A lack of symmetry in haircuts (26 September 2024)

Marcus talks about NZ's fastest-growing town, places in NZ that don't have things that you'd expect them to have, and part-time jobs that took over your main job.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be it is the last Thursday of September, just
three days to daylight saving that can't come quick enough?
Well that it will be the show. It'll be the hard,
bigger of the shortest weekend of the year. I'll miss
that hour that we don't get back until April. Cheap
is the old rapacious creditor. Anyway, how you're going, people,

(00:31):
my name is Marcus Hittle, twelve o'clock and I hope
things are goodish where you are. If they're not, I
hope with the next four hours we'll have a laugh
and something and maybe learn something and become closer as
a community. You never know. A couple of things I
need to tell you about, just w you might be interested.
They might spark some talk. Tonight at midnight, the America's

(00:56):
Cup starts. Yeah that's right, isn't it, Dan, But it's
just after midnight to night. So the Louis Verton Challenger
Final starts tonight. So that's between Enniospritannia and Luno Rossa
Prada Pirelli and they will fight it out and the

(01:21):
winner will go against a team New Zealand. So that
could be quite good fun to watch because we've got
the woman that talks and we love her. This is
the race committee, so she'll be there. But that's from midnight.
I'll watch that. I think I enjoy it. I don't
love it, but basically, when you're getting home at fifteen

(01:42):
past twelve, it's good to see some live sport. And
I think it's probably I haven't really fully become in
touch with my thoughts on this, but I believe a
good part of the enjoyment of watching America's Cup racing

(02:02):
is watching one of the vessels having a major accent
or a major collision. Because so much money involved and
so much campaigning, there is something I don't sort of
want to watch that out of a sense of wanting
a bad thing to happen. But it almost could happen

(02:22):
any moment that the two could collide, and it could
be unbelievably spectacular, and I want to be watching that live.
It's me I'm yet to see a really close race. Normally,
what happens is that they one fluffs the start. It
comes off the foils, which is a euphemism for anything
when it goes bad. Now, but imagine, yeah, that's what

(02:44):
seems to happen. Anyway that starts from midnight tonight seem
I want to mention that if you have been enjoying it,
it's a funny old thing that you discuss America's cut,
because if you say you're not enjoying it, people are
going to say, oh gosh, you clearly don't understand yachting,
and yachting still has somebody that snob's vailuere or you
still clear understand yachting. But you know, I think it

(03:05):
is possible to understand yachting and not really think that
the America's covers a great spectacle. But anyho that starts
from midnight to night, there you go. So that's a
situation there. And of course daylight saving starts this weekend
and on Monday. Hopefully will talk to Karen. She's the

(03:26):
one person whos in that doesn't do daylight saving. She
just leaves the clocks as they are and turns up
an hour earlier, an hour late to every meeting. But
go her. There is bad weather up the country. A
front brings a period of heavy raid in northwest Gales
to southern and central New Zealand. Tonight and early tomorrow.
By the way, the weather down south has been particularly

(03:48):
average today, disappointingly average. So a couple of things I'd
like to talk about tonight and I'll throw them at you.
We'll see where we go with these as far as
topics go. But there might be something entirely different you
want to bang on about and feel free to do.
That might be something that's happened in your day or

(04:10):
something you feel needs to be spoken about. I'm kind
of okay about that. I certainly know looking at social
media today, the people in the need and are furious
about that hospital. It was all good to go and
they've pulled it right back and people are furious about that,
taken of every personally, So that's happening, and that's the

(04:35):
people of Otaga and of course Southland as well, they
will be furious about that too. So it seems as
though it's there is a proposal, but it's going to
be peeled right back despite I think the promise of
what they've said. So yeah, and I don't necessarily know
what kind of at this stage in the election cycle,
I don't think the community has much redress from that

(04:59):
they can kick up Bob's they can protest, but you know,
I mean, certainly I think this will be a two
term government and East Winston brings them down because that's
the way that governments go in this country. They're either
two or three terms and they always have been and
they always will be. But yeah, I think the people
of the South they don't forget things, particularly when it

(05:20):
comes to closing schools and hospitals. I know an Invert
Cargol in the early two southerns two thousandths when Trevor
Mallard was the Education minister, he came to Invercargo and
closed a number of schools and the people have never
really forgotten that because it's a big deal to close

(05:42):
a school because if you close a school, then all
those pupils that went to that school, they can then
never have those discussions about, oh, what school did you
go to? Oh it's a school that no longer exists.
When that's not a good conversation starter, is it, Because

(06:04):
most people feel some sort of they might've loved it,
but they feel a connection to the school they went to.
So for schools to just vanish, for Moose, it's kind
of a strange thing and I've already thought about that
until recently. But yeah, I tell you what, people long
memories with that to their way there is that might
be a bit serious for tonight. The other thing I
am slightly interested in, and I didn't know that it

(06:26):
was a thing is the Warriors Bar has opened. So yeah,
it's called full Time. It's in Kingsland. Ironically it overlooks
Eden Park. It was the Max Ruba. I have been
there once, but it's come the Warrior. It's become the

(06:48):
Warriors Bar. I presume you'd go there, have some bears
and get on two trains and then to go watch
the Warriors, and then after the match get on two
trains and go back to the bar. It's not a
bad idea. I think certainly it's going to increase the
support for the Warriors when you feel more of a

(07:10):
tribe when you've got your own bar. I think it's
probably an important development of Zealand sporting culture. I'm all
for it. So you might have some comments on that.
You might have been to it, you might be planning
on going to it. Really, it's a good evolution of
the rugby league audience. They've got special beers like Panhead
and the likes. It's not just your brewery bears, or

(07:32):
maybe Penhead is a brewery bear. I've kind of lost
taste about where bars are at the stage. That might
be something you want to mention as well. Anyway, fourteen
past eight, my name is Marcus, keeping a loose loose
like a caboose tonight, because I'm sure there'll be other
things you might want to mention. But eight hundred and
eighty and nine to nine two to text you might
want to start the ball rolling. Someone says, Marcus, do

(07:52):
you know why there is no Wendy's or carl Junior
and funk A yet? No, I've got no idea. I
don't know how those things work. I presume that they
have people that work out whether it's how can support
a franchise, and they must study the demographics and the
sociographics of an area. I thought with Carl's Junior and

(08:15):
Wendy's it would just be a certain limit, and when
you're over that limit, you get one. Bearing in mind,
I've got to say that also in Verkagil has no
Wendys and no Carl's Junior, and also no Nandos. Mind
you need does have an enos and a lot of

(08:36):
places don't have Nandos' is not because it's not delicious,
but because I think the franchise system has been slightly problematic.
But you've got no idea why you wouldn't have that.
But it's a good question. I love those sorts of questions, Marcus,
is Napier the only place who's there next to the

(08:56):
sea that does not have a fresh fresh takeaway shop? Really?
Could you describe to me what a fresh fresh takeaway
shoppers like? Does that mean? Is it like a wetfish?
There must be takeaways in Napier, Marcus. All the schools

(09:17):
I'm intended and the cargo are all gone Elstonleigh Primary
tweets me Intermediate, Cargole High School. Yeah, well you're quite right,
they've all gone. I think old Goldie went to Cargol,
didn't he? Anyway, do you get in touch? My name
is Marcus Hidt, twelve o'clock tonight, eight hundred eighty eight
eighty nine to text. A lot of good texts. I

(09:48):
like how you've come around to the America's Cup Marcus,
A loll. You were not a fair to start with. Well,
I'm still not really a fan, but I get home
at night and no one's up. I think, tell you
what I watch? Watch my watch. I've watched all of
selling sunset. I think I'll watch a bit of America's
Cup racing. And I don't watch because it's exciting. I
watch it because it's almost like that asmr. Is that

(10:10):
the right word? Then this is the race committee. It's
quite soothing to watch because the woman speaks like this.
Remember this is the race committee. We are moving the
windward deep, shortening the course to one point two nautical miles.
I love her. This is the race committee, and they
move the boys in and out depending on how the

(10:33):
wind's going. So it's re relaxing to watch, but very uneventful,
and you're watching the whole time for the events. Anyway, Marcus,
I had a dispute with dog guners walking their dogs
in a sports field where it had a no dog sign?
Why did dog owners not feel the signs apply to them?
Are dog owners all Karens now that you'd be the

(10:55):
Karen having the dispute. Mark's had a spirit with dog
uners walking their dogs and fields where it has a
no dog sign in as you should. Why do dog
gun does not feel the signs up applied to them
all dog owners Karen's don't have to write use of
the word karen. And in fact, of course we should
never use karen. It's a sexist term and it's a

(11:17):
bad term. But I don't quite know about that. But
just so you know, this terrible weathery're coming up the country.
I kind of had white noise on my app to
sleep this morning, and I thought gee, but then I
realized it wasn't the white noise. It was just incredibly
heavy rain. In fact, the rain was so heavy it

(11:40):
wiped out the white noise. That was the sound of
the beach. Go figure. But my name's Marcus, i'mhitle tweve o'clock.
If you've got anything to add to these topics or
something different you want to mention the other topic. I
don't want to throw everything at you to start with,
but I feel we need to start it tonight. Started

(12:01):
for ten, I will go to the Warriors bar. I'm
looking oard to that. Although I tell you what with
our NRL crawl we did earlier this year, we didn't
go to any NRL. I know we did go to
a bar across from the Penrith Stadium, but there woudn't
have any pin with people there, because I think it
was a pin with supporters bar. I think it was

(12:22):
just a truck driver's bar. It was good though, Oh
twenty three past take Craig Marcus, Welcome, good evening, Hi Craig.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
How's a game?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Good?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah? My sisters are put of a Karen, mainly because
that's her name. So she gets really pissed off with
people call people Karen. She's like, well, I don't have
a choice.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
No, And a lot of Karens seem to be Karen's
too that have called this show, which I quite like.
Some of them are quite good on the self own.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, she's really friendly. She'd give your share for the
back for U type person. But she gets annoyed that
sometimes people who don't know a caller a Karen. She goes, well,
I am I'm not really okay.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I think some Karens are Karens, but I think some
of them are also give you this short off the
ship off their back, but they can be interfering.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
But anyway, and then as far as daylight saving, I'm
pretty certain there's a town down South Island. Never changed
it from last year, didn't They decided to keep it.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh that's that's a good point. Look my knowledge of
the history of daylight savings. It was a place called
arwa Ua up near Dargaville, and they were never going
to adhere to it when it came in about forty
years ago, but they they since have given in on that.
But also Tiano Tiano said that they were going to

(13:35):
not babe it, but it was just it ended up
just being a confusing publicity stunt, I think, And I
don't know what happened to them in the end.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Shul Ring a friend of mine, not because he runs
the he runs Tiano floatplane scenic flights. Oh yeah, it
was sort it'd be quite funny when you know, you
drive to the next town and in the stores closed
because you got the times wrong.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah, it was a reconfusing plan that but they decided
they decided to call it Tiano Time. Well they started
a campaign to not turn the clocks back. But I
don't know what happened in the end. It credd some
buzz I got people talking about it, don' think during
COVID and so people booked to go there and that
was the point of it.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yeah, it's quite interesting to hear you quite excited about it.
But when I was thinking about it, it doesn't really
make much difference to you because by the time you
start work to get it's not going to make much
difference to you. It's not as if you finish work
and have a few hure hours of day like before
you go.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
To No, it's nice to drive to work with the
sun up though. I enjoy that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
And then finally I think that she called the bar
in Auckland. She caught it lost opportunities then the full
time the Warrior's Bar, Yeah, because they were so close
to quite fit games and they seem to just hand
it over and it's just like, h so not good.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Would you go? Are you an Auckland Craig? Would you go?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I would go just for probably just the experience and
just to say, hey, lest I supported a local business
in New Zealand with times being tough, But I don't
think i'd go on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
No thanks. I'n't quite sure. I don't know how a
sports bar would work that is so far away from
the field they play on, because not like hang on,
oh come on, blowy, they're about to kick off. You've
got two trains to catch, so yeah, I'm not quite

(15:22):
sure how that one works for me. It would be
better if they at the bar right next to the stadium,
or to move where they play. Is any plan about that?
But get in touch. My name's Marcus hid twelve. Oh Marcus,
and during your show tonight regarding the Warriors bar via planners.
Eventually the All Backs will plant the big new stadium
and Blues plant the big new stadium. It's going to

(15:44):
be built in Orband downtown and the Warriors home grown
actually be Eden Park. Really, we always hear about strategies
of stadiums changing, but they always just throw endless money
into Eden Park, don't they. It takes a bit of
confidence to do it there. The Warriors is going to
play there, well though I've been across all the discussions.

(16:05):
You might be right, Marcus. No Burger Fueler Nelson or
any other MYGA minor burger franchise for that matter. What's
the deal? That's weird because in v Cargo has a
Burger fuel and I won't say too much more about that,
but yeah, it seems to be busy ish and I
think in VICARGIOIY a lots moller than Nelson. That's weird

(16:26):
for Nelson. The opening for someone with a gourmet burger
brilliant maybe Tom vegetarians and Stu Marcus welcome, good evening.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
Oka Marcus im ringing from the war ever.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Yeah, thank you, that's the other one. Okay, good, yes, yep.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
On the on the subject of schools being closed, yeah, yeah,
then it was a disaster for like, I'm just seventy now,
but it was a disaster. Watching all a great community
and Marson had a wonderful number of schooling options. And
then government policy means that the government closed down turn

(17:07):
and forty small schools under Ballard and that, and that
was an absolute disaster because one is, they were lovely little,
localized community schools in the town. All of a sudden
they were spending a lot of money on building bigger
schools or adding onto other schools because the pupils had

(17:30):
to go somewhere. And in the end we've ended up
with a very poor educational outcome. You know, it's bloody hopeless.
Kids don't even mess anymore and messes are basic essential
to survival.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
And note, how many schools do you say Mallard closed?

Speaker 6 (17:53):
True? Mallard was It was a Minister of education at
the time when they closed all the schools.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
This is how mad you? How man did you say
he closed.

Speaker 6 (18:06):
How many schools of two hundred and forty small schools?
Well there was one, T three, four, three or four
or five and masters on alone.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Okay, I think the figure I saw was ninety schools.
I just thought your figure might be a bit large.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Well, I'm only quoting what I remember from the five
because devastated by it. The biggest thing now is that
kids I don't even been called kids. You know, I
think we should be talking about children.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
We'll start with it.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah, but the children deserve better than a poor education,
and so therefore we have to look back and think
what was changed when we had such good education and
now it's not very good.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
I just so when you start parading things like saying
kids at school can't do maths, that's a big statement
to make.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
Well, no, there's a lot of kids. Sorry children, they're
actually a leaving school and they can't do mass. We're
not saying at all, this is the problem. It's the
ones my mother she used to do it. Who she
used to go teaching and she did voluntary work in
Marcedon at one of the colleges to help the children

(19:22):
that were falling behind. It was unacceptable in those days
that because children would leave school and not have had
a good education and be able to read, write into arithmetic.
Now we've got a huge percentage don't even go to school.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Was it.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Were you involved with a school that closed you?

Speaker 6 (19:46):
Yeah, thank you. No, No, I definitely was not nothing
to do with that. No, this is not a political
thing at all. It's absolutely education teaching. So we they
changed new maths just after it at school, so it's
a billion years ago when they did that. It was

(20:08):
very hard for the parents to teach mass to the
children because they changed the system.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Okay, nice to hest you, thank you. Twenty five to nine.
Keep the texts coming through. Two people Hamilton has for
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That was big for a while, wasn't it. Marcus Albatross
cam showed amazing Dunedin sunset tonight. Folk watch it to
see birds crash land. Sometimes all sports have a chance

(20:40):
to see a bad event. Rugby US tonight was bad.
Tackles and bloody faces. Cindy Hi, Marcus sailing down the
northern coast in the last few days and now classic
using a design and built wouldn't sketch nineteen fifty nine,
having counted Orca killer whales every day, Now tucked up
in the Marhudangi after a delightful encounter with using animals
and birds, Orca fur seals, giant black petrol bottled Knolls dolphin.

(21:00):
What a wonderful world we live in. Cheers Jeff Brayden Marcus.
Welcome to you.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Hey, you're just bringing you. It's just driving home from work.
I just said to call in the last caller.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Yeh.

Speaker 7 (21:18):
I think in his look at the phrase ros tinted glasses.
I just mean when he's talking about kids not knowing
this and it was unacceptable. But you know, I think
we're better in society and we were there in terms
of education. Would you agree or disagree?

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I've got kids at school. They went pretty well. They
seem to know things I didn't know at school.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, I mean, I think we've got to be there.
It's time.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
It's just how humans work. As time goes on, you
learn more things. And I think like back then, I mean,
kids like kids with ADHD were treated with Yeah, I'm
hearing it, so we're forgetting things like that. I mean,
he's saying it was unacceptable for them to fall behind

(22:11):
a mess, but it was acceptable to assault children with
leather straps, you know.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
So yeah, I think what you're saying is really relevant
and timely too, Braiden, because a lot of people they
haven't been involved with the educations for a long long time.
That's the trouble with education. It's like TV. Everyone's been
to school, It's like everyone's watched TV, so everyone thinks
they're an expert on it anything because they went in
their day it was always best. But you're quite right.
The heading of children was barbaric. The strapping of children

(22:42):
was barbaric. The abuse that I hope that they've got
rid of now was barbaric. And a lot of people
were just kind of left there to vegitate because I
didn't realize they had learning issues and all sorts of stuff.
So people pick up stats about education on the radio
or something that has all gone terrible, but there's just
based on no experience of the reality.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
Ye.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
And I think also the other thing was shutting small schools.
You have to be practical, I mean, it has to
make economic.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Sense because demographics are change and where people live changes
as well. There's small country schools where there are a
lot of sheep farms there and they've all gone to
dairy and the farmers don't think have any kids, and
there's no pupils at those schools.

Speaker 7 (23:30):
Yeah, I mean we used to holiday in a place
called o'rai, just out of Geraldine.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Wow, you went there for a holiday?

Speaker 7 (23:41):
Yeah, a place called the farm he had. It's an awesome,
awesome place for kids back in the holidays and it's
like a holiday park. But so they had a school
here and they had they had twenty pupils and they
had like the best resources, really nice big swimming called

(24:04):
nice like two big. It's like the amount of money
that would have been wasted, you know, through government funding.
I mean, I mean good, good for them, but things
have to be realistic.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Farm looks, fantastic looks, old school, old cabins and stuff
and donkeys and peacocks.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
Yeah, written the day they had you. You can go
on motorbike rides and it's an awesome spot.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Wow you I've never quite known that it's on the
river obviously, the Ari River, is that right?

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Well? It was.

Speaker 7 (24:41):
The river isn't really near anymore to dry up. You
go on to that, deary and kind of.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, okay, that's a problem. Okay, we probably should acknowledge that, Braiden,
Thank you. Yeah, wonder about what was going on there
kind of with the hydrosphere or whatever that's called the
water thing. Keep it going. My name is Marcus Hurdle twelve.
Nice to talk, Brayden. Keep your texts. God, this all texting.
Hither about the nuts and the pylon here, they're right

(25:11):
off that it's the nuts that were removed. Look at
the picture. I think everyone knows what happened. Marcus is
a damn fine burger Wisconsin and Silver Stream Upper Hut.
When the trouble about the gourmet burgers, and I've got
a lot to say about this. Everyone's into burgers now,
aren't they. Oh this there's burger, this burger that I

(25:32):
don't know if I'm a outline when it comes to burgers.
I want to be able to tip the burger to
forty five degrees and have nothing come out of the edges,
because a lot of burgers they cover them in all
sorts of sauce and stuff. Drives me crazy. So most

(25:55):
burgers I can't have because they're too They're just too missy. Wow, Marcus,
the new this is humor. The new Warriors Bar is
only selling alcohol free drinks. This way we get dressed up,
get our friends together, sit down with like minded folks

(26:15):
and drink all night, but never get the desired result.
Quite like following a league team of the same name
like that a lot. It's funny. I'm thinking that thing.
Sure they're going to observe alcohol, cheaps. I'm just looking
for my predictions for twenty twenty four and Dick van
Dyke not to die tick so far, Tony beats to

(26:39):
die not happened so far, and I wouldn't be happy
if it had. But it's a prediction. Where else did
I have? Pumpkin thick and thind life to make a comeback?
Deep fried Pumpkin Chips, take off and live South Island
Hobbiton to open and Lydia Coe gets gold medal and

(27:01):
well known news in it and it comes off East
Scooter which was that what's his name from? Act? Some
big tick there and I was Simon Bridges, wasn't it
so Bridges? Big tick? South Island hobbiton. That's only a
matter of time, and ady Co gots the goal. I'm
two from six. I get an extra pick because it's
my competition getting touch people. My name is Marcus. Welcome

(27:24):
sixteen tonight. Gee pretty wow. And Dan putty to this
year that McDonald's why hecky was to get a McDonalds
or a KFC, which here I think it's a fairy
valid prediction. We're just talking about big cities without certain franchises. Marcus.
There are four new McDonald's underweight at the moment, Coumeu

(27:45):
or r K, Warnaka and Green Island Dunedin. Marcus. I
went to a Catholic school in the nearly sixties. I
was caned for wearing my hair over one of my
eyes by a small nun. He's half never liked a
lack of symmetry and haircuts, but I wouldn't have whipped

(28:06):
someone for it. And kids know when they're whipped for
something that's kind of ridiculous, don't they. It boggles my
mind that Daylight Savings cannot come and go on a
long weekend Easter and labor give the give time for
regimented workers extra day with just The's Circadian rhythms. My

(28:31):
name is Marcus Hurdle twelve. We are talking all manner
of stuff tonight. I forget what I did in my
beginning rave. The America's Cup the Louis Vaton starts tonight,
and yeah, I mean it's gone on for a couple
of weeks now you might have felt it compelling. I'm
enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would,

(28:52):
but I still think it's a done of a sport
that's me. So that will start tonight. I will watch it.
It's the Brits against the Italians to see who will
go head to head with the Kiwi's all stacked in
the kiwiz favor, of course. Oh the only thing that's
not stacked in our favor is that we don't get

(29:14):
as much match racing. But I think they've changed at
this time, so we have got it. And I don't
know what the critical amount is from McDonald's because I
think place is like has Rolliston got a McDonald's good
article on the paper about Roliston my favorite town only
because it's just growing so quickly. Get in touch. Fourteen

(29:36):
to nine oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Yeah,
I'm festered by where they put McDonald Someone wanted to
know whether it was what an old k if someone
could tell me about that, did he want to know?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Was he going to tell us?

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I want to know where it was? Okay, Ge, do
you get in touch HITTI twelve o'clock tonight he had
big article on the paper about Rolliston, how it's grown
so incredibly fast, the small South Island town that just

(30:12):
keeps rising, and pleased the media have got on to this.
Now what a mess of it, said, it's going to
be right. Rosdon population was twenty nine six hundred and
twenty twenty three. Sourn District's total population was eighty one thousand,
up five point two from the year before, comparing to

(30:34):
New Zealands, which grew by two percent. Sam Broughton said
the district will be bigger than Dunedin in ten years time.
Bigger than Dunedin yep, So there you go. I think

(30:56):
people are complaining about traffic jams also, so it's amazing
how quickly it's grown. Have got McDonald's so no one
seems to know about that. But oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty nineteen nine two de text Marcus till twelve. Look,
the school's open there all the time too, by the way.
But the crazy thing is that I've got to train

(31:17):
to town to go to christ Church. It's good article and
stuff on that one. Anyway, do get in touch by
names of Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred eighty thirty nine
two nine two to texts. Anything else you want to
talk about Marcus, Yes, rolls to have a McDonald's best
one in Canterbury. There you go, so now we know.

(31:40):
Oh the other thing too. If I meant to mention
earlier on in the hour, I got stuck talking about education.
More Kiwis are taking on a second job due to
cost of living. According to a survey, two hundred and

(32:02):
twenty thousand people have got multiple jobs. You might have.
I was kind of thinking about talking about something similar
to this on the way to work, about part time
jobs that you've loved, but you might have gone and
got yourself a part time job aside hustle or something
like that that you absolutely love. I don't know what

(32:26):
it is, but I'd be curious to know. It's not
your main job, but it's your side job. We think, well,
it's good. You might be an uberist. I don't know
what your part time job might be, but yeah, it
might be something you just thought you needed for extra
money and I found it fantastic. I'll tell you what
you probably can't do as a part time job now,
Tuppleway that's gone, hasn't it. Someone wants to know why

(32:49):
fun to Day has no Carl's Junior or Wendy's. I
presume it's all about entrepreneurs or business people that come
up the money to start those franchises. I think if
you go to them and say, okay, I want to
start a franchise, they're up for it, providing your community
as big enough. I don't know how they ascertain that.

(33:09):
I guess they've got people that go in there and
work out the numbers of the community. So yeah, so
I don't know why places haven't got them, but it's
only a matter of time. He's also sort of changing
trends with kind of fast food when it seems obsessed

(33:30):
with pizzas at the moment of pizza Karen Marcus.

Speaker 8 (33:34):
Welcome, Hey Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Thanks Karen? What have you got?

Speaker 8 (33:40):
I'm thinking about Rolliston.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
I'm talking about Roliston.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
I know it's your favorite town.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well it's not, because it's like the future. It's just weird.
It's like something from the Truman Show.

Speaker 8 (33:52):
Well, I moved down here from the y K four
years ago, never been to Rolliston, picked it out of
the blue because I wasn't a city person, but I
needed to be.

Speaker 9 (34:02):
Close to the hospital.

Speaker 8 (34:05):
So my oldest adore and I moved down here and
in those four years, it's just incredible the changes that's
gone on. We definitely got a McDonald's, but there's every
kind of food imaginals. There's the KFC, McDonald's, Hell's Pizza,
Domino's Pizza huts, you know, Subway, it's in the you

(34:25):
know everything. And now I don't know if you know
that they're actually building a big new Pack and Save.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'm just reading that now on the article.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yeah, well, and a.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
New world on a new subdivision that's going up near
Farrington where I used to live. They're putting a new
world in there, and on the other side of town's
Pack and Slave. So it's just crazy. When I moved
down into a suburb called Sparrington, you know, there was
nothing really around it, and now that's the subdivision after subdivision. Yeah,
it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, and everyone drives everything. I love the pools and
most people drive to christ Church for work, do they?

Speaker 8 (35:01):
I think they do.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (35:03):
But see, twenty minutes you'd be in christ which is
not long.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
That's my commute from buff and Bluff and it's very,
very doable. Twenty minutes is about the right amount of
time you can clear your mind and you're just kind
of It's a good length of time for a commute, and.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
Most of its motorway, and when I first moved down,
I think the motorway part two Rolliston had just been opened.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Sure, so I was.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
Very lucky with that. But yeah, twenty minutes you're in
the city center. Yeah, and then you think, oh, Littleton's
a long way away, but you know, thirty five minutes
you're in Littleton as well. It's not long from the
city to Littleton either.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
So do you think people seem do you think people
seemed happy there? Because it's just plucked in the middle
of flat field, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (35:48):
It's very flat.

Speaker 9 (35:50):
Well.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
I couldn't get over how nice south Landers were when
I first moved down here. Yeah, you know, I'd always
heard that, you know, some of his hospitality and stuff
like that, but they are yeah, really nice people.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, so your thoughts about that didn't change.

Speaker 8 (36:05):
No, And like I've just said, to move from Rolliston
to Lincoln, which I do like better because it's just
a smaller light. We've got no traffic lights in Lincoln.
You know, town seemed to be getting busier and there
is lots of subdivisions going up in Lincoln. I think
they reckon that. The distance between Lincoln and Rolliston's houses
and some division then about two or three kilometers.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Now, wow, it is amazing how much christ Church has
changed since the quake because I remember sort of after
the quake, people thought that everyone would just leave, that,
you know, everyone would go, that it would become a
city that no longer functioned. But people didn't leave. They
just moved somewhere else nearby. And the changes have been unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Yeah for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
Well, like I said, I wasn't here for all of that,
so you know, I can only go on Mike because
it was only the second time I'd ever been down here,
was when I moved down here.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
So Cale, I appreciate you coming through, Karen, thanks to that.
We're just coming up towards the news people. Yeah, I
reckon that probably it would be good for christ Church
to grow so it's as big as Auckland and size.
I think that would be great for the New Zealand economy,
that you've got two compet because I think with one,
if there's a country, when one city becomes too big,

(37:18):
it distorts things. I think I think it distorts the
competitiveness of a cat. I don't quite I can't fully
articulate why, but I just think if a country has
two big cities, it probably works better out for everyone.
That's my theory and I'm pretty sure it's true. But yeah,

(37:41):
Christi is just Rolliston, just growing up. There's no tomorrow anyway.
I'm almost working towards finagling is sort of what I
think might be quite a good topic tonight. On the
back of that guy's text a guy woman I don't
know who it was, actually never signed their texts. The
person that said and was wondering why I found it
A had no Carl's junior or Wendy's and the conversation

(38:02):
that I thought that we might be able to go with.
And I don't quite know how to expl blame it
to you because it might sound a bit clunky, Okay,
thank things should be surprised that New Zealand cities or

(38:28):
towns haven't got Yeah, there you go. So you might
be surprised that Masterson's got no traffic lights, and that
Funerday has got no Carl's Junior, and that Nelson's got
no Burger Fuel. So how do we go with that
as a topic? The things should be surprised that New

(38:49):
Zealand towns or cities don't have and I'm trying to
think of something some of my own examples and I'm struggling,
But you'd be surprised that the Invocatio will don't even
have no Nando's. Would be surprised at some place that
we'll not have movie there's anyway, see how you go
with that. I think it's a good topic. It's going

(39:09):
to require people to kind of embracing it on with
like you'd be surprised that anyway. I don't know how
we'll go with that, So we'll try that on for size.
We're also talking about the closing of schools and your
great part time jobs and the thing about part time jobs.

(39:30):
Did you ever go and get a part time job
just to make some extra money? As a side hustle
and found you absolutely flipping loved it. You might've got
a job doing security at rugby matches at Eden Park
or a job delivering Uber eats and you've come away

(39:50):
and that well, actually it was just for more money.
But the society and the community and the Dunkirk spirit
I've got from it has been unbelievable. Of course, what
often happens in life, you get yourself with a gang
of people working together. It's marvelous ard ring. Although it's
been a long time since I've had a part time job, well,

(40:14):
I guess really want My jobs are part time jobs,
but only because they put me on the radar for
eight hours a day. It would be difficult for all involved.
Peer will be running screaming from the room. But get
in touch with you on to talk. But those are
any the other stuff you want to mention, Oh eight
hundred eighty eight eighty and nine nine to detext embrace, eagrely,
embrace what you've got to say tonight. I'm all up

(40:37):
for everything. It is our pecka day. I don't love
al peckers. I've got four of them, and they're kind
of an interesting animal. Because people love them because they've
got those long eye lashes and those eyes that make
them look kind of full of wonderment. But actually, as

(40:58):
animals go, they're useless and very hard to get rid of,
and no one wants them. And also if you mentioned
that they might be good eating, people look at your
sideways that you could never eat them, but why not.
They're not different for anything else that we eat. Wellthough
I think our kids have forbidden that happening. So that's
the ol pack is. It's our packer's day. It's also

(41:20):
dumpling day. Who doesn't love a dumpling? I think probably
New Zealands have become pretty o fae with dumplings in
the last few years. Yay, and they seem to be everywhere.
I know there's some places now that have all you
can eat dumplings. I think bring that on. That's a
great thing. Anyway, lines are free, it's ten pasted on.
I'm looking forward to hearing from your monameers. Marcus Welcome

(41:43):
eight hundred and eighty eight, Audia nine nine to text,
anything goes Oh, by the way, Henry the Tuatara one
hundred and thirty. They've kind of built a new to
Atara cage and in v cargo for it, it's not
very good. You normally can't see them in the glass
is reflective and it's hard to get to so but

(42:07):
they are there, just not coming out of their burrows
very often. Who Yeah, get in fact, even with the
photographer that to go inside the cage to get the
photo of Henry because it's stuck in its burrow. But yeah,
let's be hearing from your name is Marcus? Will talk
anything else you want to talk about? Yay, you might

(42:28):
want to set the agenda tonight. That's not a problem.
Tell you what. No one's sounding too grisly about stuff.
Marcus surprised. Topor Ha has no movie cinema. Oh this
is great. Palmeister North has no personality. Topaul has no
movie cinema. Westport doesn't have a roundabout, Dunedin has no sauna.

(42:53):
You Plymouth does have a kmart, Palmerston North doesn't have
a chemist warehouse. I'll tell you what in the cargo
needs a chemist warehouse? Do I like most about the
chemist warehouse the carry bags because you can put all
your stuff in one of those chemist warehouse carry bags
when you're getting on the flight and you don't look

(43:15):
too kind of up yourself. You look like you keep
down with the people, which I think is always a
good thing. Anyway, thirteen past nine. This is great. So
the things, the surprising things New Zeland cities or towns
don't have. Oh eight one hundred and eighty taty nine.
The Mecca's site in Ork was next to a z

(43:38):
petrol station. Cantra all the name of the road, but
maybe in a round keeper road. Brilliant dB Marcus, Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 5 (43:47):
An ever been month or not buying my own trumpet.
I don't know if this will sit. But I had
a hobby gets in little bit of an earner.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Yeah. I used to.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Volunteer on the floating crane in Willington Estem River. Here
they like being here a crane driver for something like
six years and so when doing commercial work, I was
being paid as its crane climber and that was a
great gg.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
So the crane was functional, absolutely, it hasn't been for
the last five years.

Speaker 5 (44:23):
It's been in they're desperately trying to bring it back
into survey. But when I was part of the gig
that was in survey and we did all sorts of
weird stuff.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
What sort of what sort of use would there be
for a maritime steam driven crane?

Speaker 5 (44:41):
Well, the steam driven part is just by the by.
But I salvaged three vessels.

Speaker 10 (44:50):
I moved.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Three buildings. For buildings, I put in bridges, link spans
and just general lift work. I moved the Wellington ham
A buoy a couple of times.

Speaker 7 (45:06):
Wow, I've got it.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I've just got apologizeting distracted. There's an incredible noise in
the studio. I think they must be just because now
in a single story building, there must be an incredibly
strong hailstorm coming through. Can you hear that? Can you
hear that on? Can you hear that on the mic?

Speaker 11 (45:24):
Diss dust?

Speaker 2 (45:26):
It's incredibly loud anyway, So I've got a bit distracted there. Okay,
so part time steam crane operator.

Speaker 7 (45:33):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
You know I got to.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yeah it turned in for yeah, no quite good little
side hustle.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Let me just go.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
I'm just gonna play a commercial. Bright, go and check
out the hail That seems incredibly heavy. Yeah, just incredibly
heavy hailstorms just come through. Now we're in a single
story building. I didn't know what it was the first time.
But I've just chapped some shots of the outside the
studio because it's incredibly strong healthstorm. Anyway, back to the
Sorry about the disruption, George, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (46:06):
Good evening, Yeah, good evening. We're a great chatter about
time the other day. I want to talk about mc donald's.
But I just, first of all, once agree with you
on time travel. Well, you said we should be able
to travel into the future. So you had me ticket
over the last couple of days, like you contemplate your
naghbor over different topics come into the show.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't necessarily have that, right, I said,
but yeah, okay, I'll.

Speaker 12 (46:32):
Take it anyway. You said, why can't we travel into
the future, Well, I think we can if we are
actually living in the past, and then we can go
into the future because it's already existing.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
That's a good point.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
Okay, yeah, that was my point.

Speaker 12 (46:46):
Anyway, I have I've got a friend who asked me
for a lot of help. He had a business section
that he wanted to develop. So we thought, well, why
don't we go pedal stations because where he was situated
was right by a large amount of traffic. But that
turned into quite a quite a challenge because all these
other crowds, they basically just want to leave section.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
And hang back up the truck. What were you trying
to do?

Speaker 12 (47:11):
It was a one of my friends owns a commercial section.

Speaker 13 (47:15):
Or business press, okay, and want to know what the Yeah, you.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Want to know.

Speaker 12 (47:19):
You want to revamp it into something better. It's commercial.
So we said, well, why do we put petrol station there?
So we did a lot of road surveys on traffic
count and all sorts of stuff to see what the
car potential was. We surveyed a lot of petrol stations
in the area to see how much petrol they were selling,

(47:41):
and all sorts of stuff. And then we came down
to approaching different outfits and basically they are all the same.
They wanted to lease your property and kick you off
it and then they would run everything on it and
make all the money and all you got was the
lease value. So when you see Allied and why Tomo
and all these Celtic sites that are unmanned, they only

(48:04):
give you the lease of the land and the rest
as theirs, and so we go. But I want to
have a shopping center at tied to it. So that
we have a takeaway. I said, well, why don't we
put a McDonald's there. We thought that was pretty cool
because that would really encourage people to come and buy
the petrol and get McDonald's. So we approached McDonald's and

(48:26):
they send us all the criteria for a franchise, which
was the first of all, you need a million dollars
in your bank account cash available.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Just for the fit out of the kitchen and everything.

Speaker 12 (48:37):
Is that right, No, just basic starter, Okay, you just
have to have a million dollars in your bank account
before they'll even consider you. Number two was the manager
who was going to run it, which was the guy
has to spend one year working in another McDonald's franchise
to get the hang of it without being paid.

Speaker 9 (48:59):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
All right.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Wow.

Speaker 12 (49:01):
It went on from there and of course they would
kit it all out. They would supply everything at their
rates and you just got a slice, which meant the
more you could sell, the bitterer franchise was, and the
you know, and quicker you'd get your returns back of
your investment. We never got to the stage of how
much money we needed to actually invest in it, but

(49:23):
I think that million dollars was the hint. So when
you say why don't we have the McDonald's, it's because
there's an awful lot of background work that goes on
before they just put a McDonald's anywhere. And often they
will look at what are the other people here like
Burger Kings and Wendy's and all those others. What does
their franchise take at the time, And therefore is it

(49:46):
worth that foot traffic to put the McDonald's franchise in
that space?

Speaker 2 (49:51):
And what did you end up doing with your section?

Speaker 12 (49:54):
He just released it out to another other guys who
have started a new business on it.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
That's nothing important.

Speaker 12 (50:01):
The business, oh, it's quite important business. And the guys
this guy's going off to Australia, seck of New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
He's had okay, but what's okay? But I guess what
the businesses is not important. George, appreciate you coming through.
Thank you. We are talking about the surprising things he's
in towns don't have. Marcus. I'm surprised he does have
a gondoler. What a great thing that would be. Shane

(50:30):
Joanes should be there with his provincial fund. Marcus. I
hear there's a cost codes going into Rolliston. I'd be
surprised Marcus Topol does have a cinema, Starlight Cinema. It's lovely.
Get in touch. My name is Marcus. Welcome the surprising
things he's in towns and cities don't have. And your

(50:52):
part time jobs, the ones you decide to do and
they turn out to be life changing. I don't know
where we go with that story. I'm just up for
the discussion. And I always say, just up for the discussion.
Oh wait, one hundred eighty Teddy and nine, looks like
Shandemal has got a sanctuary century century. Yeah, that's happening.

(51:18):
Finland sending their pandas back to China because they're too
expensive to maintain. Ever thought penders would be expensive. But
there you go, surprising things that major places New Zealand
town cities don't have. It's kind of interesting. Also, part
time jobs, because more news iners than never that they
have part time jobs because of the cost of living crisis,

(51:39):
and often I think that part time jobs become much
more than you expect. So when I talk to you
about your life changing part time job you might have
joined at started to say, I don't know what, I
don't know what it is might have become life change
and get in touch if you've got something to say
about that. Eight hundred and eighty eighteen eighty. If you
are in the South, there's just been incredibly strong hailstorm
coming through. Someone says Marcus. Bluebridge sailings canceled on Friday

(52:03):
until Sunday. It's shocking. I feel the countries come off
the foils, if we can use that metaphor Marcus. Topol's
Starlight Cinema demolished earlier this month. Owner Bold the old
building earthquake prone. Cheese amos, Wow, something else is Topo
doesn't have a cinema. The building of that house, the

(52:24):
Starlight was demolished a few weeks ago. So get in
touch if you want to talk. The number is eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine nine Rossetts Marcus, good
evening and welcome you.

Speaker 9 (52:34):
Good evening, Marcus. Just that thing about Rolliston they I
did know that at one stage they were talking about
putting the bypass across the main modeorway from we're attractive
places right through to the center of the city. So
you can just sort of, I don't know, maybe they're

(52:55):
going to kinneat to us. The main highway back on
is like an off ramp and then go back over
and then the Costco was going to be on the
other side of the main road, not the Rolliston's.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Yeah, because I do feel they do need to do
something like that, because you've got forty thousand people soon
living there. There's just one road onto the mate. I mean,
it must be an incredible bottle bottleneck in the mornings.

Speaker 9 (53:20):
Oh yeah. I started at a side hustle building garden.
She'd done twenty fourteen and I've built about nine hundreds
of so far. Yeah, and I've actually done quite a
few for Roliston just recently. I did one last weekend
the lads. One for men that literally he came for
me Stalkland. They'd only been in Roliston for about four

(53:42):
weeks and I says, what made you came here is
just just had enough of the He was in the
Navy and he gave up the Navy and came down
here and says, oh, yeah, fair enough. But the state
of the roads and that place is just bolical. They're
just so bad it's not funny. And that's why they're
mere Senn brought and onto two bringing the tolling for

(54:04):
the for the main way to run the new roads
in there, I mean the.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Road rolls itself or the roads on the main highway
from Rolliston to christ Church.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
The main highway on from Crotch is fine, but the
equal roads and Rolliston have just had it because don't
forget that can was built probably in the nineteen seventies
still got the same roading, and that they've got these
very small road, narrow roads with a lot of high
volume and you just can't yes, and I can see

(54:38):
why they have to try and nullify this by putting
another bypass. And I've always they won't be able to
they won't be able to cope with it. And yeah,
that like Dums crossing roads that's like got a big
two heights and one height and then you wheel just
sort of goes along the scroove all the way along

(54:59):
the road. In East Medicines. It's just shocking, man. It's well,
and I get around a lot doing sheds and stuff
astle and it's just that's one of the year.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Can you deliver your ship? Can you deliver your sheds
on a trailer?

Speaker 5 (55:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (55:16):
That's about fifty percent of my businesses. The deliveries, so
the other fifty people might pick up from my property
and high height. But yeah, I was actually listening already
the other day and they see that fifty percent of
Rolliston actually work in town. So fifty percent of people
in Rolliston actually might were going to town to work.

(55:40):
And that's why I think they're trying to get the
train going. So you could probably. I know in the
old days we have the train station more house ed
which was brilliant, but it could be a man a year.
I don't know how they would get well, Eddington's a
new train station now.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
So yeah, what's the cost of a shed to be
put together?

Speaker 9 (56:07):
Oh, very's like varies quite a lot. Because I've done
some small sheets. I've done a really loud sheep from
the boss and the crows got a whole they home near.
It's been a few weeks doing that for them, so
they can vary. You know, your wheels yours to Really.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Are you doing them for Minor ten and Bunnings? You
are they selling made up sheds or have they got
onto you yet?

Speaker 9 (56:29):
I used to do the minor team months and then
I stopped doing it. Now I'm just purely doing their
bunning sheets and hotlies or another one that I've been
given into one of the doing a lot of the
bike sheets as well, where people don't want a big
sheet but one enough to put the kids bikes away
and yeah so they yeah, but lot like I could

(56:56):
really grow quite a bit more than one am because
I'm don't forget I'm working a full time job and
doing the side hustle as well.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
So some weeks I reckon you good franchise at ross,
Yeah I was, I was.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Thinking of that, but then I've just got to be
a bit careful that am I going to be crust
of summoned to be able to do a job to
my standard? Because I did have a lady missing me
the other day and says, oh, I've got to trade
you to do a sheet and it's all twisted and bent,
and I said, look, give me if you want a
better advice and I'll help you out. So and I've

(57:31):
had I've actually got to build a mate who wants
he's shifted from Lincoln, Lincoln to North Kentry and he says,
I'm on a big lifestyle now I need you to
build me another sheet. And he's actually a help builder
by trade, and he says mate, I want you to
build one of your sheets for me, you know, and
that's a qualified builder.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Well do you think you should now? Do you think
now you should develop your own shirt? Would that be
too much? Hassel?

Speaker 9 (57:57):
Well's that capabal capital, isn't it? Putting the capital up front?
And then of course you've got to you know, at
at the moment it's low cost you under a Yeah,
everyone's way in it. Yeah that's good. I love it
and I've enjoyed working with people like another. I'm doing

(58:19):
doing a sheet of next boodon on Saturday morning for
a guy, and then I'm delivering another one to a
guy and people to no one said the afternoon he says, Oh,
I love I love your sheets, and I'm getting another
sheet from appearance, and so you get a lot of
repeative work when you've got a good name and people
of organizations.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
People love sheds. People can't have enough sheds. People love sheds.

Speaker 9 (58:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
On Facebook, Ross.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Yes, I am yeah, what is it?

Speaker 9 (58:46):
I'm just down the bagging garden shed bagging, just bagging
b b A g I.

Speaker 7 (58:56):
A. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (59:00):
The problem with Facebook, March says said, everybody wants it Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
We're excited because most people, most people don't want to
make their own sheds, but they think there's like a
gift from the Guard, a guy that can make your sheds.
People are thinking, wow.

Speaker 9 (59:14):
Oh god dear, I'm floating in heaven.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Man, could have could have become your main job.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
I've often thought about that, and a lot of people
at work, even my boss days, oh why don't you
do this? This and this and this?

Speaker 9 (59:28):
But yeah, I mean it comes back down to, yeah,
what's it call?

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Is it bargain? Is it bargain garden sheds?

Speaker 9 (59:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Has it come up?

Speaker 9 (59:41):
I've only got I've only got one on Facebook at
the moment because I'm just too too busy to be
able to us at the moment. But I've got I've
got a growth thought of Auckland because I've got a
daughter that lives in Auckland. She lived there for seven years.
So Jesus brought a property recently, so I might be

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to connect there somewhere, because I'll get a lot of
quiries from Aukland. Out of Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
You stay in touch, Ross, It's nice. I love your hustle.
I think it's great. Picton No McDonald's Burger King KFC
or traffic lights or parking meters. It's rained all day
long and hope it tickeer. It's so wet here shed
with a beer fridge, kettle free like copper and lots
of stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:00:27):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
Still can't find the guy's Facebook page. I think he's
probably on trade Me not Facebook. There'd be my understanding. Ah,
there's lines there free if you want to come through.
My name is Marcus. Welcome, oh eight hundred and eighty
tighty nine texts. If you don't want to come through

(01:00:52):
anything else. You want to talk about secondary jobs. I
don't want to get into what's paid work. And I
mean it's not that it's not a valuable discussion, but
I'm not up for that. Find amazing that guy that
makes She's made hundred of them. Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Anyway, get in touch if you want to talk, and
if there's something different you want to mention, it is
our packaday and I'm looking forward to what you want
to talk about. Keep those texts coming through, Marcus. Thanks
for your show. Always enjoy it. Soaking wet here in

(01:01:37):
Westport too, really quite need, really need quite a few
days desperately like you. By the sound of things, take care.
Cha is Darrel, Westport, Marcus, Redcliffs, there's Sumner and christ
It's used to have a New World supermarket now just
has an empty building Tome renew We know parking meters,
no traffic lights, only two roundabouts and only away from

(01:01:58):
the town, not in the main town center. I picked
AND's got no fast food apart from subway, poor old picton.
What's god, what have they got? So he might be
a picked in person who picked and got traffic lights.
I'm not saying it's got a bead t have have
fast food, but I'm only following them for the guy

(01:02:20):
that rang up and said, well, the person that texted
and said why has fun? And I got no Carl's
Junior or no Wendy's. Anyway, That's what we're about tonight
and part time jobs. You've got to make a bit
of money. We absolutely loved it. He should do videos

(01:02:43):
of himself making those sheds because obviously quite quick at it.
Now it can't quite work out why the big chains
don't employ them whatever they used to. If I remember,
get in touch Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine nine two to text yeah, it

(01:03:04):
would be good to hear from you if there's anything
you want to add to any of these discussions. It
might be something entirely different you want to chuck into
the mixt tonight, and I don't have a problem with that.
The America's Cup starts after midnight tonight. That's the Louis
Verton Challenger series to work out who goes up against
Team New Zealand. And I think Team News in didn't
care who they sail against, although I suspect Team News

(01:03:29):
or Deadly Love if they didn't have it themselves, they'd
love prouder to have it because they've been such a
great competitor over the years. And people always love the
Italians when they're in New Zealand. Yes, the other thing too.
Here's a question for you, and this might be a

(01:03:50):
good topic. How important is a CD player in a car?
Because none of the British car makers are making cars
with CD players anymore, and they reckon they've been letting
down music fans. But I don't know of anyone that

(01:04:11):
listens to CDs in their car anymore. In fact, I
just think that we've got CDs out of our life.
So if we have a car with a CD player,
we wouldn't have anything to play in it, because I
think most people wouldn't have a see D player around
the house. So if you've got one in the car,

(01:04:33):
then you've got to kind of ferret around cupboards to
find what CDs you've got, and then they normally that
one CD stays in the CD player forever until you've
over listened to it. I think I'm right on that.
Do you want to say and mentional you think about that?
But I wouldn't if I was buying a car, I
wouldn't be worried about the CD player would be the

(01:04:55):
least of my I prefer a cigarette lighter to a
CD player, and I don't smoke. I just like those
way those car cigarette lighters work and how you can
plug other stuff, and I love a cigarette lighter in
a car.

Speaker 8 (01:05:08):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
That's what I'm want about ten past eleven, eleven past ten,
fuel here till midnight. That's a good question about the
CD player in the cars. I'm not into it. I'd
rather have a reversing camera. It's my favorite thing about
a car. I love a reversing camera makes my day

(01:05:31):
so much easier. Not that I'm a bad reverser. But
I'm much better with a reversing camera. I can do
it with more. I'm thinking of a word that begins
with ecl A clay with more a clear. I don't
even know what the word I'm looking for is, but
it was the right word at the time. E C

(01:05:56):
l A t ostentations, display, dazzling effect, brilliance. It's the
right word. Hello, down, it's Marcus.

Speaker 5 (01:06:05):
Good evening, Ja Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:06:07):
I tell you what bluetooth has killed? The CD player,
hasn't it?

Speaker 6 (01:06:12):
It has.

Speaker 14 (01:06:13):
I've just got a new car. It's got a CD player,
and I'll tell you what. I press player a couple
of times. It's got some Japanese CD in it that
came with it because it's a Japanese import. And that
was the first and last time I've looked at the
CD player, mate, Because.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
What happens with the CD player in the car is
the first thing that happens. You take the CD out
of the container and put it in the CD player.
Then that plastic container gets crushed by one of the
kids under the seat, and then you've never got anywhere
to put that CD when you want to swap it.
So all your cases get swapped around, it becomes the

(01:06:50):
biggest muddle. It's terrible.

Speaker 14 (01:06:54):
Well, my last car I had had a stacker in it,
but I never even bothered to investigate, because I tell
you what, with bluetooths now, I've got Spotify, I've got
iHeartRadio that I listened to you guys on most of
the time. I don't even give a CD player a
second thought. It's about as useful as a record player
in the gap.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Remember those cars they had CD players that would stack
six CDs in the boot.

Speaker 14 (01:07:20):
I had one with twelve in a Marcus. I thought
I was just it when I had twelve CDs.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
What's your what's your cave? What's your car? You've just
bought on?

Speaker 14 (01:07:32):
Oh, I don't know if I should confess to that, Marcus.
I went to Auckland the other week and I picked
up a nice little hybrid up in Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Don't be embarrassedment having a hybrid.

Speaker 14 (01:07:48):
Well, given that I spend a lot of time evangelizing
electric cars, and then now I bought a plug in
hybrid because I went to pit backwards but Rave and
I had to concede. In the end, I folded, I
folded Marcus I folded.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Say you say you normally have a total battery car
and hybrid to step backwards for.

Speaker 14 (01:08:10):
You, I've had five years of running in the sand
Leaf and it got down to one hundred k range
and we bought it for taking a young fellow the
school every day, and it was absolutely fantastic for that.
But I've found finding that we haven't taken any family
holidays because you just can't. You can't take them out

(01:08:32):
of town, despite you know, these claims that we're going
to have ten thousand electric charges around the place, the
little little in the family. If I can't recommend them
enough around town, if you've got to need a shop
and cart, but you know, even I have to concede.
And the full battery electric with a four hundred and

(01:08:54):
five hundred k range Marcus, at forty thousand dollars, it's
just not good enough value.

Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
Yet nice to hear from you, do. I appreciate it.
I appreciate your honesty, Laurie Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:09:05):
Welcome, ye Mark, I see had the ultimate problem with
CD players. I love the CD in the I got
a sparrow outback that I've got that problem. It was
a six six seed the holder and then they're all
jammed in there. At present.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
I've had that. I can't remember what happened. I think
a button knife was something, but it wasn't. God.

Speaker 11 (01:09:33):
No, Well, I've been down to the the audio auto
specialist guy because what comes up on the screen and
the car when you try and play him it says
Era ninety nine basically. So I told him what it was,
and he all he shook his head, noses, you've got
to take the whole of the foody console out to
get your CDs back, and then the thing won't play anyway.

(01:09:58):
So currently they're still stuck in there. I'm just thinking
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
He's saying he couldn't fix it.

Speaker 11 (01:10:04):
No, he couldn't fix it. No, he says Era in
ninety nine. Supposedly on this one, that particular machine is
that that that's that's Even if you do get in
there and get your CDs out, he couldn't get it
working again. So currently they're stuck in there.

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
What I mean, what did you do wrong?

Speaker 11 (01:10:25):
I didn't know. It was just it had been playing
completely normally. Just one morning I stuck it in there,
put it on play and nothing happened, you know, clicking
and carrying on and then Era ninety nine comes on
the screen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
That's a great name. I love it, Era ninety nine.

Speaker 11 (01:10:43):
But another option, I mean, because you had the choice
of a cigarette lighter. I do have a cigarette lighter,
and one of the things you can plug in there
is one of those. It's sort of a little FM
Tuna thing which you can put a memory stick in.
So the because this was an import basically, so you

(01:11:03):
plug your memory stick in and tunes to the and
IFHM stay general and then you can play all your
tunes just scrolling through on on off the memory stick.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Have you tried to if you tried a battery disconnect?

Speaker 11 (01:11:22):
Yes, yeah, I've done that, Yeah, yeah, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
It's unfortunately Aaron ninety nine indicates a mechanical failure and
a CD charger mechanism. There isn't a reset button you.

Speaker 11 (01:11:35):
Okay, tried all those buttons here and no, he said. Basically,
it was a big job of getting the console out
to recover them. I'll do it at some stage, but
I just didn't feel like it at the time. When
I had to drive up to Rhoda and back last weekend,
I was messing up. But the let's say the other

(01:11:56):
deal got me going all right, and then got to
listen to the test to listen to the tests on
the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
According to the owner's Facebook owners forum, they reckon, if
you get the ninety nine era, you should try the
Faulty Towers style. Do you know what that means?

Speaker 15 (01:12:15):
No?

Speaker 11 (01:12:16):
Well, I mean I know, something like a bit of
a tentrum, like.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
Yeah, you give it a couple you give it a
couple of wets while pressing load and eject.

Speaker 11 (01:12:25):
Oh okay, oh well there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
I I hadn't searched that. That's I love it that cauld.

Speaker 2 (01:12:34):
I could see that worker. I could see that just
sort of just dislodging the CD and it all working
for you. I reckon, that's probably the way to go.

Speaker 11 (01:12:42):
Well, certainly the expert never mentioned that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Well, I don't even know the Faulty Towers style was
code for anything, but I'm liking that a lot. Lurry,
there you go, guys, faulty to How does Lurry get
rid of his Era ninety nine and all the things
to get rid of cars? CD players? I don't regret
at all. Yeah, it's a great thing to get rid of.
I'd rather have a cassette deck then I always I

(01:13:08):
don't like the feature. Can't see CDs. It's all hidden
the way there. You don't know what's going on. They
always get stuck and jammed. It's never straightforward. You're in
ninety nine. Hello, Trevor, it's Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Yeah, part time jobs.

Speaker 10 (01:13:27):
I'm retired now, but when I was younger, I worked
at the three nights a week as a cleaner and
three nights a week as a cinema Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Wow, both these have renters to me? What city.

Speaker 10 (01:13:43):
I lived in Australia. So I lived in Sydney and
I for six months. They showed it the same movie.
It was Easy Rider.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
That's a very good film.

Speaker 10 (01:13:56):
It was a good film and there was a small cinema,
but every night it was packed for six months. So
and then when I arrived in New Zealand, I got
a part time job in a Hamburger bar making hamburgers,
and eventually I bought the half share of the business.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
What babar was it Triva and in in.

Speaker 10 (01:14:20):
Christ Church down in Brighton, it was called the It
was called the Nosebag.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Schiper's Crips a good name for a place in it
it was.

Speaker 10 (01:14:30):
It was a good Hamburger bar. I bought it just
before the Commonwealth Games and we cleaned up because we
had the Mary Concert party living in the school opposite
and they had healthy appetites and we had a big
influx of people. So yeah, everything worked out really good.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
And tell me something. When you are a cleaner, right ye,
are you a an hourly rate or it's a contract
so you need to clean as quickly as possible.

Speaker 10 (01:15:00):
I started off on an hourly rate, so I used
to be able to use those buffe and machines that
I was. I was in the Merchant Navy and I
learned how to buff decks at sea and then so
I used that to get the job for the cleaning firm.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
And then I.

Speaker 10 (01:15:22):
Saw an opportunity and I actually tended for another part
of the factory to clean that by myself.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Well yeah, so you'll be going as quickly as you
can because you've got the contract for it.

Speaker 10 (01:15:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that was clear. But other than that,
it was early just just an hourly rate. It was
it was fairly well paid, but it was you know,
it was hard work. So I used to start work
on my full time job at seven in the morning
finish at five, start the cleaning job at six and

(01:16:01):
finish at nine.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
And then it's a long day, isn't it. That's unbelievable.

Speaker 10 (01:16:07):
It's a long day. But you know, when you're a
young family man, you know the reason.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
You know, you have children.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
You got to do it.

Speaker 12 (01:16:16):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Although don't see your kids much, do you.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:16:21):
No, no Sundays, Saturdays and Sundays sort of try to
but it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
And what's with a noseberg? Once was? Is it still
a Burger Bardie?

Speaker 10 (01:16:34):
Well, I don't know. I don't know what it is now.
I think it might still be. I haven't been down
there for quite some time. Brighton isn't what it used
to be it was. It was in the heyday of
Brighton when the Saturday opening we used to sell four
hundred hot dogs on a Saturday. You know it was. Yeah,

(01:16:55):
it was a busy shop.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Might come again. The hot pools are good trip. But
thank you. Nice to talk. Twenty six past ten. A
lot of advice for Laurie. Tell Laurie to get rid
of the Era ninety nine in a Sabaru by a
Honda Marcus. Tell Laurie to tell us car that was
Azera buying a Sabaru worst car ever, no one's fitting

(01:17:20):
the love. Tell the guy to u's a similar cable
he has with a bluetooth on it? Bingo or Bingo
can't find much johnline about the nosebag interesting num for
a burger bar. I've been to some of those nostalgia
websites of christ Church, but can't get through onto all
of it. What's happening people? My name is Marcus good Evening.
Anyone going to regret the fact that CD players are

(01:17:41):
no longer in cars? Oh, here's something, here's something. We've
got breaking news. Don't play breaking news, dad, it's not
that breaking. High winds and wings and cancel flights. Strong
winds cause disruption to flights that willing to airput on Thursday,

(01:18:03):
leading to a number of cancelations and delays, while big
events in the capital are making problematic to put people
on other flights. High winds and Wellington have disrupted seven
flights and canceled three. So what with the winds And
with the winds and Wellington and that Monaware shopping center
in Auckland, it's not good for travel. Our team are

(01:18:28):
monitoring the condision's closely. Customers booked on travel Advice to
keep an eye on our arrivals departure page strong wind
and strong Wind watching win it on Thursday, with the
Metservers saying there were gales and exposed places gusting one hundred.
The World of Wearable Art Show began on Thursday, the
School two Men's on Friday, and the All Blacks play
Wallabies and will end of this weekend, which means there

(01:18:51):
are few empty seats on planes. The Capitol and our
spaces need to be found for those who weren't able
to fly in and out of the city on Thursday.

Speaker 12 (01:19:01):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
So a lot of people are impacted. Anyone looking to
buy a ticket on Thursday night for an En News
in flight from Aukland twenty on Friday would find there
were seats on only three sites available. Flights available were
the cheapest ticket four hundred and sixty.

Speaker 12 (01:19:20):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
When I read the article about the new train the
Northern Explorer. Did you read that article the New Northern Explorer?
This is where rail has gone in this country. The
New Northern Explorer train trip has had a relaunch because
it's now offering upmarket food which is called paddock to plate.

(01:19:46):
So to go from Auckland to Wellington on the train
with a paddock to plate option. The eleven hour journey
with the dining experience five hundred and nineteen dollars for me,

(01:20:06):
that seemed a lot. It's called paddic to plate, but
it's really just been assembled by the staff on the train.
Roast chicken breast with a gisbon b mash and a
wided up a pino nah noir jeu. I thought that
was steep. Might be a bucket list thing for people.

(01:20:32):
You can take your bucket list. I worked three part
time jobs the addies. The worst was cleaned the dining
room at Lincoln University, scraping mash play off the walls.
I love my CD playing a car, but one stuck
in it at the moment chairs and thinking what is
the CD that's stuck? That's what I'm curious to know.
Mine was always Leonard Cohen, Always like dancing, always like
driving to Leonard Cohen for some reason. In the meantime,

(01:20:56):
we are discussing the surprising thing that some cities in
New Zealand don't have, and that's been a positive. Top
surprised that Wisport had no roundabouts, well it's not so much.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
I like the fact that someone bothered to find that
out that Nelson has no Burger Fuel, that you Plymouth
has no kmart, that Napier has no fish and chip shop.
I couldn't quite believe that you might have some more

(01:21:35):
things to say about that. Take them through or phone
them through. Amazing a town have no roundabouts. I'd like
to see a graph of the number of roundabouts in
the world versus time, because g don't people love them.

(01:21:58):
People just love a roundabout. And I'll tell you what,
when you have a roundabout compared to a traffic light,
there's a lot fewer accidents. And that's because the onus
is on you. It's up to you to make the decision,
so you're empowered to make good decisions for yourself. With

(01:22:20):
the traffic lights, that's not the case. Yeah, that's interesting
to me to talk about that. Oh, eight hundred eighty
ninety And will you miss CD players and cars? I won't.
I think Spotify is pretty good in the car or

(01:22:41):
the radio chop between the stations. Marcus good evening, just
letting you know I made the crunchy ice cream was
absolutely delicious and a great hit with everybody would make
it again. Thanks Denise? What recipe did you get? Denise? Denise?
Now guess what CD Nicky's got stuck in the car?

(01:23:05):
Have again? Yes, that's the question for today. I'll give
you a clue. Kissing in the background of the movies
on a Saturday night? Or there goes My Baby? Or

(01:23:26):
under the boardwalk. Yep, it's the drifters. Marcus got off
a ten day cruise last Friday, Pacific Flora to the islands.
Heaps of school kids. What's that about. They're in the

(01:23:47):
games machine arcade all the time, five point five meters
swells for twenty four hours. Wow, you got any video footage?
I've got an email from Melbourne him Marcus. It's a
public holiday here in Victoria, Morrocan. It's a big parade
the day before the AFL Grand Fund on Saturday. First
time since two thousand and six there hasn't been a

(01:24:10):
team from Victoria in the Grand Final. There'll still be
over one hundred thousand packed into the g that'll be
the MCG for the big game tomorrow night. My Storm
hosts the Roosters and what should be a great game.
Amy Park has sold out with over thirty thousand attending,
so hoping our boys can win, giving them a spot
in the NRAL Grand Final next weekend and joining your show.

(01:24:32):
Marcus Cheersleon from Melbourne. I presume it will be a
Melbourne Penrith final and I presume Melbourne will win it.
But look, there never seems to be surprises in the NRAL.
It always seems to go to form. But hardes accomplished
in the world.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
They say.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
But thanks, it's good email Leoni, you go to the match,
le You got any of the match. It's been nice
to hear from you about that, Marcus. I've got Michael
boublaz Christmas album stuck in my car. Lots of roundabout
some Blendham Lyttleton has no gas station. Surely it would have.
You wouldn't want to get stuck in the tunnel with

(01:25:12):
no guests. They're probably pingya, wouldn't they? Is there an
automatic one with just a machine gas station? An automated
that we've even got gas and bluff with just the
automatic machine. And someone's googled fish and chips Napier. There's
several I think the person was making the point that
there's no fish and chips where you can buy the wetfish,

(01:25:33):
as they call it. I don't like calling the thing
to wetfish, but we can buy the fish as well, wetfish.
I don't want to call it wetfish. To feel a
bit funny about that very heavy hailstorm came through about

(01:25:57):
an hour ago. I'm surprised you couldn't hear that on
the radio. I couldn't work out what was happening. Was
so loud in the studio. Thought something untoward was happening.
Put me off from the spot a little bit. Yeah, anyway,
all the lines are free twenty four to eleven here
till midnight tonight. Get in touch. That seems to be

(01:26:19):
a fair amount of fury inderneeding about their hospital. They're
going to downgrade the new hospital government bombshell. So that's happening. Yep,
that's a big story. But do get in touch if

(01:26:40):
your talk Marcus till midnight tonight. There's something else you
want to mention. Be good to hear from you, but
some pretty dramatic weather coming up the country. Also, just
so you know, good evening, Daniel, it's Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:26:54):
Welcome, good evening, How are you Marcus.

Speaker 9 (01:26:57):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Thanks Daniel, it's good yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:27:00):
I just thought I'd could be a call.

Speaker 4 (01:27:03):
I am.

Speaker 10 (01:27:05):
Here, yeah, talking and I thought, oh, I might.

Speaker 16 (01:27:08):
Give you a call and talking about weather and hale
and whatnot. We're about hearing in the cargoes.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
Yeah, I am. Yeah. I live in Blaffoot working in Vericago.

Speaker 16 (01:27:16):
Oh yeah, no here in Wellington. And I just briefly
tell you the story. So I was in two thousand
and seven, I did ski patrol up at Mount Ropeyu,
and we were taught about the weather and all of
that kind of stuff, and that kind of piqued my interest.

(01:27:38):
And once ski season finished, I came back home and
I started forecasting the weather to my friends on our
own personal Facebook page. And yeah, anyway, my friends were
thought that, you know, after doing this for quite a
few years, twenty thirteen, my friends encouraged me to start

(01:28:01):
my own weather page called Wellington Severe Weather Report. So
I know it's a hell of her name. I wasn't
thinking that lots of people would be interested in my
weather forecast. And anyway, yeah, all of these people, a
thousand people joined me that night. It was during June
twenty thirteen. We had a really nasty storm that went

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through the cook straight and washed out part of the
railway line and had blomen know, the waves of washing
into the Toni Esplanade. And yeah, but anyway, over the years,
I've just been keeped on during the weather forecasting. In
twenty seventeen, we're having a bit of a chat with
some of my members about you know, weather stations and

(01:28:44):
things like that. So and in Upper Heart they didn't
have a weather station as such that the public could
find out how warm or cold it was here and
Upper Half and anyway, we decided to start crowdfunding, and
I thought, well, how much were it costed crowdfund and
you know, there was a bit of money banded about,

(01:29:05):
like nah, twenty thousand would get you good weather station
kind of thing, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:29:10):
And anyway, the.

Speaker 16 (01:29:14):
Yeah, as the years went by, we saw a crowdfunding
getting all this money, and then we had some big
thunderstorms and the met Service the media got involved and
they put it in the newspaper about these thunder storms
and stuff like that and about medium weather station crowd funding,
and they went to the meat service parts of about oh,

(01:29:36):
this anual guy, what's he doing building this weather station?
You know, and the meats it's like, what weather station
you know, they knew nothing about at that point. But anyway,
I ended up in actually going into partnership with the
Meat service with this, and when the METS that has
got involved, I said to them that I want to
build a state of the weather station here in Upper

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Hut and yeah, so that they came back to me
and said, right, these you know, these are all the
weather instrument components, and you know we you know, seven
years later, finally the public donated over seventy thousand dollars
with business sponsorship and things like that. It's it's well
over one hundred and fifty thousand, and Upper Heart City

(01:30:20):
now has one of the best weather stations in New Zealand.
And it's all through crowdfunding.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
Okay, I've got a lot of follow up questions for that.
So your severe weather reports are they on Facebook? Is
that where they are?

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Yeah? Correct?

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Yeah, and that's that's the only and that's the only
place they are.

Speaker 5 (01:30:39):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Facebook works well like that, does it? It's a good
common meeting ground. So do you do you do you
do daily reports or do you do anything like that?

Speaker 6 (01:30:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:30:50):
I if I can do daily reports, then I'll write them. Generally,
I try and do it when I've got time, you know,
if I can get one or two away in a week.
I generally keep an eye on the weather. Really it
depends that it fines and we get three four finds.
I usually won't really write much of a forecast knowing

(01:31:10):
that the weather is going to be pretty good. But
as things, you know, when things turn to custard, all
you know, chuck a forecast up, you know, and things
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
So which is good, but it's amazing thing. It's amazing
to have you as a resource too for this show,
to know that you were out there too. So I'm
loving that.

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
Yeah, keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
What else were going to say?

Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:31:31):
Yeah, my brother so me and my because when we
were kids we moved to Kai Took in apper Haart
and it does get snow up there. It's about three
hundred meters of our sea level and we do get
snow up there, not every year, but you know, some years,
and that kind of peeked down interest in my younger brother, Matthew.
He's also into the weather in quite a big way.

(01:31:52):
He lives down in Canterbury and his snow his his
weather page is called what is it Canterbury Snow? And
weather watch down there in Canterbury, so he generally focuses
on the snow storms and things like that or if
they do get you know, severe with it down there
in Canterbury. But but yeah, it's a bit a bit

(01:32:13):
of a hard case. So yeah, I thoroughly enjoy it,
and I really enjoy listening to your program at night.
It's actually really interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
Look, I appreciate that. I just try to work out
why you we moved to Kaitok. Railways or farming.

Speaker 16 (01:32:29):
Oh yeah, farming. But yeah, but my family heritage is railways.
My grand there was in the railway for forty years.

Speaker 2 (01:32:37):
I can I can, I can tell. I can tell
railway people when they just start talking, just because a
lot of us know Wellington is the weather and Upper
Hut quite different from Wellington because sort of a hill,
doesn't it must be, it must be a really different
kind of a weather system. How's it different?

Speaker 16 (01:32:54):
Yeah, it's a micro climate here. It's because that Spokes
Valley gorge. The land kind of turns around on a
bit of a circle really, and the gorge comes right
across at silver Stream. So so you know you've got
a small channel of their really that does come through there,
but most of the majority of the weather gets caught

(01:33:14):
certain subs and things like that. It isn't too bad
all the lower hat area is kind of getting the
worst of the Sutherly while Uppert kind of remains a
little bit more sheltered and always like that. But you know,
and then in the heat of summer, which is why
we built the weather station. You know, this is how
that all this talks all started was because it gets

(01:33:35):
so damn hot here in the summer and the thirty
in the thirty degree stuff, you know in summer. And yeah,
so you know, and upper Heart people wanted to know
what it was all about, and it's been It's on
TV and Z seven sharp. Julian leed that, you know,

(01:33:57):
a five minute thing with story with me and the
Breakfast TV.

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
I got to run great. And that's not your day job.
You've got a different job, is that right, No, you
do something, you do something else.

Speaker 16 (01:34:11):
Yeah, recycling for charity. My company. I recycle computers and
laptops and donate to people in poverty.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Fantastic to hear from you, Daniel, That's a great precursor
because I lovely to hear from you. Oh that's what
that's kind of that. That's kind of my wish to
have people with weather scenters all around the country that
canfone in when things get bad. Mind you, and do
I think that's going to have bad weather very often?

Speaker 7 (01:34:30):
Is it? Of course?

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
There is a yeah, snow at Kaitoky, very strong winds
on the Limatuckers before they put the tunnel through. A
train got blown off on the Limatuckers and a place
called Siberia. Yeah, that's right. You can still go there
on that rail trail. Be a pretty strong wind to
blow a train off a railway track. Hidna about that

(01:34:52):
from a railway family, wouldn't he? Kaitoky? I walked that
way when I walked to Masterton. Very enjoyable walk. So
what am I going to tell you? It's so I'm
going to have a couple of commercial breaks jammed up
the top of the al It's entirely my fault. Haven't
spread them out properly. That's I'll self punish myself for

(01:35:17):
that one. Marcus. The Upper Hut weather station is fantastic.
I drive past every day and see what the weather
is doing. It's situated my grandchildren's school. I can see
why he was on good sorts, Marcus. I do like
a CD player in a car. I have a Subaru
B four, also with Blue Truth, but the CD does

(01:35:37):
have superiors soun over the bluetooth. We've had the best
of s I a CD in the car seea and
year good loud crisp for the singerlongs Marcus. We received
the hail just a few minutes before you had the
h and me full throttle and could.

Speaker 16 (01:35:51):
Barely hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Gary, whereabouts are you? Gary? Send me a street. I
won't read it on here, Marcus. We upper hut Viands
really appreciate what that last caller has done, especially my
four year old who likes the colored light. Strong winds
here tonight HMV or that must be the old air

(01:36:14):
con Marcus. No traffic lights and funga matar. No McDonald's
and o aki or though we have a conceit for
one on Keeper Road next to the Shell community is
fifty to fifty on the meccas. My girls are excited
they can walk five hundred meters from home to get
their mcflurries on the weekend after a full week of
school with no wagging. Best part time job for me,

(01:36:35):
Meccas nineteen ninety six to nineteen h nine at Medlands,
bark Banger and Victoria Park branches. Loved it. I often
think I wouldn't mind going and doing some shifts of
McDonald's just for you know, the I don't know, there's
something about food like Loney Anderson did not Loney Anderson,

(01:36:57):
you know the other one, the singer Lorie Anderson who
went and worked a McDonald's for some years. But I'll
tell you what. When I went to McDonald's the other
day with the kids, it's not quite the same anymore
because they kind of pre make all the drinks and
they kind of leave them on the bench because now
everyone's ordering from the kiosks. It walked but chaotic. I thought, yeah,

(01:37:19):
I didn't give me a calm vibe. Marcus things. It's
surprising an area doesn't have the lower half of the
South Island a proper hospital. Marcus, my daughter and a
granddaughter were the very first customers and new Zenand's McDonald's
way back in the early eighties. Marcus Kaitoki Regional Park

(01:37:46):
was the location of Rivendell as well as been where
Frodo was able to recover from his knife attack Harcourt
Park once again an Upper Hut Gandolf and Sarah Man
met in the gardens of isingrad Harcourt Park. These are
great texts, Marcus. My daughter and I have just flown

(01:38:08):
home from Timano into Timandou from Willington. As we were
in Upper Heart today for the primary school Interregional cross
country champs. He's right a wee microclimate. We got lucky.
My daughter ran here athlete with support just as it
started to drizzling. It wasn't too bad. By the time
we got tod he was pretty yuck. Upper Hut was

(01:38:29):
a nice place to be Wellington Airport not so much
by the way as an outstand outside. I think the
Wellington public transport system was outstanding. I was in Willington
last week. I got the bus from the Wellington Airport
to the town. Thought it was really good the bus.
The weird thing was they didn't sell the Hop card

(01:38:51):
or the Snapper card at the airport, which I thought
was a major fail. But I only waited about five
minutes for the bus. They accepted cash. Got to town,
thought it was great. Got the train to Tawer that
was great. Got a train back into Wellington that was great.
Walked to Pott, walked from pot to Wellington. That was great.

(01:39:12):
Then the weekend the buses replaced trains, which I didn't
like at all. But I thought the airport bust. They
finally got that sort of. They just need to sell
the Snapper cards at the airport. So big tick to you, Wellington.
Good evening, Bob, it's Marcus welcome. Yeah, gooday, Bob.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Yeah, I just I I saw a bit about what
Carrie Wooden was saying yesterday about these the violence on
buses and putting in these new screens.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Sure, and I thought you saw it. I mean, did
you see that.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
I saw it on your website. Said yeah, yeah, I
just thought i'd put in a two cents worth. I'm
a bus driver, so.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you for your service.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
Thank you. You know, some of them, some of them mates,
my colleagues, we're not happy about these these screens going
up in buses. I mean, we're going to be monkeys
in a cage at the starters. Some of these, some
of these tough guys, you know, they'll be able to
We don't know what the screens will look like just yet,

(01:40:25):
but there's a good chance they'll be able to rip
them off, and you know, there's no doors for the
drivers to get out, so they're going to be stuck.
It's going to be terrible and come summer, you know,
the airkon and these buses there's not always the best
having a tiny space like that. We're going to be cooking.

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
Have you ever seen anywhere where they've got drivers and
kind of capsules the works. I've never seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
Yeah, they do it in the UK, but surely there's
an extra door on the side that the driver can
get out as well as the main door.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
And they're not going to do that, are they. They'll
be too tight for the bus companies to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:41:03):
Oh, there's no way you do that. No, So I
mean that that that's a crazy thing. But the question
that kirie Wood input says I think as a valid one,
and that is, you know, why has the violence increased?
Are people getting away with these terrible things that they're
doing on buses? I think that is what the problem

(01:41:25):
is myself.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Are you an awthor.

Speaker 4 (01:41:29):
Yeah? I've seen yes, and yeah you do see some
things you know, out and about, particularly in the city.
But I think the issue comes back to you know,
in the middle of COVID, you know, at decided they

(01:41:53):
were going to change the culture of busting or on
buses and they wanted to attract more women, so they
kind of feminized the role of that and they decided
to say that must drivers. You couldn't keep people off
the bus, you had to allow anyone on. And so

(01:42:17):
they changed it. I mean back in the day when
I started driving.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Hang, you couldn't give are you saying they said they
tried to feminize the role. Yeah, did they say that
as that was their policy.

Speaker 4 (01:42:30):
No, they didn't say that. No, that's what I'm saying.
But what they're doing is they're making it more attractive
to you know, for women to get on the bus
and drive. And look, there are plenty of great female
bus drivers out there, don't get me wrong, but you're
if you're a bit of a nancy and you can't
handle a crowd, I don't think you should be in

(01:42:50):
the role because that's kind of a big part of
the role.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
You hear the union say that police are you for real?

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
You hear the union say they don't want you drivers to.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Be you actually are a bus driver, But really they
think Bob Bobbie, you're a bus driver.

Speaker 4 (01:43:15):
Well, yeah, that's what I said.

Speaker 2 (01:43:17):
Okay, so you work for you work for? What's the
company that runs the buses at the moment.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
There's a number of companies, but I won't be saying
who I work for.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
Not Okay. So you're saying that they feminize the role
because women have always driven buses.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
That's right, I'm not saying. So what I'm saying here
is is that I think bus drivers are gatekeepers. They
are the gatekeepers of their bus. As soon as you
tell a bus driver they can't they can't deal with
problems on their bus, which is more or less what
they've been saying, then the bus drivers lose their confidence.

(01:44:01):
They don't have the ability to deal with the problems.
So are they getting away to it? Yes, they are
because the bus drivers are too scared to say anything
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
So what are you saying the bus drivers should be
able to do.

Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
I think the bus drivers need to be encouraged to
take control of the passengers or of their buses rather
and yeah, if something goes wrong, deal with it instead
of well, I mean every situation is different, but the

(01:44:36):
encouragement from their managers, from their Bosses is not there
because they're trying to change the culture.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Do you would it be any help to see traffic
police that are just there's a police transport.

Speaker 4 (01:45:00):
Well that's what we have at the moment with these
transport offices in Auckland. But they're not warranted officers. They
can't arrest people.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
No, But I mean Australia they've got police people that
are on transport. That seems to work.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
Oh yeah, well, I don't know if we could get
enough people. There's so many, so many bus services, how
would you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Maybe we'll just be random. Nice to hear from your
Bob sixteen passed to eleven, eight hundred and eighty year today.
You might want to comment, Gee, Marcus, I think there's
more violence on buses because the new bus station parking rides.
They have credit hubs for people to hang out and
gather for too long between bus services. Marcus CD players

(01:45:48):
and cars disappearing like bucket compartments disappeared from fridges. There
was a time when we were forced to pay forty
five dollars broadcasting fee even for a radio in a car,
when people were lucky to have tape decks in the
car Marcus. One of my adult jobs was installing a
weather station for the Stevenson family on their Loch and

(01:46:12):
Vera station on the Napier Topaus Highway in the early
two thousandths. It was one of the first privately run
weather stations in New Zealand. What we hooked up to
providing the data through to the website and to record
and use the data for various reasons, such as to
prove when frost damage crops on Loch and Vey you
have snow on the southern end of the station, whilst

(01:46:33):
being the twenties at the other end in shorts and
T shirts. Messive place. The weather station reporting in the
website was revolutionary, a very rewarding project. Getting touch My
name's Marcus hddle twelve also to the America's He went
into the America's Cup. It starts from midnight when I

(01:46:53):
say it starts. This is the Louis Vuitton This is
Inios UK against Prada Prairii Italy. They got a different
name for them. It's just hard to remember because it've
got new sponsors and toe that starts at midnight tonight,
the Challenges Series Louis v. Ton Cup Final Eddies Britannia,

(01:47:18):
Luna Rossi, Prada Pirelli, Jenny Marcus, welcome, oh Hi.

Speaker 17 (01:47:26):
One of the part time jobs I really enjoyed was
about thirty years ago when I started as a part
time job Palm Beach backpackers and when I was don Wahiti. Yeah,
and there were several jobs around I used to do
part time because of the nature of the place.

Speaker 9 (01:47:46):
In the seasons.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
Yeah and tell me about it.

Speaker 17 (01:47:52):
Oh well, I used to there aren't metals of people.
Quite a few heads that were coming from Europe. I
was quite sympathetic to them because I got to kids
backing around the planet at the time, and I'm doing
the same thing, and.

Speaker 18 (01:48:13):
So I used to get them.

Speaker 17 (01:48:15):
I used to force them to ring the mother. I
used to ask them how it was before they spoken
to their mother, because I was sympathetic to that as well.
Because Telecot at the time used to have it used
to have this arrangement where after sixth at night used
to bring internationally for two dollars and I got a

(01:48:36):
private line where I was and I got kin singing
their parents and got over.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
But I just loved where was the backpackers at Palm Beach?

Speaker 17 (01:48:48):
It was directly. It was on the beach just about
it's not there now because.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Was it the old Sumpkin Lodge. Yes, okay, wow, okay.

Speaker 17 (01:49:03):
Yeah, that's right. So it was right there on you know,
across from beach. It was nineteen ninety five, so you know,
I think it changed into a resort a few years
after that and it became you know, rather polluting because
you could get the backpackers for oh it was ten

(01:49:26):
dollars in the dorms and fifteen dollars if you wanted
your own room.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Seems food, doesn't it.

Speaker 17 (01:49:34):
It was fantastic actually, And when people they couldn't believe
it when they came from overseas because it was a
small backpackere. They were like this chalets it was quite cute,
so it wasn't it wasn't very big, so it never
got you know, too rough. And yeah, I really love

(01:49:55):
those times. And while it was on my I used
to get I used to get people leaving me. Somebody
left me the dairy to look after what they went
from hold a day.

Speaker 4 (01:50:06):
In the winter.

Speaker 17 (01:50:09):
In the winter, so I looked off the Palm Beach
dairy for a couple of weeks while somebody went too.

Speaker 2 (01:50:17):
Were you good at that? Were you good at it?

Speaker 7 (01:50:22):
Was that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
What good at running the dairy?

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:50:26):
I didn't have to see good at it? I was
about five customers a day.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
The Americans have found they're in a huge world of
trouble with sports betting because in America what they have done,
they have there was forbidden apart from a Nevada and
I think Atlanta. But now they've rolled it out from
state to state, made sports betting legal. And because they've

(01:50:52):
rolled it out state to state, they can see the
impact of it, and it's all bad when you're looking
at things like home ownership rates and stuff like that.
Seems as though there's a certain of people that get
totally hooked on sports gambling and spend all their money
on it with quite negative consequences. So fairly serious topic

(01:51:16):
gambling and sports betting, but it's something we probably don't
talk enough about here. We soon to preoccupied with the
dangers of pokey machines. But sports betting, I think the
thing is that becomes normalized. Every time you watch the rugby,
there's always someone talking about the odds. I think people
start just having a punt to make the game more
interesting and it becomes serious quite quickly, just putting that

(01:51:42):
out there. Daylight Savings weekend will include ads to check
smoke alarm batteries and also an emergency signal testing on
our phones. Why not have eest's during the Christmas break? Also,
why would we but you hearing me while you're doing
during Christmas? Get in touch Marcus till twelve twenty eight

(01:52:04):
past eleven and CD players in cars? Anyone going to
miss them? They're gone out they go and more and
more key we's taking a second job? Oh or maybe
what's this? What's the part time job you've always wanted
to do? And people money?

Speaker 7 (01:52:28):
Do it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
Because I need financial the financial money from it. I
don't know what the I don't know if you I
don't know if you're going to do it. If you're
going to do a part time job now unskilled to
make a bit of money on the side, what would
you do? I mean that the old days it was
drive a taxi or go waitressing or I don't I
don't know what the modern equivalent of that is. Oh,

(01:52:48):
great text, Marcus, I reckon mowing lawns is the way
to go. I'll tell you what. I had a big
weekend of mowing lawns, and boy, oh boy, I loved it.
I absolutely loved it. And I'll tell you what it
was about.

Speaker 7 (01:53:00):
For me.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Someone had left us a secondhand mower and it had
the back flap was a bit sketchy, and it had
a metal rod through the back flap that held the
back flap, and it was no threads either side of
the metal rods. So I couldn't quite work out how
that happened. With a spring sounds like this more hail.

(01:53:29):
Do you want a video, jeushere's my phone. Oh another
mess of another mess of hailstorm just come through. I
chuck something that in the face. I know it's that interesting,
but it has it is really loud in the studio.
So yeah, it's kind of coming and going for days.
The the hail. Everyone's down south, all the farmers go,

(01:53:52):
they wreck it. You've got to ring your mates the
farmers because they complaining about the weather. It's been so bad. Anyway,
long story, sure, I was talking about the lawn mowing.
Had to go to see him mate Gavin to get
it welded so could have the shudder on, and then
had several hours with the lawn mower and gee, it
was good after the battery one. It was just fantastic.

(01:54:15):
And when I had mower lawn, what I like to
do with the lawnmower, I like to also use it
to I'm quite tough on the lawnmowers. There was a
bit of that iceberg plant that was down the front
and I had to get rid of that, and it
was probably about eight inches high. So she just managed
to go back and forward on the highest back and
forward lower and lower and lower. And the sense of
achievement after you've got a lawnmarwer and taken to your

(01:54:37):
lawns it it's like something that it's like a sensation
you never have before. Love it. So anyway, that was me.
That was the story of the lawnmower that we got
left so extremely excited by that. And that's the great
thing about spring. Though it only lasted one day, you
can reaffirm your love of your lawn mower. And that's

(01:55:00):
certainly how my weekend went. See the week an it
was quite good. Anyway, enough from me, all the lines
are free for our talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome.
Very strong hail coming through south and people, so you
will be aware of that. I need my own weather
Facebook page, like the guy in Upper Hut. So, I
know we've all run out of things to talk about,
but there might be something you want to add to.

(01:55:23):
So I'm quite sure about the guy saying about for
feminizing of the bus drivers. Marcus, have you looked at
the nineteen ninety five Tyson flight with what's the fight
with what looks like a cell phone? Where would I
find that? Marcus've had a fantastic part time job for
the past five months, teaching just to eight hours a week.
I was able to find a full time job, so

(01:55:44):
so took the part time job option. To small school,
the students all have learning disabilities. We are like one
big extended family. Amazing relationships with the students, and they
are so engaged in their learning and love coming to school.
I wish every teacher could have this experience. Get in
touch with anything to add Marcus till twelve as I say,

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eight hundred and eighty eight eighty nine two nine two
to text anything goes hit on midnight tonight. If you've
got something else to mention'd be lovely to hear from you. Oh,
by the way, there's some other news I've got to
report for you that I just found out about. This
will become a big story tomorrow. Flight ins is in

(01:56:31):
New Zealand story. Flight inn z AT eight from Auckland
to San Francisco was delayed this evening after a rodent
was found in the aircraft holed before departure as a
standard operating procedure of the aircraft underreach a thorough inspection
and the aircraft has been cleared to depart, but due

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to the extented time of the ground the crew reached
the meximum duty hours, resulting in crew replacement and the
service been delayed by three hours. I don't quite know
how often that would happen. There must be rats in
the hold or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
But there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
That's a story for men Is and that might be
a big day, a big story tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:57:14):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:57:14):
I was just thinking today that it's been a long
time since I had the old rats in the supermarkets.
They kind of got that sort of out. Now we've
got them on planes. Iver Marcus, welcome, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:57:27):
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 15 (01:57:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:57:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:57:30):
When I was ten years old, I used to love
mowing lawns for my dad's business, and yeah, that was great,
and then used to get me to mow the lawns
at home, and I mowed the neighbor's lawn and she'd
give me three dollars fifty and it was great, great
little money spinner. But made so many lawns in New

(01:57:53):
Zealand that finally had muss.

Speaker 11 (01:57:55):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:57:56):
I tell my wife over here that probably mode six
forty foot containers of grass. You heard it, mow the grass?

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Long were your own loans for?

Speaker 6 (01:58:10):
Well?

Speaker 18 (01:58:10):
I probably started when I was eight or nine and
did it three times, about sixteen years old. So what's
at sixteen minus nine? About seven years?

Speaker 4 (01:58:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
Yeah, So you made it over here, and you made
a career of it when you're a school child.

Speaker 18 (01:58:28):
Eh, yeah, yeah, yeah I did. I used to put
the money in the bank.

Speaker 10 (01:58:34):
It's good.

Speaker 12 (01:58:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:58:36):
But now now we've now we've got the farm three thousand,
three hundred square meters and I let my wife cut
the grass. She is a weed eater, an electric weed eater,
and she she mows the grass every week or two.
She gets out there with it and has a stab
at it, and she wants me to have a go.

(01:59:00):
But I do occasionally, but not really often. I just
say I just tell her that if she'll find you
right on, I'll do it for her, but she's a
bit tight with her money, so she doesn't buy one,
and she keeps doing it herself.

Speaker 2 (01:59:14):
How BIG's that farm when it comes to acres? I
don't know how wild you say that?

Speaker 18 (01:59:22):
Well, three house and Hamilton three thousand, three hundred square meters.
Our house in Hamilton was a third or third of
an acre. You'd probably fit about five of those, So
maybe five times third of an acre? What's that's about
one in three quarters of one and two thirds of

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an acre?

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
Okay, appreciate it. I thank you. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 4 (01:59:49):
Nol.

Speaker 2 (01:59:49):
It's Marcus. Good evening. Hi, No, h Marcus here, you.

Speaker 15 (02:00:00):
Don't Marcus ring your up trying to make my my
my son in little truck And they found it and
they were as and but I was I was only
to talk to you about burgers in CDs.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
Yeah, how'd they figure? How'd they find the can? All?

Speaker 7 (02:00:21):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (02:00:22):
It wasn't just actually was one of his mate's sort
was the pact at the back of bloody sheet in
from the real tie.

Speaker 7 (02:00:33):
Wow?

Speaker 11 (02:00:33):
Okay, yeah, one.

Speaker 15 (02:00:35):
Of his mate sort. You know, these birds are lucky
that they weren't found because that's that's all the area
where my my my son in law works. You know,
they're all shearers. They lucky weren't bump into them.

Speaker 2 (02:00:49):
Absolutely, because shearers get on the bigger shed looking around.

Speaker 15 (02:00:53):
Yeah, but biggers in and that Marcus biggers. You know
you can look at the bigger looks nice? He smelled.
It's not nice. But what what I find with the burggers?
How much bites I can take? Other of it?

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
You mean, how big it is? Is that what you're
talking about?

Speaker 7 (02:01:15):
Well?

Speaker 15 (02:01:15):
No, this how much bites you can together any burger?
You know, I say, like a big neck, how much
bis can you together? There? Eight bites?

Speaker 2 (02:01:22):
Like twelve? I don't know how many would be twelve?

Speaker 15 (02:01:26):
You know there's a place in ky Waker. Then they
make the bast burgers tenue bites. Really, Hawaiian burger.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
Must be a massive size of one.

Speaker 15 (02:01:39):
Huddeness a normal burger. That's what I love about a
good old person takeaway. They got they got those old
old burgers like Hawaiian steaking mushroom hamburger. All the wants this, Yeah,
what the hell are you mean?

Speaker 7 (02:01:58):
So?

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
Why are there more bites in that one? Do you
explain that to me a bit more.

Speaker 15 (02:02:03):
That's just like, that's just that's just that's it's just
a beautiful bigger.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Do you know what the place is called? Don't you
know the place is called in Kywalker?

Speaker 15 (02:02:17):
Well, it's it's just that that's in the house. It's
the Takeaways is in the house. It's on the corner.
It's not it's not a shop you get on with
ky Worker. It's a here you get on car Worker
and it's on the list. It's a house. It's not
a shop. M look takeaways?

Speaker 2 (02:02:37):
Look has it been there for a while?

Speaker 15 (02:02:45):
I wrote it is another Takeaways and I didn't like
that one because now they make your own biggers. You know,
there's not a Hawaiian Burger, you know, you know what
I mean? They make your own biggers with green.

Speaker 2 (02:03:00):
And yet is it in a shade?

Speaker 15 (02:03:03):
Yeah? No, it's in the house. It's a house. Yeah
really Hey, and we've got a parking area out in
front of it. And it's like awesome, and then make
beautiful Kyrie.

Speaker 3 (02:03:16):
Really what sort of house.

Speaker 8 (02:03:19):
Like a house?

Speaker 15 (02:03:21):
There's a whole house I know from Kyle Loker. You
know it's always been there for yeasy easy news, the
same house and they tending into this.

Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
Is it on a corner section, Yeah, right on the corner.

Speaker 15 (02:03:34):
It's on the main way, so said Holway run. It's
like right on the corner, like right the said too much.
Is a lift right there.

Speaker 2 (02:03:42):
On the lift going north?

Speaker 15 (02:03:44):
Hey, yeah, going down cor locker. It's not like you
have to go way over there or anything. It's like
right like by the garage.

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
Would it be called burger eighteen forty nine?

Speaker 15 (02:03:56):
I never, I want never clee. I welcome burgers.

Speaker 7 (02:04:04):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
I like how sketchy you are on details. I'll never
look at the menu, like.

Speaker 15 (02:04:15):
The Chinese is really nice. Everything is right?

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
They got they got, Yeah, this is it. It's got
a Hawaiian burger and Asian sweet sour pork fried rice.
It'll be it.

Speaker 15 (02:04:25):
But with this Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:04:27):
But it's in a house and there's a garage out there.
It's in the g It's in a garage out in
the front of the house, is it.

Speaker 5 (02:04:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (02:04:35):
And you can air to your bigger, like if you're
in a Hawaiian bigger, you can add another pineapple or
another or you could you know, you can air and boom.

Speaker 2 (02:04:48):
I've never noticed it before. Hot food burger. Yeah, it's
got a big sign out that's on the corner.

Speaker 15 (02:04:53):
Yeah, you can air to your big nobody.

Speaker 12 (02:04:57):
Can do that.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
No, I'm into this. I'll just try to see what
street it's on the corner too. I might have to
do I might have to do a he cary to
go and check that out. Yeah, what we're going to
say about CDs, I've just been.

Speaker 15 (02:05:14):
Listen hybrid Israel.

Speaker 2 (02:05:18):
Really you've got a hybrid.

Speaker 15 (02:05:24):
That it charges itself, and then it's the pleasant.

Speaker 2 (02:05:31):
It seems like a pretty strange place to open to
take away in that gear. I'm kind of intrigued by this, say,
because you just see the house and then you've got
the garage with a big extractor fan going out of it.
It's pretty old school and with a bit of a
bit of a dick on the garage.

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:05:46):
Do you drive up and down a febit up that road?
You okay? Okay? And you don't know how long they've
been there for and that okay, I'm giving them a shout.
Seems quite old school.

Speaker 15 (02:06:04):
A it's not a take away and rush And then
I mean and pie walker. There used to be run
o there is run up by the shops, but it's
just not a takeaway. We don't like it.

Speaker 4 (02:06:18):
I don't like it.

Speaker 15 (02:06:19):
It's the head like stuff like McDonald's, stuff like that
to it like.

Speaker 2 (02:06:25):
It's on the corner of Hasty Lane, opposite Settlement Road
if you want to go past it.

Speaker 15 (02:06:29):
Yeah, stopping the Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
Nice to hear from. Yeah, please about the sun too,
your son in law, and please that they got the
got your old car for the makapuna for the holiday.
It's nice to talk to you. Kind of intrigued about
the eighteen forty nine takeaway because I thought, why was
it named eighteen forty nine? I thought, well, the treaty
would have been signed by then. What happened in eighteen
forty nine? The treaty was eighteen forty two. But it's

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the number of the street. It's adding forty nine twin
Coast Discovery Highway. Not many signs out the front of it.
I've put it on my z BE night show fulled
Food pilgrimage to go and go to eighteen forty nine
and the Nosebag and Dave do you remember the nosebag?
And you brighton? Yeah? Are you a different Dave? Welcome Dave, Marcus,

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good evening.

Speaker 13 (02:07:25):
Yeah, you know so, so I'm on the phone.

Speaker 2 (02:07:27):
You hear me, Okay, yeah, yeah, got you're coming through
really well?

Speaker 13 (02:07:32):
Oh nice, Like I didn't realize CD is on the
on the table to night as well. I've got someone
to say about there. But first up, Orphan doesn't have
a Breakers and Breakers as a chain of restaurants and everyone.
I'm going back the Hawks Bay. If there's one in
tart Ole. He used to be one in Napier. I
believe there's one in Wellington.

Speaker 4 (02:07:53):
And I know this.

Speaker 13 (02:07:53):
They spread around here and there, but fairly thinly. But
there year there's none an Orphans, which is devastating. Chicken
Chicken die an.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
Tell me about a chicken die that? Now all this
is new to make. I don't really know our breakers.
What's a chicken dying? Because it sounds delicious.

Speaker 13 (02:08:12):
I'm no food connoisseirer.

Speaker 4 (02:08:13):
I just like to take it.

Speaker 13 (02:08:14):
I mean, it's chicken. It's in a Di sauce, okay,
and it comes with the serilings of chips and some
and a salad and we always get an extra bowl
of the Diane sauce because it is delicious.

Speaker 4 (02:08:28):
It really is.

Speaker 13 (02:08:29):
It's like I say every time I go on the
Hawk's Bay, which is at least three or four times
a year where we're straight round to break his in
tar It off for at least one meal while we're there.
In fact, I think my mum's getting bored with it
because it's all we all we have to do is
we keep kind of breakers.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
How many breakers would there be?

Speaker 13 (02:08:46):
Well, as I say, look, there used to be two
in Hawk's Bath, there was one in tarot On, and
there was one in Napier, I believe the one in
Napier just at the bottom of the hill there. I
think that's changed now. It's now different. It's like a
bar and grill for all the kids to go along,
and there's music and stuff. But I know that there's
a couple more on the North Island somewhere, because I
know my daughter seems to be potus whenever she goes
to the there might be one in Hamilton or one

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on one.

Speaker 2 (02:09:09):
I appreciate your enthusiasm for this.

Speaker 9 (02:09:11):
I like this.

Speaker 2 (02:09:11):
I like the fact your family are actually seeing your
shots every time they go to one. This is great.

Speaker 13 (02:09:16):
Well, the the thing is, this is not a place
to do chicken Diane, like we've tried to do Gloucester
and tear it old.

Speaker 9 (02:09:21):
Not as good.

Speaker 13 (02:09:22):
We've tried at other places, not as good. It's just
there's something about the rest beeat. It's only about their
Diane sauce and the tenderness of the chicken.

Speaker 16 (02:09:29):
That's just bang on.

Speaker 2 (02:09:31):
Well, because I don't know any think about this. What
is a Diane sauce? What does that taste like?

Speaker 13 (02:09:37):
See, you're only going to get words out of me
like really nice.

Speaker 2 (02:09:42):
Okay, okay, okay, because when you hear the word chicken dian.
But I've got no idea what it is.

Speaker 13 (02:09:49):
Ne But did I until I went there about four
years ago, and now I'm addicted to it every time.

Speaker 2 (02:09:55):
I mean, we hang on, just take a pause, Dave Dan, Yep,
you know what you got to do, don't you. Dan's
already put it on my list of foods to try
around the world from talk back. But chicken Diana, which
break is the best?

Speaker 1 (02:10:10):
Well?

Speaker 13 (02:10:11):
I can only speak for the one in Tarator because
the one in Nake is shut now. But but I
know that there's others around the country. If you, if you,
if you look up Breakers restaurants, and I know there's
a chain of them through the North Island. I don't
know if there's any down South, and they have a
whole They have a kind of a surf theme going on,
so you know, you're you're you're sitting in there and
there's there's there's scenes from there. There's photos from the

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sixties of guys with long boards in Hawaii and the dcor.
There's all sort of revolts around that sort.

Speaker 2 (02:10:39):
Of atmosphere that sounds fantastic. Okay, chicken Diane and that
comes with a.

Speaker 13 (02:10:46):
Comes with a side, a healthy side of chips, and
Digis will sell them.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
I think the Diane sauces butter broth, brandy cream, Dijon
mustard washed the sauce Charlottes, shallots and fresh herbs. Sounds delicious.

Speaker 13 (02:11:02):
Oh really is it really is? And just not on
the on the side, hustle, the side, job, the part time.

Speaker 4 (02:11:10):
YEP.

Speaker 13 (02:11:11):
Eight years ago I walked into a country music club
and for the part and just casually to turn turn
up and have a singing a song or two. And
for the last three years my weekends I've been doing two,
three or four gigs every weekend. Go you Dave turned

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into a job.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
So you were you were nervous when you first went in.

Speaker 9 (02:11:38):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (02:11:38):
Look, I remember the first time I got I was
given a half hour gig, and it was at the Clouds.
It was Queen's Birthday weekend. They were expecting about thirty
thousand people walking through there that day, so I was
terrified to play for half an hour. Now, now I
played four hours, and I'll pack up and go and
play another three hours somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (02:11:55):
When you did that first song at the first show
at the cloud what we should go to song? What
did you start with?

Speaker 13 (02:12:01):
Well, it was actually because it was Queen's Birthday weekend.
A guy in charge full as Lee said, told us
that we should all sing English music, which turned out
to not be my best show.

Speaker 2 (02:12:14):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (02:12:16):
The reason being is because I got like I think
I sing as a Heartache by Tyler.

Speaker 7 (02:12:23):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (02:12:24):
Yeah, I might have sung in each year and song.
I think I sang a Rod Stewart song first cut
of the deepest great song. Yeah, but look at just
what's you?

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
What's your go? What's your good song?

Speaker 12 (02:12:37):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:12:37):
Dave, Dave, what's your signature song? Is it Weagan? Is
it Weggan Wheel?

Speaker 4 (02:12:43):
Look? I mean.

Speaker 13 (02:12:45):
I wouldn't call it a signature song. I call it
a fawn in my side. I have to sing that
at least three or four or five times every weekend. Now,
I mean, what the song of the stuff I'm enjoying
right now? Oh gosh? Actually, Flip Flop will Fly Okay,
an old it's an old rock and roll song by

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Big Story covering this name. But again flip for for
fly from it's about from nineteen fifty three.

Speaker 5 (02:13:12):
I've just learned it.

Speaker 2 (02:13:13):
Love it, Love it and tell me because geographically you've
bounced around, You've talked about hawks By, You've talked about
the Cloud. Are you based in Auckland. Where do you perform?

Speaker 13 (02:13:23):
I'm based in Auckland. A form all over tomorrow night
I'm playing at the Henderson ARSA. Actually, what just ever say? CD?

Speaker 7 (02:13:33):
This?

Speaker 13 (02:13:33):
This is amusing. I put together a CD two years ago,
did it through Stivvings. I tried doing it myself. It
costs too much money. I couldn't keep up with the demand.
So I thought all right, I had to go through
through someone to get enough printed and get it all done.

Speaker 11 (02:13:46):
I went and picked it up.

Speaker 2 (02:13:48):
I took it home.

Speaker 13 (02:13:48):
I had three hundred CDs with my name on it
the cover, all printed, published, cod rights, no CD player
in the house and I never get me and my
partner was so excited and we couldn't play it yea,
and we still don't because I've since bought one. But

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when I gave my CD to my mother, she doesn't
have a ce D plus, so I gifted it to her.
So where we're stuck again. I've got about I've got
about eighty left, and I've still got no CD plays
for some yet.

Speaker 2 (02:14:20):
Wow, are you trying to say you want us to
sell them on here? Gussie?

Speaker 8 (02:14:28):
Give it?

Speaker 2 (02:14:28):
Give us an email if you want to, because people
like a story or the backstory, and that's good on Pleased.
I've got two new places to go to the Berger
at eighteen fifty nine adding forty nine and the Chicken Diane.
Thought it was only a steak Diane. They must have
the Chicken Diane must be Breaker's version of the Steak Diane.

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Well that was long enough for me talking for four hours,
goes Cheapers. How good's that guy? The funny?

Speaker 4 (02:15:03):
A that guy?

Speaker 2 (02:15:03):
About eighteen forty nine? Anyway?

Speaker 1 (02:15:07):
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