Would've come from a sheep (17 March 2025)

Marcus has a question perfect for Saint Patrick's Day and also wants to know about the near-constant maintenance on the southern parts of Auckland's motorway network.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Greetings, Welcome, Welcome to Monday. Moname is Marcus Hitil Midnight tonight.
It's eight eight. The number is eight hundred and eighty
ten eight. If you want to text nine to nine two.
I have come past. You might have heard in the
Sipcopolis and too, there's beeninsula with a pedestrian and.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
A train in vert cargo.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I've come past the location of that today on the
way to work. The train, which is a coal train,
is still stationary. The bells are still going and just coming.
The main road was closed off, but just driving around

(00:50):
the diversion, it did appear as though there were several
policemen stationed at one area, and that was adjacent to
the skate park. So there's a skate park that's been
there a while now, a much utilized skate park, and

(01:13):
then there's a one point two meter fence, and then
there is the railway. And at that stage, the railway
kind of goes through kind of like the green belt
of the city. It's just almost next to the pool.
So yeah, it goes skate park, the railway track, and

(01:33):
then the entreprene gardens, so it's kind of a recreational
area that appears to be the location of where that's happened.
So I say, the trains trained, seems to have about
thirty wagons, thirty five wagons. It's a coal train. I
didn't even realize the coal train was back running because
there were problems with the track between in Vicago and
where they're getting the coal from at Tinkertown I think

(01:54):
or Iron Nightcaps. But that's a situation there. The coal
is for Fontra, I believe. So no report yet, but
it seems for every serious, particularly because the train has
not now moved moved and the police are still there.
So I've got no more information for you there. But
that's yeah, that's been two train instance in the last

(02:17):
week or two. So this doesn't appear to be from
what I could tell, it doesn't appear to be at
the level crossing. If you could see where the area
of the train with his tarpaulands up against the fence,
that would be my surmising them. But there's more information, I'll
bring that to you. That's a very serious part of
today out of the way, But yeah, I probably understood

(02:40):
that there wouldn't be reporters from this company that was
going there, so we went to have a look at that.
So that seems to be the situation there now a
complete turn around from there to something else I do
want to say, and that is it's a hard shift
to make. But however, I want to say how extraordinary

(03:01):
I thought the Warriors were on Friday. And now that
first match it Las Vegas against Canberra, which appears to
be every good Canberra side, they were terrible. Well on
front of that, fantastic and so the roller coaster of
the Warriors continues. And I came away from that magic static.
I wasn't at that match, I was watching it, but
I came away from that magic static. But I also

(03:23):
thought that that was the sort of match in days
gone by, the PEPs we would have lost. You'd watch
something like that and you would have seen Manly come
back and win that one. So I was incredibly heartened
by that. So yes, the season is not a right
off after game one, which I thought it probably was.
So hope springs eternal. And the third thing I want

(03:45):
to mention, also before we get into the nuts and
bolts of tonight, there seems to be weather around the country.
Were long thin country, and it is the equinox, well almost,
but the weather seems to be, yeah, pretty full on.
So if you have got updated weather for us, let
us know what's happening. It's kind of hard to see

(04:07):
when you follow what we know as the print websites.
It's hard to know when you see a story about
weather about how bad that really is. But I'm mentioning
it out there. If anyone's got any more information about that,
let me know. I know there's been lower of diversions
with planes today. A number of flights between christ Judge

(04:28):
and even were canceled because of winds. So have you
got any updates on anything like that? Let me know. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine
two detects. That's kind of what's happening out there. That's
kind of the nationwide stuff. So yeah, look, and they're
talking about a lot of weather, a lot of weather
whatever that is. So it just seems to be wind

(04:53):
and disruptions for flights. I'm not seeing reports of any
flooding or anything like that, but I'm just kind of
putting it out there. If you are somewhere we are
experiencing something like that, just let me know if there
is any problem with the weather, if there's anything that's
happening that's newsworthy, be in touch with. I think it's
important people find that interesting because we can be the

(05:16):
reporters to everyone else this time of the evening. But yeah,
there you go. I don't think there's any flooding, but
I might be wrong on that one. So there we
have it. Oh, eight hundred and eighty today at nine
two nine to detext is the number thirteen past eight.
Question for you. Oh, by the way, a statement in
a question, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Terrible day for a

(05:36):
Saint Patrick's Day a Monday, because no one feels no
no one feels guilt free going to a pub on
a Monday morning to commemorate, to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.
But if that's one of you, happy Saint Patrick's Day
to you. I know how proudly our people from the
Irish diaspora are in New Zealand and how they proudly

(05:58):
celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. So if that is you, happy
Saint Patrick's Day too. And just by the way, btw,
here's a question for you. How many Irish pubs would
there be in New Zealand. We had some guy talking
day that was trying to visit every Irish pub in
the world, only been to ninety if the I, oh,

(06:18):
that's a pretty ball start. I'm sure we could probably
go to ninety in New Zealand. There's a question for you,
how many Irish pubs do you reckon there would be?

Speaker 4 (06:25):
In you?

Speaker 2 (06:26):
There must be one hundred, wouldn't there Every small town's
got one, most cities have five.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Would that be right?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
And then it's the definition of what is an Irish pub.
There's a question for you to ponder tonight how many
Irish pubs would there be in New Zealand. I'd say
there be between My guess would be there'd be one
hundred or between fifty and one hundred. Do you want
to start listening them off and tell me what the
ones you've been to? By the way, what is the
definition of an Irish pub? I've thought about that. An

(06:56):
Irish pub for me to pass the criteria normally has
an Irish name tick. It normallyves Guinness.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Tick.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
I can't think anything else. Normally it's got brown wooden paneling.
Have I missed anything I think the description is fairly broad.
But yeah, you might have been to one today. You
want to tell me how many they are? Because how
many would there be in the country. No one's made
a list, and I wonder who the person out there

(07:34):
that visit the most of them is not today, because
you wouldn't want to go to a lot today and
then call the radio.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
But yeah, how many would there be?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Would there be more than one hundred or more than fifty?
Have a thing about that and give me a holler?
And what would what would be what would define an
Irish pub? Because I started listing things off Irish name,
Guinness and wood paneling, But what actually would be the
definition of an Irish pub? It's a pretty kind of

(08:01):
loose definition, isn't it, Because I'm sure there are Irish
pubs in this country with no connection to Ireland at all.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So there we go.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
That's something else you might want to talk about tonight.
Oh eight hundred eighty to Adyan nine two nine two deticts. Oh,
by the way, it's probably got a shamrock somewhere, hasn't it,
and probably plays the Irish rovers that come from Canada.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Have I got it right?

Speaker 2 (08:23):
So if you know what defines an Irish pub? I
wouldn't mind some discussion about that. Oh eight hundred eighty
Todyan nine two nine to two detict. Ye, I can't
think of anything else. Seven thousand Irish pubs worldwide criticized
for a lack of authenticity. I don't think the people

(08:43):
that drink there are too bothered by that. Actually, anyway,
get in touch, you want to talk. My name is Marcus.
Welcome oh eight hundred eighty Toady nine two nine to dediction.
How many Irish pubs? And by the way, I haven't
got a definitive answer of how many Irish pubs there are.
I thought that's something we could probably list them tonight.
I mean, because they're far and whine. I know, I

(09:03):
know for a fact that our tea Great Barrier's got
an Irish I know why he's got an Irish bub
I don't think Stuart Island has, but that's too off
the mainland. Just to begin, there is one, I'm sure,
and in Vicago. I'm sure there's one in Kaitaia. There's
not one in Bluff, not yet.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I was at the Warriors on Friday night. Was a
fantastic night. Including a phenomenal farewell for tour who with
massive fireworks. Both Warriors teams won well and everything including
my buses and trains was spot on. We'll make a
list of the Irish pub's name, shall we?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Well?

Speaker 2 (09:47):
How many have been to Bob Marcus welcome?

Speaker 6 (09:51):
You mentioned that. Marcus Ift just watching YouTube the other day,
broising through as I do, and they had the program
on the shamrock they moved in Thornton and Wellington. They
moved it and I don't know if that forty years
ago or something, and moved it from one corner to
an other. That's the shamrock in Wellington. I noticed every
one of them.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (10:10):
They moved the pub well from motorway.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
They moved it. They moved it, they put and in
those days they didn't really have a lot of equipment.
They used an old tractor and everything, and it broke
down and jammed up the motorway and it took about
three times longer than what it should have. But these
days you wouldn't get away having it sitting in the
middle of Lambton Key while you were mucking around.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Hang on, was it wooden? Yes, that sounds more interesting
than a lot of YouTube that people watch.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
Yeah, moving in the Shamrock Hotel. I thought, oh, I'll
have a look at that. So yeah, that was I
think they moved at about nineteen or seventies or something.
When they moved it up there on an old rigging
a tractor, and goodness knows what else, everything broke down
and I was sitting on the street for goodness knows
how long. They finally got it up there, and it's

(10:58):
up and up. I think it's still up Thornton somewhere.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
And funnily enough, because every time I've been pasted that pub,
something about us look wrong, and obviously it's not. That's
not where it was meant to be.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Oh no, And they've also added a little restaurant that
onto the site that wasn't there when they took it
up to you.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
You have you drunk?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Have you drunk in its original site?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
No?

Speaker 6 (11:19):
No, but I have had a beer and workers now
nineteen seventy I wasn't drinking then.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Why don't know, I don't know how many people. I
don't know where. I could never guess people's age. Anyway,
we're about to you these days, Bob Blenham, is there
an Irish pub and Blenham.

Speaker 8 (11:38):
I don't know, Marcus.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
I know you get bloody, a lot of bloody you're
talking about wind and that you get a lot of
hate fee bruppie that I didn't get on the coat
that much bloody.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's your research job for Tomorrow's go get your hay fever,
meds and fun and Irish pub for me. Oh wait,
one hundred and eighty twenty one past eight the shemra
I presume the shamrocks to an Irish pub?

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
It's a good name. Get in touch, Marcus till twelve
so anything basically eight hundred and eighty teddy and nine
to nine dext looking forward to your contributions tonight. Yes,
I'd say there'd be twelve in Auckland. Would there how
many Irish bars with the venues in? And what would
be the biggest town without an Irish bar? And what

(12:23):
would define an Irish bar? It's pretty broad, isn't it.
Guinness in an Irish name pretty much, ah, although you
never see a modern one? Do you mind? You don't
modern pubs? I suppose there we go. There's the questions
texts very still weather in Martin, just wander this as
the carm before the storm. Is there an Irish pub
in Martin? That's for me, Trish Marcus thinking, what's the

(12:49):
point of a free trade agreement with India if it
doesn't include dairy? That's what we sell. Would we want
to buy from them? It's probably cars, is it? I
mean we're gonna sell something to them, We're gonna buy
something as well. We don't make it all go round.
Haven't been following that too closely now, Marcus. Twenty minutes

(13:14):
ago Croatich Airport were put at four knots northerly, twenty
four degrees schumand forty seven percent pressure nine nine nine.
Hector Pascals. Don't know too much about Hector Pescals, but
thank you, Marcus. Biddy Kate's and Blenham that's the Irish pub.
Terry Sloan is the proprity named after his mother. They

(13:34):
came to New Zealand in the seventies because of the troubles.
Oh goodim is it a good run at that? To
be running that for fifty years? They've done well? Go them, Marcus.
The Irish Consulate lists sixty five Irish pubs and New Zeim.
It then says the list may not be exhaustive. I
think they come and they go think off in the

(13:57):
pubs in trouble, they'll turn it into an Irish pub
to give it kind of a bit more of a theme.
You get it a thing without having to kind of
build up a theme. That's my take on this one.
Now what else have you got? Let's be hearing from you.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine to nine to text,
please as astronauts to coming home. That's been a long

(14:18):
wait for them.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
A new world? This is a little of talk in
this on online. New world will replace Wilworth and Tandre Peninsula,
but the people there will be able of super without
a supermarket for a year as it gets kind of rejigged. Marcus,
I just heard you mention Shamrock and was curious as
to whether or not you've tried the new McDonald's marketing

(14:44):
gimmerick gimmick, the Shamrock shake. Could someone explain that to me?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I've never heard of it.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
I think I really am immune to McDonald's marketing. I
see none of it. It might have been happening on TikTok,
but yeah, it's a long way away from anything I'm experiencing,
but get in touch, Marcus Till twelve oh eight hundred
eighty and nine two night. I was looking for the
exhaustive list of the Irish pubs and he's in. But
you're slow to name them for me. Text them through

(15:13):
or phone them through. Nelson's got O'cehittigans, so Blendim and
Nelson both got one. We're on two already, Marcus. My
wife and I did our late oe, our first oe
late in life, and when in Europe when we were
sick of the local food, we would search for an

(15:34):
Irish pub. Went to one and Sentra Lampsterdam a hard
ka Zozzie Barman. I asked for the fish and chips.
He straightaway said no, mate, don't get the fish and chips.
It's crap and really nice bang is in mesh. Oh,
that might be interesting the interesting Irish bars you've been
to around the world. Also, Marcus, there's five Irish pubs
and Hawks Bay, the Rose and Paddies and Napier One

(15:58):
in Taradale, Rosie O'Grady's and Hastings, the Rose and Shamrick
and Havelock North defined by serving guinness. Murphy's kiddie bees
and old mahogany furniture in Dacre. I think there's only
five the rosen patties, the Taradale rosio grades and the roses.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
That's four.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Someone might think of the other one, and I'm happy
for that something we should celebrate. I'm sure we're the
most remote place in the world for Irish pubs apart
from Tierra del Fuego. Is here an Irish pub there?
I'm sure we'll find out. It's a great guy. The
person's doing the crawl around them all, but he hasn't
been to me. He's only been to ninety Marcus. I
heard some reports on Liam Lawson's performance on the weekend,

(16:44):
but not much on his lap time, which was the
second fastest. Please be sure to mention this. He just
serves some kudos and what was otherwise of frustrating weekend. Okay,
here's what I want to say about that. From what
I read, the second fastest lap means nothing because you
got to compare likes to likes when it comes to
weather and tires and stuff like that. So it sounds

(17:06):
to me like the spice Girl's husband, whatever his name was,
he was just trying to find the positive. That's what
I thought. It might be my fault, but that's kind
of pitchure I got with that one. Marcus tried the
Shamrock Shake in Sydney last week. It's a mint flavor
McDonald's milkshake. Not sure if it's news McDonald's yet not
missing out on much if not. Cheers Tom. Muddy Waters

(17:31):
in Mercer. So if Mercy's got an Irish pub, would
that be right? Would there be the Muddy Waters in Mercer?
I reckon I get more than one hundred. That's my
take on that. If there's an Irish pub and Mercer
and Mercy is a town of about what how many
people would be there? Five hundred, two hundred? That's what

(17:54):
was really just the start. Well, no, it's hardly anyone
at all. It's just run road and stop in the motorway.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Like you're called two about Irish pubs, an you think
about Irish pubs, interesting Irish pubs you've been to around
the world, and your list for how many there would
be in New Zealand. Marcus here and ricketson, we have
the Crake Crack. It's a small pub but highly rated
by actually Irish people. I have friends who went to

(18:22):
an Irish pub in Ullumbatoor and Mongolia, so it made
them very sick. Probably all the mutton fat.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I think that's what they're.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Into, Marcus. The most remote Irish pub in the world
is Numpch Bizarre, Nepal. It's also the highest Irish pub
in the world. Honestly, if you get a big payout
for your dot com company and got a lot of
spare time, that would be a great thing to do
to go to every Irish bar in the world. Because

(18:54):
here's why. It would be good because you get to
some interesting places, all right, because you go all around
the world, and when you went to every bar.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
You'd arrive at the bar and oh good, A good mate.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I wouldn't say mate, because it wouldn't been you say.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
O good, Can I get your get you get somewhere here? Please?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
What brings you here? Well, don't get me started. I'm
going every Irish bar of the well. I never you'd
be the talk of the pub they tell you the
next one to go to. It would be a remarkable
thing to embark on because, certainly in an Irish bar
with no one doing much, you walk in there, then
oh you've been to this one and doing to that one.

(19:39):
What's the best, what's the further be remarkably interesting? Shamish
Irish Pub and Shamush shame Seamous's Irish Pub and picked
and goes off no Irish Pub and Martin but the
Grand Irish Pub and fwang Nui. So here we're going already,
and there's one in Mercer south of Bombay. Great Barrier

(20:02):
Island has the best Irish pub called the Current Fantastic,
Great Food, always Busy, owned by a gorgeous Irish lady
called Aula. Here we go Picked and has two Irish pubs,
A Thirsty Pig fifty out of fifty, Shamush ninety out
of ten, loses points by serving Italian pizzas. Not a

(20:23):
bad idea. I can understand why they do that. Twenty
four away from nine, Lissa, it's Marcus.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Welcome.

Speaker 9 (20:29):
Oh hi you're Marcus. How are you going?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Goodly?

Speaker 10 (20:31):
Sore?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
You going all right?

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (20:33):
I'm all right?

Speaker 12 (20:34):
Yeah, pretty good? Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 13 (20:37):
Oh it's good.

Speaker 9 (20:38):
I'm pleased.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
No, I was saying you can't complain as opposed to.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (20:44):
Now the Irish pub I used to work at in
Todonger was called Flannagan's. It's not there anymore. And I
used to work just up the hill from the Irish
Pub as I can't remember what it was called now,
but it was Classic Ats and Newstalks NB and you

(21:04):
were doing Drive and I was a credit and role
manager in tod On and I used to have to
listen to the Drive show and like we went off
the network.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, yeah, hang on, hang on, I don't. I don't
feel that comfortable talk about I don't think I ever
did Drive, did I I'm.

Speaker 9 (21:24):
Sure you didn't because you were famous, but with the
pregnant furs and used.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
No, I've never done Drive, I don't think. But anyway,
it's a long throughout the Irish pub.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
Oh no, look the Irish pub. It was brilliant markets
to work in an Irish pub, there's nothing better. I
used to do a Wednesday night, a Friday night and
a Saturday night and we would have the pub would
be absolutely pumping. Not with Irish music. It was more
an Irish traditional pub during the day, you know, when

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people drank beginners and whatnot, partecularly on a Sunday if
we work the Sunday, but at nighttime on a Friday
night and a Saturday night we'd have a DJ and
we'd have all the Pokey machines as well. It was
a two storied building and I don't.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Know what they have Pokey's in the Irish pubs and Ireland.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I wonder.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
I don't know, I love.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Is nor have I maybe something going answer that, because
it doesn't seem that Irish to have the but maybe
it is.

Speaker 9 (22:30):
Well, I'm not sure that what we used to do
is you know, how would those when you've got the
Pokeys you have to donate so much a food? I
think of your takings through the machine to a charity. Well,
our charity was the New Zealand Police Social Club and

(22:52):
it was brilliant, brilliant idea. They always had our backs.
If there was any trouble, tactic that one actually.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Give them money to them. I suppose you can't lead
to those sorts of things, can ca Lisa? Without fear
or favor? Nice to talk to you. Thank you're twenty
one away from nine Marcus till twelve? Who Irish pubs?
The more the Merria, oh eight hundred and eighty ten,
end the weather. If you've got any more updates on that,
get us, get yourselves through to us.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
About that.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Murphy's Bar Drury, No, Murphy's Lord, Drury Ex, Jolly Farmer, Cheers,
Brenda Muldoon's and Audio are party time going off? Gosh,
I'd say you this more than one hundred. Someone said
there's the Canary Hotel and Hoker Ticket. I think it's
an Irish pub, is it, Marcus? The one on New

(23:41):
Plpment is called Piggy Gordon's Terrance. Really, Marcus is five.
The one that's in Taradale another Rosio Grady. The Rose
is a separate pub from Patty's and Napier. Sorry about
the confusion. It's probab the way my text read reconfusing
seventy and away from nine, eight hundred eighty Jesse Jesse.

Speaker 14 (24:03):
Hi Marcus, first time listener, first time caller. There are
over one thousand, five hundred and sixty Irish buzz.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
Across New Zealand and of twenty twenty four and twenty
twenty five. What yes, I just googled I'm listening to you,
my h I'm going to google.

Speaker 14 (24:26):
This and it says the total Irish pubs from twenty
twenty four to twenty twenty five is one thousand, five
hundred and sixty right across New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
I think it'll be across the world. I don't I
don't think. Yeah, yeah, okay, good on you, Jesse. Enjoy
the journey. Sixteen away from nine Steve Marcus, Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 10 (24:53):
How are you good?

Speaker 14 (24:54):
Steve?

Speaker 2 (24:54):
How are you going?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
All right?

Speaker 15 (24:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (24:57):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 10 (24:58):
I just listened to you and I just had a
bit of a laugh to myself because I've just I'm
a bar designer and I've been doing Irish up and
down the country and I've just opened up. I just
did a big one in Queenstown called the Irish One,
which is having its spurs and patrick tonight.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Okay, well, And then I said.

Speaker 10 (25:19):
To myself because I lived in Ireland as well, so
when I came back my about twenty five years ago,
I did an Irish pub and I've been target that
brush ever since. So I could probably rattle up about
fifteen of them that you can blame me for up
and down the country.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Could you tell me where the Irishman is in Queenstown?
For those it's on the wall, It's on the down
by the walls. Yeah, okay, what was there?

Speaker 14 (25:45):
Right? Down there.

Speaker 10 (25:47):
Well, it used to be a retail shop that was
Judy free. Okay, cool, so's a brand new one. It's yeah,
it was pretty pricey to kind of build. I've even
got Boris the badget in there in one of the
splay cases.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
So okay, I probably about five questions for you.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
What yes?

Speaker 16 (26:06):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Do you get online and just get all sorts of
memorability from Ireland for them?

Speaker 5 (26:14):
No?

Speaker 10 (26:15):
I actually dragged my partner around all the shops okay,
all the markets.

Speaker 11 (26:18):
Okay, rolls your.

Speaker 10 (26:19):
Eyes at me as I'm buying stuff like that, you know.
And I do get a few things from Ireland, but
mainly in the shops in the market, and that's it.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
And Boris because you need you need stuffed animals. Is
that what Borrows the bedger is?

Speaker 10 (26:32):
Yeah, Boris the bedges of stuffed animal bottles, books, old cases.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Like oldly the football and sort of cricket pads and
stuff like that. Is have I got it?

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Okay, yep, hourly sticks, you know.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
What he is.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
It's kind of amazing because it does seem slightly banal,
but it works, doesn't it. I Mean you get all
these things throwing there, and people flocked there you get
a fiddle.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
You gotta have you gotta have a fiddle. You can
buy a fiddle on trade me for about twenty five bucks.

Speaker 8 (27:02):
That you know, the ones that look.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Real okay, And you've got to have the wooden pan.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
Wooden paneling, lots of that. You've got to have pretty
much the stained glass in there as well. Oh yeah,
and then you've got to have like the couple stones.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
And why would they have stained glass and pubs in Ireland?

Speaker 10 (27:22):
You know, what are you going to get down to
the fine art of it. There's like four different types
of iris pub city one, yes, there's the country one,
the Gaelic one, and the city one has had a
lot of stained glass back from you know, turn of
the century type of stuff.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Okay, what are the New Zealand's Because you had the.

Speaker 10 (27:41):
Name, you have the name of the pub on the front,
wouldn't you each.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
And you would yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know
if it's a good name for that one in Queen's
talent seems a bit obviously why they're called the Irishman.

Speaker 10 (27:53):
Yeah, well that's what's good about.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
It's obvious that the ones you designed they last a
long time. If any of the ones you've designed all
those years ago.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
Still Yeah, there's one up in Howard, it's still there.
I've done one on Palms the North Down Lex and
then the Giggle on Paradale you.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Spoke about, Well, so you are you are the one
go to guy?

Speaker 10 (28:16):
Yeah about my favorite my favorite pub an island was
called the Bleeding Horse.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, and Helen, would it take you to do one?

Speaker 10 (28:26):
Well, from start to finished, it's probably about a six
to nine months turnaround.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Okay, and they.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Don't and they don't seem to be coming out that
there was, Sorry.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
Cookie cutter.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, but the but our love for Irish bars is
not diminishing.

Speaker 7 (28:45):
Is it.

Speaker 10 (28:47):
Well, I think it dipped off for about five years
and then it's picked up again.

Speaker 8 (28:51):
Yeah, and a good time.

Speaker 10 (28:54):
Yeah. You know what you're going to get.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Consistency of experience.

Speaker 10 (29:01):
Yes, you know you've got to think of the menu
as well. You know you're going to get your yeah,
Guinness pie and mash, don't you.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
And then I've seen the Gonna Get You Gonna Then
I've seen that go on TV. That's like turning containers,
doing those ones into your backyard, which is probably your competition.
But he does quite a good job.

Speaker 10 (29:19):
Well, believe it or not, I started that. There's nothing
to pass it on to do an mate, so that
was me as well. Really yep, yeah, my little pub.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Kind of goes quite well. It's good because it's Facebook.
You click on them and look at the little pubs
people got backyards. Works quite well, doesn't it.

Speaker 10 (29:39):
He looks works really well. I mean a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
What's a lot of fun?

Speaker 10 (29:44):
Everything on scale?

Speaker 3 (29:45):
What's the next new one you're doing?

Speaker 10 (29:49):
Ah, I haven't got the next Irish one I'm doing.

Speaker 8 (29:53):
I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh do you do ones besides Irish ones?

Speaker 11 (29:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (29:57):
I do the ones beside Irish ones.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
You know what's that one? What's that one? Like in Botany?
I used to have a pub. We used to go
a pub quisy.

Speaker 14 (30:04):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Called it one of yours?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
No?

Speaker 10 (30:08):
I don't know that one. And Botany was that one
I did do an organ was the barg But that's gone.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
There's it? What it turned into?

Speaker 10 (30:16):
Oh some high for Luton restaurant. I'm based out on
the mainland. I'n't Christian.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, we'll love you to hear from you, Steve. You've
made my knight to thank you for that. Nine away
from nine back in. But are we're talking Irish pubs?
And how many would they, oh, Steve, before you go,
how many would there be in New Zealand? How many
would they be?

Speaker 3 (30:30):
The reckon?

Speaker 10 (30:31):
Oh, I reckon, you'd be at least four to five hundred.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
I reckon, She's ambitious. Seven from nine dB. It's Marcus
could even welcome.

Speaker 8 (30:44):
Good Easing. The pub that I think was Irish. That
I had the best knight ever at was Warners on
the Square and cross Fitch.

Speaker 14 (30:55):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yes, it's good that you've actually managed to hone in
your best night ever down to one night. I'm liking that.
So you're saying that was Irish or maybe.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Was I.

Speaker 8 (31:05):
My memory is somewhat vague, use i'd except for the
fact that I had, like I said, the best i'd ever.
They had a live band and we had ladies dancing
on the tables.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (31:18):
And I was utterly stunned, and we had a great night.
It must have been three or four hours worth before
we all stagger out at some and God the hour
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Can we can we hone that down to a decade?
I'm saying it to the eighties, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:42):
And I'm just going to say that I hadn't moved
to Wellington No.

Speaker 14 (31:46):
Eighty five?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Okay, wow, you were those part bars around the square
in christ Church? I when they were legendary, weren't they?

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Well?

Speaker 8 (31:54):
I was visiting christ Church and I was at a
madsplace and I said, where is everybody? To start of God?
To Werner's And I thought Warners was some person's space.
I said, come on, you'll enjoy yourself.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Were not?

Speaker 8 (32:06):
Was a sub stranger's place they went?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
And what sort of strangers? Everyone in Christy it's going
to see them anyway?

Speaker 6 (32:15):
You know, yes, what a knight.

Speaker 8 (32:19):
Wow, that will go to my grave with me. But anyway,
I was surprised you share of Can you be amazed?
And move the pub? My recognition? I think the Thistle
was a pub that was also moved from one location
to another. Up in Auckland, they moved the bird Cakes,

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not only Thomas and this location they built a tunnel
undernea because they put it back again.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's terrible, So they've killed the pub. I mean you
see it there in all that effort, as just a
building stuck in the middle of nowhere with no kind
of functional use.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
It's a terrible thing.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
No souls, no nothing, It's just one of the worst
ideas they've ever done. I mean, the amazing they could
do it, but what a waste of time.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
But the one I really rang up about is the
hotel the wheels in Wellington where they moved a complete
it's five story hotel from where to Papa is now
to across the road. Now I know it's changed names
and I think enough time to look it up, but
they stuck some railway wheels underneath it, moved it, oh,

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I don't know, two hunder meats one way, turned the
wheels around, moved it across the street and plunked it
down again.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Now, now.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (33:42):
When they moved it the second time, they did a
time lapse of it moving. They probably did the time
the first time as well. But the second time lapse
in the background is a ship breaking its moorings at
King's Wharf and almost going into Shaffer's Marina. They managed

(34:04):
to drop its anchors to a big ship just before
I went into Shave because marina, I forgot the name
of the ship that I remembered the incident well, and
this was and this.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Was and this was unrelated to the moving of the pub.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
Turned down related It was a huge northerly storm and
it broke its borings, clouded the hecketeer, which is what
I had my fingers into, waded across Rampton Harbor and
the crew I bought just managed to get her anchors
down in time before she went into Schafers and would

(34:44):
have destroyed the face. She also cut a hold of herself,
and the engineer I bought have enough sense to chain
down the excess panel to the engine room, otherwise she
would have sunk as well. She beached herself below the woodline.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
You wonder why it'd be moving a pub in such
poor weather.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
I don't think they had much tourist up for the public.
Probably been making a lot of difference, or they may
have got caught in the middle of it.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
They may have been a good point.

Speaker 8 (35:16):
But ye know, I was just watching the time this
one day when then I spotted and I think it
a spirit of enterprise in the background wandering across the half,
and I reconized what that date was.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
I've got to leave it there, but thank you so
much for your call. I think we might have even
actually a bit of a topic pivot here. We might
go from Irish pubs to also interesting moves of buildings
between the two of them will have a show, so
I'll see you after the break. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. We are talking about Saint Patrickstown, Irish pubs.
And I was curious though, who were in the country
would have been I'm curious though, how many there are

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in the country and who would have been to most
of them?

Speaker 3 (35:56):
And there is.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I'm curious about that because as a guy talking that's
going to try and see all the runs around the world,
he has only been to ninety. I thought, cheapest creepers,
get get your hurry on. There'd be more than ninety
in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
I reckon.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
But we are to discussed and keep it going away.
And building has been moved. A lot of pubs have
been moved, but interesting other buildings have moved. I do
remember once upon a time they moved the giant church
and Parnell across the road, across the road to add
it on to the side of the cathedral.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
It was a big deal.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
But it seems as though building moving hasn't changed much,
so just put them on rollers. So it's got something
stuck in my throat which I've just managed to sort
out I think, I hope. Chris Marcus, welcome, Hi.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Mark.

Speaker 12 (36:47):
Just tell you, Chris, my comment on Pet's Day is
sort of reminiscing over my seventies now. But I remember
in the nineties Queenstown used to have an awesome Irish
pub called Pop the Homes, and that used to operate

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mainly with lots of bands and also breakboard concerts and
what have you on Thursday and Friday night.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Chris, where was this?

Speaker 12 (37:21):
Oh, right in the center of town. I couldn't tell
you the streets. I don't think I'm positive. I don't
live in that area anymore.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
But you said you said Queenstown, Am I correct?

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (37:36):
Queenstown, Yeah, prob Mahomes. It was just awesome. It was
the fabulous supposed to go. And the other really big
memory I have of Irish music in Saint Pet's Day
is a South Island band called Mercy's Law.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
That's a good name for an Irish band.

Speaker 12 (37:58):
Yeah, Oh they were amazing and they just they were
around in probably late bed too, late eighties, and they
used to tour around the pubs and the festivals and yeah,
they were awesome and yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Hey, Chris, when you said you can't go to pubs,
Why did you say you don't go to pubs anymore?

Speaker 17 (38:23):
Ah?

Speaker 12 (38:25):
I only ever went to pog Mahomes for the music, Okay, Yeah,
and they might have been tar on a.

Speaker 10 (38:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
The other question that springs to mind for me was
what would be what would be the first New Zealand
Irish pub?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Do you know what?

Speaker 2 (38:40):
The answer that would be, no, no idea, because I
imagine they haven't always been here. I imagine some bright
spark thought they'd have an Irish pub to sell some
guinness and they probably it could well have been pog Mahones.
It could have been one in a place like Queenstown, very.

Speaker 12 (38:57):
Possibly, and it was really really really popular because you know,
not only could you go and see really good musicians
and fans there, but they kind of like had a
blackboard thing where people get up and play and they're
always really talented. It was just a great night out.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Well, it seems to be sure fire format for a
brand Irish pub. You've got the music, you've got the beer,
and you've got the people, and good people go there
genuine You don't go there for a fight, you go
there for a you go there to meet people. Yeah,
did you perform, Chris, No, No, I went.

Speaker 12 (39:37):
I went there to enjoy the music. Marcus.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Okay, nice to talk for Thanks for that eleven past nine, Marcus.
I think Mexico City. I think Mesco City is somewhere
let in America. That to move their phone exchange while
they were still while there were still operators, they had
to keep the building operating while the move was taking place.

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The lovely old wooden courthouse and Livin was moved across
the railway line to the Rose Garden. I was at
the centertaf now a cafe Goodness. Warners in christ Chitch
was the greatest all the Irish pubs in Auckland could
fit in her old bones in the eighties on St
Patrick's Day, if you were not in by eight in
the morning, you weren't getting in great memories of gin

(40:23):
shooters at three in with the pogues who had just
played the town hall and stayed there the night.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
So are we right?

Speaker 2 (40:28):
And assuming that Warners, although it doesn't sound like is
an Irish bar, is that right? That's what I'm curious
to know about, Marcus. One of the original hotels in
Tibudhu was called the Shamrock. It had its name changed
to the New City Hotel. It still exists at the
Hotel Hostel and Stafford Street. Get in touch by names, Marcus, Welcome, oh,

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eight hundred and eighty, Teddy and nine nine to de
text moving buildings.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yay.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
How many pubs would be in New Zeine? What would
be the first Irish pub in New Zeine? And that's
what I'm curious to know about the answer? And Irish
pubs you've been to in remote and strange places. I
don't think there is one in Antarctica yet they're probably
doing something like that that mcmurdos before too long, Marcus,

(41:20):
one of what of his best thous Irish pubs was
Molly Malone's was no longer in existence?

Speaker 6 (41:24):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Marcus just went out to enjoy Saint Patrick's day with
my colleague went to two Irish bars in New Market.
Whilst the experience was most enjoyable and went primarily due
to our heritage, but mostly in comparison to previous years,
not busy at all. I think this is a site
of a tough economy at the disposal and come to enjoy.

(41:50):
I reckon it's because it's a Monday. Friday. Yep, you
get into it Thursday, get into it Wednesday, get into
it Tuesday. Not so much, Monday, not at all. Marcus
the Railway Hotel, all five stories of it, was rolled
down to its new home and the main street and

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Parmas northn rollers years ago before they shut down the
railway station of the middle of town. In fact, the
streets and Parmeerston North were deliberately made super wide so
people could roll their houses to their new sections. They
brought the new part of Found the city while keeping
their houses. Bailey's was the name of the Irish bar
and Warners, So Warners appears to have contained and its

(42:36):
giant structure and Irish bar. You know what makes me
angry every time I say Irish bar? I've got ed
Sheeran singing in my ears.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Again.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
In touch with the calls please O eight hundred and
eighty ten, nineteen nine two to text. We went to
an Irish bar and Sorrento in Italy. Wow, it's interesting
as a culture they've done that, isn't there because I
guess the art well, what would the Italians have? They
have Italian bars all around the world. Do they are
any of any Flannagans with the Irish Baronuama who started
by Bob and Eugena Ross in the nineties. Thank you, Marcus.

(43:12):
Molly Malone's building has been brought ufter seeing empty for
over five years, Jack Haggett's and JJ Murphy's and went
into best Irish pubs now, thank you Marcus. Just back
to the hotel in christ Chitch the local Irish pubs,
even with Panda's young and old cheers Reuben, Marcus Rosen Shemrock, Havelock,
North's great pubs, Susie Well, there's five and hawks By

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apparently five Irish pubs. Marcus have arrived home after an
incredible Saint Patrick's night the Rivers and Gisbon. Now is
that an Irish pub? An every Irish pub sounding name,
massive live toe tap in music, delicious food and families

(43:53):
enjoying themselves.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
I just some on something entirely different, and I'll just
mention this because there might be some talk in it,
only because I often hear people ringing up the show
and talking about it, and without going into what I

(44:24):
was doing. I happened to be driving Lay yesterday on
the motorway between Hamilton Auckland and it was closed for maintenance,

(44:44):
and we'd already come past a big area further down
the motorway that was closed for a maintenance is where
we drove. It was closed between Drary and Papacuta or
something like that, but also been closed between a big
chunk further down. Now my question is, I'm not m
telling sure how to phrase it, because we've got this
new motorway that goes south from Orland to Cambridge, I think,

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or even beyond that, and there's also one that goes
from Auckland north, but I'm talking mainly about the one
south from the section of it from Auckland south to Cambridge.
And I don't want to be a stirer, because that's
not my nature, but only because I'm curious. Does this

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motorway seem to require more maintenance? A lot of motorways,
but it seems though every day after midnight or after
eleven o'clock they said we're doing maintenance on it. Is
that just what motorways are like, or if we got
one that needs that's particularly susceptible to maintenance, if anyone
knows anything about that, I just chuck that as a
bit of a side topic tonight as well, must be

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frustrating his heck if you're a truck driver. But it
seems as though the motorways require a lot of upkeep
and look, I mentioned motorway upkeeper is not cheap to
do because it requires extraordinary numbers of people to provide
traffic management and get the cones out. And these are

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not even the people that are doing the roadworks. So
everyone's going to thing to say about that. I'd like
to hear from you. Get in touch. Oh eight hundred
eighty thirty and nine two nine to text twenty five,
but it's past nine if you do want to talk,
as I say, oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and

(46:33):
nine two nine to text. I'll remember Saint Patrick's twenty
twenty five for being ripped in two by my brother,
and Laurie took exception to me calling as Ford Ranger
a ute. Apparently Ford Rangers are trucks, not yutes. It's

(46:55):
so deja it's amusing. I once had the exact same
conversation years ago with a Holden Colorado owner from west Auckland. Wow,
why do these trucks need to be so big? Because
certainly I'll tell you what they're wrecking the car parking
at the supermarket because they're right to the edges. It's

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almost like I need special their own car parks, Marcus.
The Oak and Harbor bridges it up in Charlie Green
for Saint Patrick's. That looks also across the water. Thank you,
Thank you, Marcus. Splitting the G people take a sip
or three of Guinness in one head and try and
make it the level of the beer left over the
split the G. I am aware of that, Marcus. My

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daughter in London sent me advertisement in the paper of
a plant shop with Gorse plants on special. Normally twelve
pounds ninety nine today only seven ninety nine save five pounds.
That's extraordinary, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (47:57):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (47:58):
That could be our export earner, would be Gorse. Johnet's Marcus,
welcome and good.

Speaker 6 (48:05):
Evening today, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 17 (48:09):
Thanks John good Hey, Saint Patrick's day so quite timely
in terms of I've got a double conversation. Ut So
I lived in Ireland. I was working for a New
Zealand company from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two and
driving all around Ireland and what staggers me the difference
between Ireland and New Zealand. I'm not a road expert,
but maybe we just do the roads on the cheap here.

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Because my time in Ireland, I drove all around the place, Gorway, Lamereck, Cork,
you know, Dublin, everywhere. I never saw any maintenance vehicles
on their roads, and I think they just build them properly,
and I think here we maybe don't.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Are you involved with the Aucland Motorway.

Speaker 17 (48:53):
I know the parts you're talking about, you know those
parts around Hamilton that seemed to be some of the
corners there, they seem to be forever repairing them. So
I'm familiar, and you know in some ways, you know,
there are parts in these island that topography is quite
different to Ireland. I get that, but there's lots of
parts that it's very similar, and the roads that are

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very very different. In Ireland, they seem to be sort
of built on a concrete base so that they're never
ever really doing any maintenance on them.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
I just can't work out why the motorway, the new
motorway south of Auckland that everyone seems to love because
you go one hundred and ten k's why for a
road that is so recent that it requires so much
maintenance and exactly and maybe if I dig deeper, this
some problem with the road, but because because clearly it's
very busy, a lot of trucks on it, but it
just seems to be good, and they say, I mean,

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it's not a satisfactory outcome if they need to close
it every night to do repairs, because it's that's a pain,
isn't it.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (49:52):
I agree, But I don't think you know, my travels
around New Zealand, and it's not just there. I think
there's other places where, you know, where it just seems
to be.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I don't know. Yeah, I agree. I agreed to the
other place that I thought if there'd be one road
that would be built to withstand heavy traffic, it would
be that motorway because it's got to be built to
be the busiest road in the country.

Speaker 13 (50:10):
Right.

Speaker 17 (50:12):
Yeah, absolutely couldn't agree more. But what I'm living down
in Napia now, and even even roads around the town,
you know, it just seems to me they chuck down
some hot mix trucks and stones on it, and then
three years later they're.

Speaker 6 (50:25):
Doing it again.

Speaker 14 (50:26):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Where are you?

Speaker 4 (50:27):
John Napier hawkspace.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah okay, yeah, I mean it seems to be a
gripe and I can't work out why suddenly people are
griping about it. What's changed? Have we become more to
spa and have we become more gripy or our roads.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Are the maintenance?

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Is the maintenance?

Speaker 6 (50:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
You might want to talk about that, particularly that situation
with the motorway between Auckland and Hamilton. They said, we're
doing a nice road, nice nice surface. Marcus, tell this
man the stiling is in is entirely different and keeps
moving underneath our infrastructure. Overseas they can put down a road,
it will not move for centuries. Here it will move
within six months. The soil. Ireland's roads so much better

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due to EU investment. Twenty years ago Ireland roads were
complete rubbish. There should be an investigation regarding that stretch
of motorway. It seems to be hush hush, nothing said
these days. I think anyone just use it to bloody shambles.
That motorway has been ongoing with repair since opening. Repoor

(51:32):
quality in some contract is issues as well. It's a
never ending pit, money wasting for five years now and
still going bloody ridiculous every time I go through there.
So is that just the new permanent or are they
fixing what wasn't right at the beginning. If someone tells
me that, that saves me looking it up. Marcus, Hamilton

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was built on a peat field, so so not but
correctly it's a hard text understand. But thank you. In
Irish pubs the strangest Irish pubs you've been to around
the world. Have you been to one in Japan? Someone
will have get in touch Marcus Till midnight eight hundred

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and eighty ten eighty and nine, two nine tow to text.
By the way, mister Marathon has died. This is a
guy's name is Dennis Kenney, thirty four years at the
helm of one of Roto's most famous events, the Rotor Marathon.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
So there we go.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
That's him.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Of course it stars the Fletcher Marathon. He was one
of the sixteen in the starting line in Augle event
nineteen sixty five. He came sixth. It was a beloved
event that one is was is Stephanie Marcus.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Welcome, dear Marcus.

Speaker 18 (53:05):
They wrote south the world they're doing it's not what
everyone is taxing in about the section they're doing is
between Mary Mary and Hampton Downs and it is one
hundred kilometer in Arizone. It is just maintenance that they
haven't done on it, and it is what it is. Unfortunately,

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they close that side of the motorway and throw ball
traffic onto the two lanes that would be going the
other way. That you've got a standard two lane road
one direction that once I go one way, once down
the other way with Jones down the middle, and that
allows them to work on the side of the motorway

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that they got closed. So it's got nothing to do
with the section they've just finished doing down between Calpery
and horror.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
To And what was the situation with that section there's Stephanie.

Speaker 18 (54:00):
That section was never built properly in the first place,
and it kept breaking up.

Speaker 17 (54:04):
Right from wood Gow, so.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Stiffly there are now it is just maintenance, so stiffly
that now has been resolved that section that was wobbly, right.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Did you did you?

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Did you say one hundred?

Speaker 18 (54:20):
Yeah, hopefully it's been quicked now.

Speaker 14 (54:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Now the rest of the motorway from Auckland, I know
how fast south it goes hundred and twenty k's or
trying to K's to Cambridge. Does it seem to you
that it requires a lot of ongoing maintenance, more so
more so than the old motorway.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Perhaps, No.

Speaker 18 (54:43):
They stopped using par many many years ago, called par
is what's left over from coal, and they've beenned that
because it was too carsiennick or do something with the environment.
So they started using bitumen, which is a when when
they refined proved oil and the petrol and diesel what

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is left is benjamin sure, and they've been using that
for many, many years. And now they've gone through the
emulsion which is bitamin, intriguing it with water, so the
water evaporates out of it and it's still got the
sticky stuff. But it depends on the quality of the emulsion.

(55:27):
And a lot of people are saying the emulsion is
grap that's coming into the country, but it still has
to meet a certain specification.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
So I don't know, okay, But as a professional driver,
stefinitely you're quite happy with how much ongoing maintenance that
motorway seems to require. And most of it's happening at
night when you guys need to move your stuff, right, Yeah, No,
I'm not happy.

Speaker 18 (55:53):
With the amount of maintenance is just every night. Every night.
It's the same as the extension they're doing to the
Southern motorway between Papac Dura and During Now it took
them over five years to do the last section, so
I'm dreading to think how long it's going to take
them to do this next section.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
So every night, so what do they do? What are
they doing there?

Speaker 18 (56:18):
They're putting in the new interchange of jewry and the
way and amount of time it took them to the
last section, I'm thinking this is going to be at
least five or six years of ongoing distructions to the
papercure jewelry, papercure, aroma rama. Okay, motorway system at night

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it'll be closed.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
So when you say an interchange, it just means basically
an on ramp, but slightly more complicated than am I right,
there's going to.

Speaker 18 (56:51):
Be a major alterations to what is there new bridges
over the railway track, you overfly, It's it's going to
be really masterive.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Okay, good updates, Definitely. I appreciate that it's a bit
of clarity on that one. Seventeen to ten. Yeah, I mean,
it does seem as though they're always maintaining that new motorway.
But I guess that's probably what happening. Fastest growing city
and US in and that's Auckland were major city. So
I guess it's just about putting new motorways in and
overpasses and stuff like that. So it's pretty full on

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the way. I mean, there's a lot of stoppages. It
must be as expensive as heck to do all that
staff they're blocking off roads, diverting prefets, not straightforward bearing
a minus Saint Patrick's day. We'll be the first in
the world for that, won't we. We always did seem

(57:44):
to be a marketing plan for Guinness, but gee, what
a successful one. You couldn't really think of a more
successful marketing campaign for a product.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
But there you have it.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
Fifteen away from ten Marcus till twelve o'clock tonight Marcus
for during ability. The expressway should be concrete like the US,
but the noise would not be tolerated certain segments of
bitum and even hushed, which is probably why it breaks
up faster. Don't believe these guys. Truck drivers only know

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how to destroy the finished product before it's hardened. They
don't know what goes into the process, Marcus. Try coming
to Hawke's Bay State Highway too. Between why Pucino and
why Para is a joke and people who know what
they are doing because this lot don't. In Germany, ashfelt

(58:45):
service last fifty to twenty years, a lot better than
the Caveman chip that lasts six weeks if you're lucky
and knocks the rubbish out of the paperwork and windscreens.
He's right, ah, Marcus, just spent in the weekend drive
from Auckland to Cape and back with amazing roads. Considering
how many trucks be on the road. Sity councils should

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take a hard look at the Far North beautiful work.
If one builds are a perfect carriageway, a road that
lasts and holds up in all weather and traffic loads, etc.
How then can one get paid for long term maintenance
and upkeep. People see a conspiracy, don't they, Marcus. Concrete

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highways like the Human Australia te Odd K's it will
last eighty years. All the money wasted we could have
done in concrete and spare change and no repairs. No brainer.
Thank you for the email from Rachel Hi Rachel Hi.
Marcus roadworks at Drury are a major upgrade to the

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Drury Interchange, which has just begun due to the huge
residential development in the area, population and dreary due to
explode over the next twenty years or so. Also, a
shopping mall to rival Sylvia Bark is planned and rumors
of a new costco at Drury. Therefore, way has been
upgraded to meet predicted future increase in traffic. Well, I

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guess it's a good thing they're forward planning, and I
guess that's one of the huge challenges that we can't
really well, no one really manages to work out that
you can keep the old motorways going while you build
onto them. We don't know what the solution is to
planning like that. It must be frustrating for driving trucks

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around just back from Norway, amazing roads and on a
road cone or pothole in site similar population. So I'm
sure why we can't produce roads like them. Maybe they've
got no fault lines through there of Norway on fault lines,

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Probably not. I'm sure plate tectonics have a great deal
to do with our roads in the land that it's
created under the roads. Marcus, Irish bar Slimer Malta All
Blacks World Cup game on TV, additional Maltese cuisine of

(01:01:21):
bangers and mash. Your caller is wrong. Concrete won't work
everywhere in New Zealand, Marcus. A lot of big businesses
making a lot of money from doing a repoor job.
They should be held accountable, but just make more money
doing it over and over. I think I saw something

(01:01:41):
online with Christopher Luxen and the Fijian Prime Minister. A
lot of backtapping from Christopher Luxen. He's a big one
for the It was quite extraordinary.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Who doesn't They handshake the back, then walks away and
then becks backpats about four times as he walks. It's wow,
it's quite the show. Have a look, Arcus. We seem
to a lot of things backwards here Australia. When they
build roads, is no one convenienced. They put a D
twelve dos beside the existing highway and prefect uses that

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Filton Hogan just milk it. They need opposition that will
put a rocket up them when they've had easy here,
things need to change. Concrete the only way to go.
There'd probably be some success if you started a political
party called Concrete Roads, you probably get in people love
that or concrete. People love concrete. I love it our

(01:02:46):
Jane Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:02:49):
Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:02:50):
Yeah, Irish bars. Most surprised to find a Irish bar
and Chang Mai in Thailand, and we knew the All
Blacks were playing, and so we thought, well, we'll find
the Irish bar and we'll go and watch the All
Blacks game.

Speaker 15 (01:03:05):
And we did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
It was great and did it feel Irish? Well not really.

Speaker 7 (01:03:12):
It just yeah, I guess that decorations and everything were Irish.

Speaker 10 (01:03:16):
But it's just really like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
I can imagine, nice to hear from you. There are
some great texts. We're talking Irish bars. I just wish
someone would make the listen to have me their are
in New Zealand, like that would be kind of once
check GPT say damn there something it's not good?

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Here?

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
We go, we'll find out and if they give us
rubbish answer, go back and say hey could you sort
it out? So look, we don't want something, can you
just can you actually just find out everyone rather just
come up with some engineering. Oh yes, that's right. There
are a lot of Irish bars where people go to drink.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
It's got a long way to go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
Check GPT, Marcus. All these people ringing up saying no
road matence on overseas roads full of rubbish. I drove
City to Brisbane regularly, roadworks and private hold ops every night.
Also drove from boot, Montana to Memphis, Tennessee, and never

(01:04:17):
to a trip without some massive hold ups.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
Yes, there is an Irish bar and mercer. You'd be
lucky if it's open till ten tonight. We went to
watch an All Blacks match down there. When they closed
the bar ten minutes after halftime. Pretty slack. Well, mind you,
if you've got an Irish bar and mercer, who's your market?
Because you're not really there for the driving public, are you?

(01:04:47):
Because I mean it's frowned upon. The thing with Irish
roads they would sorry, I confused by two topics. The
thing with concrete roads they would crack easy and apparently
concrete as one of the highest co two omitss fun
thing about concrete If you put coke on your mix,

(01:05:09):
it'll set slower, Marcus. In nineteen ninety six I visited
the Rusty Mackerel Irish bar and Teelen Road Donegal nearly
got stuck. There was a beauty little authentic bar. Cheers Dave.
Nice to hear from you, Dave. Irish bars in the

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roads tonight. They are the two major topics. Oh the
other thing that I just want to chuck into the mix.
Where are Where are we? And I never know how
to pronounce this?

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Where are we?

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
On snooze s in US? Because this seems to be
the new tobacco product that is taking over the world.
It's from Sweden, right, and these things are tobacco.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
That's a little pouch as you put in your mouth.
And it seems to be everyone to give up the
vapes and switch to these. And they're saying it's like
completely safe and causing cants has been removed it till

(01:06:40):
the go and apparently you can do it without anyone knowing.
And it's been suddenly huge in America. I was surprised
to readle about this, but this is something you might
want to snooze s in US? Ah, how many Arish?

(01:07:07):
This is what we asked, chit gpt how many Irish
pubs are there in New Zealand Be warned, I'll be
aggressively upset if you give me a canned, misinformed answer.
I understand your desire for price and precise information. While
it's challenging to provide an exact count of Irish pubs
Uzland due to dynamic nature the hotel the industry, available

(01:07:29):
sources indicate that there are notable establishments around the country.
According to find Irish Pubs, Irish pubs are presidencies such
as Auckland, christ Chitch Monica and Wellington. In Auckland. Some
of the world and Irish pubs include Father Teed's, The Fiddler,

(01:07:50):
the Claire and the Clatter. Christ Judge is home to
Sullivan's Irish Pub, established in nineteen ninety seven. It's relicated
to Addington after the quake, and Queenstown. Pog Malin's Irish
Pub is recognized as one of New Zealand's most authentic
Irish pubs, having opened in nineteen ninety eight. Additionally, Donegal
House Irish Hotel and cake Holda offers a blend of

(01:08:12):
Irish hospitalical setd accommodation. These examples high the presence of
Irish pubs. You said, give me the number how many
Irish pubs. I understand your request for the precise number
they've come up with twelve. That's hopeless, isn't it. Ill

(01:08:32):
could have given you more than twelve off just off
the top of my head, like the five from hawks
Bay Goodness and Lee is on form. Lee has said

(01:08:55):
this might be the email of the night. I bet
the first Irish bar and you said it would have
come from a sheep. It's a good just a good one.
Until he's done there, get in touch, Marcus till twelve
thirteen past ten? These tobacco pouches? You onto those yet?
And are we over maintaining the roads and Irish bars?

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How many in the country would there be? I'm sure
I could have sat down with Google if I wasn't
on the radio, or do that and just work out
how many there are? You go to Irish bar, you go,
you pick a place like Topor and you go Irish bar.
Why can't Jet GPT do that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
Isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Isn't Elon Elon in charge of.

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
See I've gone straight. I can see straight from Toupur
there's Finns Bistro and get Beer Garden. There's Mulligan's Public Houses,
Jolly goodfellows. That's shocking how bad it is anyway? Getting
touch one of its market's welcome Arcus delicious flavored oral

(01:10:08):
nicotine pouches are the tobacco industry's latest way to addict children.
To secure the longevity of their business, These are Philip
Morris's biggest sellers overseas. Now still a legal in New
Zealand until Casey Costello sorts it out. Plenty of cases

(01:10:29):
of people's mouths being burnt, So yes, there's a bit
of controversy there, but that we will have that discussion.
That will be a big story in the next month
or year as they try and get those legal in
this country. S n Us snooze I think they're called.
I don't know too much about I've never tried them.

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Their big thing is safety, but how would you know?
But because the Swedes invented the Swedes don't hardly smoke.
It's kind of a weird story of weird origin story.
There run to roads and road maintenance, run to Irish bars.
How many would there be if they've got them on
the art there's one and great barrier, there's one on Wahiki,

(01:11:11):
if there's one on the Chathams. But they seem to
like them in small communities. I guess that's the Irish spirit.
And also talk about these tobacco pouches which are taking
over the world. They'll be coming here soon. I think
people are buying them online, but I think the legality
of them is sketchy. I Flynn's Irish Barren Hand Miss

(01:11:36):
Springs as a great bar Bronwyn, Well, gosh, there's an
irony having a bar in Hamner Springs, isn't there? But
that's quite something. Had no idea, So I still think
when the towns people suggested there must be one hundred.
If Hannah's got one and Mercer's got one and Martin's
got one, every town's got one, hasn't it? Like pick

(01:11:59):
a town there is an Irish bar. What's a middling town?

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Esh Burton.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Irish bar? In touched Marcus till twelve. I just fit
the whole day to day typing out this list. I
thought GPT would do it. Kelly's Irish baron kfash Burton.

(01:12:25):
Any town needs one, don't have it? Any good? Grab
an Irish coffee or a non alcoholic Shevrock shake seems
pretty Irish to me. Smoke chicken and Kevin beer beautiful.
Jim Marcus welcome, Hi.

Speaker 15 (01:12:45):
Welcome Marcus. Victoria Market area used to be an Irish
pub then I called it Immigrant. Tell me it was
quite a well known.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Tell me where that was? Where was it?

Speaker 16 (01:12:59):
Yes, the.

Speaker 15 (01:13:02):
On the walk up to ours seems coming from the
city right through to Victoria to the Victoria Parker Market.
It was a building on the left hand side. There
used to be a bit of a pub on the corner,
the wh pub. It was there for years anyway, it
was there for all twenty years. Then it disappeared. But
that it was the only Irish probably I was going

(01:13:24):
in with was proper Irish Danson, Irish Danson on a
Sunday light, the like the river dance type stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:13:32):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
When they don't move their arms, that's the one.

Speaker 15 (01:13:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Yeah, that's great, isn't it Because you can put the
thing when they're not moving your arms. It's ideal for
a pub because you can fit them in quite a
small space.

Speaker 15 (01:13:47):
That's exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:13:48):
Yeah. But this is a good size.

Speaker 15 (01:13:49):
That's funny, funny old building that the the guy that
owned it got yourself in a bout of troubles thing.
I'm not going to mention any names anyway, Get done
for something. And the sentenced them to two year his
home detentionion and his apartment was up above the pub.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
How goodness, that's fine. I'm just trying to think.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
I'm just trying to think where it possibly was. So
was it like in an old building.

Speaker 15 (01:14:22):
It wasn't an old bil. You know, no knows a
pub there unless you were probably high, he said, Scottie.
So somebody game that don't be phoned anyway, But it
was a one off.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
I think it might have been. I think it might
have been, Oh you got another story? No, no, no,
I think it might have been on Fenshaw Street.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Would that be right?

Speaker 16 (01:14:44):
That you could be right?

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Yeah, And I think it used to be before that
was a nightclub and I can't remember what the name
of that was, but that's nostalgia anyway.

Speaker 15 (01:14:52):
Okay, it's probably been something because the proper bar a
big horseshoe bar and looks quite quite big inside. Also,
it was there, I'll tell you. He mid taintiest wet
late nineties, that on the twenties. Okay, Jim, I'll look

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into that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Thanks very much for that. Twenty four past ten, eight
and eighty twenty. I've got a very good text here.
I've got to alert you to and this is a
text that says a lot. This is one of the
greatest texts I've ever read. We all remember Saint Patrick's

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Day in Matamatta. Yeah you remember that one, because.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
That would have been.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
The second super spreader event.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Am I right?

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
We had the wedding and bluff and then we had
the matamatter Saint Patrick's Day and that became a super
spread event that became did it become a cluster? I
can't even remember what their original clusters were with COVID,
but that certainly was a cluster. I forget all the clusters.
Keep going. My name is Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty hello, Iron
vented what may be a EU recipe for concrete, possibly
with exceptional qualities. Thank you Ellen. What makes an Irish
bar nothing? Our driver's school van was wondering what percentage

(01:16:37):
of drivers know that my top speed on the motor
with a school sign on is eighty k's. I have
a lot of drivers of money, truck drivers tailgating me
even with the outside lane available to pass. They eventually
passed me, but many times a lot of them tailgate me.
I don't know many drivers that know what a school
van with signs to the top speed I'm in total

(01:16:57):
to do is eighty gays? Why is the limit eighty ks?
Could you tell me that no Irish bar and Cambridge
should be the craick Irish bar of Fakatani Marcus. Although

(01:17:18):
there is no record of registered Irish pubs is in,
it's widely believed there is excess of one hundred source Reddit.
Oh that's right. What about the Queenstown Hereford Bull Conference.
That's right. It was the Bluff wedding, the Bull Conference
and the Mutta Butter Saint Patrick's Day that I think

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from then on we didn't really care, did we. Someone says,
interesting enough no Irish bars on the west coast really.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Methven has the Dublin. I thank you, Marcus. Perhaps Mahi
Drysdale can turn his Cambridge home into their first Irish pub.
It's not a bad idea, actually, depending on where your
house is located. Tamuka has the Jolly Potter. Marcus. That

(01:18:14):
bus driver is lying. All heavy vehicles in ninety k's
eighty k's for light trailers and some truck and trailers
changed ninety many years ago the reason trucks are limited
to nineties to ease the frustration of car drivers otherwise
not be able to pass. Could anyone confirm that school
van speed limit on the roads? Yeah, I'll be curious

(01:18:44):
that you've got some information about that, the school van
school van speed limit. But need you calls to night people?

Speaker 16 (01:18:48):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Oh wait, one hundred and eighty eight eighty strange Irish
pubs you've been to? And how many would they be
in use? And what's the authentic list? And what's it
with the speed limit of a van for eighty ks? Yeah,
because I can't see confirmation of that, but someone might

(01:19:14):
have some more information. I haven't got that. Eight hundred
eighty tenny and nineteen nine to de text. Marc has
just brought some snooze online, a tangy red grape flavor,
legal to buy online for personal use. Thank you, thank you,

(01:19:34):
thank you. A shamous Irish bar picked and very popular bronwin.
But seems all accounts people who have readd Irish Patrick's Day,
they've been quite busy. But it's weird this non on
the West coast. Looking forward to your calls. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty twenty eight away from eleven hed
on midnight.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
That be hearing from you tonight. If there's something different
you want to talk about, go I think I can
handle that. But it's only about roads and ceiling, not
roads and ceiling. But WHI I do so much damn
maintenance on the motorways? Is that because the roads weren't
good enough in the first place. I'm thinking primarily about

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that motorway south of Aukland that was supposed to be
our forever road, forever getting fixed. So yeah, there's that,
and Irish bars around us in and around the world.

Speaker 11 (01:20:30):
So there's that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
And anything else you want.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
Oh, by the way, the Ossies are going to go
to the elections soon and Peter Dutton's approval rating has
dropped below Anthony Albanese's. You know why Anthony Albanese has
done so well because he ripped into that woman that
separated that travel influenza, that separated a warm bat from
his mother, and Albanize said, try that with a crocodile

(01:21:05):
and went up ten percent.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
Brilliant. Larry Marcus, welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 19 (01:21:12):
Yeah, Irish bars and Parmi the Celtic inn would probably
the most famous.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Homily would they be in Paris? That would there be
more than one?

Speaker 19 (01:21:21):
There's is that one, there's Rosio Gradies. I tried to
meet a guy there for a Guinness or about sex
thirty and couldn't get anywhere near.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
It, couldn't Thank goodness the US, thank goodness for texting.

Speaker 19 (01:21:37):
Yeah, we had to go. Yeah, the there used to
be a Murphy's Law, but I think that closed down.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Oh quite a good quite a good name too.

Speaker 19 (01:21:46):
And there's one out in Fielding called Murray's. I think
Murray's Public public House or something like that. Yeah, Murray's
pretty good one. But just touching on that snooch. It
has been around. I can remember I worked at in
Canada back and up in the Yukon territories the late sixties,
and it was quite the Copenhagen tobacco and the tobaccos

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you put in your mouth, well usually guys put it
in around the gun mine. It was pretty prevalent that,
I mean, they had been. There's a hell of reputation
for causing mouth cancer and rotting's people's teeth.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Yes, I think these new ones has been some sort
of process. They haven't got those problems and I don't know.
I don't quite know what they've done to it, but
the Swedes themselves are pretty safety conscious.

Speaker 19 (01:22:40):
So yeah, it was still called some of it was
still called snooze in those days. But the Copenhagen brand,
which is actually American brand, that was certainly probably one
of the most prolific. I think. I think they used
to sell that down at the old the extent of
McMurdo as well. Okay, I was still smoking a dung funnel,

(01:23:02):
the old pipe in those days, so I didn't sort
of indulged that. But you know, you're really interplaying.

Speaker 2 (01:23:10):
You very really see someone with a dung fuddle these days,
do I mean you you go three or four years
without seeing anyone, and normally they're after some sort of
fancied dress party or a sort of Stewart homes not
or something, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:23:22):
Of course the Americans, you said, very aromatic tobacco, but
it didn't taste as PEPs the New Zealand stuff. I
picked up a pipe and when I was up there,
I suppose is the ultimate pipe. Instead of having been
metline with musham, they claimed it was lame. The same
materials being used on the nose cone of the seven
five rocket. I still got it. Actually, it's so as

(01:23:47):
far as he you know, sort of dissipation, it probably
was let's stay you know, next level. But yeah, it
doesn't seem to have caught on, but it's it's a slash.
I haven't puffed it for a long time, but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
You're still you've still got it though certainly have.

Speaker 19 (01:24:07):
Yeah, yeah, PEPs might call it out some stage if
I can find some some good tobacco.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
What would be the occasion.

Speaker 19 (01:24:20):
Probably just actually maybe a bit of a reunion perhaps
some of it actually that one coming up some of
the old guys from the down and turn it to
hear it on stage, So takes the client. Yeah, we're there,
used to supply for you tobacco when I was down there.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
Not to hear from your twenty three away from eleven Carrie, Marcus,
welcome read Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:24:42):
Hey, I'll just clear up this ady k carry.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
On, Yeah, please don't no worries.

Speaker 6 (01:24:47):
Okay.

Speaker 20 (01:24:48):
So all buses and bends that require a p endorsement,
which is a small can be a small passenger endorsement
or a large pass endorsement can drive at ninety k
okay as soon as that vehicle puts a school bus
sign on the I've got to put it on the back,

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bring it down on the back in the front. Then
that vehicle is required to travel at eighty k with passengers.
But as soon as the passengers out of the vehicle,
that can travel at ninety k. But the signs have
to be folded up. So if you see a vehicle
no one in it and it's got the signs out,

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that has to go eighty k.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
So what's the point of that.

Speaker 20 (01:25:37):
The point I see is probably eighty k is because
that vehicle is flowing down to pick up children and
then continue on. And yeah, maybe also back in the
day where no seat belts are required in the vehicles,
there may be an issue there as well. But what
people don't realize is twenty k past the vehicle requires

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on the other side as well.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Yeah, yeah, well.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Good, okay, do you drive with the life that you've
got Carrie p endorsement?

Speaker 20 (01:26:09):
Yeah, which is the last large vehicle anyone can get
the small passenger endorsement, But you've got a mostly you
can use that for carrying passengers in the bean great vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
So noisy, were you are you driving?

Speaker 19 (01:26:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:26:26):
I've got a pretty good heap text. But yeah, people
have been complaining lately.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
So oh your words are clear, that's just background noise
is carry. I appreciate you making the effort. Thank you, Welcome.
My name is Marcus Coredvening, oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nineteen ninety texts. What you got, what you
got going? Let's be hearing from you. Snooze and oh wow,
he's an interesting text email. It's a great email. I'm

(01:26:59):
just trying to enlarge it. Hi, Marcus, my husband and
I spent two thousand and six. Marcus, my husband I.
In two thousand and sixpen sent Patrick's Day on the
Aarn Island in Ireland. Our son worked at the Mainster

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House hostel, so we stayed there with him. The local
pub is the famous Joe Watt Is, where they hold
every year the Father Ted Festival, where the best Saint
Patrick's Night ever celebrate the night away at the local
and walking home in the wee hours. Chairs Mary. Now,

(01:27:43):
for those that don't know Aaron Ireland. In Ireland, I
shall refresh your geography because I'm going to google up
myself and refreshingly they were they are where I thought
they were to the west of Galway Bay, in the

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middle of the west coast of Ireland. Don't you love
Google Maps? And despite everything bad about the Internet, it
gave us Google Maps. Saint Patrick's Day.

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
Don't know why.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
I can't remember date wise, I would have thought it
was a different digit, but there we go. It to
the seventeen that's happened today, and surprisingly I thought be
it to monday'd be a damp squid, but people said
the bars for every busy christ Church and Palmerston North
seem to be the places where it's even I'm sure

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what the country's first Irish bar was, but certainly with
the last forty years, and I would to think, I
don't quote me on this, actually never quote me ever,
but I would think, and I don't say this an

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Nigola wayble. I would think probably Saint Patrick's Day has
been extraordinary for Guinness, but I would think probably thirty
or forty years ago, Guinness was probably quite hard to
get in the country because it didn't travel well. And
I don't think they had kegs of it here. I
don't necessarily know that they brew it here now, but
they've got those cans that have the woodget that go

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well with it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
But yeah, it's probably.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Maybe some years ago it wasn't even a thing an
Irish bar because they couldn't get the Guinness. I think
maybe they probably started bottling gult started brewing it in
Australia in New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
I think that might be right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Someone might know some more about that. It seems it's
probably one of those topics that people are quite up
to scale on.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
So there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:51):
That's what we are about tonight, Marcus. I'm pretty sure
the first I'm pretty sure the Irish borough in the
court of Fenshaw Street, Auckland was called Kiddy O'Brien. I
think there was quite a famous one. And they seem
to come and go gang buses for about twenty years,
and they seem to the crowd seem to move somewhere else.
Oh yes, I remember that one. I'm kidio obriant. It

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was that three story pub, wasn't it. That's right, would
have had an original name like that or something else.
We're also talking about moving buildings. That was the other
topic for tonight six Away from eleven Nora. It's Marcus.
Good evening, I'm Marcus. Can you hear me, it's down
and clear.

Speaker 21 (01:30:29):
Oh yeah, remember the hotel. They moved so many meters
when they put that fly over through to get onto
the half of the brook and politician joined it. Yeah,
the fly John John.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
John Banks. But that was was that the tunnel? When
was this like about ten years ago?

Speaker 21 (01:30:56):
Oh yeah, it could have even been more than that. Yeah,
you look down on it now when you're coming back
over the harbor, bok, you're looked down on Victoria Parks
on the left.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
And they've moved and it just seems to be a
dead duck ever since, no one You wonder why they
bother because it's always sort of just about empty.

Speaker 21 (01:31:13):
Well, I don't know. I went in there probably a
couple of years ago. I was all right, okay, it
was called the area.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
It was called the bird cage.

Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
Was it.

Speaker 21 (01:31:25):
That's right, that's one yep, yep, yep, yep, you've got
up yep, John Banks.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
Yes, well then it was the mayor too.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Yeah, I look into that, Norah, thank you for that.
The bird cage. I don't even know what it's called now.
For those people that want to specialize in pubs that
have been moved, the bird cage taven. Maybe something's been
to it recently, can tell me how good it is.
They sell fish and chips and nacho, so the menu
seems quite rudimentary. Gee, they should take out the person

(01:32:01):
and vented the word pub grub and never talking to them.
Shouldn't they pub grub? We are talking about Saint Patrick's day? Yeah,
what do you want to say about that? And I
did ask how many Irish bars the are in New
Zealand and I don't know the answer to that. I

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suspect this more than one hundred, because the more we
talk about, the more there seems to be. So that's
one of the discussions. We're talking also tonight about why
our motorays, why our motorways require so much maintenance, particularly
the new motorway out of Auckland. I everyone's got information
about that. I'd love to hear from you because I've

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got no ideas why that is like that. So that's
a discussion as well. There's something else you want to
talk about, great eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two detect here or midnight. Someone might
want to talk about some of the other stuff that
happened in the wedding and the weekend one would be
the Worrior. The other thing would be Liam Lawson.

Speaker 3 (01:33:05):
Either of those.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Tom, it's Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 4 (01:33:10):
This is a long time ago.

Speaker 11 (01:33:13):
I cent.

Speaker 4 (01:33:15):
I painted that was the dying charge of the first
Coronation Street pub in New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Wow, hang on, I gonna turn my makeup for this.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
And I think you've got to remember I'm seventy eight now.
I think it was the Happer Vern in Auckland. I
don't even know if it's on the internet, but that's
what I did.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
And what did you say it was?

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
Tom?

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Did you say it was the first Coronation Street pub?

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Yes, exactly like Coronations.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
So what year were talking?

Speaker 18 (01:33:52):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:33:54):
I couldn't tell you that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:56):
I have worked everywhere. I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
So are you telling me, Tom, and listen to me,
because I know you like to jump in. Are you
saying before there was Irish pubs it was English pubs
based on Coronation Street.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
Yes, well, I don't know how. I only door of
one because I worked on it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
And what was it like? Inside?

Speaker 4 (01:34:23):
They had cubicles and the way round they had cubicles
in the bar and everything. This is a long time.
I'm I don't need the north. It's on into that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
No, it doesn't matter. But when you say the Harperverrin,
was it an existing pub that they built it and
they script the old pub and put it in there?

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Did they?

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
Yes? And everything and did it?

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
And that was of course a south going south of
Auckland on Great South Road. Wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
An Auckland north?

Speaker 9 (01:34:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Where was it it was?

Speaker 4 (01:35:04):
I think it was Huchins. I've been in Ackland and
I lived in an Aakland a long time. I think
it was towards green Win that way.

Speaker 2 (01:35:14):
Okay, I'll find out more time. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
Thank you for that. There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
Oh wait, tend eighty toddy Irish pubs, that's what we
are talking. I was screwed though. I did ask you
what would be the first Irish pub in New Zealand.
And I'm still waiting for a result on that. And
why did I Welsh or Scottish pubs? Or maybe there
are Craig gets Marcus, welcome, how's it game this morning?

Speaker 16 (01:35:39):
Start this evening?

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Thank you Craig. How's it going with you?

Speaker 3 (01:35:42):
All right too?

Speaker 16 (01:35:44):
There I can't complain Okay. I remember going to there's
a local Irish pub in Hamilton here called Billy Mulligan's,
and I went through it a few years ago. I
don't have any Irish in me, whatso weather wow went
and then found them very accommodating. They basically we're pouring
little drinks of all the different ones and explaining the
where they came from. When this history behind them. I

(01:36:06):
found You're cool. I just said them, I don't know
anything about Irish people, all actual you know, or Saint
Patti's Day, so that great, oh sit down.

Speaker 11 (01:36:14):
We'll give you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
So was this was this Honestent Patrick's Day?

Speaker 17 (01:36:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
Yeah, yeah, which year.

Speaker 16 (01:36:22):
I would have been? Twenty ten?

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
I should have gone back there today.

Speaker 16 (01:36:28):
Other things to do today, But I've always gone past
it on Saint Patrick's Day and seen all these people
in there. It's like, I don't really I'm not I'm
not Irish at all anything. So I thought the one
year decided always give us a go, walks in there, thinking, yeah,
here we go. They might not like me because I'm
not Irish. Just sent.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
Egg on Craig, just before you get yourself tied up.
I don't think anyone has ever thought you need to
be Irish to commemorate or celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Speaker 16 (01:36:54):
No, no, I thought I would probably be a little
bit looked down on by going to an Irish.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
Oh no, no, no, only go You've got to just
dispossess yourself of that thing. No, that's that's not good.

Speaker 14 (01:37:04):
You just go.

Speaker 10 (01:37:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:37:07):
No, it had a great time. It was a lot
of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
How many how many Irish bars are in Hamilton?

Speaker 16 (01:37:16):
I think there's only two of them? Noe, okay, I
take the same How many ares through the country again?

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Well, I asked the question. No one can tell me.
I said there'd be more than one hundred.

Speaker 16 (01:37:27):
I guess it depends on where most of the Irish
people descend its living.

Speaker 2 (01:37:30):
No, no, I don't think it's about I don't think.
I don't there's any connection between Irish pubs and Irish people.
I think they've just realized it's what people like in
New Zealand. Okay, well, someone might challenge me on that, Craig,
but yeah, we'll get I'll get that where I can. Marcus,
one of the saddest things I heard today was the
death of the pitch on the pitch of a young

(01:37:51):
amateur cricketer who died on the pitch in Adelaide forty
one degrees heat and he died of sunstroke. I also
had an interview with their head meteorology to explain why
christ might experience fifteen degrees through after sizzling day to day.
Marcus Scott's Presbyterians went on drinkers. But there are several

(01:38:11):
Robbie Boons hotels around New Zealanders are on George drinking
A need A very good point. Marcus just got home
from the movies. Went to see Tina. What a beautiful film.
It gets so many things right and strikes the beautiful
balance of humor and tragedy. Thanks James, think I haven't

(01:38:33):
seen that, James, but thank you. There was, or is
an Irish pub in the Hut Valley. Is it an
Irish pub? It has no Irish bar staff. I think
that's not a prerequisite. It's just got of an Irish
name in sirf Ginness, have wood paneling. I can't think

(01:38:56):
of anything else. Good evening, John, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:39:00):
Yeah, good evening. Marcus. Just a little bit of his well,
a little about the Irish pubs at Orchard. I think
remember rightly the first Irish pub was Kody o'bruins down
by Victoria Park.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Michel, I'm inclined to agree with you that was the
first one.

Speaker 13 (01:39:15):
I'm one more certain it is, and I know the
people used to own it. And then one of the
owners went and opened the Clatter in Newmarket. Yes, that
is still going. Then the Harp of Errand was going
at a time as well. I think it was in Gravelyn,
and there was a pub in town in Queen Street
ran that area where they brought everything over from Ireland

(01:39:38):
and built that and now that closed, but apparently it's
now going to open again. And then you've got in
South Auckland you've got the Murphy's which used to be
the old Jolly Farmer and Drewy.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:39:52):
Now you've struck a chord with me talking about the
priests when they moved everything out from Ireland.

Speaker 13 (01:39:59):
That was one of the pubs.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
What was it that was on Queen Street?

Speaker 7 (01:40:02):
Was it?

Speaker 13 (01:40:03):
I think it's on Queen Street and that's that's only
let's opening again.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Well do you know where? Do you know where that
was or what it was called?

Speaker 13 (01:40:12):
It's I know we're talking about it tonight and I
can't remember I'm sorry, but that's right. Yeah. No, And
then you had other pubs which are closed us having
some in the Constant the road.

Speaker 8 (01:40:26):
Then you used to have the.

Speaker 13 (01:40:27):
Immigrant, which was on Fanchal Street, Yes, and you don't.
Then I think there was one other possibly, but I'm
not too sure. I know there was too in Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Because it seemed to be a thing. They moved out
all the stuff from all the stuff from Ireland, didn't
they They build them there or they get old pubs
and out that come.

Speaker 13 (01:40:49):
Yes, they do. And I think I meant I think
I remember that when it's been built, because we used
to be along to the old Auckland Irish Club.

Speaker 8 (01:40:58):
Yes, that used used to be on the Great North
Road obviously, Don eddy.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
Ford, Yes, and I've been there to that. I've been
upstairs at that.

Speaker 13 (01:41:05):
Yeah, that was a good idea. And then you used
to have a pub across the road from there called
the Dog's Bollocks.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
Yes, there was a music one too, sir John, the
one on Queen Street that they brought was it on
the left hand side going up with the right hand.

Speaker 13 (01:41:19):
Side, I honestly can't remember, Marcus. It was a long
time ago, and my daughter's Teachurish dancing. Yes, they would
have been in and out of all those pubs fundraising
for they get fully booked up twelve months in advance.

Speaker 2 (01:41:37):
And with with Kenny's Kenny O'Brien's, which is one of
the great pubs, the old Leopard teven were they were
they Irish people?

Speaker 13 (01:41:46):
Yes, yes, there were definitely.

Speaker 14 (01:41:49):
I remember.

Speaker 13 (01:41:50):
I think it's one of the Samana's crony.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
That Sydney World weal for them. They had a good
run there, didn't they That went for.

Speaker 13 (01:41:57):
Years, yes, And as I said, then then they opened
up The Cleaver in the Newmarket, which is I don't
know whether you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
Yeah, I have been there, and that's quite of a
different one because it's not like in a pub building.
It's just down a right of way. It doesn't even
but once you go in there there's no mistake that
it's an Irish pub. Although it looks like it's just
a looks like a pedal beaters from the outside of something,
doesn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:42:18):
Well, it does.

Speaker 13 (01:42:19):
It looks like a pub from back home?

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
Yeah, oh are you from back home?

Speaker 13 (01:42:24):
Yeah? I am Irish even.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
And you have you have you had a day of
celebration today?

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:42:32):
Well, I because my dad and my daughter's kids are dancing.
I usually go to the Murphy's because I live out
in Pocket, Telly, So I go to Murphy's and watch
the kids dance. And I usually have them the me
or with one of my daughters, Yes, and my husband
to finish off the evening. But it's good ready, and
the girls danced well oh yeah, the kids. Yeah, the

(01:42:55):
kids dance really well because they have a mixture of
beginners right through the seniors. And the school have got
ten girls going to Dublin in April. Wow in the worlds. Wow,
that's the biggest group. That's the biggest group percent. They've
been going twenty five years as teachers, they were riginally
dancers as well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
And do they have success in Dublin?

Speaker 13 (01:43:17):
Well, and it's quite hard. You've got four thousand competitors
goes yeah, yeah, it goes on for seven days.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Oh what a what a blast for them that love that?

Speaker 8 (01:43:30):
Well yeah, well yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:43:32):
The both girls when they were down competing have competed
in the world. Okay, so yeah, so quite a proud dad.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Yeah, I love you to hear from you, John. Think
it's nice to talk to that. I appreciate your information
if very well informed. Marcus the Irish Club in Folds Park,
Mound Albert still going strong. Repopular Lynn, thank you. Someone
else is the Irish Club is still going strong and
Rocky Nook Maund Albert's been parting all weekend. Someone did

(01:44:05):
the Muddy Farmers the pub they had the Irish foot out.
Where was that? Oh, Wyndham Street, Wyndham Street, there we go,
decent Irish pub and Hamner's Springs went there for the
bangers and mash. Recently Marcus is an Irish pub run
on great Bury Island, run by an Irish family. What
a great story that is. Tata has one Irish pub,

(01:44:31):
Fielding has one. Hamilton has two opposite each other on
Hood Street. I'm still looking for the threat of list
on how and why Hick he's got one. Yes, that's right,
just like we wouldn't even have mentioned it in Sourfdale.
It's been there forever.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
Actually now.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Someone sent me some information about Guinness Street, named after
mister Guinness who was a Member of Parliament, but not
I don't know if his relation to the bear Barons
buried at Greymouth. Oh yes, the great grandson of the

(01:45:13):
Dublin brewer Arthur Guinness. This is quite interesting. Born in Calcutta,
son of Frank Guinness, christ College, legal education from Garrick

(01:45:35):
and Collishaw practice as a barrister and sister in Graymouth
eighteen seventy four and eighteen seventy six, and was a
member of the gray County Council, thinking about on to
be a member of Parliament. That's a Guinness street and
Graymouth is named after It's good evening Lizard's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
And maiden was McGinnis, so we always called Guinness.

Speaker 11 (01:46:02):
Are you a McGinnis, Yes I am, And we've got
our own prest and tartans, so I haven't looked back.
We go back with all of us. We've got a
huge long line of for irist because we're married in Tyris.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
But that sounds Scottish, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:46:22):
No, mc gee mc geez, I think we came from
Scotland as as funny as you said that we were McDonald's.
We went Thailand.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
I think I don't think it's anything. I think everyone's
got a crest, haven't though you just buy them?

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Is that right?

Speaker 13 (01:46:39):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:46:39):
No, it's a proper tartan.

Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
No, But you said you have a crest.

Speaker 11 (01:46:45):
No, I meant a shield. You give a shield, it's
it's like it's a tribe, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:46:52):
But yeah, yeah, like a shield with your symbols on
a day, Yeah, telling.

Speaker 11 (01:46:58):
You what you are, Scott, what it is. But usually
that's from a tribe, so beginners don't. I don't know
a lot about it. But they came out previously ancestors
well who came came to breed cattle, and they were

(01:47:19):
on the long range of.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
Stake down and cross, yes, longs.

Speaker 11 (01:47:26):
Where they were. That's where dad was brought up.

Speaker 3 (01:47:30):
Was he buried, he's buried.

Speaker 11 (01:47:33):
He's buried at committee. But I don't know the poor
history because you never paany at teaching. We've got booked
all over the.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Place, so boring family history. And when you do get interested,
when that could tell you has died. So it's kind
of weird.

Speaker 11 (01:47:50):
But I have got all the book because someone did
all that and printed those proper books out even after
paid a lot of teaching.

Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
Because you know, I don't go and pull what's on
your crest a sick and something else be a good tattoo.

Speaker 5 (01:48:12):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:48:12):
The one I like the most of the.

Speaker 12 (01:48:15):
Celtic across.

Speaker 14 (01:48:16):
I liked it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
Looks they'd be terrible as a tattoo. A Celtic cross.
I've seen something look tear.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
And I put it on your nick.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Terrible, Yes, oh, yes, terrible. I don't even know what
what is the Celtic cross?

Speaker 21 (01:48:32):
That?

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
What is that?

Speaker 16 (01:48:33):
Is that?

Speaker 11 (01:48:33):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:48:34):
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 11 (01:48:36):
It's part of violand as well, kind.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
Of a bit of a visual cliche. Oh, it's not
a circle. It's got the cross with the circle around,
hasn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:48:44):
Yeah, but that comes from the A lot of it
comes from the pagan days.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Oh, of course it is.

Speaker 11 (01:48:50):
Yeah, And then they turned to Catholic mar I did read.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Something interesting about the Irish, right this, And I'll say
this because you're not even Irish, but you're the only
piece I've got to talk to tonight.

Speaker 11 (01:49:03):
Yeah, thank you, Yes, go on?

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Is it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Where else would I be? You know? You know about
the potato famine island?

Speaker 6 (01:49:14):
Right?

Speaker 11 (01:49:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:49:15):
Black?

Speaker 11 (01:49:15):
Why?

Speaker 6 (01:49:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:49:16):
My father hated the English from us consist of an Englishman,
so she wasn't very popular.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
The population of the population of Ireland, it is still
not as big as it was previous to that.

Speaker 4 (01:49:34):
No, no, that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:49:37):
That did you know that?

Speaker 11 (01:49:41):
Now, Tuddy that the history of Ireland because I go
on YouTube. But the thing about the English were they
were terrible to the Irish. I mean when you look
at the history.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
It's amazing that. It's amazing. The popular never never bout.
I mean people talk about the roads and everything about there.
But the population is less than it was.

Speaker 11 (01:50:04):
Yeah, because what happened was they all had took plots
of land. They all got tiny plots from the landlords,
and they grew what do you call that funny cabbage stuff,
and they had cabbage and spuds, so they are very
very healthy raised even though they had a tiny red

(01:50:24):
plot of land and they might have had ten kids.
But because they ate potatoes and that cabbage stuff with forkbones.
There was very highly populated until the Irish famin Combe.
So then they all took off to New York.

Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
Now, even now, after many decades of growth, it's got
a million few inhabitants that had in eighteen forty.

Speaker 11 (01:50:53):
One, Yes, and it was highly populated in that that time.

Speaker 4 (01:50:57):
For use.

Speaker 2 (01:50:59):
Thank you got you learn a lot on YouTube, don't you.

Speaker 5 (01:51:04):
No.

Speaker 11 (01:51:04):
I've read, I've read well, I said, we've got both
sides of the family have books written, because we actually
have quite a lot of places in New Zealand that
are named after us. Well, we came from England. We
had the braves, so we've got the brain building and

(01:51:25):
we owned what we own, quarries and god knows what
on one's side they owned like Wilson Wilson, and they
weren't tall.

Speaker 4 (01:51:42):
But what do you call it?

Speaker 11 (01:51:47):
You could say that if you want to. You know,
what do you call it? When you get all the
stuff and dig it up and all that? I can't remember,
right Wilson who did all that? Anyway, there's a big,
long history, but I've I have, I do know quite
a lot of that. So I only Hunger and all
of that area. And this is a rent funny story.

(01:52:09):
Don't think this is funny. My son went to live
in on a hunger and he bought an old house
and he went up in the attic and found that
he was living in the house there was owned by
one of his ancestors, who would have thought yep. And
he went and worked in a building in town and

(01:52:30):
it was a pray building that was one of the ancestors.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
What do you say meant meant to be meant to be.

Speaker 11 (01:52:38):
Well, I mean, you wouldn't ever believe it would could
you couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
You couldn't make that stuff up meant.

Speaker 11 (01:52:42):
To be probably got up in the ethic confounded. Yeah,
but we did have all that background book because one
of my answers. But I didn't know much about it,
didn't any attention.

Speaker 6 (01:52:53):
I thought it was boring.

Speaker 2 (01:52:55):
Well, love it is, Liz, Thank you very very much.
Twenty everyday from twelve Marcus, my three granddaughters have been
dancing to that the rest times in christ Church and
finished up at the Rollings own might be the Rolling Scone,
Irish bar this evening. My eldest granddaughter has qualified for
the World Complished in Dublin this year. So my daughter,

(01:53:17):
myself and granddaughter off to Dublin three weeks so proud
and excited. Shamrock, Shamrock, Shamrock, Donners Shamrock, Shamrock. Marcus. We
are McGinnis from Ulster, went last year loved island, beautiful country,
Gorway absolutely beautiful, drove to Dublin. Told on the road

(01:53:38):
but no botholes. What's a key we like abroad?

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
Not many potholes. That's all we do, is right. Oh,
we're good roads. Forget the Irish pubs. People just love
looking at the rock. I must be concrete. It's amazing
how road focused would become as a nation. What's that
about too long drivingsh The one thing that I have never, ever, ever,

(01:54:11):
ever ever been interested is one of those things called
that you get crests coat of arms. If you asked
me about the one thing I was least interested in
anything else would be coat of arms. Hey, go to
some people's house, they got their coat of arms in there.

(01:54:32):
Never interested, But now tonight, I reckon I'll be into it.
I'm sure there's just some factory that just makes them
up for people.

Speaker 5 (01:54:45):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
I found the Lush family coat of arms?

Speaker 14 (01:54:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
What that about?

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
Coat of arms are in the Norman Conquest.

Speaker 1 (01:55:00):
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