was like, oh, well, they're not that scary.

(01:58:20):
So I picked one up and I was showing my
son how you know they're not going to hurt you,
and this fricking thing hit me right on the finger
and like grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go.
And yeah, so I screamed and shattered and swore, and yeah,

(01:58:40):
I put him off wetters forever.

Speaker 7 (01:58:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:58:44):
Do you think that's gonna be hard? Do you think
it's gonna be a helpful story for the woman's trying
to get rid of the wetter.

Speaker 9 (01:58:53):
I've actually only just joined the conversation, so I didn't know.
I just heard you talking about wetters, so I thought
I had a story.

Speaker 2 (01:58:59):
So fair enough, Thanks Ollie, Dane, Marcus, Hello, how you go?

Speaker 15 (01:59:03):
Mate?

Speaker 7 (01:59:05):
I just want to know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Three lovely Well, that's a great girt love a lava
lamb any kid in love a lava lamping a twenty
three year old as well.

Speaker 7 (01:59:20):
You know I look great at night time when.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
Brilliant. I'm all there for you, Dane. I imagine a
lot of twenty three year olds would have different desires, desires.
It sounded a weird that we're doing different things. They'd
want the good she's turning up for Christmas. She sounds
up for it, meeting the new grandmother in law. Of course,

(01:59:44):
even I've invested, this relationship goes well. Now I'm quite
excited about this. Welcome to the family. Good evening, Nicola,
it's Marcus will welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:59:58):
Hey, how's it going good?

Speaker 2 (01:59:59):
Thanks Nichola.

Speaker 13 (02:00:02):
To add on what to get a twenty three year
old girl, I strongly suggests and no vouchers are a
bit boring, but or a vouchers.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
Okay, but would you need a certain amount there? Ah?
Because I made this? Stuff's a bit pricey, is it?

Speaker 1 (02:00:23):
Ah?

Speaker 25 (02:00:24):
It's one hundred dollars to me?

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
I don't I don't know. I don't know what we're dealing. Well,
and if she's on the pension or he's on the
pension or yeah, okay true?

Speaker 25 (02:00:33):
Or if sixty dollars is your budget?

Speaker 24 (02:00:35):
Sold it?

Speaker 13 (02:00:36):
Solder Janeiro packs from Mecca.

Speaker 26 (02:00:40):
They're pretty affordable, sixty or fifty backs.

Speaker 15 (02:00:44):
What what is that?

Speaker 10 (02:00:46):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
I've seen? And there's a colored perfume body mess.

Speaker 23 (02:00:52):
It's got like bum bum cream and and a moisturizer.

Speaker 2 (02:00:58):
Looks like a brilliant chower.

Speaker 23 (02:00:59):
Sorry shower jouse.

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
You've got three things in one brilliant idea, Nicolas, thanks
for that. Sold is sold as Gennario Shirosap. I don't
really know what a bum bum peck is. Could someone
text me what that is? Changing world? Isn't it anyway?

(02:01:39):
Brazilian bumbum jet set. I don't know quite what you
do with that? Is it to ton your buttocks? Is
that what it's for? I got no idea Brazilian bumbum

(02:02:05):
cream message and a suit the motion to create warmth
for better absorption for your bumbum, legs, tummy, arms and
all over your body. I didn't know you had to
put cream there. Now, good on you for telling you

(02:02:25):
that I've learned something to know. There we go, whatevering, Chris,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 17 (02:02:35):
Oh hi you Marcus, just listening to yours talking about
the gifting for the twenty three year old. I discovered
earlier in the year the Ultimate gift and its age neutral,
gender neutral. It's just absolutely universal, and it's so good
that everybody in my family got one.

Speaker 9 (02:02:51):
For their birthday.

Speaker 17 (02:02:53):
And that is that is, and it's cheap at Chips
tea A might a ten pen. Wow, Now, let me
tell you a might a ten pen. It's a pen, okay,
And then on the other end it's a stylus. And
if you take the stylus off, you find a double
ended screw drive a piece, so it's straight to Phillips.

(02:03:14):
It gives you a metric ruler really the pen, and
then it gives you also an imperial ruler. And just
just the absolute bonus is it's got a spirit level
on it and cheapest chips, So how could that not
be useful to everybody?

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
It's so good? Why have I never seen them there?

Speaker 17 (02:03:36):
I don't know, but I and I mean I gave
I gave all of my children one because I didn't
want to show favorites to them. You see, I couldn't
give one to one, and they're.

Speaker 2 (02:03:43):
Not they're four ninety nine.

Speaker 17 (02:03:48):
I think I paid more than that. I might have
paid ten dollars.

Speaker 8 (02:03:51):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
Built in spirit level stylus tip for smartphone flathead and
Phillips four point pen.

Speaker 17 (02:04:00):
How could you go wrong? And I haven't mentioned the ruler,
isn't Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
It's great for a secret center as well. Yeah? Wow,
lost leader for them, Chris. That's great, brilliant, Thank you.
She thought he's making that up. Chris. That's good, by
the way. The others very very good suggestion. This would
be one of my best, apart from the bum Bump
cream bed bath and beyond. Have some lovely striped beach

(02:04:28):
towels with a zip pocket for keys. I think a
beach towel screams. I mean, who's not going to like
a beach towel? I think everyone would like a beach towel.
Because it's not good, because you could use it even
if you're not a beach person. Maybe a beach towel
in a spirit level pen.

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