In seven years they'll be a giant (29 January 2025)

Marcus wants to know who he talks to all the time at the supermarket, and hears about your first day at school.

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Greetings and welcome. It is Wednesday and hump Day, the
last Wednesday in January, I believe, although as I said,
I'm not entirely sure what the date of January is.
It must be the twenty eighth, is it twenty seventh?

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Welcome? Good even one whos Marcu's head on midnights? I
hope it's good, but you are hoping it's good in
your negar the woods. I'll start with something interesting, outrageous
that ask you a question. Oh yes, the twenty ninth
of January. Here's something I'll tell you that's outrageous. There
is a woman, a person that's a woman. There's a
woman that was banned from the supermarket because she refused

(00:49):
to use the self check out. She was banned after
asking staff to serve on additional till. Admittedly it was
at Tesco in the UK, but still it's coming. They're
banning people that can't go old skar. I quite like
the self check out. But here's a question for you

(01:11):
to start with a statement of question. The question is
I was at Peck and Save before work talking to
the woman. I always talk to the woman that runs
the computer, the computerized voice. If you like at Peck
and Save, I forget what she says, please beg your items,
or thank you for choosing Peck and Save. Whose voice

(01:33):
is that? It was a very familiar voice, and I'd
never thought about the voice before, and I thought, is
it Gail Ludlow? I couldn't work out whose voice it was.
It almost sounded like it might have been a Gail
Ludlow or a Oh I can't think who else it was.
It wasn't the Brisco's woman, but it sounded ververy from me.

(01:54):
If you know who the voice is up Peck and Save,
I'd be curious to know. It sounded like a Gail Ludlow.
It sounded almost a bit like the same woman that
did I was gonna say, tellicom a long long time ago.
I got no idea, But if you know who that was,
That's what I was wondering, because you know, when you
can hear a voice that's vaguely familiar and you can't

(02:16):
solve the riddle. That was me to work, thought you
I know that voice. I know that voice. Then I
tried to record it, but I already checked my stuff
all through. Then the woman walked towards me as I
was doing something shifting that will actually what do I say?
I'm trying to I work on the radio and trying
to record the voice of the woman to find out
who it is. So I couldn't do that because I

(02:37):
could be by the gat into a conversation. We're bearing
in mind this is a supermarket where the vanilla escence
is hidden because I don't tust people to buy it.
So yeah, but I want to know who the voice
is on the peck and Save self check out. It's
not never Reti Manu. But it's a very very very

(03:00):
very very familiar sounding voice. But yeah, just bang it
through a quick call. If you know who that is.
I wouldn't mind solving that before I start the show tonight.
Who is it? Sounds like gayl Ludlow. Anyway, I get

(03:20):
in touches. You want to talk? My name is Marcus
hit at midnight tonight. A lot to talk about tonight,
A lot could even be railing Ramsey, but I don't
think she does commercial jobs. Don't know who it is?
What have you found? Dan? Oh? Have you even found

(03:41):
the voice? You even got the example of the voice.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
If you know it has give me let me know.
Eight hundred and eight Teddy and Night. That's my first thing.
And who is the Countdown Voice and the New World
Voice as well, because we don't celebrate those people enough.
It's probably the woman I talk to most often. Something
says it could be Lorna Plant. Sounds a bit Lorna Plant. Well,
she's had a big year, didn't she. I've been following

(04:08):
that with the blind date and the proposal, the engagement
and the wedding or very exciting. It's not Ai, but yeah,
if you want to know who it is, let me know.
If you know who to let me know, this is
the voice. So that's my first topic for tonight. Peck

(04:28):
and say voice, Countdown Voice and the New World Voice.
I think a lot of them they have the volume
too high. By the way, at four Square where I've
got bluff, we've got self checkout. Now, Oh you wouldn't
think in our small town. I've lofted to be self checkout.
If you're buying something sketchy, it's good to go through
self check out. What's something sketchy is? I don't know.

(04:54):
You can't buy the smoke. So you've got to go
to the till for those oh eight one hundred eight
tenty nineteen ninety detext A lot of stories about sky today.
Wasn't there yea godness lost story about the earthquake? They
say it was the result of it. It was a

(05:16):
It was like a subsequent shop from an earthquake ten
years ago. Tell you something about social media. We put
on our market slash lights Facebook page right when eleven
thirty earthquake Ekadahuna, right five point four ten k's west
of Kadahuna. I go look on the Facebook page today,

(05:38):
make sure it's just not gone too crazy. And there's
about sixty comments on the Facebook page. And then at
five o'clock a guy writes his comment is old news.

(06:01):
I'm thinking, man, what's his life like? He's looking at
old Facebook posts and saying, oh news, goodness, gracious me,
there's one born every minute anyway, old news. I thought, wow, flip,
you wonder what it's like when you're running, when you're

(06:21):
when you're consuming social media with that sort of a mindset. Anyway,
so no one knows. Oh, someone said it's Debbie Griffiths. Well,
of course I've worked with Debbie for years.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
I know her.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well, that's it'll be goodness. She's been a Facebook friend
of mine with her for years, Debbie Griffiths. You know,
I knew it was a lovely voice. You like a
very lovely man and person. Debbie Griffiths. Wow, Oh, won't

(06:58):
be going to talk to her next time. I'll strike
try and get to do the peck and save thing.
There we go, Goodness, that's here she does peck and
save a new world. Yep, there we go. I think
she is a travel writer. Now she was on the shore,
now she's on the mount mountain mot. I wouldn't have
seen her for ten years, nine years. What a delightful person.

(07:21):
She is one of those persons always happy. She's one
of those person that's always happened. You want to know
this Pirlit always every think, well, you know, how could
you be always that happy? But I think she just is.
I think she's away from work, she goes on a
downward FuG. I think she's just generally one of those
very very happy people. Sham, it's not contagious. Now here's

(07:44):
another question for you. I have got topics tonight, but
I'd like to chew the fact to begin with. Sometimes
Deavy Grayfath's well, well, well she's a journalist and also
the computer voice. Now, for goodness, what will it be next?

(08:08):
I don't know who the countdown one is, So Christopher Walken,
whom we love now, Christopher Walken. He has no phone
and no watch. Yeah, I don't have a phone, a

(08:36):
cell phone. I've never mailed, emailed or twittered. I've never
had a watch either. If I need the time, I
just ask somebody. If anyone out there hasn't got a
phone or a watch, I'd be curious to talk to you,
and that might think that might be quite freeing. Hi, Jimmy,

(08:56):
how you're doing good? Jimmy? Thank you?

Speaker 7 (08:59):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (09:00):
Good?

Speaker 6 (09:00):
That voice I can save has to be Kay Grigory.
Wouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Someone said it's Debbie Griffith. But it does sound like
it's that free, up market not up market, but upbeat,
happy voice, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (09:11):
I had the same predicament that you know, would here
hear the voice and thinking that you recall it from somewhere.

Speaker 7 (09:18):
But I'm pretty sure I put it down to k Gregory,
but you know, could get wrong.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Yeah, Well, I've had about three texts in a row
that have said Debbie Griffiths. So I'm going with that,
and now I think about it, it has got her
happy kind of. I can almost picture her as she
says it.

Speaker 7 (09:33):
Absolutely no fair enough.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yeah, good on you. A lot of conversations with that woman.
I tell you what, self check out. I quite like it.
I don't know why I like it. I just it
just works for me.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
Anyway.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Anyone got no watch and no cell phone and how
did that work for them? And you need to know
the time. Just ask someone. We're curious in that person.
I think people might have googled up. There might be
some Google somewhere you can find out who the voice is.
I don't think would be on Google.

Speaker 10 (10:10):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
It goes to show is there is the is the
is the countdown voice? A male voice? Do you know
who does the countdown voice? Dan? Someone said it's a
male actor. I'll do work that one out. Also used

(10:35):
to be a big deal. Who was the telecom directory voice?
But of course you don't do that anymore. Do you
remember Telecom? No need for it anymore, Rah, I don't
know who does that? Do we know who does the countdown? Whatever?
Is it called? Countdow. Is it called wol words? What
happened to food Town? I was thinking about that the
other day. I remembered food Town? What did food Town become?

(10:57):
The town of food? Oh nine nine to text one
of is Marcus welcome? All the lines are free if
you want to get amongst it and watching some crickets
Just to stags twenty seven for two. Looks like a

(11:17):
very pleasant night, ahol Ready beautiful looking palms in the background.
There looks like one of the great stadiums. Someone asked
Ai who the voice of Peck and Save?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Says? I asked Ai the voice of his pack and
Save check out machines? Is Lin Tenna? A well known
voiceover artist. Her clear and friendly voice can become quite
iconic in the country, particularly station with Peck and Save.
Never heard of Lin Tena? Sounds like something on Coronation Street?
Is it Lin Tenna Elsie's daughter? And like Lynn Lintenna?

(11:55):
No Lintenna is? I think she's an elf? Now being
I haven't got great hopes for you.

Speaker 11 (12:07):
Well, man, I've just got back from one love I
have recovered, so I've got good hopes for myself. But
I just want to I just want to know why
these copyright issues on the last countdown, why they're computing
on and you know they tune their song the final

(12:31):
County count Ye know the last one?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Mate?

Speaker 12 (12:37):
It's the last one?

Speaker 11 (12:39):
Can we not what it means that?

Speaker 4 (12:41):
You mean?

Speaker 3 (12:41):
The last one still open?

Speaker 11 (12:43):
It's the last one mate. They've got a theme song.
But I'm sure they'll be copyright.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Which one is the last? Which one is the last one?

Speaker 11 (12:52):
I'm the standing cross huge. I think it's the Homby
edition Homby Homby County with the last one?

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Are you in Hornby?

Speaker 11 (13:06):
I don't want to give away where I am.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
You know where where was? Where was one? Love?

Speaker 11 (13:13):
One love? Doesn't go on it?

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Who he'd like that?

Speaker 11 (13:18):
Well? There was over two nights we had Fiji and
Moldy the I've never heard of him before, and I
tell you I've been playing his tunes since I've got
back because yeah, I learned a few things. I learned
about another guy from Mariton and Shane Walker. What a vibe. Mark.
I've been the good, I'll be all sorts of good.

(13:41):
And I'm in my thirty years. I've been djaying for
thirty years.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
Chriss Tropers, Creepers, in debt tates.

Speaker 11 (13:56):
And we had an old role in eight eight like
the Beat Boys said. But yeah, that was cool. It
was a cool vibe man, Honestly it was a That
was what made it. Even if you're not in the riga,
you still get into the vibe. You know, the police
were getting into the police were there, no getting into
the vide.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
They've chilled out. It was just where you start.

Speaker 11 (14:21):
I don't want to I don't want to plug. I
don't want to start. I'm plugging, you know, bringing up
to advertise, you know, on your platform. But what's this
this place of all I've been to in my life
and I've been all over the England the drama, bas gats,
jungle gigs and whatnot, raids and the gathering and you
know it's great, that great rhythm out, that great, But

(14:44):
when you want to get a big melting pot of
people from all under the world and its people there
from Sweden and Switzerland and Canada. And I said, what
do you look to You said, you just in the
country and you know we've come just for this, I said.

(15:05):
And then when you realize that Sony Regae testival in
the world, what being where was it in turn on
the domain.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, we just we just stay.

Speaker 11 (15:18):
I stayed with the old man's but I had to
wear the old man and and four of the aunties
there in the seventies. I mean, you know, it's funny,
you know, are the young ones they're all on the
floor by at eight o'clock or nine o'clock on the
first night, and then on the second day. I'm sure
either that couldn't afford tickets or they or they got

(15:40):
the tickets for the two days but couldn't manage. You know,
they couldn't. They didn't have the stamina.

Speaker 13 (15:46):
It was just the case did you take people?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Did you take the old man and he's in a chair?
Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 11 (15:52):
We walked to him and we got him a chair. Yeah,
he left his chair and we got Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
So it's does he like like Rega be that generation,
wouldn't he?

Speaker 11 (16:02):
He showed me what Rega was the case of, that's.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Nice to you got to take, you got under to
take come back to that thing. That's beautiful. That's a
beautiful scenario you've got there, Ben.

Speaker 11 (16:14):
No, it was good and we'll be doing again next year,
you and me.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Both being lovely to talk pretty lively, old Ben. I
did see some Dan has an article at the last
count and in the country. I saw it today. It's
about supermarket, the last name supermarket or something. I couldn't
find it as quick google, ask Helen.

Speaker 14 (16:37):
Yeah, hello, Look as an ad that keeps playing and
it's really getting at me that I don't thought of.
It's called Advance Stelectronics or automotives or something like that.
So mother talking to her daughter and telling her to
get the car checked out?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
Is a TV or is it a radio app?

Speaker 14 (16:54):
It's a radio ad comes on this station. Now I
figured that the voice of this mother is either k
Gregory or Francesca Rumpkin, which really surprises me because I
never thought their voices similar at all. In any way,
if somebody might.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Know, wouldn't be freendy.

Speaker 14 (17:12):
I don't know. I don't know. Perhaps somebody might know
who that the voice is, because it's quite it's intriguing me.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
It's intriguing me too. Now, what's the name of the product?

Speaker 14 (17:23):
I'm sorry, Either advanced electronics or automotives or something like that.
I can't remember. Just for the moment.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Love it when you can't work out who someone is.

Speaker 14 (17:32):
Yes, I think the reason I can't remember the name
of the add is because I'm trying to work out
who these voices are.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
But you know, maybe you thought it might be Freenny
Ruddy or or.

Speaker 14 (17:43):
Kay Gregory, and I never thought that. I never thought
their voices were similar at all until until this is nothing.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Hang on, Helen, they've both got a smile in their voice.

Speaker 15 (17:54):
Yeah, that's what you want.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
You want to have a smiley voice.

Speaker 14 (17:57):
I know, I know somebody might know. Put me out
of my misery. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Hang I'm not finished with you.

Speaker 14 (18:05):
Oh okay, Yeah, things are right at home?

Speaker 16 (18:12):
Are they?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (18:12):
A home?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (18:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
You sound a bit suspicious, don't you. Why am I
asking that?

Speaker 14 (18:20):
I'm very tired at the moment.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh yeah, well, goodness me. You should go to bed.
Are you sleeping well?

Speaker 17 (18:26):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Sounds like you're not convinced, Helen, lovely to talk to you.
Do you think tonight's the show?

Speaker 15 (18:34):
When we do?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Who voices the ads? And how long will it be before?

Speaker 11 (18:37):
Now?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Marcus, it's the woman that sings the way Tomo ad?
Now we're not talking about Paul Ego?

Speaker 18 (18:50):
Where is he?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
These days? We're not talking about him doing the packet.
We're talking about the person that's the voice of the
computer at the self checkout that says unexpected item. And
the beg in the Beggageria. We don't know about Paul Ego.
So the guy Bob ben was talking about the final countdown,

(19:13):
that's a Napier. Yeah, that's the situation there. Woolworth New
Zealand is not giving an indication of when it will
change the brainding of its unique neighboring countdown suit make
it site to Napier, despite a transition already made at

(19:36):
more than half the almost touring sites about the country.
So that is the final countdown? Was that the headline
counting down to the end of it? By the way,
Toto are touring, didn't feel that excited about I've always
thought they hit wonders. Although they are session musicians, aren't
they They're very good musicians. But Toto, would you go

(20:01):
to Toto? What song do you think that finish with?
Just hear them starting can't you hear them starting about sh.

Speaker 9 (20:13):
Sh?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I'm just to mention it when they start the finale
be worth it just for that? That's me. I guess
there's more than one hit anyway, Get in Touch. My
name's Marcus hddle twelve, been around for forty five years.

(20:38):
Of course I did Rosanna, But you'd be waiting for Africa,
wouldn't you. That's when you could still sing about Africa.
Getting touch My name is Marcus Hitdle twelve, twenty eight
to nine. Anyone not without a watch or a cell phone.
But the real topic tonight. I don't know about you.

(20:59):
It might be the age of my kids. However, if
you have exquisite Facebook, today most people are posting pictures
of their children in their brand new school uniform off
to secondary school or intermediate school or primary school for

(21:22):
those that were born in the last seven weeks. And God,
there's something adorable about the freshly laundered uniforms that are
slightly too big for the kids because they are going
to grow into them, and them often in their blazer
and their long socks on the world's hottest day, and

(21:42):
those faces and those looks of hope and optimism, knowing
full well in seven years time they're going to be giants.
The uniforms are going to be wrecked in the socks
are going to be down, and their dreams will be shattered.
Nothing quite as moving as that. Although thinking about it,

(22:03):
I can remember my first day of secondary school. I
can remember my first day primary school. I can't remember
the first day of intermediate school. It's amazing how after
all those years, those memories are so vivid. Nothing surprisingly
happened to me at the first day of primary school
or secondary school. But for some of you it will

(22:24):
be a different story. I imagine for some of you,
great trauma ensued that you still blame your parents for
wrong uniform, wrong gate, wrong day, wrong time, wrong city.

(22:44):
I want your stories of your first day at school.
You will have them. You'll have walked home at lunch time.
You will have got the cane, you will have got lost,
You'll have eaten one of those lollies from the rhine.
I don't know what you did, but I'm up for
the discussion anyway. So that's all I hear about your

(23:13):
first day of school, because you remember it, don't you?
Even mine? Was that not that momentous. I've had one
child at school today, I'm very excited, and one child
goes tomorrow because for a I don't know what you

(23:34):
call it, for a reconnaissance mission. And then starts on Monday,
Form one he'll be And the thing about this, I've
convinced the whole family now that we don't say year
seven or eight. We're bus standards in four I said
to Denver, I said what Classian said? Standard three? I said,

(23:55):
that's my boy. Now this year eight year, that's just terrible.
That forget about changing the speed. Let's go back to
the old way of naming classes. You go to the
premiers and the standard. I'd stand full one and two.
Then you're off to secondary school year thirteen, year eight.
I think people just make it up. Teachers know who

(24:18):
they're teaching with a year this year that you know
why they ever changed? It worked well for us, didn't it.
Rosanna is my favorite Toto song. Can't stand Sierra Leone?
Was that one of theirs. Never know that. I thought

(24:42):
there was coconut rough. It's just an opinion. Marcus revoices.
Where is my old mate Ross Goodwin? Look, I'm pretty
sure that Ross Goodwin a number of years ago died.

(25:05):
I used to say often on the way. If you
and I'm almost convinced about that, you have to google
that up. But I'm sure I don't think I'm misquoting him.
I'm sure that's the case. Marc has always thought Super
Marx gave some fun with the voice itself suit Chicckets
by using bille T James voice or even mister T
James from Blenham. What a great city you've got there
in Blenham. We had a very good stay at the

(25:26):
Blenham On the trip down, very interesting. There was a
very tall man running. It looked like he was straying
off a high country farm. But funnily enough, even though
the guy was a giant that was running it of
Central casting from the Mainland. Cheese ad in the laundry
was full of jockey gear like horse colors. Oh, that

(25:52):
was a great motel. Pretty interesting looking guy. Actually, always
what's his background? I was always going to ask if
he's in the Marlborough seventy four Ranfredy Shield team. He
looked like the hes from that era. Anyway, it's Marcus.
Good evening, good evening, good evening, Cura, Hi.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
I was just ringing up about the first day that
I remember. My first day at Intermediate was back in
nineteen ninety one, so I remember going there and just
like things, little things like because I used to play
soccer every day at primary. And then when I went
to intermedia, I was looking around he played soccery and

(26:38):
everyone was calling it a gaze game, you know what
I mean? And I was like, hey, and that's yeah,
that's why. That's one thing I remember. That's one thing
I remember. And another thing was when when when when
lunch time came? When when lunchtime came up? But when
play lunchtime? I we used to call it playtime. When

(26:59):
we left primary, they were recording a playtime. Anyone was
laughing in there's another one thing and one more thing,
half another one the other thing.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
But yeah, anyway, what intermediate wasn't I was?

Speaker 9 (27:16):
I was.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
I was caught tighter intermediate when I went there, but
then they changed then they changed it to everl on.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
The weird thing is one. The weird thing is you
go for I've never realized this until recently. You go
from primary to intermediate, and you're an intermediate school. There's
no jungle gym. You just got to stand around because
you come to the bars and then suddenly, hang on,
what's this. It's just it's changed. You know, you got peditatus,
but not much else. You just got to like walk

(27:44):
around in groups like in Shure Shake Redemption.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
There was another thing I remember, and I was when
we're I got well. When I was there one of
my first days, and it was like like four couples
on a line or perishing like and I was quite
like so I've never really it was like weird. It
was like four couples are like a thing. There must
have been a thing back in their day, but wasn't

(28:10):
my thing. But yeah, I remember seeing.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
That no jug, no jungle, but that's time he formed
two kids pescion.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
Yeah, four couples in the light and just they're all
in the sea and I was scum years I've never here.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
It wasn't Yeah, all the teachers that all be in
the staffroom smoking probably.

Speaker 7 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, so that's all I remember.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Would they go from school to Everlon, I thought they'd
be going the other way.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
I don't know. I don't know what happened. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Heaven I'll find out.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
It's nice to phone meet your eighteen to nine Marcus
to first day school. Marcus, You're right to Africa. Who
could not stay in Africa? I'm thinking about Toto Africa.
It should be Prince Harry's walk on song, shouldn't it

(29:07):
because he's patient about Africa. That's how they get back
in the good books. If that followed him around, what
is the instrument that starts that song? Hear the drums
echoing tonight? Abe?

Speaker 12 (29:22):
Hey, market, how are good?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (29:24):
Abe?

Speaker 12 (29:25):
I'm just ringing in because I had a bit of
a unfortunate first day of school.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Am I going to be traumatized listening to it?

Speaker 10 (29:34):
No?

Speaker 12 (29:34):
No, no, nothing so serious?

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Primary or intermediate or secondary?

Speaker 13 (29:39):
Primary?

Speaker 12 (29:40):
Okay, so you're five, yep, I'm five. I have a
birthday that is after the start of the school year,
so I come in on my birthday rather sheepishly. Everybody
sort of formed their own little cliques by this point,
and you know, make my way through the first half
of the day, get to the morning tea or lunch

(30:02):
or you can't remember which, pick a table of these
pre formed groups. So the picentally approached, pull out my
lunch box, get ready to sit down, and somebody whipped
the chair out from under me. No clattering to the ground,
lunch everywhere. But the weird thing was everyone was just

(30:23):
immediately apologetic. The bloke did it apologize straight away? No,
last no years, no, nothing.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
That's not where they got That must be quite recent,
because I think schools have changed, because I imagine and
my day people would have just thought it was hilarious.

Speaker 6 (30:39):
I know, I know it was bizarre.

Speaker 12 (30:41):
It's like they'd learn it off a TV show or
something and then oh, it's a bit meaner.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Than I thought.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
How long are we talking talking nineties or aught.

Speaker 12 (30:50):
Orts, early aughts?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
And from then on? Did things go good for you?

Speaker 11 (30:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (30:55):
Yeah, yeah, friends with the bloke to this day. Actually,
so alls are then endslve. But yeah, it's a bit
of a rude awakening.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
I think classic bonding technique because you can't get him,
you know, classic another file. I pulled the chief from
under him. Oh good ay there, Abe?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
Yeah, well I like that, good way to break the ice.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
You're still in the same town, uh.

Speaker 12 (31:17):
Or in a roundabout way, I've sort of made my.

Speaker 11 (31:20):
Way back there.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Brilliant. Nice to hear from you, Abe. Remember I drove
up to the school to see my young lad at school,
the younger one, and he was just standing on a
hell on his own. I thought, that's that talk about
send him back to the old kinderooney and put him
back in the next year much happier with that.

Speaker 16 (31:36):
He was.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Wasn't ready, wasn't here, was ready? Just look about miserable Marcus.
I got in trouble my first primary school. I was
stung by be at lunchtime. I thought that was great
because I was only in my class, had ever been
in the staff room. Instant fame, chuckle Katie. I got
in trouble in my first dad third form and a

(31:59):
family friend dropped me off and the zooped up skyline
had some music blasting. I'll go to the car thing.
I was cool, you know. I heard someone yell oye
at me. It was the massive Scottish teacher who was
over two meters tall, and he gave me a teacher
that dropped off of a bus zone. So I quickly something.
I was cool to low, embarrassed and safe to say
on anything wrong again. Wow, as sputin into media has

(32:31):
an adventure player with bars, swings and a heap of
climbing options. Must have arrested development evening, Ron, Marcus, welcome
there you do good thanks.

Speaker 19 (32:43):
Ron, Yeah, am intermediate. The second day I took four
bucks out of the old man's word. Getting the seventies,
I think custom squees are like fifteen cents each worked
four bucks with the customed squeeze and see them around.
Everyone became popular. Good up on my ear. I confessed
to it straight away, said we did you get the money?

(33:04):
I was there in my dad's world. Ali, my dad
was here as well with the diputy principal, and didn't
get into trouble because I told the truth. The next
day we hit sausage roll and I got into trouble
that time.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
What I quite like about that is that you're honest
and generous.

Speaker 19 (33:25):
You know, it's a good black lantermediate in Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
What do you The next day you had sausage rolls here.

Speaker 19 (33:31):
I took another five because I was.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Well, you did take another fire. I was wondering about that.

Speaker 19 (33:37):
It wasn't quite the same story when I got home,
of course.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
But was your old man? Was your old man? Dp?

Speaker 4 (33:46):
No?

Speaker 19 (33:46):
No, mister Robb was what was your old man?

Speaker 13 (33:49):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Did he teach at the schools? Your father?

Speaker 19 (33:52):
And they'd been called they called my father in Oh
the mom father is a minister.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Oh if you're feeding sinister, go off and see the
minister's pariship.

Speaker 19 (34:05):
But you were honest, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ended up
in a cherry boys home.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Oh yeah, what what would that be called now? Is
that like a boars stall?

Speaker 19 (34:17):
Horrible?

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Oh yeah, it was it. I've never heard of it
as a boars.

Speaker 19 (34:20):
Dolly ser asternami run thing.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
Cheapers, creepers.

Speaker 19 (34:26):
It's a very messive farm, six thousand acres and all
the boys get on the farm in the morning and
milk and get cows and push bigsick ice packs into
the trough and break them up so the cows could
have a drink.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Was your father a kay about your going there?

Speaker 7 (34:41):
He put me there?

Speaker 19 (34:45):
Wow, there some okay sons bick in the seventies.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Men, cheapers, creepers.

Speaker 15 (34:51):
How long?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
How long we get the boys home?

Speaker 9 (34:54):
For?

Speaker 20 (34:55):
Uh?

Speaker 19 (34:56):
Two and a half months? Await? And then I was
an award of the court. See all the other kids
were awards to the court or the justice system. Yeah,
and like they began and walking out of the shops
and TVs and that sort of thing. But I was
there because I was just a misterf maker.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Did you did you go back to your family after
your two and a half months?

Speaker 9 (35:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (35:21):
Yeah, Well they'd gone to the sites, were big religious
boody meeting, a big convince them. And then they traveled
around a bit and because no one no one will
go super hyperactive, no one would look after me. My
grandmother would look at me. So I was going to
be too much of a handful. So they stuck me

(35:42):
in there.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
These days, these days, I probably medicate you.

Speaker 19 (35:47):
They medicated me back then too.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Okay, So I was just trying to say, I was
just trying to be hopefuls. Why what were the Mormons ron.

Speaker 19 (35:59):
Now he shout in my pennycostals, Oh well cheap.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 19 (36:02):
My man was the president of gaf TV. Who gospel
business from Fellowship International? Say it again, if gb if
I gospel businessman is Fellowship International.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
Sounds like.

Speaker 19 (36:19):
They're just working mean that believes in God and they
do chucked and need some money into it. Really, these
avengers come here from the States. They come and stay
in our caravan outside just Kevin caravan thing we had
at the end of the meetings. They'd be in there
laughing and can't and cash and smoke and just all
rot that crook. Yeah, so just wrotsman is loving the

(36:43):
money free travel around all over in New Zealand, getting
put up, getting free fades, getting cash you read, not
that they went to a meeting.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
It's just.

Speaker 19 (36:54):
That's just my opinion. They were now it was all tapping.
But this is my opinion of what I think the religion,
the understandable rue. It was Sunday, Monday Tuesday with the
womens would come into our house and Dad would drag
them in. We'll drag him in, physically put them in
and put on the dug trying to get out of

(37:16):
me be ministering away to them. And it was delirious.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Enjoyed that very much. Ron, Thank you, it's good. All
good stories. I am looking for the exciting stories of
your first day at school. Traumatic but not too traumatic.
Although we all remember it, don't We don't thk we've
put out there and so I can't remember my first
day at school. I in those days, it was one

(37:43):
of the few reasons you'd get the camera out for
you do the portrait. These days you're taking photos all
the time, but oh, you're the first day at school.
That was something quite special. Primary, intermediate or secondary. Right
about tonight? Get in touch by name is Marcus? Welcome?

(38:04):
Also who out there has no phone and no watch?
How's that working out for you?

Speaker 7 (38:13):
ACU.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
I don't know why we say the time so often
on the on the radio? Is anyone ready kere what
time it is? You say it wrong?

Speaker 11 (38:21):
Boy?

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Do they text? Oh you think you'll find that it's
Oh could you tell the host it's ten past eight
not ten past nine? Get a lot of texts like that?
Hey tell those what's that about? People seem to enjoy
someone getting the time wrong. They've lost the ball in

(38:43):
the cricket and now he's found it. Number seven, Simon,
it's Marcus good evening, welcome.

Speaker 9 (38:53):
Make I tell you good Simon? Oh good. I decided
to talk about a lot of start the school primary school. Yeah,
it will sound pretty good. I seemed to, you know,
I just made freak and say seemed just just what
are we talking?

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Simon?

Speaker 9 (39:13):
Oh? Primary? What year school? Ye? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Are you still friends with any of them?

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Now?

Speaker 9 (39:24):
Haven't seen me?

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Are you still in the same province?

Speaker 21 (39:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah, I wonder where they all are?

Speaker 19 (39:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (39:37):
I know it seems with the odd Yeah, yeah, it's
didn't seem solved from the arra.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
But have you been to school? Have you been to
school union? Simon?

Speaker 5 (39:52):
No?

Speaker 9 (39:54):
No, even I should before you go one day?

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Okay, we might leave it there. You had to mind
for materials some days. First Dame School, keep that going
by the way house far and under a cargole. I
did see smoke because I came into town tonight. Oh
this might be another one. Oh there was one before,
Now there's another one. It was a garage fire, was
reported Marcus Wearing in Vocago at the moment. Big house

(40:20):
fire on Manapuri Street in Vicago. Five fire trucks. Old
couple lost their home, really said started eight thirty. Well
that was strange. There's two fires in Vicago tonight. What's
that about? It is quite strong winds, it's free dry.
If you alone's got any more information about that, I'd
like to hear from you. Yeah, I did see I

(40:45):
did see smoke, but I would have been in town
before that when it started. So yeah, I'm just want
to see where that is. Actually, I kind of know
Manapurti Street a little bit. I'm just googling it up
to see infect exactly where that is. Oh yeah, okay,

(41:05):
it's a nice old straight It's one of those no
weeks at one's goodness. First dut School, looking forward to
your stories. Oh, eight hundred and eighty s head. He
kept the six coming through nine two nine to two
time updates on the radio. Yes, please, why would we
update the time? I suppose people are in bed trying
to get to sleep, but keep your texts and your

(41:25):
emails coming through. Like to hear from you tonight, Catherine texts,
infect your emails. Still can't believe that man sat for
one hundred and four or five hours on the phone
four days. This is on hold to tell to to clear?
Was it to clear one of the telecommunication companies? Keep

(41:48):
thinking it must have meant one hundred and five minutes?
Beause adamant it was four days. Crazy. Another good show,
Catherine and cheers. Have a great day, Tina, says Tina. Tina,
our Sky TV keeps freezing or not working at all,

(42:08):
bet at this for weeks. We just gave one month
notice to Sky to disconnect after forty five months. Must
be forty five minutes on hold that we got through.
We also asked to have the month refunded. They agreed
to this. They said a fix could take weeks to months.

(42:35):
Actually found something quite interesting on the sky today, Tales
from the Underground. I only saw the last fifteenth of
very interesting and what I've done is I've watched us
for modern of series, recorded it so I can watch them.

(43:02):
Probably the last episode known My Luck, I think that's
what it was called Tales from the Underground, Our Secrets
of the Underground. It was about Channel ninety three or
something like that.

Speaker 11 (43:16):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Yes, indeed, if there's news, I'll bring it to your
your first day of school. Since most people, I think
most people have gone back today seems to be the way.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
I think.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
The earliest start, the less teacher only days you have. Sorry,
the earlier start, the more teacher only days you have.
What's that about, Liz Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (43:40):
I'm still feeling guilty because I had the twin, as
you probably remember, and I was actually the naughty twin.
She's a good one because I wasn't really naughty. I
just said bright. I had golden here and I was
full of beans and she was the quiet one. Well,
I had her first day of school. I even know
what we wore, and I'm sure with her pants good. Yes,

(44:05):
So I didn't like her that day. I was ashamed
of her, and I'm still guilty to this day.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
That's bad that were you identical?

Speaker 4 (44:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Because she was no?

Speaker 17 (44:13):
No, she she was different than the thing is. She
was such a lovely twin, so I felt I felt
I was horrible even to that stay because I didn't
want to know anyone to know that she was my twin.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
How tod was that for her?

Speaker 19 (44:30):
Terrible?

Speaker 11 (44:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Can you mention earthtter?

Speaker 17 (44:33):
It was very, very very reserved and for her, I
don't know if you ever got over it, since I
don't think the twin helped her well.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
These days, they'd probably put her an eppy, but it.

Speaker 17 (44:50):
Was probably their fault because it was too Yeah, she
probably didn't say can I go to the She was
extremely sure and I think we're only four? Always started.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Did they send to carry a pigeon to get the parents?

Speaker 17 (45:05):
No, I don't know what happened. They were very good.
We would talk by the none so now it's so
kind to her, but that didn't mean anything to her,
and having a sister who didn't really, I mean, twins
can be, twins can be at times are quite separate

(45:27):
in terms of you know, I've got twins, I've got
some neverviews and oh god, they're all over the place,
and the twins all over the place. And one of
my nieces and nephews, and he says when she went
to school her couldn't had bright red hair. Did you
talk to your twin and she said, oh, no, I'm

(45:48):
not going to do that. She says, So twins are
quite funny.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
I presume the way you're talking about your sister she's
no longer in this planetary realm.

Speaker 17 (45:56):
That r show very very tragatic accent. I don't really think.
I think that's probably the worst thing for me from
my whole life.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, but she died an accident.

Speaker 17 (46:09):
I'll very tragic accidents. And the point is you get
through because you have to. But because you've been born together,
and you went to school together, and you had the
same bedroom and you went every area.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Together for nine months too, won't you well?

Speaker 17 (46:27):
And because you don't talk to each other, it's all
mental telepathy.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
You don't need to talk like that podcast.

Speaker 17 (46:33):
Yeah, and what happens is that person you never fight
because you don't really need to because I understand it
so much.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Did you ever talk to you about the fact that you.

Speaker 17 (46:46):
Well, well, I can't remember. After that. Oh, she probably
probably would have had a weird talk and I probably
felt guilty.

Speaker 5 (46:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (46:55):
She didn't deserve my treat you.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
They'll go with the Catholicism too, wouldn't you.

Speaker 21 (47:01):
Ah, they're not were.

Speaker 17 (47:06):
I mean, I know what everyone says, but I didn't
have that sort of treatment. So everybody to their own
if you have a lovely experience like IR did, and
I didn't give whoop smack, none of the ms, so
everything I was absolutely gorgeous. So I've got a childhood
of the most stunning memories.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Is nice to hear. Forgot thank you. Seventeen past nine
Stags have won the cricket by five wickets. That you
have it, Bruce, Marcus Hello, huh.

Speaker 16 (47:36):
Hello Marcus, Bruce, Hi Bruce. It did make me chuckle
when you said with your luck it's probably you know,
near the end of the series about the secrets of
the London Underground, which I've been so enjoying for so long.
So the good news is that you've you've found it.
The bad news is that there are four series thirty

(48:00):
six episodes, and I think we're sort of pretty much
halfway through season four on TVNZ.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Where would I find that time delighted or what.

Speaker 15 (48:10):
If I call it?

Speaker 16 (48:13):
Uh, I'm yeah, I don't do that. It's it TVNZ class.
But I think you can find pretty much any programs.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
I found it, like Channel seventy three. I think it
was about one o'clock today.

Speaker 16 (48:24):
I think I found it okay, and you can probably
find it all over YouTube or stuff like that. It
seems that most of the publicly broadcast is stuff you
can find somewhere free. You can find movies on another.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
One that I go to, Well, the police will be
propelling for your window one darn Bruce or.

Speaker 16 (48:48):
A rist No, anyway, it did maybe chuckle as I've
so enjoyed that series.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
I'm pleased you have run up because I think I
got the name wrong, but A certainly because I can
see that woman that's the one that was and the
guy in the vest that certainly was. Secrets of it
on the underground.

Speaker 16 (49:01):
Did the city Holloway and Tim Gunn. We won't mention
Gaida at this point anyway. That was what I meant
to say.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Okay, please to Gaida's working for us twenty one past night.
We won't meet funny things he already. We won't mention Gaida.
What's that about? Just let's see which episode I watched.
Each episode deals with a couple of stations yep, interest

(49:39):
in some of the old tube MEPs, so were quite different.
I can't think what episode it was tonight, this afternoon evening.

Speaker 18 (49:50):
Peter, evening, Marcus.

Speaker 15 (49:55):
I remember quite plain. The year was nineteen forty one
and I went to just starting primary. I went to school.
Was one of the neighbors, a fellow by the name
of Noel Dunshat.

Speaker 9 (50:13):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (50:13):
Yeah, he was a relation to Dunshae, the footballer rugby playing.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yep, that'd be right, right.

Speaker 15 (50:23):
And yeah, we go off to school.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
And where about zayah Uh.

Speaker 15 (50:30):
That was Hornby Primary School in christ Church, yep, right.
So yeah, so this day finished and I thought, geesus
is great. Now ten o'clock we had everyone had a
bottle of milk that was free. That's come lunch time

(50:52):
and you got free.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
Oh something like Milo'd be right, it'd be born Vita
or bot. Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 15 (51:03):
Am here that we had had that as much as
you like. And at two o'clock playtime you went past
the apple box and the teacher gave you an apple.
You sat down at n apple and I thought, you whiskers,
if this school, are you I enjoying this?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Peter, don't take exception to what I'm going to ask.
I know some of you people are thin skinned, and
I don't know if this is a silly question or not.
Was Harnley go was Hornby part of christ Church was
a separate town.

Speaker 15 (51:40):
It was six miles from the square.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (51:46):
Now, incidentally, you know when the cathedral had the spire
two hundred and ten feet high. That spire was when
you left the square and came to Hornby, to the
railway line that was going to south Bridge and Little River,

(52:09):
you had actually climbed up two hundred and ten feet.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Goodness, I remember you're saying that the Hornby's the same
height as the spire.

Speaker 15 (52:20):
Yes, when they had the spire two hundred and ten
feet I remember my dad telling me all this and things. Yeah,
I Hornby. Like now I've come back to Hornby. Now, man,
it's unreal because I left there in nineteen fifty six

(52:44):
and that was houses and paddocks and the glass works,
freezing works, hume Pipe. There was a fertilizer place on
the main road. There wasn't a hell of a lot there.
But now, yeah, but that was my first primary school

(53:07):
and I thought, gee, Whiskers, I like this I mean
it was only five but you know free.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Mole, Noel dunha on the becker his horse. Hey on
the becker, Noel Dunshat's horse. Is that how you got there?

Speaker 9 (53:28):
No?

Speaker 15 (53:28):
No, we walked Okay, that was about it'll be two
and a half mile. And then Noel said to me
after about a week he said, look we'll cut cut
through smarts Pitt instead of walking way around well Smart's pit.

Speaker 9 (53:47):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (53:48):
Later years that was filled in. It's now a grass area.
There's a swimming complex there. Denton Parker is there.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Oh that's from the calm game. So there the cycling,
isn't it?

Speaker 15 (54:03):
It could have been? I was away.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Then where'd you go when you went walk about, dear
old Peter?

Speaker 15 (54:09):
Oh right, I went from where well hornedby the Pepernui
and I got married in those days when we had
our fears child. Now Bishop Doyle was just opening up.
There was all the tar seal roads and footpaths and everything,

(54:33):
and they were building houses. So what we did, like
hundreds of others, you cashed in your family benefit that
acted as a deposit for a newly built house. C. B.
Drinnan builder from Pepernui, built the house. Yeah, you cash

(54:57):
in your family benefit then you automatically because everyone worked
in those days, and you got a state advances three
percent loan for thirty years. Yeah, thirty years I think

(55:18):
or twenty No, thirty because I thought, oh, yeah, well
my house will be paid off by when I'm fifty.
But as we went along, money went up and you
paid your house often.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah, Hornby PEPPINOI then where.

Speaker 15 (55:39):
Well, oh, then we had a child and then lived
in this new house in Bishop Dowe. We were there
ten years and we thought, oh, we'd like to get
out in the country somewhere, so we bought a house

(56:00):
in Kypo and in Cribton Street near the motorway.

Speaker 3 (56:06):
Did you know Norman Camp.

Speaker 15 (56:10):
No, I knew of him, but I've never met him.
And yeah, after that, as a kid in nineteen forty one,
we used to go camping at Amberley Beach. Oh, we
had had some great fun there. So anyway, Kyle Pouter
took Heather out one day. That was my wife's name. Oh,

(56:32):
she's loved Embly Beach. Here. We end up buying a
house there. Do we stay there for many years? Then
we did a trip over on the West Coast from
Graymuth going north up Granity, knock a war hector getting

(56:56):
it that way anyway, we found a beautiful old house
right on the sea coast, overlooking Sheer Rock at Granity. Yeah,
who owns it?

Speaker 16 (57:08):
What have you?

Speaker 15 (57:08):
We've went for weeks holiday there. By the time we
come home, we signed up for the sause and had
to sell their own, which we did pretty quick. And
then we lived at Granich for a number of years,
and unfortunately my wife started again quite ill.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
So I hope I've got to go to headlines, Peter,
but look, thank you for the story. Yeah, that's great, Marcus.
Most is the TV dinner on the underground on TV.
Marcus is a non issue and recognized by Sky, which
causes the intereptment and reception problems. The satellite's falling has
been repositioned. That's right, we've been talking about that. Get

(57:54):
in touch, Marcus. I can't remember my first a private school,
my first antimy. It's got I love my teacher, Dennis Eberhardt,
oldies in cricket coach. There you go, first day of school.
When he said that then he left athor he had
been like a defrica or so I didn't realize I'd

(58:16):
just been across to pepper Nui. Not surprised by dB Marcus.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Good evening, Good evening, and welcome to the new year.
My first day of school was reported back to me
because I don't remember it quite but apparently when Lamona
came to collect me, I was standing out in the
corridor and she asked me, why are you out here?

(58:44):
I said, you tend to put me out here because
I'm not allowed to talk while she's talking. Unfortunately, that
has followed me through the rest of my adult life
as well.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Slightly dracoding on the first day, isn't it?

Speaker 6 (59:02):
Yeah, I didn't know there were rules. Yes, that was
apparently my first day was Yeah, I was lacking in
I continued for the next sixty odd years.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Did it get better.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
Till though?

Speaker 6 (59:19):
Did you see my bosses?

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Did you say less?

Speaker 9 (59:28):
No?

Speaker 6 (59:28):
I think I became less diplomatic effect. Sometimes I would
tell bosses not what they wanted to hear, but what
they need I need to say.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Not just to think if you if you went to
school now that have a name for someone like you,
that puts you in a category.

Speaker 6 (59:47):
Yes, I think they would. Actually I think that even
if I'd been gone to a bet not a better school,
different school like a Montessory. Yes, I think for me
the sky would have been the limit. And it sounds arrogant,
but yeah, I'm not without some intellect. But you know,

(01:00:12):
I was always a tall poppy, and the teachers did
their best to try to keep me slightly behind below
the level of handing my head chopped off.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Did you read a lot?

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
Yes, all the time. Always remember. I can remember reading
encyclopedias when I was an expanded three because they were
more interesting than what the person up in front of
the class was yacking on about. I also spent a
lot of my school time wagging. I don't spend a

(01:00:52):
lot of as much time in school as I should have,
and I still got.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
By wagging and doing what dB.

Speaker 7 (01:01:00):
As I got.

Speaker 22 (01:01:01):
Older, I would just wander around.

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
Very places, like it wasn't unusual for me to go
down the wolves and watch how ships were unloaded, or
I'd go rowy. I just go there in my my
mose took me, and I often, even as I think
a teenager, often say I learned more on a day

(01:01:27):
not at school than I did a day in school.
So but I had that sort of brain about me.
I had one one of my maths teacher figured this
out early and when I he could coron me, you'd
give me a week' swith of that.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
There go.

Speaker 6 (01:01:51):
And send me making bleepy noises. And it worked. I
could take it in just not you know, you just
give it to me in one big hit. And yeah,
I still managed to make school uie math, much to
the amazement of the rest of the faculty. It came

(01:02:16):
back to me when I got a semi everagent school shirt.
It frawed the staff room an absolutely, this guy can't
be this is not right.

Speaker 18 (01:02:27):
He's cheated.

Speaker 6 (01:02:29):
Of course I've cheated.

Speaker 22 (01:02:31):
I've got a brain.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Sorry, I'm sure teachers like pupils like you.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
Only the really good teachers. For the rest of them,
I was just a pain in the ass.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
Nice to talk to me, Thanks so much. Nineteen to ten,
six to ten, Dave Marcus, good evening. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Oh well, okay, yep, I los Dave, You're right.

Speaker 10 (01:03:02):
I heard. Yeah, yeah, no, it wasn't exciting. I saw
the time I thought you were going to go to
the news, just when you said you mentioned Christopher Walkin
and the whole watch cell phone things. Yep, yeah, yeah,
I kind of made me laugh.

Speaker 8 (01:03:15):
Do you remember the movie.

Speaker 18 (01:03:18):
Oh God with Jogevolder, you.

Speaker 10 (01:03:20):
Know, Quentin guaranteedo movie pulp fiction, culp fiction. Yeah, you know,
So there's you know, there's a few stories going on
in it that sort of all sort of crossover, and
the sort of the main one is Bruce willis, you know,
he's got to throw, He's got to throw the fight
or the otherwise he's going to be in trouble, and
he goes and hence the sort of the movie goes
from there. Well, remember the fact story to him not

(01:03:43):
wanting to throw the fight, with him sitting there remembering
his dad, his dad's mate given him that watch that
he that he kept to give to his friend to
then give to his son, ye ye ye Ye's. So
here's a bit of an irony there. I don't know
where that news speaks from, but I'm guessing it's interesting

(01:04:04):
because Christopher walk and the god who's famous for the
big speech on this watch, son, don't lose this watch.
It means so much. Your dad put it in an
unsingable place for years to hide it from its captives.
Doesn't actually have a watch and never has had one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
You know what I mean, do you remember the movie, well,
have you watched it again recently?

Speaker 10 (01:04:27):
No, I just I read books I used to do.
So I'm one of those people who when I watch
a movie, I listen to it and pay attention I suppose,
which sadly not everybody does. My missus doesn't. She talks
through it. So my mum, I've just come back to
move place, and she acts through stuff and then then

(01:04:47):
ask questions which she'd know the answer to if she's
watching it. So yes, there's there's those people, and there
people like me who pay attention. I guess I'm one
of those.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
And the good metory by the sad things.

Speaker 10 (01:04:59):
Well, if look if her movie is well scripted and
well acted, and then you know, Christopher Walken, it was
a very memorable scene, you because he's very intense, you know,
actually talking to.

Speaker 23 (01:05:08):
A little kids.

Speaker 10 (01:05:10):
Really memorable scene. I just thought. Another thing, James card
because a job my member James James Karn. There was
an interview with him years ago and he was amused
because he'd been voted as the Italian of the Year.
He was nominated for the Italian of the Year on
the back of as Godfather appearances. Yep, and he's he's

(01:05:30):
an American, the son of two Jews that fled Germany,
which he found amusing. You know, so he's not of
Italian decent, but yeah, they were so tagging with his
performances and the Godfather they nominated him for Italians of
the Years.

Speaker 3 (01:05:49):
Must hear from you, Dave. We just come to news.
People look forward to talking to you afterwards. Eight hundred
and eighty twenty and nineteen nine two to text Hittle twelve.
Today is the first day of the Chinese Do year.
There's we're talking the news about five works. Have you
seen any year of the Snake? So they celebrate until

(01:06:13):
the Lantern Festival, which will be on feb twelve. Super
Bowl will be on Feb ten. Kansas City Chiefs will
play the Pilly Eagles, same teams as twenty twenty three.
Kansas City Chiefs, if they win, will be the first
team to do the three peat. Ever, Kendrick Lamar will

(01:06:35):
be the halftime and just over a month half time
and time just over a month till the NRL kicks
off in Las Vegas. It was only today reading articles
I think by fairhoers By in the New Zeally Herald
that I realized that when the NRL does get to

(01:06:58):
twenty teams, it's going to be split into two conferences
of ten teams each. Not like the sounds of that,
but that's the way it's going to go. I'm sure
will cope. So that's kind of some of the stuff
that's coming up. What do you want to talk about?
Feel free to come through. Oh, by the way, Popeyes
it's opened, and Tucker Ninny now it's opening. Lower huge cues, Carmageddon.

(01:07:22):
Is there any good? How's the one at Tucking Nini going?
Is it still crazy busy there? I've got quite strong
feelings about chicken or barbecued chicken or fry chicken is

(01:07:47):
what they call it. It's all right, but only very
occasionally it feels a bit full on. I don't think
it's just sort of thinking want with every day. By
the way, where they're going to Palmeston North. Also they

(01:08:08):
are in Takaniny and Lower Hut. They will go to
Palmi North corner of Tremaine Ave and an Angy t
K Street one of the business sections in Palmerston North.
Seven nineteen vehicles an hour a day, a week a day.

(01:08:32):
The knee is not worried good on them, so I
think it's just a three back In Lower Hut, customers
shared their thoughts or whether the food was worth the way.
It's really good. The chickens nice and crunchy. It's got
a lot of sauce, lots to favor. Quite tasty. Actually

(01:08:55):
it's better than caves, so it's not as oily. It's
quite crunchy. Tannicker said it didn't have a lot of flavor.
I didn't get the mild in the chin were quite
mild as well. So there you go. That's causing traffic
chaos and Lower Hut yep. I've introduced traffic management to

(01:09:20):
stop long queues spilling onto the road. Two people complained
it's so popular opening Lower Hut outlet earlier this month,
the customers were curing from as early as three am. Wow,
that's pretty full on for Lower Hat, doesn't it? Three am?

(01:09:45):
I'd go dining. I think of are there tables inside?

Speaker 15 (01:09:48):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Can you die in dining? There'd be more me. I
don't like eating in the car. Then you got to
touch the hand or steering wheelr they get greasy. Wouldn't
that terrible? And a lot of people out of the
other chicken. They like to just eat it and then
I just like to throw the pecket out the window,
which is interesting gesture. I've always thought someone said, there's

(01:10:11):
also Popeyes and Papa is there one? And tucking any
one and Papa Toy Toy as well. Goodness, how many
Popeyes are there? Popeyes New Zealand restaurant locator. I think

(01:10:33):
locata might be spelt wrong, but she now unsure h
here we go except all cookies. That's me Hasting's lower hut,
the delivery kitchen and TUCKAPOONA didn't know that. Just deliveries. Wow,

(01:10:59):
who needs it at home? Tucking and Eatopo, Pappa Toy Toy.
That's it quite close together, Tucking Ninnee and Papa Toy Toy.
So there you go. That's everything for me. What do
you want to talk about? Lines? They're free? How you're
going people? Eighteen past ten, Marcus till midnight? Blah blah blah,

(01:11:23):
people still going about pieces cool as he went around
christ Church Family Benefit getting all that together. Three percent,
thirty years brilliant. Any after shocks, I think there would

(01:11:44):
be some from a five to five point four, although
that after shock itself was an after shock from ten
years ago. I always think it's good to get a
quake that doesn't kill you. What it means he's letting
off steam. The plate just stops us getting the big one.
Got strong feelings about that. Yeah, two point nine after

(01:12:05):
shock sixth Notts aft Doon, just Western Masterton one. They're
picked in two point eight. I'll tell you what I've
often been critical. I picked it in the past. But
their mini golf is good. Oh now, not is the
mini golf good. But they've got this toasted sandwich cafe.

(01:12:26):
They are God. They've gone on and on about that,
the toasted sandwiches and picked in well if I've seen
one article, but I've seen ten articles about it. I
forget what it's called. But they even offered me on
my Facebook to start a franchise, right, and I thought,
how good could a toasted sandwich be? So we get

(01:12:49):
off the ferry the Kaitaky, which I can't never work
out it's not called the KATIARKI was it called the Kentucky?
And I go to Toasty Lords and picked in but
lest when the kids aren't hungry, And I said, it's

(01:13:10):
not about being hungry. This is like this is like
like Stations of the Cross on the food crawl that
not into it. Yeah, I was upset about that. I'd
been saving myself, so I ordered and set myself down
on the nice park. They would to play mini golf
and I got I think I got like a tuna one.

(01:13:35):
It's on the menu now. It was a hive of activity.
I think the bus that arrived here with that bus
I know the nickname for, but I can't say that
that bus when you go in the country, country together.
Holy young people on the bus together that came in, Well,
they'll all get in one.

Speaker 5 (01:13:54):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
I see what flavor up when my computer opens. I
thought it was very good, very good. A lot of
young people working there. But they also put it and
they cut it in half and put in a box
like sprinkled gerkins and stuff on top of it. I've

(01:14:15):
never seen a it presented like that. Yeah, it was
very good. See franchising around the country. I haven't seen
the others open, but yeah, they clearly think they've got
the golden sauce. And I think there's only one now.
But they're all about franchising opportunities. But yeah, there you go.

(01:14:36):
If you get stuck and picked in. It's not a
bad place to go. I'd heard a lot of hype
about it, but there are menu That pop up menu
is terrible. I can't even see what the to got
a trip Advisor because I had kind of you know
how most places have kind of quirky names for their food.
Now I'd like to see what my burger was caught

(01:14:57):
up toasted sandwich was called, but I can't find it
at all. Anyway, I'm doing a lot of talking for
this twenty minutes, that's fine, but if you want to
add something about your first day at school. Can't find
the name of this damn sandwich. It was called like
the ancient mariner or something. But you found anything in

(01:15:21):
the dan that says what it is dand on it?
Oh yeah, the names out there, that's it. Tell me
what they called ivan? What's that one? Pastravi sourkraut pickle?

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
No, not that?

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Next kim chi chipotle?

Speaker 15 (01:15:40):
Male?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Is it called the ed? Wasn't that? Next? What's it called? Quint? Quint?
That's why I had out a quint, tuna, jalipino and
red onion. Very good. We're waiting for the bus to
blend him and the bus to Vendom is just not

(01:16:00):
inter city. It's just the local marle or a bus.
Very good. It was too, but they mainly pinched, like
on their pinch and a card or something like that,
cocker hope. And they went arrived at Blenham famished. Well
they were famish because I turned on the toasted sandwich,
had to get a nice cream in a panic. They
had to walk to the motel with a retall Motelia.

(01:16:24):
It looked like he was out of the Marlborough ran
for his shield team. It must mean six or four,
but looked like a straight off the high country anyway, Marcus,
can we talk about AI. I'm finding so many people
are using it now for daily life organizational work. It's
getting pretty intense. Could someone tell me what they're using

(01:16:46):
AI for. I'm not really using it that much ever.
Mind I'm not running job applications. I probably should be,
but I'm not doing that AI kind of stuff. You
reckon the new one it shows your workings is the
one the Chinese guys did for about five million, where

(01:17:07):
the other ones are spending hundreds of billions of dollars
for training. Yep, it'd all go bad. No handbrakes, no checks,
no balances twenty five past ten. Won't be long before
the talkback calls that AI. Whether they'll be more interesting

(01:17:28):
or less interesting, I'm not quite sure. But what they
can do is you can probably they could pretend to
be someone that actually exists. They could copy some of
the voice. I think it's probably five years away. Talkback
will be AI. Yep, it's all happening quite quickly these days,

(01:17:55):
isn't it. Colin Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:17:59):
Yeah, hi Marcus. I'm seventy six, but I can vividly
remember my first day at school.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
It's amazing remember it.

Speaker 18 (01:18:07):
Yeah, Oh, I was champing at the bit, you know,
because it didn't have sort of like kidney and all
that sort of thing. Pretty ney preschool in my day.
You just sort of I don't know what happened, but anyway,
the first day at school. So he's sort of champing
at the bit of it. And most of the kids
are in, including myself, you know, we're all excited about

(01:18:29):
going to school. But I always remember one kid that
came in, a little fact kid. He had his mother
with him. He came in late, and he was screaming
and caring on and I went to a Catholic school
in this in the nun there. She was trying to
coax him, and he was having none of it. You know,
he was about to take off with his mother several times.

(01:18:52):
But the second day was interesting because I thought, oh,
I have a day off school, you know, I'm going
to school today. And my mother introduced me to the
wooden spoon. You know, he stars dancing around there copping it,
and I was determined not to get dressed to go
to school anyway. It was the thing that really stuck

(01:19:14):
out for me was peanut butter sandwiches, and because that's
what I had for lunch, and I hated the damned things,
you know, for years after that. But I remember my
uncle coming around from They had some cousins and he
came around with his He was a plumber, and he

(01:19:38):
came around with his vehicle and his old comic cobbl
what the hell it was, and taught me to school.
But always just thing to remember, those peanut butter sandwiches
and copping the wooden spoon, you know, so I clearly
got the message, I'll be going to school every day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
Did you learn to like peanut butter?

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (01:19:59):
Eventually, yeah, eventually, later on. I suppose.

Speaker 9 (01:20:07):
It.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
It's amazing your mother hadn't kind of got your started
on the pin upbout of sandwiches a bit earlier.

Speaker 18 (01:20:14):
Yeah, for sure, it would have been my theory or technic.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
Kind of nice to talk to you, Ben, Marcus evening, welcome.

Speaker 23 (01:20:22):
You get that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Marcus.

Speaker 23 (01:20:23):
And I use the AI home for the TV. I've
got your lips hooked up to it and I just
tell it what Chenda or I want it to go
on and stuff and get a bit lazy actually, and
it just changes it. It does whatever you wanted to do.
And then I'll also use it on my phone for
my photos. You know, I can change the background completely,

(01:20:44):
cut the photo out of the background everybody for the background.
It's really a good once you get to you know,
have a player for it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
So you're using what app for the photos, you're actually
using a type of AI actually checked GPT.

Speaker 7 (01:20:58):
No, No, So I use.

Speaker 23 (01:21:04):
I use Camber schooled Camber for doing photos.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
It's an AI program, is it?

Speaker 9 (01:21:10):
It is?

Speaker 23 (01:21:13):
So it allows you to do heaps of stuff for
the photos. Basically, you know how you used to have
like I think it was published or something, and you
could you do different things with your photos and that.
Think about that, but like a thousand years ahead, it's yeah,
you can do it. Absolutely everything you can possibly think of.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Nice to hear from you, Ben, Mary Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:21:35):
Hi Malcolm, Malcolm alive.

Speaker 21 (01:21:41):
Oh you just order sort of something. My youngest granddaughter
in Australia, who's now mum myself, her first school, all
excited and all that sort of stuff. So after she
went and she came home finally, you know, at the
end of the day, and mom said, oh, what do
you think of school?

Speaker 24 (01:22:00):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:22:00):
Not batch, you said, but.

Speaker 10 (01:22:01):
Don't think I'll bother going back?

Speaker 21 (01:22:06):
Typically heard who you know.

Speaker 14 (01:22:10):
It was?

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
It was praise lizards all right for some, but not
for me.

Speaker 21 (01:22:16):
You got news for you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Haven't We got great grand kids, have you, Mary?

Speaker 21 (01:22:21):
Yes? I have four of them, were all in Australia
and her tire her name is my granddaughter. Her eldest
boy start at school I think it was yesterday. Yes,
because they're a bit different from us, but off he went,
even met his mother cutters here.

Speaker 7 (01:22:39):
But did you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
Are the Queensland?

Speaker 21 (01:22:45):
Yes they are, yes, two in Brisbane and then two
down on the Gold Coast.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
Were you about to say it's a bit of a hangman.

Speaker 21 (01:22:57):
Oh yes, yeah, watch this space.

Speaker 14 (01:23:02):
What does it?

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
What does it mean when you say seven's a bit
of a hangman?

Speaker 24 (01:23:06):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:23:07):
Yeah, well but that says he in New Zealand's I think,
you know, well, just you know, hard case And yeah,
I meant.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
But I've heard people say a bit of a hangman.
I quite like this expression.

Speaker 21 (01:23:21):
Yes, well, I had a visitor here a few weeks
ago and she's a lady from America and she's not
she hasn't been feeling very well. And she came around
and had a cup of tea and everything. And the
thing that gets her is the way we talk. But
you know, and I tried to explain a few things.
But anyway, and I used to speak very well when

(01:23:44):
I said to somebody once they recorded my voice, you know,
and I said, god, I sound like a school teacher.
Not anymore. No, love it. The one you see I've
become a hard case is we're all we all are
got great sense of humor in our family, and we've

(01:24:06):
had lots of tragedies. So it's the thing the picture
through Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
Did you get across? Did you get across at all?

Speaker 21 (01:24:14):
To No, No, I haven't for a while there, about
five years ago. My oldest granddaughter. I went over then
and she had read of cancer. But luckily she's we've
still got her. She had the best of care over there.
Lovely girl. Not just as because she's my granddaughter, but

(01:24:37):
her father. Reckon, she's got a backbonus to your Oh
my god, if i'd known half what they were going
to do, you know, at the time, I am scary stuff.
Scary stuff when you're older, you know.

Speaker 24 (01:24:52):
To watch that and see that bravery Well, yeah, she's
she's but they've got what they do over there.

Speaker 21 (01:25:03):
They had at the time, they had the best from
around the world, best medical people come. They go there
for the lifestyle and the money, as you can imagine,
and she was very lucky, well if it could say that,
but she had them as a team.

Speaker 9 (01:25:19):
And so.

Speaker 21 (01:25:23):
Yeah, she's got a great mom and dad and she's
right now.

Speaker 24 (01:25:25):
Mary, Oh, I think it's.

Speaker 21 (01:25:28):
She still has ural ural.

Speaker 19 (01:25:34):
What do you call it.

Speaker 21 (01:25:36):
She still has url treatment, you know, through the mouth ear.
But no, she gets tired sometimes and that. But no,
she's she's just started her own we business of you know,
light sarongs and dresses and stuff like that, and the

(01:25:57):
lady in her way wants her wants her too.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Yeah, amazing how you can do a business now these days,
just start up and do things like that. Just the
wrongs to Hawaii.

Speaker 21 (01:26:11):
Well yeah, well of course, but no she my family
loved Bali and they're not rich people, but they love
the Balinese themselves actually, And but no, she's got a
we old lady over there. That so of thing's up
for her.

Speaker 10 (01:26:29):
And so.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Yeah we're going to run Mary, but lovely to talk.
Thank you for that. Called twenty three to eleven. Wow,
someone died in New Zealand and gave five thousand as
will to the UK actor from Coronation Street, Jack Shephard
David Platt. Strange thing, isn't it Despite not knowing him personally,

(01:26:57):
and now to sees Ki Feder, so much admiration for
popular UK soapstar he decided to leave him five thousand
pounds in his will. Huh an unnamed ki we postman
ten percent of a state? How often do people get

(01:27:18):
things in the world from someone they've never met? Not
something that's ever happened to anyone I know, anyone inherited anything. Surprisingly,
I'm checking a few topics at you that's all right,
that's all right, surprising inheritances. I think it'll probably happen

(01:27:40):
very very really, am I right? Probably?

Speaker 9 (01:27:44):
Um?

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
The old so wrongs get in touch, Marcus Till twelve,
eight hundred and eighty twenty nine nine two text first
day of school? Your stories about that? And Trump's used
his first press conference to reveal that the drones were
what people always thought just drones. He had great theories

(01:28:18):
before he became a president. Now he's just revealed what
always said they were. No surprise is there? And the
things you use chat ai or whatever it's called for,
that's of interest to me, Marcus. I'm a software developer

(01:28:40):
and I used chat GPT to solve problems I encounter
it to getting to the point now or I'm using
it more than Google is. It always has a helpful
list of things to try. Sometimes it has a hallucination
where it just makes things up that aren't true, but
often it can give you a bread crumb to help
you solve your problem. Andrew, why didn't that clown from

(01:29:04):
COURRIERI give them money to charity, poor form. Killy the
bloke exactly eighteen to eleven, Hello Loraine, It's sorry, Louise,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
It would be the first time been called Lorraine. Yeah, Hi,
marked something I've spoken to you this year. Yeah, my
first day of school. I'll start with that, but then
move on to the inheritance.

Speaker 13 (01:29:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:29:30):
I was terrified, absolutely petrified. At one point I threw
up every week at school. It was, yeah, my first day.
I'll never forget it.

Speaker 22 (01:29:43):
And it's funny.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
I can't remember my daughter's first day of school.

Speaker 10 (01:29:48):
Yeah, I can't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:29:51):
Anyway. I got a phone call.

Speaker 8 (01:29:54):
No, I got a message from one of my daughter's.

Speaker 5 (01:29:58):
Torn about October last year, saying that a cousin that
I'd never heard of want to get hold of me.
So I got hold of a cousin and she said
that our great uncle's son had died. He was the

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great uncle's only child, and he never married or had
any children himself, and he died in twenty twenty in
the middle of the COVID and his estate has been
wound up, and fifty three of us are waiting for

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our inheriton.

Speaker 15 (01:30:42):
Wow, never met the man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
Did he have a will?

Speaker 19 (01:30:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
We're not we don't we're not all out to know
who the lawyer is because there there'll be fifty three
people on the phone saying when are we getting out?
How much are we getting?

Speaker 8 (01:31:00):
Glad?

Speaker 3 (01:31:01):
So was he worth much?

Speaker 5 (01:31:04):
Well, he had a house in Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Jay, Okay, sare's a multimillionaire? Yep, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
But his father, my great uncle, evidently had a great,
big house in Fendleton and when he died, well he
only had the one son. So yeah, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
Really you know, you have spent in your mind though.
Haven't you think you think you're getting about twenty grand?
Do you think you're getting twenty grand? Don't you?

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Well? My cousins said, she said that a million dollars
will get thirty seven thousand meek.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
Providing provided splitting splitting even leave it?

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
Oh yeah they don't. They do evidently, And it's all
but I've checked it all out. It's all genuine. It's
not some sort of scam.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
Where was the house.

Speaker 5 (01:31:59):
An Auckland or the ause of walk clind or something.

Speaker 10 (01:32:02):
I don't have any details, but.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
I felt sorry from because I lived a long time
yeah and Awkorn and didn't even know I had.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
What will you do with the money?

Speaker 5 (01:32:17):
It depends on how much to get really. Yeah, I'd
like to go and see my daughter and and build
a fence and oh look it just it's endless.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
Build a fence. Mind, they say, don't count your chickens,
but build a fence.

Speaker 4 (01:32:34):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Jerry Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (01:32:38):
Oh Cura Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
Jerry, good, thank you good.

Speaker 8 (01:32:42):
I've got a couple of bits for you. One was,
can we start when I started school, because that was
the first thing that happened. Yes, yes, yes, there were
seventy five years ago. Yes, and I can remember it
as clear as anything.

Speaker 3 (01:32:57):
It's amazing that our recollection is so good of those
days back then. I remember mine as clear as our
twenty years behind you.

Speaker 8 (01:33:03):
But yeah, okay, yep, I can't even remember who I've.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
It's Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:33:12):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 8 (01:33:14):
Yeah, I can remember going up where I lived, and
went went up there and round there and down the
road to that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
There wasn't so I could picture it. Jerry, where were you?

Speaker 8 (01:33:20):
It was in Dnedin.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
It was in.

Speaker 10 (01:33:24):
What was St.

Speaker 8 (01:33:24):
Dominic's Convent, which was up behind the old Tech you know,
the tech up off.

Speaker 7 (01:33:31):
Murray on on Murray.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
You're onto it Murray Place.

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
It's not something now something. And then the next street
over was where all the Catholic things, where there was
the the it was the Christian Brothers High School, which
I went to later, and then the San Dominic's convent,
and then.

Speaker 13 (01:33:51):
Where all the.

Speaker 8 (01:33:53):
Nuns lived, the nunnery whatever that is, and then next
to that the cathedral and all that area. Yeah, going
up the area.

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Had a good first day.

Speaker 8 (01:34:05):
I can remember. And it was something. It was, it
was I was excited about it, probably probably pleased to
get out of our I wasn't very once at home,
so it was quite good to get out and meet
other people.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Because seems as though in your days, Jerry, there wasn't
kidneys or anything. They stuck at home. Stuck at home,
hang out with your mother near the old ringing washing
machine getting ready for school.

Speaker 8 (01:34:27):
Yeah, and and and and in the boiling boiler tub
underneath in the in the basement, the copper.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
There'll be a couple of other kids besides you were
the Jerry.

Speaker 8 (01:34:38):
Oh, I can't remember that. There was a whole lot
of kids there.

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
You know, how many brothers and how many brothers and
sisters did you have?

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
Well, I had had a brother and sster at that stage.

Speaker 7 (01:34:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:34:51):
And I can also remember the first days from my
three children.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
Yeah, okay, okay, and and what.

Speaker 7 (01:35:00):
I what I did?

Speaker 8 (01:35:01):
I kept the newspaper of that day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
Well these days you just google it, no, but yeah,
but you I keep.

Speaker 8 (01:35:10):
The newspapers so that they could look at them and say, oh,
that's what happened. I found the youngest sons one the
other day or a few weeks ago, and I had
to read through it, and it was interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:35:22):
What happened that day he went to school?

Speaker 8 (01:35:24):
Or well, I have to look in the paper, wouldn't
I You don't remember it?

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
No, of course, not good.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
And Jerry, thank you. Just reading about the new Concord,
the new supersonic jet they're rolling out twenty thirty will
go Melbourne, Los Angeles in about half an hour. Not
that's no, what's it going to be Melbourne to LA
eight point five hours? Think it's operational that the initial ones.

(01:35:58):
It's going to cut times in half. The test flight
they've broken the sound for the first time test flight
in Mahave. Don't know what the capacity is going to
be for these planes.

Speaker 15 (01:36:18):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
They've got to scale up the technology for the supersonic.
The overture of supersonic airliner pretty exciting. Melbourne to Los
Angeles eight and a half hours instead of fourteen. Brisbane
to Shanghai in five hours. Plan to carry sixty four

(01:36:45):
to eighty passengers at MAC one point seven gives it
to be pricey because of the fuel. It's been twenty
seven years since passages have gone supersonic, including Phil Collins
who did both live aid remember that on the same day.

(01:37:10):
It was the same day goodness and a woman in
the UK has been banned from a supermake because she
refused to use self checkout. Any of our callers refuse
to use it? How'd that work out for them? It's

(01:37:32):
not that difficult. Of Debi griffith'sy to talk you through it.
She's the voice yep. By the way, the speed limits
are going up, which is kind of weird because the
police have got to enforce that. And the one group
of people that wanted the speed limits brought down were
the police. That was their campaign. I remember sitting in

(01:37:54):
council meetings when the police was there trying to convince
everyone to lower the speed limits for child safety and
around schools and the like. It's kind of interesting that
that was their desire to have the speed limits lowered.

(01:38:17):
That will be saving three minutes. I think most of
the roads are in the North Island, by the way.
In the South there's whole lot of roads now which
are no longer going to sealed roads are now becoming
unsealed through lack of funding. That's interesting, isn't it that
sealed roads are now becoming unsealed. We do want to

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say about that. We are talking the first day of
school and a I talk right about tonight. We want
to end surprising inheritance. Yeah, I'm into that. Oh wait,
when you've got an heerdation, now you're going to get

(01:39:01):
I guess it must happen. Good evening, Garriots, Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (01:39:07):
Yeah, I don't know, Hi, Marcus. I just tuned in
to listen to the news, and I'm not sure if
I heard correct, but you'll be able to tell me.
They heard them talking about the speed limit and that
Chris Bishop, I presume he's the National MP trying to
say that reducing the speed limit's going to help people
get to jobs quicker. That's not what I heard, is it?

Speaker 5 (01:39:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
What?

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
What?

Speaker 9 (01:39:32):
So?

Speaker 22 (01:39:32):
What was he saying about getting to jobs quicker?

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
This is increasing the speed limit will mean that people
get to jobs quicker.

Speaker 22 (01:39:41):
Yeah, that's you're you're joking me. No, here's he again.
How does he think by increasing the speed lim it's
say five or ten miles per hour, that guy's a
person's going to get to a job? Quicker, isn't there?
That's just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
How come tell me more?

Speaker 22 (01:40:03):
Well, increasing the speedler like for five ten miles in
the air So with what's going on in the air country,
he's coming out and saying that people are going to
get to jobs. Quicker. Yep, I just I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
But what's your reasoning?

Speaker 22 (01:40:25):
Surely it is surely not one of the prominent politicians
in New Zealand actually believes that people are actually hopping
in their cars to get to jobs. Quicker.

Speaker 11 (01:40:39):
I find that.

Speaker 22 (01:40:39):
I just can't understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:41):
Sorry, So you're saying it's not going to work.

Speaker 22 (01:40:45):
Well, don't we have enough clowns on the road and
there with the speeding?

Speaker 18 (01:40:52):
Yeah, yeah, I just know I'm hearing.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
I just want to quite sure you got it right now?

Speaker 22 (01:40:58):
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
And they reckon that actually probably won't. Yeah, they think
probably the law of Valentine consequences that probably more people
and there are all sorts of things. I don't I
don't think, but people what people It was one of
those things that they could get votes for. We want
to drive faster. So even though the police campaign to
lower the speed limits.

Speaker 22 (01:41:21):
Were exactly I would have thought you would ask the
police what what their thoughts are, before you would ask
the National Party what happens next? Next election of Labor
getting are they going to change you back?

Speaker 14 (01:41:34):
Again?

Speaker 22 (01:41:37):
What an absolute circus it.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
Might you don't have high faith in people's driving, do you, well?

Speaker 22 (01:41:46):
I don't have faith in the government for any government,
full stop the mate. The rich get richer and they
bleed orf they bleed the poor and the rich just
get richer, and it's it's it's nothing's going to change,
doesn't matter who you put in. All they do is
argue Labor National says banger at Labor, and then three

(01:42:08):
days later Labor will say bang a bit National. So
I mean to me, don't meet a whom It doesn't
matter who's them. They all just fevor their own news
cheers Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
But it's good they've got to service that we can
explain the news to people. And I was reading about
this festival in India where people have died in a
crowd crush at the Kummela festival. I think it's every

(01:42:39):
seven years, and every fourteen years they've an even more
special one. So the people organizing this festival are expecting
four hundred million people to attend. Four hundred million. It's

(01:43:05):
the biggest crowd of people ever. It's like how many
people in the world, eight eight billion, it's like we'd say,
it's like a sixteenth to the world's population. And Ura
Pradesh up at the base of the Himalayas you might

(01:43:27):
have been to this festival. They obethe in the Ganges also,
it's pretty extraordinary. I guess they've got the trains that
can get them there. Beck Atcha, by the way, the
hydrofoiling electric ferry has taken It's made in voyage in

(01:43:47):
the White to Matar Harbor. Quite a nice looking unit
that one m I think it's going to be a
tourist vessel. Key we built. It's a ten seater, so
neither use nor ornament, but looks all right. You've want

(01:44:14):
to make it a bit bigger. One hundred and ninety
five per passenger for forty minute cruise around the harbor. JT.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
Marcus Welcome you, Marcus needs to be talking about the SEAGU.

Speaker 3 (01:44:35):
Either wasn't there that was going to be the year,
wasn't it? And never heard nothing? Have you heard anything
more about it?

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
It's still in development, and I think it's in Maine
in America. And because remember they were talking about fung
arrays to Auckland, it's meant to be quite economical because
it's writing on the cushion of year what do they
call it in ground effects. Yeah, But as far as

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the speed limit go, I heard this news day and
I went a line to see if there was any
near Ashburton on the State Highway one, and the only
one that's close is the Rekire and it's in the township.
They're raising for one kilometer driving through Rakaia on Stateway one.

(01:45:24):
They're raising the limit from fifty back to seventy. So
that's going to save twenty one seconds. But it's a
town that's cut in half, and you've got primary school
children trying to cross to get to the school, and
it's pretty intimidating as a pedestrian to cross State Highway

(01:45:49):
one in Ashburton at fifty kilometers an hour. So good
luck on those kids trying to with trucks and all that.
Because there's so many trucks one can be very very busy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:05):
You kind of wonder at like the interro and theories
if this is not a potentially a really bad headline
for national Yeah, someone gets sht at that speed. It's
not going to be good, is it.

Speaker 10 (01:46:16):
Nah?

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
It makes it difficult. I mean, people just thinking of
what of themselves when they're behind the wheel. They're not
thinking of people trying to cross roads, trying to go
about their day. You know, the old people on mobility
scooters and all that as well.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
And there'd be p of those in Rakai, wouldn't there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
It's growing, I mean the population will be two thousand shortly.
Why is every other town in Ashburton. Why is every
other town in New Zealand a fifty k area, but
Rakaia isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:46:51):
You would think also too that the local shops and
ricard what the speed limit lower just for people stopping
and getting their business.

Speaker 9 (01:47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:01):
And there's a lot of side roads and there's the
main to the Southern Lakes and the road up to
Methen and it's a major farming area. It's a funnel
because every everyone that's going to christ which has to
go over that required bridge.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Got another transport question for you, JT. Just to pivot.
I was thinking about this today. I should have asked
chet GPT, what's the advantage of high speed rail over flight?

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
Well, you're going from city center to city center. Did
you hear them talking about the third runway possible third
runway at Heathrow the other day? It got put off
because of the pandemic that I think they should use
the other five airports in the London area, Marcus, can

(01:47:55):
you name the six London area airports?

Speaker 3 (01:47:58):
Get what?

Speaker 13 (01:48:01):
Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
Heathrow, yep? See one Greenwich? No, there's one right in
the middle of town. Isn't there short runway?

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
That's a got an easy name to remember. London Airport,
London City.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
London City. How short's there? There's like a yeah, okay,
they're the only three. I'd come close to that. Get work,
he throw, I don't know that. How many said? Did
you say? There's five?

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
Six? There's stands dead Luton and the newest one south End?

Speaker 5 (01:48:41):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
You know they should they all call those London?

Speaker 10 (01:48:45):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:48:46):
Didn't they?

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
There used to be one Croydon but it got built
out back in the day. There's also a private well.
There was another one called stag Lane Eerodrome, and I
think there's probably been built out as well. But there's
also at least two or three RAF base is what
I think one's biggest.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
Hell, I didn't know that there was six. Okay, So
what's it with the Heathrow? What is it going to go?
It is going to go ahead now.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
I don't think it should and I don't think it will,
partly because it will overfly the palace out there, the
royal palace.

Speaker 10 (01:49:25):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
What is it Buckingham? What's the palace out there?

Speaker 7 (01:49:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
They might be right. I'll look into that. JD. Thank
you A going to move on, but nice to talk
to you. Keith at Smarcus welcome, welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:49:39):
How's it going good? Keith are ye?

Speaker 20 (01:49:42):
Yes, yeah, I'm on talking about the speed of it
clear Marster, the Marsiden and Felston. Yes, Now, before Laver
came into power, it used to be one hundred k
from Marsiden to Featherston virtually a straight road with a
few curves and everything like that, and mainly from Greytown

(01:50:02):
to Featherston and every person and why what's against it
being load you're talking a state highway here. You're not
talking side roads or anything like that. On the side roads,
it's one hundred k's. So for the government, the national
government campaign especially in the wire Rapper because mont people
hated it. And whether they say it says three minutes

(01:50:24):
is u a rubbish. It's about eighty five cave from
Warrington Marsam to Warrington, so it says at least ten
minutes to fifteen minutes at one hundred cas to eighty
case if you do your federal it out. And that's
what they campaigned on, and I would say ninety five
percent of people of the wire Rapper agreed that it's

(01:50:45):
gone up to one hundred case because there used to
be a pain of the ass traveling from here to
Warrington then back again having to do eighty ks.

Speaker 3 (01:50:54):
Is there a speed limit Keith on that Live Attacker Hills.

Speaker 13 (01:50:58):
The speed limit on the rod Attacker Hills one hundred caves?

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
Could you do one hundred cas?

Speaker 11 (01:51:02):
Most of the way you can do.

Speaker 13 (01:51:04):
You can do hundred CA's. We used to be able
to do hunter caves from here right over to the
upper Heart. If you can do a hunter over the
woman Tuckers but from here to Federson is mainly straight
and then they in their wisdom they and now from
marsteronon to Carterdan they've had to come back and replace
it because they managed such a balls up of the

(01:51:27):
road coming from marsteronon the Cardan when they did it.
So you know, when people say, oh it's going to
say only saving three minutes, or if it's going to
cause accidents and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
Like that, crowd the mayor of Keith, it was the minister,
was the Transport minister that TITA would save three minutes.

Speaker 13 (01:51:50):
Yeah, but the mayor of Carterdan actually did the survey.
It was Ron Mark and there hadn't been an accident,
a serious accident, especially from Greytown to Fedistone in twenty years.
And it was just there ignorants and arrogance that they
just wanted to drop it to eighty k's.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
It was I think most of the drops were driven
by the police. Keith.

Speaker 13 (01:52:14):
Well, I've and sunny enough shortly after they lowered it
and everything like that, and a headline collection accidently happened
there and I asked the policeman, I said, what what
do you cause that? He said the speed limit was
far too slow from Peerson to Martyrdom and people lose concentration.

Speaker 3 (01:52:34):
No, because it was the police that were in favor
of that. Well, what do I see that? What do
you drive to Wellington and such a hurry? For Keith?
What were are you? What are you hitting to do well?

Speaker 13 (01:52:46):
In such a hurry? I just want I just drive
an ordering holding mate?

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
What are you going to Wellington for?

Speaker 14 (01:52:52):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:52:53):
I go over there quite often to see my wife's brother.

Speaker 3 (01:52:57):
Oh yeah, they were brother in law.

Speaker 13 (01:52:59):
And I know who I'm getting. It is before it
all started to be lowered and we all get into
this speed and save your safety. That was one hundred k's.
I'm seventy two and it's been one.

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Hundred k thanks Keith Marcus. Years ago, I as a
manager of a small private rest time. About six months
after I left, I got a laways there to say
that one of the old guys who was quite close
to left me five thousand and his wool when he died.
He had no family. It was quite a lot of
money back then and totally unexpected. Might have been pounds. Marcus.
My partner likes listening to you, and we just passed

(01:53:33):
a full house being driven on the road. His name
is James Oh Weighed. Welcome, Marcus, good evening. Here you go, Mark,
here are I think you weighed?

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
Just been listening to a few comments in the speed limits.
Of speed limit it's one hundred k's, but you're going
over the room at tuck Is. You don't have to
do one hundred k's of it. You drive through the conditions,
you know, and you do one hundred were it's safe
to do so, just because it says it like you
can't be that much of an eddy you're going to

(01:54:10):
try into one hundred k's around those corners of drive
off the edge just to prove a point. Just drive
for the conditions. It's that simple.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
I think that guy said he yeah, yeah, I don't
know what he was on about, that guy that, but
he was certainly I don't forget how much time he
said he could take off from Auckland from Willington to Masterton.

Speaker 4 (01:54:31):
Yeah, I mean like there is. It does get frustrating
when the speed limit has dropped to eighty. Clearly it's
safe to do one hundred, and people do get frustrated
and they're looking over that they're peeking out the side
to have a look to see if they can overtake
and then smack me, get hit with a truck or something.
But that's because the traffic's gone so slow. If the

(01:54:53):
traffic's going at a nice pace, it's all good. Everyone's happy.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
Are you one of those ones that thinks probably slower
traffic is more dangerous it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:04):
Can be, yes, Is that right?

Speaker 5 (01:55:06):
Definitely?

Speaker 4 (01:55:08):
And that's I've seen it a lot, like I used
to be a truck driver and I just saw it
way too much, and it's sort of yeah. And another
one of the new new roundabout that are hark here,
they've they've put they've put that to one hundred ks.
Now that was it's you can't go round there at

(01:55:29):
one hundred ks, so you slow down for the roundabout,
you go around the roundabout and then you can take
off again. But people are using it because it is
a two lane situation, very short one. People are using
it as basically a racetrack to try and overtake everyone.
And yeah, no accidence yet, but you.

Speaker 3 (01:55:49):
Get yourself in trouble. You get yourself in trouble on
roundabouts trying to go to speed limit. You sort of
get launched off them quite quickly.

Speaker 4 (01:55:56):
You can because of the canber but yeah, well that's
the same situation. People are just going to drive through
the conditions. There's a corner coming up, you slow down
for it, you don't you know, you don't do one
hundred just because this is one hundred, Like just because
you can doesn't mean you should.

Speaker 3 (01:56:12):
You know, I wouldn't. I I wouldn't like to think
there's people out there that would do that might be
that other caller might have.

Speaker 4 (01:56:17):
But yeah, but I just hope there's not, you know,
too many accidents. And yeah, I like that police. But
was it a policeman that said that when it dropped
down to eighty that's when they It's when they had accidents.

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
So yeah, I mean that sounds like a folklore that Yeah, yeah,
we're about Are you based Wellington? Are you bathed Wellington Wade.

Speaker 4 (01:56:45):
No, they're based in Parmi But it's like, well, I've
been all over the places to live in Auckland and
driven in Wellington and all around your Plymouth and stuff
like that. And to be honest, the speed speed on
its aren't really the problem in Parmy. It's some of

(01:57:06):
the drivers I've ever seen in my life in Parmiston
North It's red lights, especially on a red arrow. Its
just they cane it just to get that arrow, and
it's usually always read. Yes, the red light runners are
pretty terrible and party.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
Did you feel the earthquake last night? Wade?

Speaker 4 (01:57:28):
Yeah, it did, yep, yep, yes.

Speaker 3 (01:57:33):
You would have been awake. He didn't wake up.

Speaker 7 (01:57:35):
No, No, it was I heard it.

Speaker 4 (01:57:38):
I heard it rumble before we before I felt it. Really,
I was like, hang on a minute, and I.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Kind of wonder, what does that sound of earthquakes?

Speaker 4 (01:57:48):
That a bit of a warning sign?

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
What what what makes that sound?

Speaker 4 (01:57:54):
I'm not sure, no idea, not really, but no mind,
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:57:59):
Really Yeah, I'll look into that way. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
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