They slide down the bank endlessly (3 October 2025)

A Friday free-for-all with ice cream, cricket (and then no cricket), Chinese cars, hospital mattresses, and mouth taping.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is me, Hit'll twelve, lockit and Gog. How's Southland going?
I'll give you updates. Fourteen against seven second half just started,
be our fourth victory for the year. I think we've
had the shield, Gog. We've won the shield, We've lost
the shield. We've lost so matches terribly. We've won some
well and we might beat the easy beats North Harbor

(00:33):
fourteen to seven, Southland lead and then we'll wrap it
up for a year. I look forward to Stag Day
next year. Greetings and welcome to what I was a
bit upset about today. Dargavills lost their race course. All right,
I thought it was a pretty good course, Alburno, point right, brilliant.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Why would you.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Get rid of that?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
So get me if if I'm right right, if I'm
right right, north of Auckland, there is now only one
race course and there'll be an a rua kaka. So
that's it. So all that out of Northland, the whole

(01:17):
way from Auckland north north from Elleslie, there's one course
that's woeful. All these golf courses, no racecourses, it was
fantastic race course, of course, fun art. I used to
have a racecourse. Now that's gone. So that's it all
that area one racecourse. Yeah, I'm sure there used to

(01:44):
be a lot. I'm sure probably even Helensville had one
that was operational, did they? How many were they used
to be in the north anyway? Yeah, I saw it
was for South thought, gee, I'm sure there must be
another one. It wouldn't be Abaquino Point because when I
went there for the races, I only be ten years ago.
I thought it went pretty well. I guess in the
old days. Once upon a time you get the train there.

(02:05):
But it was a course anyway by the river. You
get the boat there too, I suppose. So you might
want to mention that you might not. But that was
my surprise for the day that that's gone. I got
this whole stupid idea to reintegrate race courses. You want
small towns and race courses. That's the heart of the industry.

(02:27):
It's good fun to go to a small town race,
meat brilliant, get a hot dog, have a punt, check
out the older Oh it's always good anyway. Fortunately, South
and still got plenty of local courses. I suppose they
will closed soon, your Rivertons and your Wyndhams and New Winton's.

(02:48):
But anyway, just putting that out there, So yeah, because
I don't know what Dagable's population's doing, but it's always
struck me as a fitty peppy little town quite like
the West Coast. But getting touched. If you want you,
my name is Marcus. Welcome Friday, free for all, which
would be like a Friday but frere a lot to
talk about. The updating news about the course of the evening.
Also the cricket. It was a T twenty now it's

(03:11):
a tat next to me a T seventeen. By the way,
Key's won about Aussies will bat first. So I'll keep
you if you are and total. I'll let us know
what the weather's doing. Is it, is it about to
Is it about to rain? Even more, let me know
about that because Tuesday Wednesday, Wednesday's match was pretty dismal

(03:33):
with the rain and the wind. So stupid idea. I've
got a pink button on, Dan, I've got a pink
button on I've never seen before. It says thh live connection.
Do you want have a photo of it? Yeah, yep,
I've got the dump button next to that. It's a

(03:55):
button that says thh live connection what I've pushed it.
I've pushed it. What do you think it is? Right?
Pink THH live. No, it's got me panicked. So anyway,
that's the situation with dag or race course, some other

(04:16):
stuff and a lot lots to talk about tonight too.
By the way, oh, by the way to Taylor Swift's
album is an album. It's an album has come out today,
The Life of a Showgirl. Now there are situations you
go to the movies and watch the video. I didn't

(04:39):
go there, but you might have done that. So if
you've watched that, listen to that, let me know about that.
Bigger than the Beatles, I think in terms of album success.
And I mean I'm not saying that to be controversially,
that's just the truth. So you might have been to
see there. Let me know how that was for you.

(05:01):
I'll wait one hundred and eighty twenty nineteen ninety six,
Marcus or twelve. You want to come through anything else
you want to meant and tonight you might bet uber
and doing something interesting. It is the last day of
the school holidays. Once upon a time we did kids
talk back on the last day of school holidays, but
but it ran its course and then it was just
kids talking about going skiing, which probably would have interesting

(05:22):
to them, but not that interesting to the other people.
So I put that on the ki wash if you
had a weather update for us.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Right the four cars here for our tower on by
Plenty area. It was absolutely flip on terrible. We've got
thunder they are saying on the saying on the radio,
we've got thunderstorms coming.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I am the radio.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I am the radio.

Speaker 6 (05:52):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
You live, you live in Totrong, and you've wrung me
to tell me what they're saying on the radio.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, I mean you know, like after go out, go outside.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
It's terrible the weather.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Is it raining now?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
It's raining now, it's been raining all day.

Speaker 7 (06:16):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Why don't even think they're going to get some cricket?
What channels are on? Odds on TV one?

Speaker 5 (06:23):
You watch it.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
Now?

Speaker 5 (06:28):
I wasn't. But I can just tell you bye by
looking at the weather. They are here, that's terrible. How
are they going to play the cricket in this weather?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well they're not. I'm not camp lafort's where I'm looking
at it now. It's probably just silly people talking to
each other or the TV going on. Who'd a bit for?
It's just all, it's just all. It's just not good.
They're just showing up the people that are playing. Why
don't you go to it? Jeff?

Speaker 7 (06:55):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (06:55):
Sorry?

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Why don't you go to it?

Speaker 6 (06:59):
Why?

Speaker 5 (06:59):
Why don't I go to it?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Why don't you go to the cricket?

Speaker 9 (07:04):
Well?

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I what so?

Speaker 5 (07:06):
I listen to all about all sports, not just not
just the cricket, rugby league everything. I enjoy all sports.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, that's right. I'm looking at it now. It looks
like it's absolutely persisting down there. Jeff, Yeah, well.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
Totally what I'm in Papama here and it's it's bloody raining.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Describe peper mower compete to Mount Monganui.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Oh look, if it's raining in here, you can beach
at bottom voots double it raining and tear Honor beach
the bottom boots on that.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
How far away would you be there as the crow flies?

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Or how far away?

Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Oh oh well only it don'tly take me about twenty
minutes to get to Tar Honor.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I suppose you haven't got your license. Have you got
your license?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
I've got got a license.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Can you allow to drive?

Speaker 10 (08:05):
Of course I have.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
I'll be the safest driver and not buy a plenty
of mate.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Put a line under that. I'm looking at the pictures now.
I've never seen people look less happy. The groundman's looks unhappy.
He's leaning against the tractor with a face that he's
got one of those grizwly mustages. He looks like he's
at the end of his bloody tether. There's people on
the stands, are umbrellas and big giant sheets, giant tar
pullings from the warehouse. You should go, mate, you with

(08:33):
your dad, get out of there. You it's not going
to happen. They're just looking at his shoes. So it's
a dismal looking scene there. I don't know what TV
and did is gonna do with the rest of their evening,
about four hours to fill. Probably have some spare copies
of the chase they'll play. And it's garbage the weather. There,
there's a guy and a hot dog. It's a burger.

(08:53):
Is it picking out the pickles? Eat the pickles? Mate,
like all kids that do it sport. This kid sliding
down the bank you take kids to sport, they watch
the game. Now they slide down the bank endlessly anyway,
talking about the darg of a racecourse, and in the
fact they're getting rid of all the race courses, the
fact that it's raining so heavily in total longer who
have cricket in October? That kid's soaking wet. They are

(09:17):
showing shots of the cricket players in the dressing room,
but don't look up for much. They know it's not
going to happen AnyWho oh, oh, by the way, text,
I forgot about the texts. It's twelve weeks for your
Christmas cake too. You should be making your Christmas cake today.
It's twelve weeks till Christmas Day. That's what you want

(09:38):
to be doing. Buy your fruit mix. I used to
cut out the usepaper with synopsis map out and make
animated weather cartoons. I don't know what the live I
found this mysterious button. Marcus golf courses are open three
and sixty five days per year. Racecourses are open. Maybe
it's a good point. It's a really good point. I

(10:02):
love Rua Kaka races. Great family day. The split bar
puts a bus on for all the Boozeres. Yeah, what
I did like about that. What I like about roy
Kaka Racecourse. It's probably one of the few racecourses where
you can stand at the back and look at the
surf beach. I've been to them all. That'd be my
top five. That Kaikulta Cumara Windom I like, Oh, I

(10:23):
like on the co there'd be my top five racecourses,
but that varies from day to day, depending on the
last ones.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
I went to.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
But getting rid of the dart, what else would there
be to do in Dargaville. There was a rail trip
you could go on golf carts on the railway. That's
for sale and going under. And now the racecourse is gone.
They still have a Kumita festival. It's looking even wetter now.
Actually they're all just standing around the track to looking
forlorn Oh boy, I think it might be Shane Philpott.

(10:57):
Someone said with a Griswoli mustache. Someone's texted through that
your text are very good. By the way, keep those
going whatever topic before too long, it'll come organically and
feel it.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
By the way, Patrick Murray from Only Fools and Horses
has died. I didn't know him. He's not one of
the three major characters being the old guy and the
young guy, the third major character being the three wheeled car.
He's the guy with the port pie hat. Looks like
he's out of the specials. A Ka Kelvin. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
Think to you Marcus. Quite a few years ago, now,
I remember seeing Taylor Swift on TV with some you know,
advertising program and she was just a teenage girl in
with a cowgirl hat and cowgirl clothing and the guitar,
and she looked she looked good there in comparison to

(11:50):
what she looks like now and then just a few
years ago.

Speaker 11 (11:54):
Not very many.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I think it's I think she still looks pretty good.

Speaker 9 (11:59):
Oh yeah, but it's all the you know, the glitter
and glamour she sort of covered in I see and
combat clubs. The cowgirl.

Speaker 12 (12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Anyway, Now, just a few years ago on Freeview TV TV,
there was a movie, American movie, and Taylor Swift was
acting in it as a high school girl. And the
movie was all about high school with the families and
athletic running track and Taylor Swift was in that so

(12:31):
she would have been probably in a mid teens, so
she was quite athletic then, and they repeated that that
particular film a few years later, not very long, only
a couple of years later, and then I remember seeing her.
I think the movie was called cats c At She

(12:52):
wasn't kid, yeah, but it was only very very you
know what's the word I'm after? If you had a blinked,
you would have missed her. And he didn't really recognize
her in it.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Was the hand of onon Tana movie you saw her in?
Was it Hannimon Tanna the movie? I'm just trying to
think that her first one.

Speaker 9 (13:13):
I'dn't recall what the name was.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Okay, you didn't go and see her movie today because
there because the album launch was at the movie theaters.

Speaker 11 (13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (13:22):
Now I'm not allowed out at nighttime in case I've
got to be I've got to be locked up inside
before to dark and fully medicated.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Are you still in your own home though, Calvin?

Speaker 11 (13:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Oh god god, he locks myself and okay, no, fair.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Enough, I lock myself in at night too, Calvin.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Twenty two past eight, text and call the cricket and
anything goes tonight. Actually, we'll expecting great things as it
happens throughout the course of the evening. I heard you
learned a new word today, deplaning. Two planes collide on
the tarmac at New York Airports. All pesters of credit
to experience deplaning? What happened to embarking? Marcus? Is there

(14:08):
a spark internet outage in West New Plymouth? Bound to
be getting touch? Yet'll twelve you want to be a
part of it? Eight hundred and eighty twenty nine two
nine two de text. Ah, they replaying the old match,
are they? We don't want to see that. You've gotta
have contingencies TVs. Who's in charge now? Anyho? Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty nine two nine text twenty three

(14:29):
past eight Gosh, I'm dryser wouldn't got off under the
under hydrated tonight. That's all right, I'll get that sort
of during the headlines. If you want to be a
part of the show, welcome. We're talking Here's something else
I want to talk about already we're talking about the
Abekeno Racecourse, well, sorry, the darg of All racecourse and
Albuquno Point, which yeah, I don't know how a place

(14:52):
like that can't keep the racecourse going, but I think
they're trying to amalgamate. All of them have fewer courses
rip the heart out of the industry. So that's a
real shame. But it seemed like no one was fine.
They sold it at a pittance. I also wanted to
talk about something. I mean to talk aout elier. The
week we hadn't talked about I'll checked out of the mix.
Who out there is tape in their mouth? Shut? At night,

(15:15):
I was watching a video of the New Zealand black
Ferns getting ready for the Rugby World Cup and I
saw Porscha Woodman. She was waking up and removing. She
must be a mouth taper. So if your mouth taper,
let me know how that's going for you. I see
now people are warning that it's dangerous. I don't know why.

(15:37):
I'm not a mouth taper, but I wouldn't think it
was dangerous. So if you're a mouth taper, I'd like
to know what the benefits are and why you do it.
I see there's advertisements advertisements on for proper tape. You
can use such a thing. It's a big TikTok thing.
The nuts for it. So you apparently makes your skin

(15:57):
go and you sleep better. But the researchers and the
doctors are saying taping your mouth shut while you sleep
may do more harm than good. I don't know what
harm it does, but if you've got some things to
say about that, they say there's plenty that could go wrong.

(16:20):
It could pose a serious risks of apphixiation. I haven't
read anyone that anyone that's died, and they say mouth
breathing is not necessarily a bad thing. So yes, if
you're if you're someone that's taped your mouth, what's it
done for you? If you're a mouth taper, I'll be
up for hearing about that. If not, try it tonight.

(16:41):
The other side, I want to talk about mouth taping
to I also want to talk about who's looking forward
to buying a Chinese car. Once upon a time, everyone
rubbish Japanese cars has been no good. Now look at
them and where are we on that curve with Chinese cars.
I've never driven one, never been in one, but yeah,
I wouldn't mind. I'm not I'm not carist. Japanese Chinese

(17:02):
doesn't really worry me. Apparently they're bat Electric cars are
extremely good, like much better than a Tesla. That's something
you might want to Pine about tonight. Also, but there's
five new brands coming Zeke for her Eyes on XPM
and four and IM well god yeah, and there's one

(17:24):
called the Box for every Cheap that's from Dong Feng
Lines free the lot of them. Welcome people. Twenty nine
away from nine. By the way. On Wallaby Watch, I
can let you know to I read a good article
today in the oddity. They're getting big on the Wallabies
and Duneda and all the hills around there. Yeah, they've
moved in the Wallabies so I think they've found twenty two.

(17:45):
So yeah, they're desperate to get rid of them. So
there's big efforts around there. Droned the full shebang. So yeah,
if you are in d'ned and be aware of the Wallabies.
They're in the hills and once they get there, they're
studying everything, terrible things. Bennett's Wallaby. They're saying this scene
Wallaby scat. I don't know what wallaby scatt looks like.

(18:07):
I don't know if I've got it on my farm. Actually,
oh yeah, is that wallaby scant looks pretty much like
sheep scat but slightly elongated. Yep, we know it all.
Twenty eight away from nine. I've pushed that mystery button
three times, Dan, do anything different happen? I've got my

(18:28):
headphones off now and yeah, so Chinese cars, have you
got one? Would you buy? When I opposed to them?
And the race course at Albaquino and the great race
courses were the one at Dargavill called Alwaquino point. So
discussion so far, tonight jump it if you want to
just chuck chiming when you feel you're up to it. People,

(18:52):
Oh eight, one hundred and eighty taty and nine nine
to text. There's the local body elections. You want to
vote this weekend? People, Next weekend's too late. Wednesday should
be okay, you really want to do it this weekend.
And by the way, this week is make your Christmas
cake week. It's twelve weeks to Christmas. This is the
time to do it.

Speaker 8 (19:12):
Do it, prough it.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
I wonder what time the rugby is The rugby's tomorrow night.
It's at ten forty five. It's at Perth. I say
that Tomighty Williams comes from Perth. I didn't know that
spent most of his life there. This day in history
in ninety five, O. J. Simpson acquitted. If the glove
fits a quit the Kadashian's father, He said that I
think it was him so quitting the killings of Nicole

(19:39):
Brown Simpson and Ronald Lyle Goldman today in ninety five,
that's thirty years ago today. So we aren't about to
You want to come through eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty Harbor is coming back ten fourteen against Southland and
the NPC. Just twenty minutes left in that south and

(20:00):
forteen Harbor ten the lines are free, looking forward to
your calls. Twenty four I'm Dylan at Smarcus Good evening.

Speaker 7 (20:09):
Yeah, it's gone.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
What's happening, Dylan?

Speaker 13 (20:13):
You know much just going for a late night walk
and here.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Late lovely weather, not that not that late for a
late night walk.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh you know it's like bed late night walk.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Would it still be light there?

Speaker 7 (20:28):
No, it's like out here, so that.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
Really time to get late night walk?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
What time to get dark?

Speaker 14 (20:37):
I'm gonna stuckering about seven.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Thirty years at eight o'clock and in the cargo. Ah
you in Chicago, Yes already it's later?

Speaker 11 (20:46):
Ay?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, Ucky man, what's the point of the walk.

Speaker 15 (20:54):
I'm going to get ice cream for my wife.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh really, well, yeah, I didn't expect you to have
a wife. What would he get here?

Speaker 16 (21:06):
I'm going for the trumpet, the strawberry flavor.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh yeah, boison bree, I think.

Speaker 16 (21:13):
No, boison bery, strawberry.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't think this is a strawberry. True, it must
be poisono bree.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Is it?

Speaker 14 (21:25):
No, I'm pretty sure it's strawberry. I'm literally going through
Willies right now.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
I'm pretty sure it's strawberry.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
I've never seen a strawberry trumpet.

Speaker 14 (21:35):
What I think one?

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh yeah, tiptop trumpet, strawberry, Yeah, never had it? Oh
you buy the do you?

Speaker 14 (21:46):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
A pack of forum?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Then will you wrap that in paper?

Speaker 17 (21:51):
To walk?

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Homeras it not that long a walk?

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Okay?

Speaker 18 (21:56):
Three for a minute, walks?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Okay, I appreciate the check.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
Good luck?

Speaker 10 (22:01):
What this makes terrible news?

Speaker 17 (22:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
What does?

Speaker 16 (22:09):
I ran and talked about ice cream?

Speaker 2 (22:12):
It's good, It's all good, Dn. What makes it work?

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Go around?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
In fact, I've got to say I've got quite to
say about ice cream. I was looking at the ice
cream selection today in the fridge at the soupermarket, and
it's all gone too high end. It's all Magnums and trumpets,
and once upon a time it was all more like

(22:35):
dippers and ice blocks, but something. They're all five or
six dollars. It's all gone high end for adults. I
don't think there's a selection for children. There once was,
or children started wanting them, demanding the more extravagant ones.
Something's gone on there. The other thing I've noticed, if
you buy a magnum of some such thing, there's shrink flation.

(22:57):
They've made the top of it pointed. There used to
be a nice gentle crowd, a nice gentle round and
think of a topsy or it was gonna say, dipsy,
think of a jelly tipper, a topper topsy. And they
were not parallel sides with a nice gentle end at
the round end at the end like a cricket mat.
Now they're pointed. They're shrinking the damn things down. Karpati

(23:20):
is the worst. Kapit the ice cream is one of
the greatest scams of all time. If you're really strong
about how poor they are, they look good. Oh you
think cappit te, you think all passion fruit and karmahee honey.
Then you get this terrible torpedo shaped disappointment on a stick.
I just like the big basics, like a t d

(23:41):
terror or all that sort of milk, sort of milky
ones like a dipper or a joy bar. But no, no,
goodness me, it's all these sort of extravagant things that
taste terrible. I blame Fonterra. Bruce Marcus, welcome. You're on
the air, Bruce, Bruce. I'll put them back to you, Dan,

(24:05):
can you sort them out? You might run you got
on to that then copy copy cup well Bruce Marcus, welcome, Hivece.

Speaker 19 (24:18):
Yeah, okay, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah that and clear now I can didn't talk before.

Speaker 19 (24:23):
Oh I was talking. I was talking away. But yeah,
it must have been trouble with the line or something.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, trouble a line.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 19 (24:32):
I took my took one of my boys down to
the Deery not so long ago, and I'd see that
you can get an ice cream and then so I'm
looking at the prices.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh my god, yeah, exactly, like six dollars or something.

Speaker 15 (24:48):
Yeah, there was.

Speaker 19 (24:50):
Yeah, well just you know the ones that you buy
out of the tip top freezer there. Yeah, and he
so he grabbed this Oreo thing and it was five
bucks and it was he used to be able to
get them, you know, twenty years ago, but they were
like two dollars and even the you know, the cheap ones,

(25:14):
the cheapest one you can get is two dollars fifty.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
Is it like is it like an ice blog?

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Well?

Speaker 19 (25:23):
Yeah, yeah, and you know like the old what are
you calling the rocky roads in there?

Speaker 12 (25:31):
I remember there.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
Should all those for the kids, the basic ones.

Speaker 19 (25:35):
Yeah, I mean, you know, you used to be able
to get the Buffalo bill for like ninety cents or something,
you know, and it had a bubble gum? Was the bubble.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
You know, you're that buffalo bell, right? Yeah? I think
it's called a bubble o bell because it's referring to
the bubble gum.

Speaker 19 (25:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I might have seen buffalo, but
yeah bubblo yeah yeah, I love.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I love a bubblo bell, tremendous because you've got that
bubble gum on the end of it the nose.

Speaker 20 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (26:06):
So yeah, I don't even know if you can get
them anymore.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
But saw them today?

Speaker 19 (26:12):
Oh how and how much was it?

Speaker 7 (26:13):
They?

Speaker 8 (26:13):
Just remember?

Speaker 11 (26:14):
I buy one.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Because I was looking for something. I was looking for
something cheap and cheer for, like a grape fruit or something.
With all these it's all full of magna. I'm not
into that stuff because they're all disappointing.

Speaker 19 (26:25):
I always think, well, and they're a lot smaller too
that you know everything.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
They got a pointed end.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, and what did the kid want?

Speaker 2 (26:36):
And did the kid want an Oreo's thing?

Speaker 19 (26:39):
Yeah, you grabbed it and then we ended up. It
was only a dollar more to get a four pack of.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Trumpets.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Okay?

Speaker 14 (26:50):
Is that right?

Speaker 8 (26:51):
They have one?

Speaker 19 (26:52):
You can have one for five dollars, or you can
have four for six dollars.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
No, that's crazy. That's ripping off the kid, isn't it.
Because they wouldn't want four, They wouldn't go to that
part of the fridge door.

Speaker 19 (27:04):
But I want the area and I shi still expensive,
you know for what you get?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Bruce, what is the What is the oreo?

Speaker 19 (27:13):
So it's basically just a big well not that big,
but it's like an orio but it's ice cream, so
it's got ice cream in the middle and sort of
cookie on the outside. It's like a big, big oreo basically.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Bather, they've got them in the South Island. Are you
in the South Island?

Speaker 19 (27:30):
No, Hawk's Bay. It's like a ice cream sandwich, pretty
you know sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
No, you had nothing wrong with that, but I've never
seen it.

Speaker 19 (27:41):
Yeah, well there used to be something else. They've always
been around. It wasn't always Oreo, it was something else.
You could always sort of get them. But now Orios,
you know, got the product and it's smaller and more expensive.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
So did your son two trumpets each?

Speaker 19 (28:02):
So I just said one of my boys that night.
So I said, well, you know, you you have one
now and then you can have one tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
And yeah, that makes sense. Well it sounded like good parenting, Bruce,
Thank you. Sixteen to nine. Keep it going. Someone's raving
about Rachel Hunter on Tyler Henry Hollywood Medium. Didn't see that,
Marcus Allen from The Wee Red Barn. Here we did
our first pick of strawberries this season, one twenty kilos.
Bring it on, yep, guarted no banana chocolate chip ice

(28:33):
cream at Peck and Save these days. Oh what's with
the bullet hole in the hat of the Bubblo bill?
That should be out lord loll I've never seen the
bullet hole in the bubblo I've had a Bubblo bill.
I didn't even know there were thing until I had kids,
But I didn't know there was a bullet hole in it.
And we just look at a picture of that. Oh

(28:55):
that's bad, isn't it. That is bad. That's some that's
encouraging shooting of people or near missus. Think they would
have been that after everything we've been through. Had an
idea that is shot in the hat. Oh I turn
at eight Teddy and nineteen Chinese cars. You got a

(29:16):
Chinese car? Do you want a Chinese car? What about
a Chinese car? And then when it comes to the
battery ones, they're the pick of the litter, are they?
You might want to mentioned that fifteen to nine, twelve
to nine, looks like the covers are coming off. Doug,
it's Marcus, welcome, are you then? Doug? Yeah, Marcus.

Speaker 18 (29:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (29:41):
This is a little bit off topic. You were talking
about ice creams and things, and they all seem horrendously
expensive for me and my kids are all grown up
of course, only have grandchildren now. But I was thinking
back to the fifties and we used to go to
the pictures and it cost you one and three to
go upstairs at the Majestic and Upper Hut, and there
were only two you know, you seem to have a

(30:03):
big range nowadays. There were only two in those days.
A chocolate bomb, which was just a sort of a
basically just a tubular piece of ice cream with chocolate
around it, and that.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Was some.

Speaker 14 (30:19):
Sixpence, which I suppose it's five cents if you're just
to invert. But I'm not sure what a shilling comes
to nowadays, like in terms of what it's changed, so
I don't quite know how much it's changed. But you
could also get a you could get a lump of
ice cream between two bits of material for fourpence and

(30:41):
we'll usually get used to get we had usually had
one of nine or something one shilling and nine pence
and we used to get an upstairs seat at the
front with them, probably a chocolate bomb. But it's amazing, Doug.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
I think we need to acknowledge the chocolate bomb's cone
because it was a well built squat own, wasn't it.
That was the miracle was the cone.

Speaker 14 (31:05):
O The cone was wonder The thing about it is
that you you tended to get those because you just
got more value for money. I mean there was, there was,
there was. There was quite a lot of ice cream
and quite a lot of chocolate, and there was nice.
You know, they're well made.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
A love months all you need simple speed, And now
there's too much stuff you don't need karma hee honey
and passion for you, where chop barm would be good.

Speaker 14 (31:28):
Well, kids don't I mean kids they may go for
some particular They had their own particular one they like.
You know, you'd throw good saying kids don't like things
because they immediately do. I mean, it's that's the way
they work. But I'm just wondering how much it's actually
because it's jumped in bits like there wasn't was a
cheaper period in the seventies eighties. I think I'm not

(31:51):
sure whether it was the eighties, probably the seventies there
was a period when things hadn't gone up so much,
we didn't seem to. But this latest loot seems to
have certainly jumped to get a quadrum loop.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I yeah, And I think it's slightly more complicated than that.
What what they've realized, what Fonterra or Tiptop have realized,
is there's more money, so they've gone for a more
sophisticated adult market with all these five and six dollar things,
and your basic kid market's been abandoned. There's not the
ice blocks or that you're you're cheap and cheerful ones,
your dippers and stuff like that anymore. It's all these

(32:23):
these magniums and these things being sold has been decadent
and it's just a it's just a marketing croc.

Speaker 14 (32:30):
When it comes right down to it. Kids are not silly,
but adults practically are.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
They're like they said that, you're onto it, and.

Speaker 14 (32:37):
They're terrible with buying stuff that kids would like them.
Really they shouldn't. They shouldn't be eating it at all.
I suppose know what it does to you.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
Some of the stuff kills you.

Speaker 14 (32:46):
But I mean, there's nothing wrong with going out and
having a treat. But but but it's starting to look
more ridiculous if you had if you had four or
five kids. It's a good thing we haven't got big families.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh, very good point you make too, But I thank
you Doug. By the way, not only is there a
Bubblo bill, there's also a Bubbalo Jill.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
Who knew.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
A Bubblo jill is an ice cream? Why don't we know?
I think it might be a nassy thing. I don't know.
If we get a bubblojill here. Apparently Bubblogill is responsible
for the bullet hole and bubblo Bill's hat. Yep, two
dollars fifty in Australia for a bubblo Jill blend of strawberry,
chocolate and caramel with the bubblegum nose that runs in

(33:34):
the family. It's a recent thing. This article is from
I can't see the date. I think the date is given.
Time is kind of an article. Seven away from nine.
By the way, two new strains of COVID causing concerning
the UK. There is one called Nimbus and one called Stratus. Yep,

(33:54):
Nimbus gives you raizor blade throat. Doesn't sound pleasant. They're
saying a mask up again. Nimbus and Stratus. They're just
be coming into winter though, you see.

Speaker 17 (34:07):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
That's what's happening, Nimbus and Stratus. Tiredness and a fever. Wow,
Nimbus and Stratus. Can't think of the old dove strains
we had? Delta was that one for a long long time?
Five away from nine to take one more call before
the news. You want to come through there quickly.

Speaker 17 (34:25):
Money.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
It's about Chinese cars. I'd like to hear hear more
about that. By the way, there's been another blow to
the All Blacks. Tupo v ruled out knee injury. It's
what happened left that to the end, didn't they. There's
just been announced. Off the hot, off the press and
the rugby, Oh Harbor and the leads. It's fifteen fourteen.

(34:49):
How long lift to go?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Wow, that's going to be their only win of the season,
is it? How could southn manage to lose? Thats to
think they had the shield? Wow, it's full time. They've lost.
So two of the players got stood down and I
never quite knew what that was about. It all seemed
to go bad from there. It's devastating. Oh well, it

(35:20):
is what it is. People, Chinese cars and the Dargavill
racetrack I'm keen to talk about particularly. I don't know
if there's many because only one horse racing. There's only
one racecourse of the North Island now sorry North of
Auckland now Rua Kaka. Well, there used to be one
in Fargarda, there used to be one in Dargaville. Now

(35:42):
there's just the one. Because there must be people breding
horses up there. You'd think. I don't know that, but
i'd imagine that to Ron about tonight. If you want
to talk about this or anything else, feel free come
through eight hundred and eighty ten eighty if you are
text nine to nine two, email Marcus at newstalk z'b
dot co dot ended anything else, I'm here for you.

(36:03):
I can't believe that about the cricket. Sorry, the cricket's
not on. They're just playing some silly old thing on
TV and dead. A lot of people sitting around laughing
at each other. I don't know what that don't know
what that is? What's it called? Are playing a podcast?
One of what the production values with slight looks like

(36:23):
a podcast? Oh well, I'll be surprised if any cricket tonight,
it'll be ten ten, be t ten if it does
start a free kind Texas texted me to tell me
that the strawberry trumpet was just about six months ago.
How would you know. I've seen no advertisements for it.
I don't think I might have come to the South Island.
But there we go. That is that, and welcome to

(36:44):
the Friday free for all people as anything goes tonight.
But mainly we have well mainly I be ken to
talk aout at Chinese cars with four new brands coming
to New Zealand, what do you want to talk about those?
And also the end of race courses. Now we've lost
the one Albuquno point, which is Dargavill's course, Like, that's
a shame. You might have some memories from there. Know

(37:06):
how many race meets there would have been a year there?
I think there was a few. That's two of the
things we can talk about tonight. Anything else you want
to talk about too, That's what I am here for.
I would like to You might be out doing something
interesting tonight. You might be a nubarist or just driving
around town. The cricket. I've got shots of the cricket again.

(37:28):
There's two umpires walking. Everyone's wearing those terrible ponchos, those
plastic things. Buy a raincoat. The umpires are touching the ground.
Looks like there will be some cricket. But I don't
know how many overs is there? Any wouldn't how many

(37:48):
overs are a down real grass touching This guy crouching
down the whole way touching the grass, sort it out, mate,
and then dusting his hands off like he's got a
touching phobia. Can't touch it again. Ah, it's about to
say there he goes a third time, but they're both down.

(38:09):
Now that's why I wipe your hands. Your ocdist cheap as.
Now there's a guy came out with the whole of pads.
What are they fort to work out? How I was
going to test out them? Oh, they're the pads to
work out where you're bowling. Run up is from. Looks
like there will be some cricket, but need some talk back.
Also tonight calls calls, calls. You might have heard the
Taylor Swift album or the video today. That's a big thing.

(38:31):
Don't know where I's going to get you going tonight,
but would like to hear from you. Come on, let's
be a part of it.

Speaker 17 (38:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Oh, by the way, Peter Jackson's going to build a
specialist veterinary hospital. Yep, I don't know what the point
of that. They said animal welfare is the subject. Dear
to our hearts, we have previously had to transport our

(39:01):
own pets to Auckland for urgent specialist care by the
wonderful team at AARC which is ARC Vets. They must
be vets for the rich and famous. We Valentonians and
their pets deserve to facility of this caliber close to

(39:22):
home that they can call on when the need arises.
Oh so I said, it's a commercial enterprise. It's not charity.
So I don't know anything about that. Everyone knows about
AARC doesn't even know they're animal people. So there's that.
That's some information for you. Eleven past nine. If you

(39:43):
want to be a part of the show, Marcus still
twelve looking forward to you and put tonight what have
you got? Come on, let's be hearing from it as
the Friday free for all it to make the show
bubble along if you can love to hear from you
and taping your mouth sha and shut at night to
breathe better. Are there any mouth tapers out there? That
was my main topic for tonight. I've forgotten that was there.

(40:07):
Mike is surely there can't be any cricket by this time.
It will only be ten overs each t ten Yeah,
they'd be mind us. What would that be? Sixty balls?
Come on, but tear from you because by the nature
of the text I'm getting, most people are on it.

(40:29):
People are texting random stuff, but if you want to
be part of the show. That's the whole plan for tonight.
As I say, do get in touch. If you want
to be part of it, I'll throw it all the
topics out there. That's a grab bag of stories for you.
South and has lost the rugby narrowly. There's basketball tonight too,

(40:53):
but not in the mood for that yet. Here we go,
get in touch. Twelve past nine, Stewart, this is Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 12 (41:10):
Marcus. The word Stewart, yeah good, the the word yeah yeah,
the word nixt Now they say you're going to be
next in the thing, but then we get the weather
before you.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
The next person, the next thing on is going to be.

Speaker 12 (41:39):
Yeah, yeah, Do you understand what I'm talking about?

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Next?

Speaker 8 (41:43):
Not?

Speaker 18 (41:45):
Not really.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
I think we've had that before, Stewart. No time for me,
Stuart for that, Larry Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 18 (41:52):
Oh Marcus you it was just you're interested and you
said the racecourse closing down up north there. Yeah yeah,
Well as a kid, I joined the Seeing Stables in
nineteen fifty nine, tacking it. I don't know if that's
still going and.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
As a training houses it's probably all houses now, is it.

Speaker 18 (42:17):
I would imagine.

Speaker 10 (42:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, but did North of Auckland have a strong racing
industry there for a while?

Speaker 21 (42:24):
I think so.

Speaker 18 (42:25):
I had an ancestor of sorts, guy named Sydney Hodge
who trained out of Takaphna. Really that was about the
eighteen nineties, you know.

Speaker 10 (42:37):
So.

Speaker 18 (42:39):
Yeah, And I'm.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Looking remembering the old time Spanner facebook page. I think
Devenport had a race course and you can almost see
where it was. It's nar a reserve almost in their own.

Speaker 18 (42:52):
Neck that I think that'd be the same one. Yeah,
it's supposedly trained Devenport.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, yeah, might have been on reclaimed lands. Yeah.

Speaker 18 (43:03):
Yeah, did you speak race years ago?

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Have you been to races at we.

Speaker 18 (43:11):
Would have done the Yeah, we would have.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Yeah, we used to up there.

Speaker 18 (43:19):
Back in those days.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
It was called Victoria Park in Devonport. Was the original one?

Speaker 17 (43:26):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I think you can see.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
It on Google maps. Yeah, what was you you remember
what your grandfather's horse was called.

Speaker 18 (43:35):
A Bunch of Horses. His name was Sydney Hodge.

Speaker 11 (43:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Looking at the list, there was a looking at the list,
there was a racecourse at why Papa Cody. There's a
racecourse at Cawaka there was a racecourse at Rawani. There
was a racecourse at Kensington, which is when there was
the Port racecourse. There was the Rua Kaka racecourse, which
is still there. There was a racecourse at Waipoo. There
was a racecourse at helensvill There's a racecourse at Takapuna.

(44:03):
There's one at Takanini, there was one at on Hunger. Wow,
there was a lot. Half of them would still be around. Jeepers, Jim,
this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Hey Marcus, how are you tonight?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Very good? Thank you, Jim, how are you going?

Speaker 4 (44:27):
All right?

Speaker 3 (44:29):
Yeah, live in the dream, Live in the dream.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
You know how it is?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
We like, yeah, two things. Firstly, your man just then
there's nothing left in Tacaniny. It's all gone. The training track.
I don't think it was ever actually a proper racecourse there.
There was a training track and they used to have
what they called equalizator meetings there and yeah that was it.
I don't remember a full on race track there, but

(44:56):
it was a big training center and tack kind of
a huge.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Huge And this might sound weird, Jim, but as tekanin,
he's still there.

Speaker 14 (45:06):
Yeah, but do you know, because you never hear about that.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
You never hear about that anymore, do you Did they
get taken over by ard More or by maddaewa?

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Do you know why? Because it's not taka Nini anymore.
It's takka nini. It's gone from t a k a
to t a k a a. That's why everyone's confused.
They don't know what to call it. So they go
to Papakura more on Monriwa.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Okay, here we go with the smallest suburb though, wasn't it.
I mean it's not nearly as big as Papakula. Well, yeah,
it was tiny in there anyway, that's interesting. Yeah, okay, well.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
It's probably twice the size of Papaka now okay.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
And the racecourse is the racecourse is? I can see
a little bit on Google Maps. It was on Bestian
Dry Battalion Drive, was it?

Speaker 3 (45:58):
But further north on Portchester Road, coming up to Pope's
Road on an intersection, there's a big spark have got
a data center there now on the corner and there's
a little bit of the track left, but it's being
developed into housing.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
And industrial port Chester and.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Popes Pope's Road, the Opes that's on that corner there
and just to the south of Pope's Road is where
the training track was.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Yeah, okay, long gone. You found it there, yep, yep,
I can see it all now see the data center.
You can quite clearly see a lot of the racetrack.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Actually, yeah, yeah, there's a little bit of the racetrack
left there. But as I said, I don't think that
was ever a proper race course as such. But they
did used to have equalizata meetings where you could only
bet the fifty cents and it was sort of like
a lucky dip.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
But there was a few horse trainers. There wasn't John
Walker horse training there.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Yeah, on Jillings who was heats to them? There is
a heat from Melbourne Cup.

Speaker 9 (47:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
And take my wife when she was only little she
rode one of the Melbourne Cup winners for Colin Jilly.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Wow, are you fro? Are you from there?

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Born? Well, not born and bred, but lived there for
the last fifty odd years since we've been married.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
And then there was the famous case. Then there was
the famous case of the woman that murdered her husband
who was a race trainer. Do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Oh shit, yes I do? Oh sorry, I mean yes
I do, but I can't remember the.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Name because I only know that because she was she
befriended one of the Rainbow Worry of people. Then she
was in jail. It was quite a famous story about
that one. I forget her name. She was a hairdresser.

Speaker 8 (47:52):
Oh yeah, nah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, I do remember it, but just vague. You go,
but you go but lely when you get older and
you forget things, so you reckon. I reckon, mate, You've
got to You've got to look forward to you, No,
I hope not. Hey, Chinese cars, mate, Chinese cars. So

(48:16):
I bought one for my first Uber car, well first
Uber e V, and it was an MG, an MG
z S e V and it was Chinese born and bred.
And when I looked at it, I looked at two others.

(48:37):
I looked at a b y D, which is Korean,
and I looked at a HERE, which is also Korean.
And the b y D was the only true electric
car built from the ground up, and the MG was
a converted petrol car. Anyway, bang for buck, and being

(49:00):
a retired tensioner, you know money is important. The MG
was ten thousand dollars less than the equivalent spec for
a BYD and it had all the same features. It
wasn't as good a car, but it was still a
good car, and it had it had a seven year

(49:25):
unlimited case warranty, and that's why I bought it. I thought, well,
if something goes wrong, they'll fix it. And nothing went wrong.
But because I'm quite a big guy, it was I
just felt that it was just a little bit small
for me.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
So then I moved to the.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Dark side and got a test and I loved it.
I love them a testless because.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
I thought Chinese battery cars were the future though, but yeah,
how long did you get your Tesla?

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Well I'm on the third one now, mate, I just
got this one. Only a few. I love them, but
they they're quite different to the Chinese make the good
cars make me there's nothing wrong with it, And I
never thought i'd say that because I'm a pixel head
from way way back, and when the MG's first came out,

(50:17):
I thought, oh God, what's all this about. They've They've
done very well. I probably wouldn't buy one for choice,
you know, I'd buy one for a purpose, but not
not as a driving car. To say, like, the Testra

(50:38):
is a much better car to drive, So if you
enjoy driving Traineese is probably not the way to go
just yet. I think they'll get there, but not just yet.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
How long do the Teslas last? You're not that long
by the sound of things.

Speaker 6 (50:52):
No, No, they last.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
I just I'm just you tell them at three years
or something?

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Do you make them more like three months? Make you listen.
I'll tell you this. This, this is, this is so
my last one. It was the Performance Model and it
was just coming up to one hundred thousand k's and
I thought I'd get it serviced, just because that's what

(51:17):
you do normally. The testa will tell you when it
needs something done. I booked it in with Tesla and
they were going to change the break fluid, they were
going to update the firm we're of the computer, they
were going to rotate the tires, do something else, and
then do all the other things that they do in
a service. You check stuff in that checkland wipers, and

(51:39):
groom it. One hundred navy dollars. I couldn't believe it, man,
it was so cheap. One hundred and eighty dollars. There's
just nothing needs doing. And then they offered the good deal. Yeah,
they're offering me a good deal to trade it. So
I traded it with them and got the same thing again.

(52:03):
But two years Durre and only twelve thousand.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Okay, when when when win?

Speaker 11 (52:11):
Mate?

Speaker 15 (52:12):
Are you are you?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Are you ubering tonight?

Speaker 7 (52:14):
Jim?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I'm ubering as we speak. Mate. It's it's been weird
outing you tonight. That's yeah, been a good night, so.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Nice to hear from you, Jim. Sorry, they've got a
bit of a problem with their button. Dan. Just look
at the T twenty. How many overs does it?

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Please?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Oh? Nine, it'll be nine overs. It starts at nine
thirty nine six is fifty four. You'd want to get
you'd want to get twenty and over. You just want
to go healthful leather. You just want to bang it.
You want to bang it. Pepper nui, pepper row. I

(52:52):
can't remember the suburbs. You want to be bang it
through to Papa Moer. That's what you want to be doing.
Seven minutes away, Michelle, this is Marcus.

Speaker 13 (53:02):
Welcome, oh night, to tell you tonight for.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Good thanking Michelle. How are you tonight, Michelle?

Speaker 13 (53:09):
I'm okay, thanks, not that great now. I'm just going
to let you know on behalf of my mother who's
been listening to you on the radio ever since you
ever started on the radio. She passed away very suddenly
last week, and you were just the number one and

(53:29):
for the last five years or so she got me
on to listen to you, and now it's like I'm
doing it. And we every morning we'd ring up and
we'd talk about the show and things that had come
up in the show. And so I just wanted to
say that you've just made such a difference in so
many people's lives, and you've touched my life, and you

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really touched her life, and it just yeah, because she
couldn't sleep very well at night because she had osteois writers,
so she'd be lying awake listening to you every night.
So congrats relations you've you've really.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
It's so nice you've caught that Michelle.

Speaker 11 (54:10):
Was she.

Speaker 13 (54:12):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Was she someone that I would have spoken to.

Speaker 13 (54:16):
She probably didn't ring up that often because she was
in a lot of pain at night, so I wouldn't
say that she would have run very much. But I
thought to myself, I'm going to ring for her because
I know how much means a lot, how much she
had ye, how much love and appreciation she had for you,
and and it gave her so much relief from all

(54:38):
the pain she had. Wow, thank you.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Was she Michaell? What part of the country was she in?

Speaker 13 (54:46):
She lived in Well, she lived in Manorrewa, just in
South aud Yeah. Yeah, so so all the very best.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Was she in her eighties?

Speaker 13 (55:02):
She was eighty four. But she did half away very suddenly.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Yep, it was not expected.

Speaker 13 (55:09):
No, well, I guess life. I mean, this is always
part of life. But it wasn't expected. She went very
very quickly, and I was happy to be And then
christ it's visiting my sons and my sister sort of
went around you when no one could get hold of her.
But I believe she's in a better place, even though
it doesn't really make it easier. But but I'll never

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forget the joy that she actually had and listening to
you at night when she was in so much pain,
and often she bring me up, They hurry up. I
hope you listen to the radio. What market's talking about tonight?

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Oh, Michelle, I wonder if.

Speaker 13 (55:51):
You're sorry? Carry on?

Speaker 22 (55:53):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
We both.

Speaker 13 (55:56):
Yeah, I just yeah, we we both sort of relate
to what you say a lot and agree with you.

Speaker 16 (56:04):
Know your your point of view.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
I wonder if you'll keep listening, Michelle, because you wanted
that to talk. You want of that conversation on the
back of it.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
You've already got me hopped.

Speaker 13 (56:15):
You've already got me because I had an excellent a
few years ago where I'm a big exitent with my
back so and I don't sleep that well either. But
I'll be listening. Don't you worry about that. I'll be listening.
I listen every night and it sounds awful. But if
you're not on, I don't. I'm not.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
That's brutal, you know, not mind you people. Yeah, Michelle,
to be fair, I've got about twelve weeks holiday. I'm
turning up. I haven't had a holiday this year.

Speaker 13 (56:50):
Yep, yep. I had feeling that that might have been
coming because you've made a comment last week. You see
something about, oh, I can't say anything neat or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
No, I just say I just say that because I'm
bored to I just say that to create intrigue. There's
nothing in that, Michelle.

Speaker 13 (57:08):
Oh okay, okay, Well, when you do just like to
deserve it, when you do have you really do deserve one.
You definitely deserve a holiday because you worked so hard,
and people that get on the phone and moan and
moan about this twenty hours one night had they had
a conversation about it, and I was sort of thinking,

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by you, all you do is rop up every night
and just decide what you're going to say, decide what
you're going to do. I can imagine that you spend
hours and hours going through topics and things like that,
looking on it, see what happened in the world, And
I thought these people were just living in La la land.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
You've made by night, Michelle, thank you so much for that.
You stay the families on Holida at the moment. By
the way, you want to saying Vanessa on Breakfast TV.
Did anyone see that and thought there'd be some texts
about that touting for a new principle anyway, Michelle, love you,
Thank you so much for that. Wow, gosh, Ja means

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a lot to me that, Caul, thank you so much, Michelle,
and thanks for ringing too. Twenty seven away from two
for none after the first over, which is poor start
for Australia. Mind you, if you want to, if you
want a T nine match, would you celebrate, would you
think that's just an aberration.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Of the weather.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
T nine, what's that needs to be?

Speaker 11 (58:31):
T five.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Needs to be coming out for one ball? John, This
is Marcus.

Speaker 21 (58:36):
Welcome Hi Marcus. Of course you celebrate if you if
you had beaten the Aussies, but whether it takes dying
overs or teen overs or whatever, we'll wait.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
Quite often support, quite often support Australia and sport.

Speaker 21 (58:53):
Yeah, I often support the underdog because.

Speaker 18 (58:57):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
I like it when the arrogant, the arrogant favorite gets beaten.

Speaker 21 (59:03):
Yeah. But anyway, Marcus, I'm not talking of Quicker, but
my wife, she has cancer and she's having respite care
and nurse board at the moment, which she's thoroughly enjoying,
and nurse board hospital. She's not in the hospice, she's

(59:23):
still just in the hospital part. And they're very attentive
and excellent staff. I think why they look at the
color of their skin. I think most of the staff
seem to be imported. But what I'm getting at is

(59:45):
that because of her cancer in her spine and it's
now spread out to her ribs, she needs a special mattress.
Now the hospital are charging an extra twenty five dollars
a day for this mattress. And that's the prised me

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that I thought were going to hospital the mattress would
be included.

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Well, what an unnecessary pressure for you and everyone to
have to come up with money for a mattress with
someone's got a terminal cancer.

Speaker 21 (01:00:23):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
I'm sad to hear. I'm sad and sorry to hear that, John,
because I can hear in your voice that you are,
that you're You've got a kind smile to your face,
and that's probably a irritation that you don't need.

Speaker 21 (01:00:36):
No, it's it's tough, Marcus. But whatever life throws at you.
You seem to most people seem to cope at the moment.
I'm coping, but it's not easy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Were never given more than they say, We're never given
more than we can cope with. But that's a bit fatuous,
isn't it, Because I'm sure something you've got You've got
children in christ Church with you.

Speaker 21 (01:01:02):
Yes, I've got two adult soddens here and christ Church.
One that works for Fonterra, but he's so bloody busy
at the moment. When Fonterra sellinger off to a French company,
it seems to involve him considerably.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
So.

Speaker 21 (01:01:22):
He's running around like a yeah, flirt of fit, but no.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Uh.

Speaker 21 (01:01:29):
I was just wondered if anybody else had experienced having
to pay sort of an extra to get something that
would accommodate their condition in a hospital I known their borders.
Is not the public system as such. It does get
some government support, but most of it lies on I

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think the generosity of others.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
And what's the matris. What's the matrice made out of?

Speaker 21 (01:01:59):
Well, I don't know, but it seems on the on
the end of the bed. It's got to call of
the machine, but it's it's got dials on it, and
I can think it can set it. I'm not sure
whether they can set it to a particular temperature, but
I think it vibrates slightly so that she's not lying

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on a surface where she's likely your bed saws and
things like that. So so I just wondered if this
sort of thing was par for the course. Interesting to
hear any comments back, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
I don't know much about the nurse mord system, but John,
this might be an indelicate question, but is she likely
to be there for a while?

Speaker 21 (01:02:53):
She thinks she's not going to be. She's only in
there for two weeks at the moment, and then she's
adamant she's coming home, and she's adamant. I'm going to
look after her and keep cooking lovely onion omlets. But
I do get tired when you have to walk down

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the hall with her in a walking frame and make
sure she gets seated on the toilet, and you stand
out the door and for five minutes, and then she says, oh, dear, sorry,
I don't think I needed to go at all. It
all gets a bit frustrating, but you bite the bullet
and escort her back to a chair where she can

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watch something on television that she's probably not comprehending because
she's half full of morphine and fent and old patches
and Paris to row and oh you name it. She's
on it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Nice to hear from you, John, keep in touch, Thank
you very much. There twenty one to ten, so I've
got a lot to tell you. The cricket sixteen for one,
marsh On nine short on too. There was a wicket
on the third ball, but now it's raining again, so
she's been a bit of hit And hope I got
the lines there free. We're talking about Chinese cars. We're
also talking about having to pay for your own mattress

(01:04:16):
at Nurse Maud and taping your mouth shut at night
so you breathe through your nose. Mouth taping.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
They call that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
It is the Friday free for all. That's the free
for all. That is Friday. If there's something else you
want to mention, good races at Devenport closed due to fatalities.
The track raced anti clockwise. Marcus. My wife's naise every
night shakes the house. I haven't set my whole married life.

(01:04:47):
Just put that mouth tape to try for the first
time tonight. Keen to hear if anyone's had some success.

Speaker 8 (01:04:53):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:04:55):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Devenport race Course on reclaimed land and now Allison Park
named after you and Allison. Alison Park is a sheared
park and golf club. You and Alison was the mirror
Devonport except the racecourse. Who also built the pumphouse by
Lake Poop, Pooky and Takapuna to provide water to Devonport.
Some friends live in you and Allison's old villa, and

(01:05:16):
you and Allison a Devonport namh Nui nerve of Millwater
Gosh that's a good text. Move Wow, that's a good text.
Get in touch, Marcus. I would imagine the twenty five extras.
Because she's in respite care. You have to pay extra
for your own bathroom too. Being a care for a
loved one is exhausting emotionally and physically. My heart breaks

(01:05:38):
for that man. The system's buggered. My mother had a
stroke and required one of those mattresses at Burwood Hospital
and was never charged. However, Nurse Moard may have a
different structure, which is really sad to hear when people
are in a situation they don't wish to be in.
Sounded like a pretty complicated mattress too, didn't it that
vibrated and with heat centers and things. Gillet's Marcus.

Speaker 10 (01:06:01):
Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 23 (01:06:04):
I'm just a quick worried about matres. They're called ripple mattresses,
so they undulate up and down the dead sort of thing.
You know, they stay in one place, but they ripple
and and temperature control. I'm not sure. I know that
my husband was on one when he was in hospital.

(01:06:25):
They're about three to three and a half thousand dollars
for one, and that gentleman will probably be best to
buy one because his wife is going to need one
if she comes home for that price, you know, and
then you can I.

Speaker 6 (01:06:40):
Don't know want.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Yeah, it's a good point. I don't know if they're
going to help. There's a lot of fairthing around for
moving them.

Speaker 23 (01:06:46):
I'd think, well, it's pretty good at doing that sort
of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:51):
Yeah, it might be. Where would you buy them from?

Speaker 23 (01:06:54):
Oh, I've just gone out of Google search. But I
know that they are available, and you know, if he
could look into that, He's got probably of contact with
his sons and sods like that, and they'll make Keven
the nurse work for them.

Speaker 14 (01:07:11):
Ma'am.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Yeah, nice to hear from it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:13):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
By the way, it's raining at the cricket. Everyone's leaving.
Looks like it's not coming back.

Speaker 17 (01:07:18):
Look.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
So that was at seven balls seven ball wonder. I
feel for your caller, John. I worked in a senior
role in age care for city. I believe the mattress
will be a pressure relief mattress. We never charged for
the use of these. John needs to check the contract
is with nurse maud as in the fine print this
charge may be mentioned. Get in touch if you want
to talk. Fourteen to nine fourteen to ten. That's call

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it that the word for the cricket. It's raining again.
If it's still raining in thirty minutes, it's over.

Speaker 6 (01:07:45):
Over.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
But there's a chance it could be back on. I
think the forecast for the weekend is really average. Much
of the country is in for a week. There's a
big low. Yeah, it's put a kia wash on what
I had planned. Nick, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:08:07):
Hey Marcus, Hey. I would just like to make a
big shout out to the agricultural sector. I live in
a provincial town in Taranaki, and I have two daughters
who go to a girls school in Taranaki. And today
I took my girls to a calf sale and Taranaki

(01:08:35):
and they do agriculture and horticulture at their school.

Speaker 11 (01:08:40):
And it was a.

Speaker 16 (01:08:43):
Cheap, a free event and they got so much They
got so much pleasure out of just going to a
calf sale.

Speaker 8 (01:08:57):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
And I think I think that is when you when
you say, when you say it was a free event,
this was just your standard calf sale, was it.

Speaker 16 (01:09:07):
So it was a four day, four day old feeder
castile and Taranaki, and we just went on and had
a look and it was fantastic, Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:09:23):
It was.

Speaker 16 (01:09:24):
It was just a great, great thing. And I think
it is fantastic that ka kids can go along, I
can go along and in check this kind of stuff up.
And I think.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Love to hear from you, Nick, Thank you teen to
ten Neil. This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
Hello there, Marcus. I just share my Chinese cash story.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Yes, please, thank you sir.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
Well, when I was a young fella, I had an
m G, a two seater, and I just loved it.
And three years ago we're all now. My wife and
I said we'll get our last car and I said, oh,
I want an MG and you there made in China,
but I was seduced by the name.

Speaker 22 (01:10:14):
You know.

Speaker 6 (01:10:15):
Anyway, we got an MG pH ev petro and electric,
and do you know it was marvelous, one or two
people says buying Chinese. But it had a seven year
comprehensive warranty. I thought, it can't be that bad. Marvelous car,
seven cameras, every bell and whistle you can imagine. And

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it had a feature which I just don't understand. You
could press a button and get a beds eye view
of your car. And I thought, how on earth does
it do that, but it did.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Anyway, car you're above the car. Oh yeah, how would
it happen?

Speaker 6 (01:11:00):
Well, somebody said to me, because I was saying that
that's impossible.

Speaker 22 (01:11:07):
But there it was.

Speaker 6 (01:11:08):
You could see the car going along. It was from
the top. Cameras had a lot of cameras, and it
wasn't really your car. It was a picture of your car. Yeah,
that we told me. Anyway to finish me story, Marcus.
We enjoyed it enormously for a year and then my

(01:11:31):
darling wife were in our eighties. She got very nervous
about driving. So we sold literally an enormous loss and.

Speaker 18 (01:11:41):
We use me.

Speaker 6 (01:11:43):
Me what do you call it me card for travel
and we use taxis and somebody I don't know who
it is pays seventy five percent total mobility card.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
What part of the country are you and Neil?

Speaker 6 (01:12:02):
Why no, we're mat Hutt Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
So where are normally going too?

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
Oh Queen's Gate, Lowerhart ten minutes you know, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
That you have to what she's saying, We budlet here.

Speaker 23 (01:12:19):
And to we go to our.

Speaker 6 (01:12:24):
Oh yeah, we also go to chet and part to
our doctor. Yeah. Yeah, but so we're very content. But
we had a Chinese car for a year. It was Marbus,
all leather seats and everything you could. It wouldn't let
you crash, you know, if you tried to crash, it
stopped you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
Okay, and uncrushable, Neil, they say uncrushable.

Speaker 6 (01:12:46):
Uncrashable Marcus. But apart from being disappointed, I had a
plan to listen to you and watch the cricket. And
that's tend to custard. But I'm really enjoying your program
and thanks mate.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Not here I'm your Neil, and why do you matter?
Keep in touch, Marcus? Till twelve matches off? They should
plan the rain. I guess it's slightly more dangerous. But
what the heck? The damp squb gone gone.

Speaker 20 (01:13:24):
Gone?

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
Did we get fourteen balls? It was a good catch?
Thirteen was it? What a performance? Apparently have to part
least five overs for each team to make it a match,
and then they don't have to give money back to
the ticket holder, so people might be getting a fee
run refund. Oh yeah, that's a halftime for me. Halftime stretch,

(01:13:51):
get in touched. You ought to be part of the
rigmarole tonight. I think most people already left it won't
come as any surprise. It looked to me like it
was never gonna happen. Have they got rain radar normally
as you can see where the rain is. They thought
they would have better metior orologist. They should have got
that clouds go for the America's Cup. He knew what
was going on. Being touched. You want to be on
the show after the news, don't ring up to talk

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about the word next was a low point of tonight.
Marcus would suggest John contact the Cancer Society. They may
be able to help him with a mattress and support.
Oh three three seven nine five eight three five, what's
happening there? Just to reconfirm the news. The cricket is offski.

(01:14:37):
No cricket tonight. There's another match. There's three in this series.
Is probably one. I'd say tomorrow or Sunday. It's all
at the Bay Oval. That's a mistake, clearly. What about
the ridiculous price of haircuts. I have long straight here
and I asked a hair address. If I get six
inches cut off in a straight line was quite one
hundred and thirty dollars. I said, don't worry, I'll get

(01:14:58):
my daughter to do it. It's been a long time
to Dove paid for a haircut. Although I was thinking
I want embark on a haircut soon, Actually I wouldn't
know where to go, so I'm shuck could manage it.

(01:15:18):
Marcus got to release thirty seven baby sea turtles into
the ocean this evening here in BALI a special moment. Cute. Wow,
now we're onto mouth taping. Brilliant, that's what we want.
Good evening, Robin, this is Marcus. Welcome O.

Speaker 20 (01:15:39):
Hi Marcus, it's Robin here.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
From your mouthpaper, Oh Robin? From are your mouth taper?

Speaker 20 (01:15:47):
Not at the moment. But I just had a we
laugh when I heard about you talking about it, because
when I was married years ago, I was you know,
I've always been as Norah and my husband keeps threatening
that he was going to take my mouth.

Speaker 6 (01:16:06):
Stop.

Speaker 20 (01:16:07):
So I was always a bit worried about, you know,
going to bear and hoping that it wouldn't happen. But
what sort of what sort of tape are they talking
about putting on the mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
There's an AD on the raid, there's an ad on
the radio. There's special mouth tape.

Speaker 5 (01:16:25):
Ah, yeah you can.

Speaker 20 (01:16:30):
Yeah, he was going to use cellotape.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah he sound yeah, he didn't. That didn't sound very
nice what he was saying.

Speaker 20 (01:16:40):
Oh, well here, I'm not with them anymore. No, you
can get you can.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
Get bitter sleep mouth tape from the chemist, hyperallergenic breathable,
breathable fabric with medical grade adhesive. So I don't know
why I have to be breathable fedric. You think you
want non breathable fair but you just you just shut
your mouth and you take that over and then you
naturally breathe through your nose.

Speaker 6 (01:17:04):
Ah.

Speaker 20 (01:17:05):
Yeah, I wouldn't be able to do that either, because
I would feel all, you know, I'd be choking and
spluttering and carrying on.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
You'd be panicking, claustrophobic.

Speaker 7 (01:17:16):
Yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:17:18):
I also went to the the Home and Garden show
at Hamilton today. They've got that big thing on that
they have and that lots of the people selling there
were these beds, you know, the adjustable beds, and that
was all about and that was all to do with snoring.

(01:17:39):
It's like your head to have you So I hopped
on one and you know, they raise your head and
they raise your feet and it's all vibrating and all
the gear. So that was apparently if we raise our
heads and our feet. They all assure you that you
know there the snoring will stop, and you have to
and you have to sleep on your back.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
A lot of those things that those shows, don't. They
the screwkers to a lot of stuff up.

Speaker 20 (01:18:08):
I know, just all these salespeople were lunging at me
from all directions, you know, with pamphlets and you know
promises that it was quite an eye opener. But yeah,
I was just thought the bad things have been as interesting,
but there was nobody there selling mouth tape.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
So I'll keep the topic going. I'll keep the topic going, Robin.
But thank you for that. Twenty two past ten Marcus.
A text here. Marcus. Just been to see the documentary
Prime Minister. It's brilliant and can't recommend it highly enough
Recent New Zealand History, susan Ja. Yes, everyone I have
spoken to and all the reviews I've seen have raved
about that. So there we go. That's the Ardun story. Yeah,

(01:18:52):
so yeah that everyone that's that's seen it on this
show seems to have enjoyed it greatly. David. It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 10 (01:19:02):
Hello, Marcus. I'd just like to talk about while they're
stopping Greyhound racing and not horse racing.

Speaker 14 (01:19:14):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:19:16):
Well, I used to live over the road from the
ricord And racecourse and my partner and I we used
to walk round that racecourse nearly every day, and especially
after a race meeting. Right at the end of the racecourse,
I think it would be waste of the course, they
had a big dump dumping ground like the size of

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the greend stand, and they used to dump a whole
lot of stuff in there. We used to get a
lot of stuff, you know, horse covers and all that,
and lots of stuff. But anyway, after every meeting, there
would be dead horses in there. There wuld always be one,
sometimes be up to three or four, and they'd always

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have wounds on them.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:20:01):
Obviously they'd be even put to sleep by the vet,
but some of the wounds were horrific. And those horses
were just covered up with sheets of tin or just
the horse cover. And sometimes I'd stay in there for
days and they would be pucred. And now I went
for a walk around. I haven't been for walk around
there for a long time, but I went for walk

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round there last week and now there's well, this house
is all where the dump used to be at the
end of the race track. But you know, some of
those wounds on the horses were you know, not nice
at all. You know, there'd be cut legs and some
of the upper front legs and be cut, you know,
big gashes on talking, you know, I see what's the

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difference really in the doing that to the horse? And
we're almost grayhound.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
It almost It almost seems to me the continuum of cruelty.
Is it dog racing? Is it rodeo? Is it zoos?
Is it horse racing? It all depends who's gotten invested
interest in it. I would think that's right, that's rights interest.

Speaker 10 (01:21:04):
But why I stop the greyhounds in, you know, and
that's going on with horse racing? Why not horse racing
as well?

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
It does seem to be the greyhound racing is dying
around the world.

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
I don't imagine horse racing is because it seems to
have that corporate sheen of respectability.

Speaker 21 (01:21:23):
Yeah right, yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (01:21:30):
Guess.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
I guess this figure is about how many horses dying?

Speaker 17 (01:21:33):
You is in it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Every year?

Speaker 10 (01:21:37):
Right well, after every meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
They put down horses that aren't hang on talking, They
put down horses that aren't good enough.

Speaker 10 (01:21:47):
They wouldn't do it at a meeting, surely.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
Yeah, but I'm saying that that there'd be other ones
that have dud and they get rid of those, wouldn't they.

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
Oh for sure, for sure they go into dog Tucker.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Yeah, mm hmm, Tucker, dog Tucker. Okay, appreciate you coming
through the David dog Tacker. I don't know how many
horses die every year. They still whip them. Guess they do.

(01:22:22):
It is legal to whip them.

Speaker 18 (01:22:25):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Twenty six past ten. Hello, Martin, this is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:22:35):
Oh hi Marcus. Yeah, first time caller.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
No, nice to hear from you, Martin. Thanks for making it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:22:43):
Yeah, taping became an interest, if you like, of mine
after attending the the Taiko Breathing Clinic in Ponsonby. I
don't know whether you have heard of the establishment, but

(01:23:05):
they teach correct breathing, I sort of barely breathing if
you like, or breathing from the diaphragm.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:23:17):
And and in due course he expands the knowledge of breathing.
And for anybody that snores, they're usually math breathers. So

(01:23:39):
his answer to this was, well, we can I can
advise you that don't don't tell your doctor. This the
cheapest seapap machine you'll ever buy. It's a five dollar
roll of micropore tape that you take the math with MHM,

(01:24:00):
and it seems to work certainly stops you try it.
I've taken my math for the last twenty five years,
and yeah, it got rid of the snoring.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
And you can after twenty five years at what it
won't just shut naturally. You still need to take it
every night.

Speaker 11 (01:24:28):
I have tried it. I know people that can get
away with you know, it becomes that instinctial of keeping
the lips closed. But I myself have tried it, and
I can get away with it for a few nights,

(01:24:50):
but then it seems to revert back to yeah, the
math dropping open and thereby snoring again. But definitely the
practice decreases the want of snoring, the practice of a

(01:25:14):
belly breathing in combination with the with the micropoort tape,
which is yeah. I've heard of the tape specifically designed
for MAT taping. I believe it's very expensive, but the
most effect cost effective way is chemist Warehouse inch wide

(01:25:39):
MicroPort tape about five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Nice to hear from me, Thank you for that. I
had no idea. Wow, get in touch people eight hundred
eighty eight and nine to text. There's something else you
want to talk about. Let's be hearing from you. Wow, Hi, Pete,
this is Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (01:26:04):
Regarding that Paul Gentleman is and to get charged for
the for that mattress or as for his wife. You know,
I reckon what that? What I would say to them
if I can just send the bill to the minister
a house Sime and Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Surprising, doesn't it?

Speaker 15 (01:26:25):
Ah, I've never heard of that before. Just I don't.
Surely it can't be true. It's quite offrom the hospital.
Everybody's got their special needs. That first I've ever heard
of that they will charge you for a need that
you might something that you might need off.

Speaker 14 (01:26:39):
I find that.

Speaker 15 (01:26:40):
I'm unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
Really, yeah, I can't quite.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
Work it out. I can't quite work it out.

Speaker 15 (01:26:48):
Going on about the tape. I was just thinking, if
I become a counsel, I get elected, if any counselors
are not talking any sense or something, I was say,
can we just bring the tape out please? It could
be a good little.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Industry for counsel Wow, that's a good thing. That's a
good thing for you to be proposing that you got
pape up your opposition. Wow, you've got to remember that
the opposition of other people have been voted in by
the other people that have been voted by the people
of your your area, though, aren't they.

Speaker 15 (01:27:18):
Oh yeah, but I'm just saying it's a joke. Like
so you here's some counts not making any sense. I
was time to get the tape out. You go, you
got you gotta have, you gotta have a bit of
a laugh. And you have any seriously serious meetings.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
Don't you absolutely anything else from you there?

Speaker 15 (01:27:37):
Pete, No, no, really, I just saw I put you.
You're running out A little bit of people were sort
of ringing out, so I thought I'll give you a
few minutes. Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Nice to hear from your peat peas so much. Oh wait,
eighty Suddy Mallet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:27:53):
Yes, I don't know what you've had this before about
the dem' booked racecourse. But the land that was built
on was fulled, was sort of seawater and marshes filled in,
and the racecop was built with the land was between
Norsehead and Mount Vick, and then.

Speaker 14 (01:28:12):
The golf course.

Speaker 17 (01:28:13):
The golf course was built on top of the racecourse
because the racecourse was shut down because one of the
jockeys died at one stage, got killed, so they closed
the race down. What years, no idea, Sorry, but there
was a house Allenby Road adjacent to the to the racecourse,

(01:28:38):
Allenby Road, and they had very exposit homes there. There
were actually show homes and their old villas. Now there's
two or three that were very similar. They were built
because people went to races, were wealthy people, and they
had these fresh homes to have to show them.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
The other thing is did you say that did do
you say that was Ellen b Air?

Speaker 22 (01:29:02):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Yes, I'm looking at that now.

Speaker 17 (01:29:08):
And there's some nice villas along there, and they were
showguns for selling off to these wealthy people. The other
thing is the clubhouse with the jockey's house rather is
now the didn't bought Croquer clubhouse.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Oh yes, I'm looking at that now, okay, understand, yep, you've.

Speaker 17 (01:29:33):
Got the clubhouse you mean, yes? Yeah, Well inside the
clubhouse these little cupboards where the jockey used to put
their helmets. Okay, and now those those helmet club cupboards
have been changed to house the mallets for the Croker

(01:29:54):
people Croque Club as it was nineteen. The Croker Club
was about nineteen. That happens many years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Anyway, I now, do you live in Devonport?

Speaker 13 (01:30:08):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
Is the look look?

Speaker 8 (01:30:13):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
But the question I've got for you? Looking from above?
The golf course doesn't look that interesting? Is it a
good golf course? You don't hear much about it?

Speaker 17 (01:30:21):
Do you white a bitar Oh, it's quite a nice
It's called the white amount of golf course. It's quite
nice golf course. Okay, it gets a bit weird because
it's low lying. But no, it's good. It's big top.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
It just looked the way outlooks doesn't look like it's
that interest. So I guess that's both golf courses for
it just goes just it just looks like strips going
back and forward, all in the same direction.

Speaker 17 (01:30:47):
Well, I'm not a golf I can't.

Speaker 7 (01:30:49):
No, you're network or.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Am I mal Thank you for ringing? I'm not either
twenty four or eleven. Here'll twelve head of the end,
the bitter end. I found every interest with Alan. Come on, people,
what have you got? Text like there's no tomorrow. They
mightn't be for mouth taping. I use paper tape with
just one narrow piece applied with a mouth open a
half to one centimeter. This ensures your mouth stays shut,

(01:31:14):
but you can still gasp if you need. For some reason,
giant thunderstorm hen towards the Northorne from the Tasman Sea.
People want to refunt at the cricket, but they still
had thirteen balls bold in one winket, a six and
a four and one two and four ones and one
hundred billion rain drops. Marcus. The b BBC have just

(01:31:36):
announced a woman to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
Is that groundbreaking first woman to have the role?

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
Marcus. Take a look at a book Breath by James
Nest to investigative journalists. He was sent to Greece to
put on this sort of free diving and end up
looking at how we breathe the lung gas exchanges, natal
breathing as it expposed to mouth breathing. Re enlightening from
charting monks to the highest sports performers. Worth a look, Eliza,
I've got a BBC News to look at that story.
Thank you for reporting that Dame Sarah Malally is the

(01:32:12):
first woman who is the Archbishop of Canterbury. She was
the Bishop of London. So yes. The last one was
Rowan Williams. Remember him with the flyway, eyebrows and the
big bed. Remember him from one of the funerals. Sarah
Malalley looks familiar. It's twenty to eleven, Heit till twelve.

(01:32:33):
Jim Sten will be along at midnight. There was no cricket.
They played two and a half overs. But Verfrey wet
and tod on today, so that's not happening Gonberger, Max
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
Yes, the comments of the guy who painted that ghastly
picture of the three or four dead race horses dumped
at ricket and racetrack, Now, I would think that would
be going back a pretty long way, because to have

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that within a week, that number of fatalities within a week,
you'd have to be going back to the days of
jumps racing, where there were much bigger fields, and in
those days they were really expected to try their horses.

(01:33:29):
Now they're often you see more and more they're easing
horses out of the race when they are well beaten,
and in fact the Judicial Committee insists that they do that.
But there were very large fields, and there were some
pretty stomach churning sights and sounds, I suppose in way

(01:33:53):
in the way back, and yes, it would have been
possible over there, say the Grand National Carnival to have
had three or four fatalities, you know, over a three
day meeting.

Speaker 2 (01:34:07):
But all serio, what you would have that been.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Well, I was growing up in the nineteen fifties and sixties,
and yes, it seemed just about every week or at
least one horse would be lost through the winter in
jumps racing.

Speaker 11 (01:34:29):
It was.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
It was disturbing, but there was always a judicial committee
who had to who had to rule on on on
anything that that happened and recorded reported. Nowadays you get

(01:34:53):
all that on the internet and they can't really gloss
over things when there are so many witnesses not only
live but through on you know, on television. And the
one thing I'd be pleased to say is that it
is very, very appreciably an appreciably lower, very appreciably lower

(01:35:20):
number of fatalities on race tracks now compared to the past.
I think that has a good deal to do with
the fact that we have so little jumps racing and
the fields are so skinny.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Is jumps racing eventually going to be something that no
longer happens?

Speaker 4 (01:35:42):
I would think so. Although they have worked, I think
that everybody is now thinking about this and working hard,
and I think making it a good deal safer than
in the past. But I think it's the smaller fields
and the fact that they know there are people, you know,

(01:36:03):
unofficially policing this, the animal rights campaigners and what have you.
And I think one way and another the the terror,
the terrible figures of the past. Have the numbers have
really sunk down? But that that would be a pretty
stomach churning thing to to come across. I would say,

(01:36:27):
you know, seeing a pit with with decaying horses bodies, Yeah,
that would be very off putting.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Are these special trainers that specialize in jumps horses? Is
that sort of the thing or is it just.

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
Yes, you may have heard of Ken Brown, Yes, his
wife has been carrying on the carrying on the tradition
there more recently as a guy by the name of
Neilson training with his female partner in in in Hate

(01:37:07):
and they they seem to be pretty much, you know,
occupied with us in the in the winter, and you
don't see their names in the race book for flat
racing in the summer, and they seem to be really,
really on the ball at conditioning their horses. But no,

(01:37:32):
it's something that's always bothered me about about racing and
the fact that there are those who think everybody's callous.
Everybody in racing is callous, and they I think they
certainly are not.

Speaker 14 (01:37:47):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
And you always seem for you mission and considered with
your response. I appreciate that few have you ever been
to the diagonal racecourse?

Speaker 22 (01:37:55):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
I never have.

Speaker 22 (01:37:58):
That.

Speaker 4 (01:37:58):
The trouble is, it's the lifeblood of racing. The rural areas.
Northland was never a great but no I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
That because.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
But it's in their blood, the rural New Zealand. It's
not there nowadays anywhere near what it was. When when
the urban population as we've grown away from the grown
away from our rural routes.

Speaker 12 (01:38:30):
I'd say, I guess there's a.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Lot more to do these days to Max, But thanks
very much for that, he said, A lot of racecourses.
When you see where the Surprise Bluff hasn't got a racecourse,
not a lot of flat land. But you know, I
often thought about that back in the day when it
was the booming town. A lot of racecourses in South
and inver Cargo's got on Escott Park, there's one at Winton,

(01:38:54):
there's one at Wyndham, there's one at Riverton. That's one, two,
three four in a population of one hundred thousand. Then
sent Flo Tago has got a few too, Cromwell, Roxburgh
so kurau h, I guess that might be ken to
South Canterbury. But yeah, there are a lot of rural
courses which makes for interesting some erase me. It's always

(01:39:18):
good those long summer evenings. Twelve away from eleven, just
five away from eleven.

Speaker 10 (01:39:25):
People.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
If you want to partake in the show, a text
or call. Just backing up the cricket that didn't last.
It was about fifteen balls. It rained to begin with,
and then they lasted a very good time and then
it rained again. Big house fire. Putada doo. Thank you
for that. Iver aone's got any more information about that,

(01:39:46):
do let me know. Marcus. I thought the Prime Minis
document was very good. It was an eye opener. There
was one part that made me a shame to be
a Kiwi. So thanks for that. You've got any other comments,
do come through anyway, So get in touch if you
want to talk. Kettel twelve oh eight hundred and eighty ten.

(01:40:07):
Keep those texts coming through also and I'll see if
I get some more information for you about the new archbishop.
I don't necessarily know what the archbishop does, although I
imagine they are the head of the Anglican Church in England,
which probably means, I say facto, the head of the
Anglican Church in the world, because I guess that is
their religion, isn't it. So that's probably my thoughts there
on that she used to be a nurse. And don't

(01:40:31):
take this the wrong way, right, but she looks exactly
like you imagine the first female archbishop of Canterbury would
look like. Dame Sarah Malully has been named the first
female archbecial of Canterbury in the Church of England's history.

(01:40:51):
How long has the Church of England existed for you
should know this, fans of the Chase. It's a pretty
significant event in English history with Henry the Eighth and
his wives and wanting a divorce.

Speaker 22 (01:41:05):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
I think that's about how affirming a former chief nursing
officer she's now arch specific Candory designate head of a
legal serum expected in the coming months to confirm her.
She acted to replace Justin Welby, who was forced to
stand on last year over his handling of the Church
of England's worst child abuse scandal. She have to steer

(01:41:27):
the church through a challenging time fraught with safeguarding scandals,
divisions over same sex marriage and dwindling attendants. She feels
that God will carry her. It seems like a good
sort exactly like you to mention. While the king is
technically head of the Church of England, the person holding
the role of arch Bisop Candury is the most senior

(01:41:48):
bishop and as the spiritual leader of the Church and
the worldwide Anglican Communion. Well, of course, I hope I
don't seem far away. How are you going people? What's happening?
Hurdle twelve, welcome bear part of it, taping your mouth,
Chinese cars and the dag of all race course something

(01:42:12):
we haven't discussed tonight. I see this is quite bit
of talk about it. Looks like in twenty twenty seven,
I think the other talk about it appears as though
Eden Park or New Zealand will get a state of
origin match thing. It's going to cost US five million
dollars and it's going to be late at night. I
guess probably going to be at ten o'clock at Eden Park.
I think that's what they are talking about. Be huge

(01:42:34):
for Auckland. I guess it will be Auckland, might be
christ Churtch, so I'm looking forward to that. I don't
necessarily know that i'd go to that. I'd probably rather
go to a Grand Final than to a state of origin.
I'd go to Australia for that. But yeah, that's going
to happen. I sometimes don't think kiwis are good at
big events. I'll be nervous for the audience, the crowd

(01:42:56):
would behave. I think it might be a bit you know,
they might get drunk and picked too early or something.
But yeah, that's happening, and it's right because I've had
state of origin I think in Perth and and Queensland
and Sydney and Victoria. I think they had in Melbourne.
I'm pretty sure they had an Adelaide also, so yeah,
it'll be a good thing. I'd prefer that New Zealand

(01:43:16):
was involved also in the state of the state of origin,
but that's not happening. By the way, league's a bit
of trouble because there's the Ashes League series. They're picking
a team to go to Australia, to go to England,
but no one wants to go, and of course I don't.
They just had a long season. It's gone for about
thirty two weeks or something, so the last thing they
want to do is go and play more tests against England.
Who's invented the game of rugby league, but certainly in

(01:43:38):
the last few years it's kind of on life support.
I think that's what I am hearing. So it'll be interesting.
But yeah, they don't want to go. I think most
of very good players want to play for the Islands.
And I mean the Samoan team for this Pacific Cup
is unbelievable with Stephen Kryt. I've mean you just look
at the team. It's just it's better than the New
Zealand team. It's phenomenal better the Australian team. Samos strong,

(01:44:03):
tongue is strong. I think even the Cook Islands is
really strong. Sixteen past Leaven Hello, Gary, this is Marcus.
Welcome today.

Speaker 22 (01:44:13):
What's the concern about the dagonal race course? I thought
you might have been talking about the Piral race course
which has been sold.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
Yeah, the dagonal one has been sold to Yes today
I think is it Aloquno Point they call it.

Speaker 22 (01:44:30):
Yeah. So that was Pirro for sixty million dollar development.
So that season the times residential.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
When were the last races there?

Speaker 22 (01:44:41):
Gary at least two decades ago? And I should know
because I used to work on the racecourse toats, so
did my good lady and we did it for quite
a few years. I finished up in about two thousand
and five, I think it was, after doing it for
about ten years. But I'm not surprised in a way
because there worn't far too many race courses, to be

(01:45:05):
honest with you. It was only when they got those
certain gentlemen whose name escapes me across from Australia who
advised Winston Peters, who was the Minister of Racing at
the time. There was far too many.

Speaker 11 (01:45:15):
Courses and really the.

Speaker 22 (01:45:19):
Standard of stands and that was a.

Speaker 11 (01:45:22):
Hell of a lot to be desired.

Speaker 22 (01:45:24):
Like with Daggable, you didn't even have any seats. You
stood on a terraced bank. From memory and the one
time that I went there. But the likes of Thames
has gone pirate was gone t Teko.

Speaker 6 (01:45:41):
Or why Pakarel?

Speaker 22 (01:45:44):
Then further down the line Stratford. The one that I
can't understand retains it is Waverley. You know how big
Waveley is.

Speaker 2 (01:45:57):
Yeah, yeah, but I think that just has that just
has trials, does.

Speaker 22 (01:46:02):
It no proper racing in the last in fact, in
the last fortnight of that a race. I mean, it's
a hell of lots more than Stratford, but they closed
down the Stratford course. But I think it away and
this is only my own person dependity, and it's reached
saturation point. It is my hobby and I wouldn't deny it.

(01:46:22):
I followed it for at least sixty years. My father
used to take me to the races, and at that
stage it was only races on Saturday, and then Thursdays
crept in, then Wednesdays and then you've got the Friday
night trots. Now you need to have a hell of
deep pockets to have an interest at all those meetings.

(01:46:44):
And that's where I think they're killing it off because
I've noticed as a hell of a lot less people going.
Of course, the state of the economy is not helping either,
But when you get again, people like myself you've only
got so many dollars to spend. It's discretionary dollars to
spend on my hobby. And once that's run out, that's

(01:47:05):
the finish. The next meeting dips out because.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Tell me something, Tell me something, Gary, Yeah, where you
are you say, Tim's is gone, Pyro has gone? Where
are the other courses of the way kind of what's
left there?

Speaker 22 (01:47:20):
Tier Raba, Tiera, that's the only other two tea mood
has gone, Cambridge a whole night Trots and then the
next one after that is rot Tower. But minor places
like t Tiko and wira Or and why puck Arel
though really in a way I didn't think that he

(01:47:43):
stands in that with it. I mean, the likes of
t Tiko and even they had never even from memory
and they never even had a roof on the stand.
You can't expect people to go along and tolerate that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
In the some none of the winter, I think in
south of this, south of there's still four race tracks.
There's Windham, there's in the Cargo, there's Winton and Riverton.
So we're quite real soon. By the way, Gary, I
think the guy's name was Valends that came and did
the report? Was it as they got that right?

Speaker 22 (01:48:13):
No, I don't think that I could have been him.
I can't remember, be honest, but it was some joke
that came over and gave his shall we say, considered
opinion that it was fair and up to a point,
because they've still going to be maintained all most of
the works done by volunteers to keep the courses maintained.

(01:48:33):
But now my own opinion is it's just reached saturation
point that there's just too far, too many meetings. And
when I first started, you might get an eight race program. Now,
particularly more with a trot you can get up to
a twelve race program. Didn't he pretty deep to last

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all that time.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
Nice to hear from you, Gary, Thanks for that. Twenty
one Part eleven. Hello Dean, this is Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
Yeah, Hi, I'm just something in about the Rugby Championship
South Africa pretty much suiting to win it if they
get a bonus point. When tomorrow they've got it because
they're on the head three wins and so it's pretty
much full gone lesion they're going.

Speaker 8 (01:49:20):
To win it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
So they play Argentina on the weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:49:27):
They humbled them completely last week and they're probably luckly
they wouldn't comfortably again get a bonus point. I've looked
at up and they said they won't have a bonus point.
It's love won the championship.

Speaker 2 (01:49:37):
What do you have to get a bonus point, Dean?

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
More than four tries or four tries more than the opposition? Okay,
and I'm not being unkind I'm the patriotic New Zealander,
but I think we record and poopo isn't great and
I can't understand why they've got the All Blecks is
clear favorite tomorrow. They haven't played that great. I think
Australia are going to maybe do a number on the
All Blecks. Sorry to say, I think they're gonna win comfortably.

(01:50:03):
I think they That would make.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
It exciting if that happens in when Australia beat US.

Speaker 7 (01:50:10):
Well Australia Australia are hoping that the Pumas somehow turn
it around and beat South Africa and Australia beat US,
then Australia can possibly can take the Yeah, okay, thank
you all good.

Speaker 2 (01:50:27):
Dean. It would be more exciting if there was a
grand of the first two teams went hit to head
for a sudden death.

Speaker 7 (01:50:32):
Wouldn't competitions in a new around you you have a
playoff system, but they don't have it, and that that's
all they should. And they do it in football, they
do it in all sports, but they don't do it
on the RUGB. It's a bit weird.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
Agreed. Hello, Ben, this is Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 8 (01:50:49):
You can do Marcus, just as you read out something
about a transfer car relocation.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
Sure, yep.

Speaker 8 (01:50:57):
So we do it twice a year when we had
a cross church. These are two websites, is the transfer
car and a mover and they offer rental cars, rental vans,
camper vans. You get a lot of tourists flying too
Auckland or rent a vehicle and then drive down to
like Christ Church in Queenstown and then fly out of

(01:51:18):
the country. So they've got to give imver I am
I am O v A. And then there's transfer car
and so those two are the main ones. And because
these companies, you know, they've got to get your vehicles

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back to Auckland normally, so they'll they'll normally pay for
your tank and they'll normally give you a free tanker guess,
a free rental or a rental for a dollar a
day normally six days, and then you've got the option
for fifty dollars a day for extra days. And then
they also cover the fairy ticket for the vehicle and

(01:51:59):
normally the ferry ticket for the driver, and you've just
got to pay for the passengers. But yeah, it's a
real cheap holiday if you want to, you know, if
you want to grab a camper van or even one
of those juicy rental beans, you know, dollar a day
free fairy. You can't can't argue.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
So where do you normally take?

Speaker 6 (01:52:19):
Where?

Speaker 5 (01:52:19):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
Where they normally want them to go from.

Speaker 8 (01:52:21):
Ben normally from christ Church or Queenstown and they normally
dropped in Auckland and then you might and then you
have to Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:52:30):
Then you have to pay for your own air for
your back, do you.

Speaker 8 (01:52:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, jinny, you're only for your back, or
if you're lucky, they might have a vehicle at the
Auckland branch that needs to be brought down to cross
Church or Queenstown, so you'll get a free trip back.
But yeah, it'sat it's great holiday. You know, they pop
up all the time. You've got certain days that you
can travel but you normally get a month or two's
notice in events, so it gives you time to book

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a cheap plain for it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Oh, that's good to know. I appreciate that. Ben, thanks
for that. That's good to tell. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:53:02):
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