Has there ever been a more pointless river? (4 October)

Why do we no longer learn shorthand and typing at school? Marcus also keeps you updated on the flooding in Dunedin.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Nights podcast from newstalksed b.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right CAUSI end of the week for me, and that's
not necessarily a bad thing. Welcome on him as Marcus.
Good eating Friday, fourth October, the first Friday of October.
Hope you are good where you are. And a lot
to get through tonight and a lot to talk about,

(00:34):
and hopefully you guys will come through and let me
know what's going on. To a lot of information you
can click on now. I am clicking on the Otaga
Regional Council portal, their Environmental Data portal, and I'm looking
at the monitoring of the of the weather, the amount
of weather that's coming down the Clue, sorry, the amount
of water that's coming down the Cluther and it's a

(00:56):
lot eighteen hundred and ninety nine q mex. So it's
a big deal. So I don't know if you are
in Bewcluther if you know about that. But what they
are saying is that the Kluther River at Balcluther has
gone through the third alarm and is currently at I'll

(01:16):
bring those deeps up at eighteen ninety nine qumex and rising.
So I don't know what that means, and I don't
want to be Peter panic if I'll try not to be.
That was a bad useful expression. But I've often looked
at Balcluther I thought, wow, that is a town on
the bend in the river and those if that river breaks,

(01:41):
I mean, that really would be a bad situation. I
don't know any other river in the news, any other
town US in that's built on a bend in a
river like that. So you know there's great stock banks
there and I'm sure there's alternat if the river does breach,
the kind of the water is sidled away, but that
would be of concern to people anyway. I'll do team
coverage of the weather tonight too, alter it won't be

(02:03):
all we will do, obviously, but this is a situation
with heavy rainfall still there. Well, I expect heavy rainfall
still there. If you've got some information for me about that,
do let me know. So calling all people in Otago,
let me know what's going on. They're very much within
the warnings from Civil Defense saying that people should not

(02:27):
go out and about tonight. I think they're only thinking
of students. I don't think I want the students out
around Patty will tell you what I saw some of
that footage. And those people in four wheel drive double
cab mutes, they're idiots. They all went tickie touring last
night and to day to drive through because they can,
because they've got the big trucks. And all they did

(02:48):
was actually washed water into people's front yards and annoyed
the emergency services. So if you're a ute owner, you
have a look at yourself. But by the way, I've
got announcement. It's just come through. The red rain warning
has been downgraded for Otago and the heavy rain which
lifted for Kluther and Southland, so widespread heavy raiders ease

(03:11):
to The watch for south has been lifted. The red
warning for eastern Otago is downgraded to a watch. Yeah,
but there still is a heavy rain watch for Northotarget
and Needing coastal Cluther. Anyway, if you got some information
about that, how things are and it needn let me know.
My name is Margus Headle twelve eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty. If there's any other broken news you've got,
let me know what your breaking news. Let me know

(03:32):
what you have got tonight. Any of the information I
have found quite interesting so just get it through. Eight
hundred and eighty tatty and nine to nine two decks,
all manner of stuff we could talk about tonight at
the end of the week, the end of the first
week of the school holidays. A bit of a topic
mop up, Yeah, a bit of a topic mop up night.
As far as I'm concerned, there's stuff probably we haven't

(03:53):
talked about enough this week. Here's something a question for me.
I was thinking just as I was getting logging on
to work right when I went to school. No, that's
not quite right. Here's the question on trying to ask
and I don't quite know how to ask it. You
know how our lives are all revolved around keyboards that

(04:13):
we're typing the whole time and to Google or whatever,
or we're typing on our cell phone to text. Do
people ever bother to learn typing now? Or are keyboards
so everywhere that we don't need to could just pick
it up from your as young children. Do you need
to learn type? Everyone just knows how to type? What's

(04:33):
that about? Is it just a skill that everyone's got
up to scratch with because we spend so much longer
on keyboards? Anyone answer that often thought about that, because
once upon a time you need to go and learn typing,
but now no one does and we're all good at it. Yeah,
what's that about? If you know the answer that, let
me know at any if you are driving around and

(04:56):
have got road closures, let me know how they're going.
I felt kind of bad today because last night a
guy text an email. In fact, he was in Queenstown,
had an appointment for his child, son or daughter and Dunedin,
and he said, would it be all right to go
to that appointment? I said, you should be right to

(05:17):
get there because the roads weren't closed. What I didn't
realize is the roads probably were closed for the return
and that's what's happened state Hiwhy won south and north
of Denedin was both closed, so that guy mightn't have
got back from the appointments. I've emailed him and apologized
for giving him bad advice. Haven't heard back yet. But

(05:39):
you might have seen that guy. I don't if you've
seen him, but we might need to find a combination
for someone a bit later on, because I did say
that probably he could make it from Queenstown to Dunedin,
and that's not actually the case. I think all the
roads are closed north south east, north south west and
east but not far no much to go east because

(06:00):
you can't get anywhere anyway. Do you get in touch?
By name's Marcus, Welcome ed all twelve o'clock, looking forward
to what you've got to say here till twelve have
very curious day about typing? Is everyone just self taught
with typing now? Because we spend so long keyboards. I'd
like to know the answer that twelve past eight here
till midnight tonight. That's a promise to you if you

(06:24):
are an INCA, if you are in Vcago's got what
if you are in Doneda, noil us know if there
is still flooding, be really curious to hear from you
about that. Jim steading along from midnight. By the way,
the day in Doneda was the wettest day in a century.
I guess you'd call that one hundred year flood, wouldn't you. Yeah,

(06:50):
so there we go. That's happened eight hundred and eighty
Taddy and nine to nine to detext. Do get in
touch by the way, too, Also people, they are advising
people driving from Auckland to Wellington to avoid State Highway
one because they're ramped up the road works there. Talking

(07:10):
to Kinleith Atyamuri, there's a road closure. There's a forty
seven k detail in place. Truckies will let me know
about this, and I looked at the map for the diversion.
This is a good topic for us actually, because who
doesn't want to talk about this? I think if you're
going Auckland to Wellington driving a drive I've done fairly often,

(07:33):
the way you want to go is you want to
go Auckland an Tiquity and then ramp on through that way.
That's your answer. I reckon it's going to be quicker
for the next six months and probably forever. That's my
advice to you. If any trucks out there, I know
there's about a thousand of you on the roads going

(07:53):
north and south, is that the good good advice? Because
I would go Auckland, maybe even the Prongia Way, but
then then down Tiquity and turn off on State Hiway
for Timapara and go right down that way to Romu
and then I don't know whether you go right to

(08:14):
he or then in Toyoudu, but someone will let me
know about that. What's the best way to go all
kron Wellington these days because so much stuff on State
Highway one and the other road seems better anyway.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Do let me know.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
So?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, oh way e one hundred and eighty taddy and
nine two nine text. Keep those texts coming through any
other information you've got for me? And typing? What happened
with typing? Do people learn it? Mark is still flooding
at Long Beach, Dunedin as the water is still flowing
off the hills, weird looking moon tonight and the west

(09:00):
can hardly see it. What's that about? I took typing
at high school, stuck with my two finger technique instead
achieved a high level rating on a typing speed at
a recruitment agency. Then the rest of the text goes
into goodiegook, get in touch, Marcus till twelve, oh wait
auk and Wellingon's shortest way to go? Maybe some of

(09:24):
your truck drivers don't want to say because you don't
want to tell other people to go that way. It'll
get too crowded. And typing in the weather system And
how are things in Balcluther I don't even know which
way the river's going to flood and which way the
water is going to go, but would be curious to
hear about that. As I say, eight hundred and eighty

(09:48):
to eighty nine text do come through if you want
to catch you real soon back in a bit, Yeah,
Colin Marcus welcome, good evening, he Marcus.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Colin good?

Speaker 5 (10:03):
We've started to travel where the how annoy tikawity wave
because of the road weeks. But it's a lot narrow road, hasn't.

Speaker 6 (10:13):
Got big side.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Side pieces. It's a lot more helly takes for us.
It takes the same time as if we're coming down
to take High one. But with people now becoming a
weird that that might be alternative. It's busier, it could
get slower. You have hardly any passing range. So if

(10:41):
you go that way, you've really got to have your
head in the right space that you've just got to
go with the flow. You can't sort of make our
time and you can't push it. It's a it's a
road that requires a lot more driving. You go down,
go down through Primer, the Teak really terminary National Park

(11:01):
across to Wayouu through Kune.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Sure, so Colony, you are you in a truck or
are you in a personal vehicle.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, so yeah, we've definitely started going
that way because of it. But as I say, it's
a lot more driving because it's just you know, straight,
it's up un hill, amazing country in there. It's really
quite the country. But as I say, the other alternative
is to come down through Rua and that does add
about I think forty five minutes. But you know, the

(11:35):
road's a lot better, strike, more straight, less healy why
it burns, and probably safer if you want to put
it that way. And if people, you know, want to
stop and do things. I haven't got time pressures to say.
If you start to lose time, you won't make it up.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
No, that's right. And the western side of the western
side of like Topeal, that's a bit of a wiggly road.
That's not a good one, is it.

Speaker 5 (12:01):
No, we don't tend to touch that run off at all.
But again that doesn't bypass the road.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Weeks good, very good point. And when and when the
road works get done, you'll go back to State highay one.
Will you that your that's your preferred route.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Yeah, it's the same time. It's a preferred routecause it's
just wider. There's only a few places like now make
Caufe work. It's really tight. And Marrow. You know a
lot of passing lanes. You can over past pass, they
can pass you. You can pass slower trucks as you
just haven't got that luxury and all the other ways.

(12:38):
So does that all make sense?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Are you working? You're driving tonight? A. I can't hear
any can noises. I've just got Okay, appreciate it. Colin,
thank you. Nice to hear from your Noel Marcus, welcome, good.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Marcus, Hey, long time listener. Occasionally I might ring up
a bit once you retal three years.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
You're always welcome. It's always nice to hear from you.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
But on the good. On the subject of typing, I
come from the glory days when I was a young
student in christ Church looking at the Ministry of Works,
when they had typing pools of gorgeous young woman and
typing pools, and they're all experts on shorthand, which I
think is a lost skill. So you come down you'd

(13:22):
have one on one typing and some of these women
were just amazing on these shorthand skills, and I think
it's just a lost art.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, what's replaced it like dictifat well.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
Your post dictaphones, I suppose personal dictaphones. But these women
were so quick and so accurate. Then they'd go back
to their office type it up from their notes and.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Being i'dn't even know if anyone needs short hair. I
mean it was always studying for a journalist. It was
always the shorthand that held them back, wasn't it, because
it was always like impossible?

Speaker 7 (13:55):
Yeah? Yeah, no, So they had a whole typing pool.
So that I worked at the Ministry Works and Development,
christ Church and it'd probably be about fifteen women and
a typing pool ruled by this old MANI who watched
every move. But they were just so bright and so
quick on the shorthand skills.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
So they would sit in during well the people are
talking and transcribed. Is that the way it worked.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
Yeah, So you might that come down to your office
and you'd have some correspondence so instead of using a dictaphone,
you're just spew it out paragraph by paragraph and they
would take it all down. So you had to be
on your game. You had to. You as the person
doing the letter, would have really prepared and know your stuff.

(14:48):
You had to because the shorthand typists would be sitting
on the other side taking down every sentence and the
way you go.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
And I guess just another skill that's been completely replaced
by the cell phone, because they could just trans Everyone's
got like a tape recorder there. They can tape everything.
I suppose, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
But look when I when I looked at their it's
all done on pencil. When I look at the shortened
I couldn't understand it.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
No, because each words like a car, each words like
one character at one squiggle.

Speaker 8 (15:21):
Isn't it.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
Yeah, yep, yeah, So it's obviously something that will seriously
talk toward at high school level. But yeah, it's just gone.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I might be up for a discussion about that, and
I'd lovely to hear from you. Twenty five past eight.
My name is Marcus. Welcome shorthand hand typing. There'll be
in your wheelhouse for some of you. And also the
situation in Duneda and Otarga. I've got some more information
about that. Gosh, I'll tell you what I'm looking at
this Otaga Regional Council website of all their monitoring rivers.
I'll tell you what's an extraordinary river the Pomerhaka. Has

(15:54):
there ever been a more twisty, more pointless river. And
when it starts above the Cluther, it goes through about
two hundred k's and it ends in the Cluther. It's unbelievable,
goes right around the back of Tapanui. I can't quite
believe it anyway, just putting that out on aside. My
name is Marcus. Welcome, Heredle twelve, Auckland, Wellington, Driving and

(16:16):
typing Marcus. I always go Auckland to talk and over
then Highway thirty two to two Rangie. It's a good
road and more to red than going through Tiquity. Yes,
still floodwaters about south to Need and I live on
one of the hills about the south da Bethgate Park
is totally covering water. Can usually see Forbury Park in
the distance, can't see it. Someone posts a photo on

(16:39):
Facebook have been underwater two A number of shops were
closed in town due to staff not being able to
get in. Marcus. To learn keyboard typing is like how
a language is hard to learn until you meant a
beautiful girl who speaks that language. Next minute you learn
to language.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Cheapers.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Oh wait, turn an eighty twenty six past eight. Keep
it going. If there's something else you want to mention
talk about, say do let's hear from you. It'll twelve
And as I said, oh, by the way to the
NRL Final on Sunday. Always up for discussion about that,
Always up for discussion about them. About the Melbourne storm,

(17:20):
Visit the Penwyth Panthers. I like Penrith, don't like the
Melbourne coach, don't like the anxiety brings to the team,
and the I don't like anything about him. But Jerome Hughes,
you know, the Daly m the key where he's he's good,

(17:42):
he's Melbourne. But yeah, I like Cleary Graham Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (17:49):
Yeah, are you welcome to ground zero?

Speaker 10 (17:51):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (17:52):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
What does that means?

Speaker 8 (17:53):
I like that.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
When you when you say welcome to ground zero? Are
you in ground zero? Or am I in ground zero?

Speaker 5 (18:02):
I'm in ground zero?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh you in Dunedin?

Speaker 11 (18:06):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Up?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
And then cheapest creepers.

Speaker 9 (18:08):
We were taking before?

Speaker 12 (18:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Okay, okay, no, no, I appreciate you. Thanks for your report.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
What can you tell me, Well, the police have have
least the checkpoints outside my place and it's not been
taken by the army. My old unit for a south
from the sixties. Wow, what what what a what a
sort of homecoming that was?

Speaker 12 (18:32):
And yeah, well once the on.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Grab there's a lot to unpicked there. There's a checkpoint
outside your house.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Well, actually, to be grief of the it's actually outside
west It was just down the road from.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Okay, and that was manned by the police.

Speaker 9 (18:49):
It was announced manned by the army.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
And it's your own it's your old unit.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
It's my old unit.

Speaker 13 (18:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Oh, for goodness sake, before are you you want to
get your uniform in there and get out there and
be a dad's army type scenario.

Speaker 9 (19:04):
Oh no, I'm just doing been doing a formal civil
defense around the clock all night and all morning and
all tonight raining.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Did you did you acknowledge to the people there that
they are your old unit?

Speaker 12 (19:18):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (19:18):
Yeah, yeah, the faces it up.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
How to tell me how that discussion went? What did
you say?

Speaker 9 (19:23):
Oh, my old unit, armies are what unifferences are Forlias,
that's my old unit way back in the sixties and seventies. Wow,
I was one of the originals.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Goodness so there.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
So anyway, the road is still got a checkpoint on it,
We're still got idiots, muppets in their.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Fort muppets because there muppets, the muppets, because I mean
it's a farm vehicle. Go back to your farm. You know,
if you've got double cab, you what are you driving
around south and eating for muppets.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
Well, they're trying.

Speaker 9 (19:57):
To crack the world's books roots of tails and put
it on the social media. I think they don't need
to be there, and they're getting in the way, of course,
causing emergency. That's some prompts.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Just hang on there, Graham, don't go because I've got like,
because you are our man on the spot. Gee, don't
leave us. You hang on there too, Josh. I'll get
to you all. Got We've got a man on the spot.
Half past eight tony headlines.

Speaker 14 (20:23):
Please thanksas more than twice the usual October rainfall has
drenched and needon in forty hours. In a state of
emergency remains in place. Several highways across the Otago region
will remain closed until tomorrow morning at the earliest. Otago
Civil Defense Group Controller Matt Ali says they're still keeping
a close eye on water levels. There are hopes the

(20:43):
government scheme to help fund large housing developments will smooth
out the highs and lows of demand. The program will
allow developers of projects of at least thirty houses to
access financial support and Associate Health Minister Casey Costello is
under increasing pressure to resign. She can't excise tax for
heated tobacco products based on a collection of evidence which

(21:03):
has only now been released. Born on tonight in Rugby,
Northland playing Otago in the NPC. Otago need to win
this game to get through to the playoff zone. Are
currently they are head by thirty one twenty one Northland.
The Tunny Fair seem absolutely determined to snatch defeat from
the jaws of victory because they were a hit twenty
one ten at halftime three tries to one. In basketball

(21:26):
and the Women's toy he League Talkmanawa Queens are ahead
of the Southern hoy Ho thirty two to twenty eight
at halftime. One of those stories at nine or go
to ennsid Herald dot co dot NZ.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Cheers there, Toddy great So Graham what your subur would be?
Saint Kilda?

Speaker 12 (21:40):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (21:43):
I'm on it, infamous.

Speaker 13 (21:47):
Roa.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Was it called.

Speaker 9 (21:50):
Brain block again?

Speaker 13 (21:52):
Lee?

Speaker 6 (21:53):
It does it to you?

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Baby Road?

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Copy that yep.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
We discussed where I lived.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, okay, some months ago, yep, yep. So okay, So
so it's still raining heavily there.

Speaker 9 (22:07):
No, it's more like a heavy dizzle light rain, and
the drains are still sucking away all that floodwaters that
I can now walk down the street, But some side
streets are about a meter underwater and are cornered off
for this reasons. And it's all pretty calm and quiet here.

(22:30):
But late this morning when we had a camera crew
from here here rather, waters were about ump and deep
outside my front gate.

Speaker 13 (22:45):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Okay, so what did you spend the last twenty four
hours doing.

Speaker 9 (22:50):
Civil defense? I've been on the Selver Defense spunk a
few times. I know how it runs, and also monitoring
the HEM radio emergency channels as well, which are working perfectly,
and checking up on some of my colleagues down and
Clifford who were about to get hammered.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Okay as Ham radio. Has the HAM radio been useful?
The other comms didn't drop out, did they? So you
guys will find anyway, wouldn't you.

Speaker 7 (23:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (23:16):
Yeah, if we had to just the police in the
formal capacity, we were ready to go. But I had
surrounded on awful sides with water that was at times
waist deep, but not quite to my front door. I'm
right down in the red back of a long alleyway,
and I thought, well, we'll just keep my keep my

(23:40):
flatmates indoors in safe. I was off at a mess evacuation,
which I politely turned down because they have biggest stuff
to deal with and just just hug it down and
keep cool and we will get through this.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
And we are Another question I'd like to fire at you,
if I may, Graham, what people are worried about for
us today? Aren't There? Is there a lot of damage
with water in the houses, like carpet and floorboards ruined,
or has the water stayed out of the houses?

Speaker 9 (24:16):
There's water has got into some houses. Waters, but like
a bush for it finds its own route.

Speaker 12 (24:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
And there's a lot of flotsam all over the road.
It looks like someone's dumped a couple of containers full
of crickle back all down the roads.

Speaker 13 (24:39):
Here.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
I can't see for the roads because I've only just
been able to get out out of my house in
the last couple of houses, and it's looking a lot
camera and the drains are working and yeah, I canctually
walking on foot paths. It'samy boys, about one hundred us
on the road. So yep, it's all calm, quiet and.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Yep, tremendous report. Give my love to your old division
that they came to stay. The old division doesn't sound
good though, does it. Well, the house is wit some
of the houses with Josh Marcus welcome.

Speaker 15 (25:15):
Yeah Marcus, Yeah, hey, bit of a side set. But
the OTAGOC team. I was wondering how this might affect
them tonight, whether or not they I mean, they've traveled
to get there and up north and play this game tonight.
And yeah, to be honest, you'd rather be at home,
wouldn't you?

Speaker 8 (25:35):
He'd be a bit.

Speaker 15 (25:38):
Yeah, but hey, last.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Night they should have pulled it. Do you think they
should have pulled the match out because because the floods
are not because I presume they've got probably, would that
be what you're saying?

Speaker 15 (25:52):
Yeah, yeah, go well yeah, because I can't teleport they
so obviously they have been on the on the road
a couple of days, and yeah it must be. Hopefully
they win by thirteen plus just to sort of go
home with a field good feeling and hopefully they're not
yeah too worried about being away from their families. Why

(26:14):
all this is going on?

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Good on you, Josh, thank you for that. I think
the score is thirty one twenty one, nine minutes left,
thirty one minutes gone in that situation. So thanks Josh.
Nice to hear from your twenty five away from from
nine o'clock. Welcome. My name is Marcus. Good Evening Classic
Friday Free for All. By the way, how the big smokes?
If you might be out there as a newber driver
of things busy, Marcus was wondering how. Marcus wondering how

(26:39):
the guys who was stuck on the road on his
way to hide he was going to sleep in his
car overnight. He's probably still there, Marcus. What put up
the something about typing? I was out of my car
when I got back and they were talking about it.

Speaker 5 (26:53):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
The question with typing is that for a lot of
us of my generation, typing was considered something that you
had to learn. They'd be typing class at school and
your keyboard was with a cloth. But now no one
learns typing, but everyone can type. Does that mean that

(27:14):
keyboards have become such a part of our life we
just learn it all like using a knife and fork.
Is that what it's about. It's something that we do
so often we don't need to be taught it. I
guess that's a more elegant way of phrasing my question.
You might have some experience, but they'd be lovely to
hear from you. By the way, I think the aurora
might be on too. If anyone's got any Aurora action,

(27:34):
let us know about that. I think the soul of
Flare is happening. That's my take. Once the weather clears,
it's clear tomorrow, but the south of Southiard, it seems
like it's all good for the Aurora. Get in touch, Patricia,
its Marcus.

Speaker 16 (27:48):
Welcome, Hello Marcus. I'm ringing about the shorthand and typing.

Speaker 17 (27:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (27:56):
Wow, that's what I did for my living.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Can you still do Can you still do it?

Speaker 16 (28:07):
I can. I write all my notes and things, but
of course I'm not working these days. But I was
working for a firm of architects for eleven years and
all the correspondents were taken down in shorthand and then
I taped typed it back. But from the time we

(28:29):
learned typing, I went to a business school in Wellington,
called Gilby's Business College, and so we started off with,
you know, the manual typewriters without When I worked for
the architects, they were electric typewriters with like a little

(28:49):
round ball with all the.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
You know, Patricia, Yes, can you have you got a
TV on there in the background.

Speaker 16 (29:00):
Oh, well, I've got it turned down?

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Can you turn it? Write?

Speaker 16 (29:06):
But I've got it turned right down?

Speaker 10 (29:09):
Now?

Speaker 16 (29:10):
Right, it should be.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Right now, It's much better.

Speaker 18 (29:13):
It's like this.

Speaker 16 (29:14):
When I went to the business school in Wellington, there
might be many people, remember it was called Gilby's Business College. Well,
you started there and you were just at the learning stage. Well,
after quite a while that was called junior. Well then
you went to the next stage and that was intermediate,

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and after intermediate it became senior, and after senior it
became advanced. Well with the shortand every day as well.
By the time you got up to the advanced, you
were taking the shorthand down at one hundred and forty
words a minute.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, I should get you, I should get you to
spend one night writing this show down shorthand. Hey, Patricia,
so just the way you're so, you're at the you're
at your place of work at the architects right.

Speaker 16 (30:14):
Well, okay, I reheard of them because they designed the
buckets in Cuba.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
More Oh goodness me, that would have been an exciting thing. Okay,
so are they just are they just having a meeting
between them and the clients and you are writing every
word down?

Speaker 16 (30:30):
No? No, After they've gone, i'd be called in and
say will you bring your book in? Well, that was
a shorthand book, So then I'd be tapping everything back
and then I had to do it lunchtime, which was
one to two, have it all type back, signed and

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and posted by one o'clock.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Wow, So that you'd be writing on everything they said.

Speaker 16 (30:59):
Well, no, the clients would come in and of course
have a discuss with the architects. And after they were gone,
this is when he said to me, well, would you
bring your book it? And then he dictate everything.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Now I dictate it, okay, okay.

Speaker 16 (31:17):
Yes, but anyway, even now, any little notes I want
to do, I can't help it.

Speaker 19 (31:24):
I'll do it.

Speaker 16 (31:24):
It's shorthand. But after the top architect died, the practice
came to an end, you see. So I had to
look around for another position, and that was in the
Ministry of education. Well, there was no such thing as

(31:46):
shorthand anything like that. I was straight onto then a
microwave computer.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh yeah, the microwave computer.

Speaker 20 (31:54):
Okay, now the Apple Mac.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I mean the firm was Burren and Keen, Is that right?

Speaker 16 (32:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
It and tell me something Patrician.

Speaker 16 (32:04):
And associates something something patrician. Yeah, I thought that soon
came to an end.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Hang on, but hang on, Patricia, this is the important question. Yes,
when they came up with the idea of the Bucket Fountain,
did they think it was going to be as famous
and long lasting as it has been?

Speaker 16 (32:26):
No, chat that designed it said after he designed it,
he hated it. And also some Japanese tourists came and
they photographed everything, and when they got back, they're supposed
to be somewhere in Japan like a copy of the Buckets.

Speaker 13 (32:48):
And really.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I've never heard that before. Treat lovely to talk to
Thank you so very much. And it was like nine
and day two that TV. If I appreciate that also
sixteen to nine, fourteen to nine, good evening. Jenniet's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 21 (33:03):
Hello Marcus.

Speaker 22 (33:04):
I was a shorthand typist and I would be taking
dictation and I would sit for say, twenty minutes, and
this partner in the firm would take phone calls and
you know, discuss whatever it was and everything else. Then

(33:25):
he would look back and he would say the next
word that he had been dictating after I was sitting
for twenty minutes or so. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Wow. So here we are. How long would it take
to type that up? It would take forty minutes to
type up twenty minutes dictation longer than.

Speaker 22 (33:45):
That, Oh heavens yes, totally different. And I said to
the other partners, and they just said, yes, it was.
They admired him, but it was great.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
All right, can you still do you still do shorthand?

Speaker 18 (34:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, no, forgot it. Okay, nice to hear from you.
Git twelve away from twelve away from nine Marcus till
midnight tonight. If you've got any updates about what's happening
in Dunedin or Otago, where you want any roading information,
let us know, Marcus. It's really sad to another old
pub being demolished to make way for a bigger supermarket
and more car parks. Farewell to the only Hunger Trident

(34:23):
Tavern Wow free famous publicans at the Trident, quite a
famous pub for all sorts of reasons. Yeah, good story
that I went to the Trident tavern with a mate
to meet his mother. He hadn't told me he'd never
met his mother. Was quite the day, actually, that one.

(34:49):
That would be a while beat there'd be nineteen ninety
three maybe, But I think they were, Yeah, I think
they were free, well known publicans. I think the Republicans
had a fear but to do with z'd be in
their day, had a number of pubs brewed their own beer.
I think too. Someone will know more about that, although

(35:10):
I don't necesarily want to get into published dowgeb but
do find it quite interesting. Eight hundred and eighty Teddy
and nine two to text Marcus still twelve. It's dark
out there now down south, so I don't know if

(35:30):
we'll get a lot more information in the next few hours,
but I will be right across all the information that
we have got. But there's a lot of bark on
the road. That guy's quite right. See they everyone get
used to what bark on the gardens now to get
the weeds down, But as soon as it rains, that
bark just goes everywhere. State, How I won hammed into

(35:52):
Evansdale closed? Why hold it to Milton closed? Lawrence to
Milton closed, kay Bourne to Parmeston closed, kai Bourne to
Hide closed, Forsyth Bar to port Charmers closed? Why KOI
koy to tap stepinoly that's closed? Yep, another sixty meals
expected before it begins. Easy in a meaningful way, Getting

(36:18):
touched nine away from nine o'clock. Welcome petits Marcus good
evening the.

Speaker 12 (36:23):
Marcus pat here. But just a nice wee story about
this flooding. I picked up Sandberg's today around lunchtime, and
it's quite a number in the car. And this young
fella must have been watching, watching, and he must have
thoughted himself, how's this whole card? Don and mode always

(36:46):
and and I'm eighty four, I'm only eighty fourth year
And he must have ordered himself, how's this whole fellow?

Speaker 18 (36:57):
You know?

Speaker 12 (36:59):
And be sandbag? He telled me home, Wow wow, And
he telling me home, and he pulled up and said
do you want a hand there? I said, I'd love one.
And him and his teen age daughter, he'd be about
forty he was he was a builder for a moscule

(37:20):
and his teen age daughter and they unloaded them and
carded them in and put them around the doors. And
my wife and myself there's some very good people there.
You know, we condemned the and we say about the
people not miserable and that sort of thing. Well, this
sort of thing goes on all the time. There are

(37:42):
some lovely people. I thought I just had to mention it.
And you know, the rest of the day, we were
our back guards under a part would imagine two two
two and a half feet of water, but we we
haven't got any any in the front, you know. And

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it's but I felt so good after it.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
It's a it's a very moving story that it's a lovely,
lovely story.

Speaker 12 (38:11):
And it's May now day. And I heard the lady
on the talk about program early on in the day
and she said they were discussing religion. I said to myself, well,
they don't have to tell me there's no cheesus or
God when this bellt turns up like this and helps us.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
So pat tell me about that. Did you did you
not think you needed?

Speaker 18 (38:41):
What?

Speaker 2 (38:42):
Have you been better with sandbags yesterday? Or you've got
them in time?

Speaker 12 (38:46):
I got them in time for the house.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Okay, that's a good thing. Okay. And you you're on
the you're in south and eating on the flat?

Speaker 12 (38:51):
Are you Melbourne Street?

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Okay? Okay, that's a really love and you're happy staying there.
It stopped raining a bit now, has it.

Speaker 12 (39:01):
Oh it's sort of heavy girdle. It's a I couldn't
get my wipe to move without anyway. No that I
laugh at everything, you know. I try to make light heart,
you know, of everything. And no, I really sympathize with
the people who's been flooded out, but we're being very lucky.

(39:23):
And as I said, I've got sheds in the back
of my house and they've been flooded and all that
sort of thing. But no, I just thought, Markers, I
just had to ring up and tell you about this
young fella and his daughter who unloaded and they stacked
him around the doors and.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Nice to do it nice And that's a nice lesson
him teaching his daughter too, you know, that's a lovely
thing for him to do, to show his daughter about
caring for someone. That's great.

Speaker 12 (39:53):
Yeah, And as I said, he must have thought himself,
how's this old card you're going to?

Speaker 8 (39:59):
Lad?

Speaker 12 (40:00):
I've never been so grateful, you know, anybody do anything
for me.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
Lovely story pets. Thank you for sharing that with us.
That means a lot to me. Also, thank you. Wow
love that someone says all bird owners and whereas are
they worth the price you paid for them? I wouldn't
be seen dead in all birds. I judge people that
wear them, to be honest. Every one I know that's
got earbirds, so they get rough quite quickly and they

(40:25):
wear out. That's just me. Well the first time, for
the first time I sat appear all birds in a
second hand shop. I've never seen that before. I always
thought they were too much of a she she item Marcus.
A couple of years ago, I had infestation of cockroaches
in the house. The extremat of guys. Did they come
with the bark people put in their gardens. I'll never
use it again. We've good lock going on tonight. People

(40:50):
be a part of it if you want. And I
think the heavy rain warning has been eased now, but
it is still raining, just not bucketing down. But there's
road closes like that, road closures like no tomorrow the
highways reopen south of the need and that's just come
through on the od T state eight point thirty INDs

(41:13):
in Tiawaka Katahi advise at State Hiway Wan had opened
between Milton and way Hola. I think that's the Frod
Free Highway. She should have been open anyway, shouldn't it.
So that's the report. I don't know what's happening with
the I'll check on the I'll check on the Flowerbalkluther
because it was flying high there for a while, so

(41:36):
I think we would have heard if it breached the banks.
But I will keep an eye on that one here
till midnight to night. My name is Marcus. Welcome eight
hundred eighty Tenadian nine two nine two text, get in
touch of you do want to talk, as I say,
Hittle twelve, eight hundred eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
You're trusted Light time talk Marcus, Slash nights call oh
eight hundred and eighty eighty news talk Sidy.

Speaker 23 (42:03):
One outside the Calans Winner even more there maybe time.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
It saams.

Speaker 23 (42:24):
I'm far way one level won where I because I
am away.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Bye sir nine seven Hitle twelve. My name is Marcus Morpheus.
Good evening and.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Welcome Hello Marcus, longtime listener, first time.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Called lovely to hear from your Morpheus. I wondered, when
we get to you.

Speaker 8 (42:57):
Yes, I've been on hold for a little while.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, so what's your what's your story?

Speaker 8 (43:03):
Well, I saw the strangest thing Marcus, yesterday. You wouldn't
believe it. Sorry, am I am I on the air
right now.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, that's right, yep.

Speaker 8 (43:15):
I saw the strangest thing in the floods. I was
just driving. Have you heard of a town called Palmerston?

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yes, for floods.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
It was up to near my door, my door of
my car.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
So where were you driving from? You're coming from Arms?

Speaker 8 (43:40):
I was coming from Wanaka.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Oh yeah, I had been.

Speaker 8 (43:43):
I had been detoured and I wasn't allowed to go through.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
The NIS was clothed with snow, wasn't it was? So
you just got through the peg route before that closed
down into Palmerston. What time was that? Three in the afternoon?

Speaker 8 (43:56):
Yes, about that?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Yeah, okay, I thought, so, yeah.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
You weren't following me, were you?

Speaker 2 (44:01):
And then anyway, you had to stay high and and
what was the amazing thing. The amazing thing was how
flooded it looked.

Speaker 8 (44:06):
Yes, and on my windshields from the floods A goopie.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
We'll just let you go Morepha, But tricky for me,
but nice to hear from anyway, Morpheus eight passed. We're
saying a goopie anyway eight. But I'll tell you something.
Oh wow, oh got you got it? So the guy
I told to go to need and to see the
in and Throats person for his daughter, because I knew

(44:37):
how hard it was to get those appointments, I told
him to go. This is a guy that emailed me
from Queenstown sin should I go tomorrow? This was yesterday.
I said, yes, go. Then I felt terrible today because
I saw that he could have got there but couldn't
have got home because the roads had closed. Anyway, Harmon
Jotts just emailed me No, I didn't end up going,
looked at road closed in the morning, decided not to go. Harmon,
you did the right thing. So that's I'll breathe easy

(45:02):
our thanks to that. By the way, can I just
say that I have a week of talkback. The most
moving call was that guy before the news. That was
amazing because when he first said to me, oh, well,
I went to get he's eighty four. I went to
fill up sandbags and the guy followed me back. I thought, well, jeepers,
they're probably casing out your place to come around and

(45:22):
steal your poppies or something. But then when he said
it was a builder with his daughter, I thought, wow,
that's legit unbelievably moving story and which brings which brings
in Ingrid Larry, I hope you're listening. Which wasn't even
have to electron is it. But it brings to me
the point that if we're going to get this more

(45:42):
off on, which we will with South de Nedin and
the water rising and stuff, and also with south Toneden
in a place with a lot of retired people. I
don't know where it comes in the census, but I'd
say a lot of retirement homes are there are a
lot of elderly people. They need to have a service.
And where's old the Student Army? Yeah, with old Sam Johnson.

(46:09):
They need a situation where they get the students to
come round or to go and grab your sand bags
and bring them around and stack them about. So that's
what we need. You get aroundy five year old going
to get bags of sand that's a real fail. Radish,
Joe's Radish. You gotta sort that out. You want to
get your students across there filling bags with sand, dropping

(46:31):
them around on a big truck. You have a big
truck of sand. That's what you do. You do the
You have a big truck of sand and a hold
of bags, and you'd fill them at the house. It
doesn't matter actually where you fill them. You're not those
beach is full of sand. Anyway. Oh, but that's a

(46:52):
great story. The builder from moscuere following the guy back
loving that. Anyway, Where are we talking? Typing the fastest
and quickest way to drive from Auckland to Willington now
the State Hiway on an all manner of other stuff. Oh, Marcus,

(47:26):
I know you don't really want to talk about pubs.
But when I was eighteen, I was working in New
Market and Crowhurst Street. That place was a smallish but
probably big in their day. They used to have effectory
downstairs that made wire mesh screens for quarries. Anyway, the
factory management, some of his boys used to go over
to the Kaiber Pass to the Captain Pub at lunchtime.

(47:49):
Part of the lieon. Brewers used to be there and
drink up, then go back to work. Honestly, these do
that a few times a week at lunchtime, then come
back to work. I remember thinking really loll Anyway, there
we go and what about bark and floods and what
about what about get in touch? My name is Marcus
Hittle twelve Well all I should have thought, what the

(48:12):
name like Orpheus is going to be tricky? Is his
name Orpheus? If you up break and use the something
else you want to mention? Also get in touch? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yep.
Actually I've changed my mind. I will talk to him.
Do get in touch you want to talk. My name
is Marcus Hittle twelve oh eight hundred eighty nine to
text toned in the floods If you want to comment

(48:33):
on that, anything goes. But that's great that guy filled
at his sandbags filled for him? Who she'll be to
get to check out the NPC score? Now what else
I'm go I talk about tonight? I feel we're topic rich.

(48:55):
But eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine nine two
de text if you don't want to come through here
till midnight tonight, let's be hearing from you shorthand typing
and anything else you do want to mention, But mainly
the situation in Dunedin and what I'm hearing is there's
a lot of water, but not too much house flooding,
because that must be dispiriting when you got to change

(49:16):
the carpets and replace the whole house. And is Stephen
at Marcus? Welcome here?

Speaker 20 (49:23):
Marcus?

Speaker 2 (49:23):
How are you sounding good?

Speaker 24 (49:24):
Stephen here?

Speaker 10 (49:26):
I am you know, I'm part of dantin anyway. I
just want to speak about Dnedan and the clouds and
everything and we know him when their Dantan's on a
state of emergency. Where's the parts when we need him?

Speaker 25 (49:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Well what's your answer to that?

Speaker 12 (49:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (49:44):
I just want to know where the Prime Minister is
because it's a state of emergency. He ways turns up
for you the other emergency tuned up to the organd
and everything.

Speaker 20 (49:52):
So wanted he turned down some down Duneda.

Speaker 10 (49:54):
Where's promise and when we need him?

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Because I think the chances are he is probably not
going to turn up. Stephen where Yeah, that would be
my taker? Are you are you yourself safe? Is your
house dry?

Speaker 17 (50:08):
Well?

Speaker 10 (50:08):
It is okay, it's we had a big flood in
our water and our street where we are anyway and
Cuttin Street and everything. Our road got closed for where
we was. But it's amazing how the water cleans aways
after a while. So okay for the meantime, but I'm
still struzzling.

Speaker 20 (50:26):
But that's okay.

Speaker 10 (50:26):
But yeah, I'm fine, Marcus, thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, okay, so your house has not got watering or
anything like that.

Speaker 20 (50:33):
No, no, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Yeah, and I'll tell you what. Tiger had a narrow
victory today too. You be happy with that against Northland?

Speaker 10 (50:40):
Well, when's the wind markers?

Speaker 18 (50:41):
You know that.

Speaker 10 (50:42):
I'm really happy for the boys, but when we really
need to have the other results, go away and go Southland.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Nae hear from me, Stephen, thanks so much. At fourteen
past nine, our wea eight hundred and eighty ten eight
nine nine to the texts. Yeah, he's got so much
blowback about the hospital. I don't think Luxelon will be there.
I see he's been around the radio station so in
the shaking howdies this morning on Facebook. Goodness. I don't
know how the optics for that looks, but make of

(51:10):
that what you will. Marcus. We are up on the
Summit road. I looking christ Church now, beautiful night, but
no Aurory yet. Venus looks brilliant. Thanks James. Oh, by
the way, that's the other thing. And this is a
bit of a niche topic for me. I was thinking
about before the flood's hit, and it's one of the
topics I like to bring up from time to time.

(51:30):
And I've seen the mention of Venus and I thought, wow,
that's triggered this topic. How many people out there would
live on streets that are named after planets? Because I
reckon just about every town in this country. What I thought, well,
what we call this? What we call that? What about
we have some streets named after planets. I certainly know

(51:56):
that Invert Cargo has a Venus Street.

Speaker 26 (52:01):
Now.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I was talking to Made at a party the other week,
who had a long story, but I think his uncle
became in the world of astrophysics and did work on
the planet which was the same planet as the street
that he was born on. So yeah, you might want
to text that. So it might be a fun text
thing or a cool thing. Cities or towns in New

(52:23):
Zealand with streets named after planets, and when we talk
about this discussion, obviously we will include Pluto. I don't
know if there's any Pluto streets in New Zealand, but
I'm sure there a lot of Venus streets and a
lot of Satin streets. I think we were looking at
houses in Glen Eden for a while there that were
on streets named after planets. Were they named after stars?

(52:48):
Was star signs? Can't remember? It felt quite astrological. Anyway,
what do you got to say?

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (52:55):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Eight said he had nine? Nine to de text market
still twelve. I don't know if there's a Pluto street,
there might be a Pluto place. So streets named after planets.
Marcus the PM was at the opening of a private

(53:16):
hospital and is electorate after its renovation. So do get
in touch Marcus the people. A lot of people have
enjoyed hearing Stephen. Obviously, he's very famous in the radio
world with his advocacy for Dunedin and his enthusiasm for

(53:37):
the Needen's sport duned An icon. I think it's probably
fair to say and nice to hear that he's safe
and well for every time I drive to and I
see him on the side of the world, not on
the side of the street, but I always see him.
Sometimes I sometimes I don't. Sometimes I like to keep

(53:58):
a world separate. Anyway, eighteen past nine streets named after planets?

Speaker 20 (54:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
I think glennaed and the Glenaedon streets are star signs.
If you want the street we were looking at what
it was called, Marcus to be pedantic. The streets are
normally named after ships, and it was the ships that
were named after the planets. Really anyway, Marcus, I used

(54:30):
to live in Pluto Place in Milston Palmerston, North.

Speaker 12 (54:35):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
I'd like to live in a street named after a planet.
It was very easy to get your street name changed.
Could I tell you what? We've got some duds. We're
on Marine Parade, which is fine, but every time you
google Marine Parade you always get about ten different marine parades,
Mount Monganui and stuff like that. We're actually State Highway one,

(54:59):
but State Higway one becomes once it comes into Bluff.
It has four different names. Doesn't that sound weird? So
it's State Highway one, but then it turns into I
always forget this, it's quind of Cut confusing. It's State

(55:22):
high one. Then it turns into Blackwater Street, and then
it turns into Gore Street. When it's Bluff. That's weird.
It's looking on Google Maps, so it's Gore Street right
through town. Then it turns into Marine parade. Anyway, I'll

(55:42):
tell you what they reckon. The water will be right
across the road when I get home. Boy, the waves
were coming in big, extraordinary bird life the last couple
of days. But gee, the sea was rough. Boy, oh boy,
I'm sure the road will almost be undercut with the
subsidey anyway, I get in touch by Name's Marcus Hittle
twelve oh, eight hundred and eighty, eighteen eighty and nineteen
ninety text streets named after planets. Marcus Alexandra has a

(56:06):
street called Uranus Circle. Uranus. Have struggled that one Urinus
Circle on Bridge Lane. Thank you for that, someone says
Uranus Lane and Tawa Mutu hosted some ligendary parties back
in the day. Marcus Neptune Street down avert near the showgrounds. Anyway,

(56:32):
a lot of good texts about that. But I'm looking
forward to your calls also. It's kind of the point
of the show. Twenty past nine. By the way, the
result of Graham's call saying he had the army outside
is place. We have spoken to the end Z Defense Force.
They have got back to us and in and they
confessed They've admitted that because it's as new news to
most people that the army is involved. This is from
a New Zealand Defense First spokesperson. At the request of

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local emergency Management, the New Zeland Defense Forces providing reserve
and regular force personnel to support New Zealand police with
access control to foot of the areas of South Dunedin.
Soldiers from the second and fourth Battalion Rules Differ Infantry Regiment,
supported by personal from third Combat Service Support Battalion, Southern
Regional Health Supports Squadron Sailors from h M D are

(57:16):
being deployed to the effected areas to assist with controlling
access and providing support to the community. The NZ these
in Defense Forces wing closely with civil authorities to assist
with a coordinating, effective response to the flooding situation. Well,
I suggest next time they probably should get the Defense
Force an earlier to help with the sandbagging, because have
an eighty five year I'll have to go and get

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sandbags himself. That is that's appalling. That's my take on it.
You might have some other take. Murray Marcus, welcome, very good.
Thanks Murray.

Speaker 17 (57:51):
I'm talking to you from I used to talk to
Stephen quite some time ago when I was down there
undernedin coaching junior cricket. Oh, and he was a good

(58:17):
young man in those days. I think from memory he
had ginger hair glasses and you come up and approach
you and shake your hand.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
I don't think he's changed much.

Speaker 17 (58:28):
No, I don't think he has it in It doesn't
sound and he's changed much either.

Speaker 2 (58:33):
Now, what happened to you know? Have you broken your back?

Speaker 17 (58:37):
I've got a couple of fractures of me back. I've
got had a couple of falls, three falls, and coming
to come in to hospital and hopefully I'll be on
my way home on Thursday to watch Beth this weekend.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
And were they fools that were expected? Are we out
mountaineering or doing something surprising or just run of the
mill stuff.

Speaker 17 (59:01):
I'll tell you what it was the first fall I
felt when I was delivered me recross. Yes, and I
have done that for sixteen years and I fell backwards,
tripped over step concrete step and hit the dead on
the Conquerte deck And that was pretty sore.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
And there's there's an irony to that too, as to
injurying yourself delivering meals for those that are helpless too.
So I can appreciate that also.

Speaker 8 (59:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (59:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (59:31):
The second one, I've been indown DEI flat trying to
feed the cat, and I've been over backwards, lost me
Realnce and Ben over backwards and fell over. Had to
crawl from the kitchen to the lounsdyn it hopped myself
up on the chair. And then I was going for
the third one, I was going for a walk and

(59:53):
Crossi's hospital with the walker and my legs cave away
from under me. They went like jelly. Yeah, and I
just hit the deck in front of the nurse. So yeah,
I'm still recovering. Yeah, Kevin, Kevin, right, And I just
want to think. I just want to take this time, yep,

(01:00:13):
you go. I just want to take this time, nargus
to think everybody that's looked after me, friends and the
doctors in the hospital, people nurses, they're fantastic people who
cook the meals, great meals. And yeah, I just thank
them all for the bottom of my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
And is your hometown christ Church? Murray?

Speaker 17 (01:00:37):
Yeah, I'm red and black and black and white.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Okay. And the other question, I've got few. Have you
got enough batteries for your transit to to keep us
needs of the radio. Yep, yep, I have long power
or even bit of course you are Murray. I always
worry about people in hospital when I listen to the
radio for the long nights and haven't got batteries, So
that's good, thank you. We're talking about streets named after plants.
I'll get these texts out of the way because these

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are good. Marcus. Here is the proved answer for the
idiot's driving up flooded roads and then and washing onto properties.
Put up row signs at the water's edge flooding danger
manhol covers missing. That'll work. That's what the army is
in with a bit of with a bit like they'll
take down some of those double cabs with a ground
to air or howitzer. Marcus Milky Way and Ka Tire

(01:01:23):
and Langs Beach, Northland. Marcus Palmerston North has a cluster
of streets named after constellations Jupiter, Mercury, Gemini. Well I
guess their planets and constellations, oh, Marcus palmer North Palmeston

(01:01:50):
North has Apollo Parade, Pluto Way, Satin Way all in
Milson but no Earth. Marcus years ago lived in Mercury Way,
white Bee, north of Wellington. Mar Ev and always Mars
ev I've never heard of it. Roads named after planets,

(01:02:14):
and of course the planet's named after Greek gods. But
you know, if they're all together, there's a mercury of Venus.
You know they're named after planets, Mars ev Is and
Mound Eden. It's not in a whole of roads named
after planets either, marsv Between sandering him. Oh, it's a

(01:02:35):
good topic. This oh wa e one hundred eighty thirty
and nineteen nine two de text. Let's be hearing from
you anything else you've got? All God, all good eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to de text.

(01:02:58):
Marcus I spent many years utilizing shorthand typing. To earn
a living one must have an excellent command of English grammar, punctuation, centisen,
a grass structure music. Of the results, I recall the
advice of my shorthand mistress at high school, who said
that recorded shorthand notes would remain invaluable to refer to
and retrieve an exact record later date. The same is

(01:03:19):
not so with ad dictaphone recordings, which once transcribed, are
then cleared for further dictation. Most of a touch diping
and Shorthand achieved speeds up to beyond one hundred words
per minute, and that score remains useful with current technology.
It's also still useful for remote digital transcription, from which
I've been involved for many years. Half past nine tony headlines.

Speaker 14 (01:03:40):
Please thanks make a surface. Flooding and slips continue effect
the road network in the Deep South, and river and
stream levels are still dangerously high. Otago Civil Defense Group
Controller Matt Ali is urging people to stay home and
off the roads with water still pouring off the surrounding catchments,
and the Army is manning checkpoints in South Dunedin. The

(01:04:01):
Red heavy rain warning for those areas has been downgraded
to an Orange Heavy rain watch until nine tomorrow morning.
New Zealand and neighboring nations say the Chinese threat is
as real as ever. In the Pacific, Defense Minister due
to the Collins hosted counterparts from across the South Pacific
this week, and Transport Minister Simmian Brown is vowing there
will be fewer potholes on the roads this summer. Is

(01:04:23):
announced around two hundred and eighty six kilometers of road
rehabilitation will take place between now and next March. Looking
at tonight's sport in the NPC Otago have beaten Northland
thirty one twenty eight, Northland managing to snatch defeats from
the jaws of victory there. The result puts O Tigo
in the playoffs for the time being, but they have

(01:04:44):
to rely on results over the weekend to keep that place.
In basketball, the Women's toy he League has opened this
evening the Tokomano where queens have beaten the Southern EHU
by seventy three to sixty eight. More in those stories
at ten or check out ends at Herald dot co
dot nz.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Thank you totally twenty nine to ten Marcus. We're talking
the quickest way to drive Auckland to Wellington now State
Away one has closed. Would you go the eastern way
of an or do you go Tiquity that way? Toma Denui.
That's one of the questions for tonight touch typing. The
question actually asked is sometimes to get a hidden life.

(01:05:25):
You'd learned typing, right, but these days everyone knows how
to type because we've spent so long and keyboards.

Speaker 18 (01:05:31):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
So I'm asking that question. Also, more talk about daned
in the army. Are there is there are there, are
there the army plural army are there, singular the army
is there? Our army, our one army. Yeah, members of
the army are there. Marcus is a tourist place in Auckland,

(01:05:56):
and a Jupiter Grove and upper Hut Marcus and Stratford
and Taranaki. All the streets are named after Shakespearean characters. Yes,
I wanted more planet theme, but yes, there are certainly
themed suburbs. Parts of Howick are named after characters from Dickens.

(01:06:23):
Parts of Waldronville south of Dunedin are named after planes.
The streets are named after plains. Now, there are plenty
of suburbs named after birds and trees, just like there

(01:06:43):
is in California or Los Angeles, Because when you watch
enough of Selling Sunset, the wealthy houses in Los Angeles,
I think are in an area where all the streets

(01:07:07):
are named after birds, and I think in real estate
terminology they call those the bird streets. I think I
might have explained that not very well, but if you
watch the show, you'll get get the drift to just
call them the birds. I think at the office they're

(01:07:32):
called the bird streets. Yeah, what are they call it?
The bird streets because the enabled streets are named after birds.
Blue Jay Way, Oriol Not Oriolink Oriol Gotta be careful
that one. Oriole Drive, Oriol Way, Oriol Lane, Tanning Away,
Thresher Avenue, Skylark Lane, Nightingale Drive. That's the top area

(01:07:55):
of Los Angeles if you're thinking of moving there. Oh,
the other thing I did want to mention tonight, right,
And I haven't mentioned this before, and I know I'm
throwing every topic at you, but it's been that sort
of a week. I watched a TV show on Netflix

(01:08:18):
and it's about cooking. It's gone on for a while.
I think it's called Chef's Table. When I say I
think it's called Chef's Table, I'm not being pretentious. I
hated to google U because I can't remember what it's called.
I'm not being deliberately vague or humble bragging. But it's
called Chef's Table. And they've done ones on different themes,

(01:08:40):
but the last four episodes are chefs that work with
pasta or noodles. Anyway, there is a guy who's a
chef in Naples and he's a pastor chef with a
Michelin star restaurant, and he went down to the beach

(01:09:04):
off Naples and he took his barbecue with him and
he made a pasta with starting with a garlic and
onion based with a bit of olive oil and chock
the spaghettian. And for the flavor of the pasta, he

(01:09:26):
gathered six rocks from the beach and they were rocks
that had algae in them on them, and he made
the pasta's flavor from those rocks, and apparaly had started
the days when the Napalese were repoor and it's become
a bit of a local delicacy. Well without coastline and

(01:09:52):
the number of rocks, I've never seen anyone do that,
So there we go. I'm just putting that there is
a question and a suggestion. Has he ever made pasta
from rocks at sea? Because yeah, it's probably not a
bad way to do it, look delicious the meal. Why

(01:10:12):
has no one ever done that?

Speaker 11 (01:10:13):
Here?

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Just rocks with a certain amount of algo and they
give you the flavor. Unbelievable. Marcus sewn Sean Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 7 (01:10:27):
Good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:10:28):
But years ago I used to do a lot of
trips between Auckland and Wellington, and I'd make a special
effort to go a different way each time so that
they could get a good look at the countryside. But
it was better to go down the ParaPara through Wannginui,
but never come up that way because going down you're

(01:10:51):
going downhill. But if you're coming up from wrong Anui,
you're climbing most of the way. That makes a big difference.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
And so so what would be your what would be
your return way?

Speaker 21 (01:11:04):
And I went down the desert road was probably always
the quickest and the shortest, easiest, but I'd always like
to go down through town Tike. It is always a
good way. It was interesting, but there's some fairly steep
hills and corners to negotiate on that trip.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
On that route, how come you're driving it so often?

Speaker 21 (01:11:28):
I used to go to the South Island for powering contests.
The national finals always pretty much in the South Island,
and if I won the local match around Franklin or
the White Hutter, then I'll be off to the South
Island sometime.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Did you say plowing competitions?

Speaker 21 (01:11:49):
Yes, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Would you take your plow? Would you take your plow
with you?

Speaker 7 (01:11:54):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (01:11:55):
Wow?

Speaker 21 (01:11:56):
I am in nineteen fifty nine, I imported a David
Brown competition power and to date is still the only
one in New Zealand.

Speaker 11 (01:12:09):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:12:10):
Yeah, and that's across there you go.

Speaker 21 (01:12:15):
The best I ever achieved was a I think a
fifth place in an End of the tagle in nineteen
sixty three.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
And that's toad behind a tractor.

Speaker 21 (01:12:28):
Mounted on the track of three point linkage.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
Mounted on if it was mounted on a three point language. Ok,
what track? What tracktor? Did you surreness? Will mean something
to some people?

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
Yeah, David Brown, David Brown.

Speaker 21 (01:12:41):
Yeah, and it was a David Brown Power and the
I've owned. I think there's eleven different types of David
Brown in my lifetime. In the working life, I haven't.
I haven't had a tractor now nearly for nearly fifty years.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
But would you take your David Brown track? Would you
toe that down as well as your plow?

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
No tractor.

Speaker 21 (01:13:15):
Even local? I think I only ever took the tracker
once to a match in the Oraha or near Tiara somewhere.
And to use the big heavy trailer, it was just
a compass, some weight to drag down the road. Always

(01:13:36):
it's easy to drag a power on the trailer and
do it the easy way and borrow a tractor. When
you get to the wear of mattress.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Do you still follow competitive plowing?

Speaker 21 (01:13:47):
Sean, haven't done for a number of years, but when
I think nineteen sixty three, there's a trophy of a
model reversible power and I went that for the first time.
It was ever good.

Speaker 7 (01:14:06):
Jo.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
Wow, that's a good story, Sean. Thank you. I suppose
all gps now. Nice to hear from your twenty to eleven,
twenty to ten, eighteen to ten. You're laughing already, Liz, Yes,
No I'm not. You are can you're laughing? Don't don't,
don't go, don't flip to me. Ok, you're laughing.

Speaker 25 (01:14:26):
Oh hey, I'm only telling you this news because you
seem to have interested like I do. That that fellow
from Pickers Stage, you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Know, someone ring and told me that the other day
they started as a YouTube channel. He started at the
shorter guy. I shouldn't say that, but it's not not
the taller guy, but the shorter guy, right.

Speaker 24 (01:14:50):
Yeah, But I followed that thing on YouTube for years
and years, and oh god, I just loved it, you
see me? Not Yeah, I he was young, he was suxty.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
That's yeah, is it young?

Speaker 25 (01:15:05):
Well, I'm and that it didn't look like it was
ready to die.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
No, but haven't had some treasedy or something?

Speaker 24 (01:15:13):
No, I don't.

Speaker 25 (01:15:14):
I don't you know. I try to find out the
whole story, but I didn't quite manage to get it.
I think it had little health. And apparently they had
a disconnection and an agreement. And that was surprising for
me because they seem to be so well got on
so and then they made up and then this has happened.

Speaker 26 (01:15:33):
So I just adored that program.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Where do you watch that in my house? But you
don't watch it? But people can watch It's like on
BravoTV or something, isn't it?

Speaker 25 (01:15:46):
Oh, I don't know. I do everything on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Do you look at you in your modern ways? Tapping
and tip tap tap, and you go there?

Speaker 25 (01:15:52):
On YouTube, there's nothing you can't get her. Watch all
the movies I've out of the rd movie, Irish movements,
they're all free. No need YouTube, all of history, right
back to the words all my life.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
I think there's a lot of information out there if
you're looking for an a well, I.

Speaker 25 (01:16:16):
Think if you ever want to learn, you can't stop
doing it. How you like to be I think the
beginning of the world till now, but I haven't stuffed
it yet.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
No, you have you had any idea how many American
Pickers episodes they did?

Speaker 25 (01:16:39):
Well, I would say there was a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Yeah, I think you're probably right. Would have gone for
fifteen years or something. Twenty six seeds, twenty six seasons.

Speaker 25 (01:16:48):
Well, I made my poor husband when he was alive,
watch it religiously.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Really.

Speaker 25 (01:16:54):
Oh yes, yes, yes, I love anything like that, building
cars or rubbish and oh I should have been a male.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Do you go to Garay sales and stuff to do
that sort of thing?

Speaker 25 (01:17:04):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no no, I don't
want any rubbish.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
That's the other thing too. It's all fun to collect
stuff and go around, but then you got to do
something with it and put it somewhere.

Speaker 25 (01:17:14):
Well, I left my house and I had I gave
everything away and put everything down second hand tricks. I'll
tell you now, we don't need lunch. We could live
on the bloody little month.

Speaker 13 (01:17:25):
So and is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
We've got we've got too much stuff, too much stuff.

Speaker 25 (01:17:30):
Absolutely, I have love too much.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
And now these people that are addicted to tim can
you meagine what their life's going to be. Is they
just buy all this junk they don't need.

Speaker 25 (01:17:39):
Oh I don't know, because no do I. Well, the
reason i'm those was because I was born in an
era where we had stuff that was quality.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
Here we go, So cross any of a judgmental now,
is am? I?

Speaker 25 (01:17:59):
No, I'm not judgmental. Now, I'm just telling you what
I did. That's not judgmental.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
You reckon, You reckon these people hooked on by rubbish.

Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
One at it?

Speaker 25 (01:18:08):
You said by rubbish. I'm just saying I didn't do
it because I wasn't brought up in that era.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
We never had that there, Okay, fair enough, didn't you
might have saved yourself, didn't have to never you never Well, I.

Speaker 25 (01:18:23):
Was born in an era where we didn't have where
everything was New Zealand. You either made clothes or you
bought very expensive ones and huge for good. Nothing to
do with where people want to buy a team that
can pull their house up. It's just that I wasn't
in that era of being brought up in it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:40):
You know.

Speaker 25 (01:18:43):
Yeah, so that's the story. But I'm not going to
be judge metal.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
All right, of course I'm here where else you should
write a book we should write books.

Speaker 25 (01:18:54):
Ah, I've been meaning to write a lot of books.
I haven't done in there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:58):
What would the book of your life be called?

Speaker 26 (01:19:03):
Music and how to Teach It?

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
But every actually titled I'm liking it, Liz, Thank you.
Twelve away from ten, Gee, the night's flow on. Catch
your son eleven from ten. I will keep you updated
with Duaneeda. Not much I've got at the moment. If
you've got some more information, let's hear from you, Marcus.
How common is it for tires to explode a good point?
That wud beto with a fatality in Christich. I understand

(01:19:28):
what you're saying. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, Marcus,
you should take calls on the Napier Light Festival tonight.
It may be the most underwhelming public event ever. A
single stilt walker, two women swinging lighted POI unbelievable. It

(01:19:51):
sounds to me like the fan trip when the football
was in Duneda and it was a bit like that.
Get in touch, Marcus till twelve eight hundred and eighty
tatty and nine nine to text the news from Dunedin, Otago.

(01:20:14):
The red warning has been downgraded. It's kind of the
latest information I've got. In fact, that's the only information
where I've got the last couple of hours. So of
course everyone's been incredibly busy there, so I'm sure the
reporters and there aren't many and now, having an early night,

(01:20:36):
I will do the road closure in the next hour.
They're asking pell to continue to be conservative water use
in West Harbor, Peninsular Ocean View in Brighton sixty roads
closed by flooding and Kluther District. And there's a situation
I've got for you. There's any more information, I will

(01:21:00):
bring that to you, but that's the latest i've got,
So there we have it. Someone's been critically injured after

(01:21:21):
falling from a cliff in beech Haven in Auckland. I'm
not sure about the circumstance of how that would happen.
Valcrea Lane, there's a situation there, seven away from ten o'clock.
Catch it a bit well. We five away from oh
by the way, there's a big music festival and so
Mount Smart Stadium. Some of the uber drivers were taking

(01:21:41):
people up. They think it's called light up. Don't fully
know about that, but maybe some people might be heading
home from that tonight might find a bit more about
that the next hour, and someone said about that light festival,
that's the failure. Tonight is a precursor to a festival proper.
Tomorrow night went last year in town was busy.

Speaker 21 (01:22:02):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Now I'm here till midnight if you want to come
through by the way. Jim Steeddens from twelve. I was
curious if anyone's done that past it with rocks. Never
ever heard of that, But why wouldn't you if you
couldn't find it. It'd be good if you're tramping or
something by a beach be well worth doing. Could be
great tramping food if you're going past us like to carry,

(01:22:31):
doesn't matter if it breaks. Also talking about whether people
aren't typing anymore or they just it's natural because we're
on the keyboard so much. Of course, keyboard is so
much eser the old typewriters you had to bang away on.
And a lot of roads closed in Kluther, But it

(01:22:54):
seems now as though the worst is over and the
highways are reopening, and the red rain warning has been
downgraded and the roads south of Dunedin State hoi Wan
is now open. There's a big landslip on Highcliffe Road

(01:23:19):
so I think most of the power is also back
on there in Dunedin. But if it's got any more
information I've missed out on, or any information because I've
missed out and some do get in touch with us.
Be nice to hear from you tonight eight hundred and
eighty and nine two nine two to text think up
to We've kind of kept you across all the other

(01:23:40):
news tonight, so I feel okay about that. But yeah,
so for those disappointed with the festival, Napier Light Festival,
I think it's just the precursor for tomorrow night, but
something's gone wrong with their comms there if people have
gone on the wrong night, because of course they'll be disappointed.

(01:24:05):
Otago Northland and the NPC tonight too narrowly. I think
it was thirty one twenty eight but according to Tony
north And just threw it away. I don't know what
that's about fitness. Maybe that's what they normally say when
you lose at the back of it. Marcus christ Church Subdivisions, Oregon,
Utah and Tuscan street names. Didn't know that. It's nice

(01:24:29):
to hear like some more details about that. Who get
in touch during the news If you want to talk
back after it, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty.
My name is Marcus hit Till midnight tonight, so looking
forward to your contributions. We'll get a bit of a
kick along in the next hour, so yeah, nice to
hear from you. There might be some entirely different subject
you want to take a shot at, and I don't

(01:24:51):
have a problem with that up for anything, So get
in touch, Marcus Till twelve oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty back after the break, catch your soon, You're trusted.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Late time talk Marcus lash Night's call, oh eight hundred
and eighty News Talk Cidy.

Speaker 23 (01:25:08):
When outside the Gansena even more they maybe time. It

(01:25:29):
seems I'm far wor one of the womb or because
I away.

Speaker 19 (01:25:43):
By side.

Speaker 2 (01:25:49):
Ten seven welcome getting a number of emails about people
complaining about the Napier Light Festival. A number of people
have complained about that, so it seems to be a
bit of a bit of a fizzer, mar because I
took the kids to the Napier Light fistal tonight advertised.
Here is a standload of it. Very underwhelming, not many highlights.
Pardon the pun yees. It's two or three complaints about that,

(01:26:10):
so thank you, Marcus. Just look at the electronic weather station,
almost one hundred and sixty mils of rain recorded Moscule
over the last seventy four hours. Never seen rain like it.
All good now though, thanks Julie. Well the flood remediation worked,
didn't it? From silver Stream and the TAIRI so that
whole area didn't flood. I guess that's a blessing. So

(01:26:33):
thank you for a couple of other things I can mention, well,
I am interested in Tapia Napier Light Festival, aviation news.
Why wouldn't we aware that there was going to be
a jet landing at the Chatham Islands. It's kind of
a bizarre story and I don't understand it at all.

(01:26:58):
In fact, I might read the article on stuff It
might make more sense. Now it's a video story. A
jet for the first time has landed at the Chatham Islands.

Speaker 20 (01:27:13):
So yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
Tuesday, first of October twenty twenty four, a successful auckland
to Chatham Island and return flight of Texel Air Boeing
seven three seven BCF cargo aircraft, the inaugural mission to
deliver freight confirm the new runaways runways a bit capability
support code force the aircraft and open the door to

(01:27:39):
future flights. That might be why they're letting the ship
go to Reckon Ruin.

Speaker 8 (01:27:46):
So the.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Runway was lengthened and strengthened through the government's Infrastructure Reference
Group Program IRG, and that's what they've done. They've lengthened
it and now jets are landing there. I don't know
what techsl is as a company, but they have landed
a big plane with no windows, so it must obviously

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be a freight plane. T e x E L seven
three seven, so yeah, use it and owned charter Tex.
Our Air began operations in the Middle East but has
expanded to New Zealand last year. Don't know anything. I

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don't know what that what the freight would have been,
might have been diesel. Well, I don't think you transport
diesel by plane. Maybe they brought fish back ten past ten.
My name is Marcus HEDDL twelve. Anything goes as the
Friday free for all, Looking forward to your calls tonight.
We are talking about the floods, the weather, the armies
in South Dunedin. The Prime Minister is not there. That's

(01:29:00):
all the information I have there for you about that.
At this stage we're also talking about typing and why
no one loon anymore? Do we all just learn it naturally?
That's something we might talk about. Streets named after planets
and jets landing in the Chathams. Of course some mightn't

(01:29:21):
know this and some might find this interesting. The airport
at the Chathams used to be a lake, or more
importantly a lagoon, so the flights with them used to
be was a sunderland or something like that, which I
thought was very very interesting. Also, so quite interesting bit

(01:29:42):
of air history there with the chatter minds. But now,
of course it's involving jets. I don't know regular how
many jets will go there, but you might want to
mention talk about that also tonight, So ten past ten.
My name is Marcus. Welcome. If you want to be
in touch, anything goes here til twelve o'clock tonight. Also
talk about the light festival in Napier. That's a dud.
I think small towns and councils they're very poor at

(01:30:05):
organizing events. I think the biggest cities are probably better
because they attract some quite good people accouncil to organize
those things, but gee, there's some duds. They kind of
mixed them. Miss the memo sometimes, Marcus Pickers. Frank Fritz
suffered as troke in twenty twenty two and was in

(01:30:25):
a hospice facility at the top of his death. Thank you, Marcus.
American Pickers up to three hundred and eighty eight episodes.
Thank you. By the way, according to the Census, a
lot of people over seventy are taking medical marijuana. Although

(01:30:46):
I don't think it gives you it gets you are high.
I think it's just good for pain. I don't know
too much about that, tend to avoid that. So what
else do want to talk about tonight? People? Anything goes
Hettel twelve. Also very happy to talk about the Rugby League.
And while we all hate the Melbourne Storm kind of

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seems wasted on Melbourne an NRL team that's so good.
But the final will be in Sydney. There'll be a
lot of people coming in from the West on the
train from Penwrith, imagine not so many coming up from Melbourne.
But that's enough for me. People, what have you got?
Let's hear from you. Anything goes Hittle twelve. My name

(01:31:28):
is Marcus. Welcome, come, on football me, what do you
got there'd be something interesting to say, a lot to
talk about this week the first week of no of October,
there's to be getting the month wrong. But anything else
you want to mention talk about? Also the quickest way

(01:31:49):
to drive from Auckland to Wellington now that the State
Highway one has closed for repairs south of Tokuroa, which
is tough for the businesses there. You're burger king and
things because they won't be get anyone stopping in.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
Survey of twenty five thousand people from thirty two countries
found four cups of coffee per day linked was linked
to the increased risk of stroke, while tea lowered the risk.
That might be of interest to you by jumping people.

(01:32:36):
I'm not going to a sweepstake on the NRL Final,
but that's that's Sunday night at ten o'clock. I know,
because I'll get the kids to stay up for that one,
since at school holidays they'll make it till half time.
I think, oh no, we'll probably go the whole time.
Last time they met to halftime. But a year younger.
I've got a child's ninth birthday this weekend. Probably do

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my first ever escape room. Don't tell him if you
see him. He doesn't know. I never done one of
those before. I don't really know what to expect, but
I suspect I be very good at it. Famous last words, eh.
I think we're booked it at nine o'clock in the morning,
which seems early. Left it to the late late last minute.

(01:33:23):
Of course.

Speaker 23 (01:33:23):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
The other thing too, what about making what about making
spaghetti with rocks? I thought that was very interested in
that on that Netflix show, The Chef's One. It's quite good.

(01:33:44):
It's called AlOH a'lo. Skogliol refers to traditional way of
cooking seafood pasta once employed by Kenny Italian fishermen. Skoglia
is Italian word used for rocks found close to the shoreline.

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So that's a thing I've never seen it. I mean,
why would you be doing that locally? I wouldn't do
it in bluff harbor. I mon't do it around the coast.
Scoglio Spaghetti Allo scoglio. He says he's going to have
most of it. It's going to be covered in kind
of that little owl guy. So yeah, sixteen past ten,

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if you want to come on, it's here.

Speaker 8 (01:34:31):
From you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
What do you got? People in it rap? It's a
Friday free for all. You have something interesting to said,
like here if you've been on the source for a while,
it's here from you. If you're drinking at home, there
have anyone else to talk to? Famous last words, Eh,
anything goes on this Friday, but if you want to talk,
would be lovely to make your acquaintance tonight. There's something

(01:34:56):
different you want to mention. I don't know what that is.
And the jet flight to the Chathams that would be
of interest to some of you. I know it's been
a funny o week with daylight savings and school holidays

(01:35:18):
and all, but you know we're still going to get
the show going through the twelve and we're away. Let
me take this break. People back at you soon. Well,
eighteen past ten will keep your randoms going through line
still free, Marcus, I don't think the roads South are
talking our closer till five and Monday. That's right, I
was getting in early, Marcus. NRL Grand Final has golden

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point written over. It's hard to split the storm and
the Panthers. Jamie from Warnaker. Yeah, clear, but last time
we thought it was a dud. And I went to bed,
but then old Penworth came back straight. Yeah, I reckon
penwith will Win It. I love Penrith, I love Luai,
but mainly I love Liota Moses Liota what a machine.

(01:36:02):
Oh I actually I love the other guy. I love
Leam mars It Lee Martin. Yeah, I love them all. Well,
Oh hi Will, it's Marcus. Good evening, Good.

Speaker 5 (01:36:19):
Evening you.

Speaker 27 (01:36:23):
Ye, and we're just I've just been to the Well
fashion show, the World of Wilble Arts. Wow, wonderful show.
Then of course you go to Mecas afterwards, because it's
how to top off a good night and then blow
me down. There's three three ladies and retirement age and
they're from.

Speaker 8 (01:36:40):
Bluff all places and really.

Speaker 27 (01:36:44):
Yep, come up for the night. I've come up for
the day and I was just looking at them thinking,
and it's wonderful. Yeah you're retirement age and you're still
going out with your girlfriends and having a good trip,
you know, good trip and girls waking away. But yeah,
they mentioned you and I said.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
I was a big fan, and they all agree that's tonight.
And they're lovely people away from home. The Bluff people too,
because they're quite all quite always quite humble, but they're appreciative.

Speaker 27 (01:37:10):
A yeah, and they have you have been in the
big smoke to be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
But yeah, although keeping it really going to make us
afterwards to it's like about them.

Speaker 27 (01:37:25):
Yeah, I don't you where you're from. It's it's a must.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
Yeah, and it's I tell you, the thing I went
to where it would be ten years since I went
to Wearable Arts. I kind of got dragged along, slightly reluctantly,
but you cannot question the slickness. I mean, it's an
easy watch. It's great. It's a great event because it's
so well produced.

Speaker 27 (01:37:49):
You're right, and the ratio is still the same as
ten years ago. They're still you know, only a few
of us slokes that have been dragged along. It's something
to look at. And I don't care if you're the
i guest rugby head in the world, you'd still enjoy
that type of show.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
I go, yeah, is it just for it finished? This weekend?
Has it will?

Speaker 27 (01:38:10):
I think it's had a few more nights he made
and then it's this You's done. But this year was
a good one. So yes, it's a third show I've
been to and really enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
Lovely to hear from you. Well, thanks so much for
making the effort to call means a lot to me.
Appreciate that. Twenty one past ten, Marcus, why do you
love Penrith. I'm really shocked as you don't strike me
as a rugby league buff. Oh well, I've always supported
and watched the Warriors. But what I mainly like, well,

(01:38:41):
actually what I mainly love is Sydney and the Sydney
transport system, so I like catching the trains to the
different matches. So I enjoyed going to rugby league matches
at Penrith, at Blue Bet and at Woollongong and at

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Newcastle and all around New South Wales. That's kind of
my thing. And I like Penrith because it really is
on the edge of Sydney. It really is the wild West.
And I like the fact that their coach coach the
Warriors when they're at their best. I like the fact
that Nathan Cleary goes out with the woman that was

(01:39:27):
such a staff for the Waltzing Matilda's. I think that's
one of the great Ossie romantic love stories. I like
good on them. I like the fact that, oh yeah,
I like the fact with Leui and Leota. I like
the team, like the way they play, like the team,

(01:39:47):
like the fullback. Like I said, I like them all.
So yeah, I guess just I've always got the league
on in the backgroun. When I'm doing the talk back.
It's always like to keep what's going on without the commentary.
But yeah, they'd be my favorite team. And if you
were at that match, they're around three at Penrith. They yeah,

(01:40:10):
when they smash the cheek of the Broncos guy, you know,
the little guy used to be at the Warriors. Forget
his name, it'll come to be anyway. My name is Marcus.
Welcome here. It'll twelve if you do want to come through.
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty nine two nine two
to text. But you couldn't say that I haven't got
a follow up legal I talk about all the time,
don't I. Oh, well, I apologize if I haven't, But

(01:40:35):
get in touch Marcus till twelve oh eight hundred eighty
toighty nine two nine two to text. Anything else you
want to talk about, Get in touch because there's plenty
of topics happening out there. You've got an update, if
you've got an update on the situation in dneid Nor.
If you're on the roads and have got some roading

(01:40:56):
updates for us, it'll be nice to hear from you. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty today, Reece Walsh was the guy
whose name was thinking of twenty five past ten. I'm
also looking at towns they had streets named after planets, Marcus.
I support the Warriors and anyone that is playing against
the Panthers. They are by far the dirtiest team in

(01:41:16):
the NRL. Oh, the Warriors aren't that bad, Marcus. I
watched the Die Henward documentary three part series. It broke
my heart watching and break down so many times. But
what inspiration is to people who are going through cancer
and must see documentary? Yeah I didn't watch that. And look,

(01:41:38):
I know I've be incredibly brave and moving, but yeah,
I find that sort of stuff upsetting to watch because
I mean, you know it's going to be an emotional
roller coaster world. Do you put yourself through it?

Speaker 7 (01:41:49):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
Living Stone, Ats, Marcus, Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:41:55):
Marcus.

Speaker 11 (01:41:55):
Been a week three Well since fat you're talking about
them street names?

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Me?

Speaker 11 (01:42:01):
Yes, Yeah, I've left Ackland, though I used to live
in Westokland. You're you'll probably know Westokland pretty well and
you'll know it's a good wine growing region. I think
there was lots of the Yugoslavian said ole there. Some
of the street names that I'm aware of was there's
an area called Burgundy Park which is just off Sturgis Road,

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and there's a place called Shabby Place.

Speaker 13 (01:42:27):
That's right, yeah, and.

Speaker 11 (01:42:28):
Then the shardan place where I lived up to recently.
And then there's Cordons Corbyns have where the Corbyns are complexes.
So I just thought that might be of interest.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Where have you moved to Livingstone?

Speaker 11 (01:42:47):
I mean I will move to Loving at Marcus. Oh,
absolutely great to be out of the big smoke. It's
one of the best moves I've ever made yet, loving it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
How long have you been in the Livingstone Just about
six weeks.

Speaker 11 (01:43:04):
I've met about four of my neighbors, know them by men.
I know a lot more man's name. I just went
for a haircut today and Joe got my name right
when I left the door, says i'll see you next time,
looking for and so it's all good.

Speaker 7 (01:43:20):
Marcus.

Speaker 21 (01:43:21):
I'm just thinking it's great.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Oh, that's a really that's a really are You don't
take this the wrong way, but you're a home or
you're just in a house.

Speaker 11 (01:43:30):
I'm not in a home, probably not, probably not too
far away from being at a home, but no, I'm
in a house. I'm pretty independent.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
And there's a there are a lot of there are
a lot of people moving in there from places like awkward.
Is that common?

Speaker 25 (01:43:44):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:43:45):
Yes, And when we were looking at properties, that was
one of the common things that came through was how
many people from Auckland and also Toronto we're looking at
looking at so White Cattle area.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
So are there a lot of new houses built there?

Speaker 11 (01:44:08):
There are in some areas, not not like some places
that we looked at where there's like that, really what
do they call it? High density? Some of that a
little bit north of Hamilton and and around west of Hamilton.
An will move. It's still lovely old streets. There's no

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big developments happening anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Fourteen thousand people's the population. I wondered what it would be, so,
I don't know how quickly that's growing, but yeah, so
it's yeah, it's a it's a biggish town in the
south walk.

Speaker 11 (01:44:43):
I well, there's a beautiful little place markers, they got
their road gardens. I went to the library today, beautiful library.
I mean it's only two or three years old. And
as I said, like the people actually talked to you
and they want to know how you are.

Speaker 17 (01:44:58):
Andy, Okay, have you got.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
A plan about meeting people or just living at hepping Livingstone?
If you joined any clubs or anything that I'm always
interested in that.

Speaker 11 (01:45:09):
Oh no, I just let it happen. I was just like,
you know, like when you say I'm in a home,
I'm not quite there yet. But I recently got diagnosed
with Parkinson's and I won't bore you with that, but
I went to the Parkinson's conference recently in Auckland by
the airport, and oh that was great, Like the amount
of information I got from that was just wonderful. And

(01:45:32):
I was with a support group with Parkinson's in Auckland,
but since I've moved down here, I'm not part of
that support group anymore. And I did ask a coordinator
there that happened to a person I spoke from the
support group actually met at the conference, and she advised
me that she knew somebody and tell them this was

(01:45:53):
So I'm still waiting on her even nail that's coming
through to let me know who I can get in
contact with. So in a way I don't actively seek
support in some ways for my health.

Speaker 7 (01:46:03):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:46:04):
Yeah, sure, okay, ill my mother had Parkinson, so I
do a little bit. I don't know a lot about that.
I know a little bit about that. So but that
was got a quite late late in life for her.
But yes, I certainly was with a warth supporting the
networks for that leaves I've got to go to headlines.
But lovely to talk to you and thank you for
that new information. Get in touch people who want to talk.

(01:46:24):
Marcus till twelve eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and
nine two nine two de dexts half past ten headlines please.

Speaker 14 (01:46:31):
Tony, Thanks Marcus. The government is on standby to support
Dunedin after days of heavy rain caused havoc. The city
has had record rainfall in the past few days, with
well over a month's worth falling, but the Red heavy
rain warning has now been downgraded to an Orange heavy
rain watch until nine tomorrow morning. It could be some
sunshine tomorrow afternoon and State Hiway one is open south

(01:46:53):
of Dunedin now claims of corruption and misleading Cabina to
being bandied about. As Casey Costello faces further scrutiny over
tobacco excise tax cuts, the Associate Health Minister is battling
mounting pressure and maintain she has nothing to do with
the tobacco lobby after a move to reduce the taxes
on heated tobacco products, and Google is threatening to blow

(01:47:15):
up its New Zealand News agreements. The search engine says
it will remove any ability to find New Zealand news
on its platform if the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill
passes later this year. Sport now, there's been a bit
of sporn on tonight. Rugby Otago have beaten Northland thirty
one twenty eight in the NPC. That means Otago in
the playoff area for now until they need other results

(01:47:37):
to go their way this weekend to secure their place
in the final eight. And in basketball and the Women's
to EH League, the Tokuomanaa Queens have beaten the Southern
hoy Ho seventy three to two sixty eight in the boxing.
We're waiting for Maya Motu to take to the ring.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
Oh hang On, hang On, hang On, that's got my
teachers it on TV or I got to subscribe to that.

Speaker 14 (01:47:58):
We have subscribed to it so we can watch it
up here. But Maya Motu fighting and later on mister
Mikhailovich will be taking on and IBF title fight as well.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Sang, I've got some quick because of Mayemo to her
opponent pulled out and she took another fighter.

Speaker 8 (01:48:14):
Is that?

Speaker 27 (01:48:14):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 14 (01:48:15):
Yet it's a short notice fight, so we're not really
sure of the quality of the opponent, but it will
be an interesting one man most who's a little whirlwind
in the ring.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
So yeah, how she goes, absolutely, so she's about to start.

Speaker 14 (01:48:28):
I think, yeah, they've got an eight round about running
at the moment, it looks like a bantamweight fight, and
I think Mayamoto was up after that, so it may
not be until after eleven that they make it into
the ring.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Okay, appreciate that. Thanks today, twenty eight away from eleven market.
You've done everything, haven't you. Yep, that was your last
story yep to eleven eight hundred and eighty tdy nine
nine two to text Marcus. I live in Cirrus Crescent
see cer E is crescent named after a dwarf planet.
Now it's called a little planet quite right. The Stuart

(01:49:00):
Island Runners on tomorrow thirty two k's it's going to
be muddy and wet. That'll be horrible. Is it going
to at the board the Northwest Circuit this holiday? So
I might be across there next weekend. Actually I'll find
out how dry it is. It's a good race that

(01:49:20):
see some white tail twenty eight to eleven Sounder. It's
Marcus A.

Speaker 18 (01:49:25):
Lowe.

Speaker 20 (01:49:26):
Hello, Marcus. Planets touched on my favorite subject, well one
of them. There's a Jupiter Street in Auckland, is there, yes?
And one close to you. There's a Venus Place in
Arthur's Point, Queenstown.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And there's a
Venus Street. There's a Venus Street in Vicagill. A lot
of Venus streets quite popular.

Speaker 20 (01:49:55):
Yeah, Venus Place happening bay and also in whit the Prairie.

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
Ruher is your favorite? Is your favorite topic? Street names
or planets?

Speaker 20 (01:50:08):
Planets?

Speaker 2 (01:50:09):
Okay, okay, did you say did you say Venus Street
or Jupiter Street, Venus.

Speaker 20 (01:50:20):
Venus Place, But Jupiter Street is Auckland.

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
If I had my way, I would have named and
not I have seen, I know, with Venus places too.
That's yeah, I've walked around there. That's on that walkway
around the Tamaki River. You go up around that way
and half half Moon Bay. Yeah, okay, half Bay. Yeah,
be good if you could name the change the name
of the street. But you see, it's Venus Place. But
all that should be named after planets, was just one isolated.

Speaker 20 (01:50:50):
Yeah, yeah, it would be much more effective, wouldn't that.
It would be really good.

Speaker 7 (01:50:55):
Or the moons of.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
Jupiter, Yes, yes, yes, what are they?

Speaker 25 (01:50:59):
What are they called?

Speaker 20 (01:51:01):
And the Shakespearean.

Speaker 2 (01:51:04):
Im Miranda?

Speaker 23 (01:51:06):
It is it?

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
I didn't know the moons of Jupiter, Europa getting meat
i o calisto, calikori amalthea the europe adressa kame kalki
hamalia thebi. What's Miranda? A moon of Pa a moon

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of Setin.

Speaker 20 (01:51:33):
I'm not very good, am I?

Speaker 2 (01:51:34):
No, you're pretty good.

Speaker 20 (01:51:35):
It's my favorite.

Speaker 2 (01:51:37):
No, I mean there's a lot to learn. There's a
lot to learn about planets.

Speaker 20 (01:51:40):
Yeah, yeah, and well I will now study all the moons.

Speaker 25 (01:51:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:51:46):
That always comes up on the chase. He's always questioned
about the moons or about Morn's Olympus, and Miranda is
one of the moons of er there's five moons of Ernest.
I don't have to say Uranus always. They're all named
after the tempest Yep, Shakespeare. They seem to go. The

(01:52:13):
moons of Uranus are called I'll find the name. I
can't even work out with the Nahmers puck. Oh, there's
a lot of moons. Uranus has five major moons, Miranda, ariel, Umbrel, Titania,

(01:52:36):
and Oberon. That's of interest to me. Who's out there, people,
what's happening? Twenty four away from eleven Marcus? There is
a Niptune street right by the stadium in Dunedin. Marcus,
did you know christ Church has new electric buses with
a million bucks each electric tags and have seventy more

(01:52:58):
on the way. Very nice to drive, Chris Marcus. I
love going to carl Or Park. Lots of games, not
on the International games, with alter local as well, great memories.
I love going to Carlow Park. That'd be my favorite
supporting experience ever. What a shame they turned that into
a car park. To walk through the domain to go
over the fence. Marcus, I'd pretty much to thank you

(01:53:21):
for your coverage. The need and flooding. It's been amazing
for us down to the updates. I love your radio show.
Thanks m Burry. Nice to hear from you. Thank you.
If anyone has got any more information, if anyone in
Dunedan doesn't need anything, or if anyone requires any assistance.
There was the most extraordinary phone call before nine o'clock.

(01:53:41):
They guy rang up his eighty five had gone to
get sandbags in the middle of today. Lives in south
and then drove to get sandbags because his garden was flooding.
And he drove to the sandbag place, which I presume
was Ice Stadium. I don't know where it was, put
all these sandbags in his car. Eighty five drove home

(01:54:03):
and the guy followed him a beldro and his daughter
from Moscole And he gets home and the guy says,
would you like a hand with that? He said, heck yes,
so clearly he couldn't do it. So what an amazing story.

(01:54:25):
That's when you want Sam and the Student Army in
a situation like that. But I'm thinking also too, I
think Dunedin is a mister trick with this because obviously
they're flood prone and they've been going on about sandbags
for the last three days. But you can't just say
if you want sandbags, come and get them. For people
they are elderly, they need to be delivered and installed.

(01:54:45):
I don't know who's service that is, whether it's the
army or but someone needs to be doing that because
they must be terrifying to be elderly and not knowing
whether you actually carry sandbags to protect your house. I
mean suddenly the last ten years sandbags have become quite
commonplace on the West coast, and then they're always talking
about getting sandbag eggs. It's quite scary anyway. Yeah, I

(01:55:12):
think they need to formalize that one. They need to
be a sandbag service. I just said, on a bit
of a high after that praise. Let me play these breaks.
I have a bit of a look to see there's
more updates from Dunedin. I've just been looking at some
drone footage of West Harbor and Dunedin. There's some incredible landslips.
I don't fully know where West Harbor is. It's not

(01:55:34):
a sober and I'm aware of or I can find
what is that area they refer to as West Harbor.
Maybe someone can tell me about that. It's nineteen to eleven.
Higher people here till midnight. My name is Marcus. Welcome
oh eight hundred and eighty to eighty nine nine two text.
If you don't talk about anything but the first jet
is land at the Chattam Islands. I find that really interesting.

Speaker 18 (01:55:54):
So they have.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
Lengthened the runway. I don't know what the jet will
be used for, and maybe they're not going to use
the fish the boat anymore for fish and things like that.
So I don't know what the situation is there, but

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welcome people, Marcus till twelve, eight hundred and eighty Teddy.
There appears to be no more breaking news from the
situation in Dunedin that I can see. They seem to
have stopped the live blogs, and I guess we can
take that as oh yeah, I guess we can take

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that as a situation that things or the worst has passed.
The last thing I've got from nine to thirty three,
Waka Katahi is warning a number of Caretago highways will
remain closed overnight and into it least tomorrow morning because
of flooding. State. These include State hiwi Wan north of
Dunedin near Waikawaiti as well as the area south of

(01:56:59):
Milton and parts of the Highway eighty five, eighty seven,
eighty eight and ninety our closed landslip to port Charmers
has closed that numerous local oads are also closed. N
ZTA says elsewhere in Otago and South and drivers could
expect to see slip spotoles and debris and there will
be reduced speed in many areas. And the coastal Otago

(01:57:23):
community of waiko A t has been cut off with
the main highway shut both north and south. Community board
members Sonya Billiard since she's aware of a few homes
in town that have been completely flooded. She's a slip
on a highway one State ho one just south of
the township is quite large. She expects to be a
lot of work to do on the local roads in

(01:57:43):
the coming days. But it has ease the weather and
a resident of the South Dunedin suburb of Tainui says
all the flooding on her street has now disappeared. She
had knee high waters running her house on both the

(01:58:04):
street up to an hour ago. You would believe it's
incredible how fast it's drained away. So that's everything I've
got for you. Seventeen to ten eleven, rather Marcus till
twelve if you want to come through Marcus and Millston
Palmerston North Street names are Apollo Parade, Venus Way, Mercury Place,

(01:58:28):
Satin Crescent, Pluto Place, Jupiter Street, Gemini Avenue subdivision the
seventies after the moon landing love your show, Frett, Thank you.
Francis Chapman's from Christ Duties are visiting us in Dunedin.

(01:58:54):
We camped with them and Alex three years ago. It
flooded then too, drought breakers. Thank you, Yeah, Ben, Marcus,
good evening.

Speaker 26 (01:59:05):
Oh hi, thanks for taking my call. Text doesn't are
just called and Wilson Parmas North and the streets are
named after US and space and planet.

Speaker 5 (01:59:22):
Streets.

Speaker 26 (01:59:22):
Just the built and probably in the sixties run when.

Speaker 1 (01:59:28):
When when?

Speaker 22 (01:59:29):
When?

Speaker 26 (01:59:29):
The nineteen sixties when. So there's a polyparade, Cetain Crescent,
McCree Street, Delta Street, Jupiter Street. Yeah, it went off
a polyparde on the edge of outskirts of Palmis North.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
Yeah, it's by the airport.

Speaker 7 (01:59:46):
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
Yes, so some named after them, I guess probably because
it was the airport. They went with kind of space
things a yeah, although it was Gemini was a mission,
wasn't it? So there's Gemini was a mission of Polo
was a mission. Planets a planet set in a planet.
Mercury is a planet v This is a planet Jupiter.

Speaker 26 (02:00:08):
Your delta data?

Speaker 7 (02:00:10):
Players?

Speaker 2 (02:00:11):
Is that where you do you live in that suburb?

Speaker 5 (02:00:13):
Ben?

Speaker 26 (02:00:14):
Oh, No, I drove past it. I just, I just
it's actually quite a good area. You can you can
actually do the whole outskirts of Parmers. You can probably
do the whole ring road of Pumised North without going
on the road like Mangani stream. It goes quite quite
close by the man to stream. You can go right
through about eight pro half a dozen suburbs.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
I give that a go. Ben, think it's's like a
plan for me. Nice to hear from your fourteen to
eleven or wrong button. It's not like me I brought
up a calcul I brought up a dial. Hang on,
here we go, Still not quite understand. While it's in
the jet, while I get the airport at the Cha
chaanna of minds ready for a jet. But with so
we put a jet into Stuart Island. There's so many

(02:00:55):
people there, and what people want to say about that anyway,
how you're going people, my name is Marcus Hittel twelve,
looking forward to what you want to talk about? A
one hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine
two to text. Anything goes for the last hour, I think.

(02:01:16):
But it seems as though the situation in Dunedin is
now okay.

Speaker 20 (02:01:23):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
The roads are slowly opening and the flooding and the
water seems to be subsiding. The major worry earlier today
was Balcluther and that river was flowing high. Yeah, now
I don't know. I'll check on the Otago Civil Defense

(02:01:51):
and Management's website. They've posted an hour ago, so they're
not posting with any urgency. But State High one between
Milton and why Hola has reopened. And that's what everything
I've got at this stage. But if you've got more information,
it'd be nice to hear from you. There's some drone
fullage of of some pretty amazing or some big land

(02:02:13):
move it's the big slips that have happened, so I
don't know, and there's sort of cars and the slips
and stuff. So it looks like it has been unexpected
and it's caused some a lot of damage. A lot
of lend slips, but that's what I've got. And if
you want to talk about this or anything else, here
till twelve. My name is Marcus. Welcome, so do get

(02:02:34):
in touch eight hundred and eighty eight eighty nine to
nine to de text. But let's hear from you. If
there's something different that you've got, be nice and here
till twelve. Jim's Steading from midnight thinks about everything I
went to say for the stage and also streets named
after planets kind of interesting. But get amongst people seven

(02:02:58):
away from eleven, ah seven from eleven Jim Steading from
twelve keep your texts coming through DNED and seems to
be much better. Go as the rain seems to have eased, Marcus,
how's all can do without lime scooters? Back to why
Wai Express and other flesh. I think they've still got
the limes scooters. I think it was the other ones

(02:03:19):
that were no longer approved. There was one group that
had to go and like it was Flamingo or Bing
or one of those Onesn't the limes are still there, Marcus? Yes,
State High one is now open from why Hollot and Milton,
but you can't get to Lawrence as Milton Lawrence is
closed for the night. But yes, you can get you
can get to Clinton clowntown. That's what we need to know.

(02:03:41):
Hello idiots, Marcus.

Speaker 17 (02:03:42):
Welcome, Hello young Marcus.

Speaker 18 (02:03:44):
How are you? You got a question? How fad does
Haley's comet come into their solar system before it picks
up at Stale?

Speaker 17 (02:03:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (02:03:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (02:03:59):
Somebody a mount there my know. The reason is that
that's when it must pick up the radiated edit chief
of the Sun. That's how far out of it would go,
wouldn't Yeah? I asked stupid people around me, but nobody

(02:04:20):
seems to know.

Speaker 2 (02:04:22):
It approaches the Sun and then the ice comes out
at the back of it, doesn't it.

Speaker 12 (02:04:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (02:04:28):
Yeah, but how far into the solar system before it
picks that up?

Speaker 2 (02:04:35):
Have you googled it?

Speaker 18 (02:04:38):
Or I don't have computers. That's all fancy news stuff.
I'm still reading.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
Books fair enough.

Speaker 18 (02:04:47):
I don't think they've caught up with it yet, not
the ones I've got anyway.

Speaker 2 (02:04:52):
I remember going often in nineteen eighty six to look
at Helle's comment was redisappointing?

Speaker 18 (02:04:58):
Yeah, well it's back in the It's evidently back. I
saw it on the news a week or two ago.
It's back inside our solar system somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:05:06):
Well fifty forty years before we see it again, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (02:05:09):
This time?

Speaker 18 (02:05:10):
Is the last time for forty years?

Speaker 13 (02:05:11):
Is it well?

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
That it was every seventy six years.

Speaker 18 (02:05:17):
I've only in my eighties and it's been about three
or four times in my lifetime.

Speaker 2 (02:05:20):
Has it really.

Speaker 17 (02:05:23):
Well?

Speaker 18 (02:05:24):
If it seems for me?

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
Okay, I thought it would be twice for you?

Speaker 18 (02:05:31):
Well, could be business, that's in what's been there twice
since I was a teenager of it?

Speaker 2 (02:05:39):
Okay? Or always on the West coast?

Speaker 18 (02:05:42):
No, No, I've mostly in Nelson, Oh, Nelson.

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Yeah, someone might have some more information on how he's
comment to thank you for that, if anyone's got any
help about that. When the tail appears, I think it's
every seventy six years, but yeah, I might have that wrong.
What about Abbotsford is that at risk? I think there's
nothing at Abbotsford anymore. They removed all the houses, so

(02:06:08):
Abbotsford is no longer a thing. If you're worried about
them and the water four away from eleven Jim Steeden
from twelve. If you're doing to get in touch state
Highy one south has reopened a massive Dunedin slip. There's

(02:06:30):
a massive slip that you can see on drone footage
Dunedin's West Harbor, which is not a soberb but I
already know about. It's hard to work out where that
slip actually has happened, Marcus. Here's hoping the rubberneckers south
the flooded roads and stopped causing waves going on to
already flooded housers. Well, they should have stopped all the cars.

(02:06:53):
They should have had the army in earlier. They should
have helped the oldies with the sandbags. It hasn't been
a very effective civil offense thing, I don't think. But
thank you yeah. Ron's rang up every seventy six years
for Halle's comment. The other there was the Comet McNaught
that was around about twelve years ago. That was quite
a good watch. And there was the hail Bop comet

(02:07:18):
when those people ended their lives for to go and
join that. Remember that one. It was crazy hail Bop.
I don't know why I can remember comments, but do
get involved if you want to be talking the next
hour Marcus, till midnight. I don't know what you might
want to talk about, but I'm up for it, looking

(02:07:42):
forward to the end of the week. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty. Also talking about shorthand typing and
why no one learns keyboard skill anymore. I guess they
just pick it up, which is pretty interesting. That's all
on the news after twelve, so see on the other side, people, Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty.

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
Call eight hundred and eighteen eighty for some after hours
check Marcus lash nights on news talks.

Speaker 23 (02:08:11):
It'd be when the whoa that side to the two
cadlans winner even more then maybe time the Seonsi'm far world,

(02:08:39):
one of the wonder where ire because I away bye side.

Speaker 2 (02:08:52):
Here till twelve. Welcome people. Eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
Oh Elene as Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 4 (02:09:00):
Hello Marcus. You're inquiring as to where the whist table
was stand the need and I think it takes in
the Ravensbourne Mayer area.

Speaker 2 (02:09:13):
Let me have a look at that on the map
because a huge there's a huge landslipe there.

Speaker 4 (02:09:18):
Yes, I think that that is at the end of Maya.
I think I will. The road's been closed so we
haven't been able to get through there. But as I understand,
if it's around the Burks Drive Maya area, that's right.
If you're traveling towards put Charmers, it's the far end
of Maya.

Speaker 2 (02:09:37):
Oh Okay, it's quite steep around. I have driven around there. Okay,
that's quite steep up there, Maya. So it's well behind
Meyer is that right?

Speaker 8 (02:09:44):
Right?

Speaker 20 (02:09:45):
Up?

Speaker 4 (02:09:47):
I think it's come off of the Manapuri Street. I
think it might be around that new subdivision. I'm just
assuming there was a slip there once before, just a
couple of years ago, and I'm wondering if it's the
same one. I'm not sure about that, but I can see. Yeah,
that covers the West Harbor area and the other one

(02:10:08):
last night you couldn't understand where Ophiero was. That's out
Moscow Way, Okay, by East Tire. The Pharoh stream runs
down the railway line.

Speaker 24 (02:10:22):
I understand it runs down there.

Speaker 4 (02:10:25):
It's between these torn around this area.

Speaker 2 (02:10:29):
Where are you, Elaine?

Speaker 24 (02:10:30):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
Are you out of the out of the woods now?

Speaker 4 (02:10:33):
Yes, I'm ra moaner actually, Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
Okay, okay, so you've got you've got no way of
getting into town that that road's closed. Past Carry's Bay.

Speaker 8 (02:10:41):
Is that right?

Speaker 4 (02:10:43):
It's closed? It is actually closed at the slip. Yeah,
but yeah, I got to get No, I got up
to Port today. The roads, I mean, you know, there's
I've seen it worse. But I was able to get
up to Port Charmers and you know, do a bit
of groceries. But we can't get past Port because of

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the road being closed at Maya.

Speaker 2 (02:11:06):
Oh I see, okay, okay, So when you with that
landslide that was after Care's Bale Debra Bay, did that
not close the whole rider? They cleared that today for
you to get through the port.

Speaker 4 (02:11:18):
It was it was only on once one side. It
was on the hill side of the road, so you
could still get up one way. Yeah, but they have closed,
they have cleared the road.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
Were there many slips on that road because there's there
been a lot of slips from that helly land around there.

Speaker 4 (02:11:33):
No, No, not too bad. I've seen it a lot worse.
I had seen it a lot worse. Just a bit
of debris, yeah, yeah, bit of debris. But even the
flooding is not as bad as what I expected it
to be on that No, it's quite well.

Speaker 2 (02:11:49):
I don't know about you. But in Bluff this week
and we've got two days of sunny weather. I think
have you got that as well, because it's certainly coming
right where we are.

Speaker 4 (02:11:55):
I think it's still raining at the moment, but I
think it's meant to be clear tomorrow. But we need
a lot of the house, A lot of the sections
down here absolutely flooded, so we would need it. We
will probably need a good two weeks to get rid
of that water.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
And September was very wet as well, was it.

Speaker 4 (02:12:14):
We've had a bit of rain, Yeah, yeah, quite a
bit of rain.

Speaker 2 (02:12:18):
Yeah, okay, nice to hear from your lane.

Speaker 16 (02:12:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:20):
Down in South we had incredibly wet September and then
it's rained as well. It's not been as bad as
the need. But with a week of the school holidays,
I'm looking forward. I've got a lot of work to do.
I got so bored with the wee weather. I sweet
today putting up a cot. And I don't like putting
up cots because I did it very well, did it
very well. The things I do is I stick if

(02:12:41):
I'm ever putting taken the cod apart, I stick the
Allen key to the bottom of it, so I know
where it is. It's one of my great life hacks.
But I got sick of the weather today. Oh and
the old last a month I have. Anyhow, it's not
my job to moan. I watched the end of the
baseball tonight. That was quite exciting. It was the Brewers

(02:13:05):
versus the New York Mets, and it was the wild
card series, which I don't understand, but it was the
best of thread. It was one match all and when
I turned it on, it was at the bottom of
the top of the eighth innings and the Brewers were
running two nil. And then it was the New York

(02:13:27):
Mets last bat and the first batsman was walk to
base one. Then I think he stole a base. Then
I think someone else got to base in the next
go to a home run. They got three runs for it.
Then they went four to two up and won the

(02:13:47):
whole thing. Unbelievable, quite exciting because you obviously it come
from behind victory in baseball. And now they go through
to the well now they advance in the finals the playoffs.

Speaker 13 (02:13:59):
Nol ats Marcus, Hello, yeah, good evening, mate, Yes, how
are you today? Keeping in a dry I hope are
you much flooding?

Speaker 3 (02:14:08):
Where you were.

Speaker 13 (02:14:10):
Yeah, next one, I'm ringking. I have not heard a
word on the radio about south, but people you know,
I mean birch Wood Road going through can go through
to town there, there's flooding on that. There's no sign,
nothing saying until you get right down birch Wood Station

(02:14:32):
and it's right across the road, and I'm informed that
further down would be the same. Now you travel all
that distance from a wide, you get down there and
you cut off all through it. Nothing previous saying flooding.

Speaker 18 (02:14:46):
Now.

Speaker 13 (02:14:47):
I turned around because I was going down for fuel
actually to Techrie. I turned around and came back up
and I thought, well, I'll go over to a towtown.
I get to the bridge outside of a towertown and
there's water right across the road, no signs and the know,
nothing like the for about ten minutes and of the

(02:15:07):
I'm on to ring the bloody councils. So I rang them.
They said, oh, we fed out trying to put signs
all over the place. And I said, well there's nothing here,
and she said are you trying to get into a
tower there? And I said yeah. She said, well the
roads the bridge is closed going into a town there
right and down. Nothing not a word over the radio.

(02:15:28):
I have the radio on all the time. Not a word,
and I think pathetic. Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:15:36):
So she said the bridge was closed, but there was
no signs. The road was closed. The bridge was closed,
but there's no signs.

Speaker 18 (02:15:42):
Is that right?

Speaker 13 (02:15:43):
Well, it's evidently was seeing bagged off the bridge right
in the towertown here, so you know you were blocked
from going in their way. But the road I was
on from Ohai to over to all from Nightcaps.

Speaker 7 (02:16:00):
There was a clud water right across there is huge.

Speaker 13 (02:16:02):
Lake out the left inside of it, and I wasn't
an attempt to go through it, not with my little vehicle.
But no signs.

Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
Okay.

Speaker 13 (02:16:12):
And the one right down birch Foods. I don't know
if you know, Butchwood Station is a big station, Yirchwood Station.
You were right down at the infants of Birchwood Station.
The water was right across the here and there was
a sign down there. You had to get down there
before you knew this flooding. For God's sake, Yeah, just

(02:16:36):
find it incredible, just really good. And on the way
down there was actually a truck coming back from there.
I think there must have been the one that puts
the sign down there. Why not put it up at
the mountain Linden, the Linden area, and so people don't
probably going on the way down there just.

Speaker 2 (02:16:54):
Crazy not no, because you're from OHI right, yes, yeah.
Can I ask you whether you have an opinion about
the fact that on the coal on Solid Energies old
land they're going to plant pine trees that's going to
block off your views. Are you hot and bothered about that?
I thought there's very poor response from the government.

Speaker 13 (02:17:18):
Oh yeah, well you'd expect that sort of thing from
this government. I would, but the view doesn't figure to
me from where I am, right between the police station
and the fire station.

Speaker 10 (02:17:31):
Sure understand, we've got trees right.

Speaker 13 (02:17:34):
In front of us, the hills the foothills actually blocking
out most I see spencer pigs, couple of loads, you know,
and they need just a little bit of tough But
it's a view coming in and knocking from around. I mean,
you know, there's the camera.

Speaker 2 (02:17:50):
For those for those that don't know solid energy mind
whole of OHI open cast. And they said that when
they were finished mining, it was going to be remediated
into walkways and lake lake and the Lake Recreacial Reserve.
They went. I the the Aussies are planting pine trees
which will block everyone's view of the Teche.

Speaker 13 (02:18:12):
I don't know that. I don't know that.

Speaker 7 (02:18:14):
It's about this.

Speaker 2 (02:18:18):
Another another yeah, another company. I don't know who the
company is, but yeah, but but no, it's one from
my own movement. Okay, green Vale.

Speaker 13 (02:18:27):
Green Vale leg. I mean that's where the LEGNI used to.

Speaker 2 (02:18:31):
Is it a New Zealand Is it a New Zealand company?

Speaker 11 (02:18:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (02:18:35):
Yeah, And and and the thing that worries me, and
I'm thinking long term, is that they'll turn that into
an open bloody dump, the same as they've done at
the Lime Hills. It's huge. That's that's a huge worry.

(02:18:56):
And a lot of the talk I've heard over the years,
I mean forteen years. Never you hear the talk about
in the end they'll just clear all the houses off
and open cast the whole bloody thing.

Speaker 2 (02:19:09):
The whole town. I think the company is called green company,
is called Greenbrier.

Speaker 13 (02:19:12):
Is that right? Yeah, Well that's that's the why outfit. Okay,
they came and they came up there and took over
from the solid solid.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
Energy solid energy. I don't know I can't find and
they did.

Speaker 13 (02:19:31):
A huge a lot of mining open cast. They went
right down to Wrecky Gorge Road extended away.

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
I've seen on the company have it is the It
is the the Hunters and mcmart is the green Brier.
It is the Green Brier. It is the one crowd.

Speaker 13 (02:19:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's not bout.

Speaker 2 (02:19:54):
Hunters and McMahon's from the owners of that one.

Speaker 13 (02:19:57):
Yeah. Batists actually working with Southern Disaccountcil to extend across
the road into the part that has been forest's. This
is the nightcabs.

Speaker 7 (02:20:11):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (02:20:12):
I have a friend who has already been taken over there.
And they sound cold here. It is right down to
rived That cold goes right down to Riveden.

Speaker 4 (02:20:20):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (02:20:21):
Okay, So just just just to sort of get too
much mess message creep, why do they want to plant
trees just because they want to make money from it?
Because if because they can't extract more coal, or why
do they want to why are they putting pine?

Speaker 13 (02:20:36):
Then they're putting point in for that, you know, the
money they get.

Speaker 2 (02:20:41):
From Grehouse ky not.

Speaker 13 (02:20:45):
On the way down to two Teppery. Now there's a
huge areas planted in pines. About three years ago they're
about eight nine feet now, and it should be all native.
That's what came out of here, it was all native.
Put it back in natives.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
I agree. Now, thank you so much for your call.
Eighteen Passive and Marcus still talk anything goes for the
final forty hit on midnight? Were the reports talking about
the channelm Islands and the jets landing there? I'm interested
in that suburb is known after planets or streets named
after planets? Marcus, did you know what? Do you know
what freewow wear channels covering the America's Cup? It's on

(02:21:22):
TV three or on YouTube or on stuff? Is that
on tonight? I'll watch it? Marcus? Are you going to
be a dad again? Putting up a cop? That's when
a visit today is a madonna. That's exactly what she said.
Are you going to be a father?

Speaker 4 (02:21:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:21:38):
A less.

Speaker 20 (02:21:41):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:21:45):
We've just got a relative coming with babies on Monday.
So that's the situation. So that's why I was putting
up the cot. It's a nice cot kept in very
good condition. Brings back all the memories having to put

(02:22:06):
up and take the cot down once you put it
up again. Anyway, goodness, No, not becoming a parent again,
unless nothing would make me happier. But I think you
get to a stage probably we're too old. You think
how old am I going to be at the twenty first?
You think, well, actually, and will I be relevant anyway?

(02:22:30):
But no, that's a good question about the cot anyway,
enough for me, twenty past eleven. If you want to talk,
be nice to hear from you, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty, and I'll keep you updated with the flood stuff.
I think all the reporters have gone home are for
an extremely big twenty four hours or thirty hours or longer.

(02:22:50):
But it seems as though I think this it's fair
to say the storm was as bad as it was expected,
but not worse than what was expected. I guess that's
what we can ascertain from that one. But terrible that
eighty five I had to go and get his own sandbags.
What do you think of that? Twenty three to twenty three?
That's the twenty four hour time in real time? We
call that eleven twenty three. Good evening, and welcome what

(02:23:12):
we've talked about tonight. Too many topics to mention. If
there's something you want to add to subtract from or
bring up that's entirely different. You make my night. Let's
hear from you. No one seems to outrage. Enjoyed the
people we've talked to tonight and enjoyed the guy going
home from Wearable Art, enjoyed the purse that was complaining
about the Festival of Light at Napier. They said there

(02:23:35):
was absolute fizzer one person on stilt and that was
basically it. Jeepers, there's nothing worse than a sad event.
You wonder what some event managers are up to, don't
you when they go along to the end. Get what
were they thinking? How much effort did they put into this? Anyway,

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that's some of the discussion tonight. There will be other
things you want to talk about, and that's good, so
let's hear from you. I don't know what it'll be
before the end. Ah, what about the rugby league?

Speaker 5 (02:24:09):
Who do you think?

Speaker 23 (02:24:10):
We're in?

Speaker 2 (02:24:10):
The rugby League on Sunday? It might be called the
world's toughest competition, but certainly the world's longest. For goodness sake,
I say we went to New South Wales to watch
ald of those matches, but that was in March. That
was in March when Res Walsh got injured. It's a
long long time ago. So yeah, March still going. It's

(02:24:38):
hard enough to watch. What must it be like being
a player. So that's the final on eight on nine
thirty ten o'clock on Sunday night, penwith Panthers, who won
I think the last three times, versus the Melbourne Storm
who are the other very very good form team of
the competition. They're the ones that went through and won
the most matches. They were the minor premiers, the people

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that won the most. That's the final. It's kind of good.
Teams are too in jury ravaged, they're both It'll be
a great match. I'm supporting Penrith, but Melbourne will win it.
That's my prediction. And it's always a good event. I

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think the women's NRL match the women's finals on before
and it's also be a good match. I'm looking forward
that all. So if you're to talk about this or
anything else, will text it through eighth and eight, Marcus,
what's the worst you've ever spent on footwear? And were
they worth the money you paid for them? Three K
for sneakers that's madness. I never buy sneakers. I'm not

(02:25:46):
a sneaker person. I think white shoes always look terrible
because they're always dirty. I can't understand people that get
obsessed about sneakers. Not into it at all. I mean,
good on the people having their obsessions, but yet it's
not for me. So yeah, I'm not into that. Never

(02:26:09):
had a pair of Jordan's. Never had a pair of
one of those Adidas ones at the present Prime Minister
of the UK warre and ruins Samba's never had those, Marcus.
If you want to see a real festival of light,
come to Waititakley Dewali at Trusty on a Hindo on Sunday,
twentieth October. Promise it won't disappoint Sunny Marcus. I'm trying

(02:26:41):
to be a dad again with my wonderfully fiance and
future wife. I'm forty eight and I've done all the math,
but I've decided that forty eight is a contemporary forty five,
so it's going to be just great. We have four daughters,
our amazing family. One more to former junior netball team.
Have a good weekend. There we go, let's hear from here.

(02:27:04):
Twenty eight past eleven. I'm seeing the text me notice
to get the call before the end. You might have
something new and interesting to say, and that would be
good to hear from you. What else can I tell you?
In New Zealand? How's daylight savings? How are you fearing?
Did you feel that you were kind of discombobulated for
five days like all of us? What do you think
I'm talking it up? And what about the jet landing

(02:27:29):
at Chatham Islands? Never heard they're going to extend the
airport there, so get in touch Marcos still twelve. Some
of the other stuff you might want to mention avoiding
State Highway one driving from Auckland to Wellington come Sunday

(02:27:51):
because they're doing roadworks. There'll be diversions through to do it.
It'll take forty seven more minutes. And the chattermile is
entering the jet age with the first Boeing seven three
seven landing there until I've got father Boxing two? Are
you looking at that?

Speaker 23 (02:28:08):
The hope?

Speaker 2 (02:28:09):
Is any sign of that? Mia Mortal? No, If anyone's
got any boxing update, let us know about that. I'll
go to the TKO, so me and more two TKO.
She was very good on Slavery Treasure Island. Also she
legend lover it sits on the live blog more too,

(02:28:36):
looked a class above O'Connell. Then are pretty of good
shots came out firing, didn't take a foot off the gas.
That's what we want. Dave Marcus, Welcome, Hi Dave.

Speaker 9 (02:28:46):
Oh yeah, I spent five alligator skin sneakers, jaggled a lock,
forced some stuff into a whiskey, and then did a
lag for attempt at murder.

Speaker 2 (02:28:57):
It's a lot to I was just stuck at alligator sneakers.

Speaker 10 (02:29:01):
Yeah, it was for myself. The alligator snapped at me.

Speaker 2 (02:29:06):
What did you spent five grand on elligator sneakers?

Speaker 5 (02:29:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:29:11):
Five grand?

Speaker 9 (02:29:11):
Yeah, well five hundred, Yeah it was five grand, I think.

Speaker 2 (02:29:17):
Yeah, I kind of even see a picture online of
what brand of Ellie.

Speaker 5 (02:29:22):
What breaks?

Speaker 13 (02:29:23):
There breaks, lots of breaks and lots of places.

Speaker 2 (02:29:27):
Okay, I got to leave it there, David to freak
out for me.

Speaker 28 (02:29:30):
Kelvin Marcus welcome, Very good eating to you. Marcus. A
little while back, I'm pretty sure I heard you talking
about different moons.

Speaker 2 (02:29:37):
Yes, and I've got it.

Speaker 28 (02:29:38):
But I've got an easy, straightforward question, and I've looked
in my solar book here of the planets, but I
can't track it down. What am I going to find
out from you with your magic buttons? Which is the
planet which revolves the opposite way to all of our
other planets?

Speaker 2 (02:29:57):
Which pair revolves a different direction?

Speaker 28 (02:29:59):
Yes, it's only one of them. Yeah, I've been trying
to check it, but I can. I can get the
right page.

Speaker 2 (02:30:11):
Revolves or rotates around the Sun, Venus spin Venus spins
backwards compared to most other planets.

Speaker 28 (02:30:20):
Ah, you're a good man, Marcus. Venus Yep, I don't
know why. No, I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (02:30:30):
I'd google why does Venus rotate in a different direction.
Must have been hit by a meteorite that put it
the other way.

Speaker 28 (02:30:40):
Yes, there's a lot of strange things happening up there,
and have happened a long long time ago. I'll go
and look on my Venus page and try and track
it down. You're a good man, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:30:53):
It says here we go, Calvin. Astronomers believe, at some
point to colliding sluice to your body tilted Venus so
far off its original position. It's now upside down. Of
course it's been tipped up. Love that what an obvious answer.

(02:31:15):
It's the best space fact I've heard Hello, Paula Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 19 (02:31:20):
I'm Marcus Marcus. I wonder you used to have a
lovely gentleman who would ring on a Friday night and
give us an update on the Horizon polls scandal.

Speaker 7 (02:31:30):
In the UK.

Speaker 17 (02:31:31):
Oh.

Speaker 19 (02:31:32):
Yes, And I haven't heard him for a wee while,
and I was following it quite intently, and I haven't
heard whether they've actually had any progress or an outcome.

Speaker 2 (02:31:44):
And this guy found it absolutely compelling.

Speaker 19 (02:31:48):
I did do. I was because I work a lot
and sometimes I can and work at the same time.
And I listened to a lot of the testimony that
they gave, and once you really get into it, you
do you have to keep listening.

Speaker 2 (02:32:02):
So just to back up the track a refresher for people,
it was the post office in England or the UK
that brought an expensive new computer system that wasn't good.

Speaker 19 (02:32:13):
Enough, right, yes, And it was owned by a fugit
so it was called Horizon, and they knew them players
in the post office and Pugets who knew that their
system had flaws, so they didn't tell the subpostmasters, many
of whom were accused of stealing large amounts of money,
and they took their own lives. They went to prison,

(02:32:34):
they lost everything, so now it's all been uncovered. They've
had many hearings, but they had huge hearing with Sirwin
and he's away considering whether I guess anyone's going to
be held liable like Pauliver now saw and paul Angela
vander Bogers.

Speaker 2 (02:32:53):
And these people were. I mean, there's an article the
other day about her, who was someone that was respected,
but she's she's just become loath now because of the
way she's behaved, Right, is that Paula Vanels That's right?

Speaker 19 (02:33:05):
And she was also a woman of the cloth, you know,
at the same time as watching these poor people's lives
get absolutely ruined.

Speaker 2 (02:33:13):
I just wanted to and when when when you say
that a woman of the cloth?

Speaker 19 (02:33:19):
Yes, in her spare time, she was a vicar gosh okay?

Speaker 2 (02:33:24):
And is she is she likely to go to jail
because she should, I presume.

Speaker 19 (02:33:29):
I think the contenders for jail her Angela. I think
one of the directors, another director, independent director, a few
through person. There's a few strong contenders who have been
less than honest, shall we say?

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
And why were these people so corrupted and so flawed?
What was it for them, that they were saving face,
or that they were doing it for what. Why would
people behave so unethically?

Speaker 19 (02:33:57):
Why do people not? Why would people people still? I
think it's a number of things. I think it's money
driven by money, status and power.

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
Really, even though they saw people going to jail and
people killing themselves as a result of.

Speaker 19 (02:34:11):
It, Well, yeah, but we see that. I mean we
see that. You know, look at all in the years,
in the recent years, all of the overturned convictions.

Speaker 7 (02:34:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:34:21):
Absolutely, And there's a case before that. There's a case
before the courts at the moment about someone that was convicted.
And you can't go to details about that, but I
think we can. We can see what we can see
what that's about. And they must have the question is
why And they must have thought that, And I guess
one of the big reasons why is because they thought
they could get away with it.

Speaker 19 (02:34:40):
I think that in many cases or ninety nine point nine,
I think that is the reason, because we can and
because there's no accountability.

Speaker 2 (02:34:49):
So in this case now, because there have already been
movies about it and TV series haven't there's this is
not recently, but this is but they.

Speaker 19 (02:34:56):
Have recently only. I think the last hearing they had
as part of the major inquiry was August, so now
they're considering. So they're considering it dependently watch actions they're
going to take, and I think the police are actually
starting to investigate themselves certain individuals. But there's not been
anybody actually sent to jail or prosecuted yet.

Speaker 2 (02:35:18):
Okay, so the trial of the criminal trial of these
people has happened.

Speaker 19 (02:35:22):
No the hearing, and there was a major hearing. It's
from the government, So the UK government has held a
hearing run by that sir Wynn I don't know the
rest of his name, and he's sat on the hearing
for months, many many months over the last year and
this year, so it's taken nearly a year I think,
and they're now considering all their evidence and they will

(02:35:44):
be making recommendations based on all the evidence. But what
was interesting if you actually followed the hearing and watched
everybody giving evidence, you could tell who was telling the
truth and you could tell who wasn't. It was just relarkable.
It was just either from early onset dementia or they
were just really.

Speaker 2 (02:36:02):
Poor, Like wow, wow, it's just all for the it's
all before the one judge. Obviously he's the one that
just is going to decide and have his report.

Speaker 12 (02:36:11):
He is the one.

Speaker 19 (02:36:12):
And but it was just fascinating to watch because you
can see those who are genuinely stupid, really some of
them truly were, and those who were very honest, and
then those who were less and honest. But it is
quite compelling to watch. You can go onto YouTube actually
google a rival inquiry and I'll just show you a
list of all the different people.

Speaker 2 (02:36:32):
I mean, Paul, I lovely to talk. Thank you so
very much for that. That's great. I enjoyed that refresher.
We'll see if we can find the guys well. Twenty
four to twelve twenty one away from twelve o'clock High
Carreat's Marcus.

Speaker 29 (02:36:45):
Welcome, Welcome, Thank you, Marcus. Yeah, that was actually quite
an interesting topic that the lady. Yeah, yeah, I hadn't
rung up for that purpose.

Speaker 18 (02:37:01):
Only.

Speaker 29 (02:37:01):
I'm just about to go to bed. And sometimes what
I do before I go to bed is into your
talk back show, just to see what the topic is
and bits of interest. It's not I go to bed
and go to sleep, and it is of interest, I
give a call.

Speaker 26 (02:37:17):
Yeah, so I hadn't.

Speaker 29 (02:37:20):
I hadn't phoned in regards to what that lady just
said that whilst I was on hold, I listened to
her and can I just say that, really what she
is talking about is the integrity of evidence and integrity
of witness evidence, and when there is an investigation that

(02:37:41):
is undertaken, it's always best to capture the witness evidence,
audio recording and not writing.

Speaker 2 (02:37:50):
What is meaning is yeah, what did your what did
you ring up about you speact about Dunedin.

Speaker 29 (02:37:57):
Yes, yes, so I just want to really say thanked
you so much across the country to our fire service,
our and also the paid fire service personnel. Last night
or at least this morning that pow A Clark, I
received a I live in Dunedin and I received a

(02:38:20):
phone call from my mother who lives on her own
and she's age seventy nine, very frail and not great mobility,
and she told me she's just had a notification she
just to evacuate. The first thing is that her neighbor
was the first one to notify her. And I want

(02:38:42):
to acknowledge you know, it's great when you live in
a community with the neighbors looking out for each other.
So the neighbor was the first one to call my
mother to let her know that she needed to evacuate.
And then shortly after she had a knock at the
door that she needed to peck her back and evacuate.
But she's not three mobiles. So she phoned me and

(02:39:05):
I started traveling in there keep to pick her up
and bring her home, but I couldn't get to her.
I got I was about probably two kometers away from her,
and I was stopped because of slips. But I learned
that the fire officer who was assistant helps her put

(02:39:27):
on her socks because she gets she gets a service
where she helps, she gets assistance to get dressed, and
so she wasn't able to really get ready herself independently.
And she said a big burly fire officer helped her
to put on her socks to get her heavy. So

(02:39:49):
I'm I'm just aware that you know our fire service personnel,
A lot of them are are voluntary, but they are
a great estate of humanity.

Speaker 2 (02:40:00):
Good shout out, how's your mother now? Is she some
way safe? Where is she?

Speaker 13 (02:40:05):
Yes?

Speaker 29 (02:40:05):
So she was evacuated. Well, where she was actually living
is the area with there was the most significant landslide.
It was about two sections away from here, sure Eden,
and so she was evacuated to the course site stadium.
They took us and they looked after her there and

(02:40:28):
everyone that was there. And now she's back at home.
She was able to come home. She said that she
had to drive around rocks.

Speaker 19 (02:40:36):
It was quite frightening.

Speaker 29 (02:40:39):
But she's back at home and she's safe. And so
as I put my head down to rest tonight, I
did want to think, you've Empire service personnel.

Speaker 26 (02:40:47):
It's out there.

Speaker 2 (02:40:48):
Appreciate that, Carrie. Thank you. JT. Marcus evening, gooday Marcus.

Speaker 6 (02:40:54):
That extension to the Chatham's Island Airport, Yeah, that was
one of the Provincial Growth Fund initiatives under the Labor
government from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty, and it's to
allow larger aircraft. Traditionally there was ear Chathams used the
Conve thirty six eder, but now they're able to upgrade

(02:41:17):
to ATR seventy two. But that freighter, I had a
look on the internet. Yeah, that's Boeing decided to start
converting this third generation seven three seven to freight is
in twenty sixteen and they've had orders for about eighty
of them, so there are al passenger jets that are
reconfigured and they can actually carry forty ton whereas an

(02:41:41):
ATR can only take thirteen. Terms of freight, and also
the seven three seven, I think they cost about eight
thousand dollars an hour to fly, where to about four
thousand dollars an hour for a seventy eighty hour seventy two.
But the seven three seven is flying that much faster
eight hundred dollars kilometers an hour, so it can probably

(02:42:04):
fly out there in one hour, so the freight would
actually be cheaper on the seven three.

Speaker 2 (02:42:09):
Seven, good good good numbers there.

Speaker 6 (02:42:13):
Four hundred dollars a time, do you reckon?

Speaker 2 (02:42:15):
There would be enough? Would there be enough requirement for
freight for that to be a regular thing the seven
three seven, it's.

Speaker 6 (02:42:23):
Probably more likely to be seasonal and high value seafood.

Speaker 2 (02:42:26):
And that bringing some bringing some crayfish out and some
caught out or something yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:42:31):
Okay, yeah, something and then something out. But on that
TV show Flying Alaska where it covers off that family
that's got the airline, that Chap ordered a kitsept house
to be delivered and he ended up using the seven
three seven freight there and he reckoned the price was
comparable because for a truck to take it there, I

(02:42:55):
think it was about twelve hundred and fifteen hundred kilometers
out of anchorage, it was going to take the truck
driver four days, whereas the airplane can do it in six.
Out you know, they're about including loading up time and that.

Speaker 2 (02:43:09):
What do you reckon? That tick sail plane is going
to be doing mainly in New Zealand. What freight will
it be doing?

Speaker 6 (02:43:17):
I don't know. Apparently it's also got a company called
parcel Line, so it might be flying to Asia or Australia.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (02:43:26):
It might be bringing might be bringing stuff contract.

Speaker 6 (02:43:30):
For tu or it might be a New Zealand post Yeah, there.

Speaker 2 (02:43:34):
Bit contract for someone what I mentioned.

Speaker 6 (02:43:36):
Yeah, that's right, it'll be t junk.

Speaker 2 (02:43:39):
How many people to fly that was? There be two
or four?

Speaker 6 (02:43:43):
Probably two. It sounds like they've got one varive seats,
so you can have up to six non flying, non
piloting people. But when they converted over to freighter, they
have a large freight door put towards the front and
you can just unload it with a forklift, just a
large forklift and the freight is sitting on a conveyor belt,

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so it gets moved up up to the door automatically,
and you do.

Speaker 2 (02:44:10):
The research on that. JT. Thank you very very much
for it. Is it where you are? Is it the
rain come up that way?

Speaker 6 (02:44:16):
No, it's said rained for the last couple of days,
but it stopped about lunchtime today.

Speaker 2 (02:44:21):
Appreciate JT. Thanks very much that that's good information. Fourteen
to twelve good information there. Welcome people, How are you
all going? What's happening? My name is Marcus here. Tell
twelve if you've got something to add or you want
to talk about before the end, you'll be the last
one through. It seems as though the situation and even
there's no more news. All the genists have gone home.
I've said that, and that's a situation. So it hasn't

(02:44:49):
got any worse. But it's going to be expensive to
fix a lot of damage to roads. I don't know
how the railways. I don't know how the tay Any
Gorge railway is. I don't know how the main trunk
line north of Dunedin is. If that big land slide
defected where it goes into the tunnel northwest of northeast

(02:45:12):
of Port Charmers. I'm not quite sure if that line
has been affected on. There's not much more information about that,
but that's the situation anyway. So yeah, there's plenty of
rivers running high, but I've got no more information of anything.

(02:45:33):
In fact, the roads now seem to be opening rather
than closing, and for that we can be grateful. But yeah,
hell of a downpour, a very wet school holidays. If
you want to be the final call, I you've got
something else to talk about you. I did enjoy that
discussion about the the horizon thing in the UK. That's

(02:45:55):
a hell of a story for trial that's gone on
that long. But do get in touch Marcus to midnight.
As far as the news has gone, I'm not seeing
any international news that you guys aren't aware of. It
seems remarkably well.

Speaker 7 (02:46:16):
It's just so.

Speaker 2 (02:46:16):
It seems remarkably quiet. But I mean, there's a lot
going on, but I'm not seeing any stuff that immediately
seems important. There is a comet passing Earth that's been
seen from Hawaii. The last time I visited our solaces
was eighty thousand years ago. That went on really slow,
rotate no words today about the aurora there. It is

(02:46:41):
a good day to see the aurora. I'll just do
a quick look at that website because it's a lot
of sun action at the moment and what I can
see about the aurora, nothing much to report there anyway,

(02:47:01):
Let's take a break back before ah someone says, apart
from the rain saget and even wait until there's only
twenty five shoplifting days to Christmas. That's from BO. Don't
know that's about Bo, but thank you go. Anyone want
a quick discuss a quick call about Penrith. Also, I
think Melbourne will win. I want Penrith to win, so
I'm okay about either what happens. While I've predicted the

(02:47:23):
others what I want, I won't be betting on it.
But that's got me going for the weekend excited. Always
love the NRL Grand Final. Let's hope it's a lot
better than the RFL Grand Final, which was incredibly underwhelming.
Didn't like that at all that final. Got an email
about the Hall's comet Marcus. The Halle's comment use was

(02:47:46):
that it has traveled the maximum distance from the sun
and it's now on its way back. It's just forty
odd more years till it turns up. Yes, so for
some us to be pretty margin if we hang around
to see it again forty more years. And of course
we might wait forty more years and try and stay alive,

(02:48:08):
and it might come and be invisible. I remember driving
I was working at a sort of a nightclub in Auckland,
driving up after work at four in the morning to
see it at I think we're driving up to walk
with where was the place to see it? But half
awake free disappointing. It was the only show in town

(02:48:32):
there for a while, but yeah it was. I think
there were people going in planes to see it and
all sorts of stuff, but extremely underwhelming. Holle's comment, I
wish a new combat would come that really would put
on some sort of a spectacle. Jim Steedden will be next,
and he'll take you through to the morning. We've got

(02:48:53):
a new show on next week, the new Drived, the
new afternoon team. So there we go. That's going to
happen on Monday. People be excited about that. I know
some of you always like to try the new hosts,

(02:49:14):
see if can get them going on your favorite topic,
catch them when they're unaware anyway, that's on Monday, so
good luck with that. And yeah, Penrith the favorite for me.
That's Sunday at ten o'clock ten pm. I think it's

(02:49:34):
probably is there a rugby test or no? We've done
all the rugby, haven't we? Was it going to be
another test that? Well, that was last weekend, wasn't nothink?
There's no rugby this weekend? Better make sure about that.

Speaker 18 (02:49:48):
But that is it for me.

Speaker 2 (02:49:49):
I have to been an enjoyable week and I will
catch you all again on Monday. If you want to
email me, you can do that, but I won't get
it straight away. I won't get it till Monday afternoon,
actually Monday after I mean Monday evening. I'm not coming
into work in the afternoon, no point for that. Trying
to make sure if there's any other news before I

(02:50:09):
need to go out. So motto the New Zealand boxer
has maintained has won her fight, and there is the
big fight on which I don't really know much about.
I'm not going to comment on that, but that's on
the moment too. There'll be updates on that during the
bulletin after me. So yeah, I'll let myself go and

(02:50:33):
I will talk to you all again on Monday, and
that's about everything I've left to say. So enjoy your weekend.
Hope things dry out for you. She's funny enough. I
think we're looking for good weather down the bottom of
the South Island, and I hope that we've deserved it.
Two days of sunshine anyway, let's hope that transpires. I'll
talk to you all again on Monday. Enjoy your weekend.

(02:50:55):
Thank you, good night.

Speaker 1 (02:50:58):
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