That's my day ruined (30 September 2025)

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Welcome with evening Marcus till twelve at seven past date.
I'll tell you what the weather down south? Boy, oh boys,
it packed. As said what you have six minut swals
or when coming from a different direction. I was Vanessa
and I are out walking around the back of Bluffel
doing a ten k walk, and man, did it come in.
It was one of those It was one of those

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weather systems that was painful to walk into. It wasn't hail,
but the rain drops were so big. It just the
front came through like you wouldn't believe. In fact, I
had my jeans and a raincoat. She had the waterproof
pantsana jacket. When I got home, I actually this was
after two hours I found it. I double lace because

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I'm having trouble getting new shoelaces, so they were too
the sort of you know, you know sometimes doing your
shoelaces they get frayed at the end so you can't
go through all your little islets. Well I was like that,
so I had to double loop them around the back
and then tie a double bow. But I got back
home from the walk, and I'll tell you what. I
couldn't find the dexterity in my fingers to undo the

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double bow. That's how cold it got. Yeah, I because
my jeans were soaky where that sucked my life book? Jeah, well,
don't you what it was? Carl's there anyway. The weather
system's coming up the country. It's as bad as there's
been all year. It's extremely wet with six minutes wells
by the way too. And about the same time we
were finishing our walk, the jet from Auckland to inv

(01:44):
Cargo came down. We're talking about an hour and a half,
probably more like two hours into a headwind. Circled twice.
Now I don't know if you ever circled in v
Cargo airport. But they take it over or Eaty Beach.
You right over the harbor. You think, oh, well they've
lost the steering went into Antarctica. I've done it. The company,
Oh boy, something's gone something bad's gone on. They would

(02:05):
have to do that twice thing all the way back
to Auckland. I know who they would be. I don't
know who would be on a flight in the school
highly of Auckland and Vocago. Maybe people returning probably from
Gonna Arra tongue or something. But yeah, the weather up
the country is a shocker, so they'll be hitting in
Need in about two or three hours. I thinking up
the country, so there will be snow, There will be

(02:26):
snow and lo tow one hundred meterstea. It'll be the
hill suburbs Underneed. And that's my prediction. We don't quote me,
go to the weather forecast because that would be more accurate.
I wouldn't be surprised though, for the next two hours
there's weather related news. I wouldn't be surprised if I
made it. Waka katah. He is not sending up updates
of road closures. It's just because it really is. It's
it's poor. The weather is poor, very wet, very wet.

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To get the fire going to warm myself up. Yeah,
but you know what the miracle was. We had a
lot of washing to do and got all the washing done,
or the wet washing, and took that up because Bluff's
got a laundro mat to chuck it in the dryer
there because it was too wet to hang it outside.

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And took the washing to the laundro mat and I
went to pick it up after about forty minutes there
at the pools and went to pick up the washing
and I got home and both my socks were there.
How rare is it to actually wash your socks with
everything else, take the laundromat and come back and still
have both socks. More often than not, ones either actually

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got stuck in the washing machine, or it's been lost
in the roof of the dryer, or it's actually stuck
in a trouser leg somewhere, never to be seen again.
I don't know about you, but I'm someone that has
fiercely fights to keep my socks together. So I don't
do it. No one's going to do it, And there's
I hate, Honestly, if I wear mismatch shocks, that's my

(04:01):
day ruined because I'll feel out of sorts all day.
They hang on something's wrong, mismatch shock. I know other
people can wear miss match shocks with great with great
viomen vigor. I'm not that person. They need to be
matched anyway. I'm gonna use another word there, but it's
a word I'm never quite I was going to say

(04:21):
I could wear my Other people can wear miss match
shocks with great alacuity. We're never quite sure if I
got that right. Cheerful readiness almost so. Yeah, she's been
an eventful day anyway, and spend a lot of the
day playing that game othellow you know that game, that
board game, and you've got tiles and we've got black

(04:41):
sides and white sides. I think it's a poorly named
board game. I think that might be slightly racist. They've
called it a fellow, But anyway, I presume it's referring
to the character in Shakespeare's Othello, who was two sited?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I was singing about that on the walk, so I thought, yeah,
it's a slightly dated name for a board game. Othello.
So was he he was a wasn't he? They say
a more? Yeah? But why was? He must have had
a white side or was it I don't know. Was
it Desdemona? I guess it was Desdemona is the other
side of the toll. Anyway. The board game, you've got

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a black side and a white side and you flip
them over to gain territory. It's like the game Go.
But I'll tell you what. I've taken that board game
to new levels today to become very competitive. Anyway, get
in touch. If you're on Talk eight hundred and eighty
nine detect, do you want to come through? I have
got topics. I'm just not going to rave all night,

(05:40):
So do come through if you want to talk. Keep
those texts coming. Got a new text machine, all's forgiven.
You can text about anything. Kristin Marcus, welcome Marcus.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Hello, godness gracious me our weather here and then the
cargo engine bluff and Southland or in my goodness gracious
met my daughter and her sister in law and and
my daughter's niece arrived back from Honolulu. Yeah, and airplane

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bound for in the cargo from Auckland from Honolulu, Auckland
to in Chicago to be diverted.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
The pilot tried, what's I was saying, Yes, so she's
on that Your daughter's on it.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
My daughter was on that plane.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah, there'd be a horrible fight.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
It was.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
And the pilot tried twice to land here in Chicago
and then diverted. Chose to divert back through to Auckland Coward. Yes,
because of the hellish weather.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Were you at the were you at the airport watching it?

Speaker 6 (06:59):
No?

Speaker 5 (07:00):
I wasn't. My daughter texted me from Auckland to say, Mom,
we've been verted back to Auckland. And all I could
say to Carli was saying, goodness that the pilot and
the co pilot took the great sent to by wrote

(07:20):
back fruit to Auckland.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
So wish she tonight?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Where is she tonight? They arrived back in Queenstown and
my son in law picked my daughter and and her
her sister in law and niece in Queenstown. And I've

(07:49):
just received a text to say, Mom, we're just in
in the cargol now bye by car.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
So the fly in Auckland and the cargo Auckland, Auckland, Queenstown.
Then driving in the cargo Aha, uh huh yes, but
the holiday glow will have worn off, won't it.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
That's the beautiful thing is that the gorgeous pilot, the
sensible pilot in co pilot decided, after twice trying to
I would give the car, they decided to go back
to Auckland.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Kristen, nice to talk, thank you. That's that what they
reckon on the podcast day. They've got those podcasts pips.
They could like, let lend a plane. They reckoned most can't. Actually,
I think what happens they reckon is people that aren't
experts overrate their ability. The don't know how difficult it is.
Thanks Christin, that's a good story. So exhausting weather. Why

(08:58):
don't you buy a pair of six black socks. You
don't have to worry about colors. I'm not gonna buy
I'm not going to wear socks that come and a
peck a six. That's that's the beinning of the end.
If you buy a pack of six socks, you will
be careless with those socks because you know you've got
four backup peers.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Any who, seventeenth. Oh, that's a good start, isn't it. Hey,
I tell you what I want to talk about tonight.
We out There are topics. There's always topics. Marcus went
to Sydney for a wedding. I couldn't believe how lovely
Sydney was, the amount of nice pubs and cafes and shops,
and no wonder people are wanting to live there, Joe,

(09:40):
You've said it all, Jay. It's a fantastic city, fantastic harbor,
fantastic city, fantastic transport. That's what makes it. You can
get anywhere for next to nothing.

Speaker 8 (09:59):
Gary.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
This is Marcus you've got a traffic update for me, please?

Speaker 9 (10:02):
Yes, I have yes. On the road to Hamilton now
the Auckland, there's been a big something's going on just
south of Drury, major traffic hold up. And then there's
also been an accidents just south of Mary Mary where
there's bin truck worsus a car. So the mount of

(10:23):
traffic that's built. I've just been driving back from Hamilton
to and I'm in Mandareua now.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
People.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
Yeah, it'd be good that people knew that the Southern
Motorway or south to Hamilton now the walking's going to
be a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
Okay, okay, So maybe the one about Drury that might
have been scheduled roadworks, you think, Plus you saw.

Speaker 9 (10:42):
The there's roadworks there, but there's red and blue traffic
lights on the other side of the motorway light, you know,
the south side, so that there's traffic cars, you know,
traffic cops are there. No, I don't think it's just roadworks.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
No, I've got the many many crash notified at seven
fifty eight. Would that coincide with what your timings were?

Speaker 9 (11:03):
Yep, yep, that's right, Yep. You know I saw one
car that's really months pushed off the side of the road.
But what's impressing me is a huge volume of traffic
that there's actually leaving Auckland, you know, over round Drury
and taking in the and so on. It's heading south.
They're just going to be you know, held up like

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for Africa.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
And it doesn't appear to be any diversions. But I
guess you go the Pooker car away, although that freaks
me out with the Thomas House or another way too.
But yeah, you could do something, couldn't you?

Speaker 9 (11:34):
Just not they're not It's not really great. I mean
they used to be able to get off at ranguer
areas to go down the back toward something, but that's
all changed now.

Speaker 10 (11:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (11:44):
Yeah, it's beyond broads are harder to access now.

Speaker 11 (11:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Okay, Hey, it's just going to have to So you're
beck and tie, you're back. You're delayed much on your journey.

Speaker 9 (11:55):
No, no, no problem with traffic flowing north.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Okay, Yeah, I guess they're on dev got the cheese
cutters between them. That's really good information for me.

Speaker 10 (12:02):
Gary.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
I'm lucking you a lot, thank you. I should feel
like we're really up to date with to Kristen who's
daughter had been in a lot honolul on that flight
that went twice. We've got Gary who's stuck in the
the Many Many crash. Well got past that. Boy, oh boy,
I feel we're alive to what's going on? There are topics,
he says knowingly. Get in touch. You want to be

(12:24):
part of the show. You've got any other updates before
we cut to the chase, Let me know what's happening.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine to text
Hittle twelve. Do you want to be a part of it?
The show that keres and the key that shows feel
free to come through. Great texts are coming on, beautiful.
Pilot can only attempt to land twice, can't land on

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the second? It's redirect. Someone says, the pilot must have
been fully hydrated and make such your wise decision. Maybe
pilots can have water. I don't know. Anyway, Get in touch.
You want to be part of it? My name is
Marcus Hittle twelve. Anything else you want to talk about?
To get in touch? Eight h eighty yeah, God, Jay,

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God for a wedding anyway, Hold your horses back soon,
are Judith? It's Marcus.

Speaker 12 (13:16):
Welcome good evening, Marcus. You're living in the wrong city.
We're in christ It's has been beautiful. It has been
for days.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Oh, we've had a fantastic year of whether it's only
just two now, Judith. South, the South, the south's been
unbelievable with the weather.

Speaker 12 (13:31):
Yes, I agree with you, and I mean we need
rain so badly and it's been that, you know, in
some places are getting all the rot stuff and when
we could do with some rain.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, I hope you get it, so do.

Speaker 12 (13:45):
I thank you. Have a good evening.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Strange call Ellen, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 13 (13:51):
You're going at Marcus. Hey, I'm just I'm heading from
Hamilton tow Auklands. At the moment you freaked me out whatever,
the reporter came on, but I'm going north. And it
was the very last part of the conversation that he
said on I don't do this South Bean. I'm going
to say, oh God, you know to hours to get
to Auckland. That's what I rang about, was flying in

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rough weather into the South from the north. I flew
it's about twenty years ago. It was when ANTI hit
the little Whisper jets. They were mighty little planes and
we flew into Queenstown, and I don't think they had
there a radar guidance in those days, or it was
just at a radio beam, not sophisticated hands off stuff

(14:34):
that it just now And it was absolutely cramp where
they're just blind, and we flew in. We have did
the approach as you know, it's coming from the north
that weave you down. We went down past Coronet Peak
and crowd ranging center, and all of a sudden the
plane went into a steep bank and a bit of

(14:54):
a dive and everyone's like, oh end, it was just
opaque outside. We got down low and the pilot just
guessed it on full power and went under climb. The
second approach, we were getting knocked knocked. Honestly, everyone was
sitting themselves. It was excuse me, sorry the radio, but

(15:16):
it was serious and it was all terrorists. So anyw
were come for a second run. And I know the area.
Do you know the deer park on the adjacent to this.
I swear I was looking at deer. We were so
blown so far. Of course I could see the eyes

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of the deer as we're as we're going to break,
you know. We got down just below the cloud, so
then we high tailed it and and honestly, I mean,
I'm you know, I quite I'm quite thrilled by that stuff.
But I was white knuckles, and I was like, this
is serious. We took we We then went into another

(15:58):
five degrees to get out, you know, just to make
sure we were going to hit a hill, and the
pilot got a lane as if we're going into the cargo, folks,
I hope everybody's still got their underpend on. I'll never
forget that. So that was in started.

Speaker 14 (16:15):
You know.

Speaker 13 (16:15):
The we flew doing the cargo, we got met by
a lot of mini buses to take us over the
Queen's and I got put in a minibus with a
whole lot of Americans and uh and to what Mad
Scott's lil tourists, about ten of us from the event.
And the driver said, you guys want to have as
real high but in South the man, you guys want
to have a bit of a bit of an a beach.

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So we did a sort of a fish and chip
and oyster factory and pop crawl all of the Queen's
out and.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Ball that's the let what what you were talking out.

Speaker 15 (16:51):
I think about.

Speaker 13 (16:55):
Two thousand and five, two thousand and six is around
a bit then, yeah, and the Americans, particularly the Scottish
just thought this is like whom you know? But but
the Americans that just couldn't be couldn't believe the hospitality
of the she had fun, we had, et cetera. They
we're just guessing about your del by the film. We
got tho be queens down, they were, they were.

Speaker 16 (17:18):
It was.

Speaker 13 (17:18):
It was a fantastic day, even for me, you know
what I mean, it really was.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
How's northbound now? It's flowing smoothly?

Speaker 17 (17:25):
Is it?

Speaker 18 (17:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (17:27):
It's with with wind along one hundred and ten k
on the limit, and yeah it's good for the dogs
heavy and all as well.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Good on your last to hear from you. Oh wait
eighty thirty and nineteen nine text. We're talking about flights,
flight diversions, and flights being redirected. Redirected routes are are
our redirected routes? Get in touch here till twelve if
you want to talk. That's what we're about tonight. If

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there'snything else you want to go around with, there are topics.
Just got to cut to the chase with what we've
got anyway, So be in touch if you want to
talk eight hundred and eighty thirty nineteen nine de text
with till twelve. It'd be nice to hear from there.
Anything else you want to talk about also, thanks very much, Lena.
Wait one hundred and eighty Teddy and nineteen nine two ticks.
You've got to come through. That's amazing about Kesh burtell'll

(18:18):
see if I get some information about that. Johnny Marcus, welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I haven't been tuning in for
a while, so I was quite excited hearing you guys tonight.

Speaker 19 (18:32):
Johnny, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, big big tuney bridge bro.

Speaker 10 (18:37):
I just wanted to tell you a little while ago
we talked about the bridge there and how long we
going to wait there in the state it was in,
and it's been closed for a fair amount of school holidays.
It's been really open again, and it's in the worst
state than ever. I'm just wondering what they're doing when
they close this bridge, because it just seems to get

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worse every time you drope over it. You know.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, I haven't gone. It's not a bridge, I know.
I haven't any comments about that, Johnny.

Speaker 10 (19:07):
Yeah, it's an old railroad, Jay Sheard, rail end road.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
So okay, I'll see if I'm getting anyone else to
talk about that too. You had a good school holidays, Johnny.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (19:22):
I've got lots of baby rabbits and the kids kids
have been holding the rabbits and learning how to look
after them. And we're going to a place called Chipmunks
for a bit of any outing, which is going to
be chaos. It's a kid play land and they've got
absolutely shocking food and exorbitant prices.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I've had quite good times as stand and defend Chipmunks, Johnny,
don't tell you something. I my station and in Vicago,
I'm right next door to a brand new Chipmunks. They've
just redone it. It looks pretty good.

Speaker 10 (19:53):
Actually, well, I'm glad because the food I've had the
end the last few times have been the last year
hasn't been very good.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Okay, now I'm approaching monks. But nice to hear from you, Johnny.
Keep it going, you want to talk eight under eighty
eight They are saying the critical state of the Piccatahie
Bridge on Stay to Angers Eastern Bay Transport Firms. Jeff
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (20:16):
Yeah, in Marcus. The worst flight I've ever had in
my whole life, times of New Zealand for for my
most's wedding to be best man, and I don't say
very long?

Speaker 3 (20:30):
And where was where was the wedding, Jeff? And then
from where well?

Speaker 18 (20:37):
I flew from Sydney to Wellington and then caught the
train from Wellington till Avan. It could be I was
the best man for my Moste's wedding.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
What year?

Speaker 18 (20:49):
And then then I returned What year we're talking, Jeff,
oh about nineteen seventy three?

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Great, great story.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yep, here we go.

Speaker 18 (20:59):
But anyway, I there, I didn't sabrary long. I had
to get back to get back to work in Sydney.
And anyway, I caught the plane from Wellington to Sydney
and we were heading there and all of a sudden,
the captain or the pilot said that we're going to

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have to divert and fly through Melbourne Airport and drop
down there. And all of a sudden, man, the plane
was just rocking, rolling all over the place, flop and neck.
I tell you what. People on the plane were sick.
I've never seen people look so green in their whole life.

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I was okay. I just sort of held on and
then eventually we landed in Melbourne. But they said, oh,
there's a bus there for you to get to Sydney. Well,
when we had to get on the bus, we had
to pay for the bus. I didn't have a lot
of money, and anyway, I got on the paid for

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the fare, and we had to stop somewhere at the
cafeteria somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney, and the lady said
to me next door to me, oh h she read
or gone about New Zealand the whole time, but I
knew all about it anyway. But anyway, she said to me,

(22:36):
you're not an eating mate, And I said, oh, I
haven't got enough money, mate, I said, I might have
enough money for a peck of a chewing gum till
I get to Sydney. I wasn't planning on having to
spend all this money on a flipping bus there. They
wouldn't even pay for the bus. It was flipping terrible.
So she said to me, oh, oh, coming with me,

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and she brought me a cup of coffee and a sandwich.
And eventually we got to Sydney and god so, but
the flight from to certainly from certainly where we're going
to land. I'll tell you what, man, I'll tell you
what the plame was, rock and rolling.

Speaker 16 (23:21):
Ah.

Speaker 18 (23:23):
Like I said, people will sack all over the place.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
But because you don't see people throw you don't even
see people throwing up on flights, Jeff, do you not often?
I don't think I've ever seen it? Oh no, nor
have I probably get worse with changing weather. Twenty four
to nine? Do you feel fast? And fast and exciting?
Start to the show, Wow, Bridges and Japers? Marcus, would

(23:51):
you do tattoos as a topic, I sertainly don't understand
why people think they're attractive, full sleets of beautiful young women.
They are endemic and so very ugly in my opinion,
as people age in the skin steggs, the image not
eve attractive. Can anyone explain it to me? I'm out
of step. There's even suggestions they may cause health problems,
thinking Susie, Oh, I don't think you've got to judge.
I think you've got to respect body autonomy. People can
do what people can do. I think the only and

(24:13):
I don't want to do a night on tatoos. I
couln't think anything anything less interesting. However, I do think
sometimes people with tattoos overestimate other people's interest in those tattoos.
It's one of the great Facebook things is people in
the sea putting shots of the Oh, couldn't help myself.

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Oh well, there's that's all. Couldn't help myself, went for
the full sleeve, thinking whatever. Anyway, twenty two to nine,
twenty away from nine. If you want to come through, John,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
Hello Marcus. Are you talking to me? Yes, John, Oh yeah, right, Marcus.
Back in two thousand and seven, I've me and my
wife which flew from Palma in New Yorker to Peasa

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in Italy on Ryan Air, and I experienced something I've
never experienced before on an aeroplane, and that was when
we landed, the entire cabin of all the passengers they clapped,
well just to say I don't know, was it thank

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you to the pilot or was it thank god we
got here safely. But it was an uneventful flight, but
it was. It was quite a phenomenon that when we
landed and everybody was just about to unbuckle, and the
whole cabin just burst into applause.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
So it wasn't even a surprising flight.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
No, thought, it was a most unsurprising flight.

Speaker 13 (25:56):
Sweet I think.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
I think for a while there that became a thing
for people to clap pilots. It was sort of a
it was sort of a thing that people did. But yeah,
I thought, normally if it was slightly turbulent.

Speaker 6 (26:06):
No, no, this was just across the Mediterranean. It was
nothing untoward happened on the flight, Ryan ere. Of course
it was one of that.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
We were doing electronically because the year. It's quite a
budgeteer line, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Oh yes, yeah, perhaps that was the motivation behind it.
I don't know, but I just wondered whether anybody else
had experienced that.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Did you go up the tower?

Speaker 6 (26:34):
I walked around the tower. I found it quite well, disappointing.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Underwhelming, eh, very much. So, well what do you expect?
Did you think it would be on more of a lean.

Speaker 20 (26:52):
Well, I don't.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
Well it was on a bit of a lean, but
you know, my wife brought a handbag and that was
about it.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
It was a handbag based on the tower.

Speaker 6 (27:02):
No, there was there was more commercial, bloody nonsense going
on around the tower.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
You know, you could.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
I do remember looking closely at some of the detail
on the tower, but you know it was just just
commercial tourist nonsense.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Really, John, did you do that photo? Will you stand
away from the tower and look like you're pushing it up?

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Why not.

Speaker 17 (27:35):
That?

Speaker 21 (27:37):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Look, I tell you what. When you're a bloody tourist
in Europe and you've been tramping around these places, all
you want to do is get back to your hotel
and have an afternoon snooze and a good whiskey before
you go down and have a hopefully a decent dinner
and a good night's sleep.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
I tell you why day. Yeah, I think there's the
I think there's kind of often there's a there's a
into nation to try and fit in too much.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
Yes, i'd agree with that.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
I'm a great fan. I need to marcus our now there.
I just don't need it now, just to just not
do anything for now, just before I can recharge for
batteries when I'm on holiday.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
Yeah, it's the funny things you remember when you've been overseas.
I remember sitting on a bench park or park bench
in Bath in England and I couldn't work out why
the shadow was going the wrong way. Yes, that that
threw me for a while. So we went off to

(28:44):
a bar and met a whole lot of OSSes and
had a great time.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Anywhere you go in the world, if you go with
the Aussies, they always have a good time. They're always
not take anything too seriously. The Aussies. They're they're good,
they're good, they're good company.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
They are indeed, and we had a lot of banter
and uh as you do with os is looking looking
for to next Saturday nights rugby?

Speaker 3 (29:08):
No good on you there, John Brilliant. I'll be watching
them wins the Rugby League. They must be on Sunday
fifteen to nine, nine ninety nine. Have anyone got any
lending tarerf pizza stories or great tourist disappointments? The thing
you saved your whole life to go to and it
was a damp squib? Was it much, you, peach you?
Was it the Pyramids of Egypt?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Was it.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Stonehenge? What was your great disappointing thing you've been to see?

Speaker 10 (29:33):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Was it Milford Sound?

Speaker 10 (29:35):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Was it?

Speaker 8 (29:36):
Was it.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
The hanging gardens of Babylond And that's still the thing?
Or was that in the ancient world? Blah blah, blah
blah blah. Great texts Marcus. In the early nineteen eighties,
I was on a road Trip Services bus from Willington

(29:59):
to Auckland at the driver changing too dongy. Our old
driver left, but two hours later the new one hadn't arrived.
I had just got my heavy truck license, so I
drove it to Toport nearly got arrested. Gee, it's a
funny thing to do. I can imagine it too. Oh,
how old drive it? We landed? He landed for Party

(30:20):
Island in Spain. All the Brits clappers have landed of
the Party Island. Oh yes, now I think he was
going for me or with two peas and not vice versa.
Marcus read the some experience flying to Tel Aviv. Everyone
clapped on landing. Seemed to be a culture at the time.
It maybe place, Marcus. We experienced clapping on Ryan Air
on three flights in June. They also tried to sell
us scratch cards. Marcus. In Europe and some other countries,

(30:43):
it's quite common for passages to applord on landing or
does say on lending, even when it's been a normal flight.
Key we don't generally do that. I think we expect
a commercial part to be able to land to play
successfully without in ovation. In Auckland, Marcus clapping on successful
landing has long been a thing in Ireland. First time there,
I thought I may have missed something on otherwise non

(31:04):
eventful flight. Oh, I say, it's a thing. Is that
to do with the Catholic faith? Is that what it's about?
I wonder someone thought that John sounded like shed bolt Alice.
This is a commercial pilot. I occasionally pull out the
following gym when prepared to deal with nasty weather the distance.

(31:25):
I don't like the look of this. Let's do a
three sixty, a quick three to sixty and get the
hell out of here. I think that means they pretend
like they're going to land once then they just go
this his three sixteen, not a one eighty twelve to
nine ten from nine Steve, it's Marcus, good evening, Hey, Mark,
is just enough?

Speaker 22 (31:45):
Dad on the head action and down the mirror and murray.
They've actually closed the motorway at Mercer both Mercer and
go down twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
So that's both ways or just southbound?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Just southbound?

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Okay, yeah, yeah, must be must be serious.

Speaker 22 (32:05):
Ah yes, yes, yeah, yeah. When I was coming down
the Bombays, I actually passed a couple of ambulances hitting
back under lights with a paramountic guy behind them. So
I'll say, yeah, it would be pretty serious.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
So just to back, just to confirm where it's where it's.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Well, the action, the.

Speaker 22 (32:25):
Action itself is on State Hallway one, an Island block road.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Yes, in addiction there, yes, I can see that.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
Yeah, okay, yeah, and we've.

Speaker 22 (32:34):
Been diverted from Mercer back north and down twenty seven. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
we're going to come off with Mercer and here back north.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Appreciate that, thanks Steve. Yeah, jud I've got I'm look
at what kit now. Due to Christion and manybody they're
waking to Bricksbury wakin to Expressways closed southbound at Mercer.
Follow the detailed expect delays. It's a complicated one except
Mercer too. Leved on to Colhead Road, turn right unto
among A Tarfley Road, continue on to wal Wildworthy Road,

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continue on to State how Too, then turn right onto
Acadia Road, turn it right onto Waringer Road, continue on
the main road. Could you want to de coo Foreter Road?
Return to State How I wanted to cof Interchange. So yeah,
that's it's not exactly stated. It's not quite. It's more
State Hiway two, not State Hiway twenty seven. But that's
kind of where it's going. Thanks Steve, nine to nine,

(33:33):
six to nine. Dean, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, it's on the topic you're on. I'm just I mean,
you probably don't have a golf fan at all, but
I just commenting on the appalling behavior the rider can't
be we're in the links.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Shocking.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
It's actually terrible when what those people should be banned
for at least the time, and then get some people, well,
it's just shocking form behorkd to abuse their life, to.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
Carry on like that.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
I think it's lost. I think the game's lost. I
think that's what's happened.

Speaker 8 (34:06):
I mean Macroy swore back of them. I mean it's
not appos, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
What Macroy what so Dean his wife a beer can,
But what you say.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Before that, he swore back expletives at the he was curious.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Look, there was no way that there. They can't have
fans there anymore in America. I mean, bef Page, Black
Course is Long Island, so I don't know you know,
kind of a work.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Was like a sportsman's game.

Speaker 23 (34:33):
But it's all gone out the window, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (34:36):
No.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
In all the comments I saw people saying, oh, well,
English football hooligans are much worse than the American fans
were doubling down and justifying their behavior and saying they
should have behaved like that. It was appalling.

Speaker 8 (34:46):
And the English players absorb use the African players all
the time, the racist abuse and all that goes on still.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
But yeah, golf, I've never seen that happening in golf.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
And one other thing you liked, your breaking years.

Speaker 24 (34:58):
I was just looking as a mess of five.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
It's broken out and on the other side of the
world and.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Hopefully the huge hang on Dean you you're coming through
with but mumbley, there's a huge fire that's broken out
where near the.

Speaker 23 (35:14):
Odeon Cinema in Beaconham, London.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Oh this is London story.

Speaker 23 (35:20):
Yeah, just about ten minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
There's also a house far in Evandale. Okay, what what's
on fire?

Speaker 25 (35:27):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Are the people in the theater.

Speaker 8 (35:30):
No, it's just it's nearly in cinema and there's fire.
It's broken out. I'm gonna be seen for miles and miles.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Okay, I appreciate that on it, I'm actually not on that.
I haven't seen that story anyway. I don't know that. Yeah,
well well I'll have a bit of a look at anyway.
Do you get in touch you want to get through
to us? Eight hundred and nineteen ninety texts marks still
twelve are huge blaze breaks out in the Odeon Cinema

(36:02):
and town Center, south East London. I haven't seen the
video of it yet, but people, I think it's a
disused building, but apparently there'll be mourning over there. It'll
be quite a big deal. Seventy five fighters creating's welcome people,
How are you going? A couple of emails, a couple
of texts. Marcus on the road twash Burton, wife driving

(36:22):
staying at Tinwill tonight. Do you have a traffic update?
I'm sure it's fine. Marcus big fan here from mid Canterbury.
Did you know our salmon, the Big Rakaya salmon is
potentially coming down and will cost three hundred thousand to repair.
Marcus made my own fijo of vodka. It was delicious.

(36:43):
Had a few watching the All Blacks and must try
Chares Alex can anyone recommend a remedy for weepies? My
environment and diet has not changed in five years, so
it's probably more age related. I don't have fifty eight
dollars to go see a doctor just to be transferred
to see someone else. Eye drops aren't that great? Max
got weep eyes? Last month I flew Ryan near Barcelona

(37:08):
to Palermo, Sicily, and when we landed after a free,
uneventful flight, everyone on board clapped, clapping and landing and plane.
What would they do if they end on the moon?

Speaker 8 (37:20):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Hello on an international something. We're a bit testing on
the texts today. Actually, what's that about? People sort yourselves out?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
You know?

Speaker 3 (37:34):
I get in touched you on a talk eight and
Teddy and nineteen nine to text Hello on intestional flight
from Singapore over Australia. The numbers on the flights, Oh no,
I haven't read that. Well, it's too complicated that one. Anyway,
let's go if you want to talk nine O nine
weepis anyone got weepies? Also talking about eventful flights when

(37:56):
your flight got diverted or got turned back or terrifying landings.
That's kind of one of the major topics for tonight
and a lot of rough they're coming up the country,
so we have been covering off that also tonight eight
hundred eighty nine nine to the texts. You've got anything
to add, there is a lot going on. Oh, I

(38:21):
think that flight that came in the cargo touched down
before it took off. Yeah, he saw the plane coming
as the wind was blowing a bit of a gal
touched down and take off again. I thought there was footage,
but I can't see the footage. They said in the
story this, Oh here is there is footage. There's footage

(38:44):
of the plane landing and in Vcago, touching down and
going straight back. I just have a better look at
this and tell you what's gon on it, to see
how terrifying it looks, because that's the jet. The jet
comes three times a week. But then the pill got
diverted onto a flight to go to Queenstown. Doesn't like
it's a moving too bad in the air as it's
about to land. I don't know where this guy's taking

(39:08):
the photos from, but it's coming down. It's quite a
long video.

Speaker 26 (39:11):
Actually.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
The other thing we're talking about is when you've been Oh,
it must be from the Mensies car park. The other
thing we're talking about is places you've been to see
around the world doesn't look like it's touchdown. Places you've
seen around the world are disappointing, like the Leaning Tower
of Peace. I'd like to see it still. I'm not
a bucketless person, and I've had a chance. I'd say

(39:34):
yes to that one. So get in touch eleven past
nine if you took out anything else tonight detext If
you do want to come through, I feel free to
get involved for this hour scary trips tourist attractions. Oh
by the way too, I meant to warn you about

(39:55):
this MM now from today. It is twelve weeks to Christmas,

(40:17):
so this week is the week you should make your
Christmas cakes. I've got no idea why, but I think
if you make them now, then the twelve weeks has
gives them enough time to actually mature. I don't know
if people are still making Christmas cakes, if they can
still get the fruit mints, or if the ingredients are
affordable with the butter and the likes. But if you're

(40:37):
actually making your Christmas cakes this week, I'd be curious
today how you're running at it, what your modus operandi
is to give me a holler about that. Also tonight,
as you get ready for Christmas, Yes, twelve weeks away.
It sounds terrifying, doesn't it, for like about four months,
not twelve weeks. So much to do in those twelve

(41:01):
weeks because you can't anything done, understand, because everyone's away
in November is coming the same. It's all now Christmas parties.
But yes, twelve weeks away. So make your Christmas cakes
and tell me how you're doing it. Also, talking about
weep eyes and things you've been to say that have
been disappointing, I reckon Mount Rushmore would be disappointing. That's

(41:24):
on my anti bucket list. Weepies. John, this is Marcus.
Good evening, Good evening. Hang on, John, may I just
come out. Don't say anything underward, John, We've got to
replug it. Hi, John, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:48):
So for a WEEPI is a remedy for that is
a hot flannel, wet flannel, as hot as you can
get it. I put it in the microwave for like
thirty seconds, put it at the bottom eyelid and hold
it there as long as you can bear it. And
that will unclog the little tear ducts they're in there,

(42:09):
and that are stopping the tears from going down the
tear ducts and leaking out of your eye. Okay, good morning,
and it will disappear.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
So tell me what causes Is it your tears taking
a different path?

Speaker 7 (42:27):
Yeah, they're not going down the duct that takes them
away from your eye down into your cheek.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
I see m Yeah, So it's just blocked tear ducts.

Speaker 12 (42:39):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Ye? It's as far as I know it is. Yes.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
And what does the hot fan or do that.

Speaker 7 (42:47):
Just opens up the duct? I think it becomes blocked
with like a like a waxy substance or something like
that that your body's producing. But it definitely works.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Who's who is susceptib to it?

Speaker 7 (43:09):
Older people.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Just because their body is not working. Their body is
not working as well as what it's.

Speaker 6 (43:15):
About, I think.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
So yeah, yeah, okay, you sound young, John?

Speaker 8 (43:20):
Are you old?

Speaker 18 (43:21):
I am?

Speaker 7 (43:22):
I'm extremely old. I feel it sometimes.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Thanks for making the effort. Can't guess anyone's age these days,
can you? I think people go to age classes when
they can throw their age. I'm sure people are throwing
the age by the way, this day. In nineteen sixty
the Flintstones premiered. I don't know how good on its
day the Flintstones was. I don't necessarily think it's as

(43:51):
cutting edge as the Simpsons, although what I always liked
about the Flintstones, and someone might remember how exciting it
was when it first came on. What I liked about
the Flintstones is that the lawyer on the Flintstones was
called Perry Masonry, which I've always thought was very good. So, yeah,
I don't know if you've got any Flintstones jokes.

Speaker 10 (44:11):
For me.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Or Yeah, it was good, but I always felt for kids.
Didn't feel like one of those adult things, did it.
So if you want to talk about that anyway, I'll
see if I can find some Flintstones trivia for you. Yes,

(44:40):
Perri Masonry, because of course the time there was a
lawyers show about Perry Mason.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I don't need to explain it. Yes, do come through
if you want to talk about this or anything else.
State Highway one South is closed because of excellent MIDDI
MIDI m you get off at Mercer. I wish i'd

(45:15):
have some more tip bits about the Flintstones. They're good characters.
I thought, anyway, come on, there's something else you want
to talk about? To get involved eight hundred and eighty
twenty nineteen nine, to text anything else you want to mention,
but mainly about tourist attractions. Disappointed. Yeah, there was a

(45:45):
banned episode of The Simpsons. I'm sorry of the Flintstones
due to a martial arts instructor be in a Japanese stereotype. Yep,
quite a few people had celebrity cameos. So then Tony Curtis, anyway,

(46:09):
do you come through you on tour that eighteen past nine?
You're happy to talk about the flint stones south of Auckland. Yes,
blocked ducts caused watery eyes. The hot fellow is a
great idea. I was told by an optomicerous to wash
around your eyes with baby shampoo. He does it himself, Marcus.
The most disappointing thing is Tim, who's new toilets head

(46:30):
to use them to day filthy a rand the council
to complain, still filthy four hours later. Anyway, getting touched
until midnight nineteen past nine?

Speaker 10 (46:46):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Colin?

Speaker 3 (46:48):
Marcus? Good evening.

Speaker 24 (46:51):
Evening, Marcus. The memory spot of backers since event the
Old Flintstones. It was one of the first programs I
can remember actually the I think I was about nine
age or nine and television first started coming out. So
used to go to the pub and watch it the

(47:12):
old Blair Loggi, pump out of mast and head down
the castle point.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Hang on, hang on, hang on. You were nine and
used to go to the pub to watch the Funstones.

Speaker 24 (47:22):
Yeah, well we sent the lounge.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Yeah yeah, because you didn't have a TV.

Speaker 24 (47:29):
Well, nobody did.

Speaker 13 (47:30):
No.

Speaker 24 (47:31):
The pub got a TV black and white back in
the day, and I think our family was an excellence
wanted to get a TV. And I remember our TV
earl had to be about twenty foot high, which had
to be a massive, great thing and if we could.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Actually see the.

Speaker 24 (47:51):
I don't know what you call it, the TV revieta
station off the top of then at hill. But the
trouble was the signal used to go above us too far,
you know, so they had to get a high aerial.
But that was because you had the flute. Stones was
always immediately followed by that the Man from Maremy and

(48:12):
there was. That was a great program back.

Speaker 13 (48:14):
Then as well.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
So it started nineteen sixty What time was it here?
What year was it here?

Speaker 17 (48:21):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (48:22):
I know I was born on fifty four, So.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Yeah, you said you were nine, so it'd be like
nineteen sixty three, wouldn't it.

Speaker 24 (48:30):
Yeah, something around that anyway. But then it was I mean,
we didn't grow up with TVs. We grew up, you know,
making simple jack swings and you know, making sledges. And
I saw my sister the other day and she reminded
me of the women used to roll down this big

(48:51):
long hill of the old corrigate and iron water tank.
You know, we'd top the end out of it. Yes,
kids just pushing up the top of the hill and then.

Speaker 14 (49:02):
And then.

Speaker 24 (49:05):
Climb into it to push it down the hill and
see who was the last one to get thraight out here?
How we killed ourselves. But pie jees, it was a
lot of fun to grown up.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
You're clearly sensible.

Speaker 24 (49:18):
Oh yeah, I mean, you know, anything you could do
to hurt yourself was all on, you know, that was
the way to go.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
It was a good, good, good way to test the pearance.

Speaker 24 (49:28):
Oh, I mean Terence didn't care so well, they probably cared,
but you know, it was none of us health and
safety If we didn't grow up wrapped in cotton.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Will we grow you see?

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Gone man?

Speaker 3 (49:39):
Healthy safety? None of that did what we want? That
call us at ann the time?

Speaker 20 (49:42):
That was it?

Speaker 24 (49:44):
That's dead right one. And I mean I've never had
a sick down of life. You know, it's plenty of injuries,
plenty of bones replaced or joint replaced, and accidents and
things like that, but never a sick dame of life.

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Where were you living when you went to that pub?
To what were are living?

Speaker 16 (50:01):
Rural?

Speaker 24 (50:03):
Yeah, we were fifteen miles out of master some called Riuui.
It's actually been turned into a trust now. And what
broke my heart one day as I went past there
and I look at the old place when we were
down heating the castle point and I used to cut,
scrub and make money. And you know, even as a

(50:24):
young fellow, head off in the morning with a tractor,
I think I was ten or eleven years old, head
off of the tractor and go down and cut and scrubbled.
And I went back there and bugging me dead all
the areas that I was cutting scrub and cleaned all
those faces I back planting.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
Manooka are cheap as creepers.

Speaker 24 (50:43):
Oh yeah, time has a change but they were. They
were fantastic till I went to a school called a
Toy Toy which had about twelve or thirty in tens.
They were just fantastic times as kids.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Yeah, sounds like a bo sounds like a bit of paradise. Colin,
thanks for coming through. Twenty six past nine. Oh, Marcus Clasic,
you mentioned flintstones just now, just the sarva. I brought
a Fred flintstone on a prehistoric chopper with dryner like
handlebars and Jurassic horns up front, and Fred happy as

(51:18):
Larry riding his chopper even if Nanaci at the rear
with untwined horns reaching up the city bars. A toy
collectible cheapers, Marcus Weepi is called dry eyes of optometrists
told me to use drops from the pharmacy. Many eye
problems are caused by demodics eye mites. Just google them.
No one seems to talk about them. They live in

(51:38):
the base of our eyelid and their function is to clean.
If they get out of control, They're cause itchy, iron
watery eyes. They are natural parts of our body. Best treatment,
in my opinion, is a hot eye mask and warm
water washers. Www. Warm water washers. Hello, Jenny, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (51:56):
Oh hello, it's.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
I'm ringing from Matana just too.

Speaker 14 (52:00):
You mentioned Makati. About four years ago, a friend and
I decided we wanted to Pep barrowa tracked, so we
decided we would do raky Era as well.

Speaker 18 (52:09):
So we flew to.

Speaker 14 (52:10):
Christ Church and then on in Chicago. The weather was
a bit rainy and windy, and we stayed the night
and out to the airport the next day to catch
that little plane, and we thought, oh dear, but off
we went in. This young pilot gets in the plane
and very the seas rough and windy, and off we go.
You know, we come into Stuart Island and you see

(52:33):
the all of a sudden the landing in the middle
of the bush, and thought, oh god, how's he going
to do this? But anyway, it gets down and it's
swinging around, and anyway he made a perfect landing and
we all clapped and it was just wonderful. So we
got there and and we had the best time either.
The next day it was fine and we did our

(52:54):
tramp and it was just great. And then we flew
back to in Chicago on to christ Church and then
out to rec mean, out to Pepperoa. So I think
we had such wonderful you know, things to see in
New Zealand. I just thought it was just great.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Now, tell me what the walk you were getting ready
to do was.

Speaker 14 (53:14):
Oh, we were going to Pepperoa because it was not
long after they'd opened that track on the west coast.
And then we decided which track's that? It's up near
Poona Kayki you go into, they're sure, so we decided
if we were going all that way, we'd do reky
Era as well.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Now what's the Pepperoa track like?

Speaker 5 (53:37):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (53:38):
It was really great. Three huts and four days and
it was really interesting. And when we were at the huts,
you know, the doc ranger or who was there, explained
to us how they built it all and what that
had to do, and when you walked along you just
couldn't believe what they've done. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
It's quite a recent one, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (54:01):
Yes, it was four years ago we did it, but yeah,
it was just wonderful. Both of them were. Wreky Era
was great because it poured the day before and it
was fine for us for three days, so we had
a great time.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Are many people doing it?

Speaker 14 (54:18):
Yeah, I think so. It's really hard.

Speaker 20 (54:20):
You know.

Speaker 14 (54:20):
Once Doc opened those bookings for the tracks, you have
to get in really quick or else and just gone.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Now, just to just to help my memory, that's not
the same one as it was as part of the
memorial to the Pike River is that it's not it
is that one. Okay, that's right, because they opened it
and then there was a slip, wasn't it. They had
trouble with it to begin with that to sort of
close it and then reopened again, didn't they.

Speaker 14 (54:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, it was just but I
just thought when you were talking about flights, I thought, oh,
that little one and that into Stuart Island, and actually
the pilot was from Wakatani.

Speaker 18 (54:54):
So we said, oh oh wow.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
I think the thing too. Every time I'll fly into
Stuart Island once you get there seems to hit thermals.
Once you approach the island you get thrown around it.
But when you arrive.

Speaker 14 (55:05):
Yeah, yeah, but he was great.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
You know.

Speaker 14 (55:07):
We all clapped and I thought, oh, I was so wonderful.
So we got the estaye from We had a wonderful time.
So I think you have a lovely part of the
country down there, and you've played a couple of days
and then the cargo and saw that wonderful museum or
whatever you call it with the cars, and that you
know they've restored all those old vehicles.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Oh yeah, okay, Oh, good to hear from you. Ginny
thinks that twenty six away from ten eight hundred and
eighty nine to nine to de text do come through.
Got another update from Waka Katahi today.

Speaker 10 (55:39):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
State Highway three south of New Plymouth remains closed over
the night for urgent TOMO repairs. State Highway three south
of your Plymouth beween Mongadee and Hydway roads remain closed
to both the rechs of traffic over night due to
a TOMO a sinkhole forming at the Mongodey stream Bridge
just south of Burgess Hill. It's take all four am tomorrow.

(56:05):
I've never seen a TOMO closing a road before. It's
a sinkhole. Wow, who would have thought? Just south of
Burgess Hill Road. Go figure. I'm looking where it is.
I think it's not far out of New Plymouth. It's

(56:26):
not far out of New Plymouth at all. Actually, it's
it's just like it's even before we get to Egmont village.
But there's a tomo, and I think a tomo is
a lava formation of a hole.

Speaker 15 (56:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (56:44):
They want to have a guess of defining what that
is a tomo. It's hard to get a meaning for
it because most of it says it's with a range
marriage a shaft formed and limestone rock dissolved by ground water.

(57:07):
So I guess they collapsed in after a while. I
guess there's substol over the top of it and that
sinks in the middle of the road. Twenty four to
ten lines free by the way, talking about the Flintstones
that was launched this day. In nineteen sixty there was
a plan to make a spin off of the Flintstones
called the Black Stones, about an African American family that

(57:32):
moved in next to the Flintstones. Goes without saying It
goes without saying to say that they didn't make the cut.
Then the Flintstones people went on to make the Jetsons,
which was pretty similar Button Space. But actually, if you
didn't if Flintstones for every funny because they were a
lovable combo Old Fred and Barney. But when money gambling

(57:56):
and they'd pretend they found it, and then their wives
would say, well, if you found your money, we're going
to advertise to see who's lost it. Then one of
them would claim to fuck to you know. There was Yeah,
it was good, and there were some great laughs in it.
I mean there's some very funny, humorous puns about the
old rock days. But anyway, I don't think it went

(58:17):
for as long as as Simpsons, and they didn't make
remakes with live action films, which I don't know. Well,
it was never quite the same. By the way, one's
gone quite big on the weather system that's coming up
the country. But when that front came through, boy oh boy,
what a slam that was. We've got leaks in the
roof cheep, because sometimes when your rain comes from a
different direction, a fast moving suddenly flow from Antarctica will

(58:41):
bring freezing temperature, snow, strong ones and rain to much
of New Zealand. But yeah, we were there when the
front came through. The kids had gone off mountain biking
and they came up with freezing hands, and yeah, the
rain was just Honestly, I came home after out in
two hours out walking, and honestly, I lost the feeling

(59:03):
in the hands couldn't do my lasers. It's terror for
like a senior moment. Yeah, it was just a circulation
had gone because it just came in sideways for about
an hour literally as the front arrived anyway. So yes,
it's going to be snow at low levels. Always happens,
doesn't at school holidays, and there's going to be the

(59:24):
winter shock, so the rivers will be up. I wouldn't
be surprised if the Hills suburbs saying snow to a Hundie.
I wouldn't it be surprised if the Hill suburbs don't
get summoned a Eden because they are above one hundred meters,
but good weather comes after it. Who's making the Christmas cakes?
It's twelve weeks till Christmas, let me know. And talking
about the floodstones also as we should very successful.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
I don't know why they thought they could do it
beck in the caveman setting, but that's the way they did.
Be a good mastermind topic I reckon. The original pilot
was the Flagstones and they changed it to the Flintstones,
so that's it. The song Meet the Flintstones wasn't reduced
till season three. And Fred and Wilm were the first

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couple on TV to sleep in the same beard, which
is weird, well not weird that they did, but with
they were the first family too. That I'm saying was
the longest running animated show for a long long time
until The Simpsons overtook it and the saying yeabeda abadoo kate,
which was their catchphrase that came from the Briol cream

(01:00:40):
hair starting slogan A little dabbl do you That's where
they came up with the yabadabadoo. Anyway, it's a bit
for you people. But if you want to talk about
this for anything else but mainly about flights that have
gone terribly bad or when you've gone to tourists things
around the world that have disappointed you, like John and

(01:01:01):
the Leaning Tower. He just wanted a whiskey in a room,
which I think is not a bad response to travel.
But yes, do you want to come through. That's we're
about tonight eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
nine two to text anything else I'd like to hear
from you. You might have something else you want to
check into the mix and you can and you can

(01:01:27):
just see what the texts are saying people, Yeah, Darren, here,
I've just gone past the crash site in the truck northbound.
There's no truck involved. The truck he probably pulled up
to assist. It's a car versus a motorbike. Thank you
for that. I'm from Port Chalmers Marcus born in nineteen

(01:01:47):
fifty six. In nineteen sixty two, all the locals used
to go to the Electrical Appliant shop on Saturday evening
to watch the TV shows in the store window three deep.
I watched you ask for it and mister ed, wow,
what about it? She knows? Doctor said I have an allergy,
but they haven't. Nothing has worked nos nights. I don't

(01:02:07):
know what if you do with it?

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
She knows. I but no, that's not This is not
my area of expertise. But I'm interested to know who's
making their Christmas cakes twelve weeks out from Christmas. That's
what you want to be doing. The reason we're talking
about Tomo's is that, oh, I see, I see yeah,
is that they have blocked the road south of the
Plymouth State Highway three, just wipe by the Whieaciho River.

(01:02:35):
So that's where the TOMA will be fifteen from ten
thirteen away from ten o'clock. The number is oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty. Cory Marcus welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:02:46):
Yeah, he mark you good Corey.

Speaker 15 (01:02:49):
The thing the heather that I from learn about the
government essentially buying back some of the energy sector, and
last week we came out that we're going to allow
oil exploration again. Just a question does anybody know why
the government can't explore for the oil and find themselves?

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
So that the question again, Corey.

Speaker 15 (01:03:16):
Does anyone know why the government can't explore and mine
the oil themselves for the country instead of bringing an
overseas company to do it all and then obviously take
the profits off.

Speaker 3 (01:03:29):
Sure, I imagine the government have no expertise in it,
so that's something that's something they've never done, and that
would be yeah, I think will be free surprising and
this for governments to get involved with quite specialized and
incredibly risky stuff. From a financial point of view, I
think I think most of our oil is gone.

Speaker 15 (01:03:48):
Well why are we looking for it again? That it's
all gone?

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
I mean, well, that's that's the whole thing is, because
I reckon there's no company is going to want to
do it because actually everything I've read see the reserves
have gone and there might there might be some deep
off Stuart Island, well done on South they found the
late seventies, but early seventies. But it's going to be
expensive to bring out. But yeah, I've heard that probably
there's not amounts that are sustainable to get it.

Speaker 15 (01:04:17):
Just seems that all of our resources, even all the
gold mines, are owned by overse companies. Like, why why
aren't our resources being used to fund our country? Has
no sense for me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Oh, we do get given a we do get given
a percentage of how much is taken off as a dividend.

Speaker 15 (01:04:37):
Oh, I understand that, but we could get hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
But it's a mess. And I think most gold companies,
most of them, they you know, they find gold and
they sell shares and the share price goes up. I
think most of it ends up to be speculation. I
think very few come to fruition. I was having a
chat to all those people involved in Bendigo. There's a
big gold mine plan there. You know, they had a
big store at the Alexander Blossom Festival talking about what

(01:05:00):
was going on, and they talk a big game. But yeah,
I'll be surprised if they end up going for that
gold because but the shep but the shares go up,
and ses go up wildly and people buy shares. Could
I get a stiff? That's something going on. But I
think little drilling actually happens drilling on mining.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Gold.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
If you been to that place at McCrae's, that giant hole,
the giant hole in the ground, neither the getting or
the gold out, that's unbelievable. What's happening there. I don't
think I want Oh, yeah, okay, well, I think I
think the McCrae's hole is well. Actually, good question. I
think there's probably bigger than the one at why he
But yeah, someone might might else might want to answer that, Cory.
But thank you, Susanna. This is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:05:43):
Oh hello. They were talking about rats this afternoon on
teas on the radio, and I missed out with my
rat story. We were staying on holiday at Foxton with
the family, and my little great niece had a rat
being around her neck, a pet rat. Anyway, I was

(01:06:05):
sitting on the sofa and I had a jacket that
had a pocket inside, and my little grandson, who was
aged about two, then he was wandering by, and all
of a sudden, this rat popped out of my pocket.
And if I'd had a camera off his face, it
would have been an absolute beauty because that little child

(01:06:28):
was so surprised to see that rat, and they called
along the sofa and come into my pocket. It was
a pet Oh yeah, yeah, it was a pedal?

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Right, what was it called?

Speaker 21 (01:06:42):
I can't remember. It's a long time ago now, like.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
A pet rat. Thanks, he's on a good story. Seven
away from ten. If you want to talk, my name
is Marcus Httled twelve. Oh get the texts Oh, Chris
is starting off with a tourists letdowns. Hi, Marcus, I
would say these are my top three overrated spots. I
visited Trevy found in Italy too many even in low season.

(01:07:09):
That's the one where you throw the money. And I
think Hunter Valley Australia, overrated wineries and expensive Skyline Gondola
and Ka New Zealand just to let down Rara tongue
in general, bad food and expensive for what you get. Wow,

(01:07:32):
Chris not holding back. G you got something to add.
That's what we're about tonight. And the Flintstone started this
sixty five years ago. It started a long long time
ago now, but beloved and then I think what happened
is in and we got color TV in seventy three,

(01:07:53):
and suddenly they became Everyone went back to watch them
again because what was the show that was black and
white and color seemed incredibly vibrant. Theyone was back outside
the porch Armers Electronic store again what through the window
because it looked so amazing and color. But yeah, there
was some funny puns. It was well written. I think

(01:08:15):
Hannah Barbera after that got a reputation sort of putting
out animated junk really because they kind of went to
the same well too many times, Scooby doing the jetsuns
and stuff. But Flint Stares I think was the first.
It was very very good satire on American modern life,
you know, on the basis of that post Cold War time.

(01:08:38):
But clever, clever, Cliver clever in the international news. I
haven't actually looked at the indentional news. I'll see what's
happening for you, playing touches down and goes back State
High One closed at Medy medi vacant house, fire catches,
vacant house catches fire, and Evandale. That's what I've got
for you. As far as local happening, there's no Antarctic

(01:08:59):
storm coming up the country, and there's measles in Northland
linked to the earlier in fiction they say it's only
made of time before we have an a measles outbreak
with vaccination rates quite lower Northland. So there's six in
north and now and rute one unrelated in Queenstown. Yep.

(01:09:22):
That's what you've got four away from ten if you
want to be a part of it, Marcus till midnight
eight text yep, but do come through if you want
to talk of the big fire in London as they
wake up to out near the theaters. Hello, Genesis, is Marcus? Welcome?

Speaker 17 (01:09:44):
Oh hello? I saw the first television show my uncle
worked for Coca Cola, Wow, and he invited us four
kids up to watch Kelly at his house. So it
was fabulous the Elfland Stones and we also had a flint.

Speaker 25 (01:10:06):
Stone gang we were there.

Speaker 17 (01:10:09):
I was about nine and the others were younger. Yea
and yeah. Enjoyed the flintstone.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
So your uncle that worked for Coca Cola, yes, in Ternedin,
Oh okay, and did he have a did he have
special access to the show, or was just that he
had a TV.

Speaker 17 (01:10:31):
He won a TV through Coca Cola. Oh, yes, pretty lucky.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
So he was one of the things.

Speaker 17 (01:10:37):
He might have sold the most Coca Cola.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
A sales repon. That would be an incentive and he
would be one of the only people you knew that
had a TV.

Speaker 14 (01:10:45):
Is that right?

Speaker 17 (01:10:47):
Oh? No, doubt you?

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
Wow wow yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:10:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:10:50):
We didn't get a Telly for a few more years,
and then when I got married, we got a color
Telly a couple of years later.

Speaker 6 (01:10:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:10:59):
But the skyline, I loved it, and I've just not
long been there to ride a rower. And then we
had a beautiful big smagas board up there, and on
the way down they if you turned back on the skyline,
poddy things that you go up on the gondola, Yes,

(01:11:21):
you see lovely lit up like light towers just below
the where we ate. Yeah, it was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Okay, I've got it. Recently I went to those gondolas
in Queenstown where you drive them, you know, you come
down the hell on the gondolas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
always think that's a bit late. Yeah, I don't love that.
I think once or twice you get a bit bored
with it the kids. The kids think it's okay, but
it's not my gem. I don't think that one. Oh yeah,
once or twice, once or twice, once or twice.

Speaker 17 (01:11:54):
Yeah, the one in christ Church is lovely. You get
a lovely meal at the top. Oh yeah, and I've
heard that way out there.

Speaker 18 (01:12:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
They had a bad experience with the kids there too,
on the time tunnel. They got freaked out. It was
my fault kit at about six months old. Any who
here till twelve Thanks Jennis. Flintstones and Weepi and travel
and overrated, overrated or disappointing travel things you've been to.
It's kind of what we're on about tonight. Hit'll twelve
seems to be a fear of at going on in

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the country. So I'll keep you updated with that tonight.
If you want to come through and talk eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty, So you want to text nine
to nine two bit of everything happening tonight, but do
come through talking about weepis and talking about also about
the Flintstones and also talking about travel destinations that are
disappointment bucket list things that people go to think, actually

(01:12:43):
that's not much good. Never heard anyone disappoint about the
Great Wall though, just saying Reuben Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:12:52):
Bringing from none more to New Plymouth. And the big
issues of the day is a tomo on State Highway three.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
We've got any shots?

Speaker 11 (01:13:03):
Yes, I have, As he goes in my Facebook page,
the or Too Advocate, you'll see it there. It's quite
a big hole right in the middle of the road.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
What time had happened?

Speaker 11 (01:13:18):
Two o'clock? They reckon?

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
Does someone go into it?

Speaker 11 (01:13:24):
I haven't heard. I doubt it. But but well, I
mean I don't we haven't heard that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
I guess it would just run through it, just the
seal would break through to begin with, would it is that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Right?

Speaker 11 (01:13:33):
Well, this is the funny thing. So I got an
email from Waka Carta and it's your man now your
favorite Tom's person. It Bia Cunningham. And so I read
the email and I was like, I'm sure I've read
this yarn before. And I looked up the date and
it was dated March five, and I was like, sorry,

(01:13:54):
March this year. And I said to I thought, well,
why is blessing me this this afternoon? I thought it
must have been a mistake. So I emailed him back
and nay says Night's legit, and a new email came
out two minutes later with exactly the same text, but
just changed the date. So it's happened in the same spot,
well six months ago.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Yeah, So looking at the shot, looking at your shot, right,
it looks like there's rails on both sides. So is
that a bridge or is that just a built up
kind of a causeway?

Speaker 11 (01:14:26):
Yeah, I guess a cause way would be a well.

Speaker 3 (01:14:29):
What was you called it? A raised section of road
in a valley. So they've raised it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:33):
Up right, Yeah, yeah, that's right, it's not it's not
a brudge per se.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
No, And it's righter than the digger. It looks like
it's four meters. It's big.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Yep.

Speaker 11 (01:14:45):
Yeah, So obviously that didn't the drug propably the first time.
But yeah, I don't know. It seems to be like
a like in your time doing talk back, have you
ever heard of like Homo's happening in regularly? Like it
seem to be happening around the country.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
There was a big one happening, and to there's a
big one not so long ago. There was a massive
one that just appeared, but it was on someone's farm
and it became a bit of a It became a
bit of a phenomenon. It became a big news story. Yes,
so is that is that your photo?

Speaker 13 (01:15:19):
There?

Speaker 11 (01:15:21):
There is blair, there is from the contractors sent vo
what called Tahi.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Twenty eighteen was there to do a tomo. That became
an attraction of it was included on Google Maps. That
became the big deal. Hey, you know your your website,
your news site. Yes, yes, excuse my ignorance, but Molto
is the whole of you plymouth. It is that what's
referred to there?

Speaker 11 (01:15:46):
It's okay, it's the name for the wider new plumbusk.

Speaker 3 (01:15:50):
Yeah, okay, I like that. Okay, how long you been going?

Speaker 11 (01:15:54):
Oh look, I used to be I mean when I
ent the council probably fifteen twelve years ago, I was
sort of a vote from Reuben Page. But you know,
I sort of changed it a few times times and
and it's been the name or to advocate for the
last year or so.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
It looks great. You're posting good stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:16:14):
Thank you. I think you we're trying to pick up
before the local hetenings and sometimes where you've got.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Jim Tucker as a columnist, Well, he's a legend. Yeah
you know Jim Yeah, I known by reputation the people
he's taught. He's one of the great journalists and judaist
teachers of all time.

Speaker 11 (01:16:29):
Yeah, he's got a gone as well so and deserves it, indeed.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:16:34):
So he's going to be doing some more but this
hit he had meet him with something the other day,
and he's going to be doing some more stories. So
that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Yeah, so you're full time with that.

Speaker 11 (01:16:44):
No, No, No, it's just a community, community service type thing.
I'm a real estate agent by trade, but there's something
that I'm passionate about and trying to get it hating further.

Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
Great, when does woman come back?

Speaker 18 (01:17:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:17:03):
Also, the council announced today some of money that's going
to sort of tired over for It's not much. Yeah,
it'll come back in twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Is it dirty money? Is it petro chemical money?

Speaker 8 (01:17:18):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:17:19):
No, it's counsel money.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Counselors, but I may know.

Speaker 11 (01:17:23):
I don't think it's five hundred odd thousand, so I
don't think that's very sustainable. So no, it's definitely going
to be in twenty twenty seven, but after that it's
going to be unknown i'd say.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Are you a trained man too, are you a train man?
Well you've got the post streak is your part, and
that's that's I've never seen that shot before.

Speaker 11 (01:17:41):
It's a great photo.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Ay, great photo.

Speaker 13 (01:17:43):
I am.

Speaker 11 (01:17:44):
Someone sent it to me, Like all lady gets's raigning
for counsel and she's sort of big on public transport
and getting no oh yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
Train The trained people have tried to get a lot
of tried to create some noise with local body. But
I don't think rail is a local body issue. But anyway,
it's the same with the sound.

Speaker 11 (01:18:03):
It's not, it's not. I don't want to campaign, and yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
I don't understand that councils can't do much for getting
trains to come between anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 16 (01:18:15):
That.

Speaker 10 (01:18:15):
Great.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
How's our talk about caller Pete doing on the hustings
you come across them? Oh, Pete Lewis, Yeah you're doing
all right?

Speaker 11 (01:18:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know Pete. So he's the neighbor
of my of my.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Mother in law.

Speaker 11 (01:18:31):
Oh god, yeah, and yeah I know he's a character.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
Yeah, well, you got twelve votes. You know, it wouldn't
hurt you to flick at one of his way.

Speaker 11 (01:18:40):
Yeah, I I was going to go and downloads call
the other night and send it around everybody, but I
think I left it too late.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Okay. Anyway, so it's surprising the roads the roads closed.
It kind of makes you wonder about how lucky they
were not to avoid something serious there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:18:59):
I don't know how it came about, how it started
and who noticed it and who phoned it in.

Speaker 3 (01:19:04):
But yeah, you worked out how many subscribers you've got
or follow us for your page, Well.

Speaker 11 (01:19:14):
I mean there's about twenty eight thousand the year and
god so good. So that's it's reasonable, but I'm always
looking for more if there's anyone listening.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Yeah, and you haven't monetized it, which is nice.

Speaker 11 (01:19:28):
You mean monetize it in terms of how do you mean.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
We're advertising and stuff?

Speaker 26 (01:19:32):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:19:32):
Advertising? You now, you can't really do advertising on basebook
where we've got a website coming sown and then we're
going to sort of carry the stories on that and
link it back through that. Yeah, we'll just see how
we got.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Well, thanks for the heads up on there. Any other
news too, straight through to us, and we'll keep it
on your website your Facebook page as well. Yes, thank
you Marcus, absolute pleasure hitting you away in the summer
sixteen past ten, eight hundred and eighty to thirty nineteen
nine to detext what have you got? People?

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
We go there, and I've got to I've got to
admit people that I always thought the word tomo. I
always I thought it was like an Italian word to
describe a geological ficture. I never realized it was a
Maori word. And obviously it makes sense now with wait
tomo and all those things. So yeah, that's that's something
I've learned tonight. And I feel kind of surprised by
my own ignorance on that. I'm not embarrassed to admit that,

(01:20:22):
but yeah, that's been a big learning curve for me
to th thought, oh, actually that's where it's come from. Yeah,
and look at the whole look at the whole area
of white tomo. Why is it called that? So there
we go. So that's for those who just joined us,
that anyone's got any other newss of those? Because there
was the big one that happened, I wrote to her
in twenty eighteen. It came on Google Maps to Minui

(01:20:47):
was where it was a spectacular two hundred meter long
tomo that opened up on a farm south that I
wrote in Mayze, attracting locals and tourists aftering highlighted on
Google Maps too. Minui South farmer Colin t remains about
fifty people a petter that probably wanted to view the
tomo since the initial few days of viewing had taken place.
That was on twenty eight. It's massive and good shot

(01:21:08):
to that if you google it to do it Tomo
sixteen past ten. If you want to come through Marcus
till twelve, see the night's flowing? Have you got anything
to add? Would like to hear you talk about it.
It might be fun for people to predict how many
votes people will get. I reckon Telle in thirty one. Well,

(01:21:34):
I don't know if we ever legally? Can you ever
sweep sake on a local election? A you can't? That
would be funny, but be it might because I mean,
I know Pete's really serious, but he mightn't get in
as well. But yeah, yeah, I don't know much about that.

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Marcus have made my Christmas cakes. Also love Rara Tongua
when we had a holiday there chairs Josie. Marcus have
just heard who are now? He mentioned with our hard
working mum and dad. Our family lived a wonderful, happy life.
To all the animals on the farment who were new
an their fielding in the forties, have never forgotten the
happy times we had. There was so much to keep
us busy. All the best to you in your family.
Did I mention that who mentioned he were dow hedd?

Speaker 18 (01:22:18):
Did I mention that?

Speaker 16 (01:22:19):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Maybe Reuben did. I don't know, Marcus. I dressed up
as Wilma Flintstone in the nineteen seventy nine and the
Tawamuta Kindy dress up date. My little friend James was fred.
He had childhood lukemia, so I didn't want to walk
to the fashion walk with that. He didn't want so
I didn't want to walk on the fashion walk with

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me that day. I have fond memory and I made
my sister be Pebble. She had a bone in her hair.

Speaker 10 (01:22:48):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:22:48):
I like about the texts that she's written. Wilma Flintstone
at Flintstone has been spelled checked to glistened, warmer glistened.
In nineteen seventy nine, Marcus were in a clont Quantas
flight back from Johannesburg to New Zealand about now, after
we had dinner, half the plane started to throw up.
It wasn't long before they were doubt that it was
everyone who had eaten the chicken dinner. The people who

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had the beef were all good. Elderly people weren't able
to get to the bathroom. One time were vomiting onto
their laps. There was vomit up the aisles, which the
cabin crew just had to cover up with blankets. I
felt extremely unwell, but didn't actually throw up. I was sweating.
Ended up with the crew who were putting flannels with
ice wrapped on them in them. Worst flight ever. Wow,

(01:23:32):
Wow Marcaus. The other day I saw the story Days
of Our Lives in Bold and Beautiful is still on TV?
That I see one of them is on their fifty
third season five days a week. That's crazy. I thought
people actually still watching it. Shivers, You are funny. I
worked and read there for ten years. I targed on
war affirm and you are funny. I lived in one.
I can't appreciate your humor. I dated a breakfast announcer

(01:23:53):
and he was useless. I wonder who it was. A
lot of the texts I'm getting up making any sense oh,
particularly the one about who are nui anyway? But do
come through if you want to talk. Eight hundred and
eighty to Taddy and nineteen nine to de Text. Twenty

(01:24:18):
past ten all onlines are free, help well, welcome people.
Twenty three past ten minam, Miss Marcus httor twelve o'clock.
Hope you're good. If you're not good, hope you're better.
By the end of the show, bad weather. They're coming
up the country with across that flight have been diverted
and turned back. There's a tour more on the road
coming out of New Plymouth on State Highway three on

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the way to Igmont Village. Now that's happening. We are
talking about flights you're on the got turned around. And
also we are talking about because John went to the
lending tower, he said it was red disappointing, underwhelming things
you've been to see? What about Stonehenge? By the way,
thanks to the many people that sent me the photograph

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of the workers at Stonehenge turning the clop Ford an
hour for daylight savings hilarious And I guess I guess
we'll see it again next year as well. Yep, But
jump in Httle twelve Marcus, They say, we informed now
we have the internet. My daughter lives five miles away
from the fire burning in London. Guests who heard about

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it first? You did, Marcus. Thanks for keeping us informed. Well,
that's right. You can't do anything now with the internet.
That's why I'm big on the breaking news. Someone said
there was a Dolorium car at the blossom festival and
reving Bogan cars and parade. Never seen so many sedan's.

(01:25:49):
That's from James. I'll tell you what the Bogans are doing.
The Bogans once had been to the Alexandra Blossom Festival.
They were driving laps at Queenstown in their station wagons
and they'd all sit out the window. That's what they
would do. This must be a Southern thing, is that

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wind all the windows down in their holden station wagons
and they would put their arms out and they would
bang incredibly loudly on the roof, probably with beer cans
and jet made a loud racket and did laps and
queens sound quite impressive? I thought, I surprised the police
didn't stop them. But what are you hearing from miles

(01:26:30):
away at having time with their life? I thought, well,
that's simple fun even now some sort of app pray
ski and vap modes, but not not the car people.
The Bogan's brilliant little having a hell of a time
bang bang bang as they went, very impressive. So it's

(01:26:51):
what we are talking about. I there's something you've got
to add. Good Marcus till twelve oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nineteen nine to two detext anything goes
here till the end. It is the time to make
your Christmas cakes. Now, last time we talked about Christmas cakes,
because you make it twelve weeks in advance. What people
said is they couldn't get the mixed fruit, so they'd

(01:27:12):
probably be a run on that. People probably go on
about the butter. I've got a kid that's become obsessed
with making biscuits. He's got a birthday coming up next week.
Do you think it's a bit mean spirited to get
in the Edmund's Cookbook? It probably is, isn't it. But
I mean that's got all the biscuit rest, that's got
your basics, hasn't it does a very good chocolate chip
biscuit at the moment even taught him to zero on

(01:27:35):
the scale. That's as strong, so, in fact does the
whole thing himself very very good. So he'll be ten
on Monday. We're excited about that. I'm not as excited
as he is. Almost they'll be leaving home. I guess
next anyway, do come through if you want to talk
twenty seven past ten? Have I told you what we're
on about tonight? Or anyone else to experience a tormil

(01:27:58):
in their house or in their garden or a sinkhole
if you want to call them that. But that's closed
the road road too. They'll be Fontier tankers trying to
get through there. They have to go the long way
around round the mountain. So, yep, now here's a Texas

(01:28:19):
says they are sure it wasn't the salmon moose. What's
that to do with?

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
Then?

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
I think a lot of people watching the podcast yep,
And now we won't have a sweepstake, and how many
votes Pete gets. I don't think that's the right thing
to do. He's a he's an out of I would
say only a handful of ins would know the singer
of next year's INFL and only a few more care
about the NFL. So wise, I think last year was huge,
wasn't it. It was Kendrick Lamar with those flat jeans

(01:28:47):
almost broke the internet. And there was Taylor Swift fiance
was playing. Oh no, I think American sport's only huge
in this country. Wake up. Ever since we've had sky
TV in this country, the number of people watching basketball,
baseball and American football is off the chart. What chart
that is? You're off the chart chart? Marcus? Is Marcus welcome?

(01:29:12):
Good evening?

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Oh hey do it Marcus?

Speaker 11 (01:29:15):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 19 (01:29:18):
I was just ringing up to talk about him for
Cargo in my days when I used to live down
there and in Chicago, and my time when I went
to Southern Boards High School. Yes, and the fun I
had there at Southern Boys High School back when I
was at the high school age. I'm fifty eight now

(01:29:38):
I live in Ookland.

Speaker 3 (01:29:39):
Yes, And what did what did you want? What prompted
you to bring up about that?

Speaker 2 (01:29:46):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (01:29:46):
I just heard I've been listening to your show most
of the night or God in the car and that,
and I've heard the name of Cargo come up a lot.
Oh yeah, so, and so I thought i'd ring in
and give him tell a couple of stories about what
happened to me when I was at Boys High School?

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
What happened to you?

Speaker 19 (01:30:07):
First of all, in Picado, it was a great place
to grow up. It was awesome for all all kids.
Everybody knew everybody from all from all the different schools,
and we had lots of fun. We had bonfire parties
and farmer's paddocks and things like that. And then I

(01:30:28):
went to Southern Boys High School, which was a lot
of fun. I actually got caned about the other second
day I was there for being a little bit naughty
and they ripped my shorts and my mum got upset
and she went to school and made them buy me
a new pair of shorts. And while I was at

(01:30:50):
Southern Boys High School, I played soccer. I played soccer
full Southern Boys, and then I also played soccer for
the Thistle Soccer Club and age groups and age group
soccer and in an age contest I got Player of
the competition while I was there. But unfortunately I had

(01:31:15):
to give up soccer because I kept on hurt. My
back kept on going out and after a game I'd
be lying in bed for a couple of days. So
I went to the gym trying strengthen my back and
that's when I started bodybuilding, which jumped to the future
led me to become New Zealand's first of a professional bodybuilder.

Speaker 3 (01:31:34):
Oh here we go, and this again interesting now yep.

Speaker 19 (01:31:39):
And then while I was at school, I sort of
had a beef of a prefect called Snow, I'll just
call him Snow, and he was always after me, all right,
And one day he got me in the prefects room
and he almost drowned me in the in the basin.

(01:32:05):
And I had an called Paul, actually Paul Reynolds. He
was like my body guard and he would always keep
an eye out for me and make sure that no
one would have a garpment because I was pretty cheeky
out Southern was high school, and one day one of

(01:32:26):
the teachers who I've been in touch with since and
he's such a great guy. He actually ended up becoming
a headmaster at the school. We're on the field of
my friends and he basically gave my friend a kick
and told my friend to pick the rubber shop. And
I said to him, I said, babe, he checked my friend, mate.

(01:32:50):
You can't go around kicking students.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
And he says, is that right?

Speaker 19 (01:32:54):
Rainbow, and I said, yeah, that's right. This is what
are you going to do about it? And I said,
I'll punching in the head mate, And he said, we'll
come up then into my classroom and we'll.

Speaker 3 (01:33:04):
Have a go, shall we.

Speaker 19 (01:33:05):
Well that got on the school pretty quick, and next
thing you know, everybody's at the window in his class
in his classroom. In Me and him are in there,
and I thought, oh, here we go. I'm going to
get an absolute beauty all right, because he's a lot
bigger than me, and he was a coach of the
rugby team.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Sure, yep, yep, yep, yep, short. I was waiting for it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:30):
I was waiting for it.

Speaker 19 (01:33:32):
And then he goes, mate, I just got you in
here to shake your hand to say, well done for
sticking up for your mate.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
That's good story, Michael.

Speaker 10 (01:33:41):
Leave it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
They've got other calls, but thanks so much. To hold
your horses. Be with you soon. Twenty four away from eleven,
twenty two away from eleven, Steve Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:33:49):
Yes, I get my fruit mixed from the binner. I'll
be buying it on Friday tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
You got about tomorrow. It's twelve twelve weeks tomorrow.

Speaker 16 (01:33:59):
Oh, Friday, I'll get it. I'll go through. I'll go
and get it, but i'll put it away. I won't
make it till a week before. Well, now i'm retired,
I don't have to worry. I can make one a
week before. It's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
Now, I think you're supposed to make them twelve weeks before,
to soak the brandy in it or something.

Speaker 16 (01:34:17):
Oh, yeah, I've tried for Yeah, I don't know. I
don't drink a lot of alcohol now, but I started
putting a little bit of alohole in one year. But
it didn't It didn't really do too much to off
the booze.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Yeah, oh, fear enough each to each of their own. Yep,
good on you.

Speaker 16 (01:34:35):
It's right. No, oh, I didn't make it a week before,
it would be all right.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
How big a cake do you make for you and
yourself on your own?

Speaker 12 (01:34:42):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:34:42):
For me, me, myself and I H so what I
call a one pound cake? Yep, it's one one pound
of flour. You got four inches of buttter, eight inches
of sugar, sixteen ounces of fruit fruit mikes, a spoonful

(01:35:05):
of golden that holds it all together. It uh, in
one couple of four cream milk beautiful.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
You saying you're on the wine down about Steve? You
off to bed?

Speaker 16 (01:35:19):
Yeah, well, I I'm sort of in that getting in
that way. It's had quite a day to day. We've
been for a bit of a drive.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 16 (01:35:29):
We why he beats?

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
You get a meal?

Speaker 8 (01:35:33):
There?

Speaker 27 (01:35:33):
There?

Speaker 16 (01:35:34):
Nice lunch? Who were is this in some cos I've
a couple of friends here in gyms and we just
decided on the spur of the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Is a group called the gems.

Speaker 16 (01:35:49):
Uh, we've got a friendship club going comes on a Tuesday.
We just decided to listen to spirit of them. Hey,
how about when you go to the well he beats
for lunch?

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
You go to the cavalry?

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:36:06):
Yeah, yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
Did you get this? Did you get the roast? Or
did you get the salmon or the fish or the
scotch fillet or the lamb shank or the butter chicken?

Speaker 16 (01:36:12):
I got a leam schhink thought you might have.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
I was going to guess that with the homemade gravy
and the meshed potato.

Speaker 16 (01:36:18):
Yeah nice?

Speaker 21 (01:36:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:36:23):
Now what I I won't bother making my Christmas cap
for a week before. Really, it doesn't if I make
it now I end up eating it before before a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Is there a view from the RSA. You're right on the.

Speaker 16 (01:36:37):
Beach, you're above the you're above the town yep of
y he but you you got a sea view. You
can't see the beach and you can see the big
container ships coming into tower on. Oh yeah, they sort
of just appear half the horizon and then you see

(01:36:59):
them very slowly going across the horizon towards two on.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
There be.

Speaker 16 (01:37:07):
Container ships and log ships. Yeah, quite interesting seeing that.

Speaker 9 (01:37:13):
It's funny good.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
It's called beach Rode, but it's not actually on the
beach with the RSA. Is it's a bit confusing, Well
it probably it probably was.

Speaker 16 (01:37:21):
It ends up on the beach, but probably historically it
probably was on the beach. It's like we have here
and Thames. We've got a beach road here and pre
European days, I suppose you know, it would have been
the foreshore.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
It's a big place. You wonder how that became such
a big place and there and why because why you
beach a small place, isn't it. But that's quite a
big kind of a big thing.

Speaker 16 (01:37:49):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know how that's happened. Whether that
all came up at the same time as when they
had the Napier earthquake because there was a lot of
land made up from there, and maybe why he had
the same as similar sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
Good chat on the way back, talk yeah, good wagg Yeah,
you want good to hear from you, Steve, good luck
with the cake and your fruit mix. You got a
better than have you got a better than teams?

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
Are?

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
You got to go elsewhere for that? It's gone. I'll
get in touch away her at eighty ton eighty David's
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 27 (01:38:24):
Oh okay, Marcus, Hey, look your previous quarter had a
great recipes here, didn't he. I think you're on the money.
He just needed that another brandy and it'll be all good. Anyway.
My story is you ask himbout holiday destinations. I've been

(01:38:45):
the stone Hings three times in my life, and I
was lucky enough to go when I was a thirteen
year old on fifty three now, so that's forty years ago.
In five and back in the day it was as

(01:39:08):
like taking a walk up one tree fill. Any man
and the dog could go for a wonder and it
was free access to anyone to have a look around,
and it was wonderful and they say it as you
might see it on a TV documentary presenting it nowadays.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Right.

Speaker 27 (01:39:35):
And then three years later, sixteen, I went back too
on a school trup and on that occasion it was
fenced off and there was a bunch of little caravans

(01:39:58):
with hot dog stands and what have you promoting? Oh, well,
you know, beat people doing the by a burger whatever.
It was clearly becoming a tourist attraction at that stage.
And when I say fenced off, you could still go

(01:40:18):
through freely without an entry for you or anything and
walk around, but you had to be in a group
and with a guide and you could walk freely.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
And then.

Speaker 27 (01:40:36):
Many years later, and I can't remember exactly when, to
be honest, it would be at least ten years later.
I'd gone on to become a pilot and whatever you
and I was there for work and it was then
full on commercial and it was like a.

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Big it's a big deal. It's a big deal now,
isn't it.

Speaker 27 (01:41:00):
Yeah, And and it went from being something nice to
and on that third occasion I actually walked off the
the queue and couldn't be bothered going into the Guards
Senate twice previously and and didn't need to go through

(01:41:20):
that plava with tour groups and uh and very very commercialized.
On that last experience, it was a very disappointing one
to see what is it did become. And I guess
that's what the great tourist attractions of the world have become.

Speaker 3 (01:41:43):
Well, people travel a lot more and they're all desperate
to do things. You've got these lists they want to do,
so anything that gets talked about, people are kind of
falling over themselves to get to it.

Speaker 27 (01:41:53):
You're quite right, but the greatest places to discover are
the ones that are undiscovered. And by that I mean,
you know, you go to a local village in England.
My my my best experience was Clavelli and I don't
know if you've heard of that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
How's it spelled.

Speaker 14 (01:42:17):
C l o v e l l Y.

Speaker 27 (01:42:21):
I thought that, yeah, sure, it's it's a fishing village
and it's a bit like the Doc Martin TV show.
It's in that district and Mike gos this place was
just phenomenal. It's on almost like a forty degree angle,

(01:42:46):
the entire town from top to bottom and they must
have phenomenal carves the local villages and they still live
there to this day with locals, and I'm sure it's
now a mega tourist attraction as well. But that was
a place that I just discovered out of the blue

(01:43:08):
on my travels and oh my gosh, you look at
it online, it's just incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
There's quite how many people would live there are four
hundred and forty three not many, Okay, ye free steep
like one steep road, really, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:43:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 27 (01:43:25):
Yeah, yeah, And with some of the houses, they're built
over the road, so you're literally walking under somebody's house
as you're walking down. It's a donkey cart sort of thing.
You couldn't drive up there, and walking with a struggle

(01:43:46):
a little and any other means of transport. But that
was a wonderful discovery.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
Did you spend long there?

Speaker 27 (01:43:58):
I've been back there three times and again before the
age of thirty, but yeah, I spent the whole day there.
It was just phenomenal. I just loved it. Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
It's really just one street, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:44:20):
It is?

Speaker 27 (01:44:21):
But it's just I've never seen anywhere like it anywhere
in the world, and I've traveled a bit like you,
but I'm very well.

Speaker 3 (01:44:30):
Traveled and great traveler. I wouldn't haven't done enough traveling.

Speaker 27 (01:44:34):
But yeah, well you've seen a lot of places I have.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
Yeah, I've been the most.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
Yeah enough, and and I would.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Three hard to see much of clavillion Google maps. But
it's all in the shade that yeah, free heart, it's
all kind of occluded.

Speaker 10 (01:44:58):
It's maybe it's.

Speaker 27 (01:44:59):
Something when you have a bit more free time to
have a look at a free time.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Nice to hear from your day. I've got to run,
but thank you. Street views better nine to nine to eleven,
six away from ten. I think the big news story
tomorrow could well be the weather. It was absolutely the
front came through today and it's pecking a huge amount.
It's fast moving front. It's going to come up the
country tonight and tomorrow, bringing freezing temperatures, snow, strong winds

(01:45:30):
and rain. Temperature we fell across the low temperature drop
we fell across the South Island today today, while the
Low and North Island wasn't for about of rain on
Wednesday afternoon. A number of road ranges are under snowfall
warning until early tomorrow morning. Snow is going to fall
to low levels. It will reach about two hudred meters
and places so really quite low. Strong wind watches were

(01:45:52):
in place for a targer candry high country wide. It
up on tomorrow. On tonight well tager Lakes, the rivers
are under a heavy rain morning until one am tomorrow
morning and the plane got forced back when Auckland and
the cargo back to Auckland. Wow, it's a long day
in the air for nothing three hours. I think the
flights own of Dunedin and in the cable have been impacted.

(01:46:13):
There are also six meter swells at the bottom of
the South Island Steward Island, the most vulnerable christ Church
are Love two. Overnight Dunedin would reach three. The front
will start to move off the coaster around the Topo area,
avoiding the upper North Island which has got great weather.
Just putting in the box seat, that's what's happening.

Speaker 10 (01:46:34):
The door line.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
Get in touch, Marcus. I do my Christmas cake the
same time as my Christmas pudding on stir Up Sunday,
which falls on Sunday, November twenty third. What's Stirrup Sunday?
Oh yes, this would stir up. This traditional day marks
the last Sunday before the season of Advent and is

(01:46:56):
when families will literally gathered to make their Christmas puddings,
allowing the pudding to mature and flavor before Christmas Day.
The pudding should be stirred from east to west in
honor of the How's that pronounced Dan Madgai? I was
gonna say, Meg, Yeah, wise men who came from the

(01:47:18):
east to visit Baby Jesus. Power upper bum east to
west near the compass. Now tell me it's full moon.
Without tell me it's a full moon. Wow. Some crazy calls.
Well good, Marcus don't really like football being referred to
a soccer. Get over it. It's just a name. How

(01:47:39):
could someone be so easily I don't know the right word,
triggered by some small thing like that? Any who get
ready for the hour of power hit til midnight. My
name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh eight hundred eighty tenny and
nine to nine to text. You want to be a
part of it? Be good to hear from you here
till twelve. What have you got? Oh eight hundred eighty

(01:48:01):
ten eighty and nine two nine two to text, Be
nice to hear from you. Well, there's been a sudden
death and graymouth. Also, I'm seeing police investigating Chapel Street
one person dead. Avoid the area that was through at
one of twelve to fifteen today. Anyway, Beck after the

(01:48:21):
news with more eight hundred and eighty today. You're looking
forward to your calls here until midnight tonight. Anything else
back on it. Good evening. It's eight past eleven, money,
miss Marcus, welcome. How you're going, what's happening? Get in
touch if you want to be a part of the
show here till twelve o'clock. Let's go finally, how I've
got no idea what you want to do. I want
to talk about things that that guy what Yeah, I

(01:48:41):
was talking about things you've been around to see around
the world that were disappointing, but he went different with Stonehenge.
I can't think of anything that was really disappointing I
saw around the world. The Eiffel Tower was incredibly impressive
when I was there. Not think I got to see
the Mona Lisa. I spent more time with than USA

(01:49:02):
Dors if anything. But the other things that I've seen
that were impressive. The Pyramids were unbelievable. I think when
you go up to the pyramids up at Luxor. It's
a bit too full on. There's a bit much going
on there. You don't quite know what's happening. But the
Pyramids of Geezer goodness. Yeah, that's some of those natural
phenomenon people go and see. But yeah, nature has Nature

(01:49:23):
puts on extraordinary spectacle most of the time. All of
people go and see Big Ben. I'm not sure about
Big Ben, but I don't think people dotly go with
that way to see Big Ben, would they? But yeah,
that's what right about tonight here they go through, they come,
let's go bed where they're coming up to South Island.
Just say, you know, John, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:49:43):
Yeah, good evening, Marcus, first time caller to you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
Oh nice to have you, John, Thank you for making
the effort.

Speaker 20 (01:49:48):
Yeah, I just turned in a little while ago, and
you're talking about being on flights that could have turned
a bit nasty.

Speaker 2 (01:49:59):
Yep.

Speaker 20 (01:49:59):
And in nineteen sixty three, my brother and I am
my father with returning from christ Church to Partmingston North
and we're just coming into to the airport to land
and we got a call from the pilot through the

(01:50:22):
end ofcom we've got a slight problem the undercarriage, we
can't get it down. Yeah, So anyway, there was we
were on one of those I call them sausage dogs,
the twenty seaters.

Speaker 16 (01:50:41):
And.

Speaker 20 (01:50:43):
So anyway, we were flying around for about half an hour.
I think he was trying to jennison any extra fuel
because he said, we're going to have to make a
belly landing anyway. Then we get an that call we're
divertingto Hakia to try and land there. So that was

(01:51:08):
all right, We're on our way to our harker and
then he turns, we get the message. We got some
good news. We managed to get the undercarriage there. So
everybody had got ready for a belly landing and we
were sort of counting now our stars and thinking, oh

(01:51:31):
of Christ, we can't get in touch with mamm or
any of the family or anything. It's not going to
end too good. So anyway, that flight ended well. We
managed to get down and we were all relieved. The
next flight, the wife and I had booked a holiday

(01:51:53):
package to Rara, Tonga in nineteen ninety nine, did it
through a travel agent here, and we'd also booked the
flight to outa Tackie. This was on the Tuesday we'd
been there a few days and we were down at
our aua and I like fishing, and as it turned out,

(01:52:17):
there was a we were supposed to fly to Oldtackie
on the Tuesday, and there was a fishing contest on
the Tuesday going from our aua. So I said to
the wife, wo would like to go on it? And
she said, but we're going to our Detachi And I
said oh, and she said, well you can't. You can't

(01:52:37):
have two, you can't have both of them. So she said,
pick what you want to do, and I said, oh,
I really like to go on this fishing contest. So
anyway that was that was on the Monday, and the
fishing contest was on the Tuesday, so we'd gone out.
On the fishing contest. I managed to catch what the

(01:53:00):
captain of the boat, the Deimana Careeri thought was a
going to be a winning, a winning fish, because I
hooked the Mahi mahi or dolphin fish and it was
on a thirty pound breaking strain. And we're coming back
to port to the weigh in and the captain got

(01:53:23):
a message of the the weather turn fowl there was
a heavy miss coming and we just got back into port.
The sea got choppy and he got a message to
say that there was a plane had coming back from outtack.

(01:53:45):
He had gone into the sea. That was the flight
that the wife and I were supposed to be off.
So how lucky somebody was looking over us that day.
There was five people out of Tea and I think
that lost their lives that day. And then the top

(01:54:06):
of all off in two six the wife and I
and another couple of friends went to Europe for.

Speaker 3 (01:54:15):
What where we moved to?

Speaker 20 (01:54:17):
Now we've moved, I've moved to Singapore. Well, this one
was coming back to Singapore from from a month's holiday
in England and France, and we're coming into Singapore. There
was five hundred and ninety passengers on this this Emirates plane.

(01:54:42):
It was the largest one. I can't think of the.

Speaker 2 (01:54:48):
Side.

Speaker 20 (01:54:48):
I think it was a seven seven four seven, but anyway,
it was fully loaded with five hundred and nine passengers
and we're coming in. As as we were approaching Singapore,
I always watched the the flight monitor from start to
finish because I I never sleep. I went twenty hours

(01:55:08):
on that flight without a without a sleep. And we're
coming coming onto the to the runway, and we were
in the back end of the plane at the tail end,
and there's in the in the middle of the plane
and there's an old chap over by the left hand

(01:55:31):
a window. Next minute he's yelling out, we're going in
the sea. We're going in the sea. As we at
the all the instrumentation panel everything went dark as we
were coming into land, and the cabin was all dark

(01:55:52):
and the monitor went off just as we were coming
in to touch touch the landing next minute. I don't
know how the pilot got that play. One wheel was
on the time, the other one was was in the
sea or going into the sea. And how that how

(01:56:12):
that pilot got that plane back up in the air
and menaced to land it. We went around for him
about half an hour in the year. So how lucky
we had. Every time I have to get on a
plane now, I just think, oh Christ, what else could happen?

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
Yeah, so that's my my Yeah, I didn't know about
that plane crash August sixth, nineteen ninety one. Was that
one coming back from Itataki.

Speaker 20 (01:56:40):
Nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
Oh you're nineteen ninety nine, you say, yeah, okay, that
might be a different one In nineteen ninety one or
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 20 (01:56:48):
Ninety nine, Okay, wow, yeah, yeah, so yeah, so the
gods were smiling on us that day. Wow, And I didn't.
I came in second because Si who was a rara
tongue and who went out in one of his he
goes in in one of those side riggers canoes with

(01:57:10):
the side riggers on. He came back and he'd caught
a yellowfin tuna and he was half a half a
kilo heavier than my mahi mahi. Yeah, but they, yeah,
they thought i'd because I'd caught it on a and

(01:57:32):
not many of them. They can get it to a
lot of people, getting them to the back of the boat.
But they they seemed to jump the hooks all the time.
But we managed to land that one. But I'll tell
you but the funny part about it was after I'd
landed it, I was on the left hand side, and
I had the two two reels and we had American

(01:57:54):
chap on the boat and another chap from christ Church
and they didn't hook anything. But as I as I
left the seat and went and stood by the side
of the boat, left hand side of the boat, I'm
looking down and here's this silver and blue fish that's

(01:58:22):
swimming alongside the boat as we were going out to
We've been out to Boy number one. You've got Boy one,
two and three.

Speaker 3 (01:58:33):
We back on the fishing contest now, are we.

Speaker 20 (01:58:36):
Yeah, well, I thought, yeah, I thought i'd tell you
about this because it's it was quite funny. Anyway, Brian
was up the the cap was up in the Connin
town A steering the boat, and I said to him
from the deck, I said, what's a fish that's about

(01:58:57):
just three quarters of the leck the your boat? And
I said blue and silver and and I said it's
swimming alongside the boat for about or two minutes. And
he said, oh, pull the other one. He said, they're
not even in this water at this time. This was
in we went over in September and yeah, in nineteen

(01:59:27):
ninety nine. But it happened to be a marlin. And
so he said to me, I said, no, fair, go
you know that that's what I've just seen. So anyway,
there was another boat out that Boy three. So he
got on the old blower to him and ran through

(01:59:51):
and he said, I don't I don't know if this
guy's happened me on, but he said, he just landed
a mahi mahi, and he's telling me that a marlin
has just been swimming alongside our boat and that's heading
out your way. So anyway, about five minutes later, the
captain gets a call. We just took the amil and

(02:00:16):
he couldn't believe it. They got it, and they brought
it back to the weighing scales two hundred and eight kilos,
and I got him the second prize, which was about
fifteen hundred dollars worth of v guest not to hear for.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
I've got a run, but thanks so much for that.
Eighty toighty nineteen past eleven, Kirsty Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Oh.

Speaker 23 (02:00:44):
Good evening, Marcus. Guys, wanting to talk to you about
the holiday destinations, you know, underwhelming, overwhelming.

Speaker 3 (02:00:53):
Going to see some tourist icon that wasn't any good
yip yip yip yep.

Speaker 23 (02:00:57):
Well, what I'd like to offer you is a one
that was most certainly not underwhelming and lived well, exceeding
my expectations. One that was completely different to what I
expected but was still amazing, and one that all the
locals and everybody. I didn't quite get up to it,
but it was close. To it and they said it
was Everybody was saying, oh, it's nothing, and that one

(02:01:20):
was the Leaning Tower of Pizza by the way. Oh no, god, yeah,
now everyone's like, not not.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Worth going to, Kirsty. Is it not leaning enough?

Speaker 23 (02:01:31):
Well no, I don't. I just think it's just people
think it's not anything special. I don't really know what
it was.

Speaker 14 (02:01:36):
It was.

Speaker 23 (02:01:37):
It was locals, it was other tourists that had been
and they said that. But it was in twenty seventeen.
I traveled with this and I never thought I'd get
to go overseas. But he was a little boy of Priano,
age fourteen, and he won a scholarship to dare to
Dream scholarship. So his dream was to sing in the
cathedrals and churches of UK, Europe, Scotland and also like

(02:02:00):
Wales because he wanted to go to Wales because that's
where the capital of singing was apparently. And so off
we went went to Austria first, and you know, we
did it through Europe. Then we went through into Italy
with the trains. Now I had always wanted to see that,
you know, the Rhaman, the Colosseum, and and we booked
the tours and we actually booked the tour that went

(02:02:21):
into the underground light right into where the gladiators would
be going through to come to fight. They told us
at the time this was the place also where they
went that way if they were injured and likely to die.
It was where they were sent to die. And it
was an amazing place. But you get up to the
top to lot and I was expecting Russell Crowe gladiated

(02:02:42):
dirt floor and I don't know if you've been well,
it's not dirt floor. It's like, I don't know how
to describe it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
It's just like.

Speaker 23 (02:02:54):
It's like a maze. There's no flaw to it. It's
like a mad so it's very if you google it.
If you google what does the Colosseum floor look like? Now,
it'll blow you away.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
It's not.

Speaker 23 (02:03:05):
It's nothing like what I thought. But it's everyone's like, oh, yeah,
we all knew that. I'm like, well, I didn't. It
was beautiful though I did really love it. It was
just something that was something on my bucket list and
I never thought i'd ever get to see it, but
I did. But the overwhelming, the one that just blew
me away, was right through Europe, UK everywhere. I could
not believe the architecture and the beauty of all the

(02:03:29):
cathedrals and the churches and the age of them. And
like every he managed to sing in every country that
we went to, with the exception of France, because we
were only traveling through via train with a nineteen hour
stopover and going. It was our gateway into the UK
via the you know, so what was the.

Speaker 3 (02:03:50):
Thing that was what was your thing? That was the
thing that was underwhelming was the colicy And what was
the thing that was overwhelming?

Speaker 23 (02:03:55):
And I know the underwhelming was the leaning terrifies.

Speaker 3 (02:03:59):
Yes, and we did go.

Speaker 23 (02:04:00):
So while we were in that nineteen hours in France,
we found ourselves. It took us about five attempts, but
we found ourselves in English speaking taxi driver because we're
only staying overnight to get through on the British you know,
the train, and we did go to the Eiffel Tower.
We got this taxi driver to take us on a tour.
So we dropped us at the Eiffel Tower. It was
nighttime and luckily took us on a night's tour around

(02:04:22):
showed us that this is the opera house. When as
soon as he found out. Jaden was a singer and
I really, I really thought it was amazing. But we
didn't go up or anything, but just to look at it.
It's so massive, and it was it was huge. I
wouldn't say that anybody could say that's underwhelming. We literally
walked down the steps and took a river cruise and
got to see what we could in the space of

(02:04:44):
a short period of time. But these cathedrals everywhere we went,
and the best one the most I mean, I know that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:50):
All I don't want to What was the point with you?
Was the coliseum floor sort of and ruined.

Speaker 23 (02:04:56):
No very, no very unexpected? I had no like it's
something you wouldn't expect it to be. It was completely
different to my perceptions.

Speaker 2 (02:05:05):
So what was it?

Speaker 23 (02:05:06):
Well, it's it's kind of hard to describe. It's like
concrete structures. It's like amaze.

Speaker 3 (02:05:13):
It's like it's like an old cement works or something.

Speaker 23 (02:05:18):
It's sort of I suppose. So, yeah, it's like they
must have had that must be what it's like now,
and it must have had floor built over it. I
don't know the history of it because that was one
subject I didn't do at school, was history. But what
we saw underneath when we went down to the into
the bottom areas, I guess is similar to what it
was what we were looking at when we looked at
the top. And the tours are great, they're magnificent. And

(02:05:40):
if you ever and if anyone's ever in Rome, you
definitely you can't go and not see it.

Speaker 19 (02:05:45):
It's share.

Speaker 23 (02:05:47):
But I just felt it was interesting that that, you know,
people are saying that. My mother did say that she
was unbelievably underwhelmed with the Mona Lisa. We didn't go,
we didn't get time to go to anything like that,
but she said, huh, just like postage stamp.

Speaker 3 (02:06:02):
It's tiny, it's tiny, long way away from it. I've
got to run cursty. But nice to talk to you, Neil.
That's Marcus.

Speaker 4 (02:06:07):
Welcome, good evening to you, Marcus. Christmas puddings, Marcus, yes,
three points if I may. Last year, because of our age,
we wife bought a Christmas pudding from Countdown. I am
not recommending it and then sult Christmas puddings Markers.

Speaker 7 (02:06:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:06:30):
Secondly, when I was young, I'm old now. When I
was young, there was always treats in a Christmas pudding,
a silver threatening bit or several of those and one
silver sixpenny piece. I wonder if people still put treats
in Christmas puddings. They always did when I was young.

Speaker 3 (02:06:53):
You don't think it's such a thing in New Zealand,
all right?

Speaker 4 (02:06:58):
Yeah, maybe never was. I don't know, but it was
always great excitement when we were kids.

Speaker 3 (02:07:03):
Of course, said put you three points out down Christmas
putting o God, the treats and that what was your
third point?

Speaker 4 (02:07:10):
The sad point is And I wonder if it's my
memory because I'm very old, but I remember me mum
mated it and she always used foot grades carrot in.
It sounds really odd to me, but she did, And
I wonder if that's normal.

Speaker 3 (02:07:26):
I'll find out. Neil, I'll do my best. Thank you brilliant,
keep it going. Oha eight hundred and eighty eight nine
nine two de text. What have you got people? What's heppnin?
What is the hepnin? Marcus? That woman was looking at
the labyrinth of passages and sales below? What was original floor?
What was the original flow? That would I suppose wouldn't

(02:07:46):
send By the way, I've spoken to Murray and how
we are five degrees three with wins you're looking at
the second year in a row without any fruit. The
blossoms are destroyed. Is this southern Antarctic storm coming through
going to ruin the stone fruit season because the bloss
are in full blossom? I imagine it probably will. That's

(02:08:10):
when the fruit off. This is not like a frost
that they can get in the chopper is up for
I imagine this will be really bad for the If
there's any orchardists out there, if they can let me know,
I'd be keen to hear about that.

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
We have uch just that.

Speaker 3 (02:08:21):
Listen. I think someone thinks they've been banned from calling Dan.
But if you're banned from calling, you can't. We don't
block numbers that can't ring.

Speaker 11 (02:08:29):
Up, do we.

Speaker 8 (02:08:30):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:08:31):
I think it's his phone. You know that must be
someone's asking why they banned. We haven't got another number
to give them. Oh I I wouldn't want to go. Yeah,
I'll see the spots. The spots to that is. I
found Times Square underwhelming. Well, this Time Square is underwhelming, Marcus.

(02:08:55):
I believe that fielding. Do I have parking meters? Just
wondering if people would call it from other places where
parking is still free. Petty Gower's topic was about protecting
children as young as ten from Aia where the app
becomes a child's friend and can talk about things that
children are emotionally unready for. Australia has an AI watchdog
news it and doesn't. Erica Stanford wouldn't front up. You

(02:09:20):
gotta front up, Erica. No one's fronding up about much
at the moment, so that's not good. You want to
be walking working on your predictions for next year as well.
I'm all through with mine. Might do some Erica Stanford
ones also evening, James, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 26 (02:09:42):
Oh Marcus, look do we mumble before midnight tonight?

Speaker 8 (02:09:48):
Where are you?

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
James? Can we can? We guess? I'll ask you some questions.

Speaker 24 (02:09:52):
Okay, yeah, please be my guest.

Speaker 3 (02:09:55):
North Island or South Island?

Speaker 23 (02:09:57):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (02:09:58):
I made it to South Island.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
Christ Church.

Speaker 20 (02:10:02):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (02:10:05):
That wasn't hardening it.

Speaker 26 (02:10:07):
It was in like just to the text, they're saying
that there's big win and crashes. So I don't know
what crash is they're in, but there's none where I am.

Speaker 2 (02:10:15):
But I just wanted to.

Speaker 26 (02:10:16):
Say, Marcus, mate, it's a long time listener, first time caller.

Speaker 2 (02:10:21):
What is your first time.

Speaker 3 (02:10:24):
Were so quickly.

Speaker 26 (02:10:26):
Yeah, I know it's ridiculous, isn't it? But you know
it isn't I'm a first time caller.

Speaker 3 (02:10:30):
I've called during the day, but to your the daytime
is not real talk big. They're always breaking for news
or interviews. That's not talk back, no correct.

Speaker 26 (02:10:40):
In comparison to your slot in the evening.

Speaker 6 (02:10:42):
Mate.

Speaker 26 (02:10:42):
Look, I'm a big fin. You know, I'm a big
fin the way you slip the tea in the middle
of the night, like you know, the things that you
have to say. Look, mate, I'm a Look. Yeah, I've
been a big fan from a fire for a long
time and I just wanted to say before midnight come
to that. You're you're a great man and it's a
pleasure to listen you.

Speaker 3 (02:11:03):
Film a back at James where you bet? Where have
you been tonight?

Speaker 26 (02:11:07):
I made up? Actually I've been around it my brother
in law's house a few beers, but you know, not
enough that you know it would appear me to drive home.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
No, no, it sounds it sound like you'd be a
great drive. Probably improved your driving, did it.

Speaker 20 (02:11:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (02:11:22):
Well, look, you know it's christ here's Tony and you
know like it's one of those things Marcus. You know,
but like like I said before, the windows not up.
It's it's it's a very pleasant evening actually in Christiers,
this evening. And I just wanted to pass that on
because I feel like the textures is lead you on
a bit.

Speaker 3 (02:11:39):
But you know, no, in no way what I would
great great fact check from you, James, you take care.
Seven to twelve, Dave, this is Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:11:49):
Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 3 (02:11:51):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (02:11:52):
Good evening and he's been windy here in christ It's
but it's calmed down. It was why was blowing the baggery?
A real rollings?

Speaker 21 (02:12:01):
Watch?

Speaker 2 (02:12:02):
You know as soon as you pick it up, it's
very heavy, very heavy.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
Yes, yes, I know a bit about what a little
bit about watchers.

Speaker 2 (02:12:09):
Yes, Terry Duck dye. I got Terry Duck die when
I when the little when I hit my little brother
put down two weeks ago. Ah and yeah a little
multi shits, I still missed a little bugger.

Speaker 3 (02:12:22):
Commiserations Dave, twelve years old. They live a good age.
Shit zoo extreme Oh that's good, oh god, yeah, okay,
and Teddy swims quickie one has one hit one, I
lose control. It's pretty good. Is that his only hit mate.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
I think he's the one hit wonder as far.

Speaker 3 (02:12:42):
As I know, and he would do well because he's
an unlike He looks like a bit of a rough diamond,
so kind of hes a YouTube phenomenon, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (02:12:50):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:12:50):
Same, Yeah, I don't know about those face tests. It's
like that post alone without all that stuff written on him. Yes,
who do you predict for the league on Sunday? Whenever
it is there?

Speaker 10 (02:13:03):
Dave?

Speaker 2 (02:13:04):
Oh, tough, cool, tough, cool half call. I'm going to
go with Melbourne.

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
I want the Bronc. I'm sick. I don't like the
coach looking so miserable that I'm sick of him.

Speaker 2 (02:13:13):
I don't, I don't. Yeah, a lot of keywis on
both sides, both sides of them. Yeah, good call mate.
It's a toughie for me because I want a penriisf
of course.

Speaker 3 (02:13:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:13:24):
I was a bit let down by Penris and they
let themselves down. I think.

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
Yeah, I've gone I'm all in on Broncos. So we'll
talk next week about that. Got on a nice, nice,
nice summing up there, Jenet. Welcome, Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 23 (02:13:37):
This afternoon.

Speaker 25 (02:13:38):
We've got a spectacular view of a huge American deep
freeze pain coming in on the Northwest Runway, fingag killer.

Speaker 17 (02:13:49):
You know.

Speaker 25 (02:13:49):
It came from the city down Memorial Avenue, landed at
the airport.

Speaker 3 (02:13:54):
That's a good thing, you know. Now that will be
the season just starting, will it.

Speaker 25 (02:13:58):
Yeah, they're going to Antarctica on Friday. I think somebody
said it was a C one seven.

Speaker 6 (02:14:04):
It will be huge.

Speaker 3 (02:14:06):
Claim And they come every year? Do they just at
the beginning?

Speaker 2 (02:14:09):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (02:14:10):
What happens?

Speaker 18 (02:14:11):
That was too?

Speaker 16 (02:14:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (02:14:12):
I mean, as I said to somebody today, I saw
the first globe Master come way back in the nineteen fifties,
so I've seen a few, but this was spectacular this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (02:14:25):
An globe Master. Does it come deliberately to fly over
as courtesy or is that just the way it scheduled
to go?

Speaker 25 (02:14:32):
I don't know. But it was beautiful because there was
a lot of children about today because the school holidays too,
so good for the kids too.

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
Thank you, kindly, thank you kindly. We should say that
more often, thank you kindly, thank you kindly.

Speaker 1 (02:14:52):
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