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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From the Zitium podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Fleechborn and Hayley's a little bit of pod.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Welcome to ate a little bit of pod.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
At the weekend, we stumbled across the piece of history.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We really did.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We didn't even know we were. We're doing like we're
going to be part of something special.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Were part of the one of the final days of
an iconic Auckland or regional.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pub, Murphy's Law and Drury, which the building has been
there for ninety nine years currently and the pub before
that was there for an extended period of time as well.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And back in the.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Day, I feel like this would have been ages away
from the city, whereas now you're on the motorway.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It was like it was near the railway station apparently,
and it was popular, like people would stop and have
a point there on the way to the tour from Auckland.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I feel like on the way tour from Auckland there
was before the motorway got that far, you went past
this pub.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
He had an iconic lock Yeah, really massive, really kind
of British locking pub.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We were out in the area for a Judah style.
That's that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Style.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We're out there for a baby show. And yes, you're
probably thinking it's a flincher a baby show. Yep, there
wasn't a baby and it was not your traditional baby show.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Be honest.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I was told this was a barbecue, a party barbecue, and.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Then everyone's like, have you got prisons. I'm like, you
don't take fucking presents to a barbecue, and then everyone's I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was called a baby cue.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh yeah, babies.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was mislated to barbecue some babies.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And also we wanted to see our friend's new house,
amazing new house in the middle of nowhere house, almost
like we were driving to Hamilton and on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The way out needed to stop to get the Battle
of Wan, and someone across the was we said we
should come back here for dinner. And then everyone at
the party was like, no, no, no, they've had a closing
part of they're shutting down, and I said, we'll say
about that. And on the way back from the baby show,
we called into Murphy's Law, which was indeed in the
final throes of its existence.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, like they'd shut off the restaurant already and you
can just have you could still get meals in like
the pub.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
God, it was like walking into us oh dude, I like.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
A rural pubs, like the character pub.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Everyone swings around and looks at you.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
We walked in with with Mattie McLean.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, former TV one weather presenter and breakfast presenter.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And if there's a sort of person that rural New
Zealanders love to hate, it's the weather person.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
He's beloved, though he's a beloved, but he's told he's
constantly got it wrong, even though he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Done the weather for years.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, I walked in early because I needed to use
the bathroom because we've been in the car a while,
and I walked in quite a hid and when I
came out, I heard one of the old men in
the corner saying, oh, that's the gay one. Yeah, is
that the gay boy?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was that sort of response.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Very friendly, but we're all real friendly, very friendly, but
just yeah, and you forget, I forget this. I'm from
rural New Zealand, you go home. Some people use some
language that peraps isn't used in the more liberal Yeah
that's fine. Often and often it's not said with a
lin tint.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah no, it's love it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And then we learned that they're basically tearing it down
in a couple of days to become a KFC in
a McDonald's or both or something.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then they were just like, you guys want to
have a go behind the bar. And I was like,
I've always wanted to pull a pull a pint of guinness.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yep, you did that, nailed it.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We got some photos. Now, it's fun.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was a great time at Murphy's Law. And I think,
what do they say, Thursday?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is it? Yeah? And then yeah, And it's a.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Weirdly like I've told a couple of friends about, oh,
we went to this thing and they're like, oh, yeah,
I know that, like I've been there or yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, we know it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's been here.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's been around so long, one hundred years, three one
hundred years. It'stry. And I started asking them because my
dream I would really like to build a miniature Irish pub.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh yeah, a minute's year.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But they were keeping everything because they're going to like
the one way down down the road a little.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Bit and refill it with all the old stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'll tell you what I like the most, apart from
the characters or the prices, because I got a handle
of signer for twelve dollars, and I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Big sety, It wasn't the big said of prices, because
I got a bad pint of guinness and it was
like eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Like you'd be paying thirty dollars for a pint of
cider in the city in the Beg Smike.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah that you can't. You can't beat rural price fries
for ten bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh yeah, they'd be fifteen, sixteen, twenty bucks easily.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah. And the Big Smike and that guy when we were.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Leaving that said he had only even been kicked out
of a bar twice in his life and both put tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it was while to have a rural public bouncers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you can't see why?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can see what they were needed.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
A couple of large, strapping Polynesian lads. They have to
sort out those those sort of semi rural trunk Yeah,
white man who probably you know, Yeah, get a bit mouthing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's enough to make me want to move rurally.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It was just lovely. It was just could it couldn't
be beaten.
From the Zitium podcast network.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's Fleechborn and Hayley's a little bit of pod.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Welcome to ate a little bit of pod.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
At the weekend, we stumbled across the piece of history.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
We really did.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
We didn't even know we were. We're doing like we're
going to be part of something special.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Were part of the one of the final days of
an iconic Auckland or regional.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Pub, Murphy's Law and Drury, which the building has been
there for ninety nine years currently and the pub before
that was there for an extended period of time as well.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And back in the.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Day, I feel like this would have been ages away
from the city, whereas now you're on the motorway.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It was like it was near the railway station apparently,
and it was popular, like people would stop and have
a point there on the way to the tour from Auckland.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
I feel like on the way tour from Auckland there
was before the motorway got that far, you went past
this pub.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah you did.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
He had an iconic lock Yeah, really massive, really kind
of British locking pub.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We were out in the area for a Judah style.
That's that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Style.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We're out there for a baby show. And yes, you're
probably thinking it's a flincher a baby show. Yep, there
wasn't a baby and it was not your traditional baby show.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Be honest.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I was told this was a barbecue, a party barbecue, and.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Then everyone's like, have you got prisons. I'm like, you
don't take fucking presents to a barbecue, and then everyone's I.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Was called a baby cue.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh yeah, babies.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I was mislated to barbecue some babies.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And also we wanted to see our friend's new house,
amazing new house in the middle of nowhere house, almost
like we were driving to Hamilton and on.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The way out needed to stop to get the Battle
of Wan, and someone across the was we said we
should come back here for dinner. And then everyone at
the party was like, no, no, no, they've had a closing
part of they're shutting down, and I said, we'll say
about that. And on the way back from the baby show,
we called into Murphy's Law, which was indeed in the
final throes of its existence.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, like they'd shut off the restaurant already and you
can just have you could still get meals in like
the pub.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
God, it was like walking into us oh dude, I like.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
A rural pubs, like the character pub.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Everyone swings around and looks at you.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
We walked in with with Mattie McLean.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, former TV one weather presenter and breakfast presenter.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And if there's a sort of person that rural New
Zealanders love to hate, it's the weather person.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
He's beloved, though he's a beloved, but he's told he's
constantly got it wrong, even though he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Done the weather for years.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, I walked in early because I needed to use
the bathroom because we've been in the car a while,
and I walked in quite a hid and when I
came out, I heard one of the old men in
the corner saying, oh, that's the gay one. Yeah, is
that the gay boy?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It was that sort of response.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Very friendly, but we're all real friendly, very friendly, but
just yeah, and you forget, I forget this. I'm from
rural New Zealand, you go home. Some people use some
language that peraps isn't used in the more liberal Yeah
that's fine. Often and often it's not said with a
lin tint.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah no, it's love it.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
And then we learned that they're basically tearing it down
in a couple of days to become a KFC in
a McDonald's or both or something.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And then they were just like, you guys want to
have a go behind the bar. And I was like,
I've always wanted to pull a pull a pint of guinness.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yep, you did that, nailed it.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We got some photos. Now, it's fun.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It was a great time at Murphy's Law. And I think,
what do they say, Thursday?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Is it? Yeah? And then yeah, And it's a.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Weirdly like I've told a couple of friends about, oh,
we went to this thing and they're like, oh, yeah,
I know that, like I've been there or yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah, we know it.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's been here.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
It's been around so long, one hundred years, three one
hundred years. It'stry. And I started asking them because my
dream I would really like to build a miniature Irish pub.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh yeah, a minute's year.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But they were keeping everything because they're going to like
the one way down down the road a little.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Bit and refill it with all the old stuff.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'll tell you what I like the most, apart from
the characters or the prices, because I got a handle
of signer for twelve dollars, and I wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Big sety, It wasn't the big said of prices, because
I got a bad pint of guinness and it was
like eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Like you'd be paying thirty dollars for a pint of
cider in the city in the Beg Smike.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah that you can't. You can't beat rural price fries
for ten bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Oh yeah, they'd be fifteen, sixteen, twenty bucks easily.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah. And the Big Smike and that guy when we were.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Leaving that said he had only even been kicked out
of a bar twice in his life and both put tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, it was while to have a rural public bouncers.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Did you can't see why?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, you can see what they were needed.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
A couple of large, strapping Polynesian lads. They have to
sort out those those sort of semi rural trunk Yeah,
white man who probably you know, Yeah, get a bit mouthing.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's enough to make me want to move rurally.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It was just lovely. It was just could it couldn't
be beaten.
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