It's laden with moisture (22 April 2025)

In this weird 'inbetween two long weekends' week, Marcus covers the upcoming funeral of Pope Francis, cleaning lawn mowers, and getting your Dangerous Goods license.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Sometime this week. I'll feel sometime this week I'll work
out what this day feels like. I can't tell you
straight away. It'll come to me anyway. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
My name is market Seed at midnight tonight, Yes, fronting up,
fronting up for these three days, as most should. Because
the weather wasn't flesh either, was it. Although tremendous and bluff.

(00:33):
We got some rain and that was at the end
of today. But five days of sunshine. Why would you
leave goodness? I mean, our first thing I need to
ask anyone predict it?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Dan?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Do youone predict that the year that the big news
that no one predicted? I don't think, but devil tell me.
Billy Ray SIUs, Billy ray Cyrus and Liz Hurley are
a couple which which I think is remarkable. So that's happened.

(01:07):
You couldn't if you'd predicted that, you'd be straight away
the winner anyway. But certainly some people have predicted the
death of the pope, and those two people I will
name them now. Lyle predicted that and John predicted that
Lyle's predictions were the Ukraine water end, the Pope dies,

(01:27):
New Zealand's sportsman busted for major performance enhancing drug use use,
and New Zealand Donna tanks. Further John's predictions where Pope
Francis dies, King Charles steps down, Kim dot Com dies,
and Break has finished the season in last place and
the coach resigns. So there we go, but no one

(01:51):
Billy Ray and Live Hurley, So there we go? Is
it live Liz? I can't quite remember it's Liz Early?
Is it felt funny when I said it? Anyway, Greetings
and welcome it. By the way. A couple of things
I want to start with tonight. I'm just excited to
be here. Billy Ray, what we're thinking? I mean, not

(02:12):
Billy Way, what we're thinking of? Billy Ray full stop?
What were you thinking? Billy Ray full stop? More like, Liz, really,
what were you Thinking's what already meant to say. The
pause of the punctuations were important. A couple of things. Firstly,
I haven't listened to the radio over the weekend. I
haven't watched much news, although I did hear a snippet

(02:34):
of news coming to work that one of the New
Zealand Cardinals is heading to the conclave. Now, some people
watched the movie and some people will be of that faith.
What is of interest to me? No one's mentioning this
that I know. Is there any chance that we'll get
to New Zealand we'll get a key we pope? Is
that that's obviously a possibility? Is that right? The ne

(02:57):
are two thirds majority, and if he's over there, presume
it's mainly men, he can advocate fro himself. Can he?
Will that be a chance that we could get I'm
not saying it's like people will make it more interesting,
won't it? If the New Zealander could become one of them,
they'd be huge. Although immeasure you come from a predominantly
Catholic country to get the Pope New Zealand is eight percent.

(03:23):
But someone let me know about that. The other thing too,
I did hear some news discussion over the four or
five days. It was a fearmit of quibbling that the
people in Auckland did not get enough warning about the weather.
And I have thought of that somewhat over the holidays,

(03:46):
if you call it that, And my thoughts are it's
good to get warning about an earthquake because they are unexpected,
but the weather system was entirely predictable. When you TAM's
excycling TAM was coming down, it was slow moving, bringing
a lot of moisture with it. And also too, I mean,

(04:07):
because people are up in arms. Why do we get
no warning what's wrong? And then of course the metserver
is putting out warnings too often, like after the event.
But what's the point of a weather warning. There's not
that much you can do normalter haw is it starts
raining and make sure the guttering is clear and your washings.
And but you know, I mean, really, what would you

(04:30):
do if you knew that bad weather was coming, because
you normally know that the bad weather is coming. But
it starts raining and the rain increases in intensity. So yes,
I thought it sort of slightly blame me that suddenly
it's weak and everyone blames the met Service for not
giving them warning. Literally for the last five days we've
seen this great cyclone is coming down and it's laden

(04:51):
with moisture. Anyway, if you did suffer some flooding or
power cuts, my sympathies to you, and I hope it's
not too bad. Although there was talk of another preciure
system coming down. I haven't heard much of that lately.
It sounds like that one might have fizzled. But I'll
keep it watching brief on that. So there we go.

(05:13):
That's what I've got so far. If you want to
talk and partake in the show, I presume most of
you are in holiday mode. And this funny old time.
The interregnum, literally the interregnum, isn't it? Well, the papal interregnum,
if there is such a thing. But do get in
touch meetill twelve. How good were the warriors? It's got
to be noted by the way I did. Put the

(05:35):
kids to bed. We watched the first twenty minutes and
I said, we'll win this. Heads are exhausted. Put them
to bed, work up the next of course, you put
your kids to bed, you go to sleep yourself, don't
You woke up the next morning saw the whole But
we watched it the next morning. Fair was one of
those matches was still exciting to watch the next morning

(05:56):
because you weren't quite sure what was going to happen.
Had it all where we go? So very excited about that.
So there we go. That's that, Just putting that out there.
I think we're third or fourth tremendous, even after the
shellacking from Melbourne. Anyway, do get in touch you on
a partake of the show Marcus Store midnight tonight you
might be listening from you? Or how was your Easter holidays?

(06:19):
By the way, and now are you glad you've combined?
We need a we need a word for the combined
Anzac Easter Festival. I don't know what it was should
be called, but you might come to something about that.
So call then he's evening to become the pope. No

(06:40):
one's answered me that. Oh get in touch by name's
Marcus HITDL twelve o'clock, oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and nine text. Could we have a key week pope?
I know that, but you know we've got to discuss

(07:00):
something to do with the pope because it was a
year with three popes and then we haven't had it.
When was the last time a pope died? It seems
to have been a while ago. I'll bring that information
up just because it feels like it's been ten years.
Maybe maybe because the last guy gave up but didn't die,
that's right, didn't he? And then he did die, but

(07:23):
after he was no longer the Pope, which was an
unlikely well not unlikely, but it was sort of not
the way it normally happens. Anyway, do get in touch,
oh way one hundred eighty eighteen eighty nineteen nine, tow

(07:45):
to text, Good evening, Lyle, This is Marcus.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Welcome Marcus. Yeah, uh yeah, you don't have to be
Nostradamus to predict that Pope Francis was going to die.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
And I just wanted to ring up because I was
brought up a Catholic, but I haven't really darkened the
doorway over the Catholic Church since I was about eighteen,
other than for family, you know, weddings, funerals, et cetera.
But I just think they should have a retirement age
because they seem to They seem to go along quite

(08:24):
nicely into their early eighties.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
But you know that.

Speaker 5 (08:29):
I mean, I remember John pauled the second struggling. I
can remember, well, you know the previous one, Pope Paul
the sixth. Yeah, it's I think it's cool with inhuman punishment,
and as I say, they seem to manage it, you know,
into their I think Pope pardon me. I think Pope
Benedict sort of was in his early eighties when he

(08:52):
retired himself. Yes, and I you know, I think that's
a very sensible option, you know, you know, that's all.
When I was fourteen, I got two days off to
the due to the death of two popes. There was
Pope Paul the sixth who died. I mean, because you know,
you never got a day off. I went to a
Christian Brothers high school and then four or five weeks

(09:16):
layd We've got another day off because I haddly Pope
John pull the first died so well, you know it
was as unfortunate, but it gave me an extra day
to study for amathesthest. So you know, you take it
where you can get it. But yeah, but I yeah,
I just say, I just think this should be a
retirement age because they can't possibly, you know, do what

(09:41):
they need to do. You know, if they're basically been
a Pope Francis he has, he basically had one lune
And yeah, I just think you wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Do it to a dog.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Although you cannot question his commitment to the calls, he's
out of hospital, out there at least to giving some
sort of a service, I thought, which probably despite advice,
he was committed to the role.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Oh I know that, but yeah, I just I just
think of that. I mean, I'm not really I couldn't
really call myself a castle now, but I just think
it could be. I just think that's just well basically cool.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Okay, appreciate you cool Ale, Thanks so much for that.
Seventeen past eight oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
and nine two nine two de text. Yeah, get in touch.
Anything goes here till midnight tonight, Marcus. Technically any Catholic, Malcolm,
you elected pope as long as he is mentally stable. Yeah.

(10:42):
In nineteen eighty one, the christ Church Star billboard red
Pope Dyes again. There was all sorts of muckbreaking with that,
as though there was some sort of conspiracy, But I
don't think that was the way it panned out. Had
a heart attack, didn't. He hadn't been there long though,
But they often said that. I think it was a
book called that the Year of Three Popes, Oh, eight
hundred and eighty, ten eighty and nine two nine to
detext I'll tell you what. You go to the warehouse.

(11:04):
A lot of cheap. Why kett O Valley Easter eggs
for sale? I think the thing about Easter it seems
to be some sort of triumph of packaging. Goodness, gracious me.
Some of the things there were Barbie Easter eggs. I
think the eggs were plastic with the jelly bean inside.
I looked at those, I thought, what is this. Yeah,

(11:28):
it seemed as though they were plastic eggs with the
jelly bean inside. By the way, too, in the Americas
or the United States of America, I think they're recommending
people use potatoes instead of eggs to decorate because they're cheaper.
Go figure anyway, get in touch, oh weight under eighty
to nine to detext. There is that crash in Tasmin Partinger.

(11:54):
Sorry it's not Testa and that's wrong in the article
I'm reading. So it's just north of fifty k's north
of Heart that accident. So the roads they're expected to
be closed for some time, so it'd be doing we
have a big diversion. If you're on the coast wanting
to go to Warnaka or somewhere like that, you'd be
a long way round for that one. By the way too,
Speaking of the coast, I see that in Graymouth there's

(12:23):
still a boil water notice. If anyone's got any more
information about that, seems crazy. You've got to have three
clear days in a row when there's no I don't
know what it is, fecal matter or something in the
in the water or kliptosporidium or something like that. But yeah,
they've been waiting forever. So let me know if you
are in Greymouth, what the word on the street is

(12:45):
about why you can't use your water. Graymouth still under
boil water notice, continues to work to identify the source
of bacterial contamination Greymouth, Cobden, Blaketown, Bodytown, Cardudo, South Beach,

(13:05):
part ok To, Dobson, Taylorville, Stillwater, Ranuga, Donulli, Colcreek and
wrap Ahoy. What's some great names there are there so
they can't lift it? It's crazy, eh sees the councils
of the program could be linked to a broken pipe
or a backflow issue. Anyway, if you're listening summerre interesting,

(13:28):
give me a call here till midnight tonight. My name
is Marcus. Welcome eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Marcus.
It is getting ridiculous. People are expecting the public service
to take responsibility for almost every situation that crops up.
School lunches, weather events and so on. You do your
best with most things, but you can't be there twenty

(13:48):
four to seven time for people to be responsible and
use their discretion. Well, I think it is surprising when
people get surprised by the weather when there are so
many warnings. Literally, you can get on the website and
see the preciure system coming your way. It's fairy straightforward
to work out when it's going to rain. Here we go, Marcus.

(14:10):
Technically we could have a New Zealand pope. This is
the angle. John Dewe is a cardinal and under eighty
so I've convinced enough of the other So if he
convinced nothing of the other cardinals to vote for him
the years, he could become pope. But I'm not sure
he has enough of a profile. I thought it was
interesting that both the Queen and Pope Francis worked one

(14:31):
day and died the next free devoted to their roles.
That's right. I think the Queen had just met live Trust,
and of course the Pope had just met Jade Vance,
the American Vice President. Riget's Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
You've got a traffic update for me, have you?

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Yeah, the coops are closed at the moment due to
a fatal week steing up the top of him.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, so that would be a fairly and that's recently happened,
has it.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Is that? What?

Speaker 8 (15:02):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
That was quite recent, was it?

Speaker 9 (15:06):
No?

Speaker 8 (15:06):
Well, I think it's happening within the last couple of hours.
But okay, I'm driving from road road driving home, so
I'm gett to go around through raut a memory and okay,
a position, so that makes it quite long.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Okay, what's with the conditions like out of interest?

Speaker 8 (15:23):
Oh fantastic's annoying, lots of trucks course, sure, okay.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
I've got that on the website to Ridge, but thanks
for that. Road closure State HIWII five TI, due to
a truck crash. State Away five has closed between Mardaira
Road and State Highway twenty eight allow extra time for
the d twur the D two for eastbound traffic from
State Highway five TI doo hits southbound on twenty eight,
then southbound on State Hiway one, puttada the northbound on

(15:51):
Statehway thirty Artia movie and that's where you must have come.
So I think it's about four o'clock that happened. So
there we go. That's the MoMA because you don't want
to go across there. Get in touch if you want
to talk. My name is Marcus. Welcome hittll twelve o'clock tonight,
looking forward to what you have to say. Gosh, I
tried the lawns today. Boy, that was a mission. Lawns

(16:12):
when it's lawns when you haven't moried them. Frlance wet Gee,
that's a mission. And there's the other question. I've become
taken from talkback advice. I've become a lawn mower washer.
How important you think that is to hose it down
straight away? I'm not quite sure if I believe from

(16:32):
that or not, but people told me on this show, yeah,
you always give it a hose down afterwards. Seems as
though when you're mowing the lawns in the winter, it
requires a kind of a different sort of a method,
doesn't it. Probably the scheme is to actually mow it
and let the stuff drive for a day or two.
Is that the answer? Anyway? I just thought I was
as mowing that I need to ask people about what

(16:54):
their wet weather or winter mowing regime was. Like, I know,
these things come and go anyway, get in touch, Marcus
till twelve. That's me. There's something different you want to mention.
Bring it on, anything goes to it feels like Friday's Tuesday.
One of the popes who died in seventy eight, Pope
John Pulled the first, died thirty three days after he

(17:15):
was appointed. There was conspiracy theories that he was murdered.
BBC's reporting that the pope's funeral will be eight ten
am Saturday morning, so it should be eight pm out time.
Not sure if it's covered here, but there we go.
That's the that's the deets for that one. Scott, Marcus, good.

Speaker 10 (17:30):
Evening, Magus, good evening, How are you good, Scott, thank
you good good. Just wondering to just bring it out there.
I went to the bank the other day in the
mall and I had to split a twenty our notes,
and I said, look, can you can you give us
two tens? And the guy said, yeah, certainly, not a problem.
Just come over to this machine here and we'll get
the change out for you. But I noticed when I

(17:51):
was there that he had to get his card out?
Are you the guy that was working there? Just so
I could get change out of the machine? And I
thought that was a bit of pe cure.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
He goes on post card, he goes on f post
card or something.

Speaker 10 (18:04):
Yeah, Well, he has some sort of car that he
put on the machine. And I said, oh, next time,
do I just put my card? And he said no, no,
you have to get something that work to the bank
to get you your change out.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Does he walk round from the he's behind the counter?
Is he?

Speaker 10 (18:17):
He was one of the guys actually asking people on
the queue whether any of hate that?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
And you said yeah, and you walked over to the machine.

Speaker 11 (18:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (18:25):
He showed me whe the machine was and I said,
I think you mate, And he goes, oh, no, no,
I've got to put my card and for you to
use it. And I went, but I just want two
ten dollar notes. And I just seemed really weird.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Like you think they've got the do you think the
guy to have clearance to give change?

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well?

Speaker 10 (18:42):
I get that obviously these days they don't ever tell
or register to give you cash out straight away. And
it's such a pain in the bum to get to
go to anywhere else to obviously get changed, and I
thought it was great that they had the machine that
does it. But I was just prepicts why he needed
to put his card and.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
That worked it out? Was it pocket money? Was it
pocket money day or something? Scott?

Speaker 10 (19:07):
Well, you know sometimes you need to splas when on
that market.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah, but we're all curious.

Speaker 10 (19:15):
No, pretty much just for the kids.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, thanks Scott. I appreciate that.

Speaker 11 (19:19):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Who would have thought changing world. I don't know what
you saying to changing world. It's not like small world
wouldn want to sweep it. What do you say about
changing world? Can't they? Jacob Marcus? Welcome Marcus, Now I
am good, Jacob.

Speaker 12 (19:33):
I don't want to talk about lawmowers and with grass ferry. Yes,
so I think it's absolutely mess hosing out the lawnmower
after my after were weather. Yeah, personally, I've been my
line for a long time forty Grandias. When I was

(19:53):
a young feller, never once did we ever hose out
a lawmark.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
No, nor did I think. But I got Lord shamed on.
Everyone said the first thing you do before you put
away is you hose it all out.

Speaker 12 (20:05):
Well, even used to hose it out, but I was
never one. But the problem I have is after we've livers,
you do a lot of glass climb. I you should
call it, yes, and you do have to get up
there and put your hand up there. I've always been
scared of the lawn turning back. That's right, and I
mean I'm sure it would be near deer impossible for

(20:26):
it to turn back on the part and I pull
in the cord. But putting your hand up there does
seem dangerous. But nor would I never hose it out.
I mean that seems like a lot of work to
bring the hose out, just to hold the lawnmower.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Out, because really, once you finished mowing the lawn, just
want to kick back and get in the hammock and
have a drink or something and observe your the splendor
of the lawns. The last thing fairing around with a
hose attachment.

Speaker 12 (20:51):
I might never even heard that far would have thirty
yard where we've got a backyard in a front yard.
One in a time, your motive, and then you have
a drink, You sit down for an hour or two,
and then you decide today's the right days.

Speaker 10 (21:07):
Motor frame perfect.

Speaker 12 (21:10):
Another thing I want to talk about, what's the post
passing away over the.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Where I went.

Speaker 12 (21:19):
There's two people pass away family, then you members pass
away over the east break. It seems weird to me
that you've got the post and two other people passing away.
It doesn't seem quite right to me. There seems to
be some sort of conspiracy there. I mean, I wonder
if Jesus is going to come down to the US

(21:41):
after that.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
So who's going to come down Jesus? What form though?

Speaker 12 (21:49):
Wow? Or maybe another reincarnation?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, Jacob. The other thing about
the lawn knowing thing they reckon. You've got to hose
out the catcher because of the catcher grill is clogged.
Then you're not getting that the grass to go right
to the back of the catcher and it's clogging up.
The most important thing is your catcher and that the
grill is clear.

Speaker 12 (22:11):
So that might be the what do you mean by
the grill of the catcher At.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
The back of the catcher where the year goes through,
there's like a bit that's like a grill.

Speaker 12 (22:20):
Like a mesh at the top of the catcher.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
At the back of the whole back of it.

Speaker 12 (22:28):
Well, I look, I said, I wouldn't even go as
far as as holding anything out.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
You're lazy. You don't even know your whole Lordan one go.
That would be one of the saddest things I've heard
on talk back.

Speaker 12 (22:43):
Now you've got a point there, Maybe there's maybe it
is the case to drink after a bit more too relaxing.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
I mean, I mean, I'm envious, Jacob to be really,
to be brutally honest, I'm envious that you just do
the front then. Yeah, flip cheepers, Susan, Marcus, welcome him, Marcus.
Good Susan, you work for a bank.

Speaker 13 (23:06):
Work for a bank, yes, and we use those change machines.
And those change machines have actually got special cards. You're
not normal f post cards. Oh that they request cards,
which is why the staff have them. They're not allocated
out to individuals like your normal post cards.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
So why can't why can't the staff just open up
a tray of money and give out two teens for
twenty Oh I.

Speaker 13 (23:35):
Get what you're saying, But yeah, they don't. They don't
tend to carry a lot of cash.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah, appreciate Susan, changing world. Great text. Most of the
cardinals and the running for an upgrade are hovering around
the seventy mark. The oldest been seventy eight, the youngest
been sixty five. Are run a jew is seventy six.
So's the chance key we pope. I don't think it's likely, though,
but you never know, because someone's you know you're going
to get two thirds. So some people could be running

(24:03):
around sixty percent, but they don't get up to that mark,
then they've got our extra reappraise themselves. Marcus. My lawnmower
even as a hole on the top of the deck
where you place the hose and you can hose it
while the blade is running without needing to flip it
over and clean up real quick. In my experience, and

(24:23):
all I bodied lawnmower won't rust even after many years
of neglect. But a chip steel body one you might
want to clean the wet grasse off that every time
you use it or eventually rust badly. I was always
told to ever host them when the engine is hot,
because the crank case could crack with a sudden change
of typicture yea, I was concerned about that. That's one
of the things I was thinking, actually that well, actually
probably not such a good idea. Anyway, start again tomorrow.

(24:48):
You can bet on the new pope. That might be
offensive to some of you, but apparently you can. I
don't know where the sports book review. There are odds
on that there's a guy from the Philippines YEP, charismatic,

(25:09):
global appeal, strong communicator, also an Italian in the running
central traditional backing. But there's two Italians do they seem
to be the big three? Zuppy perilin tag lay or
tagel Pete Marcus. Welcome there you go.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
You're just regarding lawmowers assn This course runs in hearing
your plumbers called politic and the key takers that care
takers are always were cleaning the look the look lawmowers.
And we're doing a little bit of maintenance round the
job part of our paining decorating course. And I said,
they might I see you guys are always hosing the
every day you're housing the lawmarers said, why is that

(25:58):
in these in the Keysn't that's part of the jobs
that we were told. But like the previous one of
the guys, I see.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
We don't.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
We're gonna alloy bodies. Not too bad, they don't rust it,
But have got steel ones that that's acid in the
grass and it rusts and eventually will rust out the
metal bodies if they're only mental bodies on the with
the motor sits on topless the reason why? So if
you do that, your raw may will last a lot
longer than then one year if you don't host them out.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Well, mind you how many? How many of your lawnmowers?
If you run until they rusted away? Normally it's the
engine go, isn't it?

Speaker 14 (26:35):
Pete?

Speaker 12 (26:36):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
If you've got no, I've got Victor lawn mowers. They
last week ages a two stroke by the ear, the
last for years.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, but what but when when you've had a lawnmar
go bad?

Speaker 15 (26:50):
With?

Speaker 3 (26:50):
What went bad? Pete?

Speaker 6 (26:53):
No, I've been yet. I've had an old Victor of
two stroke. I've had there for about thirty years?

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Hang on how long?

Speaker 14 (26:59):
Well?

Speaker 6 (27:00):
No, it's probably that one is probably probably about thirty
five years and it's still still going. It's a two stroke.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
They just keep on going. You can't kill them.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
You've never bought a new one?

Speaker 6 (27:10):
What was the mixed all and under the two strike?
Hold you the right mixture?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
People hate people hate two strokes bad a good one.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Thing about the two straight raw MARDs. If you're in
a hilly section, you can cut your lawman, if you've
got a Healy sixty, you can't. You can't cut lines
with a four straight motor because you're dog enough all
around the around the piston. Say, two strokes raw MARDs
have got their place for hilly sections.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
He confused me with that. You ever thought of going
with a robot? Most of time.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
We had a show here and the Plymothy and the
home show last a fortnight.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Attempted attempted with you.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
No, no they don't, they're any good.

Speaker 16 (27:52):
No, they actually did.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Every one's there for hilly sections as well. They're getting
quite height tick those little robot ones there. They're getting
there for The guy has showed me here in a
big section and he showed me he just programmed and GPS.
It's amazing, he said, Hell on, it takes.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
A hang on.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
You're at the fair. Is it in the old Army
Hall or someone? Is that held?

Speaker 6 (28:16):
No, that's that's that's that's the haveno the market that
there forty years.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Ago knocked down there knocked down the old Army Hall.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Now that's still there. It's called the Spotlight.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Now, okay, so where was the home show.

Speaker 6 (28:31):
The TSB Stadium.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, so you're so this guy is selling robot mowers
and you go and talk to them and then he
asks you where you live and looks at your property.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
No, you just couldn't had a bit of a wonder
there just going around a flat little part of the
play there and he said no, he said he had
a big lords home me the phone, this is my lawn.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Here it was. It was his lawn that was showing about. Yeah, okay, yeah,
and one of these little.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
Little robot waw marks. So they just go on there
and they're getting flat. They're automatically programming and sounds. They
go back from the charge, charged up and going to
come out again. They carry on to the Lord's cup.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
If you've got a helly section though, Pete, Oh no.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Not really hell you know, but the mud technology is
getting very free good now for those little if he
was retired, and that would be an ideal little little
little the townhouse.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
The point I was getting to, what shoes do you
wear when you know your lawns?

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Technically speaking, you should always we at least leave even
just red bands should wear something.

Speaker 14 (29:35):
Really, but what do you what are you?

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Were you a Gendle's guy?

Speaker 6 (29:40):
No, definitely name. I'm helping always. I've always got either
red bands or.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Wed beands to be the worst thing possible. They're not
steal toad the lawn ripped for red bands.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
No, at least got something by that time. You're hoping you.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Get that gives not happy about that. You need to
You need to stout a shoe, Pete, for your lawns,
because it'd be like you'd be like a beer with
a sore head if you lost your toes. You wouldn't
be good.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
Oh that's.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, No, you look after yourself, Pete. I thought I
got sort of pictured you wearing old rugby boots or something.
The old the old Pope. That's what we're on about.
They had a party at the art gallery. Someone damaged
one of the sculptures. They're going to be before the courts.
The curious ball at all can art gallery chiefs? Oh well,

(30:38):
I guess and councils. You've got to find different income
streams now, don't you thread on as a ticket? By
the way, if you go the Entron Ferry tonight, you're
not going anywhere. It's canceled are a terry electrical fault.
It's be affecting some of you. The four PM crossing
Willy depict in It's returned Junly eight fifty canceled. Engineers

(31:00):
the time to fix the fault and the hydraulic pump.
They should fix it as they go. The old Frixon
go fifteen to nine. By the way, is he won't
seen that movie dog Man. One of the kids wants
me to take him and I don't think I could
handle it is how bad is it? The book wasn't
much good. Let me know if you've seen it. I'd

(31:23):
rather go and see Minecraft, I think anyway. Zelenski will
be going to the Pope's funeral. Markron will be going
to the Pope's funeral. Donald Trump will be going to
the pumps Pope's funeral. What a senior royal will be
going to the Pope's funeral. We don't know who that
senior royal is of as yet. There's talk that Luxon

(31:45):
will go because he is in the area or the hemisphere,
so there'll be much discussion about who's going to go.
I can't reage to be a short funeral, but that's
the latest we've got for you. Anyway, Do you get
in touch you on to talk about maintaining your lawnmar
dear wash. It quite of interest in that there could

(32:08):
be so contentious. Our lawnmower in the hill Morton looks
like after the start looks like a house fire. I
think there's a word missing. Then she's thirty three year
old to do another ten Marcus don't know about cleaning
out the My wife doesn't only get involved and needs
repairing or she needs a new one. Great show regards
Lloyds swang Nui. I'm surprised Brian Tomacke hasn atlready declared

(32:33):
himself pope. Someone texts thank you and what about the card?
You need to get a card to actually get changed
from the bank. Not that surprised about that, actually.

Speaker 12 (32:50):
To you.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
One hundred people asleep on the on the floor at
Queenstown Airport after the flight was canceled. Passages going Sydney
from Queenstown to sleep at the airport. It's a pretty

(33:12):
poor form, isn't it been able to find accommodation because
the Easter long weekend, no accommodation provide available in Queenstown,
So one hundred people slept on carpet at the airport.
Isn't that illegal? One customer commented, even again of it's
Marcus welcome, Oh Marcus. How your good things? Adam?

Speaker 9 (33:35):
The famous Kivy Lawmar. Yes, one thing, it needs to.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Be washed really really straight away.

Speaker 14 (33:44):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (33:44):
Absolutely, every time you throw those lawns that the grass
is full of acid, and obviously in the winter time
it builds up in all your vents and your blades,
so and the acids and the meddles. So absolutely, hundred percent,
without doubt pose your Lawmar down.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Have you always done that or do you know what
it's like? Have you once? Were you once upon a
time and not the hoser?

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yes, it was so.

Speaker 9 (34:10):
My first Lawnmar lasted about eight years, never watched it
rusted out. My second law Mar twenty two years.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
Wow, that's a big difference. It's fourteen years. You got
from just in five minute hose that you all set up,
are you?

Speaker 15 (34:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (34:25):
The one, the latest one I've got the third Lawmark.
It's like the other chaps said, you just you plug
your hose sitting on the top while it goes, and
it just blasts all the blades and all the where's
the hole. It's just a it's like a you know
when you clip your hose fitting into the end of
your hose. You've got like a hose fitting at the

(34:45):
top of the like the metal casing, and you just
plug it in knee of the hose going and it
just and the blade just washes it out brilliant. And
if you haven't got that, you tip. You've got to
tip your lawnmar the right way, otherwise it oil goes
into the filter. Yeah, but now look, I'd put I'd
put my life on they want to be honest.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
I appreciate your commitment, Adam, because yeah, if you got
twenty for it's eight years versus twenty two years. Did
the one you had for eight years? Did it rust out?
You said that, did you?

Speaker 7 (35:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (35:15):
It was a metal one and I never you know,
I never hose and I did it rust it out
quite quickly. I had to replace the guard that flips
your you know, your catcher on there.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
All the terrible things, those guards. There's those funny.

Speaker 14 (35:26):
Ski o it.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (35:28):
Yeah, but now the second one because the guy said
to me when I brought on you almost and make
sure you hold it out. And that's what I did,
and yet was brilliant.

Speaker 14 (35:37):
That's up.

Speaker 17 (35:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
I appreciate your your your fourth rightness and your clarity
of vision with them around them. But that coming there
were prepared with those numbers like eight versus twenty two chiefers.
I won't give another hose. When I'll get back home,
get in touch Marcus till twelve the pope. So that's
the situation. The funerals. Ten am Roman time. Well, when
I say Roman, I mean it talent. Yeah, eight pm

(36:01):
New Zealand time. That's what's happening there. Zelenski, Trump, Macron,
maybe Luckxon. I'm sure he'd be it's I guess he's

(36:21):
the sort of guy I would love to go to
something like that. What do they always say, not a
what's it called? A grab away? What's it called I
tried to meet someone in the policide. That's one of
the that's one of the most offensive toms I've ever heard.
We've only started using it recently. Let's have a pullaricide.
We just sort of jump on some world leader and

(36:42):
tell them what's going on A pull side. When did
that become an expression? Maybe I was just never aware
of it, but now they always so maybe I'll get
a pull side with Clinton or something.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Sure it's got I don't know whether it's derivation is
but it's it's clunky to me. Yeah, I think it's
only within the last year or two. I'm looking at
some claimed uses once in twenty twenty four. I think
it's been around for a long time. I've never used it,

(37:18):
and except then when I said pull aside, but that
was quoting it, I've never said, oh well, going out
to Auckland to see some of the radio people, I
hopefully i'll have a pull a side with the CEO
or something. If you ever catch me saying that, call
me outn't it? Marcus? I wonder how you'd react should
you ever encounter my neighbor who waits weeks before mowing

(37:39):
the long grass on his corner section, barefoot and no catcher.
I'm a big fan of no catcher. I'm also wondering
if anyone out there has lost their lawnmarer in the
long grass, because I'm sure that's something people have done.
They've mowed the lawn and then given up, and then
never gone back to it and can't find it, and
surprised what they've gone moring and find the old Maa there.
I'm not saying I've done that, but I could image

(38:01):
it could happen. Pulicide. I don't think you have a
pull sight at a funeral, would you mind?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
You never know.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
In the world of politics, peopled desperately to play that game. Greetings,
welcome on Him's Marcus. Oh, happy anniversary day all your
people in Southland as well, that's your anniversary day. It
seems to be catching on. There are less and less
places open. This hasn't been around that long. South Anniversary
on a the day after Easter, but yeah, it was fairly.

(38:33):
It was pretty quiet around today, so people are finally
adhering to that. Although funny enough, the bin man came
because normally expect the bins to be with the public
holleads on these days away where they came on the
same day. It was the same day. So now just
as before the news too, I was talking about the

(38:55):
Pope and there's a lot of pictures now circulating officially
of him in his coffin. But there are warnings now
saying this story contains images of the deceased. Because I
don't think i've ever I don't remember seeing images of

(39:15):
the pope. Maybe it was happening when it last time
the photos weren't that clear, but they're quite clear, detailed
shots of the pope, both from an angle on one
from straight down for the bottom of the coffin. Anyway,
we are talking about washing your lawnmower after you've used it. Oh,

(39:37):
anything I should want to talk about tonight too? You've
won cope with easter trading. Do they arrest people? There's
normally arrests. Aren't there normally that garden center they arrest people.
I haven't heard much about that at all, so maybe
everyone's realized it's not worth enforcing. So do get in
touch here till midnight to night if there's something else

(39:57):
you want to mention. Several people predicted the Pope's death
in our prediction competition, although that's not that surprising. He
was old and had been on well for some time.
We've been well in the hospital for most I want
to say most of this year. It felt like it
was about four or five weeks. So you get in

(40:18):
touch if you don want to talk. Oh, eight hundred
eighty ten eighty, there's something else you want to mention. Also,
I guess most of you are on a holiday mode.
I don't know what's happened with most officers. I think
z'd be had about half our on air staff turn up.
No surprises. There always trying to game the system these days,

(40:38):
aren't they? Is it gaming the system? Who knows? But
get in touch if you want to talk. Oh, eight
hundred eighty ten eighty Marcus, you mentioned you can bet
on a new pope. Not sure who it was in USA?
Not the tab No, it's overseas. I've look. Yeah, I'm
sure some people would be opposed to that, Marcus. Do

(41:00):
you know if the Pope's funeral will be on n
Z TV and what time I've got I've got no
idea about that. I presume there will be YouTube channels.
I think if you've got BBC World News they will
be covering it. Is it on freeview?

Speaker 4 (41:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I don't know if BBC World News is one of
your freeview channels. I will look for that for you
as I'll wait your calls. Maybe someone can tell me
sort of things that BBC every good at doing with
their whispering kind of commentating. Probably use the same people
for the royals funerals. I don't think BBC World News.

(41:42):
I think you need your Sky remote. I don't think
it's on the older, the Prime that the freeview, TV one,
TV two three, Bravo, Fuck Maldi, TVZD, TV two plus one, Eden, Bravo,
Today O, TVSD one plus one, plus one three plus one,
Rush Scope and end plus one. Can't see it there.
Fancy why did that a TV having their own channel? Goodness, Bobb,

(42:06):
It's is welcome.

Speaker 18 (42:08):
Marcus. I'm not talking about Washington Miles, but I thought
i'd tell you wee story about one. I used to
own some flats and Flaxmere, which is in just out
of Hastings. Anyway, I bought a brand new lawnmark for
the tenants, and I explained to them that in the
lease was the agreement that they had to mow the
lawns keep them tidy. I said, I bought a lawnmar
for you. And anyway, we went back there about a

(42:29):
month later and the lawns were about to put high.
So I went and knocked on the door and I
excuse me, why haven't you made the lawns. They said, oh,
someone stole that lawn moother. So from then on and
I took mowan on my around and I mowed them.
But then I sold the property and there was a
shed full of what can only be called as future
rotten U snappis. You can imagine what was in the shed.
And after digging it out and putting it all on

(42:50):
one of those big brick spins, right in the bottom
hand of the corner, was the lawnmower still in the
cardboard box.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
Well were you excited when you saw that?

Speaker 14 (42:58):
Well? I was happy because it was a brand new
lawn mother. But I mean I was out there mowing
the lawns, and I'm not I won't mention. Well, it
wasn't precuriously put it that way. I was out mowing
the lawns and they were inside and they were going
on about having no money and making you hard to
pay the rent. I was mowing the lawns and then
they were discussing what pizzas they were going to down

(43:18):
order for tea.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
I said, my god, did you sell those? Did you
sell those? Flat Bob?

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, yeah, I got rid of them.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Yeah, good story, thanks Bob. Thirteen past nine, eight hundred
and eighty Tenadian nineteen nine to text. Oh here's a
question for you, Hey tell me something because I am
not currently in Auckland. What's the Easter Show?

Speaker 14 (43:41):
Like?

Speaker 3 (43:41):
Is it still worth going to? Did you go there
this year? Always was a big fan of the Easter Show.
For those that don't know, it's one of those shows
you have around the country with animals and stuff, but
it's an Auckland and it's kind of big. There was
always a roller coaster. I don't know that was still
a thing. I mean there was all the rides were there,
and then the demonstrations, big halls with demonstrations like a

(44:05):
bit like probably what Pete went with the electric mower.
But yeah, it used to be huge, but there was
some fuss with them trying to sell owned by a
trust or something complicated. They used to show he had
no idea, tell you what. That was quite an exciting
thing in its day. So I just put that out there.
If you've been to that, how was it? Yeah, I'd

(44:27):
be curious to know. Always free samples and products and
the like, very big thing. And I don't even know
if the animals was still a thing there. There'd always
be someone coming across, there be a wall of death
and they'd be Brendan Dugan and singers and you'd be
quite a big deal. They'd put quite a bit and
I presume it's one of those things that's sort of
slowly wound down as people have changed the things they do.

(44:48):
But I didn't even see any promotion about it. So
if you've got anything to say about that, it was
huge in its day, like one of the biggest events
in the Auckland calendar, i'd probably say it was the
biggest thing. Didn't even hear anything about it this year.
They'd always get overseas acts and things for it. I

(45:09):
don't know if those overseas acts were. There'd always be
something that'd fill up a pool and there'd be I
don't know what there would be. There'd be motorcycle trick
or Jim trapeze artists, or they'd go to quite a
bit of effort to bring kind of exciting attractions. I
feel I suspect it's probably been winding down, but maybe
it hasn't. You might want to say something about that. Yeah, anyway,

(45:38):
Auckland Show runs always a very big deal. They said
they're expected to attract sixty five thousand visits. I would
have think probably in its day there was a lot
more than that, So yeah, you might want to give
a review of that also, Marcus. Coming home from Timulu
this afternoon on passing lane just Noosh, Britain, a guy
and a ute went flying pass us in the fast lane.

(46:01):
However I was going north, he was going south. Double
yellow as well. Go figure, Mike rangy Aura, Wow, Marcus,
we are holdading the south in the cargo handling down

(46:24):
on the caravan now blowing a gale out there. Sharon,
Thank you Sharon. But as I say, if you want
to talk on here, all the lines there are free.

Speaker 11 (46:33):
Lord.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
My maintenance has been the major topic for tonight and
the US TO breaks also putting a feelure out there
for these to show. How was that this year? Is
it still a thing? Still reasonably priced?

Speaker 7 (46:44):
Was it something?

Speaker 3 (46:44):
I don't know why it would kind of. I feel
it's probably lost some of it's last I don't quite
know why. Oh, I think what happened to fall out
with a rise and they took the ride somewhere else
for a while too. I think that probably took up
of the steam from it. Had a fall out with it,
had a kind of a they had a number of
years when they had a or yeah, falling out. I guess,

(47:09):
they'd say with the major ride providers, and they took
their ride elsewhere. Price of gold up five seven fifteen ounce,
up nearly four percent for their day. They always say
it should be part of your investment portfolio. Now you
can kind of see, why can't you twenty four past nine,

(47:29):
If there is something different you want to mention here
for it people, I've been saying I will buy a
metal detective when it's hit six thousand dollars an ounce.
Thank you for that. Auckland East to show terrible now
closed by six pm. Most used to be awesome. Love you,
Marcus Troy Yipso I suspected. I don't know why. It's

(47:50):
kind of done its dash, probably Temu you sort of well,
I mean in it's day, giveaways, competitions, quizzes only show
in town. Oh well there was before Fortne and minecraft
and the likes. Marcus. I've been using a battery lawnmower

(48:11):
with a plastic multa. I won't go back to petrol. Yeah,
I feel at that time. Now I feel I'm converting
a lot of the appliances to battery. It seems once
you buy a set of batteries for one thing, and
the compatible with other tools. So if there's any breaking news,

(48:31):
I'll bring that to your people. My name is Marcus.
Welcome middle twelve o'clock tonight, looking forward to what you've
got to say. Lawnmow is maintaining the lawnmows. I you're
supposed to wash them out with a hose. Think if
it's still not. Aliminium does seem important? Marcus. As a kid,
I love these to show doing paint pictures on the
spinning turntable the end of the pavilions always first. Thet
with the demonstrations of magnetic window cleaner is the multi

(48:53):
tool and the slurpeck sponge that holds all the liquid.
But last time I went it was a collection of
two dollar shops. Aha, so it's junk. Yeah, Okay. What
I was always enamored by was those machines and there
was a horizontal turntable that would revolve and you would

(49:19):
push buttons that would move the arms out and you'd
try and not one of the watchers in one of
those sauces into a slot to claim it. Compelling.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
That was it for me.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Loved that wasn't so much into the shooting or throwing
the hoops to unco for that, in fact, to unco
for the other one also. But that seemed to be
the most the easiest one to do. But yeah, okay,
that's like a clitchure of two dollars shops. That kind
of speaks a lot. Grass will layer on the inside
body over time, reducing the fly of glass and hear
into the catcher. That's why you wash graydon tell their

(49:59):
thanks for that, Marcus. I put a Hondomura in nineteen
ninety five. Always wash it, never leave it has never
been to a shop for a pair. I change its
oil and blades when required, goes first pull every time.
It's amazing. But it wasn't cheap, David. Don't hose the mower.
Use a plastic scrape and a scrape excess grass off

(50:21):
the underside. Also, don't cut wet grass. Water equals rust.
Grass will larwer on the inside body of it t'
reducing the flow of grass at the ear into the catcher.
That's why you watch the other. The most important thing
is to wash the catcher. Marcus mow the lawn without
a catcher's good thing. Occasionally then leaves some nitrogen back

(50:41):
into the lawn to fix its spring, or now in
autumn to get rid of daisies, clover and dandelions. Onwards
and forwards towards a new speaking pope. Are you speaking popers?
Orca needs to show terrible clothes by six pm, because
once upon a time you go to midnight arriving in

(51:03):
the car park with the lights onto the night trots. Also,
you pers to get more exciting as a child than
that orn text. That's what we're on about. I don't
mind mowing the lawns, just not to be woken up
at seven or three am by a neighbor mowing the lawns.
I'm never quite sure the right time to mow the lawns. Marcus.
The lawns aren't mowing until the edges are done. Two cheers, Tony.

(51:24):
I'm a big person for the A big person with
a weed trimmer for the edges. Though I use those
plastic things. I don't kind of like those plastic bladed things.
The nylon doesn't work for me in the whed trimmers.
Drives me crazy. Those nylons spoiling things. Lawnmower cleaners don't
land on its side to hose it down. All the
fuel runes out of the fuel capin and the engine

(51:46):
all spiled it under the out of the engine breathers.
Thank you for that, Marcus. What is the right way
to tip a lawnmer over to clean it? Mine always
gathers grass on the left hand side, doesn't throw it
into the catcher. It is new. The other one also
did it. Thank you, Marcus. I heard of Bob's tail
of lazy tenants. Not bothered taking the new mor out
of the box. I'm saying some people do love mowing lawns.

(52:12):
As a young mother renting, then when I had a
big country lawn with not a ride on, great exercise,
satisfying job to do, good memories of the time well
spent while young and able. Yes, I would have no
problem mowing lawns professionally. I like it a great deal,
find it very relaxing, find it very RESTful. I'm a

(52:35):
twice s mole. I might at once, then I go
back over a second time. But yeah, not obsessive with it.
But I reckon I could become obsessed with mowing lawns.
But yeah, I would think it'd be a great way
to win a living. But if you can wear those
things over your shoes, stop the grass getting down your socks.
Always think that looks smart. Marcus the neighbor once asked

(52:58):
me when I was going to my my lawns, I
see when I'm ready to sell. Forty years on, I'm
still proud of my decision. But it's a bit difficult
fighting my way through the bamboo. What self sowing bamboo?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (53:13):
Breather is for the fuel tag that'll do it. It's
very hard to They say you're not supposed to tip
them up, Then how do you get underneath to wash them?
It's almost like you need a garden sprinkler on then
to actually drive on top of that, that might be
the way to do it. Thinking out loud, someone will
have an opinion, can you ever get rid of bamboo?

(53:33):
I don't know the answer that. I don't know how
the grass tuned into bamboo? Was itself sowing? It's also
got me perplexed. But these are all questions people are asking.
And if you want to talk before the news would
love to hear from you. There's something else you want
to mention. Good. I realize a lot of you are
probably in the holiday mode and that's good. Also, how

(53:55):
about them worry as though? Ah, what a roller coaster.
It's too much for me. It was such a disaster
against Melbourne and then such a spectacle against Brisbane. Oh well,
it's easy not to support them or watch them. Incredibly stressful.

(54:16):
The best week's the bye week and you get only
you get some calm. Mavis Marcus, welcome, good evening, Good.

Speaker 19 (54:29):
Evening, Marcus. My granddaughter and her then partner went over
and met the p They she won a competition in
New Zealand with Prances Kate Truston. He put it out
to all countries of the world for young people to unite,
I think, and they were. She was chosen out of
this lovely.

Speaker 11 (54:52):
Thing she wrote.

Speaker 19 (54:53):
And he say to the Pope and they went over
and they had eight weeks.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
Over in Rome.

Speaker 11 (55:00):
Wow done India.

Speaker 19 (55:02):
They went and saw mother trees, so they had to
can the orphanages and he blessed their rings on a
little little pillar. Yes, and they're married still yep.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
So she was married. She was an adult then, right,
got a child?

Speaker 19 (55:22):
Is that what you're saying, Well, she was about eighteen
nineteen at that stage they had not you know, she
was just coming out of university. Yes, and they got
married on the twenty ninth of the third, it says,
twenty fourteen. I'm looking at their wedding invitation. I'm thinking
there's so many little things, psalms and blah blah blah,

(55:45):
all this Catholic stuff.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
You know, Yes, and she's Catholic obvious, Is that right?

Speaker 19 (55:51):
She turned Catholic. She met a young man at he's
a science teacher for secondary school.

Speaker 7 (55:59):
Yep, and he is.

Speaker 19 (56:02):
He's at the Hallswall Catholic College now in christ Church teaching.
And yeah, she changed her religion. They just love each
other to bit four lovely little kids.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
Oh well, because it was twenty third, Well it's not long.
It was twenty thirteen. Wasn't it that they that he
became the pope?

Speaker 19 (56:20):
I think yeah, it was just and that's what happened.
He put it out to the to the world, to
young people to unite. Something about BETHTEIM don't quite know,
but anyway, I rang you another time about our kids
are getting you Commodore sixty four, so we've done find
unusual things.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
I love that show. I love that show. With all
the stories about the comedo for sixty four, it's one
of my favorites. To all those people with such great
hopes for computers and the playing games on them.

Speaker 14 (56:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
I couldn't believe how good that was. All those people
do it, the Commodore sixty four, all their.

Speaker 19 (56:57):
Hopeless kids that got useless jobs.

Speaker 15 (57:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Yeah, well your daughter's long your great you see, it
was your granddaughter, my.

Speaker 19 (57:07):
Granddaughter, my daughter daughter, Yeah, my daughter that lives in
Christ with her. It's their daughter.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
And she's in no word that she's going to go
over the funeral or anything.

Speaker 19 (57:18):
I don't I don't think, so I just sent her.
I heard it on the radio last night at eight
eleven thirty, and I thought, surely not, so I sent
her a little teach and she said, yes, he's passed.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
Yeah, okay, Oh, nice to hear from your Marvous. Thanks
for coming through about that. I knew we'd probably get
from here from someone tonight that's met him, so you
might be that person also, So feel free to come through.
Anything else you want to talk about tonight, be good
to hear from you. Is it feels very much like
in a holiday mat It is Tuesday. I finally got
that reconciled. Marcus liked you. I can't stand nylon line type.

(58:03):
Can you get blade version? Heads to fit the traditional
type trum a rob yesh.

Speaker 16 (58:07):
You can.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
Marcus. The christ Church rubbish trucks have very good cameras
in the caves. I put a rusty old reel barrow
wheel in my red bin. They refuse to take it.
That's what you'd put in the red bin, isn't it?
What's wrong with that? There's normally a small hole in

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the top of the our body. Leave them. I running
and hold the hose over the whole. I've ever looked
about that. I've discovered from observation and chet GPT agrees
English ivy. He's a very strong root system and will
contain running bamboo. You haven't got any bamboo stories or

(58:51):
getting rid of bamboo stories? And what's running bamboo? I've
never heard that expression. I know there's a big scare
in the English papers about bamboo getting out of Oh okay.
Running bamboos are the ones that spread through the growth
of long horizontal root called rahizomes. Oh there's running bamboo
and clumping bamboo. Do we have running bamboo in this country?

(59:16):
Don't know. I've never thought much about bamboo. Maybe we
have got running bamboo. Looks terrible odds banned running bamboo
his whole website, warning of its evil. There are two
bamboo categories, runners and clumpers, the running types of the

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ones that can become a problem. Bamboo is a grass.
Running bamboo is similar to coua cheap as see no
Lad's banned. To get rid of it, you got to
cut stems and dig out the rhizomes. I don't there's

(59:58):
any spray for it either, anyhow? How are you going? People?
Welcome to Joe name as Marcus Hidle twelfth. Get in touch?
You want to be a part of it? Oh greeting's welcome?
Here'll twelve. Someone wants to know how many guess bottles
you can take on the Becky e ut before you
need a dangerous goods license? How many full gas bottles
can you transport? I never knew that was a thing.

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How many do you want to try? Where are you going? Mac?
You're off the grid? Are they new ones or fooled ones?
How do you get a dangerous good license? Could someone
tell me how to get I suppose you got to
go sit in a room with people and write stuff down.

Speaker 15 (01:00:38):
Do you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Like a first aid course? There are anything more boring
than the first aid course? I know it saves people's lives,
but gee, it's a long day, isn't it. They I've
done three? Yeah, wow, might do another one just to
how to share mindlessness. It's not quite the word I'm

(01:01:03):
looking for. Sheer bloody mindnerss. I'd suppose anyway. M Brett Marcus, welcome,
there you go.

Speaker 15 (01:01:09):
You're right?

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
Great? What's up?

Speaker 20 (01:01:12):
I think you can only carry one bottle before you
need a DG license. I think you can't even than
oil from a from werehouse or Bunnings to your house
without the career having a DG license on them.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
What's the worry?

Speaker 20 (01:01:28):
I don't know. It's probably in case of a guest canister,
it could sort of could sort of knob could come
on loose and then the crack crash or trap crash
or dan krash.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
So it's not because I think someone's going to do
a McVeigh like in the Oklahoma and go into a
building and blow it up.

Speaker 20 (01:01:53):
It's all wars and regulations. It's just the way that
the occupations have generated this new license. Like I said,
you can't even order a two strike four straight lower
the internet live at your house. There's a dig license.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Have you you seem to know a lot about this,
Britt and I bless you for that. Have you got
where would you go for a dangerous good license?

Speaker 20 (01:02:20):
Just if you're if you're out of town in the country,
you have to go to a city license the day course,
just like sitting your your the truck license.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Have you Have you done it now?

Speaker 20 (01:02:34):
I haven't done it, but I sort of, well, I'm
gonna past to license and I know what it's sort
of I was going to sit my a DG license
just because of sudden sort.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Of if you've got if you've got the d G,
what can you carry?

Speaker 20 (01:02:52):
Uh, anything toxic, anything that's explosive you most most less
companies and employees conties into those companies, they need to
have that dig your license to carry anything that's that's
it gets a tricky does yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Oh, might get one as extra as actually on your
license that you've got dangerous goods d G on your licenses.

Speaker 20 (01:03:22):
That yeah, it's a day of course, it's book and
I'm the same as sting your fork the license. You've
got a foker license, you have to sit your health
and safetysh oh.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Yeah, okay, are you done? What did you want to
mention something about the pope before you go.

Speaker 20 (01:03:37):
Yeah, no care all about the ash. If you've got
even if you've got your punker license, you still have
to sit an ash ye health and safety to be
on on site who maneuver the goods on your on
on in the company site. You can have your endorsement,
but you've got to set health and safety licenses.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Yeah, appreciate it, Britt. Nice to hear from you. Thank you.
Dean Marcus welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Yeah, mate, just a quick one year that guy's write
one bottle. I was just going to say, I just
had mine and done recently DG's and just had it
endorsed about a three hour course and all the answers
are funny you Basically, I'm just gonna say, yeah, is there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Anything Is there anything interesting about that you wouldn't have
thought of?

Speaker 19 (01:04:23):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:04:24):
No, not really.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
It's just no where to like if you're if you've
got a truck, just knowing where to put all you
what dangerous goods you can have together? Like they give
you this wheel thing you know, it's like a little
card well we all thing it tells you what can
go with what you know, I say, food, dgs et cetera. Yeah,
all those sort of things. But anything, Yeah, you need
a DG license. Anything over the fifty kg's and weight

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and you need a DG. So that'd be right, one
gas bottle, yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:04:52):
Is it? Just?

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
Is it in case you're in an accident it becomes
really dangerous because it's just well, it's just much more
dangerous than one, is it what it's funny about?

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
Yeah, so the rules fifty kgs and over as DJ squad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Oh yeah, and you've got all the answers there and
you just got to fill them in.

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
You got you got the book there. The guys like,
I'm not going to give you the answers, but if
you have a look in your book. Yeah, hey, what
do you say? That's DGS for dummies years just talking.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
She sounds good earlier of the missus. She sounds like
she is you know, yeah, these Norman England girls here,
keep me in line. Where is she from?

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
She's from a place called Tadcaster, between Leeds and York.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Is that rugby league country up there?

Speaker 15 (01:05:42):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:05:43):
Is it rugby league country up there? Julie?

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
That's football?

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Oh yeah, okay, fair enough we get to the wrong
side of her thirteen past ten. Thank you. What about
DG Lison We found the topic took a long time.
About tweet text on DG licenses? Me, I want to
take five full LPG bottles down to Farno on the
east coast from Auckland. Oh yeah, well you got fifty kgs.
You'd need a DG license. By the way, no one

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says dangerous God You'll say DG. You need your DG license. Mac.
What I'd do is you can't take five down? What
if you had a trailer? No, I don't reckon. There's
an answer for you, Marcus. Two fifty for leaders for
personal two fifty Leaders for personal recreation use. I looked

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up on Google different rules of your company charging customers,
then lots of rules of limitations. If you're trucking company,
if guest bottles on, you will never had guests in them.
You can carry as many as you want once filled
five only nine kilograms even when empty of guests. So

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what you might do, MEC is drive them down and
then follow up and guzzy and then get your paro
to come and get them them down empty brand new.
What after my guest bottle? I did the have a
guest bottle once makes I've still got it. Yeah, Hi,

(01:07:24):
johnet's Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:07:27):
Today, Margus more John list just on the DJ thing
on the tracker. The guys you've had on are pretty close. Diversity,
A few points the main the main objects say, you
know what?

Speaker 8 (01:07:42):
How to segregate everything.

Speaker 16 (01:07:45):
Yes, there's a lot of DJs. We've got toxins, you've
got bloody gas. That's got flammable liquids, you've got non
compressed gas. So begetting the licenses so to know when
to put it all and when to store all the
paperwork so the boat servers can find it straight away.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Okay, we do you store the paperwork? John?

Speaker 16 (01:08:08):
It isn't a DJ bag in your driver's door. It
cannot be removed.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
So is it attached to the door case of rollover?

Speaker 16 (01:08:20):
It's still on the door, so is it?

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Is it like a sticker? It's stuck to the door.

Speaker 16 (01:08:24):
Is it's bag bel crow shut with your paperwork inside?

Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
So you've got obviously got to full out.

Speaker 14 (01:08:34):
You got.

Speaker 16 (01:08:36):
Is how to segregate everything, and then you've got load
plans so when they find your paperwork it's a load pen.
They know exactly where every.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
Single DJ is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
God please you finally got the carriage to ring John,
because what you say is incredibly valuable. So this paperwork
it actually.

Speaker 16 (01:08:53):
Is you can where as commercial cannot take guess bodels
and behavior unless they are knew.

Speaker 21 (01:09:03):
Yes, so the brand an empty, they're still a DJ.
But you've got you've got to ye, you're going to
be accounted for if I get my car and take
my guess botl down the road on fine?

Speaker 3 (01:09:18):
Yes, but what aren't you find doing taking taking more
than one?

Speaker 16 (01:09:24):
Yep, it's DJ in the truck you have even one
has to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Be accounted for, John, Do you have a special pad
that you fill out each time before you put it
in the orange bag with a valcro correct?

Speaker 16 (01:09:40):
So the supplier. So say I go to Bunnings and
grab a pellet load. I'm not naming any company purposely
grab a pellet load. They have to supply me with exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:09:53):
How many.

Speaker 16 (01:09:56):
Are on the pellet everything, label them, and then it
goes to my company the dispatch, and they fill out
their paperwork as well, so it's accountable right the way through.

Speaker 8 (01:10:08):
Okay, So for the for the it doesn't normally it's
normally done for them.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
So the fieries go straight to the driver's door. Think,
hang about, we've got a live one here and they
know exactly what they're up against.

Speaker 16 (01:10:20):
There's also player cards on the truck to tell them
as well. So there's a play card for everything. But
if you've got missed, we call it the bubble be
it's orange black, got dangerous goods? Okay, So the fieries
can see the truck on the side of the road
wherever it may be. Go DJs, go to.

Speaker 12 (01:10:38):
The door, get them.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Is this radio active some of the people carry I've
seen those radioactive signs?

Speaker 16 (01:10:46):
Yeah, yeah, they very even a little little utes have
to display for radioactive.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:52):
What does that stuff? It seems something to do with animals,
with livestock, is it.

Speaker 16 (01:10:56):
No, No, no, it's it's mainly on the use and
that it's on the ground radars.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Oh yeah, yep. Okay, John, you've been more than a helpful.
Thank you for that. Never thought. Didn't even know that
was a topic. Didn't even know that was a topic.
Bang bang Bang're all about dangerous goods. I've never seen
one of theo's orange folders. Wow, come on the bluff
road to fairbit with people with trucks carrying dangerous goods, Marcus,

(01:11:27):
just chunting in for the night. Haven't put up on
the topic. Just want to saying Nana na na enduring
my long weekend, los are we're talking about dangerous good licenses?
What I reckon? There is some agricultural application for for
radioactive stuff. I thought it was something to do. I
don't know what it was to do with edible husbandry.

(01:11:48):
Something someone might know. I see a lot of utes
with going around with radioactive sign on them. I always
thought it was a joke, but clearly it's not. Well
I want to do now is getting a dangerous goods?

Speaker 15 (01:12:01):
Light?

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
Not that I've got any dangerous goods to carry, Marcus.
Say you buy something with a battery or something from
say Mighty Ape. It needs a dangerous goods to be
able to career it. Wow, this would be the future.

(01:12:23):
I think Luxo is overmeat and starm to buy drones.
Did you hear that sixty million dollars worth the drones? Cheapers?
Hope it goes better than that ship off Samoha? What
would you do with a drone in New Zealand? What

(01:12:43):
do with sixty million dollars with the drones? But I
suppose would take them with us in the hercules and
then attack people. Doesn't sound like warfare to me, but
I guess that might be a good thing anyway. All
about dangerous goods, you want to talk about that? The

(01:13:04):
Orange Fowler? What I like to that guy, Johnny says funning.
So you see, I'm not going to mention a brand.
So that's what lookally people. Sometimes people you can mention
any brains you want. No one, there's no Yeah. Sometimes
people funny about brains, but you don't know why that is.
But yeah, you can mention any brains you like. Jim

(01:13:25):
AT's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 7 (01:13:28):
Hi, How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
Jim? Thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:13:31):
I am just bringing them regards to the dangerous Yes,
I heard your call up before talking about radioactive material. Yes,
usually there's just stuff like fire alarms of the smoke depictors.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Oh you understand, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (01:13:54):
Yeah, and that's easy.

Speaker 22 (01:13:58):
Yeah, probably maybe one hundred packets of those in a
hell or something.

Speaker 11 (01:14:04):
Ending.

Speaker 8 (01:14:05):
Yes, regards there's radioactive blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:08):
Okay, appreciate that, yep, okay. I thought it might be said. Also,
did summitters for highway to work out the roads on
Sybyan's people. But thank you dB Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:14:20):
They just goods.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Here we go, come come, as though surprise to you
that you have to be certified to handle them on
railways a segregation you know what what they can do?
Bloody bah blah blah. A couple of day courses recertified
it a couple of years and we still keep it wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Hang on, who does it? The local market and engineer
or the train controller.

Speaker 7 (01:14:45):
Got work engineer okay, and it used to be, of
course the guard, but we were shot there, so now
it's just a local engineer.

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
There's a fuss at the time, wasn't there They got
rid of the guards. It was the beginning of the end.
But next year was the end of.

Speaker 7 (01:14:59):
The beginning, certainly was these centers of course, also had
to put the trains to get with full segregation. And
in the good old days we carried LPG bombs that
were you know, think there were fifty thousand liters. They
had their own run over wagons attached to give them

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even more space, and you didn't want to have an
exodit with one of those, because that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Was tell me what that is a run away. They
put a plank between them and the next wagon.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
Did they That's yeah, they have. They came to their
own empties. But even other dangerous goods quite regularly will
have it made me carrying other goods, but it has
to have the right amount of segregation, the space between
any other dangerous goods. But when we used to carry

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explosives for the army, and this was way back when
I was still at Westfield, they had a train come
in and it was quite normal carry explosives, just just
what railways. That was fully segregated between the explosives and
the death It came an on a Friday morning. It

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was put into a shunt condition and taken out to
Papakura where it got there in the afternoon. Both wagons
placed together into the military siding that was then in Papakura.
But nobody told Papakirah Army camp that they were there.

(01:16:34):
So they sat there together all weekend, unguarded. One wagon
full of explosives, one wagonful of death datas, and the
lesson salubrious neighborhood. There was hell to pay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
You imagine that goes. I mean a lot of stuff
the railways went missing, but if that went missing, that
would be a concern.

Speaker 7 (01:17:02):
That was pretty Yes, some people might be somewhat to turn.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Just another question for you, dB that I've never managed
to ask anyone that you you know, how often there'd
be posters warning people of detonators that we pushed out
put on railways to warn drivers of works ahead? Was
that a practice that it happened in New Zealand? And
when did that stop?

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
Absolutely, locomotives carried twenty four So because and it wasn't
that far ago, and in fact they still carry that
that it was not as binny short protection for a
disabled train with a tunnel intervening required twenty four deatonators.

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
So what tell me what happens with that? What does
that mean?

Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
So there are a little round capsule that were they
lead strap and just literally strapped them to the head
of the rail and as the train goes over them,
they explode and they make it noise and smoke. And
why the number that you've run over tells you what
to expect.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
So you're saying that there's an exodu if you're a
train that breaks down, do you put them at the
back of the train to warn sub don't fully understand
how they used.

Speaker 7 (01:18:15):
Yeah, that's correct. And this is when this is the
four we had radios and and super deeper stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
So would you jump out of the would you jump
out of the train and walk a kilomet of up
the track.

Speaker 7 (01:18:26):
And put some on absolutely, And especially if you're a
double line and you couldn't see the rear of your train,
you go and protect the opposite running line, and you
put them in groups of two opposite one on each trail,
opposite each other. But if you needed to stop a train,
it was a group of three.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Drive drive wou here three explosion to note to chuck
on the tracks.

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
And the first time I ran over them duds as
a fireman, I had no idea what was I thought?
But the injured the blind up was what's that? Because
I was a young kid and the driver took the
clover goes desidators shut up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
So you'd have to move a few train if your
train broke down or what you have to move quite
quickly to place them at the foard of the back
of the train at a decent distance to stop another train.

Speaker 7 (01:19:14):
Right if you're in places in those days like tablet
or some of the other safework here is yeah, yeah,
you didn't have to make much haste because theoretically you're
the only train in the section. Okay, if your double line, yes,

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I can't remember the wording of the rules now, but
steps must be taken immediately to protect the opposite wedding line.
And so you get out there with a red flag
astead of defidators and you'd go like the papers.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Really appreciate dev thank you for answering that. Appreciate your calls. Guys,
oh eight hundred and eighty ten out if you want
to come through Dangerous good license and detonators. Finding it
very interesting how times have changed in the eighties. Until
fifteen years ago. I put groceries, petrol vets, apply eyes
and the boot of the hold and return to the
farm and are from town. Ex farmer's wife, Marcus Orange

(01:20:14):
DG folders on the door are for taking it off
and getting out of the way, etc. There's no use
living in the door when a truck's on fire. ICC grant.
It's the old grab and go Marcus Orange. Dangerous good
folders contain material safety data sheets and emergency action procedures.
Declaration of dangerous goods also load plans, so emergencies doers

(01:20:35):
know exactly where the DG products are and the volumes
Those platcards on the track of a code I E.
Three YE, which is breakdown of the product and how
to tackle it and what products you use to tackle.
It's called emergency action codes. That is a universal code system.
As for radio active in the utes, I'm pretty sure
the optical laser equipment will use true tritium gas in

(01:20:56):
the system, hence display. Having displayed the placards, look, I
was sure there was some agricultural use for them, and
I might have got that one wrong. Is it for
testing for lambs or twin I don't know what it was,
but it's not important that I'm proved right on that

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when I'm prepared to let that one go. If you
want to be in touch, welcome, it's twenty seven to eleven.
That's the flurry we want. That's the saving, that's the
show saving flurry. They're all about dangerous goods. I never
realized that. I thought it would be workmen that would
put detonators on the tracks to stop, to warn the
drivers that there was track maintenance. He didn't realize the

(01:21:37):
drivers themselves put them on the railway tracks. I was
always noticed, is that not if you found them, not
to play with them. I'll blow your fingers off. But
I'd never come across any that's me tapping people. It's
a happy tap, Marcus. Last week the school holidays. Kids

(01:21:59):
these days seem to have more time off school than
when I was at school. I think it's a fair
question or a fair point. It's a good time for holidays.
We've had good we've had a good time. Although we
didn't get into the board games today. I refuse to

(01:22:21):
play Risk because the world's worst board game. But what
happened for us, our family with Risk, the world's worst
board game, is that I downloaded an app that did
the battles, the dice battles, because if you got like
forty going against thirty eight, it's about forty dice rolls.

(01:22:42):
But even with the app, the game is still endless.
So today the order of the games we played was Pandemic,
Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Katan, Wingspan, Scrabble, Yep to

(01:23:06):
get a resolution with Pandemics, a very good game because
Pandemic you all work together. It's a board game unlike
any any other very good. We didn't manage to solve
it though, Yeah, although we eliminated the Blues, but that
was it. Anyway. That was exciting to be back on

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the on board games. But yeah, that seemed fitting. On
the second week of the holidays, one of them wants
to go to the movies dog Man or something, although
it looks pretty terrible. So I've been offering him things
to do instead of that. I forget what I offered him,
but yeah, then I got myself in trouble by the

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things I offered him. So anyway, but we are talking
dangerous goods. The pope eight percent of New Zealand ar Catholic,
Arcatholic Arcatholic be the third biggest faith probably, if not,

(01:24:10):
I'll be the fourth. Mind you, what's I mean some
of them? You have to all different subdivisions, can't you.
Someone had predicted it. In fact, two people had predicted
Lyle and John, but no one had predicted the romance
of Billy Ray, Cyrus and Liz Hurley. You never seen

(01:24:36):
such a surprising headline, But there you go. That's your
modern world getting someone's DMS. Next thing, you know. I
think the Daily Mail headline was Liz mending Billy Ray's
achy breaky heart. Yep, they went there. Marcus birds using

(01:25:01):
a human here was a top of ages to go,
but to call a ragon, saying, don't put here out
for the birds. It gets tangled around the legs. Not true.
The little beaks weave their hair and stuff into the nests.
They can therefore get the hair off their legs feet.
I put all haired dog grooming hair and cat for
out and it's gone a minute's re clever our birds.
Great shoto. Well, I've been warned against putting a hair

(01:25:22):
out for birds. I've heard that it is bad for them.
Just because you're set it in a web doesn't mean
it doesn't kill some. It also got warned against putting
out the lint, not lient lint birds nests.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
Eh.

Speaker 3 (01:25:41):
Yeah, it's pretty sad where we've got to put things
out to help birds though. Isn't it just remarkable how
they make nests though, isn't it? There's one of the
things in life that still amazes me. How are all going? People?
What's happening out there? Listen end if you want to
talk anything interesting else that's happening, let me know what
that is. Get in touch. Oh eight hundred and eighty

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ten eighty nine nine to text Ooh, someone want to
talk about bamboo also running bamboo. There's two types of bamboo,
clumping and running. I didn't know that was a thing,
but yep, I don't know how someone's lawn turned into

(01:26:25):
bamboo that to were on about that. We're talking about
cleaning lawnmowers with your hoes. Sah, how is you easter?
To anyone? Anyone do anything exciting?

Speaker 14 (01:26:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
The other thing too, And I'm just I'm not saying
I'm not putting this out as a speculator, but maybe
someone could talk to me about what will happen at
the Catholic churches with the funeral a bit. It's something
that people would go along to the church and watch.
Would that be considered a strange thing to do? They're
just asking that because I'm curious to know how that

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will how that will be acknowledged, the funeral of the
pope just they just wait for the Sunday services and
the warriors only because that match was so exceptional, would
that kick off? I do think that it was. I

(01:27:28):
do think that Reye. Walsh was kind of rattled by
the reception he got at Ericson. Didn't have a good game,
didn't seem happy, mind you was carrying injury I think
also too, which he had through the March match. Anyway,
Helen Marcus welcome.

Speaker 17 (01:27:42):
Yes, Chris mid evening. Look, I'm sorry, I've just been
asleep and I woke up.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
You never apologized for being asleep, Helen.

Speaker 11 (01:27:52):
I was really.

Speaker 17 (01:27:53):
Impressed to learn about Pope something that I hadn't not
known before, of course, that he lived in a room
in a hostel and made his own lunch and sandwich
and drove around in a little car. And I thought

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that was really quite wonderful and a real kind of
model for politicians who say they are losing, those that
are worrying about losing contact with their constituents. And I thought, well,
there you go. That's the way you do it. You
live in a room in a hostel and make your
own sandwiches, and then you're not in touch. Then you

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haven't lost touch with you with your poorer constituents at all.

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
Very good, Helen, thank you for that.

Speaker 15 (01:28:40):
Tom Marcus, welcome, did they I was just throwing up
about people playing card games. Yes, but five hundred uca
crib the people play game card games nowadays, yes they
do much so all right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Yeah, no, I love Well, you must know are you
Are you not living? Are you not mixing with other people?
Are you?

Speaker 15 (01:29:06):
So?

Speaker 11 (01:29:06):
I am? I live in a Somerset village here in Nelson.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
And a lucky Do you have cards in the social room?

Speaker 11 (01:29:17):
Yeah, yues we do. We play cards, crib yuka and
stuff like that, but mainly five hundred, which is a
fantastic game.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Yeah, that's probably. I'm not huge on cards. If I
played any card game, i'd play five hundred. Sometimes I
find people aren't that nice at playing cards, are a
bit kind of smug.

Speaker 11 (01:29:37):
Yeah, i'd agree, But it came and it takes a
little bit of skill and stuff like that. It's all
good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Yeah, it's also it's also great if you're tramping or anything.
I have a game of cards on your cards or knucklebones,
you can take them anywhere.

Speaker 11 (01:29:52):
Yeah, well I learned. I learned to play cards when
I was a kid at primary school. Yep, with mom
and most mother, dad and my grandmother. You know, playing
crib crib was a good game for two people and
all that's up. So yeah, I just interested to hear
what if people play play the games and do all

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that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
So do they play do they play poker at the Somerset.

Speaker 11 (01:30:20):
No, but I got one of my best friends at Somerset.
He he goes and plays poker and he's got a
whole truckload of metals. He's won a lot of money
playing poker. But yeah, yeah, it's a good game.

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
He goes overseas, does he?

Speaker 11 (01:30:37):
No, he does. He plays locally at the Turf Hotel
here in Nelson.

Speaker 5 (01:30:42):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
It goes to the other play.

Speaker 11 (01:30:46):
Yeah, yeah. Do you know the Turf Hotel and Nelson?

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
What streets it on?

Speaker 11 (01:30:53):
It's on the main street in the Stokes.

Speaker 3 (01:30:57):
Old It's an old hotel, time famous.

Speaker 11 (01:31:01):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
Is it called the Turf.

Speaker 11 (01:31:06):
Of the Wine though I don't know. Yeah, I don't
know why it's called the Turf.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
It's a weird name for a pub, isn't it.

Speaker 11 (01:31:14):
Yeah, this is a weird name, but I like it.
Mac shirt and the Turf Hotel I got. I got
a sticker on my cell phone that tells me if
anybody finds my phone, and I know they know where
to find me at.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
The Turf Hotel. Yeah, still you still spend much time there.

Speaker 11 (01:31:35):
Every Friday night I go and have a have a drink,
have a jug and then I ride my scooter back
home to the to the village and then that's it.
That's my night.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
So I have a regular what's your night? You go
to the turf and what do you have?

Speaker 11 (01:31:53):
I have a jug of beer?

Speaker 3 (01:31:55):
Yep, just a jug.

Speaker 11 (01:31:59):
Yeah, just a jug Max gold.

Speaker 3 (01:32:01):
I was going to say, it's max okay. And how
long is a trip back.

Speaker 11 (01:32:07):
On the scooter? My electric scooter probably takes ten Minutes's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
And do you take the scooter and or you leave
that outside?

Speaker 11 (01:32:16):
Leave it outside? But yeah, I don't it was Everything
is so safe. I don't even need to tie it
up or chain that up or anything. I just leave
it outside, go and have my drinks with my friends,
and then I when I finished about six o'clock, jump
on the scooter and go home and have dinner.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
How long are you different? How long you're there for
with a jug? An hour?

Speaker 5 (01:32:39):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:32:39):
Been now out of quarter? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's a good story because I kind of
think people and I didn't think you kind of got
out that often. That's probably my misconception. You are with
your scooter, You're going everywhere.

Speaker 11 (01:32:56):
Yeah, so far touch wood. I'm still my bill.

Speaker 22 (01:33:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:00):
Yeah's the modern version of the horse tying it up
outside the pub.

Speaker 11 (01:33:04):
Yeah, so when you're well, I'm I'm only compared with
most of the people that live in this place. I'm
only quite young. I'm maybe too, but most of the
ones here a lot older than I am.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
Yeah, any others ever company into the turf.

Speaker 11 (01:33:22):
No, A couple do go down occasionally, but I catch
up with my relations and that down there. My nephew
and his wife, who's bib that's her name. She's a
Thay lady.

Speaker 3 (01:33:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's Lucky. Who's married the Thai woman.

Speaker 11 (01:33:40):
Bibi. Yeah, that's her name.

Speaker 3 (01:33:42):
But who married who? Did you say?

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Well, and my nephew, oh yeah, okay, she drinks at
the turf.

Speaker 11 (01:33:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. She works at the supermarket, the local supermarket,
and he's he's come over from Aussie and made probably
a lot of money. But anyway, she works and he's
sort of got a part time job and makes a
few Bob and we all have a good time.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Yeah, brilliant, honest, I think that's a very interesting Winnow
to your world, Tom, brilliant. Every interest in the old
turf hotel. There is a turf hotel in Wales, I
guess it's named after that because you get DC on
but it is good or probably not, Marcus. Could we

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hear about the f jesu as well as the DJs?
I what fragile goods have of truckies and curious smashed
such as China crystal trays of eggs? Marcus. We've just
finished playing Mexican Train, a fantastic game for all ages.
Never heard of it. The turf hotel is named for

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we had a racing track out the back of it, Marcus.
The Warriors have the Knights, the Cowboys, the Dolphin and
the Dragons. Our next four games all very winnable. I
won't beat the Dolphins, not with a hammer. We're in

(01:35:17):
fourth at the moment and could make a good push
up the ladder. Do you know how many kaimun or
horses around up the threats and they know they're rounding
them up? The kaimoners. They're good breeders, aren't they. Mark's
I recently discovered bamboo clothing T shirts, boxes, socks. What
a comfortable fabric, all light and hygie. Wouldn't it be

(01:35:39):
quite stiff? Bamboo boards seem surprising, doesn't it? Fancy bamboo
T shirt it wouldn't been much be like a suit
of armor, wouldn't it?

Speaker 20 (01:35:50):
Or er er er?

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Someone said they used to be sponsored by the Royal
Hotel Main Street Nelson sponsored for what What's Your Sport?
Be a good basis for a movie a group of
people from retirement village going to the pub each week
getting into mischief. I don't fully know what the plot
of the movie would be, but you have some good scenes.

(01:36:21):
Do you one try camping in the far North over
the holidays? Imagine it was probably a bit of a
disaster if you did. But yeah, that's what we are
on about. So get in touch Marcus. Till twelve. It
is ten past eleven. There's something different you want to
talk about that. Don't have a problem with it. How's
the youth crime down your way? We are over it

(01:36:43):
up here in Northland. Burglary Carthiff Stephen stole an elderly
Ladies mobility scooter on Sunday night and destroyed it. Please
can't do anything with them. Frustrating chairs, Mike, Marcus, what
have you heard read the Beckonridge case? Do you have
any opinion the Beckonridge case? Yeah, the becon Ridge case.

Speaker 2 (01:37:14):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
What can I say? About the Becon Ridge case. I
don't have any great insight. I know where it happened.
I've been to where it happened. I even think I
might know the farmer from where it happened. Yeah, it's

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a bizarre case, that one. This is the one the
stepfather who was the helicopter pilot and the step son.

(01:38:01):
It seems to me it'd be strange to abduct a
child or take them out of school illegally and then
to go camping for a week to plan and act
like that. For me, it seemed like that act would
be a more spontaneous thing out of anger. But for

(01:38:25):
those that don't know, the car that went off the
cliff during terrible conditions and it took a long time
for Coastguard to go out of bluff to find the car,
and of course when they found the car, the car
was almost destroyed and the bodies went in that. So yeah,
a lot of people are experts after the fact on this,

(01:38:49):
but I guess probably what the situation is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
This is the.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
Situation if it was a deliberate ploy, if it was
framed to look like they'd driven off the cliffs deliberately,
then you still have to get the people out of
the country. He's got to get himself and the boy

(01:39:16):
out of the country, and I don't know how you
do that. I don't know if you get on a
fishing boat out of the harbor there and you go
to Stuart Island and you get another boat, or quite
how they got themselves out of the country. I haven't

(01:39:38):
quite worked out that aspect of it. We've got a
number of talkback nights about this and worked out what
people think might have happened. There was that sighting in
the island of Indiana, one of the islands of Indonesia.
I just don't know what's going to happen with or
how this new evidence has come to bear about the

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person whose farm it was on, or who was leasing
the farm was on and their sister. So I mean,
I have heard people talk about it, and I mean
obviously too. Yeah, it has been a big story down south,
but also seemed like a strange place to go and camp.
I can't I mean, if you're going to go camping
for a week, you don't go camping around the Catlands.
I've seen some of the places where they camped. It's

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just not the kind of place you go camping unless
you're planning something. Even though I'm saying that if you
want to drive you and a boy off a cliff,
they're probably it's the only place you could drive yourself
off a cliff would be there, But why would you
drive yourself off a cliff in a place where your
car can't be found for a long time. It's also
the only place you'd go if you want to pretend

(01:40:42):
or wanted to fake it so you could escape from
the country. Anyway, I've got more thoughts on it, but
I'm just kind of haven't got them more collated at
the stage. So yeah, that's going to be a fairly
interesting situation, although there's been no concrete evidence they've been
found overseas. And of course the boy hour is twenty one,

(01:41:06):
and he could well if he wanted to, have contacted
his mother to say that he was fine, and he
hasn't done that. Is that telling? Is that surprising? I
don't know, be terrible for the mother anyway. I want
to say about that, because no doubt the next couple
of days and weeks there will be a lot of
talk and speculation about that. But since I've got a

(01:41:29):
further time to talk, that I've said anyway, you might
want to comment on that also eight hundred and eighty
eight eighty nine to nine to detext if you want
to talk on air tonight. I'm even trying to think
of with this helicopter context. I don't know if you
could let I mean, it's not a really remote area
where they went missing, and it's not like you could

(01:41:50):
land a helicopter and take off and lend them somewhere else.
People would know where the helicopter was. Anyway, do you
can touch you on talk? My name's Marcus Hiddle twelve,
Steve Marcus. Welcome, good evening, Oh, how are you doing good?

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Thanks to good Yeah, yeah, I was just going to
tell you a little bit of a story about dealing
with chemicals and dangerous goods. Great used to worken the
jewelry trade, and we used to use a lot of
very dangerous stuff like cyanide and so forth. And on

(01:42:29):
this one occasion, I used to work in the top
floor of a four story building and we were having
a delivery of ammonia and that was like forty liters
of concentrated This is very, very the highest grade concentration
you can get of ammonia. And in a steel tank,

(01:42:53):
no its and plastic bottles. Well, like to this guy
that was delivering them was walking up the stairs and
he probably shouldn't have been carrying to it. I mean
there's forty hags that his bet would have been carrying,
and anyway, most of losses footing or whatever. And he
dropped them and they split open. And we were up

(01:43:17):
on the top floor and one of the managers came
to me and then another guy and said, oh, look,
can you go out and help clean up. Well, we
walked out the door. You could not breathe. You just
you could not breathe. And so we were on the

(01:43:42):
top floor, but there were all the other offices and
stuff downstairs. The whole building got evacuated and the private
gate had to come in. But it was just unbelievable
that we were even asked to go and try and
clean it up. It's just incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
So what did the whole building get back? What happened
in the end?

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
Oh, yeah, the whole building got evacuated.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
And people you could not did people get sick?

Speaker 19 (01:44:09):
Ah?

Speaker 15 (01:44:10):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
Yeah, we were on the top floor and had to
make our way downstairs past all the stuff, and yeah,
you had to clothor across your mouth and stuff to
get down you know, hold your breath and yeah yeah
coffin like hell when we got downstairs and all the
other buildings, other offices and people downstairs. So yeah, everyone

(01:44:34):
came out throwing up. What was it going to be dangerous?

Speaker 3 (01:44:39):
What was it going to be used for?

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
We just used it for cleaning, for cleaning after your cleaning,
polish off the rings and so forth, and the ultrasonics.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
So how would you do how would you decant it
into smaller containers? I mean that would be hard to
do itself, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's potent as he takes your breath,
the amount of stuff that a with. You know, we
had a process called bombing, which is when you get
your castings after they being cast, you put them in
a bowl of hot water basically, and then you puts

(01:45:24):
the cyanide and that concentrated cyanide, and then you put
hydroxy hydrogen peroxide and with that and it would cause
a reaction which would strip the metal. And in my
early days and as an apprentice, doing doing that without

(01:45:46):
any vacuum, you know, no no vacuum to take the
stuff away at all, and oh god, and gold plating
is the same that cyanide as well. And I'd be
sitting over the gold plating, you know, sometimes every day
doing I think the gold plating had no fume extraction.

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
Okay, yeah, sounds it sounds pretty Steve. If you'd be
happy out of there, I think, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
Hell yeah. I mean I worked in other workshops where
the conditions were a lot better and they had proper
extraction and so forth. But shit, what we had to
put up with. You know that that would have been
closed down these days. It was just incredible, you know,

(01:46:38):
got exposed to and one of the guys that I
worked with was doing one of those stripping bombing process
and later in the day he left the work in
that and he got rushed to hospital and given a
massive dose of adrenaline and so fors to revive him.

(01:46:59):
Uh yeah, there's quite a few cases of it in
the in their trade.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
Now, what did you want to say the Pope?

Speaker 2 (01:47:08):
Oh, I just hope that they I'm not saying that
the last paper was a bad paper or anything, but
I just, yeah, I really hope they get someone that's
just up with the play. And I think, I really
think that the guy from the Philippines. I think I'll

(01:47:30):
get a feeling that the last time that they did
the ah you know, picked the last pope, that the
Philippines were right up there because they're very strong and
the Catholic faith, you.

Speaker 3 (01:47:49):
Know, are the most popular, Are the most popular Catholic country,
that would be far off that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
I think they're very yeah, good a feeling that they are.
And I suspect that that it will go his way,
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
Is that is that your faith as well? Is it
why you're particularly.

Speaker 2 (01:48:09):
It's brought up. I was brought up with it. And
I don't know if you realize who you're talking to,
but I many years ago went to the Vatican, you know,
Saint Peter's and that, and I had a very cold
feeling from the place, and actually took a photograph which

(01:48:32):
you've seen.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
When you say, when you say that who you're talking if,
is this something more to this?

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
I'm just ain't good. I showed you a photograph many
years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
Oh yeah, sure, okay, yeah, I can understand, And that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
Was taken in the Vatican, in the church, and I
just had a very cold feeling from the whole place.
And as I say, you know, you can choose to
explain that to your very listeners if you like. I
don't know, it doesn't bother me. Yeah, yeah, you know.

(01:49:08):
I just hope that they get someone in there that's
really good.

Speaker 3 (01:49:13):
Because I presume most of them most of them have
either been Italian, haven't they? Or European?

Speaker 14 (01:49:17):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
I mean the Jew I mean, this is the only
South American one. The one before that was germ and
the wonderful that was Polish before that. Italian Italian Italian Italian.
I mean Italian is the normal way to go, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
I think generally that's been the case over the years.
I mean, gosh, if you went back and I don't
know how many posts has been, but as the hell
of a lot over the years.

Speaker 3 (01:49:43):
I mean, I think hundred and sixty six Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
Right, yeah, And there was one called the Black Pope.
I think that they had a Black Pope there at
one stage. If you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
It's not my area of expertise, but someone will yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
I mean, and generally I would imagine it would be
generally would have been of Italian.

Speaker 3 (01:50:07):
I think Italian, I think Italian or French. It seems
to be just look quickly looking at the list.

Speaker 2 (01:50:13):
Yeah, I don't know, maybe Spanish as well.

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
I'll look into it. Steve, nice to talk. Thanks so much.
That a couple of things that are interesting me and
they might be of interest. You've got an email here
right from Val and I'll read it. It says, Umm,
hi Marcus. Do you remember the greyhounds flowing to Australia
on a chartered flight late last month. Well, one of

(01:50:37):
the dogs one today at the new Q Track. Good
luck to them, so excited to see them get success
and the dogs happy to be running. The Q Track.

Speaker 7 (01:50:46):
Is the Q.

Speaker 3 (01:50:49):
It's the new track, that's the home of Queensland Greyhound racing.
Forty four million dollars spent on it. It's got a
straight course and a circular course. Yeah, the que will

(01:51:10):
use the latest best practice stands for grand race safety principles,
including modern cambers and drop on boxes. Be one of
the few centers in the world with a straight track,
a one turn track and a two turn track to
suit the size, age, running gait ethintic abilities of different greyhounds.

(01:51:31):
So there we go. That's that. I thought that was
of interest. Now the Ten Countries were the largest Catholic population.
These are going on order from most to least. Brazil
number one, Mexico number two, the Philippines number three, United
States fifty million people, well fifty one million identify as Catholic.

(01:51:52):
That's twenty one percent. That's the bigger than I thought.
It's only number five, France, number six, Columbia number seven,
Pole and number eight, Spain number nine. Coming in at
number ten the Democratic Republic of the Congo. So that's
the tenth thought that was interesting as well. Oh, this

(01:52:16):
is interesting, Marcus. I believe Tonga has the only cardinal
in the Pacific, other than New Zealand having one. I
think Australia has one and Papua has one. It's the
second largest religion here. Walter. Thanks Walter. Didn't know that.
I didn't know that there was a tongue. I don't actually,
I don't. Actually, I hate to say, I don't fully

(01:52:36):
know what a cardinal is. I guess it's just someone
appointed by the pope. It's kind of the topic echelon,
I guess. And they are the ones that go and
vote for the new pope, so that seems to be
the way of it. It's not something I have put
much thought into. Understand, but yeah, I didn't realize that
Tonga would have one. But thanks for that. I find
that interesting jumpin' and the Warriors that's not mentioned that too.

(01:52:58):
It looked like it was excited. A wet but exciting
night at ericson on Saturday night. That was phenomenal. Good
to hear the drum two think they lift the team.
I don't know who there's doing the drums. It's been
on and off over the years. Sometimes there was drums,
sometimes there wasn't the drums. It was pretty good. Warriors
sitting there at fourth on the table. There's three teams

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on ten points, the Storm, the Raiders and the Warriors.
Bulldogs of course fourteen undefeated, six from six. They'll be
there at the final, no doubt about that. But yes,
for us to be fourth, that is fantastic. They are
more points scored against us than I say us. I
do jump around with my support of different teams. I

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think it's the nature of the Warriors. They are hard
to watch. Don't never make it look easy.

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