Now they're called 'sky pandas' (17 February 2025)

It's a bit of a free-for-all Monday covering Canada Geese, exploding gas cylinders, a terrible tourism slogan, and vaping.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be greetings, welcome, This is me Marcus reporting for
Judy eight seven point thirty. Welcome head on midnight. I
just something first to just check off before I cut
into the nuts and bolts of it. The situation with
Port Witkto. I was across the news looking like it
was a fire on the rampage. I'm not seeing much
about that now on the webs. Could someone tell me

(00:34):
if we've got people in Port wait Cato place I
spent a lot of time with as a child at
always quite pasionate about Port Waketto. But there seemed to
be a fast moving fire. Three helicopters Yadiyah were doing
it and stopping people for people away from the house.
If you've got an update from that of that with that,
wouldn't mind hearing what you've got to say about that

(00:56):
and any other updates of breaking news, but certainly to
begin with Port way Catto. I'm sure we'll have listeners
there just because a call. Wouldn't mind hearing a bit
about that. How that penning out? So eight hundred eighty
ten eighty and nine two nine two to text you
got some information about that. That's Port Waykettle the situation too.
That's for those people that don't know aren't living in
the Northide. That's just probably an hour south of Auckland

(01:19):
on the west coast. Oh gosh, you'll know where it is,
Port Waketo. It's the mouth of the river, New Zealand's
longest river. Is it longest, busiest, longest, most volume, I
don't know what. I think it's the longest. Well, I
think we call it the biggest weather, but what is big?
So if you are there and know anything about what's
happening there, let us know. My name's Marcus. Welcome. Oh

(01:39):
eight hundred eighty ten. That is Port Wakettle and the
fire that is there mournsil Road or something along those lines.
You've got some information, they'd be nice to hear from
you about that. Plenty of other stuff to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Ava'mbe trinkling topics throughout the throughout the night. You see,
four hours ago it was rapidly spreading. Three hours ago
it was homes of eacue. So if you've got the update,
because you'll have the proper update, because you'll know the
fire easier. You'll be there and you'll know something to do.

(02:14):
Let us know you might even be in a nearby province,
to Aco or somewhere like that. Let us know what's
happening there. That's Porto catal bewas what happens too. You know,
journalists go home, We don't get the latest updates rapidly spreading.
There were evacuations. I just wonder if the people are

(02:35):
back in their house and if the fire is contained.
Be across that eight hundred eighty ten eightyan nine two
nine two to text. That's the first thing I want
to cover off tonight. You've got some information in that
that would be great to hear from you, brilliant, Get
in touch. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine

(02:57):
two nine two to text. By the way, there's looking
at a new appliance retailer moving into New Zealand. Appliance
is online appliants, removal and deliverers. I guess hals the

(03:17):
hustler's the removal though most people are pretty good about
doing the removals. So it's gonna be the big upsetter
for that industry. That's the appliances. I suppose everything goes
along great guns until someone comes along and changes the
way it's done. Mind you. For a while there, I
heard we're going to buy all the mattresses through mail order,

(03:39):
and what I know and how I've actually bought my
mattresses of recent times, it's all three shops. So maybe
sometimes the great disruptors aren't always the great disruptors. But
watch the space. Always good to get announcement on that.
I think they might recycle this. I don't know what
they do with this stuff. Someone might know about appliances online.

(04:03):
Someone might be living in Australia. Always like to keep
across changing habits of retail. If you've got some information
about that, they'd be nice to hear from you. But
mainly was staying off with portalk, and I do want
to cover that off. She's quite a bit of news
out there tonight too, all those people having to get
off the flights to Needen because of too much weight
on the plane. Strange old story. I don't know what

(04:27):
to make of that one, if they put too much
fuel in or what had happened there. So you might
have some intel about that also. But Marc is still twelve,
and if you want to start the whole ball rolling too.
I'm not quite sure what topic will end up on tonight,
but I'll do my damn just to make it interesting.
The other story, I don't want to check everything at you,
but we'll see what flies to begin with. I didn't

(04:49):
realize this, and some of you most certainly will be affected.
You might be driving home now, or you might be
already at home. There is talk from the local leaders
out West Auckland. Town of Kumyu in north West Auckland

(05:10):
relocated after a council found no viable solution to the
town's long history of flooding. This is not recent flooding.
This doesn't appear to be global warming flooding. This seems
to be flooding that just happens all the time. And
they say they could do a damn, but it costs
one hundred and sixty three million dollars. But now they're

(05:32):
talking about moving the town, which I imagine would be
alarming to people because it's a big growth area. I'm
sure a lot of people are just moving, you know,
people are just moving there for the first time, not
quite ready to move out of town. Have it relocated.
So flooding has gone back to nineteen twenty six. Five
notable floods in the last one hundred years, one in

(05:56):
twenty twenty one and two and twenty twenty three. I
guess too, is you urbanize and build more and more
houses with concrete driveways and garages and stuff like that,
there's less and less ground for the rain to soaken.
So a situation as flood prone and it's involved in

(06:17):
further urbanization, then those floods and those risks of floods
will be exacerbated. So they wouldn't mind talk about that
as well. So that's three things for you straight away.
That is what the situation like in portoai Kto. There's
a fire out. That's my question. Oh, I've forgotten about
the text you might be texting right off the phone
calls this time of night. So port Wakto and CUMU

(06:39):
and the suppliance company what do they called appliants?

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yah?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yah, it's going to be the great disruptor. Well, I
suppose that's the way with the Internet. You don't need shops,
can you becaulse you just bring it out from the warehouses.
Seems to be the way the business model is going.
You might have some information about that also, tonight. Oh
eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine text boo, yeah, arguess

(07:06):
just past the port turn off, I've passed two fire
engines heading back to base side. Say it's under control. Tests.
What's the population of Port Waikato someone's I don't know,
a lot of cribs, betches, would it be three or
four hundred? You might want to mentioned something about that.

(07:28):
Also eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine two de text, but also kumia kumuahupai, I guess
you'd call it, call it. And the fact they's about
moving the town, which I had no idea because yeah,
they don't move towns very well of real easy Wisport's
going to be moved and now they're talk about moving Cumu.

(07:49):
So get in touch. You want to add to this
eight hundred and eighty daddy, I'll do madandas to keep
you updated with news around the world throughout the next
three and a half hours. So fourteen houses were evacuated,
Toy Toy has been burned, four hectores of to bitch.

(08:10):
It wasn't toy tour bitch.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
It was.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Argentinian pampus graft. What are that ghastly stuff is. But
if you've got some more information, because it could flee up.
I don't know there's strong winds coming your way, but
it was rapidly spreading a while ago. So there we go.
That's what I've got for you people. My name is
Marcus Welcome. I hope you enjoyed the Warriors and the weekend. Well.
I think Christopher too called it right. They went a

(08:36):
real good Melbourne team and the last thing the Warriors
need is over confidence nicely put yeah, yeah, that's right.
They don't want to go on there thing and to
go to win any matches because that competition has the
ability to turn teams with a good feeling about themselves

(09:03):
into the easy beats. Marcus Trivia, the Wakata River sources
beult to a pea who over four hundred klometers long?
In g thank you in G. Who wants to start
the whole shebang tonight? People, My name is Marcus Welcome.
Get in touch if you've got something of interest to say.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two, detective,

(09:25):
there's something different you want to talk about. Bring it
on thirteen days till the NRL starts third of March
for the Oscars and heavy rain for northern parts of
both islands. So there you go. This day in eighteen
seventy three, Hawkners awoke to the alarming news that a

(09:45):
Russian warship had entered the white of Matar Harbor undetected
and landed troops. I don't think even knew about that,
mind you was one hundred and fifty two years ago. Anyway,
get in touch, you want to talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome,
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two.
Detect who she's still very hot down south. I'll tell

(10:08):
you that must to go up to thirty degrees in
the weekend, where honestly there's been like traffic jams at
the beach. But enough of that, be in touch. If
your donna talk, Marcus still twelve Marcus. They can move

(10:29):
the settlement of Coomu, but under EWE law the name
is specific to that spot. Well fair enough, you have
to call it the town of the people that used
to live in Cumu. Marcus. Slightly off topic, but in
your interests sphere a signal box and Wellington. This is
railway talk. The last man's signal box in New Zealand

(10:52):
is closed and been relocated to the Railway's National Control
Center in Wallasville. Upper Hut fire largely contained evacuees all
have returned to homes. Road opening. Yeay, that is solved.
Talking about CUMIU and the floods, how would you feel
about relocating knowing full well the name's not going to
be moved. That sounds contentious. Also, get in touch. My

(11:17):
name is Marcus. Welcome now. By the way, the next
cyclone heading for Australia is called Anthony, but they've had
to change the names so people didn't get it confused

(11:39):
with the Prime Minister. I think that's the case. Charlie,
Marcus evening and welcome.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
There you go mate, Good Charlie. That's a story. Hey listen,
a couple of world records have been broken in athletics
and I've seen absolutely no cover of on TV radio
whatever you're hear in New Zealand. I just wondered if
we could talk about it for a minute.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Are they records that were broken in New Zealand?

Speaker 6 (12:07):
No records that were broken overseas? So you did the
New Zealanders No?

Speaker 7 (12:13):
By uh?

Speaker 6 (12:16):
The Norwegian Jacob Ing of Britain broke the world mile
record indoors.

Speaker 8 (12:22):
I didn't know that, Yeah, and.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
That was a brilliant run. And then this afternoon we've
got a bit of stuff that came through the internet.
The guy broke the half marathon world record. I think
it was a Kenyan, but yeah, I just wanted to
be in one out there. It's interested in you're having
a few more facts about about it, or have read

(12:50):
more about it than I have.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Okay, can you do you follow athletics, Charlie, Yeah, it
is indoor. The indoor mile record faster or less faster
than the outdoor.

Speaker 6 (13:01):
One that I don't know exactly, but that's what I'd
like to discuss. I think it's right up there with
thee Becauseinger Britson almost broke the thirty six year old
world record for the mile outdoors held by the Moroccan
He was within one second, less than one second behind it,

(13:24):
So yeah, I think he's no making no.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Mag and I always thought too, with a marathon, you
couldn't have records because the terrain varied. You could just
have official beast times.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, it's official best time, but they called it a
world record on the internet. You're correct, it was a
half marathon, so it was something around fifty fifty seven minutes,
which is.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Phenomenal, unbelievable, unbelievably quick.

Speaker 9 (13:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
I just also there's been a lot of talk lately
about you know, having the old juice to increase your
probability of winning.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It's all through tennis at the moment, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
And also you've got the shoes which have got like
springs in them. So is this what's actually creating all
these world records or is there a genuine increase in
people's ability?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Is this suspicion about el Garouge from Morocco in ninety
ninety nine, because it's twenty six all the mile records,
you know, when all them Steve cram Sibco, all those
people's ages ago. Yeah, the mile record has not been
broken the century.

Speaker 5 (14:39):
No, But.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
This year well in the Northern Hemisphere summer, Inger Britson
got within I think it was about point three or
point six of a second behind el Garouge's fantastic time.
And funny enough, Inger Brits and father who's his coach,

(15:06):
meant that's pretty much along the lidiad lines of how
he trains sure, which was very interesting.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Okay, well, I appreciate you bringing that to our attention, Charlie,
and I look more into that. I'm always liking a
mile record, i'mlways liking a marathon record. So I think
I'm never quite sure at indoor wooden floors, sprung more turns.
What's that about, Marcus. The temperature has dropped major and
ashburt and there's rain drops on my windscreen. But this
morning was twenty seven degrees. Marcus can smell the porta

(15:38):
Carto fire all the way across the opposite side of
the Monaco Harbor in the west Auckland suburb of Blockhouse
bodes you to wind direction. Thank you, thank you. Westport
has not been moved. There is simply land on a
high ground being What does that mean. I think you'll
find Westport has been moved. They found the new land

(15:59):
for it, one of the old farm I think there
is a master plan. They've got government owned farmland southwest
of the city. It's got to be intergeneration. It's not
doing tomorrow. I think that's the plans stand. We're a

(16:22):
lot of towns moving over the next fifty years, and
that's probably not a bad thing, just for ford planning.
Let's face it, some of the town to probably be
in the wrong place. Maybe please say that the cicadas
are going off down the south and bluff. I was there,
and they were there, and I heard them, and someone
told me at Sport I said that I heard them
down the around the hill. And I was on the
farm yesterday and I thought, oh, jeepers kind of snuck

(16:44):
up on me the sound of the cicadas. But I've
got text here, Marcus. Update from your show last week.
Cicada's now going off and the money I take to
old great weekend fishing with bug, raw wind and thirty
plus degrees last days. Did you catch anything talking about
Cumyu the situation of the town now they're talking of
moving it. Some of the people of you will be

(17:05):
living there. I want to know what you feel about that.
The plan is, that's the plan. They could build a
dam one hundred and sixty three million. I just don't
know where the flood plane is. I don't know which
direction the water is coming from. They need to build
the dam for now. I've also found out someone asked
what the population of Port Wakat there was six or

(17:26):
eight hundred. I don't know if they live there permanently
or they come and they go. But get in touch.
By name is Marcus, Welcome, Get in touch. You want
to be part of the show. Here til twelve o'clock,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine nine
two to textaire there's something else you do want to
talk about. If you've got breaking news, let me know.
But it seems that that fire is seventy five percent

(17:46):
controlled to put back at all kind of at this
time of the year, I reckon some of those fires,
one of those fires that gets going and the wind's
going to kick on and it's really going to get
out of control. Although in the last few years the
only ones that have already been out of control of
being those ones at the Portthills and those ones in Nelson.
But the situation Nelson as there's someone lighting them, I

(18:08):
don't know if to do. I think there was someone
lighting the ones in the Port Hills, but they're looking
for footage, but I don't know if they had a
prosecution for that one. So yeah, there we go. Get
in touch one Ambers Mark And also to this appliance
delivery company. You might be an Aussie and have experienced this,
they're calling it a disruptor. Appliances Online they topped a

(18:37):
major consumer surgery survey in Australia, have started operating the
day with delivery service in Auklnhamilton, Fungare to Topor and
The online company's model is based on a free next
day delivery of an appliance along with free recycling and
removal of the existing appliance. In other words, if the

(19:00):
fridge is broken down, the company says it will have
it replaced by the next day. The New Zealand general manager,
Oh yeah, wow, Fisher and Parke or mele Bosh higher Panasonic.
You need to have a pretty good distribution network of
your apply of your warehousing. Wouldn't you cheaper? I mean

(19:24):
the logistics in that, but I guess they're up for it.
Talking about the moving of Cumu out West Auckland kind
of weird because Cumu and Huepi are almost one town,
but floods every ten years and flooded three times in
the last five years. And now the plan where they're

(19:45):
looking at a plan to move it affect a lot
of people. They could build a dam, but they would
cost one hundred and sixty three million dollars, which I
think might be cheaper than moving it. But of course
you build a dam, you're not quite sure if that's
going to work either, because what we know about dams
is the dam's flood, don't they That's kind of what
I wouldn't mind talking about tonight, or anything else that

(20:07):
you're in the mood you're talking about, including the mile
world record in the half marathon record with those two
as Charlie rang up, those two records been broken in
the last day, Yeah, and managed retreat for CMU and

(20:27):
a relocation of the town center. The only potentially viable
solution was one hundred and sixty three million large dam
upstream from the township. If it failed, would have catastrophic impacts,
including significant loss and risk of life. The reporters outlined

(20:49):
a history of flooding and qmu Huapai stretching back to
nineteen twenty six, when the Kumu post office flooded to a
depth of one point two meters. Probably haven't got a
post office now. Since then, there have been five notable floods,
and more recently floods in August twenty twenty one, two
and twenty twenty three. This guy say, as the Rodney

(21:09):
councilor Greg Sayers said, there's no alternative now, but look
at a managed retreat, relocate the town center to appropriate location,
and the council not to consent buildings in flood zones.
We could be looking at decades to reloicate the township,
but a decision should be made sooner rather than later.

(21:30):
Of course, what happens as people end up not being
able to get insurance and that already impacts. Get in
touch Marcus till twelve, as I say, if there's something else,
Marcus q me McDonald has opened twenty four hours and
Wanaka is not even allowed one. As far as the
fishing and the money at Tortoi, yes, we court release

(21:50):
plenty took home a couple of three to five pounders
that's from JJ, Thank you JJ. And much discussion via
the text whether the Westport is getting moved or not
getting moved. But she's flood prone. I think it all
came down to dredging the river too, didn't It was
one of the big how's Hamilton with the heat? Does
it cool down for you yet? And our last week

(22:14):
we're talking to Hamilton, it was it was unbearably hot
so that might be something you want to mention also tonight,
and there might be something entirely different. Oh, good turn
out at Hamilton for the Warriors, I thought looked like
about twenty five or thirty thousand there. I thought the
Melbourne storm probably should have seen the better team, considering

(22:38):
so many people toned up for it. They deserve better.
I thought Blugie's watching those tries that first fifteen minutes
would have been pretty exciting. Woo, Marcus. The issue with
Kumi is the volume of rain coming off the hills,
then king tides from the Kuiper Harbor coming down the

(23:00):
our Roa Helensville River at the same time. State Highway
sixteen by helens Wille often floods during a king tide. Also,
Fletcher's swapped the yu umatuland for Land and Coomi, they
will be affected. Marcus. Did you see Carol Star, the
Belgium ultra runner reach Bluff last night? Yeah? I did.

(23:20):
I saw four runners that's coming into town about Habas
and I saw four runners with their torches. I thought
the good pace. I couldn't work out what it was,
but by all, yeah, I did see him. So he
has set the record of thirty one days, nineteen hours
and forty minutes for doing the tiatadoa trail Carl so

(23:43):
you might remember him. He got attacked by dogs in
the first leg coming down ninety mile beach. Oh he
was doing good pace. Yeah, I saw him about twenty
minute ten minutes or twenty minutes running time from the end.
I was driving in from Bluff last night getting touch
Madams Marcus. Welcome pretty five away from nine Hope. It's

(24:03):
good where you are. There's something different you want to
mention good? Let tell you what?

Speaker 9 (24:07):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I won't even say that. I don't know if this
is going to resonate with anyone. But plasters. What's with plasters?
You buy some plasters? Terrible? There's got in bad plasters?
Aren't there? All fairly reasonably priced? But somebody we get

(24:28):
them to think jeep as creepers. You wonder how they've
got permission to sit anyway. I don't know where people
will go with that one. Oh yeah, who hot night
and Bluff. I wait one hundred and eighty eight and
nineteen nine detexts markest till twelve. As I say there's
something different, you've got beautiful let's be hearing you needs
to be hearing from you about that. Yeah, what about vaping?

(25:00):
How are we going with vaping? Is a hysteria with
vaping died down? Kind of thought two years ago there
was absolute hysteria with vaping schools and people doing it.
Very hard to keep up with a legislation around that.
But just wonder how people are going with vaping. You said,

(25:22):
you see no one's smoking anymore on the old analogus,
do you No one's on the tobacco, no one. You
wouldn't mind knowing about your experiences with vaping or your
kids vaping, whether that's something that's kind of falling out
of favor with young people. Is that what's happened? Have
they just decided they've got sick of it? Or is

(25:44):
it still kind of like how many people in your
kids class would be vaping? So I'm kind of interested
to know about Marcus. A bit of a change in topic.
But anyone else's sided for Liam Lawson's debu? When is
it debut? Yeall watch that Red Bill debut. It's not

(26:04):
my sport of choice, but I'll give it a watch.
Let me know when that starts. By the way, Kumi
population seven thousand, three hundred and thirty. It's a big place,
probably be the tenth biggest town of US in the
South Island. Martin Greetings, welcome.

Speaker 9 (26:21):
Hello Marcus Martin x O Hi originally Wow of all places,
I'm ringing from Wellington. The thought of any government sending
that eighteen year old Indian back to a land he's
ever been to is absolutely the sickest thing we've heard

(26:44):
in years.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
It's interesting. I'm interested how that story is kind of
how they've managed to get that into the media, because
certainly a story that people need to be made aware of.

Speaker 9 (26:58):
Yes, agree, totally, under no circumstances should this young man
be exported out of New Zealand. It would be like
sending butta ta Fiji without in your refrigeration.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
It seems that there are fourteen thousand people in a
similar situation.

Speaker 9 (27:22):
That's right, and that's why I said Ohio for a stature.
The place was staffed by English im movements who never
got anything in New Zealand. But all the children were
educated in New Zealand, and it applied all over Southland.

(27:48):
And I wished in a lot of places himselves.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
So could you explain that to me again.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
Yes, this guy his parents came to New Zealand. Yeah,
they were here for a long time. Then they had
this baby.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
He was yes, sorry what what what was the South
end analogy there?

Speaker 9 (28:11):
If you go through there all over south and indeed
all over is on the west coast, and one in
particulars Oka Taka, you will find hundreds of these type
of things happening. And to send someone back that would

(28:32):
be like sending me back to Galway. I never met
to Gorway, that said in my life. Oh it's just horrified.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I mean, I think they've done the right thing to
bring up the tension of the immigration master.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
I think so. But the minister should have more bloody sense.
Instead of spelling his name pink, they should kill pink
because he hasn't got any bloody color at all.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Not if I'm your man. Thanks for eighteen away from
nine eight hundred eighty nineteen nine text shift Sport to
Adison's flat markers, we Sport has not been moved as
having a flood well built so the town can stay
where it is. Land on a high ground has been
rezonned so that future houses can be built without risk.

(29:20):
They are certainly looking at a plan to move it. Yeah,
there is a draft master plan of moving West Sport

(29:41):
to pamu Land Corp Farmland. It's a long term plan,
not happening next month, not have next year, but options
for our children to consider in due course. It's apparently
the case. I don't want to freak people out just
saying what's what the news is saying, get in touch,

(30:01):
But I see that everyone's finally realized that what a
yawn streakers are. It's saying it's about twenty years, but
there must have been some week in activity with that.
So I haven't sure what to say about that. But
I'm all about vaping. Where we are with vaping has
the kind of the obsession with it stopped. Every time

(30:24):
you go around small towns in New Zealand, there's always
about two or three vaping shops, there's differentyone in them.
It really looks like the worst job ever to work
in one, to sit there on your phone night and
day and it's tell occasional juices. Where's a job satisfaction
with that? I'm sure there's none. Steve Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (30:48):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (30:49):
So the counselor at the moment putting up at one
point for me to see you all around the lower
parts of the town of Thames. But in the long
term we may be shifting the lower parts the industrial
area and some of the commercial area of town the

(31:09):
higher ground. There is land being identified.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Does it flood, Does it flood offered steep.

Speaker 10 (31:17):
No, it doesn't flood often. But some areas won't get
flood cover now because they have flooded.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
In those areas that can't get the flood cover. Are
they residential places or commercial places?

Speaker 10 (31:33):
Residential and commercial. It's got a history terms of flooding for.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Low and kind of marshy, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (31:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (31:45):
And monetary area they have no desire. They have surveyed
it recently and they find that the ground is actually
settled and it's below sea level and you know the
sort of that northern end of town, the grounds going
down settling over the years. And yeah, no, we're going

(32:11):
to have to We've identified land a little bit further
out of town. It's at a high area. It will
give the time, I think, it will give the council
time to get all the infrastructure and so that those
buildings that can be shifted can be moved and those
that can't.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Will just.

Speaker 10 (32:32):
Be abandoned. You you can't live in a house where
the tide comes in even a couple of hours, you know.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
So those areas where people can't get insurance, have they
become abandoned areas or they are still well maintained areas.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
Still live there at this stage. They still live there,
but they don't have flood cover. They've just got to
live with being in that sort of situation where the
sea wall now is higher than some of the houses
in those areas, and you know, it doesn't look very good.
Valuations would be very.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Low, That's what I'm saying. So can they sell their houses?

Speaker 10 (33:14):
Well, I think in the long term, looking in fifteen
to twenty years ahead, they might have to be bought out.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
It's incredibly stressful to be in a place too where
you've got a dream house near the water and then
found you can't get insure it or flood coverage.

Speaker 10 (33:34):
Yeah, well, it's by beware with a lot on the coast,
the Thames coast, a lot of places there. We do
like to live beside the sea. But yeah, we've got
to think now we've got to be a little bit
elevated above the sea in a nice to have a place.

(33:55):
I used to holiday at a place and why we're
that was right by the sea, and I know just
recently when I was there, the section has been abandoned.
It's just been made into a reserve. You can't build
a house there, it's too dangerous.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Is your house close to the coast at times?

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, so with you. You know, I know one person
that's at Wyoming that the taphead several floods. They live
with it. They're on a concrete slab.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Your sorry, are you close to the water yourself?

Speaker 10 (34:32):
No, I'm well about. I'm but two streets up of
the hill.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
So what I want to hear? Thank you, Steve? Are
you going people? I hope it's all good for you.
People in bed with COVID. We're getting a few of
those texts again, which I like, not that they're not
that they're in bed with COVID, but they're appreciative of
the show. It's lovely to get those kind of responses. Uh,

(35:01):
thank you for your showman, Beard, well with COVID. That
cheers me. Deborah from Nelson, How mung has been five
years of COVID, hasn't it get in touch? I was
smoking a cigarettes day next to two others strangers vaping.
They says, Gee, that cigarette smells good. Yea, I think

(35:22):
tobacco way smells unbelievably good compared to vaping. Anyway, Getting text,
my name's Marcus had Or, twelve o'clock, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine two nine to text. We're talking
vaping and where we are going with that. And just
because as I was saying, three years ago, I think

(35:44):
it was about three years ago people there was and
I think it was probably driven by TV in a
sixty minute show, but there was vaping hysteria and I'm
not hearing it so much now. Yeah, So you might
have something to say about that, because when it was,

(36:08):
it almost felt like it was the end and government
was trying all sorts of things to rectify and the
Australians were trying other things that seemed to be harsher,
but they didn't seem to be enforced. And I'm just
curious to know where we are with a state of it.
So you might want to mentioned that as well. Oh,
eight hundred eighty eighten eighty and nine to nine to
detext anyway, get in touch you on a talk Hittor

(36:30):
twelve o'clock, oh eight hundred and eighty e ten eighty.
I also talk about living near the sea and what
that means for you and having to move from the sea,
because everyone wants to live coastal. God even I live coastal.
But I imagine that once you're not it, can't get
insured for it, and then you can't sell your place

(36:52):
because you probably can't get a mortgage for a place
if you can't get insurance. And suddenly in a situation
where finding ourselves in our choice of where we live
our changing. So you might have mentioned that as well.
Tonight oh eight hundred and eighty to eighty something. I
want to mention too, Akumi. As a mentioned with the
moving of the town, they're also mentioning the situation with

(37:14):
the fires at Port Wakato, which seemed to be out
by the way to Liam Lawson Win's his debut. If
anyone wants to tell me about that, because already I'm
saying people are going to be excited. I'm not entirely
sure where it's on. Boo how I eight past nine
welcome Marcus till twelve text for this hour. Marcus, I

(37:37):
cannot understand why we need a Minister for the South Island.
Why diversity gone mad? I take this as an insult.
Does the new one have to do a course of
the John Clees monty pythots call the funny walks. I
am surprised how we just accept this little comment from
the mainlanders Jeers John, we haven't discussed that. It's a
very good question. All the commentary I saw about the

(38:00):
Minister of the South Island said basically, I think the
comet was something along the lines of a lot of
the MPs from the South Island are useless and don't
end up in the cabinet. They need to find a
special position which they are specifically qualified for. But I
think there's probably no real need for Minutes of the

(38:21):
South Island. I can't quite work out what their brief
would be, and I can't work out how any discussion
would involve a Minutes of the South Arde. It seems
about patronizing to me. So you might have thoughts on
the Minister of the Southildman. All the topics are on
the list tonight. Everything's up for your discussion tonight. By
the way, thanks for text about Liam Lawson. First race

(38:45):
is five PM sixteenth of March, so just under a
month to that. So AUSSI gram pre I suppose there's
probably plenty of kiwis going over with that, would that
be right? I imagine? So Marcus, FORMU no one testing
in Bahrain for twenty six Melbourne March. Biggest thing in

(39:11):
Formula one this year is seven time world champ Sir
Lewis Hamilton has shifted from Mercedes to Ferrari. That's from
Peter Auckland Council doesn't want to pay for the motorway
extension up to Qumu and eight. He doesn't want to
pay for any rail upgrades to and from QM You
the damn excuse doesn't wash, Marcus. Not many, if any

(39:32):
South Island based cabinet ministers. Having a South Island minister
is virtue signaling well, it's a South Island's fault. They've
just got to choose some better members of Parliament because
they haven't done very well with that. If I can
say that, they've got some real damp squibs over the
years most of their careers, and an ignominy or a
lot of these anyway, but jumping, if you want to talk,

(39:55):
my name is Marcus, welcome. There is something different you
want to mention. If you've got breaking news, let me
know what that is. Would love to hear from you.
So yeah, do get in. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
You might have been on that plane that went to
Duneed and they made people get off that it was
too much carry on luggage. They say it might have

(40:16):
been too much fuel. I don't know what the answer
is there, but get in touch. You on to talk
twenty past nine, as I say, oh, eight hundred eighty
ten eighty, And apparently Trump went around the racetrack in
the limo. He seems to be spending a lot more
time being present than last time. Last time I just
seem to lay in bed and drink Pepsi color and

(40:38):
watch Fox News. This time g super Bowl, Daytona out
and about loving it and also discussing the need for
a Minister of the South Island or what's the point
of it. I guess it's a government that's just kind

(41:00):
of trying to clutch at things to try and resonate
with the country. But I've never thought, yes, Minister of
the South Old would be a good idea. But there
you have it. Now what else can I throw at
you tonight, because you're not gonna get much hooked on much.
I have mentioned the appliance delivery company Appliances Online, So

(41:24):
if your frigerior oven goes, you ring them, they arrive
the next day and they take away and recycle the
old one. What's amazing is they've started in the country,
but I've never even heard of them. It's a Nazi
company and they're out to disrupt the two point three
billion dollar domestic appliance market. Starday Aucklah, Hamilton, Fungare, Todong

(41:51):
Top and intending to expand across the rest of the
country in the near future. A free next day delivery
of an appliance to a customer's house along with free
removal and recycling of the existing appliance. In other words,
if your fridge is broken, it'll be replaced the next day.

(42:16):
You take away the old One's got to be one
of the great things. And the recycling of it. I
don't know how they recycle it doesn't actually say twenty
two past time. My name is Marcus. Welcome hit'le twelve
Boom eight hundred and eighty ten eighty caid Marcus good
evening he made.

Speaker 11 (42:31):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Thank you, Cad. What's happening?

Speaker 12 (42:34):
Are you there?

Speaker 13 (42:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (42:35):
What's happening?

Speaker 9 (42:37):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Can you hear me.

Speaker 9 (42:41):
Now?

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Sorry?

Speaker 12 (42:41):
Yes? Yeh are you mate?

Speaker 2 (42:42):
What were you doing wrong?

Speaker 14 (42:43):
Then?

Speaker 7 (42:45):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (42:45):
Pushing the volumes down? Trying to turn my radio down?
I didn't want to get a skirt from the background. Okay, yeah,
you know. I've just been out doing a bit of
petradication out the Becker Holey tonight, shooting a few skypanders
Canadian geese.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Oh wow, don't get me started. Okay, are you doing
anything with them?

Speaker 11 (43:04):
No, just timmy, they're no goodness time when we put
them into solamis. Yeah and yeah beautiful, absolutely absolutely beautiful
meat to eat. But yeah, this time you're a bit
dry and a bit tough. Now. It's been great helping
the farmers out.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Do the farmers pay you to do it?

Speaker 11 (43:21):
No, they don't pay us to do it. The farm
we've been shooting on pays for my ammo. Yeah, which
is awesome because that's got there and there and there.
But it's just enjoyment. We get we get the kids out,
we get the family out and for four hours of
enjoyment on a summer's evening like this at twenty two
degrees in temperature, How could you go wrong?

Speaker 2 (43:42):
And you shoot them obviously in the sky, yes, correct, Yes,
So how many you shoot tonight?

Speaker 11 (43:49):
Eighty four tonight?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Slop because I think I know that, you know, I
think three is equivalent to a sheep? Is that right?

Speaker 7 (43:59):
Uh?

Speaker 15 (43:59):
Three or twelve?

Speaker 11 (44:00):
I think it's something like that. Twelve to a cow,
something like that. Three or four doors sheet there? And
the mess they make horrible, The devastation they're doing to
the crops and the farmland is just out of control.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
And I always thought there were South Island things, but
they're heaps around all and heaps around the white now
is that right?

Speaker 11 (44:19):
Horrific numbers and the like it at the.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Moment like increasing suddenly or they've always been.

Speaker 11 (44:24):
There, increasing, increasing, increasing, because they're such a hard bird
to hunt, because well they're clever, very very very clever bird.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Because they see they said, they sense when you're around
or what happens.

Speaker 11 (44:41):
Yeah, no, they just well you were too honest to
getting shot at. But no, no, no, they just they're
very clever bird. They know where the food is, they
know what the rotation of the cows are they know everything.
So it's I thought it bring a.

Speaker 16 (44:57):
Touch Skypain, do your own work, just a nickname for
a can, and you came.

Speaker 8 (45:08):
Up with it.

Speaker 11 (45:09):
Well, I'd like to think so now a lot of
ductionism hunters use them as skype anders here.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Like it, k thank you. Twenty seven to ten Marcus
till twelve, eight hundred and eighty ten eight nineteen nine
two text Marcus chocolate price to predicted Skyrock about July.
Would you pay ten dollars for a block?

Speaker 16 (45:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Say with your coffee? Would you pay eight dollars for
a cup of coffee? Sheese already twenty bucks, Diane Marcus welcome,
Hi Hi Diane, I.

Speaker 17 (45:39):
Mean hi yeah, him just ringing up about the copper wire,
how the country has done away with copper wire and
all this other. You know, you have to be connected
in toe. And my daughter in law she had worked
all day so to get my phone going and that

(46:02):
and that she was because I was changing provider and
I was going to from Swingshot to spark Spack, which
is the old telecom, isn't it really? But it's all
worked on five, you know, and it takes some connecting
and talking to people. My daughter in law. She did,

(46:23):
She sorted it all out, but I mean it took it.
It was an hour, as it was an hour she
was here corresponding between Diane.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
If you could sew up this call. What's the point
you're trying to make.

Speaker 17 (46:37):
Well, I'm saying that phones with the copper wire people
could communicate much better.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
It's gone though, the technology's gone. It's all.

Speaker 17 (46:46):
So there's an old fellow in tim Maries nineteen. He's
still living at home and he had copper wire, and
I don't know how he's getting on, but they were
just going to chop it off toes.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
So sometimes you got to embrace progress, Diane. You can't
just go on on about things being bad.

Speaker 17 (47:05):
Well, oh yes, I've got to admit that. But you know,
my daughter daughter in law had worked all day. She's
a truthor at the.

Speaker 11 (47:14):
Y m c.

Speaker 17 (47:15):
A for the young ones let them ye yep, yep, yep.
So you know she had had a hard day and
hadn't had any tea and had cats to get home
to and feed, and goodness knows what you know. Yeah,
that's just what I'd like to say, the old copper wire.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
How many cats you got to get home to?

Speaker 17 (47:37):
She had two husband as well. He could be between
here and bluff.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Is he a driver?

Speaker 17 (47:47):
No, No, he's got bees oh flip, he's yeah, he
does that. So yeah, and he's a married boy, married gentleman.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
We say, mary boy. I'm not quite sure where that
expression comes from.

Speaker 17 (48:02):
I know when he's in his sixties. But I'm home,
I feel you know, it's no wonder the rest times
get get filled up because all of nonsense. That's how
it's how more people get. People get isolated. So what

(48:22):
they do. I know of cases now that have gone
to the rest home because of ill house and being
on their own too long and not enough communication.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
That's what.

Speaker 17 (48:32):
That's what. That's what's happening in South Canterbury anyway.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Lovely to hear from you with a far reaching and
probing called Diane erone to skypenders. Did we call them
skypenders last time?

Speaker 18 (48:44):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (48:45):
They think it's a new one. By the way, someone's
told me two days ago they found out what the
middle but of a big mech was called. That it's
got its own special name. Well, I've googled that. Did
you know that? That? The three that the three, the
three buns and a big mech have different names. The
top bun is the crown, the middle is called the club,

(49:06):
and the bottom is called the heel. Why is that
not on the chase? As you say, we'll talk Canada Geese.
I kind of glaze over when Pills at talking about
the copper. I don't even know what that's about. I
think they're phasing it out, too expensive to maintain or something.
I know people like them in the Quakes because it
gives them certainty. Ah, fidgets, But how are you're going?

(49:29):
How's the vaping at the schools? Do I want to
talk about that? Marcus? Thank you for the show you
mentioned relaxing. I have a spa most nights and listen
to your show. Are relaxing in the spa? Marcus X
smokers smokes now costs thirty seven for a pack of twenty.
I smoked eight per day, one hundred four dollars per week.

(49:53):
Vape costs me twelve eight last seven days. Bit of
a no brainer. I feel a bit of healthwise on
the vape, so you should. Goodness, So the two bucks
each smoke? How much is that? How many puffs would
you get per cigarette? Would it be forty? It's not bad.

(50:17):
It'd be five cents of smoke a puff. Getting touched
you on talk Marcus or twelve three to away from
ten football will like me up. What have you got
you have something? I'm sure you've got something interesting to say.
Light the guy out with the birds, killing the hunting.
The Canada geese. They're not good, terrible, turn the ground sour.

(50:40):
One of the things I'm happy about. We don't have
Canada geese. Oh God, suddenly got a lot of magpies.
There used to be no magpies. Now there's four. Don't
know where they've come from. Don't like them. They look
like a mischievous kind of a bird, always up to
know God, although they consider to be intelligent. Don't like

(51:03):
them at all anyway. So there we go. The vaping
and the moving of old CMU and the appliance delivery
come all these are good topics. Just want to know
what you want to say about them. People, get in touch,
get amongst it. Oh eight hundred eighty ten ad nine

(51:25):
to nine two to text, you've got breaking news, Give
it to me. Let me know what's happening. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to text.
Be in touch. As I say, I'll always look over

(51:47):
around the international news this time of the night, just
in case something terrible happens or something good happens. I'm
not entirely sure where it's going to go with the
way the news is, but yeah, jump and if you
want to have some say about some of those things too.

(52:08):
Twenty away from ten here on midnight, Mina, Miss Marcus, welcome.
I kind of expect news is about to happen tonight.
It's got that kind of vibe tonight. It's one of
those nights they're not much is going to something that bomb.
Something's going to happen. Don't know what it is. I
just get that kind of feeling, that vibe. I tell
you what. We're getting ready for winter sport, aren't we?

(52:29):
With the Warriors starting in the Super Rugby starting. Wonder
how that fantasy rugby went with some of the players
not being eligible to choose. Thought that was a worry.
Then I started to read some of the articles today
about the news, hearing rugby union's financial situation cheap at
slim times ahead, Yeah goodness, hemorrhaging money all over the show.

(52:58):
What's that about a lot of people saying there's been
influx of magpies. I'm seeing a lot of ducks of
the scar but I guess that's probably coincides with that's
why we have the shooting season soon. Eh oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty nine. LL's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
I'm very curious because I have the understanding that the
Canadian giche used to fly over here. Then they'd stay
for a while, and then they'd flowed back. Because they've
forgotten to fly back.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
I don't know if they do they come here under
their own own strength.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Well, I was under the impression that once a year
they used to all come, and this was only my
knowledge in my head, so it could be wrong. And
then I thought they went back home, and they never
rather going home.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody introduced them. Oh okay,
but I don't know that. I don't know that they
could have got here by their own, by their own
free will. But it's before my.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Rather sad that these beautiful boots are being shot.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Well, yeah, but we we farmed sheep and cows for
a living and eat all the grass.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
So you yeah, I realized that, yes, I'm just faking
that you know. I don't know. I'll have to look
up on Google the whole history of US.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
I'll find out from someone else. Someone else might give
us a primer on sea CGS, Canada gooset the skypender?
What was the other word that we had last time
we did a big show on the Canada goose It
was another nickname for them. It wasn't There was quite
a funny one. It wasn't skypender. It was good, though.
What was it? What do I remember that someone rang

(54:50):
up and said something It was hysterical. I don't know
what it is. Someone might remember or phone that through
fifteen to ten? How are you going? People? What was it? Sheep?
Was it sky sheep? Or check out the sky?

Speaker 9 (55:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Hang on, I'll get it. Sheep of the sky? What's
the first? Let to start with? Ah, Rabbit of the sky?
Rabbits of the sky. That's right, yeah, now the sky panders? Marcus,

(55:39):
you read me when you briefly spoke about the appliance disruptor.
I'm in the repair game, have been for thirty five years.
Please tell me a technician checks this stuff before recycling.
Most cases are cheap, easy repair. Tell people to repair first.
What's their name, cheers Jim. I'll tell you what their

(55:59):
name is, Jim, Jim Jim. Appliance Delivery, I think it's
called a client's delivery Appliances Online. That's what they called
appliance is Online. I'm in Auckland. Seem to be way
more pigeons than usual, especially near Saint Luke's. Oh, Saint

(56:21):
Luke's has always been very pigeony, awfully human in Auckland.
Just now have to turn the wireless to hear over
the crickets or you've got your own white noise. Marcus.
I've got a refund from one news in as they
cut off my landline phasing out copper wire, but keeps
charging me ten a month for two years. Love your
show makes me smile. God, I hope I am making

(56:43):
you smile tonight. I'm working hard at it. If you
have to throw vaping at you with zero responses in
the middle of the South Island with zero responses, godness
me even just wants to married at first sight or something,

(57:04):
don't they which I've got no awareness of and don't
plan to have desperate people in a pressure situation fed
alcohol and then filmed and lives ruined. Forever Godness, it's
come a long way from the Honeymooners. Get in Touch, Hittle, twelve,

(57:31):
sky Panders, Rabbits of the Sky, anything else you might
want to mention. I can't say it feels like quake
weather because that's alarmist, but geez, I feel like something's
about to happen. Just get that vibe today, Marcus any

(57:54):
thought on the Warriors was a great game against the
Storm cheers dan On with the ratchris rattuu on this one.
It was a really underpowered Melbourne team and what the
last thing the Warrior is need is over confidence. They've
got to go into that season thinking they're not going
to win one game and play their hearts out because

(58:17):
success won't come easily for them this year. Yeah. I
mean last year was pretty disappointing, and they went into
last year I reckon probably slightly too confident. So yeah,
I don't think. Yeah, I think it was great for
the people of Hamilton to get such a good showing
and a fantastic tune out there. I like Jet too.

(58:39):
I think he's going to be good, but yeah, I
I yeah, Look, I worry about the Warriors this year.
I'm prepared for them to do really well, and I
think it'd be quitely exciting if they do. It's a
tough competition, so yeah, but they look fantastic, but I

(59:02):
think Melbourne allowed them to look fantastic. The railway carriage
restaurant has gone. What do people tell me these things?
It's heartbreaking? And Marcus good evening.

Speaker 18 (59:16):
Yeah, we have Canadian geeses. I'm in paraphram and we
have quite a few. But they do tell them how
well counsel though they go. I don't know where they
do it, but we have got quite a few flying now.
But they because they make a lot of mess.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Do they poison them?

Speaker 18 (59:40):
No?

Speaker 6 (59:40):
I think they shoot them.

Speaker 18 (59:41):
Okay, yeah, but no, we've got quite a few at
the moment.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
In some particular parks as it's where they are.

Speaker 18 (59:51):
Yeah, they're usually I'm in parks. Maybe we've got an
express way. They go at the top of my house
just about every day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Do they foul up your house on anything as they
go over?

Speaker 18 (01:00:07):
I have a look at that. I mean, I'm both
quite big.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Quite massive. I'm surprised they can fly.

Speaker 18 (01:00:14):
Yeah they are. Yeah, I don't know, they're huge.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Okay, thank you and Laurie Marcus welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Yeah, I'm I'm glad we're on a bit of a
duck round here at present. Yes, certain times a duck
run like it. Yeah, they tend to drop it on
you know, you get on the cars and on the
side of the house. Sometimes they seems to be there's
a drain up the up the road and they seem
to go in there at night and take off and

(01:00:45):
you know, certain times a year you get pretty well spladed.
But this for some regret. I think when they were
introducing the water fowl from Canada that they didn't bring
in the loon at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Tell me about the loon, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
It's got a it's quite an attractive water bird, but
it's it's got a very haunt sort of eerie sound.
Some call it almost maniacle. But the just have a
hang on, let's see what we got here. The when

(01:01:27):
I was working at a strip mine in British Columbia
and Canada, sometimes we go down and drink beer and
it was called a place called Loon Lake. As a consequence,
sometimes we'd end up waking up to the cry of
the loon are.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Because of their cry, I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
So, you know, when the I think the resemblance to
a sort of almost a maniacle sort of laugh. Possibly
I'm just making that connection, but yeah, the I mean
on YouTube you can pick up this things that we
can get loan sounds that run for three hours, so

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if you get tired of talk back, you can.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Well I thought, I thought that was a very good
bird noise. You did, then, Laurie, that was great.

Speaker 5 (01:02:18):
Well, No, that was.

Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
From YouTube though it dropped after the ads. There there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
You got the flash package without the ads.

Speaker 4 (01:02:28):
No, no, I haven't deled into that yet, but no
I don't. I sometimes turn them on. It just one
of those sounds that brings back a memory, but you know,
it's sort of in a quiet sort of lake sound,
that sort of or you can get an echo. They
can be quite quite quite a new resound, but a
very attractive bird. I don't know if they do if

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they make it. You know, they tend to stick to
their habitat, probably don't go and mess up farms or whatever.
But they they just went on the list. It seems
for somebody to bring in.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I don't think any of our discussions should start with
the bird. They should have imported.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
As Yeah, but the it's putty that the guys say
that sometimes he turns him into salami. But it would
just have to be this time of the year. They
wouldn't have to.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Yeah, I think that. I think it's all depends what
they eat. I think they'll be my take on that.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Yeah, yeah, but I heard I think they're too smart
to poison. Well, you might get away with it once
you know poison grown.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
Probably no doubt some people would have tried. Yeah, it's
quite a quite a tellyo, wouldn't he? Do we see
eighty eighty something bird?

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
Yeah, he seems a fun afternoon for the kids. I
didn't push himself. I'm just happy with the calls anyway.
Get in touch by name's Marcus. Welcome eighty It's all
about the loans and the birds we should have imported.
Just been a roller coaster night tonight. Can't get anything
going and on going about the Minister of the Minister

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of the South Island. And and I'll tell you something
that annoys me and I won't know. I won't say
I won't it doesn't annoy me, but I'm interested. As
I live in the South Island, I read a lot
of articles about the South. I think there's a lot
of people in the North Island reporters who think the

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South Island and Southland are the same thing. I spot
that more and more and I want to say about that. Anyway.
I've got lot of texts coming through and I need
to talk to you tonight. My name is Marcus. Welcome.
Eight hundred eighty Tenndyan nineteen nine two text. Get in
touch I eight hundred eighty Tenadian nineteen nine to two

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de text. We're talking at Canada Geese vaping, which has
had no response. And when I get a topic there's
no response. I always think, well, actually, what come I
do to get some response, Marcus. The Canadian dollar is
called the looney christ Church has an epithem with Canada Geese.

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Its unbelieva how many there are around the red zone
foot paths and cycle ways around the river. There are
many days where you cannot walk through the droppings. It's horrendous.
That's what the South Island Minister should be onto Old Miga.
You get onto the Canada GeSe, that's where the votes are.
Round them up, ship them out. I don't know what
you do with them. We're talking Canada Geese from Canada.

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Canada geese. My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred
and eighty eight, Calvin. Good evening, very.

Speaker 13 (01:05:42):
Good eating to your Marcus evening to your Canada. You're
required on the phone there anyway else I'll talk YEP.
I've rung up about the Canada geese. Last time I
walked around Lake Road to Roa and Hamilton, you're not
to be confused with Lake Roada, Lake Great Roa walked around.
I've been around a few times, but the last time

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I walked around, I counted the Canada geese and I
think it was about thirty five. Fine looking bird, A
fine looking bird.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Is that the lake in the Is that the lake
in the middle of Hamilton?

Speaker 13 (01:06:15):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Is that man made?

Speaker 13 (01:06:19):
I don't think so, but it is. It's it is
originally drainage, as it were, from the swamp land between
there and where the Mormon churches, So I think it
is natural. But I've never heard of it being men
made tonight, and.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
It seems like it's not an a dip to me.
I don't know it that well, but it didn't seem
to be.

Speaker 13 (01:06:44):
All around it is flat land except right immediately around
around the lake. It's a little bit hilly and then
the land dips down into the mighty whitehadow. But I
did hear that those words a few nights ago about
men made but I was sure that I've never ever
heard that. I'm pretty if I was going to put

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money on I would say, no, some research. Yeah, the
Canada geese here, beautiful, beautiful birds, beautiful colors on them
and that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
What do you like that?

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:07:17):
Yeah, the lovely birds. I like all birds.

Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
Really, it's like a do you like do you like
a minor?

Speaker 13 (01:07:25):
Yeah? They're from India Originally, it's like a magpie. Yeah,
magpies are from Australia. From Australia is r a y A?

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Do you like a duck?

Speaker 13 (01:07:36):
Well, i've heard ducks walking up the driver here occasionally
towards birds have a beard. Avery. When I was a teenager,
what you have? I had all the different finches, you know, cheffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch,

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and there's a red pole that's a bit smaller than
than a sparrow. And I had a little china. These
quail running around on the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
I'm quite touched by the story. Did you breed them?

Speaker 9 (01:08:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:08:15):
Well, just for myself, because they don't live forever. It's
like me, I'm not I'm not expected to live. But
the Chinese quail they have little khaki colored eggs with
black spots on them. When they hatch out, they're about
the size of a bumblebee and ordinary what we call
ordinary bird eating, which is about half inch diameter. They

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can these little little chicks can run through that. It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
You got birds now, apart from the ducks coming up
the drive.

Speaker 13 (01:08:46):
No, Well, I see the wild birds every day and
I buy I give them plenty of good wheat, wheatmeal,
bread watered, and I buy occasionally. The kilogram bag is
about the size of the of a loaf of bread.
And it's so wild bird seed, which is good when

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you've got when you've got plenty of when you've got
plenty of birds hanging around, it's a healthy sign. Have
you imagine coming over your house one day and there's
a dozen dead birds on your lawn, Just think of, well,
you think we'll hang on there. Something must be wrong here,
what's going on? So if you've got a healthy birds
hanging around, it's a good sign.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
If you come back as if you come back as
a bird Kelvin. What would you come back is?

Speaker 13 (01:09:35):
I would come back as a maybe a shining cuckoo.
I had one crash into my sunroom glass one day
a few years ago and it died, you know. And
they're a beautiful green color, about the size of a
of a of a magpie or a bit smaller. I

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took it to the Hamilton Zoo just to find out
what bird it was. And it was a cuckoo. And
they come all the way from where they come from
here some where you like, you know, the Philippines or
somewhere or other, one of those oriental places.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
And they were helpful at the zoo. I don't mind
you're fronting up with a deed animal.

Speaker 13 (01:10:18):
They're very good, were they? Sometimes? Some as I front
up there with cash, how do you mean, well, the
pay to get in, I'll get it. The last two
roots I've had there, I've rung up before and booked
what do you call a little four wheel battery paired scooters?

(01:10:38):
What do you call them? I've got one of them
because the helmet and zoo's up till and dan Dale
and the last track coming back on the homework straight
as the straights going up hill and an old jager
like me, you get a bit baggered. You had to
stay bagged, you had bag on your station.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
Do you go there quite often?

Speaker 13 (01:11:01):
Usually well, at least once a year, quite often twice
a year. I was here about two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Are quite like how your creature habit? Do you go
to those gardens? They go on and on about in Hamilton.

Speaker 13 (01:11:11):
I haven't been there for a little while. I inspected
that your mate the Christians destroyed a couple of beautiful
statues Egyptian statues there, and they were repaired. I went
over to.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
Check, what would what would you say? You will make
the Christians, Calvin, just to see if you respond to.

Speaker 13 (01:11:33):
That work. But I haven't been there, I'd say, yeah,
when I when I, why did you say? Then?

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Sells that the stort thing I'd say, Kevin, your mates,
the Christians they destroyed that? Tell that something I'd say
to wind you up. So that's probably why I'm.

Speaker 13 (01:11:51):
I'm due to go to the gardens soon. But I've
got to take my identity with me and something which
shows that I am a Hamilton ratepayer, and I'll get
them cheaper.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Okay, that makes sense for a.

Speaker 13 (01:12:06):
Person like you. They know as soon as they see
you coming that they think of how his buddy were loaded,
So we'll charge him full price.

Speaker 2 (01:12:14):
Good on your Kelvin. Thank you, Mark, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:12:18):
Good.

Speaker 8 (01:12:19):
I guess hey. The last gym was to spark mcore
about the zoo and it made me think that. Look
I get the Facebook feed of what's happening to Burma.
The elephant that left New Zealand has gone.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Through Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, first by elephants. I don't
think that's a lovely tale. Yeah, well, there we go, Boomer.

Speaker 5 (01:12:45):
It is.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
It's quite lovely what's happened. So they've brought over an
elephant from Perth and they and they've integrated her with
Burma and they're good. They're getting nine lock house on
fire through the you know, they got to do it
gently and gradually and all this sort of thing, and
they're chucking mud on each other and on themselves. It

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looks quite lovely actually. But last week they bought over
an a third of nine elephants from Melbourne Zoos. They're
obviously doing some bood them. They're going to bring together
like a big group of elephants to be able to
walk around this big park. But everything's going well. It

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looks lovely. And speaking of zoos and parks, Themingo Tau
Tree Sanctuary Mountain, which is only fifteen ks from my
house on the Cambridge side, or forty five or fifty kys.
I to go around the other side to pay to
get in. If you hike up the Carpiro side, it's

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free because it's a hike. It's a real hike. To
get up there. You have to park at the local
marai and you have to walk up quite a steep
slope that I think you wouldn't want. Anything less than
a then year old, twelve year old boy a sort
of thing could handle it. Anything younger, no way, no way,

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and anybody are older than unfit over sixty year and
I'm doing this. You pull yourself up on a rope,
pull yourself up on a rope on the last bit
to get into the Century entrance. On the other side
you pay sixty five bucks to get in on this
side nothing And it is insanely beautiful. It's one of

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the best things I've ever done. I said to myself,
you're going to walk up here. I just stopped twice
to get up.

Speaker 9 (01:14:43):
There in the middle.

Speaker 8 (01:14:44):
I've got myself. I've been getting on the fitness thing
for about six months and six eight months now, and
I got I'll give it a go a couple of
weeks ago. Come back. Oh yeah, I knew i'd done it,
and I say, stopped twice on the way out. I
was like, I'm I going to do this, Yeah, you're going.

Speaker 9 (01:15:01):
I keep going.

Speaker 8 (01:15:02):
And when I got up there, oh, what ain't chin
bush ancient bush Puntaushed New Zealand as it was before
any of us were these.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
That's free from the norther east side, is that right?

Speaker 9 (01:15:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
Yeah, there is. It's free, free as a bird, absolutely,
but you've got to hike yourself up there. It takes you,
oh I take you forty five minutes to get up
to walk around with it. Yeah yeah, yeah there. You
can have on the map on the Google you can
see the track and you've got to go up and

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it zigs back and you go up again to get
up there. But when you look at the topography, it's
it's a bit of like, as I say, there's a
rope fifty meters from the top that you used to
stand there and you get all the way up and
you're looking at to sing a game and I'm going
to get at this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Many people there visit many people visiting?

Speaker 8 (01:16:01):
No, no, no, not at all, not at all, very few.
From what I could gather the track when I walked
through it, it was very undisturbed, a little bit wouldn't
called over ground, but it was heading that way in
a couple of places.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Please, did you have a health skier there, Old Mac?

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
We'll actually, to.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
Be honest, I said to myself. Oh my pushing it here,
as I said, because I've been getting back into the
fitness for eight months or so and I think that's
the biggest push I've given myself. But no, I've come
through it all good. I'm on happy. But a special bush,
really special like to get up there is absolutely one

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of the best things I've ever done. And I've been
in a lot of lovely bush but on a manure
two the trail down there when I live down there,
and a bunch of other places into the tower us
and just not not too deep. I'm an amateur here,
but that was man, it felt like. And here's another thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:08):
Hang on, I'm going to go to headlines, Mark, but
thank you Pig to your mate. And the one other thing,
Mark what were we going to say.

Speaker 8 (01:17:16):
A sort of been chucked off a little bit there,
but no, look, it's totally worth it to get to
get up there and have a look. The beauty of
the bush is stunning. It's worth if you can possibly
physically accomplish it. And as I do say, between the
ages of twelve for a young fella and up to
about sixty five. I look, if you're fit and you reckon,

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you can pull that off. Go for it. God, it's
worth it as opposed to sixty five bucks on the
other side.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Do you go nice? Dear for you, Mark, Thank you,
Michael MICUs evening, welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:17:50):
Yeah, Michael, Hey, when I live there's a little chewy,
the Native l A few other ones, but the one
I want to talk about is the Native quail. Between
November and even just yesterday, they come up mother and

(01:18:15):
father with between eight little as I say, bumblebee kids,
and I put food out for them and they they eat,
they ate it. And the interesting fingers that the mother
and father they act together like the mother leads a

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little little children and the father he stands, stands guard.

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
I didn't know there was a Native Clayle.

Speaker 9 (01:18:50):
I think I.

Speaker 15 (01:18:52):
Think there is I think their eggs are green with
yellow spots. I'm not quite sure, but they come up
up here between November and well, now February we.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Are yeah, okay, and we're about see you.

Speaker 6 (01:19:11):
In the bad plenty.

Speaker 9 (01:19:12):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Well, I'm never quite sure about crowds. I'm never quite
sure what white people would hunt them.

Speaker 15 (01:19:24):
Yeah, that's a very good, very good question. And the
interesting thing is, Marcus is the mother and father they
make different sounds depending how they want to communicate with
their little little bumblebees. The mother, when she thinks it's safe,
gives a certain sound and all the rule of say

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them bubble bees. They come around and they feed, and
then the fathers often standing up on some a little
bit of a higher ground, and he's just watching and looking.
And if something does scare them away and they run away,

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the father takes control and he makes a different sound,
completely different sound, and he's basically calling back the google
children back back to some sort of safe ground. And
that when you can't see that in a zoo, you
can't see that, I've known you can only see that

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in real life.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Nice to hear from you, Michael, Thank you. I'll get
to the text. So I've got a ton of text
out of a chance to get to them. I've got
a vision of Calvin turning up with his dead bird
for identification, then jumping on the mobility scooter for a
lap of the zoo. What a legend do you exactly?
You never I never thought of the zoo as kind
of a now what's this? What's this thing? Out of
the freezer? MICUs. I'm staying in a motel in Parmeston,

(01:20:51):
North I'm not very happy with the cleanton, I said.
This morning, I turned the lights off and three cockroaches
came out and scurried across the bench and up the walls.
I want to get my money back for the next
two days. There isn't even a sink. You have to
wash your plates at the basin or the handbase of
the bathroom. No eking is neither wat chante to have.
Of pulling out of the accommodation, I'd say not much,

(01:21:14):
because I think by staying the year, probably agreed to
what it was like. Hamilton Zoo is the nicest in
the country, amazing place. It's Hamilton's best kip secret. We
go from total of at least once a year and
it's always amazing. Speaking of a strands, and you see
Ray Gun's latest gig antick, Let's not do Birds songs

(01:21:41):
that last call where he played that Canadian bird spark
the dog up. She put her big dog voice on
and woke the house up and half the street got
a hell of her fright. That's funny. When I was
a teenager, they used to carl Canada geese. They would
organize the shooters and helicopters and try to line up
local people to take the leftover geese. Those involved in

(01:22:02):
the cold got first dips, but there was always paid
to go around. That's how I would get one that
went into the freezer for our Christmas dinner, my favorite
Christmas roast. The helicopters would raise the birds and drive
them in front of the guns. The birds would settle,
then they would drive them back in front of the guns.
We heard they took four hundred birds in that coal
that we got our first bird from the eighties. That's
from Kate Marcus. Crypto currency. Is there anyone out there

(01:22:28):
that can help get money out of crypto? There are
a lot of scams out there. I just want to
hear from someone that's in crypto. They want to get
their money out. Marcus, I can't remember summer as hot
as this one in the Mulborough sounds.

Speaker 10 (01:22:46):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
I've being down south twenty three years. This will be
the second hottest. Kumiu and Huepi have always been indistinguishable
in my sixty four years, with even the locals uncertain.
A regular takeaway stops returning from trips to Middleway Beach.

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Areada Takeaway stopped returning from trips to Midleway Beach. But
the real highlight has long been the Kumu fire station.
Outside they have an exploded guest cylinder. Look, honestly, honestly,
I think we found the topic of tonight. I am
obsessed with exploded guest cylinders outside of fire stations, because

(01:23:30):
there's one at Riverton, and there's one at Waita. I
was there recently. What a beautiful town that is. And yeah,
I took a photo of it because I always look
like sort of nuns or something exploded guest slinders. But
I'm glad that someone else appreciates those. Outside, they have

(01:23:53):
an exploded guest cylinder joined just at the base with
a twisted outside painted red inside black. You can pick
it up on Google Street views to the right of
the entrances a sobering memento for firefighters. Please someone, It
must be the thing at fire stations is to take
a photo of an ex I've got a large number

(01:24:15):
of photos of them. But yeah, well that's interesting that
you've You've got me on that, because yes, that's what
they do. I'll find this one I took in Taranaki. Yeah,
there it is. It's unbelievable. I look at the one

(01:24:43):
on Google street Views. We're at Kumu fire station. I
look at that because I'm not quite sure why fire
stations do that. I don't even know how the guest
owners have exploded. But where else are they? Just since
we've got a bit of a topic pivot, I'm looking
at it now on Google Maps. The one I want

(01:25:05):
to that is a is is unbelievably good? Anyway? Oh, yes,
there it is too. I can think of three of
them now. There's one at Riverton, There's one at Coumium,
there's one at Waitera. Anyone got any other information about
where there are exploded guesslin is outside fire stations. It

(01:25:28):
must just be the thing they go to a fire
I think, what are we going to do with this
now or mount it? The one at the one at Riverton,
well there right, Riveten's good, but the one at Waitara
is the pick of them. Here we go. I've just
got the one on Google Maps outside the Riverton fire station.

(01:25:49):
It must be due for a trip to Riverton. Oh
it's not as good. That's there it is. It looks
like a penguin. I don't know how they've exploded. They
must be old or something like that. Anyway, I think
that's an interesting topic for us. There's the other fire
stations that have got them. Oh, here's a text from

(01:26:11):
Peter W. Marcus. Have a friend who was a heavy smoker,
took up vaping and recently started to use brake fluid
as a vape. She he's able to stop anytime it's
a callback. There was a text that's going to read

(01:26:31):
an hour and ago, and I reckon it was better
for the text DI and say it was a funny text.
So yeah, that's good. Eh, that's good, So read it
again now you can appreciate it fully. Text of the
Night Marcus. Ever, a friend who was a heavy smoker
took up vaping and recently started to use brake fluid
as a vape. She he's able to stop anytime. That's quality.

(01:27:00):
Oh wow, Marcus, is quite a story by the guests
lunder out side coum you fire station. Two firefighters lost
the leg. Each one exploded as a fire they were attending.
I'm sure others will know more about it. Wow. So
maybe there's a present they display them and when there
is when there's been fire and injured. Oh, Blendhm fire

(01:27:25):
station has one. I'll go and look at that one
on the ill between Dan and I will mount some
because I've been to Blenham recently. Gosh, I'm boring with
where I've been lately, but it was a very good
trip in the Blendham place. We stayed with a very
tor Motellia that was quite extraordinary. Oh, there is one

(01:27:46):
outside blend them too. Look at that. Yeah, Darryl Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:27:56):
Yeah, yeo Marcus having a good night.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
Yeah kind of it's interesting night.

Speaker 13 (01:28:02):
Good.

Speaker 14 (01:28:03):
Do you like them CA racing?

Speaker 5 (01:28:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:28:06):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Have you ever been to Batist No, it's on the list.

Speaker 14 (01:28:13):
Got to go less you like some LPG bottles blowing up?
So there's one hundred and ten thousand people that camp
there for a week and about another one hundred and
ten that turn up for race date. And one of
the things that seems to happen a little bit is

(01:28:34):
it's pretty cold there at night. So you've got thirty
odd degrees during the day and then it's pretty freezing
at night. So as you go in, if you're camping,
you buy forty four gallon drums, you've thing, and you
buy firewood. You camp and after people who've had a
few sometimes that run out of there, barbecue persons they

(01:28:58):
may or may not appreciate their neighbor or just them
and a laugh, so they'll throw their empty LPG bottles
into the forty four gallon drum and loaded up with tough,
good Australian native timber.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
And room.

Speaker 14 (01:29:19):
So then what happens is everyone sort of escapes the vicinity,
drags any bodies that are lingering out of the vicinity,
and these bottles seem to just hurl about one hundred
meters into the sky like a massive rocket. I think
they must just blow the valve off, and basically the

(01:29:42):
forty four gallon drum, hopefully it's a new one, because
it seems to become a chamber like a cannon, and
these things go off into the sky for about one
hundred meters into the air with flame shooting out the bottom.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
And they don't go sideways because sideways would be problematic,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:30:00):
Yeah, well that's why everyone sort of escapes. But all
the ones I saw and heard, it's just a way
into the sky and everyone's sort of looking at where
they're going to where they're going to come down.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
Nice to hear from you, Dale. Thank you. Yeah, Hi, John,
it's Marcus. Thanks for calling.

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
Good evening.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
Welcome John, Good.

Speaker 9 (01:30:24):
Evening, Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:30:25):
So I can tell you a little bit about the
gas cylinder that's outside the Blenham fire station. I think
it's a large oxygen cylinder. I was in the Army
in the early seventies, and I think about nineteen seventy
one we were in a under canvas camp at Omarka

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Airfield and there was a fire and a warehouse and
Blenham and we could see from Omarka the gas cylinders
going up the red hot light missiles. Wow, And that's
that would have been about nineteen It was either nineteen
seventy one or nineteen seven, not sure on the year.

(01:31:07):
I spent three years in the military, so you get
a bit confused.

Speaker 9 (01:31:11):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
So what were the what were the what were the premises?

Speaker 5 (01:31:17):
It was a warehouse or the depot or something in
Blenham and they it might have been an industrial gases
depot or something. But anyhow, there were several cylinders going
off and they were going up like missiles, so we're
red hot. You could see them in the it was
at nighttime. You could see them in the sky going up.

(01:31:40):
And they mounted one outside the fire station and I
think it's a large oxygen cylinder. I think that's there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Yeah, because and the times I've spoken to fire and
I've got some mates that have worked, not not working now,
but they always say, what's the job like? Because I
don't you know a lot of a lot of car
extents and not a huge amount of house fires, but
they say when there's buildings and garages, that's the thing
that you know, you're terrified because you never know when
things are going to explode when you're in there. And
I guess it's a very it's a really real risk,

(01:32:10):
isn't it, Because when that's that's when that blows, that's
metal going flying across the room, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
Yeah, it was threatning all really basically, but it really
it really doesn't matter what is in the cylinder under pressure,
whether it's a flammable gas or or just oxygen. You
heat it up that expands, it's got to go somewhere,
so they just explode.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Deferent John, thank you so much. We're talking exploded guestlanders
and the ones they mount outside fire stations. There is
a Facebook post from the Kumu fire station that I've
that I have posted on Marcus slash Night's Facebook story
was the volleys from that station went to a fire

(01:33:02):
and a guess cylinder exploded and too farm and lost
league to fireman. Both lost one leg. Then, remarkably, ten
years later to the day, there was another fire where

(01:33:30):
there are more guests than its exploding and the brigade
kept one of those cylinders and placed out front. The
servers reminded the dangers of firefighting. Yeah. On Living the
seven nineteen, the fire brigade a fire and a radio
repair shop and COMU. Two of the crew from the
first driving appliant entered the building attempt to distinguish the fire.
A few minutes that a large guests under exploded, shooting

(01:33:52):
through the air and hitting both firefighters in the league.
I've posted that if you want to go and see that. Yeah,
market's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:34:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:34:02):
Yeah, the oxygen is the worst one. It's the most
dangerous gas.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Because what happens and explodes the most force, does it?

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
Yeah, well it's got it's got to it's the cylinder
is a very heavy, thick walled cylinder holds three thousand
and three thousand, five hundred p s. I it's the
most highest and that's why on welding gear it's a

(01:34:35):
good idea to have a flame arresta yes on the
oxygen because of flame backfires into the oxygen cylinder. She'll
go all right and she'll blow blow the smithereens. It's
just a tremendous it'll be a terrible thing to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Are you Are you a firefighter, mate.

Speaker 7 (01:34:57):
No, although I'm trained in firefighting.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
Yes, yeah, because because every time I've seen those fire
cylinders mounted outside fire station as I've seen through you,
I always thought they are warning to check old cylinders,
because I just thought there are old cylinders that have
must had blown up when they were refilling. I didn't
realize and now I realized it's probably quite obvious. They're
all exploded in fires when people were trying to extinguish

(01:35:22):
the fires.

Speaker 7 (01:35:24):
Very dangerously as of fire with cylinders around, because when
they go off, they it's like a tremendous snake can
and going off in the destruction they can do is
just so would.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
You would you just not fight those once you're identified cylinders?
Would you just not fight those fires?

Speaker 7 (01:35:43):
You'd fight them from a distance, and you'd be putting
water onto those cylinders.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
You'd be trying to cool them.

Speaker 7 (01:35:48):
The yeah, call them down because they're going to go. Oh,
you just don't want to be around.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
It'd be terrifying going. So the first thing, if it's
an industrial building, would be would be identifying cylinders with there, wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (01:36:03):
It, Yes, yes, indeed, And that's that's where you'd have
to fire the water onto the They a tremendous explosion.
And oxygen is unbelievably that that makes things really go
Like settling on its own will just have a little
little fire, little flame that puts out black sik and stuff.

(01:36:27):
If you mix that with oxygen, you've got a tremendous combustion.
And there was a time when people and it's really
terrible thing to do. But mixed oxygen is settling with
oxygen and settling and put them in balloons and the

(01:36:49):
and then wrapped paper around them and set fin the
paper and run And if it's close enough to a building,
it'll just blow the windows out. The explosion is something tremendous. Yeah,
oxygen and settling, it's very dangerous. Gases mixed together, the

(01:37:14):
same with LPG and oxygen, it's also dangerous. I'll imagine,
seems to be worse.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
I imagine even the most domestic house situation. There's probably
gas bottles lying around in garages too. Would make it
already dangerous, wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:37:28):
Yeah, they're dangerous if if there's a fire around. If
there's fire, it makes things worse for LPG.

Speaker 8 (01:37:39):
But an LPG.

Speaker 7 (01:37:39):
Cylinder on its own, it's not going to blow up
unless it unless it's heated. And they are only thin
walls ye cylinders because they're only about fifteen psi in
one of those. But oxygen with three five hundred psi
they are very dangerous. And the other one is, of course,
is hydrogen YEP. Hydrogen stored in a high high pressure.

(01:38:07):
When I was at Marsden Point, we used a lot
of hydrogen to cool the generator. Hydrogen is one of
the best refrigerants you can get.

Speaker 9 (01:38:14):
It was LPG.

Speaker 7 (01:38:18):
It's a very good refrigerant because it is able to
transfer heat better than anything else. Actually, LPG or hydrogen
hydrogen particularly we're used at the cooler. The status in
the generators and strange to say, but being pure in

(01:38:40):
no oxygen present, it's completely safe. But oxygen is the
one that oxygen got in there. I think the ouldest
things completely.

Speaker 2 (01:38:49):
How thick would the walls of an oxygen cylinder have
to be for that three and a half thousand PSI?

Speaker 7 (01:38:56):
Probably about forteen or fifteen milimeters.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
Oh, it's quite okay. So really there'd be a big
explosion to blow that out.

Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
Yeah, yeah, but once you get heat on there, Oh,
it would be I've never seen one go, but it
would be horrendous.

Speaker 9 (01:39:15):
It would be.

Speaker 7 (01:39:16):
I wouldn't want to be around anywhere because you just
don't know where it's going to go, and it's going
to go with tremendous speed and.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Go quite some distance too, wouldn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:39:25):
Oh, it would go how long way? Probably go I
know half two the killing meter even I don't know
how that would go.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
Okay, we'll talk more about that. Mark. I appreciate your
earnestness and what you said there. That's good. We're talking
exploding gas cylinders. It's been a roller coaster tonight. We
started off with everything and they will come down to
birds in Canada, geese and exploding gas clinders. Here we
go the classic text, the Kumu fire Station's action.

Speaker 11 (01:39:51):
Who are by?

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
Yeah, well it's it's it's who are you? We call
it who are You? That's yet combined the two of them,
because it's not good for you able to talk about
Canada geese not a problem that's going away. I guess
that's very much a maintenance. It's culling time. I think,
I don't know why. Yeah, I guess that's when there's

(01:40:14):
more birds at this time. I've seen a lot of
bird ducks in the sky. I guess there's no surprise.
The gut ducks shitting season's about to start, well, only
a couple of months away. Numbers seem to be big. Hey,
twenty past eleven. If you want to talk Marcus till
twelve romance from Midnight, but our Marcus till then we
are talking also about exploding gas cylinders. Oh wow, thank

(01:40:41):
you so much. The white to the fire station, the
jagged steel outside is a piece of the Marwi gas
pipeline that ruptured back in twenty eleven, causing massive shortages
in the north of the North Island. Rupture occurred in
the Pokiaruhi area, just north of water. So there we go.

(01:41:05):
I thought as a guest cylinder, but it's a piece
of the maw we Guess pipeline. I've actually did in
quite a lot tonight, and I'm liking that, liking that
a great deal. Grig. It's Marcus, welcome. Hi, you're good. Greg.

Speaker 19 (01:41:28):
A couple of stories from a long way that they
guests organizations worked with them about thirty years ago, and
some of them you see it earlierious that the man
was talking about the large ostens.

Speaker 12 (01:41:41):
Of this mister still lie down wreck.

Speaker 19 (01:41:45):
And one day one of the accidentally knocked the velve
off the end of one of these bottles and two
bowls on top of two.

Speaker 14 (01:41:54):
Bowls on the lea flan gend and and I.

Speaker 12 (01:41:57):
Didn't really see it because.

Speaker 19 (01:42:00):
The wall dropped slightly as a lost bit of velosity.

Speaker 12 (01:42:05):
Through both eyes of the truck was there.

Speaker 14 (01:42:10):
And then dropped a little more.

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
And it ended up making it deep.

Speaker 19 (01:42:19):
Quite a while. It's quite spectacular.

Speaker 2 (01:42:22):
So, Greg, your phone line's not great. How far did
it travel?

Speaker 9 (01:42:32):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Unfortunately? Yeah, Greg, Greg, how far did it? Your line's
not great? How far did it travel?

Speaker 12 (01:42:40):
Ah? For the meds, I would think through a number
of attractions and mean, it just stepped.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
So we're right there, went right through a truck, like
the cave of a truck.

Speaker 12 (01:42:52):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it came out of the wreck where
it squeezes were out. It went through this brick wall
and then it went across a little across the yard,
went in through the passenger side of this ticket, dueling
out the other side, and then dropped a bit more
and screamed across the yard into the hurricane wire fence
and it just it pushed them with the fence and

(01:43:16):
made a huge indentation and then just sat in this
indentation and sort of bobbed around it and it was hilarious.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
So he had accidentally knocked the valve off the top heady.

Speaker 12 (01:43:27):
Yeah, Because they had these brass butterfly nuts on the
tubes that filled the till the models, and they would
tighten them up by hand and then they'd being them
once with another of the brass hammer, because I didn't want
to make spacts.

Speaker 19 (01:43:43):
And he hit it just probably.

Speaker 8 (01:43:44):
A little hard.

Speaker 12 (01:43:45):
Maybe there was a fault in the brass valve and
it just snipped off and it was way across the yard.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
But fortunately it took off away from him and there
was no blowback from him. He wasn't injured.

Speaker 12 (01:43:57):
No, no, no, he was standing not behind it, but
to the side of tapping down on them. So here, mister,
and was the.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Was the cylinder itself deformed? Or was it so strong
and just just like.

Speaker 12 (01:44:18):
Straight across the bunting first, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
Yeah, and through walls and the truck.

Speaker 12 (01:44:26):
Yeah, yeah, quite aalerious. Well for me, I was because
I was only watching.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Yeah, and you knew straight away what had happened.

Speaker 12 (01:44:36):
Well, yeah, because I was sitting watching. You used to
line up to the back under these the floor to
pick up your bottle.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Wow, okay, yes these days you get on video, Greg,
Thank you very much for that, Marcus. The media in
Europe having a laugh over Luxe AND's you must go,
add French TV report the as a desperate plea for
access to a toilet. Everyone's must go and certainly getting attention,
but not in a good way. Cedric. Yeah, look, I
don't I don't even know what advertising works. I saw
the campaign and I thought it was lame. This is

(01:45:05):
the one even one must go. I don't think that's
the way to sell New Zealand. Listen is to the Australians.
You want to make out it's more kind of select.
I don't know. I thought it was poorly a lot.
I don't know who the advertising company is, but there's
a huge there's a huge blowback on that one. But

(01:45:29):
who knows if it's going to work or not. I mean,
I think probably with advertising, it's all quite random. Sometimes
some campaigns have revery successful. Where thiss one is, I
don't know. They probably should have got raygun to front
of the air. That's what everyone wants, alright, Reagan here

(01:45:49):
when I'm not comp It should have been great to
confront it. That's what they should have done. I watched
you for it was very hard footage to see. I
should have say, Reagan here when I'm not breakdancing. What
I love to do is going to use it. It's
something like that. Hi dig me, it's Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:46:07):
Hello.

Speaker 20 (01:46:10):
Yeah, they Marcus good to hear good to good to
catch you. Hey, everyone must go there to average tag
line may well and this it's.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
So average that they know something I don't know, but
it Yeah, I reckon it's a dud.

Speaker 20 (01:46:28):
I reckon the word of mouth best advertising game. Well,
you reckon, it's perfic cliche.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
But everyone must go because it doesn't make travels sound
like it's selective. Because if everyone's going, you think, oh,
well that's I'll do something different.

Speaker 20 (01:46:44):
I'd but set I you know, a bit of a
duck joke. Bit of a joke. He didn't mind. But anyway,
what do I want to say? Oh, yes, our palms
make best palms in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
I reckon. You're right, they're beautiful.

Speaker 20 (01:46:56):
So maybe instead of five hundred thousand and nine anyway, no,
five hundred thousands. You know, someone might build a council
skate park. Might be five hundred thousand. You know, who knows, mate.
I'm not really looking at the numbers. Got too much
on the own, mate, But you know what was going
with us made we need to export them make some money. Yeah,
that's what I reckon.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Where would you get them from?

Speaker 12 (01:47:18):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (01:47:18):
Come on anywhere? Like they just you can just figure
out as I've heard stories of people getting them at
a market, wrapped up in newspaper, with newspaper and just
buying them and a year cheap, and then like years
later they're like, you know, ten foot high eventually. But
the best times, mate, best time that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Disagreed to be nice to hear from your twenty four
to twelve Luckson has the charisma of a roadkilled possum,
making it in looking as boring as them. Well, people
do seem to have turned. I didn't expect those texts
a year ago. People always very quick to defend him anyway.

(01:48:02):
Might come back on Luxon, might turn the polls around.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
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