She could hide in the empty spa pool (17 April 2025)

The Waitotara Pub has been destroyed by fire, there's talk of a possible snap election in NZ, and Jason's not a fan of the road cones!

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome people, Good evening, one of us Marcus here for
this Thursday. Yes, that's right, Thursday. A lot of you
will think it's Friday because it feels like Friday as
we go into Easter. I've got a lot to say
about Easter, such an important religious holiday, such an important
religious wouldn't call it a holiday occasion to mark, But boy,

(00:39):
oh boys, that do my head in time wise, We've
got everything I don't like. I've got change, which is
a day I don't work, and then you've got days
with shops have closed and all sorts of stuff. So yeah,
for me, I don't think I'm alone here. For me,
Easter is one of those holidays that I will come
out of it feel like I've been through the blender.

(01:01):
It's not a It's not a holiday that provides reliable.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Feelings for me?

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Saturdays at Sunday? Are the shops open? What can I do?
By the way, on a Saturday on a Sunday If
they charge you a surd charge, that's illegal because Sunday
is not a public holiday, even though it's called good Sunday.
See already, I think it might be called good Sunday thing.
It might be called hes to Sunday. So there we go,

(01:36):
so into that, and good on you for those people
that respect and into that. I hope you're enjoying it,
and I hope you're ready for it. I'll work tonight
and then i'll work Tuesday. Now some people have taken
all the holidays as one and some surprising people have

(01:56):
done that on air end off here. But anyway, that
is that. So anyway, I will work Thursday, Friday, Saturday
next week. I'm not trying to game the system for
a very long break, mind you. I wouldn't want the
break now because the weather is not good anyhow, and
it's my ambition purpose to get you through the next

(02:18):
We'll get you through to midnight. I could say things
like be careful on the roads, but I hope most
of you are careful on the roads anyway. And I
don't image a lot of people will be driving because
normally what happens on Easter Thursday as people leave work
at midday to beat the traffic. Yeah, I don't know

(02:45):
if they've done that so much because the weather's not
good if you've got weather updates, for us to get
those through our eight hundred and eighty eight to eighty.
If you are doing something interesting to let us know.
I don't know if the cities are crowded or quiet.
Sometimes it's a party nights. Sometimes the nights before public
holidays aren't that as exciting at all. But do let
us know. Get a lot of emails about freeview on
kind of over free you now a lot of stuff

(03:08):
about freeview. A lot of people say, just use the internet.
The whole thing about freeview. The people that have freeview, right,
they don't have the internet. It's old school. They don't
have fiber at the door. They have an area on
the roof and their TV and they like the channel's
coming through space and then coming on the TV. That's

(03:30):
what they love. Yes, iday can get smart TVs. You
can plug in and get freeview. Those aren't the people
it's too late to change. These are the people that
are still lamenting the end of the checkbook. Hands up
if you're miss a check or missing checkbooks, No hands
No one's missing those. No one Why I thought, yeah,

(03:50):
I feel like writing a check today. No one anyway,
Text email, call here, till midnight. It'll start slowly end quick.
That's my prediction of tonight. If there's breaking news, it
will happen with that, be earthquakes or weathers, wethers twelve
meters swells to they are happening tonight. I'm not quite
sure where the peak winds are, but I'll keep you

(04:12):
up to date with all of that. Hopefully it's going
to be quiet on the roads, and hopefully there's not
going to be too many closure things to talk about that.
We did that enough of that last night. It seems
as though it's been bad, but not terrible, not like
houses falling down cliffs like Gabrielle. I'm looking at windy

(04:33):
dot com because I can, and I'm looking at the
X tropical cyclone TAM that's going clockwise. And if you've
got a ruler and a compass and took the eye

(04:54):
of that hurricane and came along on the east west
whatever that is latitude or longitude latitude longitude, it would
be alongside the Hokianga Harbor, but about two hundred clemties

(05:14):
off there. So it's dragging warm air from the Pacific
from the north east across the north part of the
North Island yep. So you will get winds, but there'll

(05:34):
be warm winds funneling through cock Strait, funneling around Mount Taranaki,
funneling through Nelson. But no matter what happens for you tonight,
whether your freeview is uncontactable, whether your powers I am
here for you do help you do what you need
to do tonight. I want to be at a smooth

(05:55):
progression through to Easter. Shops will be closed tonight, but
your corner Deery probably will be open so tomorrow, and
that's fine. I can probably do with a business. These
big stores, I don't know about them. I don't know
about that either, But hopefully your plans will be kind
of okay, even if you are going somewhere, whether weather

(06:16):
is not going to be that good. I don't think
many people have been canceled the holidays. The holidays, I
don't think you have much luck doing that at this
time of the year. Good luck getting a refund. I
think on booking dot com you can can get a refund.
On other channels you can't, or other channels are the
booking agents. Marcus from midnight, everything is cloned, including the casinos.

(06:39):
No takeaways, no supermarkets. What about uber Eats? What about
door Dash? Will they deliver tomorrow? Could someone tell me
if there's an Uberist or a Doordashian, they'd be a
good name from the Doordashians. It'd be a good name
for a show, wouldn't it. Yet delivery drivers sit around
and talk about their feelings the Doordashians. I could see

(07:00):
that now, Yeah, keeping up with the Doordashians amazing. I'd
be one of those few people probably that have watched
the Kadeshians and quite enjoyed it. I know it's quite
fanciful to say, oh never you know, they came up
for their twenty fifth year out of it. Oh, I
never watched a second. I think, well, why not? Do

(07:23):
you think that you're going to get sucked in by
it all? Marcus, sounds like some of your listeners don't
know what free means. That's why it's called free view. Anyway,
get in touch if you want to talk. Anything goes tonight.
There might be something out of the gate you've got

(07:44):
for me tonight. I don't really I'm not too worried
about the quality of the callers tonight. I just want
to get him through, get him and get him off.
I have already read an article today about eleven men
who will hang on the cross for east exhibition at
the church. This is in Bethleyhem Baptist Church. It's a
really creepy kind of a story. I read that and
I thought, what's that about? But I want to sound

(08:05):
religiously intolerant. But the guy's been training to hang himself
from the cross and they've even got the makeup to
do the just all it looks performative and wrong. Yeah,
this guy says as an honor and a privilege. He

(08:25):
said the makeup for the role took an hour to apply.
Would be re immersive experience for visitors. The most challenging
aspects would be physically hanging on the cross and the
spiritual element. I've got no idea what that's about. I
thought that's the sort of thing that in the Philippines. Anyway,

(08:47):
get in touch with your talk. My name is Marcus.
Welcome hitdle twelve. Go a lot to say tonight and
a long time to say it. Breaking news when that happens,
I'll keep you update with what's going on. Mark Lundy
is to be released from prison. Of course, they tried
him and he was found guilty. Then he went to
a retrial when they changed the whole time frame to

(09:10):
make it not as complicated for him to drive all
that way, and then he was still found guilty. So yes,
good evening, Henry. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
He's good Henry.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
It's going well. Thank you. Did you mean that when
you asked that?

Speaker 5 (09:25):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
It's got No, we've had a clear day. I've planted
a lot of trees. It's been about well, it's been
about eighteen degrees and it's been it's been a very still,
calm day.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Okay, I'll just ring up you know Taraniki very well. Yes,
the hotel just burned down.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Oh you're joking.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
It is about twenty eight fiances there. Like I said,
I live in from the Neui and about I have
about six of you who we heard all the sawirens
going out oftown and some guys just wrought from Facebook.
Now the patches of the White Toto Hotels just burned
down to the ground.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
It's just yeah, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Oh that's heartbreak, king.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, because they got to go all the way upon.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
You'll go all the way away?

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Would you get being now.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
What hotel was it the wat Oh yeah, I'm just
trying to work out with it is So is it.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
The part you go out of you go through kai
Ewe and you go down this big hill and what
is to the side. You've got to go to this
big long bridge and whatt just tucked to the side?

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Is it a wooden pub?

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Yeah? What it was?

Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh that will be the that will be the lifeblood
of the community.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Well that's a pretty much the town gone. Now that
was out you know what that was the center of Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
How come that still on the news?

Speaker 7 (10:52):
Well?

Speaker 5 (10:52):
No, well I think it's manage because it just happened
because the sirens going through for about six thirty and
but guys just put up photos of the you know,
the fine engines and evening and the hotel.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
What Facebook page?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Ah, I don't know, just on Facebook. I think I'm
just I'm not really sure. There's more fun was just
shooting me. I suppose if you just put in more
Tokyo hotel it might come up.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
But he is just because it it won't be getting rebuilt,
will it.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, I'm seeing it now. Why total hotels on file?
Gerald Price has put it up there, I'm looking at
that's well involved, cheapest. This is great update from you there, Henry.
You've been a bit of a show saver. There are
now over twenty pounds is on the scene responding to
the fully involved. Why talk to our hotel fire that

(11:48):
broke out about six pm. Fire crews now have eight pumps, tenders,
a mobile command at six water tank is an instant
commander and more attending foreign emergencies. Also of a water
supply in the four square and Waverley for tankers to refill,
as well as all other appliances. They have an error
responding as well to tackle the two story fire. Police
and ambulance have been notified. So that's a worry. Yeah,

(12:12):
messive flames, Yeah, it's free like well hey, so from
me to you, Henry. You know how some pubs are
in their heyday and some pubs have seen their best years.
She still had a fear few people would go there
on a Thursday and have a beer there.

Speaker 5 (12:31):
Or justind of like the country people marketing because it's
kind of the country town. Yeah, because Waverley, you've got
two pubs. They got their own kind of town, and
Song always got their own. So you know, it's only
really the farmers and stuff that you know people there
live in No Mo Todre.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh that's heartbreaking. Okay, well, I appreciate the update from you, Henry.
That's breaking because it's a big story for tonight. We'll
get that in the bulletins and everything, because you that's
a that's a big story. But yeah, I guess it's
not I guess the country like New Zealand, it's not
uncommon for pubs to burn down, is it. Yeah? Okay, Henry,
nice to hear from you. Well, so just like that
breaking news. And look, not only have I never and

(13:13):
I feel bad because the guy said, you know Tanhaki,
Well I see, yes, notly have I never heard of
that town. I've never been to that pub. So it's
between Waverley and Fangui sweet looking town. Oh that's bad.
So that's about the pub that's been Now anyone's got
the experiences of that pub. We need to hear from

(13:34):
now White to know that's the pub south? Is that?
When that Tananhaki? Where's the border? Matthew Marcus evening and
welcome you know Marcus.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
So sorry I don't have any such great news for
your radio listeners such great news or breaking news. I
was just inquiring because I was looking at the Windy
app after you mentioned it, because I love that app.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Isn't it fun? I'm like that as a screen saver
because that dynamic, all those winds going around and it
tells you.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
But it's because if your bodies and stuff, it's really good.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
How can they get how could they get such a
good U r L. You think someone would have bought
that and just be hanging on to it Windy dot com.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
It's but anyway, I was looking at Windy because I
like flight radar too. You just looking at it?

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Hang on, hang on, hang on? Are we just calling
it windy?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (14:28):
The Windy app. You can get the premium or.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
The hang on. But can I say to someone, I
was just looking at Windy, yes, slap? What circles do
you move in?

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Esteemed one?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Clearly you're heading the jargon. Just looking at Wendy. Where
are you? Okay?

Speaker 7 (14:47):
Yep, it's a great app.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
It's a really good Then I was comparing it to
flight Radar, which I quite like. It's another app you
know at tracks planes radar?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Yeah, And basically there's a south China Airline flight flying
out of Auckland heading straight for that cyclone. Wow, I'm wondering. Yeah,
it does, Like can you.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Put can you put one on top of the other.

Speaker 4 (15:14):
I was trying to do that.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
You need a cook you need a nerd or a
teenager or two screens? Yeah, but put one on the Okay.
So China ear is going straight for the eye of
the hurricane over it?

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Like, is it doesn't fly over it? Or will it
use the winds to get a bit of a boost
because there are flights still leaving one the Emirates flight
left out of christ Church.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Wow, and that's this is your Thursday night. But talk back.
But looking at windy and flight on top of each other.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Yes, But how's it going? How's it going?

Speaker 7 (15:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
How far is it? Is it close to the eye
of the hurricane?

Speaker 4 (15:55):
It would be I suppose about maybe fifteen minutes away. Well,
I'm not looking at it because I'm talking to you
on the phone.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I thought you'd be in like a room with big
screens up.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
No, I want to be I would love to be
in an immersion room of windy.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Okay, that's interesting. Okay, you didn't Okay, anything else from you.
That's your fight, that's your flight stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's all I want to that's all I want to know.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's a really good insight for well, two very good calls.
One is giving us a bit of breaking news. I'm
still waiting for someone keeping up with the Doordashians. Are
they delivering tomorrow? Of course we don't have door dash
in the cargo or Uber eats. We do have door Dash,

(16:40):
but there is an Indian takeaway that delivers to Stuart Island.
I can't, for the life of me work out how
that happens. They're always advertising, they say, well deliver to
Stuart Island. I don't know what that means. I presume
they just take it to the airport. Yeah. I'm not
gonna go to Stuart Island just to try the takeaway
to see how the delivery works. But it's pretty interesting.

(17:00):
Good evening, Jan This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
Oh hi Marcus. I was rushing off to the loo
when I turned the radio on and I didn't hear
I heard my Toattram mentioned in the pub and I
didn't get the rest of it.

Speaker 10 (17:18):
Burnt down.

Speaker 9 (17:21):
Well, my farm is just on the other side of
the bridge.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
For mistake, oh, you'll be happy again.

Speaker 9 (17:29):
Well, I know that the story behind the pub and
the only one they were leasing the hotel. The couple elderly.

Speaker 11 (17:42):
And the man is you are right?

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I don't know they are saying ambulances are going there.
Oh would you spend an evening when you're on the farm,
would you spend the evening at the pub?

Speaker 3 (17:53):
No?

Speaker 9 (17:54):
I never lived out there. I was just renovating the
homestead at which I took four years to renovate it
and soldered. But I never lived here, but too busy
working on the on the homestead. But I did go
to the hotel quite a lot because it was the

(18:15):
center where you buy groceries or ice creams, and there's
the lounge where you could get a nice meal and
toilets exodus.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Like shanks and stuff like shanks and meshed potato and stuff.

Speaker 9 (18:33):
Yeah, good basic meal. I suppose I never actually had one.
But it was a proper pub, you know, with the
stall sweet drink your beer, and it was very popular
with the locals, you know, all the guys probably from
the freezing works.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Where are the works? Are the works? Where are the works?

Speaker 9 (18:57):
I further towards the sea, towards the peach right out
there on that road. Yeah, going out, not the road
with the bridge, but the road going off the main
road out to the beach. Okay, way out, here's a beach.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I look at that on Google Map. Thanks for that, Jen,
I appreciate that just looking at the maps too. That
he's quite right. As in Taranaki, it's just not far
from the border. But if you go to a white
Tau to that and you go down the river there
is a freezing works. It's kind of a no man's land,
silver fern farms, white tall too. That's the situation. Almost
looks like it's in the sandhills there, closer to the
beach place. I've never been aware of. Nice looking river.

(19:39):
I suppose the well, whether the farm the freezing works
discharge difference whether, I don't know. That's probably why it
is there. But of course i'd go to the drink
at the pub afterwards. Small kind of a town. It's
got a school, not much else. Looks like it's a
town of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine,
probably forty houses. That's a community hall in a hotel

(20:00):
no longer. It's also the hotel and store where jan
Jan would have gone to get her basics and yeah,
but not drunk there. So that's the situation. It's very
much involved. Big fire that's happening. Big fire. Looking at
the building, it appears to be brick and the top
is brick and rough cast, got two chimneys on. Whether
that's the telling for the far I don't know. But

(20:22):
it looks like your classic country pub. Brick's on the
bottom half and kind of a torp color on the
top half. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
And it's kind of a store into it. She looks free,
old school in a post office box out the front
done the lot. Oh yeah, tow. It's got a courtesy
van that's part out the front cursey van. Looks like
it's seeing better days. Funny enough. I'm on Google Maps.
I'm looking at get this, guys. This is speaker spooky.

(20:52):
I'm on Google Maps looking at the hotel on Capo
Street while I talk to and I'm looking on Google Maps,
and I'm looking in the window of the pub which
is burnt down, and in the window painted on the
wall all of the pub is a rabbit looks based
on Jessica Rabbit and it says happy Easter. What are

(21:16):
the chances that a pub would burn down, and I'd
go to the Google Maps and look at it on
Google Maps. And the photo on Google Maps is taken
at Easter, for goodness sake, So that's very much involved.
Twenty appliants as ambulances and fire engines are there. If

(21:36):
you've been to that hotel or experience, I'd like to
hear from you. Also, we are talking about the weather.
If you've got weather updates, I will go to I'll
be all over Enzentta tonight. There's trees down and all
sorts of stuff. But I think probably we've dodged a bullet.
But this will last for a while, and as we know,
the old slips. Sometimes the ground just gets sodden and
sodden more sodden, and then things happen like later on

(22:00):
during the weather event, not at the beginning. Looks terrible
at North Harbor for the rugby, I mean, the rugby's good,
but the weather looks like a shocking state of affairs.
So I will keep you updated with the weather. It

(22:21):
is hard on that website to tell what's road works
and what's weather related, just because but flooding is affecting
State Hiway twenty five at Manaya. That's the mandel just
coming into Takuma. So that's closed. Boy oh boy. The
mandal's not very resilient for floods, is it? Every time?
Every time? Could you wouldn't rely on a batch there,

(22:45):
would you? And keeping up with the Dardashians, funny you
can mention one small, tiny pub and you've just got
everyone that's been there, can't you? Anyway? By the way,
is in the railway line? I don't think it is.
Why I talk to that. That's the pub there burning
down as we speak. It seems seems to quite a

(23:10):
big hill nearby with sort of telecommunications on the top
of it. dB. It's Marcus good evening.

Speaker 10 (23:17):
Not only has we got a railway line, but it's
got a crossing loop.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh of course it has.

Speaker 10 (23:22):
And that's potentially what I was doing about it. It's
a bit of railway troplow about that one.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
So for those that don't know, for those that don't
know what are crossing? What did you say? It's got
a crossing loop.

Speaker 10 (23:35):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
And when we say the word crossing loop, not everyone
understands that because that's what that really means is there's
another there's two lines running parallel that the try that
the train can go there is the other one goes past.
So the word loop is off. I've often found misunder confusing.
So it's not actually a loop, is it?

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Yeah? Correct?

Speaker 10 (23:54):
Yeah, according to the rule book, a loop is alike
nected to the mainline provided for the cross trains.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
Okay, sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
No, that's right, just because I've often wondered that myself.
But okay, so it's got a loop, and why is
it part of folk?

Speaker 10 (24:08):
I'm just to add to that loopy thing. If if
you've got another line next to the main line, it's
not there for crossing trains, it's called a siding. Oh yes,
never never the two shall train And it's the crossing
of trains that when one of our train controlers managed
to get himself in a whole heap of bother when

(24:30):
two trains turned up at Waititota to cross each other
and both of them were too long to fit. Who's
Unfortunately it was the poor train controler, And thankfully it
wasn't me that come close. I got caught a partier
with one train over links. But when you've got two

(24:51):
trains over links, that gets pretty fast.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Yeah, because could they couldn't reverse, could they?

Speaker 10 (25:00):
Well, you can, but the the paperwork therein and it's
another another carry tree being cut down and turn into paper.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (25:13):
What they did in the end was a thing called
the American Shuttle, and to try and explain that over
the telephone would be very nearly impossible. But they got
the two trains past each other.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
It sounds like one of those video games you can play.
We've got to shunt some lines down. Okay, yeah, I'm hearing.

Speaker 10 (25:30):
You, yep, And that's You've got to cut both trains
in half. You leave half a train out in the section,
and it's really quite clever and it's all done. You
need four people that know what they're doing. You need
two drivers, a train controller and a center.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Do you need an extra lower? Do you need an
extra locomotive?

Speaker 8 (25:48):
No?

Speaker 10 (25:48):
No, The trains involved the Americans do it all the time,
hence the name the American Shuttle. But we we didn't
have anybody on duty that they had ever heard of
that technique. So it did take some doing, about hours.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
I was going to where's my next question? How long
did that?

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Now?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
So would the would twenty eight be the number of wagons?

Speaker 10 (26:11):
To tell you the truth I no longer remember, okay,
I think there are reasonable trains part here, and wangan
Nui had good long loops, but White Tootra was was
a sortie in the middle. And you know, you just
forget sometimes how long your trains are. You're not supposed
to what you do. And this portrain troller, you know,

(26:34):
he had to say, six hundred meter trains trying to
cross it a five hundred meters crossing loop.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Was it a milk train? Does it still a milk train?
Go that way?

Speaker 10 (26:42):
No, we didn't have milk trains when I was in
trained control, and they came a bit later because Frontira
was still being built when I was there. I was
there until ninety five, I think.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
So this became quite a bit of focal of people say, oh,
did you hear what happened at White Tootra with the
crossing and did what they called the American.

Speaker 10 (27:02):
The American sapphole, And of course all every other train
controller is kissed in the ground saying say goodness, it
wasn't because if any one of us could have been
caught if on that day you're not on your game.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
So you're linking some wagons up on the other. Are
you putting some wagons up on the other train?

Speaker 10 (27:27):
How does this work now?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Because I'm just trying to think, you're going to end
up with it. You're going to end up with wagons
going the wrong direction. After the American shuttle shuffle.

Speaker 10 (27:35):
No, no, no, you leave, You've got trains A and B.
Train A cuts itself in half well outside the station
and pulls into the loop. Train B goes through the
station in its entirety. Train A, leading half of Train A,
then goes into the section just vacated. Train B goes down,

(27:58):
finds out half of a train that says being left by,
and drags it onto the main leaves it there, backs
out further runs through the the buggers off. The leading
half of training A backs up, recouples his train, and
two doors off in the opposite direction. Wow, that's not
bad for the top of their head.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
You've still got Have you been to the pub?

Speaker 10 (28:23):
No, I've been through there when I was being certified
for the place. I have no recolition. I've brought the
pub up on the on my I'll google this as
you ever. They had a look at the loop as well,
and everything there there was good sheds and all everything
in the good old days, and of course now there's
just two tracks.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Someone wants to know the folk festival and Pardo is salon.
I've got no idea. But the Folcus can go indoors,
can't they? That'll be right. I wouldn't measure your cancel
of counselor counsel canceler folk festival, would you? That's part
of it, Bob Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (28:59):
Yeah, I just haven't switch on. You're talking about a
fire tonight. I just want to know if anyone can
help me tonight and pinched the cottages in Blenham and
there's a unit of four and I had to go
outside to just walk down to the supermarket and one
of them was on fire. So I shot in there
and helped the lady. The oven had gone on fire
and she gone to town. Quite a bit of smoke

(29:21):
and all that around. But would it not be compulsory
for the councils to have fire extinguishers in those apartments?
Not one person at a fire extinguisher.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Wow, there's a lot to unpick there. Are you living
in the council flat?

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (29:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I mean they're going about my
one was still on the camper, unfortunately, and I love
to get it out and put it in the flat.
But people were going on about the you know, they
insulct them and make them all nice and you know,
all that for them.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
But people, and Bob, I can't work out what the
downside of having one would be. It's not like it
gives a false sense of security or anything. I can't
work out any downside at all.

Speaker 12 (29:59):
Oh, I've got the fire alarms, you know. But this
one we ended up having a woman neighborings. She ended
up getting some some wet towels and putting it out
because the oven had exploded and she was in town
getting some shopping. It hadn't have been for me going
outside to go to walk down to the supermarket. God
knows what would happen. And you know, I went round

(30:22):
and I banged on the doors asking for a forestingish
not one person net one.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
So So did you say, was she not there? She was?
Was she there?

Speaker 7 (30:28):
No?

Speaker 12 (30:29):
No, she was in town and just coming home in
a taxi. So of course we got the fiber gate
and they come down and put it out, but they
also wanted to check Yeah, the old heat senses. Blah blah,
blah blah.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
So you could get it, you could get it, you
could get into it.

Speaker 12 (30:42):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, Dave. The next table went
in and he put it out with some wet towels
in that. But you got to be careful. I didn't
want to do that because I didn't know whether there
were electrical fault in the oven. Electric charged yourself.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
So it was something that was it? Something in the oven?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (30:58):
She left a pan of chips and went off to town.
The oven is completely naked. But I just thought it
would have been compulsiony for people like the can't, especially
the councils, to supply a small fire extinguishing.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Or even one of those fire blankets. I think they're
quite useful.

Speaker 12 (31:13):
Yeah, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Yeah, well you're rob. What's the standard operating procedure? What
do you go to the mains and turn the power
off and then throw.

Speaker 7 (31:22):
Get the power off?

Speaker 12 (31:22):
Especially the oven one?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Did you do that? The oven?

Speaker 7 (31:25):
Did you do that? Yes?

Speaker 12 (31:27):
Yes, it was just outside of the door, so that
was no problem.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
But I meant, you've got a bit of smoke intilation
to you, but coffee.

Speaker 12 (31:36):
Yeah, Dave put it out with wet towels and there,
but as I say, I didn't really want to touch
it because it was as a supplier that gave Man
said to me, if it was an electrical fault, you go,
you know, working with a towel and get Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well, Dave's a bit of as.

Speaker 12 (31:49):
Anyway, I just thought I just thought it was strange
that there's thirty flats and this units and these units
and there's not one forestinguishing in the place, even if
they had one in a box outside something like in
between the two lots.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Did you have smoke alarms?

Speaker 12 (32:07):
Yes, yeah, they got real good smoke alarms actually.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
And you could hear You could hear those before you
saw the fire.

Speaker 12 (32:12):
Yeah, it's definitely going off. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
So anyway, that's a sad Easter for her? Is there?
Is she going to stay the night in the place?

Speaker 12 (32:21):
Yeah, they got the fiber gay boarding some great bog fans.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
They did.

Speaker 12 (32:24):
Really He put on the expand blew all the stuff out,
and she said she can use the microwave over the weekend,
so she wouldn't. She was worried that she's going to
miss a TV program, so she wasn't too stressed. I mean,
I'm just surprised and even if they had one on
a on a on a on a lamp post nearby
that you could grab when.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I'm worried about that because sometimes it's often a good
reason why people don't have them. They'd sell them or
but I can't work out why.

Speaker 12 (32:47):
Well, I wouldn't think an eighty year olduld sell a
forest and would.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
You Well, you know, always a case the grandkids telling
them for drugs. That's always the way, isn't it. Yeah,
but you know, yeah, that might be right.

Speaker 12 (33:00):
But I just I just thought it was strange that
they didn't have them.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Very strange, Bob. But look, thank you, and think of
doing the right. Well, that's a lot too. I'm picking
this hour, isn't there the American Shuffle, the Pinch and
a flat, the White taught to the pub on fire
and still no word on the Dardashians. Is where they'll
be livering on Easter Friday. I imagine it would have

(33:27):
been a good night there when Key was Key We
from Waverley won the America won the Melbourne Cup.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Be a big night at the local pub, although I
think Waverley's got a pub also then of course it
was Waverly from Shorten Street named after Waverley that was
always good. Often think of her as I go through Waverly.
Good evening. Who should we go to? Now evening? Lynnett's Marcus?

Speaker 11 (33:52):
Welcome, Hello Marcus, thank you for being there. How are
you going?

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Very good? Thank you Lynn? Thank you for also being there?
What can you tell me? What can you ask me?

Speaker 13 (34:02):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (34:03):
Well, what I can ask you is what we seem
to have a trustic problem. I'm trying to get home
and I live in Wanu Yamata, and I'm trying to
go over the hill and it's solid. I've been aw ster.
I've been at a standstill for just on half an hour.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, first off, congratulations and thank you for calling me
to ask me. Is this weather related? Know the weather?
The weather's not bad? There is it?

Speaker 11 (34:27):
No, it's it's grizzlian and yiki, but it's fine. This
is only traffic related and miserable related, quite honestly.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
So what is it you're asking me?

Speaker 11 (34:40):
I'm trying to find out what's happened? Is there any
traffic news anyone?

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Is this the hell? Is this?

Speaker 11 (34:49):
The Helen to Wuta, He's the big one that goes
up here the main hill there's only one hill into Wanui,
and it's obviously there's something wrong.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Has it been an excellent.

Speaker 14 (35:05):
Question?

Speaker 9 (35:06):
Mark?

Speaker 11 (35:06):
I'm at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
All I've got is right, I'm questioning the information and
I'm not seeing much.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
All it says is why now you marta northbound? Why
now we hell crash? Take extra care? But it's very
light on Normally I tell you more information. Am I
on the wrong website?

Speaker 8 (35:25):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can you see something different there? You'll see what I'm seeing? Dan?
Are you sounds to be like everyone's left in takers.
Normally they give more information what time it was and
who's been notified. So so it's very scant information.

Speaker 11 (35:43):
Well I love it. That's that's wonderful. So take extra care.
I'm taking extra care if I'm ever allowed onto the
hill to be there?

Speaker 2 (35:50):
How long have you How long have you been waiting?

Speaker 11 (35:54):
Just over half an hour?

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Have you seen any emergency services or anything like that?

Speaker 11 (35:58):
No? And but I'm way down the bottom. I'm not
even allowed onto the hill yet.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Okay, So how would that be? Like three days away?
Would that be? How far you are away?

Speaker 11 (36:09):
I'm on Wynwi Road, on the road that leads up
to the hill, that I've just turned off White Lines East.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Just copy that.

Speaker 15 (36:17):
Yeah, and then you get around.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah, I will see you. Stay listening. I'll see if
I can get some more information.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
Lynn.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Anyone know anything more about what's happening on why Nuia matter?
Is it a serious cresh investigator type thing? Oh, here
we go, here's a good email. This is a great email. Sorry,
text Marcus. The White Totra Pub has a bit of
an attached a bit of attached history. Ruth Richardson's mother
used to work there. A previous owner's son was done

(36:44):
for drug careering. The pub has been flooded a couple
of times in the nineteen seventies. It was advertised for
sale a few years back. Do not know if it sold.
Peter from Levin, formerly of White Torturer. That's great, that's great.
Intell gosh, have you asked me to imagine anyone's mother
working in the pub. The last person I would have said,

(37:05):
Ruth Richardson, Marcus not saying I've done it. But if
you go to a Chief's game, a Chiefs game at
FMG Stadium on a wet day, you can upgrade your
umbrella as everyone has to leave them at the stadium entrance.

(37:28):
That's good to tell. Why no your Marta road, let
me know about that, why Toto pub and also far extinguishes.
There's three topics for you. Each is golden. I can't
even visit your time in my life while I need
an umbrella, never own one. Never own an umbrella or

(37:48):
a pair of jendles. Hi Marcus from Oubwood Barley and
during a Gin and Tonic watching the sunset, celebrating buying
land to build a villa here and listening to your show.
Good on, you're forgetting land. Watch out for the monkeys.

(38:12):
Thank you for that, Chris. Chris enjoyed the cord about
the Dordashians. Career drivers sit around talking about their feelings.
Do you think they are quite good communicator as the
Kadeshians the way they talk Billets Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 16 (38:37):
You're going to any marks? You have?

Speaker 15 (38:38):
Just a from past the old way toatra Fire sure,
and I heard that you want to get some information.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
About it, so here I am yeah, okay, And the
right the main highway is not closed because sort off
the main highway isn't Is that right?

Speaker 15 (38:50):
It's just off the main highway.

Speaker 17 (38:52):
So there's probably about two.

Speaker 15 (38:54):
Hundred meters off the main highway. So I've got the
road blocked offers going out to the watra. Who'd youre
talking about the freezing work? Ye, the road going out
to the freezing works the beach that's blocked off. But
everyone's driving.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
So you've got a good view of the fire.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
And what can you tell me is it's still involved.

Speaker 15 (39:14):
The fire was just absolutely ripping through the place, and
and every every window obviously blind out, and the flames
virtually almost shooting out of the shooting out of the top.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Hell, because that's that's been burning for three that's been
burning since that's been burning for three hours. Yeah, they
see half past.

Speaker 15 (39:39):
H Well, i'll tell you what we've We've passed about
four fire engines, so obviously coming in, say from Waverley,
even maybe New Plymouth. And kind of funny thing was
we were driving from Wanganui and we got behind the
fire engine that was going towards it, and it was
going so slow that we can'ds of flying out behind it.

(40:01):
And then we actually saw it turned off and I
think it turned off at the wrong place. It turned
off at.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
That's probably the volleys, because you would have got a
good view coming across the bridge too, looking down at it.
So it's still burning.

Speaker 15 (40:13):
Oh we did, yep, yep, yeah still really you know,
we would have passed it ten minutes ago. So I've
stopped now on the side of the road. Yes, and
so yeah, ringing in.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
That's amazing, that's taken because there's about ten fire engines
trying to put it out there getting water from Waverley,
as you've probably heard.

Speaker 15 (40:32):
But that, yeah, that sounds like ye we saw we
saw the far engine that waven been filled up for
little sort of way by the beside the shop, and
we're in there filling filling up, and probably some of
those foot engines we saw going out and had filled
up as well.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
So you'd imagine it would be a totally you I
meagine the building would be a total right off, wouldn't you.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (40:56):
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. I mean it's just taken hold and
it's well, I'm amazed it's been burning so long.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
Yeah, me too, because there's just appears to be a
brick construction. But I don't know. Hey, look, I really
appreciate you, Bill, and thanks to your partner too, and
thanks for calling over. That's pulling over. That's great news.
Thank you well, great to get that report. Not great
news twenty five past nine. Thank you people. Someone has texted,
you're a true white man, never owned an umbrella. Well,
that means tapoo to Cora Glen is a shock at

(41:26):
the moment, especially for Camper. Van's best to stay pot.
It's a daylight road, Cheers David. Other roadless traveled this time.
Every year, I purchased Anzac tins and in recent years
Anzac biscuits. Anzac m buckets full of Anzac Biscuits's my
little contribution towards our military veterans protecting us. Tonight I
offered my guests a plate of Anzac biscuits. They read

(41:48):
the recipe on the tin, then declined because the biscuits
were made with margarine instead of butter. And seven dollars
a block of pems, but doesn't really matter. Thanks Mac.
Marcus Paul here have been without power for two days.
I live on the Kupe for it. Fucker Peter have
been trying to get information out of North Harbor, but

(42:09):
no answer. Someone says a lot of pubs have burnt down,
Marcus insurance job. Well look when that's that's yeah, I've
got no idea what was caused that fire? But of
course they'll always be investigated. But yeah, oh it's hard
to make money out of a country pub pen of

(42:32):
country pubs for sale and Southland Jason Marcus welcome, however,
right you could Jason your good things.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
I want to talk about traffic. I'm quite passionate about
the Auckland traffic system. Actually a lobby, a lobby for
the week east week east west link back in the days,
which was going to happen between only hunger the air
end o who if you remember that. Yes, we could
councilors some great plans. They wanted to put a little
bypass in. Then it never happened either, But.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
It was a little I want to talk about. It
was a little bit. It was quite significant, wasn't it.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
It was quite a significant bypass year.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yes it was. It was a little It was a
little bypassed. It was a major route.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
Maybe we should have put a bit more time into it.
Maybe that will they help our economy a little bit.
We've got the country moving. Hey, I want to talk
about Packeringer Road. Are you familiar Peckeringer Road. Yes, So
they've got some private developments happening some some houses being
built on Packering a road and every morning when I
commute from Howick to the city, Packer Ranger Road is

(43:28):
brought down to two lanes at peak hour during school
drop off by private contractors with their cones. Who's auditing
in the cones, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Do you know the answer? Or is this rhetorical?

Speaker 12 (43:41):
No?

Speaker 8 (43:41):
I'm wondering who's auditing the cones? Who's auditing these private
contractors who are blocking our roads off during peak hour?
This is a major arterial and then out of East
Auckland it's the only road once you get past that
you'll find But you've got to wait now to get
past it. And it's been going on for nearly a month.

Speaker 7 (43:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Does living in how it's working in the city work.

Speaker 8 (44:01):
Yeah, it does because if it's if a traffic is good,
it's twenty five minutes we jump on the bus.

Speaker 7 (44:05):
The bus is fantastic.

Speaker 8 (44:07):
But at the moment the bus isn't fantastic because the
bus lane down Packering or highway that's blocked too.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Because they're building a big bus inter change, aren't they.
This is like a bus higher bus freeway type thing,
is that right?

Speaker 8 (44:19):
So that's the other side that's the other side of
Tarakal Drive. So it's Tarakal going towards Box Copy. They're
a big bus in to change. Yeah, the packeringer comes down.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
From they do the reach around for the howarck to
get on the busway? Would they?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, they are, they are.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
But you know, in the meantime, you know, we've got
we've got we've got thirty thousand people trying to move
their way out of as part of East Ackland and
move towards the city because that's where we work. Right
There isn't any industry in this part of Eastokland, but
so either But.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
My theory is it's not going to get better any
time soon.

Speaker 8 (44:53):
Ever, well, it's probably fine. We've got four lanes. We've
got well, we've got three lanes either side on peckering
A Road. But what I'm saying is, at the moment,
whenever works happen, whether it's private or public, public wouldn't
be so bad. But who's allowing how the private sector
to block off the roads with road cones and cause
this traffic condition, Who's checking it, who's auditing the works

(45:13):
that are happening, Who's the public audit happening to make
sure that traffic's flying, because I don't see a problem
other than idiot planning and people not controlling the placement
of these road cones.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Nice to hear from you, Jason, Thank you for that
eight hundred eighty nine text, looking forward to your contributions.
On Easter Eve, Hi Marcus News says there was two
diggers set on fire on Wednesday. Why, I taught at
a quarry and a house there lately. Also fog fireman

(45:49):
called out to seven fires, many more than usual. Where
are you seeing that purchase? So news says there were
two diggers. So where is it in?

Speaker 7 (46:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:01):
Is it in the local fong news? I wouldn't mind
some more information about that. But yeah, that pub has
burnt for a long long time. Six o'clock it's said
they're in the heads and it's still burning a half
past nine, still well, involved a lot of a lot
of flames coming out windows and that sort of stuff.
It's probably just a brick that's still standing. The whole

(46:23):
rest of the inside has just been gutted. So the
weather forecast strong winds, heavy run in thunderstorms, so heading
the North Island parts of the South. I don't know
how Nelson's going maybe someone could let us know Tomorrow
Good Friday, the start of the four day Easter weekend.

(46:45):
Easter Sunday isn't a public holidays, so businesses cannot legally
charge you a shoo charge, and Zac Day on Friday
and the Aussie election on May three. Interestingly enough, there
is talk that we will have an election before the

(47:07):
end of the year and Labors say they are ready
for their campaign for a snap election. And the reason
that I can ascertain as they are talking about a
snap election is that things have become frosty between Winston

(47:28):
Peters and Christopher Luxen. Bearing in mind Winston Peter's the
Deputy Prime Minister of that role as the Deputy Prime
Minister will end next month, so I guess the thoughts
would be that because n Z First have had some

(47:49):
traction recently with the profile Winston Peters has head as
Deputy primisis and also for mister which will remain, but
also to some of their attraction that they've had with
that American playbook with talking about woken stuff like that,
that they might want to go to the polls earlier.
They might think that's their best chance to get returned

(48:11):
to power. So yeah, I've got no idea how he
thinks or what he thinks of, but I would say
that it's definitely a possibility there will be an early election.
I don't think we're due to go until October next
year is the end of the three year cycle October November,
so it would be early anyway. You might want to

(48:31):
comment on that if you think there's a chance. So
it wouldn't be National's call, is my understanding. The New
Zealand first would engineer a disagreement with the government. They
would put something on their table that would be unreasonable,
they would not get agreement from National and they would withdraw.

(48:52):
I presume they can withdraw their agreement to the coalition agreement.
Next thing, you know, snap election. It's been a while
since we've had one anyway that I've never seen it
talked about until today, but something that's cropped up in
some of the news stories. It is twenty to nine.

(49:15):
Peter's Marcus welcome, Marcus good, Pete, thank you.

Speaker 17 (49:21):
Yeah, Oh, what do you pull that card?

Speaker 4 (49:23):
He's a students.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Well, I think he's pulled out of governments before and
it's all fine.

Speaker 17 (49:33):
He realized what we've got going. If he does, then
got on my phone.

Speaker 7 (49:36):
I need to vote.

Speaker 17 (49:36):
From its basically, as we've got a city govern now
he does that and twice is to cause Habecker from
for our government we have now, I think it more
brains to do that. I most been a bit of a
box of of ginger beat the Marcus said he would.
He's not their students.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
So then why has he been vocal with his criticism
of Christopher Luxon and his comments about trade wars and
things like that.

Speaker 17 (50:07):
Well, he's just trying to I think Winston is trying
to study this ship. I think before, like he said,
before you open up your mouth, you don't want to
start to get into Donald Trump's arguments. They just settle.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
So you think Winston Peters will sit quite happily as
David Seymour is deeply Prime Minister and just go along
like a good little fish.

Speaker 17 (50:33):
I think he will. I think he agreed to that.
If he's going to be like a spoil little kidby
fearing to Winston about this, he will lose my vote
if you if he scores a snaper rex On ever,
vote from Hm again, because basically he doesn't get his way,
He's going to split the dummy. He does that, he's
just will blow his incredibility guarantee.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
But it's also a chance for survival. He sees the
poles really good. It's understanding he would strike.

Speaker 17 (50:58):
Then he's trying to get a few poles to increase
his hill. And first he'll go down the He'll go
down the Googler real fast. You'll lose everybody's credibilities. You're
going to rock the vote. You want a stable government,
don't want to sort of stuff. It's not good, but
not good double example.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
But people have short memories.

Speaker 4 (51:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
People say I'll never vote from again, but next time
he says something brilliant, they're all they're voting for him.

Speaker 17 (51:23):
I've given my credibility. But if he pulls nepolition, he
will never vote to gargain.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Thanks Pete, Dave, Marcus welcome, Yeah, good Dave.

Speaker 16 (51:33):
I love to think in a little bit. Okay, I've
only really just tuned in. But three years three years
to me when we're going through this parliamentary process, which
is expensive and well, I know it is what it is.
It's a Westminster system, but I think it should go
out for four years.

Speaker 7 (51:51):
Marcus.

Speaker 16 (51:52):
Every four years that's what I reckon about that.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I'm never quite sure the arguments either way, and I
don't think I have an opinion.

Speaker 16 (51:59):
Well, the only thing against is if we get a
tier government or someone whom you really don't trust or
is going to knowside of the economy, in which case
I'd changed my view and it should be only three.
But as we get a good stable government in and

(52:21):
one whom you know, like the current mob, perhaps of
their help, then I think four years is more.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
The point you make if we get a terrible government, Well,
if we get a terrible government, they're never going to
be a majority either because no one gets over fifty percent.
They'll always be in coalition partners. So the coalition partners
can always pull out if they're terrible.

Speaker 16 (52:45):
Yes, tail wagging the dog leads me down that even
new even P in my opinion, has got to go.
I don't like it. No accountability, and I think it's,
as I say, it's a little bit of tai wagging.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
But what I'm but what i'm the point I'm making, Dave,
is that you want a four year term, right hmm.
And I'm saying that it probably would be fine under
m MP because if a government's terrible, the coalition partners
would withdraw their support, so I would be going to
the election early anyway.

Speaker 16 (53:19):
I see what you're saying. Yeah, so it's going to
be a collapse of the government, which is not a
good for any country. Really, I mean if they have
initially been elected, and yeah, it takes me paths back
to first past the post with accountability.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Okay, I kind of don't. No one seems to be
campaigning for first past the post apart from you.

Speaker 16 (53:43):
Well, no, it won't only be me, surely.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
I don't hear asking for it, Marcus.

Speaker 16 (53:51):
It worked for decades. So I just want the first
past of the post with accountability. You know, you've got
a mob, you've got the menu, You've been voted for them.
They're in the government and they're judged on theirs and
they're off. I mean what I don't like to see

(54:12):
me MP business as I say, I think there's too much.
Well I've already said my case on that anyhow, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Dave, appreciate it. Marcus Winston pinished star in a remake
of Grumpy Old Men. Marcus, we enjoy a reckon Pinion.
Thank you. Traffic updates, what a funeral company Wellington crash
on the last bend coming into Wata. Traffic is billy moving,
looks to be blocked. Avoid the area or expect a
decent delay. Thank you for that. There's a lot going on.

(54:45):
I've forgotten about that. So if it's a serious extent
in the serious question, it will be there. That'll be
closed for a while because it's just one of those
one road in, one road out scenario.

Speaker 18 (54:56):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Whyma so here snap election labor you is in friskt
the majority w and becomes prime minister. Heard it here first?
Tell Jason to phone the Cone hotline. That's right, I
should have, Marc. I just want to thank you for

(55:19):
your great comforting show. You have helped me through my
lovely nights. It must be lonely night since losing my
dear husband a few months ago. I leave my radio
on going all night. Thank you so much, Jackie, my pleasure, Jackie.
I can remember playing at the White Total a pub
and watching a drunken Dave Loveradge dancing on a table.
The Neck Team are on the way home from Wanganui.
Were you at a pub band? You must have been

(55:47):
Port White Katou. I have had a string of suspicious
fires over a few months. Hopefully the storm will stifle
any piro attacks. Marcus, there is a crash on the
way nu Yamata. Hell. Yes, we're aware of that. We're
told by a woman who was in it. Weekend plan

(56:08):
was to go to Umaca Air Show canceled to unbelievably.
Plan B is to stay home in Wellington with a
forecast of twenty five degrees on Saturday, Happy Easter. Word
of warning to everyone, don't talk to anyone on Wellington
on Saturday. They'll be weather bragging. Jason obviously doesn't know

(56:28):
the traffic management works. The cones are signed off by
local government, by local and government bodies, and the sites
have to be signed off every hour to assure everything
is to plan. It wasn't quite sure what Jason sounded
like he was phoning for, like a commerce assignment or something. Anyway,

(56:49):
just some more information about the fire from the texts
Marcus High. Marcus just talked for mate. The fire is
still burning. The latter appliance spraying water into the building shell.
The water supply was the problem for Fire Brigade tonight.
Year is Brent, I don't really know how the fieries

(57:10):
work are presume they've got some water in the tank,
but quickly they convert to a hydrant. Are there no
hydrants there? Or is there a problem with the hyd
I just thought every I don't really know anything about that.
I presume outside big buildings they would there would be hydrants. Jason,

(57:32):
the chief conehead of Hawick, Yeah, I don't know what
that is. Marcus, Why don't we as a country appreciates
spring swing bridges more than one? Or Tucky gorge is amazing?
It's all I've thought about for many, many weeks. Now,
where are the other great swing bridges? And once it's
been a swing bridge suspension bridge, we gotta look at Opha.

(57:56):
It's gonna be one of the great bridges of all time.
That's stone and a swing and a suspension bridge. I
believe even the writers of that UK program Yes Minster
couldn't ride an episode on Winston. But as they get
lost in finding out which does he hate the most
of the journalists or the Green Party? There we go.

(58:20):
But the big news tonight there's major crash going into
Waio Yamato. The traffic's not moving at all. There hasn't
for about an hour, maybe even longer than that. And
the white toat to the Hotel of South taran Neki
that's on fire. It's been burning from six o'clock and
a phone ranger came thro about twenty minutes ago. It's
still very much involved. So it's a brick two story

(58:43):
Paban general store, the only kind of commercial premises in
the town. But yeah, it's no longer. It doesn't appear
as are there's buildings nearby, so it's not other buildings
are dangerous. But it's just taken a long long time
to put out volleys from everywhere. But twenty appliants is
and it's three and a half hours six till half

(59:04):
past nine, still going strong. But yeah, it's not the
external thing. It's just must be a huge amount of
material inside and that's flames twice the heart of the building.
This picked some spectacular photos on Facebook. Have a lock
here until twelve. Welcome Hello Fayet's Marcus, Welcome, Hi Faye.

Speaker 14 (59:32):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 13 (59:35):
Yes, oh sorry you said miles away.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
I am lookally miles away.

Speaker 15 (59:40):
Where are you?

Speaker 2 (59:40):
You're an awclor are you many? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (59:46):
I live in a block of pitch in the units
and that four of them got a checks on their
smartphone to say that the pension will be paid on
Saturday night.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
And I read it out because.

Speaker 14 (59:59):
Normally we did it Monday night, but Monday was a holiday,
so we didn't get it normally on a Friday. We
didn't get it on Friday because of holiday. I see
we won't begin it till Thursday night. And I said, no, no, no,
we've got a text. We're we're getting it on Saturday night.
We've all got dixes and brot me down at some tonight.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
So who's wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
All right, so when we're expecting it, but.

Speaker 14 (01:00:21):
It should be in tonight because Friday and Monday are
both holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
So it always gets paid on a Thursday. Or if
someone gets paid on a Saturday.

Speaker 14 (01:00:28):
No, no, no, a speech is get paid on a Tuesday night.
Well sorry, Monday night, Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Nay, it's four days early.

Speaker 14 (01:00:37):
Yeah, when Monday's a holiday, it goes in and on Friday.
But as Friday's a holiday also, it was going in tonight.
And I told them that, but nobody wanted to believe me.
They said, we've got a message from the whoever on
the texts to say their pension will be in on
Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Okay, is this a good thing? By the way, why
can't they just put it on the normal day, just
pushing a button on a computer exactly.

Speaker 14 (01:01:01):
I mean, they've had to put it in tonight because
tomorrow's a holiday. But why can't they put it on
a Monday on holiday.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
Why can't they just put it in tomorrow night because
it's just a computer.

Speaker 14 (01:01:09):
Thing, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
They've got all the you know, are you worried? Are
you worried that you have all this extra money over Easter?

Speaker 13 (01:01:17):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:01:17):
No, I don't worry about the money. I'm okay, I don't.
I don't even worry about the money, do you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Okay? So what Betty? What time? What time did it
come in?

Speaker 14 (01:01:27):
Mine comes from about half I see them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Okay, I'll let everyone know. There we go, your money
is there? People go by yourself a new freeview box. Hello, Betty,
it's Marcus good evening. Hi Betty good.

Speaker 18 (01:01:43):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Now and clear? Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:01:46):
I think I'm just going to turn this radio.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:01:48):
How are you doing?

Speaker 14 (01:01:49):
All right?

Speaker 7 (01:01:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:01:50):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Thank you?

Speaker 12 (01:01:50):
Betty.

Speaker 18 (01:01:51):
It's definitely bustery. I'm here in Takapoona.

Speaker 13 (01:01:55):
Now that's is.

Speaker 18 (01:01:58):
Just a townhouse or something built in nineteen eighty three,
and the window is just whipping around.

Speaker 14 (01:02:03):
But it's lovely.

Speaker 18 (01:02:04):
It's really nice taking any time off because I don't
officially work.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Billy Billy, Is it windy? Is it windya? That it's
ever been in the last twenty four hours? Has it
just been steady for twenty four hours?

Speaker 18 (01:02:20):
I think it's been. I think it's been pretty steady.

Speaker 12 (01:02:22):
Okay, thank you, I think it has.

Speaker 18 (01:02:25):
But I could check on the windy dot com. I
hadn't heard of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Good.

Speaker 18 (01:02:30):
Yeah, well everyone knows it's windy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Yeah, it's all about the word.

Speaker 18 (01:02:36):
I used to listen to you when you were with
Lana Cocroft nineteen ninety seven. Wow, and you were on
a breakfast breakfast show.

Speaker 19 (01:02:45):
I was working as.

Speaker 13 (01:02:46):
A courier driver.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Goodness, long time ago, wasn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:02:49):
It was a long time ago, And oh boy, it
was funny. It was great. You all had a you're
all very different and great rapport and that was it
was a lot of fun. They got me through those
got me through those mornings. So now booking, oh yeah,
booking dot com. It's not quite.

Speaker 14 (01:03:14):
What was it you said?

Speaker 19 (01:03:15):
Not uber eatch.

Speaker 18 (01:03:21):
Air BnB. Yes, I was going to just talk about
a recent experience, please and all right. So I'm renting
this big house and I was staying here with my
father and he's since moved on, and I'm here at

(01:03:41):
the house and I've got this big rent to pay,
so I'm trying to get a flat maid in and
then I thought of, hold on this booking dot com.

Speaker 14 (01:03:50):
I've used it before.

Speaker 18 (01:03:51):
So I go through and I register and go through
all the pilava, put the photos up and you know,
a little bit of a description. Not really, they seem
to chaz that up and do it for you. And
I've even put starpool in there, which is but not
even the fault you know, that was a plarva trying
to take it down to anyway, long story short, I

(01:04:13):
get to the part of the the online registration where
I suddenly I have to be the homeowner or something
like this, or there's all these sorts of checks and whatnot.
I thought, oh, for God's sake, too hard, So I
let it alone, forget about it. And I couldn't even
download the yet. I was going through some clunky web

(01:04:34):
browser on my phone, and then suddenly I get in
the emails saying congratulations on your first booking, and I
had a Frenchman arrived. I had a Frenchman chicken that
day at three o'clock. I'd never moved so fast in
my life, and I was nervous. I thought, God, there's
no checks or anything in place. Fortunately it was a
good experience. But then another booking, another booking, another booking,

(01:05:00):
and I'm trying to update things about the spar pool
and whatnot.

Speaker 11 (01:05:03):
But so far, so good.

Speaker 18 (01:05:06):
I'm dubious that whether I'm actually going to be paid.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
So you live in the house as well, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:05:13):
So just me here in the house. Anybody's looking for
a place in takapooner, I tell you it's lovely, three bedroom,
three bathrooms, built nineteen eighth three lovely.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
So how long have people been tuning up for.

Speaker 18 (01:05:27):
Well, just since I did it the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Just the other day. Okay, so you will get paid.
And I mentioned it'd be quite a good price for
a night in Takapoona, wouldn't it.

Speaker 18 (01:05:35):
Well, I that's the thing is trying to adjust the price.
They tht you were just kind of percentages. Once it's
kind of fixed, it's fixed. Well it is for me,
you know, because you know, I'm just an old girl here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
You know, pretty how much I've forgotten the apple ID
how much is how much is it a night?

Speaker 18 (01:05:56):
Well? I think I had it at so they take
a percentage of I'm not exactly sure, So I think I.

Speaker 14 (01:06:04):
Had put it as eighty eight, like the couple eights.

Speaker 18 (01:06:08):
I thought, that's okay, you know, nice, very months we
you know, splaying the linens. And then it went down
to I don't know whatever it is, because then you've
got to attached to something for a special or.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Eighty eight and night sounds very very cheap.

Speaker 18 (01:06:26):
Well, no, it's ended up being fifty someone arriving tomorrow.
And I thought, I'm downstairs with underside frolice, white sheets
and the old grubbing pressure.

Speaker 20 (01:06:39):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:06:39):
Just see we're doing all this laundry and just for
fifty five dollars for a girl riding tomorrow. It's just
about giving me a nervous breakdown. But I can't seem
to turn off the seating to sort of put this
to rest, you know. I just I'd rather have the.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
I'd rather have the.

Speaker 18 (01:07:01):
Relaxing kind of concern about how I'm paying the rent,
you know, instead of having these bookings coming through.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Sounds celeritic, sounds like the sounds like the makings of
a sitcom there, Betty, But fifty dollars a week does
sound very reason when you're doing bedding as well in
linen cheapers. Just the update on the fire, a foreign
emergency spokesperson, This is the fire at white Tautala fire.
An emergency spokesperson said, ten fire trucks, six tankers in

(01:07:32):
one ladder tracker on the scene while another is on
the way. They're an excess of eighty personnel on the site.
All people are accounted for and there are no injuries.
The FENS spokesperson said the fire was contained about nine
to fifty pm and now crews are dampening down hotspots.

(01:07:54):
The building is pretty much destroyed, no kidding. It burnt
for three and a half hours or three hours fifty minutes?
Was a funo neither rail loop glenis Marcus good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:08:13):
My money went through at eight o'clock tonight, My super
It might take a while for that lady, but it
will go through because it was available tomorrow. But mine
went through at eight o'clock tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Were you expecting it? Were you expecting it.

Speaker 21 (01:08:28):
Yeah, because I said on the recording, your money will
be available on Friday. But when I when I punched in,
my phone connected it went through at eight o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:08:37):
It's there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
Okay, So you do know with long weekends they do adjusted.
That's the way it works.

Speaker 21 (01:08:42):
Yeah. I'll be going under the knife soon too. With
my hand. They're going to cut part of my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Offs which part of They're cutting off.

Speaker 21 (01:08:51):
The knuckle on my left hand and I'm left handed. Wow,
I'm going to find it hard. And also I had
a funny experience on a bus today, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
Funny, funny, weird, well.

Speaker 21 (01:09:05):
Weird because we went into I went into town and
the driver couldn't start the bus. It stopped and basically
the bus was starting to go back down the hill.
Oh God help me. And next minute the bus stopped.
They started again. It was of course stopped starting. The
bus started rolling back down the hill backwards, and she

(01:09:27):
just managed to get it going again and it went
up the hill again on Sales Street in town. Who
what an experience.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Frightening.

Speaker 21 (01:09:36):
It was frightening, Marcus. And I'm saying, don't bust, go, please,
don't bust. The next minute she put her foot down
and the bus took off. It must have locked on
her brakes or something like that. But she got a alibi,
Frid and I was the only one on the bus
and I was hanging on him. Oh, I said, oh no,
I hope she doesn't roll back down the hill, are you?
But we got we got to the top and got

(01:09:58):
to Queen Wellesley Street. All right?

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Which knuckle.

Speaker 21 (01:10:03):
My knuckle my left hand.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
The one ring finger, the little finger, the finger of.

Speaker 21 (01:10:09):
This the second finger. I can't straighten my hand properly.
But it's it's hard to do housework. And it's because
I have stairs in the house. Now I'm going to
find it hard going up and down the stairs after it,
so I might have to get a low level house,
I think, because the bathroom's upstairs not downstairs.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
Was it an injury?

Speaker 21 (01:10:31):
No skin cancer?

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:10:32):
Hell?

Speaker 21 (01:10:33):
That's right.

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
Hell.

Speaker 21 (01:10:34):
And it hurts at the moment because I'm going to
have to learn to write right handed and I'm left handed.
So basically I do manage, but I find it very
hard to do things in public, like when you punch
your card, and to get you know, in the shops,
to sign anything because I'm left left handed, so I.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Just removed I'll just remove that finger from the knuckle,
will they.

Speaker 21 (01:10:58):
They might have to do it and take I'm sorry,
sin actually take a piece off the mother part of
my body and put twenty tested is in my hand
and I'm gonna I'm not looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
When do you go in Glenness?

Speaker 21 (01:11:12):
Twenty nights of April.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Go not long now will be the countdown, I.

Speaker 21 (01:11:17):
Know, But I'll be all right. I've just got to
think of things positive when I go under the knife.
But just think that it'll be all right, because if
I don't get it done, it'll travel up my arm
to my heart and then bang that you know, being gone, Yeah,
being gone, all right. But I just I'm trying to
be positive. I'll go in there with a smile on

(01:11:39):
my face and come out with a smile on my face.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
I hope good on your gleinnis thank you good Reveal
twenty six past ten, Marc is till twelve. The fire
is contained, but the building is destroyed. There's going to
be no other outcome there. What about Betty? Marc has

(01:12:03):
just heard Bettyrehue booking dot com and feels she needs
help us out fifty at night and Tuckapoona is way
too cheap. Operate an Airbnb in charged five hundred a night.
I have a fifty five star rating. I live in
the North Shore and in Auckland. Could help bet his sort
it out so she's in control. Happy for you'd pass
on my number two her nick? Yeah, that's great neck,

(01:12:23):
But I don't pass on numbers to callers because I'd
hate to wait up in the morning and see a
headline that says tuckapoo a woman murdered. But it was
something like that, you know, I'd hate to forget. I mean,
I'm sure you're fine, but I don't know. I can't
fact check people. There must be a price set sort

(01:12:44):
of button on booking dot Com, isn't there. Although the
house didn't sound like the spar pool's not his house
didn't sound that. I mean, how can I say this delicately?
If I went to a house and there was like
a spar pool half full, I think, well, actually, what's
going on here? Is your fifty five? Marcus? The lady

(01:13:07):
is wrong. The peachon payment goes in Saturday, not tonight. Sorry, Marcus,
I'm wrong. It isn't tonight. Ops Peenchion is definitely in
that should become a regular feature of the show. Is
where the pinching goes ing. The two closest places to

(01:13:29):
draw water are both on Taplin Key alongside the burning pub.
The fire might have been too strong and hot to
allow pumping from the river. Could it also be too
hot to get to those particular Oh no, I can
understand what you're saying, and quite a bit of interest

(01:13:51):
in the snap election. I wish they wouldn't call it
a snap election. I don't like that expression. I don't
know why snap election. I don't know what else it
should be called. Don't like the wood Snap's doing and
that snap twenty five from eleven Good Evening, John Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:14:14):
BELI I was listening last but and you cause Bunning
to buy receivers for the television. I tried to row
one today and sold out, and also every warehouse. I
wondered that the someone I'm newis I could get one.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Did you say sold out in Northland? John? Is it
what you said?

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:14:39):
Not in time Norton.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Well that's a hassle at the warehouse.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
So when you say the north of that's the funding
a warehouse right.

Speaker 6 (01:14:50):
Way, Kerry, Harry Dagaball none will sold out.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
It's a real hussle, isn't it. Did they say when
they get so you've got no TV at all?

Speaker 7 (01:15:05):
No got no signal for all of these?

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Do they say when they're getting them in?

Speaker 6 (01:15:14):
Well, they just said a couple of weeks maybe, but
only maybe.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
I know that a lot of people have rung Dish
TV who make them, and they seem to have been
quite hands on with their customer service, so they might
know and they might be able to buy one direct.
That would be my only suggestion.

Speaker 12 (01:15:32):
John, Oh yeah, okay, I'll try that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
Yeah, Dish TV. But look, yeah, but if you tried
Harvey Norman and.

Speaker 6 (01:15:44):
I'll try Noel Leaning but they don't have an.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
That's the one I mentioned, So Sugar, if Noel Leamy
haven't got is there Harvey Norman up in the North?

Speaker 6 (01:15:55):
I didn't character.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
I think that might be worth having a check out.
But we'll keep listening. John, that's a good question. I'll
see if someone else got something from me. That's a
real blow. Marcus. Why Totra Hote Amazing Country pub Many
a good night spent their public and ed the least
for over twenty years and lived upstairs. Don't understand why
they could not pump out of the river to fight
the fire exactly might have been too hot. You get

(01:16:21):
a bucket chain, wouldn't you. Oh, you got to film
a bucket chain. No buckets. Rush down to the Waverley
four square, get all the plastic buckets back there. Bucket chain,
That's what I'll be doing. You'd fight to say, they
mean this the town, the town will never get another pub.

(01:16:46):
Ruth Richardson's mother worked there. Someone said about Betty with
their airbnb, that Betty should close all the windows and
doors and pretend to be out. She could hide in
the empty spar pool.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
Lua.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Luh, I'm not here. George Marcus good evening.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
I was like, are you being served? I'll take two
of those and five of those.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
Frenchman was he? Anyway? It was he from Gersey. But anyway, welcome, yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Now, while I talked to you about Sky, I just
want to give you a bit of an update. I've
did a bit of research about it all because I've
played in the satellite game a little bit. Anyway, what's
happened is that there was a new satellite to go
up for sky put up by Office, but they haven't

(01:17:44):
finished building the bag a beggar, so that's not up,
you see, So they had to hunt around the world
to find something to replace it. The Aussis did have
a satellite that was being used by Australia, but to
reconfigure it to New Zealand meant that all the Australians
would have to reconfigure all the additions and point it
to a different direction, and the Ausies were going to

(01:18:06):
do that, so they couldn't use that satellite. So what
they've done is they've gone to Korea and got an
old career satellite called Korea SAT and they've dragged it over.
It's fifteen years old, it's as old as the one
that's dyed, and they've borrowed this thing big stealed it whatever,

(01:18:28):
and dragged it across and stuck a tucked behind or
in front of the existing one. So they've swapped the
satellites over from the existing SAT one, which I think
I explained was running out of gas that actually you know,
propelled it to keep it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
So why is it Why is the Korean one not
running out of gas?

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
Well, because it hasn't quite as bad as the one
that using. It's like any electric vehicle cars with flat batteries.
This one hasn't got quite flat battery. The Korean one.
Of course, they don't want to use it anymore because
it's unreliable anyway, they've puked this thing up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Well, they probably don't want to use it anymore because
everyone's on cable or fiber. No one needs satellite.

Speaker 3 (01:19:08):
There's a lot of people that are not on fither,
like up Northfold and all this, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
I'm talking about in Korea, which is reconnected.

Speaker 3 (01:19:16):
Yeah, yeah, Korea. The satellite that they were using has
been drifted across for use by Sky in New Zealand,
so now it's parked up in the same position as
our dishes point. The problem is they've been able to
get the Sky satellite service channels migrated across, they've updated

(01:19:37):
everybody's electronically by air. They are decoders to work on
the new satellite. But the problem is the freeview service
has changed, not the actual signal but the encoding that's
being used in this service, and so if you've got
an older decoder, it doesn't understand the signal anymore. You'll like,

(01:20:00):
I've got one home here and it's died and the
signals level is good, but you don't get any because
it can't interpret the signal that's being sent back down
because they've modified it. That's where you're going to go
buy a new.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
One, although it doesn't appear to be that much of an ideal.
It seems like you're seventy five bucks. You've got a
new one apart from John and Northland that can't get one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:24):
Yeah, but there's given a lot of people that go, well,
what do I do when I get this thing home?
How do I interpret all the instructions and make this
thing all go? You know, you've got to follow it.
You can't just plug it and make it go. You
might be lucky if it does, but you've got to
scan the satellites and tune it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
People said it to make people had said it's quite straightforward.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
Well that's good, have you done it? It's just well,
I've got four flaming d coders here of it. One
that was working fine last week, but this week's died
because it can't understand the signal. Because it's just an
older one, old strong beer stronghold. It's strong and it's
you know, it's got lots of features in it, but
for understanding this freeview signal now it can't do it

(01:21:05):
because it's too old. The encoding in the signal is
wrong for the unit. The unit doesn't understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
A lot of people, a lot of people are asking
why you haven't got cable? Have you got cable?

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Of course I've got cable, but I'm not going to
use up all my data on my on my on
my object father cable just to watch TV. That's just done.
And that's the issue that people have. They're saying, well,
why can't you just put it onto your cell phone
and get your your Sky go on your cell phone
and chrome it to your TV. That's fine, but you

(01:21:38):
watch your data disappear.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
What would what would be the charge for What would
be the charge for that? On your data.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Pack you'd want you'd want free unlimited data, which you
will probably do if you're buying this seventy nine dollars
plus packages on.

Speaker 12 (01:21:58):
On opet fiber.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
Good point, But.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
For your cell phone, you're going to be paying one
hundred dollars or more just to have data to watch
Sky because of the amount of data that comes through
don't forget some of those channels were half of them.
They are actually high definition now, so the data rate
on that's twice the amount. Then the other channels will
got so like TV one two three four or TV

(01:22:21):
one two three are all high definition, so the data
rate coming through as twice as much as maybe you know,
some of the other cheaper channels like TV watching food
and reconstructing houses and a whole bunch of them. I've
actually been through the first hundred channels, and I've got
the information of how many of those. Just just bear

(01:22:44):
with me, how many of those are actually high definition?
How many aren't. Now the trouble with the high definition ones,
they need a high quality signal, and so if you
get rain coming through and the signal goes down too far,
the high definition ones will die, but the low definition
ones will keep going because they don't worry about it
quite so much. I'm just letting you know you'll have

(01:23:04):
occasions when some of your channels will disappear and won't work,
and others keep going. It's because the quality of the
channel is different between them, and so they need a
better signal coming down For those channels. I don't know
what's going to happen in two years time, when this career.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Is it's going to last for Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
Well they're supposed to have had this year the new satellite,
but it hasn't finished being built. It's supposed to be
up somewhere by twenty twenty seven. Because this is only
a two year interim, then it's going to have to
change over again. But the new satellite's only designed to
work until twenty thirty and at that point there's no

(01:23:44):
guarantee that the satellite service is going to be kept going.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
So how much did your satellite costs?

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
The satellite itself? Yeah, I don't know how much. The
satellites they have millions of dollars for those beggars, hundreds
of millions there probably, you know. But it's a service.
But it's not just I forget. The satellite is not
just Sky. It's got all sorts of Like the the
Aussie one that we were using us at has got

(01:24:13):
SBS service, which is a separate service for the Australians,
a whole bunch of stuff for the Australians. We're only
using a little bit of it for New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Nice to hear from you, George. Thank you very much
for Informative fifteen to eleven. Just the update from tonight
is the fact that Cora mandels pretty much isolated. The
roads up the west coast of the East coast are
both closed because of flooding. Some of it's flooding from
the road. Also there's closures at White Tongue, sorry at
pay here and the Mungamuka road is closed. The other

(01:24:43):
four road closures I've got for you. There was next
and also earlier going into one Nuiya Mata, but that
has been cleared. The other big uses the Waitotala Pub
south Taranaki almost with the border of fang and Nui.
That has burnt to the ground. So that's burnt for
almost four hours with eighty personnel involved in combating that far.

(01:25:06):
I'll tell you what, well, they don't meange to put
it out. They was a much of a good job
at all because the fire has burnt to the ground
for a long long time. Someone said, I thought someone
said there was trouble with water. I don't know if
I've read that or someone rang up and texted that through.
But yes, it's a long time to Yeah, three hours
fifteen minutes they were getting water from the four square

(01:25:28):
at Waverley, so yeah, and it's also I've I've looked
fairly intensely at the town on the Google maps. So
the pub was also the general store, so that's that
town without that, it also appeared to be the place
you'd go to. There's a freezing works down the river

(01:25:51):
from there, so I think probably that's where you drink
silver foond. That's we had drink from there also, so
that seems to have gone or has gone. Landlord been
there for twenty years, had the least lived upstairs. But
you always are always a sad day when a pub
burns down, because you know these days with drink driving

(01:26:13):
and sky TV in the likes that once a country
pub's gone, it's not coming back. Very hard way to
make a living, you know, a quiz night there, there's
no one going to turn up, is there. I let
you probably survive on meals. If you do something legendary
like a big pain of ribs, you get people from

(01:26:34):
near and far coming, which is hard. Yecker, Adrian at
Marcus Good Evening. Hello, Yeah, hy Adrien.

Speaker 7 (01:26:44):
Okay, market I have a problem, and lots of kiwis
have the same problem. Very shortly when you turn seventy five,
you lose your license, a driver's license. You're going to
go for a medical. I passed that. I was issued
with a driver's license until I was eighty turned eighty,

(01:27:06):
I passed it. I was issued with a river's license
for the next two years. At eighty two, I failed
the medical. I lost my license. It was deemed to
be expired. Because I have no intention of traveling overseas anymore.
I did not renew my passport, which is expired as well.

(01:27:29):
Now there's no way I can identify myself without the
methods that are available cost a lot of money. If
you live in a retirement village, our personal allowance is
fifty five dollars a week. Now I've got to spend

(01:27:49):
in excess of two hundred dollars to renew. I think
it's a license, but so is the one side of
your license card has nothing to do with the license itself.
It's an identity document. Can't the government do something about

(01:28:10):
it and allow us to identify ourselves. The only government
authority that still recognizes me is the taxman. I'd change
the driver's license us in a manner which is very
little cost to the government and no cost to the pensioner,

(01:28:33):
or make us expired with the taxman. Both will be
will make us very happy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
Have you explored any other options, Adrian?

Speaker 7 (01:28:46):
I have, but they cost a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
What are those and how much do they cost?

Speaker 7 (01:28:52):
Well? The over eighteen card is ninety dollars, the driver's
license is well over two hundred dollars, so as the
renewal of a pot sport, which is and they're all temporary,
nothing is permanent.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
I see this one and we're fifty five.

Speaker 7 (01:29:20):
We're fifty five dollars per week income. It's a lot
of money for a person, for a pensioner.

Speaker 2 (01:29:32):
Have you explored the Kiwi Excess card?

Speaker 7 (01:29:36):
What is the cost of that?

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
Fifty five?

Speaker 7 (01:29:42):
Which is a week's income?

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Sixty dollars? Sorry for a new card?

Speaker 7 (01:29:48):
Sixty? Yeah, yes, well that's a week's income. Why they call?
Why can't we use the one page, the one side
of a driver's license as and as a legal form
of identification. I'll tell you what. Originally or twenty six

(01:30:09):
years ago, I emigrated here from South Africa. Oh okay, yep,
So what happened is that I still have my original
a birth certificate. So I presented my South African birth

(01:30:29):
certificate which is eighty four years old. This thing is
written in Afrikaans. The only words that any Kiwi or
average Kiwi would be able to understand is my name
and the word birth certificate and the data. Of course,

(01:30:51):
they have accepted that there's no photograph on this thing.
It is hand written in a foreign language. They accepted
that as a form of identification. Is that not ludicrous
to social governmentally government issues?

Speaker 2 (01:31:09):
Okay? So this has become a bit of a rent
from you, and which is fine. I mean, obviously are
hot and bothered with us? What do you need your
ID card for?

Speaker 7 (01:31:21):
Well? In the second instance, when I wanted to open
a bank account at Kiwi Bank, I had to identify myself.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
So if you just have just opened a bank account,
if you had a bank account, no.

Speaker 7 (01:31:37):
I wanted to change from Wispac to Kiwi Bank.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:31:41):
So now the second one is I wanted to buy
myself a new computer and trade in my old one.
They offered me T one hundred and twenty five bucks.
But it so it's worth my wie. But the company
that trades it in wanted an identify vacation document to

(01:32:03):
make sure that the original one wasn't it? And then
I agree with that? But none of those identity documents
the trick.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
So what do you think you'll do, Adrian?

Speaker 7 (01:32:18):
Well, I think that they should just look at the.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
What will you do? Will you? Will you get one
of those q ex's cards? Will you bite the bullet?

Speaker 7 (01:32:29):
I can't, I can't afford it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
Can you get a photo on your super Gold card?

Speaker 7 (01:32:36):
I did that. They don't accept it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
Can we bank? Wond No?

Speaker 7 (01:32:42):
And I wanted to buy the computer from no Lemming
and the company who trades in my old one wouldn't
accept that identification either.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
How much is the computer?

Speaker 7 (01:32:57):
How much is the cat to pain? I think eight hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
And someone says you can take your gold card with
two letters to your address, your own called library and
get your photo put on that. But you said that's
not good enough. Have you got a real Have you
got a real me account?

Speaker 21 (01:33:19):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:33:19):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Do you want to hear about that? Or do you
want to keep talking about what the government should do?

Speaker 6 (01:33:25):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:33:25):
No, no. After any solution, any viable solution, would be
very welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
What says you identify yourself with a real me account
for which you need either passport license or birth stiff.
It costs nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
Where do I get that?

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
Does your computer still work? I? Does your computer still work?

Speaker 7 (01:33:53):
Yes? I does.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
I'd google that. Why don't you google that?

Speaker 7 (01:33:58):
Okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
It's called a real me account.

Speaker 7 (01:34:03):
Right, Thank you very.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
Much, and keep listening. Some some more wisdom for you, Adrian.
But you're you're a tough customer. Wow, it'd be good
reading talking books. Oh my gosh. We have just been
through the same issue. To change medical providers have had

(01:34:26):
to get new birth certificates and want a new passports
on fortunate health is an issue terminal so unable to travel,
hence to not renew the passports new medical center said
required Ministry of Health, not the medical center. Have a
great easter. You and your family had the same problem.
The husband and no id sort out with getting photos
on my gold card worked out perfectly. This guy is boring.

(01:34:47):
I'm losing the will to live. Well, it wasn't that
he had a It's a tough accent to hear, isn't it,
Because it sounds quite not a lot of light and
shade and it is that is there. That's my thoughts.
But good evening, Darren Marcus.

Speaker 13 (01:35:01):
Welcome, Hey Margaret, there are you?

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Mate?

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
Good Darren, beautiful nightdown bluffers it beautiful.

Speaker 13 (01:35:11):
Mate, just going back to the White coatri pub.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
Mate, yes please, Oh plenty.

Speaker 13 (01:35:17):
Of good nights and there make plenty of good nights.

Speaker 12 (01:35:20):
You know.

Speaker 13 (01:35:20):
One thing about the white Coat. You know you used
to be able to go down there and write your
name up on the ceiling, you know, with all now
I'm serious. What's so funny, mate?

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
Oh? Just the things you're doing to keep it now?
How would you and why would you?

Speaker 16 (01:35:43):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
How that public feel right? You name always would have
always wanted to do. How would you do it?

Speaker 16 (01:35:47):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:35:48):
Mate?

Speaker 13 (01:35:48):
It was good. We call them coming from Topol, come
down back to Taraniki for a golf trip and we'll like, hey,
Chris mate, the worst person used to have to drive
the van. You have the van and don't get the
hot dogs and you're in there. But when they reached
the gown they were like, Chris, mate, I maybe he
had the worst round todays. Rather in the van, can

(01:36:10):
we saw some warm beer of the cold ones and
get us a bit of chalk and writing up on
the ceiling. It was funny, awesome, it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Was awesome, Darren, I've got some questions for you.

Speaker 13 (01:36:20):
Right, go for it, Darren, Mike, I sorry, long night.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
How would you write your name on the roof?

Speaker 13 (01:36:28):
Now you jump up on the bar ling and it
was just everywhere there's a beautiful stags. He there's an
open fireplace and I was a bit of chalk. They'll
give you a bit of chalk and you just jump
up there and then your buddy write your name on
the roof.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
With the hundreds of names on the roof.

Speaker 13 (01:36:45):
There was thousands of names on the roof. Mate, How
can I ask this other name because yours?

Speaker 2 (01:36:54):
Yeah, I'm keen about it. So when was the last
time yet? The pub?

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:36:58):
What have anyway? Three months ago the public at the well.
I wouldn't get the hot dogs if all you but
the public and was pretty good.

Speaker 7 (01:37:07):
Yeah, Chris, Chris.

Speaker 13 (01:37:09):
Is a good bag of He's a good bag and
I hope he's all right, you know, because my books
go with them in the family, you know, just most
of that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
We took him a long. I don't know why it
burned so long.

Speaker 13 (01:37:21):
Oh well, we've been funding back in twisand and four
in swziausand and fifteen and then the river right next
to it. Maybe the pumps are broken. I'm not too sure,
but maybe a bit of silt.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Yeah, it was for sale. I'm just trying to see
it's for sale.

Speaker 4 (01:37:35):
Aird.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
That wasn't so long ago.

Speaker 13 (01:37:38):
You should have bought it, mate.

Speaker 2 (01:37:40):
Honestly, imagine having a country public.

Speaker 13 (01:37:42):
The bluff oysters for buddy white bait.

Speaker 4 (01:37:45):
You know you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Don't at the public living in the morning with the
same three guys. You have to hear their stories endlessly
at the Can you mention it how boring it would be?

Speaker 13 (01:37:55):
Ah, really get live.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
Enough at the night time of the days. It'd be
a struggle, wouldn't they.

Speaker 13 (01:38:01):
Well I suppose, you know, and they'd go buy police slowly.
But iuppose if you get a good ground and they'll
go pretty fast with a good night. Imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
What's your question?

Speaker 13 (01:38:12):
My question is when you need to get the author
rols going back again. I went through from Shepherd Determine
early one night and before it all shut down, and
you know, I just want to roils back. You know,
I think most of the theater is doing a good job.

Speaker 7 (01:38:25):
What do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
Brilliant not coming back down? But thank you nineteen past eleven,
anyone got any more suggestions for Adrian? Cheapess Come on,
mate fifty five and you're happy to spend eight hundred
on a computer? Exactly That's what I was thinking, just
internally dissatisfied. Come on, mate fifty five and you're happy

(01:38:53):
to spend eight hundred and computer. Go to MSD. They
will cover the cost of ID. It may be recovery,
but better than nothing. Marcus, I lost my license the
other day. They want a passport, but mine was out
of date. Couldn't find booths of it. A guy wouldn't
accept in my bloody card with photo with ID for
the council. He said, you can't ide yourself. You can't
get a license. I hear the guys paying Tania. What

(01:39:17):
we all need is a chip embedded us somewhere. Will
that sort things out? Then the chance of that happening
are quite slim. People don't go on about the chip
with the mark of the beast anymore, do they. Before
we had the indie in conspiracy theories, it was all
anyone talked about. But not so much anymore. They've got

(01:39:38):
more exciting conspiracies. I'm desperate to find a shot of
all the names on the roof on the ceiling of
the White Totra Pub. Can someone help me out with that.
I'll google interior of White Toats at a hotel. But yeah,

(01:40:02):
that's legend. I mean, love to write on the roof.
I guess it's something someone started one night's becomes a
thing like there was that pub down there. We had
put your put your cap on the roof or something.

(01:40:26):
I'm just seeing. Look is looking at the accommodation. It's
like wild wave beards. Looks pretty old school public barrel type.
And if you want to add to the general malarkey tonight,
it'd be nice to hear from you. Well, here's a shot.

(01:40:53):
Try to see what's in door with a roof. I
think I might have found it. Well, I found something
about it, but it's the wrong pub. So lad is

(01:41:13):
with the White Toata Pub. They finally got it out
after three hours fifty minutes. No one is injured, so
that's a situation. I can't quite work out why they
couldn't get the water from the river, but ten machines
and eighty staff were there for that to try and
extinguish it. Yeah, but I'm not quite sure why they
had to go to Waverley for water. I don't really

(01:41:37):
know too much about fire hydrants. I've never already thought
about it. Probab presume that most buildings fire hydrants would
be outside that would have unlimited water. Would they well,
I guess it depends on where why Toatra gets their
water supply from. There's some of the questions we are
asking tonight. I'm also kind of fast dat by that

(01:42:01):
woman that next to you put a house on Airbnb
and Tuckapuna, which is a fitty up market suburban or
near the beach. Yeah, we're the near where them on
Desire once was. But she put it up on extent
and people are coming to stay for fifty five dollars
a night. She can't change the price she's got to
put out, you linen, So imagine the sort of people

(01:42:25):
you're looking. They're looking googling Tuckapuna and thinking, well, let's
go there for fifty five Marcus Adrian didn't tell you
the fully funded residence and care surrender their pension to
help pay the eighteen hundred dollars a week weekly fee.

(01:42:50):
They're allowed a maximum of two hundred and seventy four
dollars in their bank accounts. The reason that is hired
to allow some money for inheritance of desire that is generous.
They also get an annual clothing lump. Some Yes, he

(01:43:11):
did seem mean natured. I thought, is that opinion or
is that fact? Anyway, It's not normally like me to
make judgments like that. But it did go on and
on about it. He didn't seem to have done the
work either to research something. He seemed inflexible with his thoughts.

(01:43:37):
Hard life. Being a saffer by the sounds of it,
moved to our countries, start complaining fifty dollars is too expensive.
I'm thirty solo dad, rent my own home for my daughter,
I with fifty hours a builder and have nine dollars
left to my name once I pay my bills a week.
I live off my company vehicle and flatmate's rent. I
like to talk about different things you get in different pubs.

(01:43:58):
But I'm reading in a book about the White Tota
the hotel. It says the attractive public bar features a
high ceiling cross by wooden beams on which you've been stamped.
The names the names of local stations presume that ship stations.
Curiously given the height of the seeing. Locals and visitors
somehow managed to add their names and chalk to the
station names, making the barfield re personal. It's big water

(01:44:23):
no longer it's spunt for so long. It's got like
a mirror ball in the roof and the stag. He
talked about love a different pub. You can do different things.
Carol Marcus welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:44:40):
Oh hi Marke does Carol from Plumbos?

Speaker 7 (01:44:43):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
Carol from your plymouth?

Speaker 22 (01:44:45):
Yeah. The other path I was thinking about was the
Pooh Holy parts when used to have stored oust on
the floor. Goodness, do you remember that?

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
I don't remember the sword dust?

Speaker 22 (01:44:57):
Yeah, well, anyway, it's a good it's still a good pump.
But in the days when the sawed our stone floor
was just amazing.

Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Actually, I don't know, look like to me.

Speaker 22 (01:45:18):
Plan Cluriac anyway, somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
Might I know they had a wood I know they
have wood chopping there. I don't know they had sawdust
on the floor.

Speaker 22 (01:45:29):
Uh that wood chopping.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
I think they would. I think it's big for I
think it's on the wood chopping circuit. Okay, all right, okay,
thanks Carol listening. Yeah, now this is something that might
be of interest to I meant to read this article earlier,
but I didn't, so I'll read it now. The web

(01:45:52):
telescope detects a possible signature of life on a distant world.
A distant planet's atmosphere so shows signs of molecules that
on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible
signal of life on what's supposed to be a watery world.

(01:46:14):
The peer reviewed report Astrophysical Journal represents more questions than answers,
acknowledges numerous uncertainties, and does not declare the discovery of
life beyond Earth. But the authors do claim to have
found the best evidence to date of a possible bios
signature on a planet far from our Solar System. Planet's

(01:46:36):
called K two eighteen ber ten or twenty four light
years away. It's orbiting a red dwarf star. Earlier observations
suggested that atmosphere is consistent with the presence of a
global ocean. It's containing dimethyl sulfide DMS. That's the molecule.

(01:46:59):
It's produced by the decay of marine photoplankt in another microbes.
There's no other known source. I don't know how they
could tell that that was there, but I presume they
can tell that from some color. Tell you what. I
am interested of doing a lot of reading about all
the trouble they're having an Ash Burt with lake hood.

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Wasn't this a man made lake? Isn't it the developers
problem with what's gone wrong with it? I can't quite
work Look to me, these faked lakes are always doomed
to fail, like that one on Pigasus. They never work.
So I can't quite work out why they're expecting the

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council to spend all the money to get it going
again and taking up water and stuff. Yeah, man made
opened by Jenny Shipley, and there's some nice houses there,
but they're all houses built around a lake that looks
a bit sketchy to me. So yeah, if you've got

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something to say about that, get in touch, Big Houses
high Fay Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:48:17):
Oh hi Marcus. I just wanted to say what a
gem of a call Darren was. Yeah, really nice bloke,
I reckon I give it a show up in the
back of he only had one. It sounded like they're
really cool.

Speaker 7 (01:48:30):
Yep.

Speaker 20 (01:48:31):
Yeah, and hey, just with that business with that guy,
was you know, being able to have id It is
kind of becoming an issue for older people. Because my
partner's ninety and we went to do our wills not
long ago, and he didn't because he hasn't renewed his
license and he hasn't been renewed his passport. There's a

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bit of an issue with finding ID for him at
a lawyer's office.

Speaker 8 (01:48:57):
So there you go.

Speaker 5 (01:48:58):
Chip's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
Yeah, well, I think too also there with money laundering
there so kind of I mean they're rightly kind of
concerned about that so they're very cautious about doing anything now,
but it does make it complicated for sure.

Speaker 20 (01:49:15):
And the other thing, we've booked to go to pere
Brim this weekend. I mean, you can cancel it, right,
but you're going to lose your dough if you don't go.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Yeah, well, I think someone said on booking dot com
you've got forty eight hours or something, but I don't
know if that's true.

Speaker 20 (01:49:34):
No, Yeah, they put dates on them now, so yeah,
I think we're yeah, if we don't go, where we
lose their dome?

Speaker 7 (01:49:44):
Is the weather not?

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
Is it weather not looking good for the weekend?

Speaker 20 (01:49:47):
Faith, I don't think it's too bad, you know, down
sort of pair bram Ariat, but you know it might
be okay for Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
Well I think Saturday Wellington's got twenty five degrees.

Speaker 20 (01:49:58):
But where are you well at the moment?

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Oh okay, okay, it's a long way.

Speaker 10 (01:50:04):
You're sure pretty bad here, is it?

Speaker 8 (01:50:07):
Well?

Speaker 20 (01:50:07):
Yeah, it's windy and blowing and raining, but anyway is
what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:50:16):
Off we go tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:50:17):
So when are you making the decision? We've already decided.

Speaker 20 (01:50:20):
Pretty much to carry on with it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
Is anything to do?

Speaker 4 (01:50:24):
That?

Speaker 8 (01:50:24):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
If you got anything in mind to do there?

Speaker 20 (01:50:27):
Well, we've got family there, okay, but they've got a
big house with more family, so that's probably not burning them.
But we don't take the train, to be honest. It's
another thing. We thought we took them on the train
to Wellington because he new have been on the train toform.
But they've stopped the trains.

Speaker 22 (01:50:46):
I hear.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
It was the train. The train wasn't going that what train?

Speaker 20 (01:50:53):
You know, the train from brim to Wellington?

Speaker 7 (01:50:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
I you meaning not a plane from Nelson? Yeah, but
probably buses replaced trains. Always there's every holiday they seem
to be making this year. That's a good point. Well, yeah,
last time I came down this year that we try
to get the train but we end up more on
the bus. They're doing line work or something. It was annoying.

Speaker 20 (01:51:14):
Yeah, very but anyway, we'll we'll get to the Papa
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:19):
And as I say, they reckon said day on Wellington.
It's the best in the country. Twenty five degrees in sunny, So.

Speaker 20 (01:51:25):
Well there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Yeah, we ever got easter. Anyway, very nice to hear
from you before the end. But the big news this
is the white total of pub that has burnt down.
That's just on the border between wang Annoy and Taranakiot's
between Waverley and Part Tier. I think, good evening, Michael,
it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 19 (01:51:47):
Yeah quite coming on. I could I have been there
because I've got family and Ashburton and I don't want
to speak negatively of it because people do pretty.

Speaker 7 (01:51:56):
Like living there.

Speaker 19 (01:51:57):
But I found that the lake was quite stagnant.

Speaker 12 (01:51:59):
Yeah horrible, Yeah, really horrible.

Speaker 19 (01:52:02):
And they've got all these ducks and geese that go
to the toilet and yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Because and they never seem to work out man made
lakes because they don't seem to flush themselves that it
seems to be not kind of self perpetuating or something.

Speaker 19 (01:52:16):
Yeah, like when there's no movement in the water, then
then staying that, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
And I don't even know what how you can manage
to take water from rivers to make a fake lake
seems an out office lape seems weird to me.

Speaker 19 (01:52:31):
And it's got like gravel roads, which is quite dusty,
and when you drive around and I had a.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
Good one around there. I quite like the suburb of
the setup, but spoilt by a lake that seemed to
be a bit of a dud. M Okay, any plans
for Easter, Michael.

Speaker 19 (01:52:49):
No, I've saw of a movie and maybe we've got
some time and maybe I always wanted to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
You've come up with a plot for a movie.

Speaker 19 (01:52:59):
No, I'll sawt up a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:53:01):
Tell me.

Speaker 19 (01:53:04):
Driving the troll, throwing the t true think the True
fall length of New Zealand and a fall of the
name Signpost a Signpost and the movie starts on Bluff,
New Zealand and it's a couple of guys. This is
made up, that's not true, you.

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
Know, But yeah, Michael, what I mean? But yeah, we
haven't got time for it tonight because I know about
thirty seconds, but another night we'll have that in full
because I'll be into that. That's it for me, people,
and haven't got Easter. I'll be back Tuesday. I do Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
That's enough for me. That's twelve hours next week. Gosh,

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almost hour bragging. There wasn't no, but it doesn't seem
like much, does it. Goodness, catch your Tuesday, people, Enjoy
your Easter, enjoy your board games.

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
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