Gee you've got a lot of junk (20 February 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from Newstalks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A't be Thursday. Welcome. Obviously the fruit flies the big
news today. This is the second They've got one in
Southark and there's now one in Burkedale. Quite a big deal.
A bio security operation has been launched. They have rings
that you can't go in a two hundred meter zoned
for the original area and a fifteen hundred meter zone,

(00:33):
so there's two zones. It's like a target doesn't mean
there's an outbreak with that single one. If you're in Birkdale,
if you're in ground zero. Let us know where it is.
I'm looking at the map. Cheapest is that where it is?
Fidget Spinner, It's near the industrial area. I'll bring an
actual deed up. I can tell you where it is.

(00:54):
I want to cross reference the maps, some pivoting between
the two and I reckon it must be around about Dale.
Let me just go between the two, Doilix, Steve Austin, No,

(01:14):
that didn't work. What what's there? I reckon it's probably
around about rose Neath place. That's a situation. You will
know if you're if you're in the know, you'll know.
So that's a situation. That's the fruit fly has been
found in a trap. We're caught in a trap. We

(01:35):
can't get out. So there's two of them. So there
will be zones you go in and now a lot
of pilava. You ain't able to carry fruit out of
the zone or in the zone, and stuff like that.
Instructions issued tomorrow if you liven't work in the suburb,
don't take any whole fresh fruit and vegetables out of
your property. Be door knocking. I imagine you may notice

(01:58):
in chrys activity the neighborhood as we go out, and
speetions and trapping our fruit. Our field offices may ask
to look at fruit trees on your property. They will
always show you a form of official identification running into
your probably with your permission. There have been thirty incursions
of different flies in Auckland and North and since nineteen
ninety six all have been eradicated. It's got kind of

(02:23):
rainbow colored sea through wings and the rest of its
body looks like pretty much any other fly. So there
we go. They've got vigilant tracks all over the show.
They got eight thousand trapped nationwide. If you are in
ground zero, let us know if you are in Burkedale,
let us know what's it like other helicopters, are there
people knocking on doors? There is a school there also,

(02:44):
Burkedale North School appears to be quite near there. So
there we go. That's a situation with that. So if
you've got some updated views on that, let us know.
Mina Miss Marcus welcome head twelve. The way to get
involved in the show is to call or text or email.
Love the calls, prefer the calls can handle the text
of the emails. It all works for me all God,

(03:05):
the contributions. What we all love. Oh eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two text, get
in touch. My name is Marcus Welcome. It'll twelve looking
forward to what you've got to say. So, yeah, there
we go. Off the fruit fly. That's something. If you've
got something to say about that, I'd love to hear

(03:26):
about that. But if weather down south too, It's finally
it started raining after about a month, so I'm not
quite sure there's going to be flooding elsewhere. I get
that vibe, but that might be on the cards. You've
got breaking news with whether let me know what's going on.
Important to be updated with that throughout the next four hours.
You hope your aunts are fine too after covering that

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off last night. Anyway, as I say, oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text
get in touch if you do want to talk. What
it's going to start to show off tonight with was
as far as a story I saw last night that's
kind of only tangentially related to this topic. But I

(04:11):
thought tonight would be a fairly good option to explore this.
And I'm not entirely sure how to get into the topic.
It's not a clumsy topic or one that's hard to explain.
I just want kind of a zesty way to get
into it that makes sense. But I'm looking at the
ten commandments of being a good or a bad neighbor.
What's the holy grail, the thing you should never do,

(04:34):
or what's the worst thing or best thing neighbors have done?
So I want to explore the relationship between you and
your neighbors and kind of establish what are the rules
and while other things that your neighbors have done which
have damaged your relationship with them forever, what's the thing

(04:56):
the neighbor does that's impossible to come back from, and rather,
not wanting to be nearly negative all day, I'll also
chuck the other ball out there and say, the thing
that your neighbor has done and you thought, wow out
the gate, that is extraordinary. Wow, give me a bit
more of that. That's been an absolute life changer. So it's

(05:17):
all about neighbors, the good and the bad, the extraordinary
thing they've done, all the terrible thing they've done that's
been impossible to come back from. Now this is not
from anything from my own experience, I suppose i'd better
say that. Yeah, sometimes with topics people that you can

(05:38):
personalize them. Marcus, there was a fruit fly on my
wine just now. But I think it's the common one. Well,
it would be common. Now it'll be sozzled. Oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty neighbors, the good and the bad,
and the things that are the relationship breaker for a neighbor.
I don't think I've got an idea what that would be.

(06:00):
I suppose loud music at night would be there would
be the ruiner for me. I guess dog's barking. But yeah,
like some more ones, a bit more out of the
gate too, Actually, crack into it BRender as Marcus Welcome.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Hey, I've got an interesting story. My son left the
key inside our house. So we were just about to
break a window and I saw my neighbor and I said, oh,
don't worry for hearing news. It's just going We've just
got to break in. And they're like, no, no, we're
going to lock you. So the husband's we're looking at
the windows. The husband goes, I think we can we

(06:40):
can do this, and they unscrewed and totally call them.
So I'm walking puff and train.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Will be Can you just take a pause because I
think I'm missing some of your gold because you seem
to be.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Are breaking up.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm walking, okay, could you stop walking in? Could you
hold your phone a little bit back from your mouth?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
I can't better?

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Like not and from the yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
So we locked ourselves out of the house, got to
smash the window. My neighbor sees me. I said, oh,
don't worry if you're hear Annise, I'm not just smashing
the window. And they're like no, no that. They came
and looked around, and I said, maybe we can unscrew
the little eldow that keeps your window, see me shut?

Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yes, So they go.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
He runs over, grabs AND's talk it did you under
some window?

Speaker 6 (07:39):
And so we get.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Inside and I'm like, oh, thank you so much. And
then it happens again. So again they came under the window.
And then another time I was staying at a friends because
I'd lost my key and they're like, said, I might
need a hand tomorrow. Next minute, we've done it. They've
climbed the clipped in the bedroom window three times and

(08:03):
helped us. It was very unusual, but I really appreciate
edit them.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
So they're good.

Speaker 7 (08:08):
Neighbors, lovely neighbors.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
That was going to be a terrible neighbors It was
going to be a terrible neighbors story.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Okay, sorry, we need a positive stat Okay, so what
do you think? So are you jogging at the moment,
I'm working up at her and I heard what you're.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Saying about where's the where's the hill?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I'm burking, unfit. Okay, I'm walking up the hill.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Okay, Oh god, I'm good to hear from you. Watch
up the fruit floes. But wow, we got there in
the end. Marcus, my partner has a small, inconsiderate family
living above who They seem to wear hard shoes all
the time and also is a loud door slammer are
terrible if you're in an apartment and there's people doing
wakes upstairs. I think sometimes an apartment people tie weights

(08:50):
to their shoes before they walk around. Terrible clump clump, clump, clump,
and then when they've stopped walking, you under You spend
the whole time wonder we're going to start again anyway?
Get in touched. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred
and eighty to eighty nineteen nine to text who My
neighbor was having a loud party. He was fifty, I

(09:13):
was thirty five. I called him over to the fence
and swung a kitchen stalled at him and knocked him out.
Fair to say. We never spoke again. Two weeks later
I replaced the four foot fence with a seven foot
One problem solved. Another person says, kindness goes a long way.

(09:33):
My neighbor passed today, passed the letter in my letterbox
addressed to the previous owner of their house, expecting me
to pass it on. They moved in five years ago.
My neighbor bought a set of bagpipes and is learning
to play them. My neighbor and I were really good

(09:53):
friends and she was great support when my marriage broke up.
She is now my ex friend living in my ex
house with my ex husband. I could see that coming.
I leave him, leave him, yeah, much better leave him.
He's terrible. Nah Na kick him to the curb. Oldest

(10:14):
tactic in the book, that one. They say, keep your
friends close by, enemies even close e very funny. Thank
you are the ten commandments? Have been a good or
a bad neighbor? Would the guards to your first caller
give them a key? That'd be the logical thing to do,
well though I don't think she was in a learning space, Brenda,
do you know what to call it to? I mean,

(10:35):
I appreciate her, but gee, she was breathy, so the
worst thing or the I'd also like the stories are
the best thing the neighbors have done, like they might
have done something that's been life changing, like major Lasania
when you had a baby, or major Lasana when you
broke your hip, or major Lassana when you got covis

(11:02):
seems to be the lasagnia?

Speaker 8 (11:03):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
That seems to be? Where did that become the international
thing to give the SNYA. I guess because everyone likes
it at stores. Well, is that right? Eighteen past eight
oh eight hundred eighty tay nineteen nine two texts It's
all about the neighbors tonight, the good and the bad,
the commandments of the neighbors, the things to always do
or the things to never do? What the what are

(11:26):
the words you never want to hear from your neighbor?
Curious to hear from your Oh eight hundred eighty ten
eighty nine two nine two to text, welcome Marcus hurdled
twelve beautiful, get in touch as I say, oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty love your pet day today too,

(11:49):
just so you know, I mean every day? Should we
love your pet day? Shouldn't it? This day? In fifty four,
Evett william sets the world long jump record, and Gisbon
should have got you to guess about that? Who that?
What record was set today in Gisbon? The commandments have
been good or bad day, the things you should never
do or the things you must do, and the things

(12:10):
people that have done to you that have been life changing.
Some says nothing worse than the basketball going bang bang
on a concrete all weekend. I imagine that would get
to you. Matthew Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, the basketball I understand. But Marcus, I'm known as
the mayor of Hunhi because I'm a serial launcher. I
do love mowing the burns of my neighbors.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Wow, how far would you spread?

Speaker 5 (12:39):
I'll do the block? No, yes, well I'm a mulcher.
You see, don't catch it? See so, and if you
keep on do it, it's good. It just you just
run over it takes it. It's a bit of exercise.
Get out there, listen to a bit of news talk
and just yeah, the moor burns. It looks good. Because
if you mow your bird and then there's a lot,

(13:00):
it looks terrible.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh, I mean everyone should do it.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Well, It's just I think if you're out there mowing
and you're not catching, I think the mulching is the
key because you're not having to fill up your little
green men.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I probably never heard of someone's a nickname from a
neighbors bet in the mirror hun Hay, because I mean,
no suburbs, let's be fair. No suburb's got a better
name than why it's always fun to say, is it
is of whoon that's right, and quite big blocks. What
road are you on, red Grave, cedars Dale, Keith.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
You're very close, just off whun Hae Road.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Really really well, look how big your blocks are.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
So if you go Rose Street and then yeah, the
next street down towards the hills.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so that's quite a big block.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
It is a big block. But it's it's I feel
bad because you look well when you come out of
your drive and you look, you look to your left
or you're right, and then and study it looks good.
The lines. The lines give sort of you know, it
gives solace to a crazy mind.

Speaker 8 (14:17):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is anyone objected, No one, No one objects.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
It's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
You've made a rod for you back now because now
you've started, you can't stop because once you're.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Countop and it gets me out of the house.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
It's a very good thing to do. How long you
been doing it?

Speaker 5 (14:38):
For?

Speaker 8 (14:40):
Oh years years.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
I'll always do it, I'll always do it. But then, also,
the other thing I want to ask is why do
you always have to give lasagne or a pastor meal?
Why does never one ever give you a curry or
a casserole?

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I think lasagna must they must have done surveys and
Lasagna must be It's about one of those classic kids
radio stations. I don't play good music. They play the
music that doesn't force you to turn off, and I
I think lasagna is like that. I think it's I
think it's the one thing that the most people will

(15:15):
kind of enjoy. It's not it's no one's it's no
one's death throw meal, is it?

Speaker 8 (15:22):
No?

Speaker 9 (15:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
But yeah, only if they're beds or something, or they
don't mate.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, okay, I do like a lasagnya and they can
you can put it in the freezer button.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
As the vegetarian one.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, all of them nice to talk about. Through twenty
six past eight. My excellent neighbor waters my garden put
that things in my rubbish bins if I'm away with work.
He makes delicious raspberry jam and always passes a jar
over the fence. Great guy, great neighbor. Wow, how many
people have married their neighbor Marcus. Not only did my

(15:56):
nice neighbor break into my house, my bad neighbor would
idle their car outside my bedroom window. Not great in summer.
That also put their bins out eleven thirty pm right
outside my bedroom over paving stones, wow, neighbors burning rubbish

(16:17):
on multiple occasions over a few weeks, smoke bellowing into
my yard. That was too much to me. I lost
the plot. And while now they stay away from my
fence line, Marcus admitted, it's mildly satisfying when you're boom
mowing makes the neighbors look a bit wild. I'd be
a bit paranoid if someone mowed my boom. Are they
trying to tell me something good and bad? Neighbors? The

(16:41):
thing you've done or the neighbors done to you which
you thought, oh yeah, that's a bit suspect, or you
thought it was life changingly good. We've got the Mira Juney,
we've got Brenda on the hill, and we've got you, hopefully.
I'm trying to think what i'd ring and say. I mean,

(17:02):
it was all about boundaries to with your neighbor. I mean,
you were in there, you know, you know you want
to be straight across in this bar por do you
you want to kind of gentle steps would be my
advice for that one. Get in touch. Marcus till twelve neighbors,
Neighbors neighbors, The Commandments of the neighborhood by the way,

(17:23):
keeping a watchful brief on the fruit fly. We had
those fruit flies stuck out in ships in the harbor
and the whites of Batara, and they had to leave
the ships there forever because they were forget what happened there.
It feels like it was a big story about three
years back. Now it might have been pre ovid with
the fruit flies on the ship. Don't even know what

(17:45):
happened to them in the end. A metal statue of
Yoda has been stolen from a dress street in Kindala.
Daniel Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 10 (18:00):
Good evening, mate.

Speaker 7 (18:02):
We had of sort like we we had a neighbor.
As soon as they moved in, we had the shoes
go up on the clothes line. No, not cries are
on the pale line. So I knew it straight away
that they were going to be selling finny straight away.
And then but and then my car got broken into

(18:24):
about a couple of weeks later, and I went and
told them not yet, No, you're not doing that right here,
and they said, he goes, I know who would have
done that. And they kept doing what they were doing.
But nothing ever happened again. But they moved out about
three months later, so that was just how that went.
But the other one was the neighbors who moved in

(18:44):
after it had a dog and dogs love it and
friendly everything. And then my partner's son moved back and.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Her dog.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
His dog was a girl and the other as a boy.
And the old lady who moved in next door's dog
keept jumping the fence and then she said, gostro turn
dollars twice. I was like, oh, hiding your fence, and
I hide in the fence and from then on new again,
and we able to jump the fence. So that's fixed
that problem.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Lively neighborhood, Dan, you always thought it was a myth
with the old shoelaces, but thank you. Nice to hear
from your neighbors, the good and the bad. You don't
have one of each. I'm just trying to work out
what's acceptable. It's also not hesitate to focus on the
positive marrying neighbors. My brother's mother in law married an
next door neighbor after his wife died, as she helped
them out. I reckon probably pre online apps, more people

(19:41):
would marry their neighbors than probably meeting any other way.
On the squash club and the dining dance emails if
you've got them also, but mainly your calls oh wait, oh, wait,
one way, oh what do you got? The good in
the band of neighbors and there might be something particularly

(20:02):
that it's just you that did a noise. You think,
oh my god, that does my I mean, if you're
night worker and they're wheeling out their wheelibin's really noisy.
Or some of those people that get out and, like
on a cold day, run their car for about twenty
minutes to kind of get I don't know why they
do it. When will they leave and get back to sleep?

(20:26):
When will they leave and get back to sleep? It's
all about noise, isn't it. It's basically what we don't
want noise at weird times? Am I riding on onto something?

Speaker 8 (20:42):
There?

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Am I?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
It's all about noise?

Speaker 7 (20:44):
Stewart, good, rightway, good Stewart.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Let me put two ears on for you. How are
you going?

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Very good?

Speaker 12 (20:55):
Neighbors talking about the neighbors. They new law getting past
the napier.

Speaker 11 (21:03):
There's any new.

Speaker 12 (21:05):
Subdivisions from now. The fence height on all your boundary
fences is only allowed to be one point two meters
high and of the poor fence style.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Of the what fence style, Stewart pool fence.

Speaker 12 (21:25):
It can't be a solid sea. And I've done this
for a few reasons apparently, so people can't hide behind
fences when they're in the neighbor's place or if you
have people. Yeah, that's just a very strange new bylaw
that's coming into and October. I think this year mark Yeah, October,

(21:49):
I think this year.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Did you say that's hawks hawk spay Napier, Napier, Napier.
It's weird. I don't like fences around properties so much
because no properties used to be fenced in Sunday their
all fenced, So I can't quite work out why they've
gone that, gone that, done that. But that's weird about Napier. Yeah,

(22:19):
it says it must not exceed two meters in height.
I don't quite know what they're trying to stop. Yeah,
it's weird. I do say maybe as low as one
point two meters front ones one point two the other's

(22:40):
two meters. It says that the NCC, the Native Napier
County Council City Council spokeswoman see the proposed proposed provisions
intend to improve safety in amenity and would be for
future fences, not existing ones. People in the street or

(23:02):
neighboring properties feel safer when others may be able to
see them. People looking to undertake criminal disruptive behaviors are
typically more bold when than other activities unlikely to be
seen by members of the public. Being able to see
your neighbors also helps to build connected communities where people
are more likely to look out for one another, aspicial
in times of crisis. But theories aren't bad. Two story

(23:24):
house neighbors upstairs playing cricket in the hallway. Oh my gosh,
Marc's had an amazing neighbor and I lived in Australia
twenty odd years ago. We did lots together when my
kids were little. She took me and the kids to
the airport one day morning because if my partner ended
up being violent, so we escaped. Wow, Marcus, we're probably

(23:46):
the bad neighbors. We sit outside by our smokeless fire,
listing to news talks and me, what's a smokeless fire?
Builders are the worst neighbors, always using loud tools. Love
the show. Thanks Marcus and team Nanna and Devinport. Who
would be the worst neighbors? What sort of people make

(24:07):
the worst neighbors? Were the Flanders good neighbors? Two of
the Flanders didn't? What of the ned Fen? Didn't you
give old Bart that's shape? That fizzed them up a bit? Yah?
Who makes the worst neighbors? Probably some some of those

(24:29):
people down the rabbit hole on the internet probably wouldn't
be great neighbors, would they, particularly if they start getting
lots of gun shaped packages. Get in touch by name
is Marcus, Welcome head twelve, Good evening, Rose?

Speaker 13 (24:44):
Are you high?

Speaker 14 (24:45):
Rose?

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I've just my button didn't go on as quickly as
I thought, So I've just heard hey you, But you
might have did something before then.

Speaker 15 (24:52):
Right, yes I did? How are you good?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Thank you Rose? Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 15 (24:57):
Oh, thank you very much. I had the neighbors from health,
or the neighbor from health. She stole close money, alcohol,
whatever she could get, jewelry of me. She was a
crackhead and she would steal stuff from anybody whoever, and

(25:21):
just to get here quick.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
Good name.

Speaker 15 (25:25):
She's now in jail.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Wow have you written to her?

Speaker 16 (25:31):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (25:31):
Good lord?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
No, Well that's what you're supposed to that's what you're
supposed to do.

Speaker 15 (25:36):
Am I what do I say?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
What's your name? First name?

Speaker 13 (25:41):
To read?

Speaker 2 (25:42):
So sorry? Thereasa to hear that you are now in prison?
Maybe you have? And then I don't know what the
next book would be. I don't know what the Christian
during the other cheek would be. Thing, but yeah, because
you sound about pious outside, don't you.

Speaker 15 (26:02):
She would go to town and steel bikes that were not
tied up, and seldom for her crack. Oh, she was
a horrible neighbor.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Did she start bad?

Speaker 6 (26:13):
Ord?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
She break bad?

Speaker 15 (26:15):
She started bad?

Speaker 8 (26:16):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Did you try and get on with Did you try
and get on with Teresa?

Speaker 17 (26:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (26:22):
I really really did. I quite liked her when she wasn't.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I would have I would have ironically called her mother Teresa.

Speaker 15 (26:33):
Oh, honest to God, as it's not what I wanted
to call her. She when I'm on a pension and
I had to save up for all that stuff, do
you get any of it back?

Speaker 12 (26:45):
No?

Speaker 15 (26:45):
Not a stint, not anything, No clothes, anything, no jewelry.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Did you get a cheap bike?

Speaker 18 (26:54):
No?

Speaker 7 (26:56):
Not at all.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
How she might be listening, how long is your way for?

Speaker 15 (27:02):
I'm not really too sure, but I hope it's a
long time.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Well, it wouldn't be a long time just for thieving though.
Would it get six months?

Speaker 15 (27:08):
Would she probably three or six year? But honestly, I
moved into the flat and thinking I was going to
have a nice retirement, and she was a complete nightmare.
Wow it was Wow, Marcus, it was horrible.

Speaker 17 (27:29):
Really.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, let's hope Theresa get some sort of realization and
change their ways.

Speaker 15 (27:37):
Well, being in jail, it wouldn't be very nice, specially
of women.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah, would that be Yeah, I don't know much about that.
Would that be worse?

Speaker 15 (27:46):
I'm not one hundred percent. You have been in jail before,
but I do think that being the first time, it
will be a hell of a shot.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Well, of course I've said that one night in president,
but I've gone on and on about that, so I
won't bore people with the stories again. But it wasn't
a woman to prison Rose, Nice to talk. Nineteen to nine, Welcome,
good everything. How's it going, Craig out of tenab a seven?

Speaker 8 (28:13):
Well, you know, he's always room improvement, that's right.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And if you go down, if you go up, and
go either way, depending on your caliber of your call,
I reckon you could bring me up to the nine
with a good story.

Speaker 8 (28:23):
It's a bit of pressure. I've got one of each.
I've got a good neighbor that packs carrying my driveway
when I go away on holiday and chicks letterbox Wow.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Wow to pack pack the card look like you're living there.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. And then when we put
a new fence in between the property, we put a
gate and so that their kids could come through the
gate bsection and use the use the pool, use our
pool where you got a poll?

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Tell like you don't tell like a pool guy.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
Not so much when it comes to cleaning and all
the costs involved. But yeah, other than that, it's quite good.
But then the other side of the coiners a neighbor
on the other side just moved there and he's kind
of like the worst neighbor. He drows for Uber, so
he's going in and out all kinds of hours of
the night, and when he comes home he would open
up all the doors to clean the car out, and
it's like multiple doors opening and closing all the weird hours,

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and that's annoying.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
He's not got one. It's not an uber van with
those sliding doors that open and shut rupture. Not one
of those, is it?

Speaker 8 (29:27):
No? I think he's got like a I think he's
got like a twenty door card doors that opens and
close every time he comes back from a delivery or
a dry or a pack up.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
And the terrible neighbor and noisy uber cleaner. Door shut.
I can just see it now, it comes shut shut.
I'll check it again if I phones are there. Shut
shut gotness.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Yeah, yeah, annoying, but anyway, that was it. I'll let
you carry me with them. Yep.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Does the Uber guy get on with the door guy?

Speaker 8 (29:59):
With the door guy?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
The guy that put the door on your fence?

Speaker 8 (30:03):
Oh, no, I put the door on the fence.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, but who's one we call that guy?

Speaker 8 (30:08):
Oh, the good neighbor? Does he get on with a
good neighbor?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Does the Uber guy? Is he Uber guy met the
good neighbor?

Speaker 8 (30:16):
They don't really talk. I don't think.

Speaker 16 (30:18):
Well, I don't know why.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
I don't know why. I just try to stay out
of a game. Why. I don't really want to get involved.
I just stick to you.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
If your neighbor bar one, so he probably thinks you're
getting up on them, the uber guy, because there you
are in the pool through little gate back and forward.
He's just out working the whole time there you are
back in the pool. Has he been there? Has Uber
guy been in the pool?

Speaker 8 (30:39):
No? But we did invite him cross for a Christmas barbecue?
Was he othern't a good neighbor? One time? And he goes,
oh no, and was really to stand offish.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That's like, no, thanks, I'd rather just open and shut doors.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
Yeah, I don't want to come from a barbie. I'm
just going to go home and up to close my
doors a few times.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Gosh, you're really You're already the hub of the neighborhood.
You with your pool, lunch and your barbecues. You've got
it all going on.

Speaker 8 (31:02):
Oh I look at the series. If you look after
your neighbors, they'll look after you type thing exactly. Yeah.
But yeah, that was about it or care and listening.
But it's interesting some of the stories.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
But it's interesting. Chick, should mail? Do you still get
some mail? Do you?

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (31:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (31:20):
Still get some male from overseas? Got a few relatives
overseas are fairly old and they're old school. They don't
tell you the old Grandma's preferred to do the old
cards and the letter's not the email stuff. It's like
that that technology. No now I just do it the
old way.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm not quite sure about the solution for uber guy no,
because it means a hard way to make a living.
Is it always trying to do his best getting ahead?
But I begin he's shutting his doors different times. I
mean that's the nature of the job.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
A Yeah, it is a little bit annoying. But at
the end of the day, he's doing what he's pretty
can the best for his family. So I'm not going
to rain on his parade type thing, but it would
be nice for you to maybe keep it a little
bit quiet. But yeah, it's a tough one.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Free for you, Craig. I never offense for you. If
you're in a neighbor I think buttually the worst neighbors
are those who turn their base up. I don't even
Kira realize that the base down is reverberating their lounge room. Yeah,
the base is bad. This one's interesting. My neighbors keep
ensuring that they were seen in public with my children
to prove their motives were not racist, while doing their

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utmost to drive us out. After forty years, they seem
to be getting more determined. Marcus Snapier City Council, We're
going to make one point two maxim het fence and
a new sub division to bring us back the nineteen
fifties when neighbors would chat more over the fence. Public
opinion apparently made them ditch that particular rule to weird.

(32:49):
One can see where they're coming at. Oh, now, he's
a very good text from someone whose number ends in seven,
eight to seven. Use the uber guy to pick you up.
It'll be free as he's on his way home anyway.

(33:10):
It's excellent. Yeah, that's free. Good, that's a very yeah,
that's a good thing.

Speaker 14 (33:20):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
By the way, Bill, if you had a hit, ha,
wouldn't mind have left his Trump called himself King. Donald
Trump is receiving widespread backlash if he liked himself to
a king on social media. Congestion prices. Congestion pricing is dead.

(33:45):
Manhattan and all of New York has saved. Long live
the King. That White House empathy to share. Trump's quite
on social when you're company with the computit image of
Trump grinning and a fake Time magazine cover while donning
a golden crown behind him the skyline of New York. Yeah,

(34:07):
that's not good. It's triggering before the news. Be nice
to hear from you. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine two detects. I walk up your thea with
the news throughout the course of the evening. If there's
something happening, I will tell you about it. But yes, oh,
by the way, I'm reading about the staff and Woolworths

(34:28):
in Australia. Every day at three oh two, two past
three on the intercom they play pump it up, pumper
yep and all the staff dance. Do they do that
in New Zealand because we do have woolworth soupermarkets And
did anyone seem them do pump it up? Big story

(34:48):
in Australia, I appeal didn't seem to know. Well, who'd
be on a sup market three o'clock? No one? Someone
says it's a Woolworth's worker. I can tell you it
doesn't pump us up. We're collectively grown. We love to
work sing along. That's great, get in touch Marcus till twelve.
But yeah, uber driving next door? That is annoying. The

(35:10):
opening is shutting of doors all times of day and night.
And let's face it, no one's ever learned to shut
a door quietly. What's with kids? They can never shut
a car door. Can They mustn't have the leverage, never

(35:31):
quite shuts properly. Go figure. I don't than to change
the doors with buttons. I'm just kind of pondering to
myself what profession makes the worst neighbor? And I guess
there's someone that's kind of moving vehicles in and out

(35:51):
the whole time. That's what you don't want. Is it
like odd hours and cars driving that's annoying. What would
make the best neighbor? I don't know. Probably the best
da would be someone that's maybe you've got a bakery

(36:13):
who leftover itightems at the end of the day, something
like that, that would be good. Maybe people can bring
up about the best neighbor they're ever had, or the
world's greatest neighbor. I don't know who that is. I
think most of the neighbors are just pretty good. But
the question is tonight the commandments of neighbors, the commandments

(36:40):
have been a good neighbor, have been a bad neighbor.
I think you've got to worry about borrowing stuff from
your neighbor, and we're knocking next door the whole time,
do you that's annoying? But maybe I mean that could
be the bonds that started. If you've just joined us, Welcome,
you'll have some stories. Get them through eight hundred and eighty.

(37:00):
Come on, the greatest things your neighbors have done for you,
Things that your neighbors have done for you that is unforgivable,
the absolute deal breaker with it, or the thing that
the neighbor's done that's made you actually move. Sure, that's

(37:20):
why people live in the country with their life sentence blocks,
is to get away from neighbors. Oh, good evening, Ellison,
it's Marcus.

Speaker 7 (37:32):
Welcome doesn't mean not to say.

Speaker 20 (37:36):
When my husband and I moved them to our new
not a new house, but at our house, we came
along with all our bits and pieces, and the name
across the road says, oh, gee, you've got a lot
of bit chunk there, And four minutes later, five minutes later.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
He says, oh, you haven't got just all there.

Speaker 20 (37:58):
And because he noticed my husband was a do itself, gone.

Speaker 18 (38:06):
Go on, and oh well it was.

Speaker 20 (38:10):
Amazing just here safe.

Speaker 7 (38:13):
You've got a lot of junk.

Speaker 20 (38:15):
You might have what I want.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
So first thing you said you got a lot of junk.
What was the next thing you told you what you
didn't have no no.

Speaker 20 (38:22):
The next thing he said, oh, have you got something
like this?

Speaker 18 (38:25):
I just need.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
The trailer come and oh he was quite happy with sir.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
How did that relationship? How did that relationship progress?

Speaker 17 (38:38):
Very well?

Speaker 7 (38:38):
We were good friends with the neighbor.

Speaker 20 (38:41):
Yep, yeah, oh I know they were very kind to us,
so we were kind back to them. But anyway, thank
you for listening, have a good night.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Listen. I can identify with that, because that's the sort
of thing I reckon. I'd say, just down a nervous
are a lot of junk, just sort of trying to
break the ice. Some of us we're not that good
with the icebreakers. The icebreakers go bad. But I think
it's better to kind of blue out nice break to
say nothing. Do you a lot of joke?

Speaker 8 (39:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I could see myself say that. Anyway. There's no book
on how to talk to neighbors?

Speaker 8 (39:16):
Is there?

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Really? Tim? And to Marcus, good evening, Good evening, How
are you good? Tim? I feel I'm going to be
even better once I've heard what you've got to say.

Speaker 10 (39:28):
I've got a couple of I've got actually two or
three really good neighbors. I love out sort of rural Canterbury.
But I came home late one afternoon, early evening and
one of the neighbors had said there's a horse running
around in the district.

Speaker 8 (39:44):
It was actually just on the outskirts of Roliston.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
And it's a chestnut with a blue cover. Now, I've
got a rescue horse at home with a chestnut blue cover,
and I couldn't find him in the field. I couldn't
find were he usually is. So I raced out and
left the dogs in the house and raced out, and
all my neighbors were out looking for this horse as well.

(40:09):
They sort of realized that I was. They thought I.

Speaker 8 (40:12):
Was missing a horse.

Speaker 10 (40:13):
Anyway, I raced them to Rollinson Townships running and then
my neighbors helped me and they hopped in cars as
well to try and work out how far the horse
had run away. And they came back and said somebody
else had grabbed your horse apparently, and I was what somebody?

(40:36):
And then the police were here. It was I mean,
the police were in the racing around trying to find
the force, and I waved them down, said I haven't
got a cell phone on me. I mean, it's a
bit of a random.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Story, but it's a great story. I just can't wait
to see. It's a great story. I can visualize at
the chest that horse of the blue camera. You're running.
I don't know where you're running, but yeah, yep, I'm.

Speaker 10 (40:59):
Running down road. And then a guy from the local supermarket,
young guy, probably a student who was working during a
school holidays, he found out about the horses and he
was racing around. He was brilliant. He was such a
nice guy anyway, that I had all these people racing
in the community looking for this bloody horse. And when
I finally flagged the past down, I said, look, I

(41:21):
haven't got my cell phone. I've better go and grab
it and go back to the house. And they said, well,
we'll run you down there and then we'll.

Speaker 8 (41:26):
Start looking for this horse.

Speaker 10 (41:27):
So I was driving down the driveway and they had
their torches on there looking at got over to the
paddocks and there's the horse. And all I'm saying is
there was another horse that had that was difficult.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Wow, it's a good story. I knew it was going
to end that way. But why did you Why did
you run? Why did you run in to town and
not drive?

Speaker 10 (41:54):
Because it was because the neighbor next door. Neighbor had
run up the driveway and said, your horse is out.
I followed him.

Speaker 8 (42:00):
I think it was just out there.

Speaker 10 (42:01):
And then my next note, next neighbor, he was out
there with his with his family, and they said, we'll
hop in the car and have a look. And then
another neighbor said, yes, so we'll go down this road.
And then this guy from the supermarket, he said, I
hear there's a horse for a look in the community.
He said, I'll help you as well. And I thought,

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this is brilliant community.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
This is a great community. How they all found out
how they all found out about the horse was on Facebook. No,
it wasn't.

Speaker 10 (42:30):
It just spread through the community. And I think this
horse because I'm living near it. I live near a park.
I think the horse had been galloping across the park.
So everybody who was adjacent to the park had raced
down and they all thought it was nine and it wasn't.
And my lovely horse was sitting in there looking at

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this with a look on his face as long his
long face, thinking what it all look a suffle about?

Speaker 18 (42:57):
It was.

Speaker 10 (42:59):
It was actually brilliant. It was really funny. I'm probably
over over.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
No, it's a good day. Have you got another one, Tim.

Speaker 10 (43:07):
No, I haven't.

Speaker 8 (43:07):
I've got good neighbors.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Said yet two or three stories? Did you?

Speaker 21 (43:11):
No?

Speaker 10 (43:12):
No, Well, I might say, but I can't think of
any more at the moment, but I must.

Speaker 8 (43:16):
All I say is I love your program.

Speaker 10 (43:18):
I'm cooking tea at night, and I quite often listened
to you, and I actually think you're fantastic. I not
miss you personally, but I don't. I don't listen to
the radio during the day very much, and I just
looked at night when I'm cooking tea, and I listened
to you, and I think you're fantastic.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
That's lovely. Thank you. You know what I loved about
that story at vindicated my bus trip to Rolliston to
look around because it was people wrong. I could never
quite work out what rollster. I could picture him and
his with a chestnut blue horse that's not his in
that park. I walked right across Rolliston because the bus

(43:54):
left me on the bundocks and I couldn't have to
walk across town to get my left home or back
to where we were anyway, Marcus, my neighbors looked after
my animals last year for a week so I could
stay at hostable with my dying father. I can never
thank them enough. Lasagna neighbors let their dogs run loose
down our shed lane. Not god. Our neighbor threw our

(44:19):
cat into the pound outside her house multiple times and
locked them inside his house. Sour cat broke the cat.
Do I understand that? Oh, here's a good one. Worst
neighbor is a horse float company. All hours of floats
coming and going. Twenty four to seven horses arrive over
on an airlines. The trucks are water blasted, which is

(44:41):
very noisy. My neighbors rent the house and there is
a six foot wood fence between us and on this
side they have climbing roads. Is growing up the fence.
About six weeks ago, I was up the ladder cutting
it down on my side. It grows about nine foot high.
All the leaves and petals come down on my pathway
and I'm out there every day clearing my path. When
I was cutting it down on my side, she came

(45:01):
up to the fence and said, I am spoiling their privacy.
And she said that they have tied it the fence
and cover it with netting. So now I have it
all grown through the fence. The only they only have
grass on their side, no pathway, Marcus. I work at
Woolworth's and there's no such thing as the two pm

(45:23):
pumping up thing there. I think it was three pm
in Australia. Everyone here is too cool for that. What
a shame, although we did have a two pm quiet
shopping our no music for people with sent three needs neighbors.
Not sure why my neighbor refuses to park their car
and their drive where they send the preferred to park
in front of my house on the grass patch. Someone

(45:44):
says the worst neighbor is a crematorium. Marcus. My neighbors
leave their bedroom lights on all night and they shine
in my bedroom. Marcus, marrying the neighbor For twenty four years,
I've been living next door to Alice Lull. Someone's asking

(46:06):
if they think countdown or Woolworth's played pump it up
at three o'clock to end the quiet hour to get
the quiet people out of the shop. Wow, Marcus. The
worst neighbor is a town is that buy life sentence
blocks and winging, complain about everything country for goodness, say
you don't like animals, smells and track that's working twenty
four hours as they stay in town, and yes, wear

(46:28):
noise control called when doing silage. Anyone know a recipe
for the apple pie that Georgie Pie used to sell.
Been well over forty years since the last one. And
people want to hear from someone if they have been
the person that's annoyed. Has anyone out there being the
annoying neighbor? Have you been an annoying neighbor? What did

(46:51):
you do? It's a good question. Actually, hello Angela.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
Oh, good evening, Marcus. I probably was an annoying neighbor,
but my neighbor was annoying back. We love honor a
facus piece of land in a rural out of town
and the gated community was being developed apart us. So anyhow,
we decided to build a house another house on our

(47:18):
property and got came and building permission, and one of
the neighbors that backs onto us said, I'm going to
say the pens off you as soon as you put
the conquered down.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Wow, on what grounds?

Speaker 4 (47:33):
That we were blocking his view and that we were
devalueing this house by thousands and thousands.

Speaker 18 (47:39):
Of dollars appreciate yes?

Speaker 4 (47:43):
And we said no, well, that's not my problem. I
actually did ask the council about view and they said no,
there's no legislation.

Speaker 22 (47:52):
And then he.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
Asked us to shift the house and I said no,
this is where we want to put it. And then
he asked us to have a flat roof. I said no,
that's where the central heating goes. Yes, he was not
very happy, but I don't know about him.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Has been a long building process for him to watch
this house that he hated go up. Is he still
your neighbor?

Speaker 4 (48:17):
He still has our neighbor. And in there like you
were just saying about how and he sick decide because
they're all two acred blocks, and so they all have
animals on them that they don't know how to look after.
And so we often put people's sheep on our land
and the horses on our land because they run out
of feed, and and we say, yes, we've got a

(48:40):
stair padd it you can put those sheep and all that,
you know. And he recently had a cow that suddenly
well he bought a cow and three months lay to
the car had a calf and he didn't know what
to do. And anyhow he's he's taken that car to
the big freezer in the sky and so the calf
has been moaning for the last four or five.

Speaker 20 (49:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
So he he did come over the other day and said,
I'm sorry about the cow and he said, oh, you
know heaven us being you know, we were brought up
on some so he said, we know about it and
they will stop after a while.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
But that he came out, did you say, Angela, did
you say how's the view when he came up popped over?

Speaker 7 (49:23):
No?

Speaker 4 (49:23):
I don't know. But what my husband did that we
got one of our youthes that was really crapped out.
And because apparently he's a god hearing man, and my
husband parked the old youth sort of right in front
of there where they would have looked out at large
window with love Thy Neighbor spray painted love?

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Did he love the neighbor on the ute?

Speaker 7 (49:50):
My husband? Did you?

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Oh that's quite provocative, Angela. Hey, was he mate with
you before you had You're subdivided or before you got
penny conviction?

Speaker 7 (49:58):
No?

Speaker 4 (49:59):
No, no, they know they they're they're.

Speaker 7 (50:02):
High saluting neighbors.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Are the ones in the very exclusive gated community usage.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Goodness an So wow, that was a little microcosm of
New Zealand. What I can see their wooden fences as
I'm talking. Robin. Good evening, Hi.

Speaker 23 (50:17):
Good evening, Marcus. That lady was pretty entertaining. Yes, some
things unique.

Speaker 18 (50:23):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 23 (50:24):
I came to the country in two thousand and seven. Yes,
from India. Yes, you don't get a job of friends,
so you went to a portogh the present experience of
having a good boss, having neighbors who are pretty up

(50:45):
to scale, like you have your cat, your back power,
and among the mob and all this tribal one. Yeah,
she works in the automobile line and yeah, that had
an experience of going into key for it medium with
some of the characters a fair enough. I never got disturbed.

Speaker 10 (51:07):
You know.

Speaker 23 (51:08):
Beside me were some of the most atrocious chaps and families,
but they did not disturb me and my family at all.
There's another Chinese family also never disturbed them. Yeah, there
was issues there. The would come back on Thursday afternoons
start playing their music which would only end on Monday morning.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
It was fun.

Speaker 23 (51:34):
Yeah, and then what you happened. You stay beside the
railway track, your training part to your years, get customed. Okay,
this music going, okay, go to sleep.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Are you still are you still are you still in
a Portuguese.

Speaker 23 (51:47):
No, no, no no. I left a bookree Butt twelve
thirty years back. It misunderstanding my boss and myself and
your Yeah, it's sweat and his family.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
Have you moved to now, Robin, I'm the Auckland.

Speaker 23 (52:04):
I've been here for now about thirteen year and welcoming
a wornound automboile company. And here also I've got a
fantastic neighbors. He's also from India. In fact, he's from
south of India. And yeah around me, there's like everybody's
watching with everybody right, We've got everybody, got everybody back.

(52:26):
It is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Nice to hear, Robin, Thank you, good stuff. Twenty eight
past nine, Bruce Marcus, welcome, Hi, b Yeah, good, Hi.

Speaker 9 (52:36):
Good evening. A litting neighbors. There are three years ago
before we shifted eye, we were living in a large,
large house, large property, and we got a load of
firewood and I was casting away with this large wheelbarrow
and we had a half in front of us. We

(52:57):
were that property, the health and property has some people
in it. And one of the guys there that's there
was a hole on the fence and he must have
noticed me casting away firewood, so that he woodshed anyway.
A couple of weeks later he came over and asked

(53:20):
if I who borrowed the wheelbarrow?

Speaker 14 (53:22):
A little bit?

Speaker 9 (53:23):
You're right, so lend in the words it's allowed. It
was a very large two hundred dollars Dunning's wheelbarrow, wow at,
which my wife had given me for Christmas. And so
you gave it to him about four months later, five
months later, it still hadn't come back.

Speaker 24 (53:42):
What yes.

Speaker 5 (53:47):
To me?

Speaker 2 (53:48):
Why my wheelbarrow is the most sacred thing I own it.
I'm so loyal to that. I love my wheelbarrow.

Speaker 9 (53:54):
But then I had a good look over the fence
went on, I saw it there.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Okay, just hold the conclusion to that story. What do
you think happened to the wheelbarrow? People? Because not it
was a weel of adfortais I was. But his wife
had given it to him, so there's sentimental value there,
So Bruce, yeah, okay, don't leave me. So there we go.
So you saw it in the backyard, yep.

Speaker 9 (54:18):
And I went over and he lent it to a
mate to do some concrete, and what.

Speaker 5 (54:25):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (54:25):
So I told him he could have it and I
went and bought another one. Yeah, wow, it was munted.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Yeah, so you how did you, because that was quite
a positive thing to say to tell me to have it?
Did you tell him in a snarky way? Or did
you tell him in a kind way?

Speaker 17 (54:42):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (54:43):
In the kind way? I said, you can have it?
It was nunted. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Who what sort of price would borrow some something and
then lend it?

Speaker 9 (54:56):
I don't know. I won't say what nationality were you of, No,
please don't.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
We don't talk about notionalities because that's racist. Is an
individual yes, but anyway, and don't say what next to
you are either.

Speaker 9 (55:13):
Bruce, I won't No, no, are you going to put
me on here?

Speaker 8 (55:17):
That's right, you are on here?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
But but talkback doesn't recognize talkback doesn't recognize color.

Speaker 9 (55:24):
Yep, no, So it was a bit annoying. What the
wife say, look speak they other than words.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Brilliant, There we go. None of us are any other wiser.
I don't know if there was a particularly particular nationality
that's not good with wheelbarrows. Christ You nineteen nine, twenty
eight to ten, Linderland, London, Marcus.

Speaker 25 (55:55):
Welcome, Oh, good evening, Marcus. Yes, they're not really stories,
I'd say, just a couple of quick anecdotes or whatever
you call them. It was this guy and his surname
was Pepper, and he said they moved into a neighborhood
and the father went next door just to introduce themselves

(56:16):
and said, oh, by the way, we've moved in and
we're the Peppers. And they turned around and said where
the saults? And then just finally on me one Christmas,
I always give cards to my neighbor. Anyway, I put
a card in the letterbox and I just signed it
the neighbor from Hell. They wrung me up. I said,

(56:39):
how did you know it was me? You know because
and they said, because you're the only one that sends
cards in the whole neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
So yes, okay, you went the neighbor from How were
you lander?

Speaker 25 (56:51):
No, of course not. I bake and all sorts of
good things.

Speaker 19 (56:54):
Oh god, So do.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
You say we can't actually recruit and advertised for our
own neighbors. It's everyone that bakes for people. I never
let my lawnmar wheelbarrow or wife. Marcus bought an old
state house, took the night told the neighbor I was
going to demolish it and block their view, which was
pretty obvious as I own a construction company. Told them

(57:17):
it would take twelve months, started working month before first
COVID lockdown, and then the house took four and a
half years to finish. Neighbor reminds me at any chance
they can mind you, So does my wife. Worst neighbors
are house three doors down that's been turned into an
airbn B. We've had two of the customers confuse our

(57:41):
house for the B and B. One tried to open
our front doors in the keypad and the other came
walking through our yard. Oh, I think earbs and b's
would be bad neighbors, coming and going, playing the music,
having the house parties. Winning all those suitcases on wheels

(58:01):
down the cobbled streets. When did suitcases it's so noisy?
None of those predictions of the future ever predicted suitcases
with wheels, did they? We next? Do you think it's
pretty obvious? We're obvious than flying cars? Highland? It's Marcus,

(58:22):
good evening, Good day.

Speaker 13 (58:25):
Marcus, How are you good?

Speaker 5 (58:26):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (58:26):
Lynn?

Speaker 13 (58:28):
Thanks God lives on talking about neighbors. You know, gone
of the days of the sixties, seventies, and eighties, when
we all lived together, and you know we could pop
over to the neighbors and say you've got some sugar,
got some flour, or to borrow. Both days are gone, aren't.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
They depends where you live, I would think, Lynn.

Speaker 13 (58:51):
Well, no, not necessarily. Like I've lived in the country
for the last twenty.

Speaker 15 (58:57):
Years, and.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
We certainly would certainly borrow food for the neighbors where
we live all the time.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (59:04):
Absolutely, and even in town you are able to do it.
But you know, you pop over to your name of
these days and neither you've got a dog or something
that tasted.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
It's pretty scary.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
We're about to tell you because I'm saying now these
days it's what we would do, would pop over all
the time.

Speaker 13 (59:23):
I'm in Hawk, Spain.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Oh that's a shame. That's it's not friendly. I don't think. Yeah,
I'm not going to have on a handcount. I think
probably people are probably friendlier. They're busier, but they're friendlier.
There'd be my take, Shane Marcus, welcome, shame, you're good.

Speaker 8 (59:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 26 (59:44):
I'm gonna say my name is are awesome?

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Great?

Speaker 26 (59:50):
I have and who that tonight? But my nighbors are awesome.
What're awesome? We borrow him, we sear them, we talk
to each other, and it's just awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Who started that?

Speaker 26 (01:00:03):
Who started that? Ah? I don't think we started anything.
It was just just how we are as people. Yeah, right,
three or four four? Then it immediately involved with faster
than ash driveway and it's just never been an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
That makes sense, doesn't it?

Speaker 11 (01:00:23):
It does?

Speaker 26 (01:00:24):
And how do you know what is wrong with just
getting on with the people that are around you?

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Do you go on a holiday with them? Shane?

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
I should know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
I'm sorry, No, I'm just wondering where the barriers are
for getting on that well, because I guess what I'm
trying to explore is what happens when you take neighborly
relationships too far. Once upon a time, it'd all be
in the same pyramid scheme, wouldn't you? What am we

(01:01:00):
get in touch by? Name is Marcus? Welcome? Twenty two
to nine, ten, twenty two to ten. We are talking
the good and the bad of the neighbors. Yeah. I
think when you start subdividing and redeveloping, people are always
a bit iffy about that because they never quite you
how it's going to impact them. You've got to communicate them.

(01:01:21):
I guess what we're gonna think, We're gonna do this? Oh,
really worry about everyone's worry about their property value? Goodness,
what with the property value? It freaks people out. Marcus
till Midnight welcome eight hundred eighty ten eighty. Yes, texts

(01:01:45):
are good, Marcus. We have neighbors from hell. They fight
every day and smash things. But it's the riving and
smoking up the whole area with smoke from their cars
and making it back fire. But nothing gets done. Is
they are in their own backyard. All the name is

(01:02:05):
hate it, but what can you do? It's exhausting, is
I think if people are for ever of chunting up
cars and riving them to see how they run, that
is exhausting to give it when you're trying to sleep
and it's unenforceable. Really good eating Brucett's Marcus, Welcome ut Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
I'd just like to talk a moment about the magic
of turning strangers around you into friends. I'm involved a
bit with the neighborhood Support group and I just tuned
in and I heard you, and I thought, how wonderful
it has been to make friends in the neighborhood the
neighborhood Support give you kitsets. You can wander around, knock

(01:02:47):
on doors if you're brave enough. And at first, of course,
these people have never seen you before, you've never seen them,
and you're kind of nervous, and some of them are
not very friendly. Some of them are very friendly. But
the magic is over a few weeks, when you encounter
them in the street of bits, they become friends. It's

(01:03:07):
kind of a miracle, you know what I mean, people
who were totally unknown to you, and they're valuable friends
because the people who live right next to you. So
there's a there's more stake in it, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
So what's your gig?

Speaker 7 (01:03:22):
Neighborhood what neighborhood Support. It's an organization that's actually connected
with the police. Maybe they'll put some people off. The
idea is you look after each other's places and you
get a sticker that says you put on your letter
box or the front window saying if I'm out, my
neighbors are watching. The police reported one case where a

(01:03:43):
guy they caught a burgler had a notebook in which
he was recording the places they had. Neighbors would support
stickers on them. You know why, because they were not
good places to rob.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
I always thought it was most likely to get robbed
by someone that was a neighborhood support. Well everybody, they'd
be casing everyone out.

Speaker 7 (01:04:05):
Well, I've got everybody in the group, has got the telephone.
I'mer an email of everybody else, so they get to
know each.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Other and rob them.

Speaker 7 (01:04:14):
Well, I suppose there is a risk of that, but
somehow it doesn't add up. Okay, but it's just it's
do you understand what I mean when I say a
person who has a friend who lives only a few
doors away is quite different from somebody who lives a
long way way.

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Tell me more about that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
Well, let's say I have a gastric upset from eating
some wrong chicken or something. I can ring any of
twenty five people and they'll get me in the cart
of the hospital faster than any ambulance will.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:04:45):
If I want four cups of flour in a hurry
because the people are coming soon and I just ran out,
I can knock on ring up, or knock on any
of the twenty five doors, and I'm sure to get
my four cups of flour and a smile and some spinach.
That they got from their garden at the same time.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Is it kind of a motto or a code for
a neighborhood watch that you're go beyond the call or something.

Speaker 7 (01:05:08):
I haven't heard that. All I do is I just
take the kits around, please give your kids, and you're
not on the doorway, say would you like to participate?
And you tell them what I just told you, And
most of them do. I mean, in one block, there's
twenty five people now who are in this group. We
don't talk to each other often, but it's just that

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extra security. Some of them are really good friends, and
others say that our friends are just nearby. It's just
way better if they're just nearby.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
I always assume, because you don't hear so much about
neighborhood watch now, that it must have been something that
was falling out of favor, that it wasn't quite as
it didn't work so well these days. But that's not
the case, is it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:52):
Well, I don't know the stats on it, honestly, I mean,
I honestly don't know, but I'm just saying it does
take effort. There has to be somebody bold enough or
lonely enough to go around, knock on the doors and
say to people, would you like to do this? Because
you get a stick, a few of letterbox and you
get security. In the story about the flower and the store,

(01:06:13):
about the eating the wrong chicken, you would would sell story.
People light up and they say yes, please, most of them.
Some of them say no things, but most of them
will welcome the visit and thank you for it, and
then the magic happens. You've got David who lives at
the end of street, and Catherine and Fred, the people

(01:06:36):
who just live me just down the road. Do you
understand what I mean? It's different, but just that close,
it's a security. Some people that women live on their own,
they've got ten guys who live near them who they
can phone up and say, hey, yes, I'm scared. There
seems to be someone around the back.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Do you guys go around and cars at night with
head torches looking for trouble?

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
No, no, not at all. We really don't communicate much
at all.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
They watch your patrols.

Speaker 18 (01:07:06):
Different.

Speaker 7 (01:07:06):
That's the city where the city ambassadors. This is just
the thing that's been running for a long time. It
used to be called neighborhood support, but it's now sorry,
neighborhood watch, but it's now neighborhood support. But it does
take somebody. It requires somebody who's either lonely enough or
and bold enough and with a good cell story to

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go around and make the pitch. If they don't want it,
they don't want it, but they usually thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:07:33):
And over time it builds up.

Speaker 7 (01:07:36):
Like I say, in one city block, there's about fifty
houses in a block. Half of those have signed up
for this group. We don't talk to each other often,
but I've now got about five good friends, you know,
in the same block.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
And you're a new person delivering there. It's a new
community for you, is it.

Speaker 9 (01:07:55):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
No, I've been here twenty three years.

Speaker 8 (01:07:57):
Oh wow?

Speaker 7 (01:08:00):
I mean you think of what it is? Is the
guy one guy won't name it, being a very old guy,
and he probably wonders.

Speaker 27 (01:08:06):
Are still alive.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
I knock on his door and I say hi, what
his name is? And say how are you Bruce?

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:08:12):
And I say you know?

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
He says it's very hot. Now there's somebody who knocked
on his door and cared what happens to him and
that he's hot.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
What'd you do it?

Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
And it means well, I just said, do you put
your feet in cold? What did that helps?

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:08:25):
I do that every night.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
But you know, I mean when I've gone, he knows
there's one person nearby who cares whether he lives or dies,
you know what I mean. It's good for old people.
It's good for women living on their own because they've
got the better security of community around him.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:08:42):
I did the same sort of thing in Toronto.

Speaker 10 (01:08:43):
I went rave on too long.

Speaker 7 (01:08:45):
But in Toronto the people came by place because I
was doing it over there too, and they said, there's
some guys we can doing wholesale drugs. And to cut
along story short, we cleared that problem, not not with
a lot of you know, police bashing down doors, but
we had a meeting and we solved that problem scared.
Rather than people next door being terrified and scared to
talk about and stuff. It was just way better when

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there's a whole bunch of people meeting together talk to
the police, the city councilor and stuff. And we cleared
that problem. We made a little local park, we cleaned up.
It's you know, it's just a togetherness. It doesn't need
everybody to pose a bit, just needs a question of
about just.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Out of interest, which which neighborhood is this that you're in?

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
This is in Tarniston, North Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Okay, very good, nice to talk. Thank you. Do not
read this text on air. What's the text? Marcus? I
married my next door neighbor. We got together and everyone
was being nice to each other after the earthquake. Oh yeah,
hi Marcus. A shocking neighbor. And our vicinity has a

(01:09:50):
feud with another neighbor opposite as installed a large clangy
windchime opposite their bedroom window for no other reason than
to harass them. Counsel people all being involved, and he
will not remove it. Unbelievable. Ca get hyper focused on stuff.
If you're a neighbor, how are you? What we are

(01:10:11):
talking about tonight is neighbors. Yeah, and like everything, it's
always good to get your stories. Have you ever been
It's a multi fascinated topic. This like a diamond. It's
got so many different faces. Have you been the great neighbor?

(01:10:31):
Have you been the bad neighbor? What makes a great neighbor?
What makes a bad neighbor? What's something a neighbor of
yours has done that ruined the relationship? Forever. What's the
one thing the neighbor's done which has meant that you

(01:10:56):
have made them god parents to your children. That's what
it's all about, Marcus. I am the neighbor that borrowed
the guest heater. Can you remember telling them I was
wanting to use it as a friend's party? There will
be no more peasantries over the fence now outdoor guess heater.

(01:11:27):
Don't think there'd be something you'd lend? What do you
you have one? It's a cold day where you go inside.
Good evening, James, it's Marcus. Welcome as good.

Speaker 28 (01:11:46):
Neighbors. I've got it quite appressing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Now are you driving? And can you make it a
little bit clearer?

Speaker 28 (01:11:56):
Yeah, let me do that. Okay, years that better?

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
Thank you? Yeah? Yes.

Speaker 28 (01:12:13):
Interesting thing a few years ago with a neighbor. What
happened we he was cutting trees on his property, and
you know, I sort of just didn't think too much
of it. We had had a bit of a tough
and went outside and one day I popped out and

(01:12:36):
I had this big opening through my land. We had
cleared all the trees over my land. Yeah, So I
approached him, I said, oh, you know, what are you,
what are.

Speaker 7 (01:12:48):
You up to?

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
And he denied it.

Speaker 28 (01:12:51):
So he what he had done because he had cut
down about seven pine trees, about three or four native
trees as well, which we're all on a protected bush area. Yes,
and yes, he just denied it. But what he had
done is they had cut him down to create a

(01:13:13):
view for himself.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
The classic thing. Okay, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yes,
So just sat there and got fixated today.

Speaker 16 (01:13:32):
M yeah, but.

Speaker 28 (01:13:38):
Yeah, as you're gonna measure others, not what they'd done.

Speaker 16 (01:13:43):
About forty.

Speaker 5 (01:13:46):
Quite.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
Your phone's coming in and out, James, So I can't
hear a lot of what you're saying. Did you get
a resolution with him?

Speaker 17 (01:14:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:14:01):
I think.

Speaker 16 (01:14:04):
Yeah, that better?

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
Yeah, much better?

Speaker 8 (01:14:06):
Can hear? Yeah?

Speaker 16 (01:14:08):
Okay, so I think of a lawyer's letter for the
damages and sent him a bill athlete for replacement of
the truth. Yes, and that was about eighty k, which
he obviously and following that so he wrote back and

(01:14:29):
letters and that he was protecting an environment, removing the
pest troops from the era and tried to do that.
So got counsel involved. Council just turned a blind eye
to it. And I didn't really want any to observe it.

(01:14:51):
Tried police as well as full damage. Again, the questioned
him as the interviewer, but he denied it. So without
having the proof, they couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
But hidden his later admitted to you why he'd done it,
because he said had done it for these reasons.

Speaker 16 (01:15:14):
Yeah, he's sort of within that. He kind of said
he had only done on the properly, but you know,
it was pretty obvious what he had done.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
It was.

Speaker 16 (01:15:29):
It was a massive bearing, yes, but something that obviously
a little bit. And then yeah, we wouldn always have
altercations because we were in the right away too properties
out in rural and through career. And it went on

(01:15:52):
for about I guess about a year. Has become quite vitile.
He ended up putting in cameras strect on our property
that looked into that properly. Wow, And then it became
very awkward and eventually, yeah, where the cops involved. He

(01:16:19):
lived the cops about the south and said that I
try to random and all sorts of things.

Speaker 12 (01:16:29):
That has.

Speaker 16 (01:16:31):
Uh his way of thinking. But ultimately it came to
sort of an end and they moved out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
He moved out, did you say, yeah, it was it
was a very sort of.

Speaker 16 (01:16:49):
Awkward type of years. Yeah, it was almost another.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Sounds horrible.

Speaker 16 (01:16:58):
Yeah, I definitely wasn't, but end up selling and moving on.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
So they got away with it. That's the sad thing.
Mason tell us properly with the view, Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:17:09):
Exactly, I reckon it increased, would have increased. Oh it's
one hundred cans.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Properly you interested in any legal readers, James, thank you
for that. I appreciate that story. Thank you for those
people to the line wasn't great too, so I appreciate
your perceiving with that call. Marcus. We have the best
neighbors ever. My husband has else been able to do
a lot. Our neighbors moel lawns gardening, help to take

(01:17:36):
the bins out, and always there for us. We have
in a could set with five other houses. They're all
friendly and so kind and helpful. Had nothing better to do,
so accounted one day of seven TV channels for repeats.
What may have missed one or two? There were one
hundred and twenty six repeats. An interesting exercise. How do

(01:17:56):
listeners feel about pushing repeats? Well, there's no money on TV, Marcus,
no crusts and packets of bread and Germany love the
tomato curry sauce. Always enjoy us into your show. Bridget
June's movie was a good let out last night with

(01:18:16):
my girls. My neighbors each size good friends. We do
the women's wine call. What does that mean? The worst
neighbors are those once a year Christians with money to burn.
They cover their entire property with Christmas lights of every
description and every out of roto blades than Westpac rescue

(01:18:42):
chop a year. They have to be bigger and brighter
than neighbors down the road. They not only treat hundreds
of people on mass but also every damn nocturnal flying thing.
Our neighbor likes to send a drone up in the
air and fly over our house and no flies on.
We don't know which house exactly is, but so annoying.

(01:19:02):
We used to have neighbors that would eavedrop on us,
eavesdrop on us, and one day they oo, hasn't took
money in the jar that we've been talking about while
at dinner, Cheapers there's two Steve, so don't talk if
you're the second one, Steve, it's Marcus. Welcome, Yeah, Marcus
here doing good Steve.

Speaker 21 (01:19:21):
Yeah, good made a good deeds from neighbors. I was
one day out had had a fence, about sixty meters
of farm fencing with the old school concrete posts and aig,
and I was pulling them out. We're going to be
putting in a post and rail. My neighbor drives fast,
and I was thinking that day, that looks a bit hard, mate,
I said, yeah, sure he should, I as as should

(01:19:45):
I come back with my tractor. So he came back
with this tractor, pulled out about forty or fifty concrete
poster or a real bugger, then bore around his post
hole rammer, and we rammed about sixty meters worth of posts.
He did a much better job than I ever would
have done, and we've become mates, were pretty good mates
ever since. And just a random He wouldn't let me

(01:20:08):
pay him, but he already said, as I'll buy me
a box of beer. And then when the job was finished,
we drank the beer together, and then he went on.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Did he want the concrete posts?

Speaker 21 (01:20:19):
No, no, no, no, we not not at all. No,
we're just getting rid of them. They're all old, crappy,
old ones that weren't used anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
Well, why would people use concrete posts. They do they know?

Speaker 15 (01:20:30):
Do they know?

Speaker 8 (01:20:30):
Do they not?

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Used to have logs?

Speaker 21 (01:20:33):
They probably there been there, probably since about the nineteen fifties.
I don't know, just old school. I don't know markers
why they use them? Yeah, terrible bloody yeah, yeah, but
no just a yeah, bloody good bloat saw me sweating
it out and we've become mates.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
Had you not met he was your namebor, but you
hadn't met him before that?

Speaker 21 (01:20:54):
His daughter went to school with my daughter. I'd met
him once before dropping us, dropping his picking his daughter up.
That had been playing before. It is his driving past.
But you know, I would have sort of had to
scratched my head to remember his name. We certainly went free.
I'm not at that stage. So i'd met him once
for about thirty seconds to a minute before.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
What a legend. And he had the because one thing
having the tools, for having the tools and the kit
and knowing how to use. And that's the other thing,
isn't it. You want someone no nonsense, Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 8 (01:21:22):
You've got the best things on the street.

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Now, nice to talk to you, Steve, Thank you so much.
But freaky I got the echo. They don't know what
that was about sick and Steve Steve Marcus evening.

Speaker 17 (01:21:32):
It's all about good neighbors. It's really nice one we yet. Yeah. Well,
they bought the house around the corner about five years
ago before they retired, so they had the house rented
and I used to mow the lawn and keep the
place tidy for him. And then one day the Renders

(01:21:56):
moved out. You know, the COVID came on and they
moved out anyway, so they they've come back to live
here and they've renovated the house. But you know the
good neighbors and know the lawnful and they've come around
a mode mine and we swapped Vegi's out of the garden.

Speaker 8 (01:22:14):
Wow.

Speaker 17 (01:22:14):
And he makes a little bit of homebrew. We've had
a few quiet seasons and yeah, great mates, new neighbors,
good mates.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
How did you start it all off? Who did the
shake and howdies? First time off?

Speaker 25 (01:22:28):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:22:29):
Good?

Speaker 17 (01:22:30):
I like me. How it was five years ago? Yeah?
He just turned up one day with a chuckload of
furniture and bits and pieces and get my hand to
move in.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
And I see you walking past and giving her handcaring stuff.
And is it how it worked? Yeah?

Speaker 17 (01:22:45):
Yeah, yeah, we just sort of here, and I just
kept an eye on the place between him shifting permanently
here and where he was before. And yeah, just kept
an eye on the security and kept the front lawn
nice and tidy. And yeah, just kept an eye on
the place, kept the mail. For end of his would

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come around away down and then and pick up all.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
A mile And where have they where have they moved there? From?

Speaker 17 (01:23:13):
Steve way up north somewhere He worked for a Department
of Conservation people a camp. Yeah, and he's retired, you know,
might be a good gardener, turf.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
He's a man of the trees.

Speaker 17 (01:23:27):
Oh, yeah, very good. Yeah, it's a lot better than me.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
What do you got at the moment? You got mart
You got zucchini at the moment, No.

Speaker 17 (01:23:35):
I've got I've got rubab I've got Oh, there's creative carrots, cameras, potatoes.
I've got Brussels sprouts, but they're not really doing anything
more of a winter. And there's a lot of strawberries

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coming on my apple tree at the front, covered in
the apple a little red.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
Will you bottle some?

Speaker 17 (01:24:06):
Ah, yeah, I'll do is. I'll stew them, I feel them,
stew them and put them down the freezer.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
What do they called teacher's pet?

Speaker 17 (01:24:16):
Teacher's pet? Yeah, it's a little red apple on a
miniature tree that is absolutely laden.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Terrible name for an apple.

Speaker 17 (01:24:24):
Yeah, it was a nice they're a nice kit for
the kids, you know, and again at the school.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
In that's a that's a spirit, Steve. Nice to talk.
Thank you, Marcus black Caps to win ic C Champions Trophy.
Thank you. No one predicted that. Get in touch welcome,
Oh eight hundred eighty Teddy and nineteen nine text. Yes,

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let's be hearing from you. Oh, eight hundred eighty Teddy
and nineteen ninet. It's all about neighbors, the good and
the bad. There's something else you want to chuck into
the mixo. You've got breaking news. I'm pleased to hear
from you about that also, So yeah, it's be hearing
from you. Ah twenty nine away from eleven. Good to

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hear from you, Steves. If you're quite sure why they
bothered those concrete fence posts, they're such a pilava to
make with a reinforced wire. We're we're ten liized fence
posts a recent thing there must have been could Why
would someone bother making concrete ones, Marcus, our neighbor had

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security lights so bright they lit up our very close
property as well. The brightness was more suited to a
commercial CIA compound in so sense if they were triggered
by small nocturnal treachers if we went outdoors, they would activate.
Neighbour insisted it was as right as a homeowner. Yeah,
that would be bad having strong search lights next door.

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You're thinking in Starlard thirteen, Hello Chris, Welcome, Hi Chris,
Hi Marcus, what's happening?

Speaker 18 (01:26:18):
Yeah, okay, you took a bit of a twist on
your neighbor story, so it's not really about my neighbor
as such. In my youth, I left the big city
and went provincial for a fruit picking season, and I
was staying in a tent with an orchard not too
far away. As the season rolled on, I got some

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sort of April May and things they are getting a
bit colder, so I decided to go looking for accommodation.
So in the day I answered an ad in the
paper for board available, and turned out the place was
very close to the orchard that I was working at,
So rocked around there and in what now become a

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very notorious suburb in the city. Anyway, the applied to
the room and the land lady was quite happy, and
I moved in and I had a pushbike I used
to cycle to the orchard and back. And I've been
about a week or so and the landlady says to me, I, look,

(01:27:24):
by the way, if my husband's ex husband turned up,
make sure you tell him that you're the border. And
I said, okay, how long has he been gone? And
she said, oh, he took off with the with the
neighbor's wife two weeks ago.

Speaker 8 (01:27:39):
Wow.

Speaker 18 (01:27:43):
So yeah, I needless to say. The next morning, I
didn't sleep well that night, I can tell her. And
so the next morning I said, look, there's no work
on the ULTI for a couple of days. I'm just
going to head to town for a bit of a
look around, you know, and packed up the car and
I was gone. I just needver looked back over my shoulder.
Trouble was, I left the pushbike in the back ship.
I left the pushbike in the back shed because it

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wouldn't fit in the car.

Speaker 12 (01:28:05):
But for it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Strange story, eh.

Speaker 18 (01:28:11):
Strange but true. And yeah, so I sort of remember
doing it at the time. He must have bugged off
on the weekend, the edwin in the paper on the Monday.
I was, I rocked up on the Wednesday.

Speaker 8 (01:28:22):
I mean.

Speaker 18 (01:28:24):
He's only been out of the house for five days.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
She's the money, I guess, yeah, yeah, but I.

Speaker 18 (01:28:32):
Mean a bit worrying. Marcus, I can tell you for me.
I mean I did not sleep at all that night.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Well, are you thinking the husband's come back? Thank you?

Speaker 18 (01:28:42):
The new partner, well, you know, I mean he's he's
deviatord goal transgress. I mean, that wasn't the last so
he could. He could have turned out at any stage
and sound like Mike Karen the driveway and yeah, so
it wasn't a good situation.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Apples. Were you picking apples?

Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
I was? I was.

Speaker 18 (01:29:04):
I was a very small orchard and we do them
all sorts. We are doing apples. We had tears, but
I remember doing strawberries as well.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Nice to talk, Chris, Thank you appreciate it. Twenty five
to eleven, Good evening, Marcus. Our neighbor married one of
our neighbors. They were very happy and lived next door.
We built a fence together and help each other out
share the concrete mixer. My other neighbor was born next
door to the married neighbors, but lives next door to
me now. They are epic, so kind and thoughtful. I
mowed their lawn all winters because he'd hurt himself. We

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feed their cat when they are away. The neighbor next
to them was also born in his house and still
lives between there and his farm over the road. Top
like noisy tractor. The neighbors around the back is a
three generation home lovely family. Their farmers up the road,
and one of the siblings is there now. Was a
bit weird when they moved in ten years ago. Because
we have traveled a bit. We have children now in

(01:29:53):
tittled of love and neighborhood and taradise. Cheers from Michael.
I've been fishing lots lately around Willington and looking forward
to the Nationals next month up in ninety miles. Certainly
better weather up there, Marcus, I might live on a
million dollar properly. My parents have been here for twenty
five years. The neighbors have always been good. Hi, Marri,

(01:30:14):
it's Marcus. Hello and welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:30:18):
Marcus. I hadn't turned the radio down. Is it annoying
you yet?

Speaker 11 (01:30:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
But it will annoy if you can hear it. It
will annoy you because it'll be seven seconds later.

Speaker 20 (01:30:25):
Yeah, yes, it's okay, I can't reach you.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
Hang on, that's all right. So I put there quite quickly.
I had another quote, but I've gone to you. Yes, hello,
yeah hi.

Speaker 20 (01:30:37):
Yeah yeah yeah. No, it's sort of a name. It's
not really neigh. But something happened today. A friend of
ours had her property here in Rome and advertise for
rental because there's sort of an underpopulation of people wanting
to rent this year. She decided that she would. She
had very nice she wanted to come and have a

(01:30:59):
look and it was a single bedroom place and so
she actually she got a lady.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
Angle Mary. You will that it is still interrupting you
the radio, so you will have to turn that off.

Speaker 19 (01:31:12):
Okay, Okay, she's gonna saim can't when she comes.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
Back, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (01:31:31):
I think I think I've killed it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Now, Praise the Lord. That's terrible. Okay. Now, now, so's
she's Wellington, and we know in Wellington they fired everyone,
so there's an excess of accommodation. So she's got a
one bedroom place and she advertised it got a couple
of people yep, and.

Speaker 20 (01:31:49):
So she got a nice brady, but she offered her
two weeks of free rent, which I thought was amazing.
And anyhow, the girls just moved in and I apparently
sh with that twenty four But she's been spreading and
hated spreading with others. Had a budgy. Oh that's okay.

(01:32:09):
So today today she rings our friend and said, look,
I've got to get a fridge because it's turn finished flat.
I've got to get a fridge. But she said it's
going to cost me three hundred and fifty dollars. Would
you be able to help pay half to get the
fridge in?

Speaker 8 (01:32:30):
Wow?

Speaker 20 (01:32:30):
As like as like, Hello, she's been given two weeks
three rents. Now she's wanting the fridge moved. Help to
help with the fridge. Frying of the fridge and moving
a fridge.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Did she say the fridge would remain in the place?
Do you think like a chettle?

Speaker 20 (01:32:49):
No, well that's what we said to her. Maybe maybe
you're going to have to ask us because her previous
lady was there for ten years and she had her
own fridge and everything and took that with her. But no,
it's just I thought that's a real We thought that
was a real stranger. One because my friend is also
a landlord and it deals with a lot more people

(01:33:11):
than what she does, and in fact, people tend to
leave bridges behind, so he sort of accumulates. But it's
just as I said. The thing is with a lot
of young people these days. I'm not saying all, but
a lot tend to want, expect a lot, expect more
than what we did when we left school. And we're

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going out fleeting for the first time. She possibly doesn't
have parents living here to if she help her with
a move.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
Don't know, don't know?

Speaker 20 (01:33:45):
Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:33:47):
Mean I love someone. I love a budgy. I know
what's the budgy called for me? It's all about the budgy.

Speaker 7 (01:33:55):
Have no idea.

Speaker 20 (01:33:56):
We haven't quite got that bad.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Have you resolved it yet? I'd buy the fridge, would you?

Speaker 15 (01:34:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Come on, the woman got a whole nother property. She's
she's got a house and another single. Of course she cares.
She's rolling in it should be on the She'll be
on the super too, will she?

Speaker 20 (01:34:16):
She ittually is, Yeah, but she's a very kind jener.

Speaker 2 (01:34:21):
The fridge. She's only twenty four. She can't like flooding.
She probably doesn't get on with that, I'd go fridge, fridge,
I'll get at the fridge.

Speaker 20 (01:34:28):
The funny thing is I actually did say to being
to be honest, if it was me, it's twenty four,
I would not be able to afford. Yeah, but no,
she's the next thing. She'll be buying her a lawnmower
and a car.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Oh you think it's the finage of the wed. She's
asking the fridge, next thing and be a lawnmar in
the car?

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
Well, yeah, yeah, I didn't think.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
I didn't think young people had fridges. I thought they
just had uber or what's that called meal to go, meal,
meal up the house.

Speaker 20 (01:35:00):
That's a different story again. Neighbors do that and they've
got two children and they have uber sit delivering every.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
Day goodness lucky, lucky, old them, well.

Speaker 10 (01:35:14):
Lucky your bed.

Speaker 20 (01:35:15):
It's ridiculous because he's trying to get he's had a
bet that he's extended totally illegally and wanting to set
and the other he's made it put a loft inside
this so called batch and you a dwarf would be
lucky to stand up on it.

Speaker 7 (01:35:33):
But he's going to be.

Speaker 20 (01:35:34):
He's going to be advertising as Airbnb soon.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
Are you worried that the kids aren't getting good food
with the uber eats.

Speaker 20 (01:35:43):
Ah No, it's actually more annoying that they feed their
children put them out on the street at the top
when we're all trying to have abs inn and the
kids are screaming and yahooing around the.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
Screaming. Did they resolve the fridge.

Speaker 20 (01:36:03):
I don't know that that's a continuation tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Oh you get the fridge, sharm all into the fridge.
Budgy girl, fridge, fridge, fridge. The old curtain twitches. He Marcus,
the last call of far too much time, and he
hands get the fridge and stay back at seattles. She's
twenty four, for Christ's sake. Help her out, George Fridge fridge,
Josephine Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 24 (01:36:27):
We had a slo street of our people. We had
a poet and used to get sleds from the mill
and build a bonfire, and we all have a bonfire
and another would make supper, and that was the big night.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
What did your father get from the mill?

Speaker 10 (01:36:49):
LEDs?

Speaker 24 (01:36:50):
That's what they used to get from the mill them
what they called it freds okay, threads of timber okay.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
And did you say did you say there was a
poet on the street.

Speaker 24 (01:37:05):
We had a Twitter group on street, other in our street,
and then across the road milled moved in. Our family
of ten children, five hundred sooks and two cows. They
came in. Then down the road we had some Portuguese

(01:37:29):
people moved in and they didn't speak English. We learned
a lot from them. They are we're going to have
a Portuguese a wedding with an older couple there. So
all the threat got together and put the wedding on. Wow,

(01:37:52):
you know, it was just like one big family and
one family took the kids off the swimming another lot,
the ball and dancing run with all that help.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
Josephine, what street was it was? Oh goodness? And did
you say there was a poet in the street?

Speaker 10 (01:38:13):
Pollock?

Speaker 17 (01:38:16):
We had.

Speaker 24 (01:38:18):
Slaves to make a bonfire?

Speaker 8 (01:38:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Who was what was the name of the poet?

Speaker 24 (01:38:24):
We didn't have a pilot star Okay. And that was
just the way everybody helped everybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Okay. But did you say when the first thing you said,
did you say we had a poet? No, we had
a paddy pe panic Ah, yeah, padic Okay, story, I thought,
who's this part you're living there, that'll be an interesting story.
Thank you, goodness, good evening, Lucy. It's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (01:38:53):
We lived in the Waitomo in the sixties and Dad
was putting up the boundary fence on the edge of
the road and putting the posts. And he'd probably put
eight or nine posts swift and wires nailed to them,
and you couldn't really see around the corner where he

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had been, but he heard a car coming sorted to
turned off into one of the local neighbors. But when
it was time to go home for dinner, whoever it
was had pulled all the posts out, and they were
sitting standing up with the wires still strung along the

(01:39:36):
side of the fence. Yeah and yeah, just the only
time I've never seen him get really angry. He thought
it was really funny.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
What'd they do it?

Speaker 6 (01:39:53):
I have no idea, just being silly buggers.

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
I think, wow, it's interesting. So I pulled how would
they pull the fence out?

Speaker 6 (01:40:02):
Just a couple of guys. I guess he had random
in properly, which she would have gone back and done
later on. And they just thought about and then we
went home for dinner, and it's all these posts on
a slight angle, but easily able to put back into

(01:40:25):
the ground again. That never found out who did it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
I can't imagine what the motivation would be.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Okay, thank you, Lucy Marcus. The ex neighbor potted us
to the council for using the sprinkler. It was a
new subdivision where planting lawns. After that we put a
bore down. Husband never spoke to her after that, and
we lived there for forty years. She was a very
good friend of my husband's cousin, which made it a
bit awkward at times. Enjoy your shows. Your gosh, it's

(01:40:59):
a long resentment to keep for forty years. Well, I
imagine when you have Wow Marcus, I haven't able a
story for a good neighbor. When we're looking at buying
our house, we worked out that a workmate lived over
the back fence of the house we're looking so we

(01:41:19):
arranged from at that time we were going to look
through the house with us the real estate agent for
him to make lots of noise. So we went out
in his garage and start up as angle grind and
made plenty of noise for us.

Speaker 17 (01:41:30):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:41:30):
They've discovered another pharaoh's tomb in Egypt, the first and
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in nineteen twenty two in The ny of the Kings.
Of course, jump and hello, Helen Marcus.

Speaker 20 (01:41:54):
So I'll tell you.

Speaker 22 (01:41:55):
About an experience we had with neighbors. I'm going back
about fifty years. We bought what was a stackhouse and
a young couple had bought the house next door, but
they've moved in a little earlier than a month or so. Anyway,
we moved in. We didn't see a lot of them
because they were working and so were we. But the

(01:42:18):
husband did say to my husband that he was away
working every weekend, and we had noticed he was away,
but we also know this after a little while. But
he went away on a Friday night, and every Saturday morning,
a young chap visited. The wife stayed there till Sunday afternoon,

(01:42:38):
and my husband came back Sunday evening. Anyway, this went
on for months, and you know it was just you know,
you think, well, should I tell that musband, But anyway,
we didn't interfere. Then one Friday night, there was a
knock on the door. And it was her husband and
he said did he know Did we know that his

(01:43:00):
wife had moved out? And we said no. He said,
she's taken everything and except the bed.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Goodness, So did we.

Speaker 22 (01:43:10):
Know anything about it? And I said no, I don't
know anything. And you know, it's been on my mind
ever since. I really should we have mentioned it to him? Yeah, no,
that's right.

Speaker 24 (01:43:21):
But it was such a set.

Speaker 22 (01:43:23):
You know, he was in pieces.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
What sort of job have he had that was just
on the weekend?

Speaker 22 (01:43:29):
He was an electrician, but he did foreigns or something
else in christ Church at weekends he worked, you know,
he had two jobs effectually.

Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
I say, wow, it was so sad. Did he stay
living there next door?

Speaker 22 (01:43:50):
Yeah, we stayed on for a few years. They went.
I suppose they were there about a year all up?

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
Well, the husband or the wife with the new guy?

Speaker 12 (01:44:02):
No?

Speaker 22 (01:44:02):
No, the husband, No, she moved out, took everything.

Speaker 2 (01:44:05):
Could he find another part Did he find another partner?

Speaker 17 (01:44:09):
No, not that we know of.

Speaker 20 (01:44:12):
He actually.

Speaker 22 (01:44:14):
Didn't really speak to us after that because what had happened.
He spoke to another neighbor on the other side that
we didn't know, and I think they told him eventually
that chef used to come every weekend. So I think
he thought, well, why didn't you tell us?

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
Tell me, Well, it could have they could have been.
They could have been as an explanation.

Speaker 22 (01:44:38):
Well, anyway, I regret it really that we didn't make
you know mention it because we knew what was going on.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Okay, I don't know what you don't know. It's interesting
when I'm up with that to the people, Helen, but
a good story.

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Didn't know where that was going to go.

Speaker 18 (01:44:54):
Hello, Carl, Oh hi Macas.

Speaker 14 (01:44:57):
Look many years ago, I've lived in town and a
built hyperia and just after five am every morning, I
would hear this rooster and I'd get up and it
was like, I think it was that three minutes past
five with golfs and I said, oh my god. There
was a neighbors at the back, and I thought, they've
got this rooster. The following morning, the same thing. This

(01:45:19):
rooster goods. So I find the city council and I said, look,
the neighbors, but you're not allowed to have roosters, and
they built up city. I did this, I've got a rooster.
So anyway, the next day they phoned me and said, look,
we've been over there and they definitely don't have a rooster,
and I said, oh my god. So the following morning,
once again i'd heard I'd hear this rooster. I rung

(01:45:40):
them back and I said, look this. You know, I've
got small children, and I said, this rooster is going
off every morning, the same time every morning. You need
to do something about it. I started to get quite
whooped up about it. So the guy said, look, we're
going to send someone out and well we'll you know,
just here, if we can, we we can sort of
start where this rooster's coming from. I forget that's got anyway,

(01:46:02):
that afternoon I got a funk. We said, lot, we
had someone out in the carfully no rooster, and I thought, no,
this is just this is just crazy. And I asked
the neighbors and nobody nobody had heard this rooster anyway.
So this went on, honestly, for about just under two weeks.
So this particular morning I got up, was just before five,
and I was waiting for this rooster to sort of,

(01:46:24):
you know, we hear this rooster. So I went into
the spare room and I thought, my god, I can
hear this. I hear this rooster. And anyway, I thought, God,
it's sort of coming stead of near this set of draws. Anyway,
I opened up these draws and one of my boys
had been given a watch for his birthday, and it
was an alarm clock and it was the sound of

(01:46:44):
a rooster that was going off. Anyway, I thought, oh
my god. I sort of I thought, well, I was
relieved to know that that it was me with this watch.
But I remember what had happened as the city council
came to seem and they said to me, look, you know,
we've done an investigation. We've got no idea. There's no
way the neighbor's not happy because you know, we're seeing

(01:47:04):
him several times and you've been complaining about him having
a rooster, and we don't know, you know, exactly where
this rooster's coming from. I couldn't dare say it was
me that I had this alarm clock and the drawer.
I just I just kept quiet, and I said, oh, well, look,
you know, if I hear anymore, you know, I was
sort of, you know, I'll come back to here. But
the whole time it was this alarm clock, which I

(01:47:26):
didn't just watch what.

Speaker 15 (01:47:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:47:28):
It must have been set what it was set, and
it was exactly like a rooster going off every morning.
But I just could not have the heart to say
it was my alarm clock. I just couldn't say anything.
So that was my story, and it was really sad. Yeah,
well I know, but the neighbor over the back never

(01:47:50):
spoke to me again, Like I remember, you know, you'd
wave out to them, and I think they must have thought,
oh my god, this is this woman, because honestly, hands
on hat, it was just it was just that time
every morning.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
Did you tell the council it was them?

Speaker 14 (01:48:05):
No, well I did, because it was coming. It was
at the back of the house and it was and
these neighbors had only moved in maybe three months prior
to their so I just assumed that they had a rooster,
and I just I just, you know, I just I
could not tell anyone that it was me that had

(01:48:26):
this alarm clock in my house that would go off,
yeah in the morning to start the five. Look, if
I had gone off after six quarter past six, half
as six, I would have said, oh, you know, it's
because it was sort of around five, you know time
that rooster's do do what they do, you know, there
and it was just, it was just, it was just
but that One of the worst things was is that

(01:48:48):
a friend of mine worked for a local paper here
in Palmerston, and I said, you're going to have to
put I said, you're going to have to put something
in the paper and say look, you know, and neighbor's
hearing this, you know, because we live around by the
racecourse and neighbors hearing this rooster. So she did. But
no one sort of back to those days, there was
know anyone sort of sort of applied to this.

Speaker 5 (01:49:09):
It was just me on my own.

Speaker 14 (01:49:10):
But I could not. I just I just I had
to keep that to myself because I thought there's no
way I wanted to go to the council and say look, no, sorry,
it was me. It was the lamp. I felt really
embarrassed about it. And this, this watch was to hear it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:26):
It was just so real.

Speaker 14 (01:49:27):
It was a little watch and just this, you know,
just after five of them morning, this lamb was just
so much like a rooster. Was unbelievable. But yes, I
did fall out with the neighbors, and yes I was
to blame for that, but I did not have the
heart to them and apologize. I was just embarrassed.

Speaker 29 (01:49:46):
To be honest with you, I would have were his
He's what I'm thinking, curly, mmm, because it went off
pound to go.

Speaker 14 (01:49:58):
On for well lot, to be honest with this is
twenty ideas.

Speaker 25 (01:50:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:50:03):
It might have gone for maybe tense second fifteen seconds
maybe between ty but long.

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
And math and how long did how many months did.

Speaker 11 (01:50:12):
It go for?

Speaker 14 (01:50:14):
Oh no, it only went It only went for a
couple of weeks. It was only until I found the watch.
It was only she found.

Speaker 2 (01:50:19):
Okay, yeah, just couple of weeks. I guess I would
have been I would have questioned it because it was
so exact, because I thought the rooster's time would have
changed with daylight or something. But yeah, it's a good.

Speaker 14 (01:50:31):
Story, and I suppose I just didn't. Yeah, I just
you know, I sort of looked at the clock and
you know, I might have been in bed and in
the middle side it was still going. But yeah, it
was just yeah. And like I said, the saddest thing was, well,
nice child that my neighbors were never ever bit nice
to me after they bring in the city council on
them about their so called rooster that I thought they

(01:50:54):
had and all along it was a rooster.

Speaker 20 (01:50:55):
And the drawer with this watch.

Speaker 14 (01:50:57):
So yeah, great story, Yeah, lovely, Hey, thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
No, look, I like that. That's the story of that night, County.
I think that's fantastic. Thank you, Marcus. A few of
us and wipe you out to swap meat, wild fishing
game and see each other for a beer or coffee
occasionally with no expectation on each other. Isn't great? The
more good neighbours stories than bad ones, seems to me

(01:51:22):
this night has been more positive than negative. Brilliant Jamie,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 11 (01:51:28):
Hey Marcus there, you're going good.

Speaker 2 (01:51:30):
Thank you, Jamie.

Speaker 11 (01:51:32):
Yeah, so I'm that annoying neighbors because as you know,
I've got seven cars between two jobs. But now I
call her grandma from the next door, and she's she's
pretty cool. Like if her doors open, the kids can
just go and play in her house. And then you're like, well,
the kids go and they're over here planes and in

(01:51:54):
the minute there they start fighting. My two younger ones.
He kicks them out, sends them home. You know, you're like, oh,
we're just going to go up to the shop and
to go Yeah, no worries the kids are right here
looking after the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:52:07):
So she got has she got kids of her own Jamie.

Speaker 11 (01:52:12):
Yeah, they're about our age, so she's got grandkids.

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
She sounds she sounds fantastic.

Speaker 17 (01:52:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:52:20):
And it's funny because I said to her one day,
I'm like, oh, yeah, are you a nana or a grandma?
And she goes, no, No, I like to be called nanna.
I said, your grandma from next door and we walk
inside the work. Because that's so rude to you, asked
what she wanted You call her the opposite. Yeah, because

(01:52:40):
she's always when if she has someone around with a
bogan from mixed, I'll come over and meet the Bogans
from next door.

Speaker 21 (01:52:47):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:52:48):
Yeah, really good?

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
Actually do it start straight away?

Speaker 11 (01:52:52):
Jamie, Yeah, Well what happened was our fourteen year old
went to school with one of they're one of their
neighbors kids. So I knew him from riding around and
they lived on the other side of our sort of

(01:53:12):
yeah of oba, but yeah, they knew they knew him
from him riding his bike around, so then they are
already sort of friends. So yeah, just sort of started.
She moved in and then this kid showed up and
goes no, I know he was just up the road.
So yeah, sort of straight away we got something in common.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
I guess that's a great that's great if you look
after the kids when you go why and something that's fantastic.

Speaker 11 (01:53:37):
Oh yeah, yeah, they have sleepovers and all sorts. Yeah,
you know anytime. Sometimes she came with Christmas time and
he gives me a whole tray of eggs and because
I've bought too many eggs making table over and I'm like,
we's over. She goes, don't make you one, okay, and
then I'm like, now I'm only joking. Right, next week up,

(01:54:01):
you gotta work the crease many.

Speaker 2 (01:54:04):
It's gonna make it hard to leave. It's going to
make it hard to leave, Jamie.

Speaker 11 (01:54:09):
Oh yeah, we're almost probably, yeah, almost got to another
probably another month or two, two months am here and
will be moving.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
Have you told her?

Speaker 11 (01:54:20):
Yeah, she knows, but because the oldest daughter is going
to rent your house off off so she's going to
stay and then we're moving out. So she's happy with that.
And I just said to her, this is going to
turn into a rental, but let me know if the
daughter doesn't rent it off us and someone else moves in.
If you have any drama of any neighbors, just let

(01:54:41):
me know, because you've been so good for.

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
So you're going to buy the new property and keep it.
You're going to buy the new property and keep the
keep the rental. Yeah yeah, yeah, you're living the dream.

Speaker 11 (01:54:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, we loved just I got a bit
of a sit back yesterday but turned out yeah, just
as fine. You know, Morgan's brokers are hard to dealers.
Ye know, we put it off. We're in on teen
acres and then ango, so yeah, so we'll be moving
out there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:14):
Teenakers, takers, teenakers with a with a with a dwelling
on it.

Speaker 16 (01:55:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:55:19):
Yeah, it's got a prete bits of house on it. Yeah,
she had and all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
So how many years you've been in Australia, So now
you've got the teen acre properly and you've got the
rental as well.

Speaker 11 (01:55:36):
Yeah. We moved over with five molds and four suitcases
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
It's pretty remarkable.

Speaker 11 (01:55:43):
Been a lot of Yeah, it's been a lot of
hard work though, Like I'm only home one day a
week and that's been ten years, but slowly paying off.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
So when do you think you'll stop your truck driving.

Speaker 11 (01:55:58):
Well, I'll probably do it for another ten years, I reckon,
and then I'll probably tone it down a bit and
maybe doing like I should have been away for five
or six nights, maybe just through like four away for
four nights and then be home. So yeah, but yeah,
I don't think i'll stop it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:17):
Oh, that's great news with the property, Jammie. I'm pleased
to hear about that, because I know you're looking seth.
Cheers for that. That's good Intel, Thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:56:23):
I'll wait.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
One hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus. I was in
a gigging band and once a week we'd practice at home.
I'd see my neighbors and they would say they enjoyed
listening to us, some even sitting outside to hear us
more clearly. Even got a few texts asked if we
you particular songs no longer when the band and the
neighbors have all said they missed the music. Love my neighbors, Great, Marcus.

(01:56:45):
When I was growing up and went into the sixties
and seventies, was common for neighbors to bring Washington for
close neighbors if it started to rain. Yeah, I've got
a I this is a terrible story.

Speaker 14 (01:56:57):
For me, but.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
Vanessa always tells it. We got to neighbor next door
in Bluff and he's not actually there at the moment,
but isn't his eighties, I suppose. And every time it

(01:57:22):
would rain, he'd get in the washing with us, the
old plastic washing basket, pull the washington and bring it.
But quite often I'd be home and I wouldn't realize,
you know, because I'm home in the day, I wouldn't
realize it was raining and yeah, and bringing all the
washing and knock on the back door and tell me

(01:57:44):
the wash. I'd be too embarrassed to go to the door.
I felt terrible that I was sitting there able body
not pulling the washington, and he was doing it. But anyway,
the washing got dry without a dryer. Twenty nine away
from twelve julian As Market's welcome, Kay.

Speaker 27 (01:57:58):
I guess just a bit of a story about neighbors.
About thirty five years ago, I was living in Peppinoui
Road in just long from Saint Andrews in christ Church. Yes,
and for various threealre reasons I had. I'm a jeweler
by trade, and my wife and I decided that we
would build a studio slash workshop on Peperinoui Road. We

(01:58:21):
checked with the council that you know, we were running
a home based business. She was also running a home
based business from a separate part of the house, and
the councilors that, you know, let's fine, you're on Pepenoi Road.
There was a number of businesses, home based businesses up
and down Peppinoi Road. So we built the studio and
opened up. With a week of us opening up, I

(01:58:45):
had a neighbor three houses away who said, oh no,
you can't do that. Don't like that. You're going to
cause a lot of traffic issues. So she complained to
the council, and the council came back and look, and
to be fair to the council, they and as I said,
they had been fine all the way through, but they said,
a complaint has been made, so we have to act

(01:59:06):
on that. So we had to retrospectively apply for the consents.
It cost us about forty five thousand dollars to go
through the core process. We had to hire a district planer,
blah blah blah blah. We had the planning committee meeting
and this woman lost. So we were allowed to open

(01:59:29):
the business, although she did put a number of restrictions
on us. One of them was that I couldn't see
any clients after five o'clock at night. And you know,
when you're sitting down discussing jewelry with a client, you
do not kind of just sort of tell them, sorry,
you've got to go. So she would come down and
she would take a photograph of me sitting there after
ours with a client. She would send that to the council,

(01:59:52):
and the council had to come out and say, you know,
you've breached your restrictions. I had some lights on us
on my sign that I would turn on a night
for advertising, and she complained that the lights for too bright.
Bearing in mind she is three houses away. The lights
are too bright and you've got to do something about them.

(02:00:13):
So once again the council would have to come out.
So they said, a guy out at night with a
meter that displayed whether or not they were too bright.
They worked, and she would have made most probably in
the next two or three months, one hundred to two
hundred complaints. In the end, the council basically said to her, look,

(02:00:35):
you know, you've got to have some foundation for these complaints.
You know, you can't just get us to come out.
I mean, you can imagine the council workers and council staff.
It was costing the council one hundred and fifty two
hundred dollars a time to come out and check these complaints.
So she did back off in the end, and in
the end she did move. The annoying thing was that,

(02:00:59):
you know, it cost me a lot of money to
defend it. It cost her nothing to make a complaint. Now,
if to make a complaint like that, whether it be
your your chickens making too much noise, and to make
a complaint you had to pay something, I'm sure she
would never have even bothered. But because she could and
she knew the rules, then you know, she could do

(02:01:22):
what she felt like in the you know, look, she
could have closed a staut you know, but if we
didn't breach anything, and we were, you know, running a
perfectly legal sort of business and nothing became of it.
But they had always just sort of stuck in my
craw a weebit that she and she was well known
in the air.

Speaker 2 (02:01:41):
She what was her problem? What was her problem? She
had any dealings with you beforehand or any reason to
become so fixated.

Speaker 12 (02:01:51):
No.

Speaker 27 (02:01:51):
Look, her daughter and my daughters were reletal to good friends.
They went to the same school. Yeah, look, I have
no I had no idea. I think she was. She
was just one of those people. And look, it was her,
It wasn't her husband. Her husband was perfectly fine to me.
And when they when they came out of the court

(02:02:13):
room after the case, you know, he was one of
these guys that walked behind his wife. He wouldn't walk
ahead of her, and he walked out with his head
down because he knew he was going to get such
a bollocking when he got home. I looked, I never
found out. Look, it never really worried me why she

(02:02:34):
did it. I mean, she was perfectly within the rights.
But yeah, it's just it was just annoying. And think
it may have changed.

Speaker 17 (02:02:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Was this the jewelry shop on the front of your property?

Speaker 27 (02:02:45):
Yes, so access to the jewelry shop. And it wasn't
a retail shop. So I was a manufacturer, so it
was you know, I was getting clients had to make
an appointment to come and see me.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
What sort of building was it?

Speaker 27 (02:02:59):
Two story lovely home en Pepnu.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Yeah, but what was the jewelry. But was it just
it was it like a showers?

Speaker 17 (02:03:09):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (02:03:09):
No, no, it was We had most probably maybe one
hundred square meters on the front of the property. We
we just built a you know, and it was always
a long term plan. If we, you know, I decided
not to be in business at any stage, then the
new building would be part of the you know, it

(02:03:30):
looked part of the old building. It looked like I mean,
the building was one hundred and six years old, so
we you know, we made it met into the look
of that. So it was all then, you know, you know,
Kenny Everett in the very best of taste.

Speaker 2 (02:03:44):
Yeah, And so was it a mistake of yours to
not get approval to begin with? Is it what she
pinged you for?

Speaker 8 (02:03:53):
No, because we did.

Speaker 27 (02:03:54):
We did deve to the count So when we told
them what we were doing, and you know, they said no, look,
you'll find it was it was only because she had
made a complaint that the council had to act. They
couldn't say, look, you know away and trying to get
this sorted out, they you know, they had to act
on that. And as soon as she said, you know,
these guys hadn't got a permit or consent to run
a home based business then, so.

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
You'd got consent to just put an extension onto your house.

Speaker 11 (02:04:21):
Is that what it was?

Speaker 17 (02:04:22):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (02:04:23):
No, No, we say we talked the council the whole thing,
what we were doing. What you know, you didn't you
didn't need a can you know? I mean, I guess
in the long and we were advised badly from the
council and the planning Commission that we went to. He
would have, you know, maybe he should have said, look,
you've got to go around and get at least consent
from two of your neighbors and a neighbor across the road.

(02:04:45):
So you know, in hindsight, that's what maybe the council
should have told us to do. But they said, no,
you didn't.

Speaker 23 (02:04:51):
Need to do that.

Speaker 27 (02:04:52):
I mean, look, you know, I don't know if you
know christ Church Pepinary Roads, the main drag into town.
We had a hearing aid place across the road from
us Try and Secure Try and Hearing.

Speaker 8 (02:05:02):
We had.

Speaker 27 (02:05:03):
There was a restaurant five or six doors down from us.
You know, there was doctor surgery the next block. So
it wasn't as though, you know, we were the only
people in pepperinoid road that were trying to run a
home based business.

Speaker 2 (02:05:19):
Did you ever confront her?

Speaker 27 (02:05:24):
She wasn't the sort of woman that you confronted. I'm
afraid if look, if she had an issue, if she'd
come down and had a bit of a chat to
my wife and I and said, look, you know, I've
got a few concerns about this, and I would have
been able to alleviate her that. You know, people would
only becoming by appointment. We're not going to have twenty
cars pull up a day, you know. We you know,

(02:05:45):
we we you know, we want to build it tastefully,
we want to blend it into the area. Then we
could have sat down and had a bit of a
chat about things, and I'm sure, you know, a normal person,
we would have been able to work it out.

Speaker 5 (02:05:57):
But she she.

Speaker 27 (02:06:00):
She would say she was well known in the area
for causing as much trouble as you as she could
at this, you know, at the school she called a
lot of problems.

Speaker 2 (02:06:08):
Is it still Is it still there?

Speaker 15 (02:06:09):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:06:10):
Is it where you still are?

Speaker 5 (02:06:13):
No?

Speaker 27 (02:06:13):
My wife and I separated. The house is still there.
The my wife is actually running a business from that.
The old my old offices and we've you know, we've
still got consent to run a business there, so h
help us are?

Speaker 2 (02:06:31):
And how kind of people? How infuriating for you. You
must have been wondering the whole time, what's going to
complain about next?

Speaker 10 (02:06:41):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:06:41):
You did you know?

Speaker 4 (02:06:42):
You know?

Speaker 27 (02:06:43):
It was a couple of times I apologize to clients
when they would be sitting down and then this woman
would stand at the front door and take photos. Yes,
it was it was trying times.

Speaker 2 (02:06:57):
Appreciate your stories, Julian, Thank you so much for coming through.

Speaker 1 (02:07:01):
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