Just a pile of mess (11 April 2025)

A Friday free-for-all edition of Marcus Lush Nights, that covers chip scoops, the new road through the Manawatu Gorge, and 8-track tapes.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Welcome. Greetings, good evening. My name is mar arkis Httle
twelve o'clock tonight. I hope you are good. If you're
not good, I hope by the end of the show
you are better than you were. Admittedly, even that starts
from a low base. I hope things get better for
you as the night progresses. So it's almost five days
from daylight savings. I've coped quite well with it. I

(00:34):
think remarkably upbeat. There's sport on. I'll keep you updated
with that. The highlight. The Hurricanes are playing the Crusaders,
and I'll keep you across That look like quite a
lively match. I saw a bit of it earlier. Hurricanes
the Crusaders. I bring that score to you people throughout

(00:55):
the course of this evening's match ten twenty four Crusaders
lead twenty four to ten. And there's also some rugby
leg I'll keep you updated with that also tonight. Although
I imagine probably I am appealing to a non sport audience tonight.

(01:15):
One of the skills that we're going to talk back
host is knowing your market I was fortunate enough to
get well. And I've been going on about sky TV
since we are talking about the rugby. I'm going about
sky TV because in Bluff we've got a brand new
extra large dish. Because we are in a row mate place,

(01:39):
we need a particularly big sky dish because of the
new satellite that's going up, we need a bigger dish.
So if you're in the far north and the bottom
of the South Island, not just south of but the
lobe out of South and we need a new dish,
it's massive. So I went to seem and neighbors today

(02:00):
I won't say their name, and they said, I said,
have you got well? They said to me, have you
got a new dish? And I yeah, I've got my
new dish. And then he said, they've used the same bracket.
I don't reckon it's going to stay up and the
Bluff winds. So I'll be curious to know how that
one goes. I said to them, they better have used
a better bracket with these words. They said, they use it.

(02:20):
They've used the same bracket. So there we go. We'll
see how that goes. So, yeah, the reception seems good,
only enough on the new satellite yet, So that's it.
So they've come around the sky vans, all around Bluff.
They've read on everyone's dish. So that's we even asked them.
They just came and did it. So yes, Sky, they
do well done here as long as they as long
as the brackets are strong enough. So that's a situation

(02:44):
where that that's the sky dish. So that's happened. What
else we're going to tell you about? Tonight? Had a
number of things that I've never really got much for
the tooth shattering to talk about to I feel I
feel we've done all the tough discussions tonight, all this week.
I feel we've talked about everything that needs to be
By the ways, about twenty degrees when I came to
work to this ridiculously long summer down south continues, still tea.

(03:08):
You haven't even broken into the old Swanderier collection yet,
still in the t shirts, still in the summer kit.
So what's that about? Anyway? What else? Oh, by the way,
someone on Monday night we were talking about a fantasia
that some people when they imagine an apple, they can
see an apple, or someone come up to me in

(03:29):
the cafe and see number five so people are now
breaking into spontaneous discussions about this. If you missed that
discussion on Monday. It's that whole thing that most people
when they're imagining someone, see a vision of it in
their mind. So if you close your eyes and think
of an apple, you'll see an apple. But there's a
majority of us, it's getting larger all the time, two
to four percent that see nothing. And I am one

(03:52):
of those people. So I wander perhaps if you want
to pick up a further discussion on that, because we've
talked about a lot this week, and I have not
often that a talkback topic becomes and out and about
within the community topic when that one certainly has come
that people are blowing away to see that they visualize
things differently from other people. Go to the Facebook page markers,

(04:17):
slash nights, or google it if you want to know
more about it. A fantasia, A P H, A N
T A SIA. You've got a scale. You're a five
or a one, or a two or three or a four,
depending on how strong that images if you imagine it.
So if you close your eyes and I say imagine apple,
a lot of you will see an apple. I don't
see an apple. I see nothing when I close my eyes,

(04:37):
I never ever see anything. I can't count sheep, I
can't gaze at kendals. There's nothing. But the good thing
is I get no fleshbacks from a horrendous image. Like
a lot of people see bad things, that image keeps
reoccurring if they think about they can see it in
their mind. I've never seen one of those, So yeah,
that's a plus anyway. So look, if you want to

(04:59):
be a part of the show, oh eight hundred eighty
Teddy or nine to nine two dicks. By the way,
we're going into the school holidays, and we're going into
two short weeks. Two next week will be a four
day week for me because I'll take Friday off for Easter,
and the week after that will be a three day
week for me because I'll be taking Easter Monday off

(05:20):
and I'll be taking Enzact Day off. So that's a situation.
That's the way that's going to work. In the meantime, though,
I am here with you and you are here with me,
so let's just make the best of it. If you
got anything you want to talk about, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and pheel you in some ways you
can set the gender tonight, there might be something the other.
So the major topics this week have been leaf blowers, sleep,

(05:42):
and a fantasy. They're the big three. So if you
want to pick up on some of those topics, or
there's something else you want to mention, then yeah, I'll
be ecstatic to have you on board. You might be
driving Often Friday night people are doing different things. They're driving,
or they're uber ing, or they're you know, so I
realize it's a slightly different criteria to get on. I'm
not quite as picky as who I let on air,

(06:04):
and more anything goes. So, yeah, we could have some
fun tonight. I'm not promising it, but you never know
how it all goes. A fantasy X Marcus loving the intro,
let the beat drop, good point. Oh hang on. Did

(06:25):
anyone predict that Peter Berling was gonna leave Dan? Someone says,
that's in my prediction? Oh oh wow, Oh someone predicted it.
Someone predicted Turling leaving, Berling leaving Team New Zealand, Berling

(06:47):
and Chook to do a Coots and butter with and
leave Etnz'd for big Bucks to know that was a prediction.
That's fantastic. So someone's got I reckon that would be
the leaders and that was their only prediction, was it?
I reckon they're in the lead. What's their front handle?
Is it their phone number?

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Ends in four? Four three five?

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Well done? You good evening, Kit. It's Marcus welcome. Hi, Hi, Kit.

Speaker 6 (07:17):
I was just calling out about the a fantagious thing
that you were just talking about. Yes, yes, I've had
quite a few discussions about this, and I find that
everyone describes the way they view things in their heads
head differently, so I know for a lot of people
it's very difficult to gauge where on that spectrum or
scale you might fall, because I've been told I take

(07:37):
it too literally because I see nothing at all. But
apparently I'm taking the words see too literally.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I see nothing, but but how could Heah? Okay, so
what are they saying?

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Well, I've talked to a couple of people and they
say they can see it, but they can't literally see it,
which is really odd to me because I can kind
of imagine the concept of an apple, yes, but I can't,
by any stretch of the imagination, see it. And so
for a lot of people, I've had discussions with it
because the idea of interpreting the question wrong. But something

(08:20):
very interesting in me where I started asking people to
describe the way that they can see things, not necessarily
on a scale, but the way they can describe what
they're seeing. And some people kind of just describe a
shape with a vague color and no detail, and for me,
it's nothing. But it's not. It's not as black and white,

(08:40):
I suppose, as it.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Seems, although I will say as in a contrast that
I'm amazed that people are so surprised that some people
can't see anything. And to me, if you speak to
someone that hasn't got it and they can see it,
they're amazed that someone hasn't got it, which would indicate
their level of surprise, would indicate that they are seeing

(09:02):
something quite definite, if you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yes, well, that's what made me originally think I couldn't
see anything. But talking to a couple of people, they
said that I was taking it too literally, But I
don't see how I.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Don't see anything, but they might be a fantasy x themselves.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Yeah, but I feel like it's been too many people
that have said that I'm taking it too literally for
it to be them to all feel like that because everyone.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
I've shown that one, two, three, four, five scale of
seed straight away what they are there are five. You know,
they've known, there's been no doubt to them. That's why
I quite like talking about it. So if you show
it's interesting. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:43):
I do find the same thing with the whether or
not people can hear their voice or their thoughts in
their head, because again, I don't feel like I can
hear anything. Tell me about well, some people can hear
if they if they're thinking in their head, they can
hear the voice, and people can say People will say
that you can make the voice in your head shout

(10:05):
or whisper and it doesn't change your volume, which was
really confusing to me, because what do you mean the
voice in your head has a volume? But I don't
hear my thoughts. But I don't think in pictures, So
it's very difficult to gauge what people mean when they
say they can hear their thoughts.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
I'm a bit weary to go that way because I
don't want to go mad by thinking about my thoughts.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Absolutely, it does. It does drive you a bit crazy.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, I've avoided the interior. I'm just happy with I'm
just happy knowing I'm not a visualizer and been comfortable
with that. And yeah, so and you are what you're
one of those two I gather you're a non you've
got no pictures.

Speaker 7 (10:45):
I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
But people have told me that I was just understanding
the question wrong.

Speaker 8 (10:50):
No more people I've talked.

Speaker 6 (10:54):
More people that I've talked to the things that they
also don't understand it either.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
But well, to cat all from from my experience, I
said on the show on Monday, and I must have
spoken to I don't know bey or forty people about it.
Maybe that's a bit generous, but they all were very
definite where they were on the scale. They all could
talk about that, and and we're quite clear about that
there was a scale and what they were. They weren't
that they weren't vague about what it was.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
That is so interesting to me because everyone that I've
spoken to has been the complete opposite. Maybe it's an
age group thing because twenty Maybe maybe we're just far
too skeptical about all the words in the questions.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
I'll find out more. Kat, thanks for starting the discussion.
I appreciate that all about the visualization. Keep your calls
coming through the other topics tonight, I'm just not watching
what the discussion is. Someone says, I reckon. Eighty percent
of people who say they can see images with their
eyes closed are lying. Why they say that? Marcus Dion,

(11:57):
I'm a walking and after our groundbreaking chat last night
about vigeitabal pelas and can openers, during which there was
a mention of cutting a finger on a can lid
an hour or so, I lacerated yets laterted my left
index finger on a candid while opening one. It's like
the commentator's curse. I'd be one on the a fantasiaus scale.
I have a great show weekend. Dion, Wow, I'd say

(12:23):
that almost could have been exidentally deliberate. Marcus. I can
send three d as well. I'm an architect by training. Marcus,
what do you think of the new uniforms. I'll tell
you something about me when it comes to Ennis inland uniforms.
I have zero interest and I don't know. I haven't
even looked at them. Providing the airline is on time

(12:46):
and they get there, I'm not really fussed about what
they're wearing. Yeah, that's me. I'm always the only thing
I liked about airlines. I like the Emirates hats. I
thought they were quite zesty. Let me have a look
at the uniform. Let me have a look at it

(13:16):
looks pretty samey, samey, doesn't it. But a purple but
a black old Wicko has done Emily A Wickstead. Yeah,
I just think with the airlines, they're always looking for
free pr whether it be about the uniforms or about
their safety videos. And yeah, I just like the regional

(13:36):
prices to be cheaper. I guess that's what i'd want.
That's what they should really be concentrating on. And get
more of that damn popcorn. I'm yet to try that
Fijoa stuff they reckon. They're doing that beautiful, no doubt.
There's other stuff you want to talk about tonight, and
I embrace that. I embrace everything that you've got. I'm
not sure what people want to talk about tonight. I've
kind of come here with a bit of a blank slate.

(13:57):
So if there is something that's important to you, the
hope your fingers right, Dion after the can opener, surely
you can move beyond tins of tin food. I don't
know what the solution is everything about tin food. I guess.
The other thing is kind of permanent and plastic, which
is probably I guess it's a lesser evil than wrapping
it and play well plastic. Those plastic pouches are possible

(14:19):
to open. Not a big fan of those either anyway,
Jan Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (14:25):
Oh high Marcus. Two things with visualizing you to get
right in there has to have trouble with it. They can.
What they need to do is the deep breathing process.
You breathing for five, hold for five, and breed out

(14:45):
for five, and you do that five times, and that
gets you into the alpha level, which is subconscious thinking,
and then you can visualize really well.

Speaker 10 (15:00):
Great, okay, that's the first and.

Speaker 9 (15:03):
The second thing. Some people have a more developed left brain,
which is words and numbers.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yes, but you know what we're discussing is something quite
what we're talking about. When you close your eyes. If
you close your eyes now, Jen, yes, and I say,
think of an apple. Can you see that apple?

Speaker 9 (15:26):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Yeah? Well, well I can't. I can see nothing.

Speaker 9 (15:31):
But what I'm saying you can you cannowledge?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Can you acknowledge that that some people can't see that?

Speaker 9 (15:38):
Well, I'm trying to help them to be able to
do that.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
No, no, no, If you can't, you can't, that's that's
your lot. You can't. You can't change from someone that
can't see stuff to seeing stuff.

Speaker 9 (15:50):
Well, some people have a more developed right brain, which
is the visual brain, and those people will be a
number one or two.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Yeah okay, but yeah, I don't. I don't want you
to try and to those people they can't visualize something,
it's because they're lazy or haven't integrated the hemispheres. Because
people would forget the on the down buzz with that.

Speaker 9 (16:14):
No, I'm not saying that. Praise the Lord that more
right brain see visual and also they learn that way
they learn visually or they learned through words and numbers
and that sort of thing is the left brain.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, it was bigging this sort of this in the
eighties was to celebrate your right brain or draw your
left brain and stuff. But yeah, it's sort of falled
out of favor. But isn't it all that left brain
right brain?

Speaker 9 (16:42):
Still it's still psychology, has it?

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Fact?

Speaker 9 (16:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
In fact fact? Yeah, okay, I don't want to come
in strong jan but yeah, okay, good on you, thank you, Hey,
thirty ten to thirty one. The Crusaders are winning thirty
one ten the Crusaders over the Canes, the Hurricanes, the
Dragons from Elawara four over the Titans, the Gold Coast Titans.
So that's such a by the way too. It looks

(17:07):
as though in Australia and the Poles not looking good
for Dutton. They are any could lose his own seat
Peter Dutton and New Poles. Peter Dutton could be at
risk of losing his own seat of Dixon and Brisbane's Northwest.
I think he got tricky with his share ownership. That

(17:28):
seemed to be what sunk him hard to fight back,
and they talk about him looking like one of those
guys from Harry Potter, which is never good. Waldemortal is
at Waldemore, is at waldemort That might be the one.
My name is Marcus Welcomped all twelf anything goes tonight.
As you can see, I've come here shockingly underprepared, so
I haven't really worked out what the buzz topic is

(17:50):
for tonight. But it's a Friday, No one knows. People
just off getting takeaways, chilling out, listening to Dark Side
of the Moon. No one wants send any sort of
earth shittering talk back tonight, do they they want more?
And to ease into the weekend. We just tell also
other news through that China has just raised the terrors
on UIs goods to one hundred and twenty five percent.
Welcome people. That is what you call a trade war.

(18:11):
China is raising the tariffs on UIs goods to one
five percent. I see the group that's really hurting at
the moment as all those people lost Angeis are trying
to rebuild their houses and the cost of just compliance
and all sorts of stuff's gone through the roof as
they wait the whole tariff things to settle down. So yeah, Johnny,
it's Marcus. Welcome, thanks for hanging on there. Good evening.

Speaker 11 (18:32):
Hey, hey, good evening. Yeah, I just got lost in
the news there for a second. You were saying about
the terriffs that's through me.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah. Yeah, Well we all get thrown by that because
that's crazy.

Speaker 11 (18:43):
He is considering all the knockoffs of American sporting goods
and stuff that have made in China.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Well what they reckon now, Johnny, And I'll i'll just
they reckon that. A lot of companies won't be able
to sell any of their goods to America, but they
want to get the factories going, so all that stuff
that they're making in those factories, it will all be
dumped onto Timus. So there's going to be some huge
but there's going to be some huge bargains. We're not
that everything on tim is cheap enough anyway, but coming months,

(19:10):
there's going to be some huge bargains on Do you
want to keep your eye on that.

Speaker 11 (19:16):
Far out?

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Yeah, exactly far out.

Speaker 11 (19:19):
We had some Facebook food today, so my partner's mum
worded some cook Island food and we drove over to
the mount and I don't know how much it was,
but it was. It was like a seafood one with
some prawns and some mussels and some crab meat and

(19:43):
a nice sauce and it's some beautiful aroma. And then
there was the cooked food which had some sort of
caramelized onion and rice and chicken and a nice salad
which was pink with beet roots and yeah, so that's
pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
So what you call that Facebook food?

Speaker 10 (19:59):
Right?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
So they just advertised, they put up a poster of
doing things. They sell it that way, Is that right.

Speaker 11 (20:04):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, and you just it's it's wooded
and they paid for and then you're going to pick
it up at the right time.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
And where you pick it up from someone's house.

Speaker 11 (20:12):
Yeah that's right.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, I don't know too much. I've never experienced. I
see it pops up quite often in south it's either
hunging or yeah, but I've never done it.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (20:23):
Yeah, geez, I over heard a hanging in Southland since
Muna Maria in the seventies. Yeah. Interesting thing today like
Facebook just saying we got some some cockatiels today for
free and a big cave.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Really yeah on marketplace.

Speaker 11 (20:41):
Like on the free stuff page.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Okay, I don't know there was such a thing.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (20:46):
Yeah, most communities they have like a free stuff page.
And my lady was scrolling.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Through and this cockatoos Is that what she says?

Speaker 11 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, she's birds and the couple of two cages
and so yeah, we went and picked them up. And
the hatchback wasn't big enough to go and get the
truck being outside cleaning, and would what would.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Be their circumstance they wanted to get rid of the cockatoos?

Speaker 11 (21:11):
Are the hours that they work changed, you know? So Yeah,
the birds are up and making noise and copying. Yeah,
so in conducive with the hours.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
And Johnny, you know what I would have done. I
would have said to them, Yeah, I would have gone
and got the birds. I said, hey, we'll look after them,
and if your circumstances change, don't hesitate to come back
and get them, because they might not be working nights forever.
They might want the birds back.

Speaker 11 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, I know. The story with the birds too
was that they were found abandoned outside of a shop
and wrote a few years ago and the family has
had them ever since. So yeah, it's an interesting second.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Then what are their names, Johnny.

Speaker 11 (21:57):
Oh, they don't have names yet, but it's bad. Yeah.
I asked if they had names. They said they don't.
So yeah, here we go another one looking for names
for the family.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Can they talk? Are they going to say anything for us? Tonight?

Speaker 11 (22:13):
I did both asleep, but one's been making an awful
scratching noise. It says like nails going down a blackboard.
But you know, they do copy. And so they've said
hello and they do the wolf whist all and they're
trying to say hello. We've been watching a couple of
YouTube things tonight on you know, caring for these animals.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
And gosh, you know what color are they?

Speaker 11 (22:34):
Okay? So one's gray with the white and the red markings,
and the other one's more yellow with white and gray
and flashes of reader under the eyes, so that the
people weren't aware of what Gen six they were. But
they've both got tags around their legs, so when they
get to the viet we'll find out some more about them.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Been a big day, Johnny. Nice to hear from your
twenty five to nine welcome people. My name is Marcus
good evening all about everything tonight. So what have you
got eight Tenny, I'll take your download. Sure, something exciting
is happening where you are. There might be something else
you want to talk about tonight. I don't have a
problem with that, including sleep and a fantasia and birds

(23:16):
and the best thing you've got for free from trade me.
You see part of me. When people are thinking free
from trade me, I'm thinking, well, or free from Facebook.
I mean what they're saying, I'm thinking, yeah, sure, but
it would never have been quite as good as free
from the trade. In exchange, it was legendary. People drive

(23:37):
around to pick that up on a Thursday morning to
be first in for the free column. Free sheep you
could eat, There'd be all sorts of stuff, Marcus. The
way things are going, chet GPT will soon be steering
America's cupboats. I'm not a big fan of yachting right
and coats, but always quite like Berlin. I liked the

(23:58):
calm way that he was. I thought he had a
very gentle manner in the cockpit. He never seen it intense.
He was always real relaxed, very cal say, oh yeah,
we might just hang about. We might have a marvelous
manner on that ship. I'll miss him. He'll go a
top dollars somewhere else, no doubt. But yeah, I mean

(24:19):
one day they probably will be sealed by check GPT. Marcus,
do you know which supermarkets are ticked to be closed?
Creating more jobless? Has no idea, Marcus. I'm not trying
to fairmonger, but look eight next week Wednesday, on windy.
What does that mean? Oh okay, it's on windy. It

(24:40):
means it's going to be terrible weather. So as far
as the supermarket goes, We're sharing this news with our
blockhouse Bay and marketing. More teams will head of the
stores closing to make sure our teams understand all their
options for continue with their career. We know this will
be disappointing us for our local customers and team. Our
Blockhouse based store will be open until November and our

(25:02):
Marketing More Our Marketing More store will be open to September.
Over the cup we were closely with each of our
team members to find suitable This is Woolworth's so clearly
not making enough money. So yep, that's what's happening with them.
A hundred years today, they're celebrating on a hundred years

(25:22):
of buses in Dunedin. I don't think they normally celebrate that,
but there's a strong bus history group in Dunedian which
has probably brought that to people's attention. Good on them.
It is Barbership Barbershop Quartet Day today. Now, out of
all things I've been interested in my life, probably one

(25:46):
of the things that I would be least interested in
would be barbershop quartets. I know people love them and
as they may, but yees, she might be involved in
a barbershop quartet. Yeah, I don't know what it's like
that they dress up too, they don't they with sort

(26:08):
of boater hats and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, that's
that's not me. There is a text I love called
Ka and Kay always sends emails that always end with
love each other Dash Jesus Kay of co k of Carori. Anyway,
she's emailed me, Marcus. I'm usually this thing from Willington

(26:30):
news end today. I'm listening to you from Niziera in Spain.
And she sent a photo and it looks spectacular. Gosh
the bricks. Wow. Love you to hear from your Ka.
I hope you're having a good morning. I guess there's
morning there.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Ian.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (26:49):
Ay right, Yeah, in here just doing more uber run?

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh god, where's your uber run?

Speaker 12 (26:56):
It's a moment. I'm in bloody Papa toy.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Do you when you do you have a? Do you
have a? I suppose you just hang out at home
when you're looking for a ride.

Speaker 12 (27:07):
Do you I start? I start at home, I go
where over the night takes me?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (27:15):
And I like it in at home?

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Wow? So how far with what suburbs your home?

Speaker 12 (27:21):
And home is Papucorra?

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Would you end up over the shore of an evening?

Speaker 5 (27:27):
I do I do?

Speaker 12 (27:29):
What's the bugger is the last around two three in
the morning when somebody wants to go to the shore,
because then I got to drive back empty.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Yeah, but you're still gonna take You're still got to
take it, though, don't you.

Speaker 13 (27:43):
Yeah, you can't say Nouba kicks you off, So you've
got to do it. Ah, gotta do it, Hayber Today
my old mate. Whenston Peters turns eighty, I.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Thought he'd be older than that. I was surprised to
see there's only eighty. Seems to have been around for
so long.

Speaker 12 (28:02):
I like the bastard. He's a good faller.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Has he been in your uber.

Speaker 12 (28:07):
Nah no yet'.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Or something?

Speaker 3 (28:12):
He'd be a taxi guy anyway. Yeah, I did see
somewhere somewhere that it was his birthday. Okay, fair enough?
Oh yeah, you go in there, you go? Really, I
thought I was going into it. Winston Peter's discussing the
whole the tongue. The trouble with Winston Peters is an
element of the talkback crowd that think he walks on water, well,

(28:35):
hell do you'll He'll do just enough to get back
in again. Has major motivation is self preservation. That's what
worries me about him. That's what happens if your career politicians.
The only thing that matters is the retaining some sort
of handles of power. But we shouldn't be grudge him.

(28:55):
His special day has been eighty. Anyhow, get in touch
you on Talk Montive as Marcus head on Midnight tonight.
I keep those texts coming through also tonight if you
are out there doing something interesting. Oh and I don't

(29:15):
think you understand it, but thank you Marcus. This is
an age rate of question for people of a certain age,
which came first, thrifty or quench? I know quench, I
don't know thrifty, so I suspect thrifty would have come first.
Marcus to your caller with a cocker teels the gray

(29:39):
is a male, for sure. I don't know birds. But
that guy sounds that person sounds emphatic. Oh, it is
a guy. It's Jim, Jim Jim fifteen from nine Head
on Midnight. By the way, the Hercules that landed and
Christ jurge in that very small runway. It's called Charles.

(30:02):
It is now on display at the Air Force Museum,
so one hundred visits you had to see that I'd
like to hear from you they built us. They've done
that very quickly. I think they've built his shed for
I'm just looking at a story on the press website.
Just got to watch Dan Carter's wife plug some sort

(30:27):
of stuff from the chemistry house. Now on to it. Okay,
So it's a big looking it's a beautiful condition, looks
like they've paided it recently and looks like you can
look and it's got the back flap down. There's a
guy with the walker HEBX services. It's got the back
flap down. You can't go on it, but he looked
right into it. It's a beautiful looking share. It looks fantastic,

(30:49):
so you get right up close to it. So it's
a massive shed, horror boxes around it. See, they do
an incredibly good job with that. So that's the Air
Force Museum and then it's all there. It's open. Oh,
it's only on display for five days. So I've just
got some more information about the hercules. I thought it'd
be surprising that they got that shed for it built
so quickly, But in fact the story is it's only

(31:11):
on show for five days because they can't it doesn't
fully fit in that shed. So they've got it there
for five days. Then they're going to put it into
storage because they're going to have to raise sixteen million
dollars to build a giant hangar for it to be
on display, and so that's what they've got to do.
So it's a bit of a poison chalice that they've
got the plane, but sixteen million to build a shed

(31:34):
for it to live in. Gotta get a garage. I
don't know what they would total span rick is your answer,
but have to be a big one. But that's what
they'll do. So sixteen million for there, I'll get they'll
get there, some lotteries money and some government money. But
they've probably got to go and get somewhere else also too.
So that's a situation there for the Hercules to on

(31:55):
display for five days. If you're in christ Chitch this
weekend might be something worth doing. Ten away from nine o'clock,
my name is Mircus. Welcome will be full time. Yet
in the hook come back of it, haven't they the hurricanes.
It's twenty four to thirty one to the Crusaders. You
know that's about it's only about two minutes left, is

(32:17):
that right?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Canes have got the ball. It's eighty one minutes. I
might just have a look at this because that might
be a late minute. I mean this, I doubt it
because they're only seven behind.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Hang.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I just have a bit of a look at this
because this could be of interest. This has a come
from behind. The Canes are right on the line. Wow,
it's eighty one point three to seven minutes. Cheap as creep.
This is exciting. So they're signaling to the ref that
they've scored. The lineman's in there. Oh, this would be
a good it's kickable too. If they know Sada's got

(32:53):
the ball, they've kicked it out so yeah, Wow, it's
very close. Finished that one because they're leading by quite
a lot there for a while, so that's full time.
They'll blow that up.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Now.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
The players are talking to referee. That seems to be
some sort of discussion about something. But don't seem happy
the Hurricanes minds. You wouldn't be if you'd lost so
narrowly when you've been kempt on their line. The ref
signaling there might be another player. I think he's blowing
full time yet, yes he has. Now the players are celebrating.
You'll be happy, christ Jitch and Canterbury. The Saders have won,

(33:24):
so twenty four point thirty one to the Crusaders. That
is full time. And the Hurricanes look furious. They look
like they were robbed. And there we go. The players
and the Canterbury jerseys and the audience are hugging each other.
They are ecstatic. So there we go. That's a result

(33:44):
there so look like a good game for what I
could see of it. Who's the guy with the top,
look like a bit of a carltanana, look like I
don't know who he is. He's a new newbie to me. Anyway,
get in touch, you want to talk one of his Marcus.
We might get a few more. And now the rugby's finished.
As I say, it's pretty chilled out where I am.
Tonight we had some free big talk back nights and
I'm not just not quite sure what's going to get
people going tonight, but no doubt you'll trickle on through.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Anyone.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Have any earth chattering takeaways for dinner tonight? Friday night
goes well with takeaway discussions. I'm not quite sure what
people would have had. What was a new one we
discussed on that chicken one? People didn't really like that
so much. Did they chippy chicken or cherkey chicken or
something It says to be popping up everywhere. Forget what
it was called. It's so nice to hear from you.

(34:32):
Good evening, Marcus here, welcome.

Speaker 14 (34:35):
Yeah, okay, Marcus, So I spoke to you on the.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
V Oh yeah, we cabbage soup.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Your cabbage soup tooma, aren't you? You had that thing.
You're going to be your weight lastcle. You're going to
last you other week. You did it all in. You
had the recipe, you had the cabbage, you had a yeah,
remember that. Well, fondly, fondly was all.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
It was all standing away and I got it to
a point where I could go to bed that night
and the start you showing this, and about two I
am just staring pain in my chest. Hadn't ha any
cabbage sheep on my dad and I had to go
up Towering the next day for an appointment and felt
pretty crooked and thought this is going to end up

(35:16):
at the hospital or something. Ultimately it did end up
in the hospital, So there was On a Friday of
that week, I had an anjie green narrowed artery. They
put a Stenton. So how this relates to the cabbage
sheep is the morning I was going up, I ended
up going up to town. I had one bottle of

(35:39):
the cabbage soup for breakfast.

Speaker 11 (35:42):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
It was diabolical without any sault in it, you know.
And so I'll tell you so, I luckily I attend
the slow took off in that, and and then I
was in the hospital for like three nights, so I
could never ever know the taste of it. I had

(36:03):
to it went down the dummy.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (36:06):
So anyway, what I'd say to other listeners, you know,
if you get chess painted and you get extraordiness of
breath and that kind of thing, don't necessarily brush it off.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
No, it goes to your dark Go to the hospital.
It's what they're there for. Get checked out.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I nevern knew I had a.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Like a you were concerned about your weight to be
doing that cabbage soup, weren't you? This was going to
be a make or break thing for you, right, Well,
it was.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Just another experiment in the process because I was coming up.
I was coming up to Gathic fief sedgery. Anyway, Oh okay,
And as it turns out, now that's off for at
least six months, because now I'm on Bloodommers.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, sure that will happen.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
But anyway, so the point is people don't take these
things to grant it, you know, because had I left it.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Hey, Tim, I've only gone twenty seconds left. You're talking
about gastric sleeve, talking about gastic sleeve. Have they talked
to you about a zempic.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Crue?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Listenly?

Speaker 3 (37:15):
Okay, okay, different, good luck with that. It's a good
story about your soap like that a lot, not the soup,
but the story. I kind of think it's probably also
about time we talk about that new highway to replace
the mone or two Gorge. That road looks like it's

(37:37):
just about open now. I have to kind of admit
that it's not my most I don't know everything about
the geography there. I don't know about the old road
that's been the backup road in the meantime and how
bad that's been. I don't exactly know the root of

(37:57):
the new road. But I'm looking at some of the
pictures of the earthworks across the Douahena Rangers. It looks
incredibly impressive. So probably if you are listening, are in Woodville,
or Palmerston North or in danny Urk and this road
is affecting you, or the opening of the road is
affecting you. I'm king to know just how much excitement

(38:20):
and expectation there is on this road. Everything I've heard
about is it seems that it's going to be a
for every good road. So some of the things I'd
like to hear from you is how much time it's
going to save for you, and if it's going to
be a game change, and how bad it has been
on the old road and how long that's taken every day. So, yes,
I don't fully know the new route route, although I

(38:44):
think you can pretty well see it on Google Maps.
You can see well, you can see every well on
Google Maps. You can see where the escarpments are. So
I got this right. There was the mon Or Two
Gorge that would go right up there. Let's look at where, yeah,

(39:05):
so to go from between Eshurst and Woodville, And it
looks to me like the new road is to the
north of that, so you go pretty much from Woodville
to Yeah, well, same place anyway. It just seems though

(39:26):
it's about a kilometer north of the gorge. And tell
you what, there's some pretty impressive road works have gone
into it. I don't know how quake resilient it will be.
I guess it's got to be fairly resilient. That's the
new road. If you had to look at the chance
to look at a chance to work out what it's
going to mean, I'd be keen to hear from you.

(39:47):
So do get in touch you've got anything about that.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine to nine to
the Texas is the new.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
Road.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
It's going to open several weeks. I think. I think
it's been a pretty safe build. I haven't heard too
much about it. It doesn't hear as though there's been
massive delays or anything, but yeah, if you've got some
I don't know what's happened to the old road. If
you can still walk through the gorge of that still

(40:15):
cut out cut off of the tent into a walking track.
So the road is eleven point five climeters long and
four lanes the whole way, and a trip will take
about fifteen minutes at the moment it can be double
so I'll turn it's been about half an hour. So yeah,

(40:35):
it seems like it's a really exciting prospect for those
people in the Lower South Island. So if you've been
involved with that road, or if excited about that, let
us know how that's worked out for You'll be curious
to talk about that. Someone said on YouTube, there's really
good videos of the magnificence of that new road. I
think it needs to name. Marcus had a tailor experience

(41:01):
with a takeaway this evening. I got back to the
car and pulled back the newspaper wrapping. I immediately returned
to the chipy and said, I have a complaint. The
owner said, my fish is the freshest in town. I said,
I know it's eating most of the chips. Yes, I
tell you what. Some of the scoops of chips are
quite small now. But my lesson to you if you
are running a takeaway shop that you've just bought, if

(41:23):
you are the new owner of a takeaway shop, what
you need to do two things. If you're buying into
a small community's takeaway shop, you need to do two things.
The first thing is you've got to do generous portions
of chips, even if it means that you're losing money

(41:44):
on them. That is your lost leader. And the second
thing is you need to join the local Facebook community group,
and you need to proactively engage any conversations about the
service of your chips or the size of your ship
of your chips, because that'll happen. Because what will happen
You open a takeaway shop and someone will go down

(42:05):
there and they will get a scoop of chips and
it won't be big enough, and there'll be a lot
all over Facebook complaining saying things like, oh does this
look like five dollars scoop to you? So you always
be generous with your serving because that's what people gauge
it on. And if per chance you might have a
young staff member that's skimped on the chips, get on

(42:26):
Facebook and say straight away, oh, we're terribly sorry, that
looks well below our standard. Come in for a free
order or something like that, because once the community good
will goes, it's hard to get it back and you'll
never recover. I've seen probably five or six owners for
our local takeaway go with the same thing. The chips

(42:47):
were too small. The new guy that owns it now
seems to be doing all right TJS namers, but he's
not skimping on the chips. Marcus, we've been using the
saddle for years and if you live and pay your
two people will still use the pay you to a track.

(43:07):
The new highway will be a game change. You're reducing accidents.
The saddler has been a nightmare with huge trucks, tight
corners and a high crash rate. The Mayor, Tracy Collis
and community advocate are hard for no tolls. Thankfully they won.
The new highway has been terrific watching progress. The name
is t ahu ah Tudanga. It's from Maria. Marcus. You're

(43:33):
talking about barbershop cortets. Wonder if it's possible for all
the members call you on the teleph at the same
time and you put them on air at the same
time and they sang a song. We can conference calls,
but I don't reckon the sound quality would be good.
Marcus should know what's disappearing along with hubcaps mudflaps. Big
trucks and some utes have them, but not that many

(43:54):
cars on the road got them. If any year, what happened?
What happened to the old mudflaps? Good evening, Lola, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 12 (44:08):
Yes, chips.

Speaker 15 (44:11):
My son bought he had some chips and he brought
them over the eighties visiting from London.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
And talk about us to bring around.

Speaker 15 (44:23):
Yeah, and also I came over for my Aggia birthday.

Speaker 16 (44:30):
The chips he.

Speaker 15 (44:31):
Got were on Buckhan's Beach Road and right eastern beach
whatever they you. I tasted the chips and they were
so good. They were like what we used to get
years ago. So I went over the next day and
I got some chips. He said there are five dollars

(44:53):
a serve, and I thought, oh, that's expensive. I said,
what fat do you use? Because I wanted to know
what they used. And they've got un un hydrogenate fat,
and there's something else, no artificial, I don't know, but
any rate for five dollars.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (45:16):
She showed me the size of the box and they've
got all these little these containers in and it cost
one hundred dollars a box. And I said, well, yes,
I'll pay five dollars for that because they had the
best chips in the whole area. And I'm going back
to get some more after he's gone back.

Speaker 3 (45:33):
Now, what's one hundred dollars the box of the stuff.
It's frieday box.

Speaker 15 (45:37):
The box they hydrogenated. Yes, the fat is expensive, but
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 17 (45:47):
The chips we used.

Speaker 15 (45:48):
To get before they had oil in them were so
nice and very tasty. And these chips were so nice.
I had about three of his chips, and I thought.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I'm going to get this story. Now, where is this speech?
Where is this?

Speaker 15 (46:05):
It's on Boxings each road up at the top. It's
got four shops there, and then you turn right and
you go to McCain's College. It's it's in between peck
Peckering Are and how and so it comes off Buckland's
Beach road comes off Peckering a road.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Yep, that does. And there's four shops in a row,
are there?

Speaker 15 (46:37):
Yes? There are not the.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
It's not the mobile corner takeaway, is it.

Speaker 15 (46:44):
It's not the local one.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
It's not called mobile corner takeaway.

Speaker 15 (46:50):
I've got no idea what it's called. I didn't look
at look to see what was.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Is it next to the bakery and Buckland's Beach Liquor?
Yes it is, Okay, it's called mobile corner takeaway Chinese
and European foods. Yes, that's right, Mobile corner takeaways. No nonsense.

Speaker 15 (47:15):
If fish shops are going to turn over to this,
you know, the alternative is beef tallow, which we used
to have until they brought this oil in. Our local
fresh shop had beef tallow until they couldn't anymore because
everybody wanted oil, and so they eventually changed, but.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Quite controversial different oils. There's a lot of misinformation about
that and people going back to beef tallow and stuff
like that. But yeah, i'll tell you what. If they
taste good, Wow.

Speaker 15 (47:46):
I'll tell you what. I was not happy with paying
five dollars for a scoop of chips, but when I
found but I went over to get them because I
already tasted them and they were irresistible.

Speaker 10 (48:00):
They like what chips used to taste like. And so,
and the.

Speaker 15 (48:04):
Scoop was good because the fat is expensive and it's
more healthy for you, is that right?

Speaker 8 (48:12):
Yeah, Well it builds up your arteries and you have.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
More healthy Is it more healthy or less unhealthy?

Speaker 15 (48:21):
No, it's more healthy you need to have. Yeah, And
so yeah, that's where I'll be getting my chips and future.
And the fish well, because they use a fat, it's
not soaked and fat, you.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Know, because this fish what was it?

Speaker 15 (48:42):
The batter makes it waterproof and you're well fat preof so.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
Yeah, then you get the better, eat the better, or
just eat the fish inside the better.

Speaker 15 (48:55):
Yeah, the fish is inside the batter, but it's not
very thick, but it needs to just be a bit
thicker so it absorbs less fat.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
But some people just eat the fish inside the better
do better as well.

Speaker 15 (49:09):
But the thing is all the batter tastes good because
it's cooked in that fat.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
Brilliant. How much was a piece of fish?

Speaker 15 (49:21):
It cost me nine dollars sixty for as the chips
and the fish, and the fish is thick, it's not
thin and so so it would have been four dollars sixty.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Okay, good, you had nothing wrong with your maths. The
lola nice to talk to you think and happy eightieth
twenty one past nine. I think I would say that
cause talking about Shefeid the best stuff to cook chips
and most definitely Mobile Corner Bucklem's Beach have beautiful chips.
Yes it's the Mobile Corner Takeaway. It's a great place
regards Mark. The chip chops don't have a chip any

(49:52):
when they buy the pre cut chips and sacks. That's
why we get ripped off. Oh, the old controversy over
the chips. A get in touch marks till twelve twenty
eight four. Saint George Lawar are the dragons over the Titans.
Looking forward to your calls, particularly about that road, the

(50:13):
new road to ahu A Turanga. It's the road replacing
the man or two Gorge people. The locals are nuts
for it. They're loving it, particularly people with shops in
the area, like in deni Urk and in Woodville, because
they're getting bypassed. I think many Woodville's getting bypassed with
the old track. The pay here to a track. I

(50:38):
don't know the area intimately, but you will so get
amongst it. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. My name
is Marcus. Welcome. Key thing for fish and chips is
using beef fat in the fryer any other oil's taste
fairly average. Why has no one ever started takeaway using

(50:59):
an air fryer. There's a thought in it a giant
air fry licensed to print money. Evening Brian AND's Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 18 (51:13):
Hi, Marcus, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Brian?

Speaker 18 (51:16):
A bit of history on that lady that was talking
about the mobile Corner takeaways, how it was called mobile Corner.
I used to have the service station next door, which
was Mobile Corner and we saw out to Mobile thirty
just on thirty years ago, and I had it for

(51:36):
thirty thirty something years. And it was originally opened by
the Fish and Ships was opened by a dolomation chap
and he had a very high standard going way back then.
And I think the carat owners possibly would have bought

(51:58):
it off him when he sold it, probably twenty five
thirty years ago, so I think they've been there a
long long time. But I don't live there anymore.

Speaker 10 (52:08):
I lived in.

Speaker 18 (52:08):
Buckle Beach for sixty years, but I live in the
Hawks Bay now. But it's always been a very high
sort after Fish and Ship Shop, and.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
I presume Mobile Corner became those terra cotta roofed house
departments today.

Speaker 18 (52:26):
Yes, seeh a little bit of history. We operated a
full service station with workshop. We were the last service
station in East Auckland to run accounts and way before
credit cards come in and all the rest of it,
and Mobile built down on the highway a self service.

(52:51):
It was one of the first self service in the
Chiefs come over from US and Australia and wanted to
know why this service station up the road was pumping
more volume than they were, and the guys said, well,
they run four service, full workshop and run accounts. We

(53:11):
can't compete with that. And they said close them down,
buy them out. I remember, I can remember the American
guy in this American accent, close the bug or buy
the buggers out?

Speaker 3 (53:26):
So did you get did you get? Did you get
a good price for it?

Speaker 18 (53:29):
When negationed over probably eighteen months there? Wow?

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (53:35):
But we owned the property next door which had a
house on it, and al Lee Ridge was that if
they wanted to buy it, they had to buy the
whole lot. But they didn't want the house next door,
so we were able to negotiate. But McLean's College was

(53:55):
opened up in nineteen eighty across the road and prior
to that was a milk milking shed and farm on
that particular side.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
I didn't realize McLean's College was so recent, so well recent.
I mean it's forty five years ago, but to me
that seems recent. That's an interesting but I didn't realize that.

Speaker 18 (54:15):
Yeah. Yeah. In fact, our eldest daughter, she was in
the inaugural two fifty that went in and then they
built a new final house each year over the next
five years, and it could.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Have Barbara Kendall been part of her cohort.

Speaker 18 (54:33):
Yes, Barbara Kendall and Bruce Kendall both went to McLean's, Okay,
and they.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Would have been in the beginning in the nineteen eighty
about the intake about then, because they would be about
that age.

Speaker 18 (54:43):
Yes, I think Barbara. Bruce was the oldest. I think
he was about three or four years older than Barbara. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah. The Kendall family still live in Buckland's Beach,
their Mum and dad, Tony and Peggy Kendall. They're heavily

(55:03):
involved with the Bucklans Beach your club, which I it
was as well.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
Hey, look that's a great bit of it. Just before
that's a great bit of information, just before I go
to the news because something about forty seconds away. The Dalmatian.

Speaker 18 (55:16):
We know his name, God, someone will know.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
He used to call me.

Speaker 18 (55:21):
He used to call me my boy, Ellie, my boy.

Speaker 10 (55:27):
God.

Speaker 18 (55:27):
I can't think of his name now, but.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
You keep listening, someone will text us, no doubt, because yeah,
it sounds like, I mean, we know the top. We
shouldn't say we know the type, but yeah, I think
I can imagine what he'd be like anyway. Nice to
hear from you, brother. I found that festival that's made
my night and made my week. You you mentioned something
someone that's got the grable station next oor Own't it
good evening, Leo? This is Marcus. Welcome?

Speaker 8 (55:54):
All right, Marcus, uh there too. Odds you're going to
go to the old road, which it was the Gorge Road,
and it was forever being locked with slits in the
winter and could be out of action for days quite regularly.

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And it got to the point that they the slip
that spelt the death out of it was going to
cost a fortune to get the road usable. So hence
they had to go on a saddle Hill road, which
could not have half an hour on the journey between

(56:41):
that urine Partisan north. And bear in mind as a
hell of a lot of traffic's on that road because
of supplies from the Hawk's Bay and Partisan being the
central distribution place, and a lot of traffic could go

(57:03):
both ways. And then they when I went to the
saddle Hill there was excellent after excellent, And I'd like
to know really that the fatality totals an excellent total
during the period of I suppose it would be eight years.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Yes, hey, I just just for just for clarity for me,
when you say saddle hill, is it what they're referring
to is to pay here to a track.

Speaker 8 (57:36):
No, got two different roads. Okay, the poor to a
track goes through on the or it goes through them
from Madely for Wellington traffic and you came out at Woodbrolle,

(57:57):
whereas the saddle hill it's it's quite a bit client.
You don't realize failure of flight. Do you get to
the peak of when you're coming into Barising, You get
to the peak of the in the summit of your
life and you can look being over issues. You don't

(58:20):
really realize how much is climbed to get over it.
It will not now it will save I would say
half of me is travels. What's the new road?

Speaker 3 (58:37):
I can see it now State Highway through the saddle road. Yes,
I can see that now. Thank you. Yeah, okay, hey,
just just to clarify, just to clarify, Leo is there.
Does the train track still go through the gorge on
the other side or is that closed as well? Or
is it still operational?

Speaker 8 (58:52):
I think that's still operational. Okay, I think it is. Yeah,
you caught me.

Speaker 19 (58:59):
I'm not.

Speaker 8 (59:01):
That I'm pretty sure that's still got.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Some looking Now they've got the one or two river
of the old Gorge, then you've got the new road
and are at the same distance north as the Settle Road.
So yeah, I can see it quite clearly.

Speaker 8 (59:14):
Yeah, but it's Settle Roads. It's their own windy and
you get to there's times when people who they include them,
have followed up to five or six uh hm, big
trucks with tailers on going over that. It's just not

(59:38):
it's not suitable.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
Well, Leo, as you point out, there seems to have
been a lot of excedents, you say, some fatalities. Yeah,
what should have they done?

Speaker 8 (59:51):
Well, they didn't have any options.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
No, I'm thinking that they did. They probably should have
realized earlier on they needed that the that the Gorge
Road was probably you know, at the end of its life,
had started making some other kind of concessions or something
some the contingencies.

Speaker 8 (01:00:07):
I'd think, yeah, well it should have been replaced years before.
Agree it happened, and I think it was Americans or
somebody offered to put a bridge shrew there, but it
never ever happened.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
I wonder where do you live, Leo. Are they having
an opening day when you can walk the road when
it opens.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
There's been nothing said years is when the actual opening
day is. It's supposed to.

Speaker 17 (01:00:40):
Be in this year.

Speaker 8 (01:00:42):
It will be this year.

Speaker 20 (01:00:43):
I think.

Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
Over floss to the about it. It's the win it
will actually open.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Okay, see if I can find be keen to walk that? Actually? Mind,
you have all the dignitaries there, wouldn't you If I'm
lucks on, everyone be doing it. Eleven and a half
kays we could walk that. I'd be keen for doing that,
all right. We haven't found the name of the original
owner of the guard that was at the mobile. Guess
that the mobile takeaways yet? Hi? Marcus, I was part
of a large group of women who recently visited Woodville

(01:01:11):
of re proud community who reserved the new road really
worth stopping for a stroll through this very interesting little place. Marcus.
The best things free things Tim who has given me
are grow lights. I can now have plants and rooms
with no daylight. Marcus. Frozen fries from the supermarket MARKI
Kihi fries two ingredients potato and beef tallow so good

(01:01:34):
in the air fryer. Yeah, wasn't there a takeaway doing
the chips in an air fry. That would be something,
wouldn't it. Oh, yes, Well, these days everyone's doing loaded fries,
which I'm not a fan of. That's just a parlor mess.
That's when you have fries and you put bit to
Don't get me started. It's all become too complicated. Hello Anne, Hello.

Speaker 7 (01:02:01):
I just wondered I used to live there there and
not the road itself. Above the road on the road
side was a walking track. It was great. You could
go up there and take the children because you had
to climb, but it was all very safe. You know,

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you weren't going to break your bones or anything. But
it was quite a tough walk. And then you walk
right through to the other end. From there, it ended
up at the other side of the you know, right
at the end of the weather the river had gone,
and then there was a little road back away from that,
and then we used to pop in and have a

(01:02:44):
cup of coffee or something like that there and then
walk back again. It was a lovely walk, and I
just wondered whether they could still use that walk.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
It was just to clarify. That was through the gorge,
was it? Yes, I'll find out, and thank you Hoky
Ticket has the most expensive hot chicks six dollars of
scoop and they aren't nice. Well, that's not good for Hokatika,
So to worry. Actually, emails, if you've got them, send

(01:03:20):
those through to police people. A couple of things from
international papers. Prince Harry has gone to the Ukraine. The
headline in the Daily Mail is Duke of Hazard, which
is quite good, they said. Ironic there was complaining about
not having taxpayer funded security, that he's gone to a
war zone. But there you go, Duke of Hazard. I

(01:03:45):
thought that was interesting. Now. Also in breaking news, pop
star and TV icon who had huge nineteen sixty hit
and starred a Areu being served and warazal Gamage has died.
His name was Mike Berry. He was known as the

(01:04:07):
British Buddy Holly, not totally familiar with his back cannon.
He started as showber's careers as singer. Had two nineteen
sixties hit with Don't You Think It's Time? And Tribute
to Buddy Holly. Had a third mage hit in the

(01:04:30):
eighties with Sunshine of Your Smile. I don't know those songs.
Maybe if someone don't you Think It's Time? I'll see
if I can see the melody always died, but I
don't remember him all from Worzel Gummage. Never really liked

(01:04:54):
Worzel Gummage, thought it was sort of a bit ridiculous.
I think it was a scarecrow that's come alive. Well
as if that would happen, don't you think it's time?
So we're talking about the chip shop in Buckland's Beach,
and we're talking about the road that's replacing the road

(01:05:19):
through the manoh Or two Gorge. Yeah, and we didn't
realize McLean's closes. It's nineteen eighty. Yes, the gorge Walk
is still operating, ashes to balance, the cafe is gone now,
Freight trains still running daily through the gorge, preservation of

(01:05:41):
Wetlands and one point five million u plants planted.

Speaker 13 (01:05:44):
Oliver.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
Impressive, Eliza, It's terrible, Marcus. Fifty dollars for fish and chips,
Hooker ticket town chips, two kids, two adults, Marcus, get
total spend into a quote from the Hercules. She'd otherwise
blow the bloody thing up. It's a good jingle. You

(01:06:06):
got you got to say that to good jingle, Marcus.
I think Mike Berry was mister Spooner and are you
being served? You didn't say it was an alu being served.
I'm not entirely familiar which one mister Spooner was. I
was never really drawn to are you being served? He said,

(01:06:29):
does appearing mister Spooner, he's sort of a younger guy
in a brown soup with the center parting. Just in
case you need to know days of the year, every
day is a day of the year. Today is National
eight track Tape Day. I don't have any recollection of those.
I wasn't from a high five family and we never
had an eight track. You played them in your car,

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and they were the pinnacle of portable music. I don't
know which cars had eight tracks in them, and I'm
sure there's someone out there with something to say about that.
They offered continuous play without the need to flip the tape. Yeah,

(01:07:16):
I don't know how they worked. I presume they were
like carts in the radio industry. Where they were. They
ultimately rewounded they so I don't know if anyone's still
got an eight track or how available the cassettes were. So, yeah,
it was a significant part of music history. So if

(01:07:40):
you didn't have an eight track, let me know how
that worked for you. I don't know how big it
was in New Zealand. I don't know if English cars
had eight tracks or just American cars had eight tracks,
or how many cars came with them. Someone out there
will know. So, yes, that's something else to talk about tonight,

(01:08:01):
as well as the mon Or two Gorge and all
the other things that we are talking about tonight, and
chips at the fish and Chip shop. I don't even
know if the audio quality of good with aut tricks.
I just thought cassettes were bizarre. How yeah, I mean
cassettes were great in cars, ordinary cassettes, but they're frustrating
to work out to find a song you wanted. They
never seemed to make any rhyme nor reason to me.

(01:08:23):
They had to find logic. You'd flip them over here,
the same song twice, and then then some songs you'd
never hear. Always sort of. CDs and cars work quite
well once they got the CD players from the boot
into the front. And by the way, that New Zealand

(01:08:44):
chase seems to be yesterday're just getting Australian New Zealanders
to do it. That's a disaster, Jamie, It's Marcus good
evening and welcome. Hi Jamie.

Speaker 21 (01:08:53):
Hell you're not going?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Yeah's yours Jamie. What's happening?

Speaker 21 (01:08:56):
Yeah, just coming down the Mooney Mooney into Sydney. I
was wondering we were moving to our well. I got
in trouble because I was calling it a farm and
then I started calling it a ranch. But it's none
of those two things with the wife. But yeah, we're
moving in two weeks. I was wondering, you've got any

(01:09:17):
tips for moving the four hours or three hour drive
from our house, moving with kids long.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Distance, none whatsoever? If it's not a farmer, not a ranch?
How many acres is it? Our twelve acres fantastic fenced.

Speaker 21 (01:09:37):
Now the fences need work and yeah the house has
been done up but not very well, so it needs work.
But we've got it at a good price. Cover the
gum trees.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Will you have stock?

Speaker 21 (01:09:48):
Yeah, there's like a probably an acre that's a house
block that we might I'll only put like probably a
couple of cars for the kids to rare. Maybe a
couple of seat that would be about it. You know
that's sort of chickens. Get some chickens.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Hey, do you reckon? It'd be kohalas in those gum trees.

Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
Yeah, yeah, I think there would be. I'll have to
be careful because some of them are gonna have to
cut down to build a shed and stuff. So yeah,
I'll make sure. I'll be real careful and scan the tree.
Because when I was doing treework here when we first
moved to Australia, every time we'd fell a tree or anything,
if they thought there was koala, they would get Queensland
Government would send someone like a animal person out and

(01:10:32):
they would scan the tree before we were even allowed
to cut it down.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Wow, because because it's free, hard to see kawhala. Have
you seen any in Australia.

Speaker 21 (01:10:40):
Yeah, I'll send you a video. I've actually got one
climbing with the next door neighbors pole, just because someone
just asked me that today on Faithful And then yeah,
it was funny. Our camera and this is a couple
of years ago. Our camera was going off and then
the wife's like, oh, there's a koala outside and I'm like,
no way. He's like, oh climbing Grandma from next floor

(01:11:02):
told to her roof and I was like, now you're
having a laugh. Sure enough, well out there, play up
in the pole and we managed to get it down
and then we were opposite of park and we got
it safely into the park and into the bushland behind
the park.

Speaker 10 (01:11:17):
Okay, so yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
That was And and what you consume for moving? How
many trips? About? How many trips? Because the kids will
handle four hours easily, they weren't they?

Speaker 21 (01:11:27):
Yeah, we got probably about three or four trips sparful
we're going to take out there fixing up. Yeah, houseful
of a bit of a hoarder, so houseful of craft
that I've been trying to get downside. But I get
in trouble or.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
Get rid of it before. You've got to get rid
of that joke before you move, don't you?

Speaker 11 (01:11:50):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:11:50):
I do, But I get in trouble when I throw
something out. And well, yeah, so the kids here go
chuck down on the trailer. You go doub what are
you putting on the trailer? I said, nothing, don't worry.

Speaker 3 (01:12:01):
So who's the horder?

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
You are?

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Your missus?

Speaker 21 (01:12:05):
Both of us, I guess. But yeah, I'm just I
don't want to have to move it, so I'm just
drown all my stuff away.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
Are the kids happy with you? Are the kids happy
with the new schools.

Speaker 21 (01:12:16):
They should be well they have been rolled, but yeah,
they they will start. We move on the twenty fourth,
so they'll start after that week after that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
So they're excited about going. They're excited about going to
a place they know no one.

Speaker 10 (01:12:31):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 21 (01:12:32):
I fifteen year old, he's more hero he doesn't have
to go to school. Well, but now you're going to
go to school for one way. But he's more excited
because he can promise him a dirt bike. And then
the two younger ones and seven year old he's excited
because he's going to get a pee wee fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:12:52):
And then a six year old daughter, she's excited because
she's going to get a playground.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Brilliant. Keep in touch, Jamie. Nice to hear from you,
Mariot's Marcus. Welcome, Hi machess.

Speaker 19 (01:13:03):
Just a little story about a checks many many years ago. Now,
My husband and I flew to Sydney, stayed with some
friends and were headed to Perth. He went and found
a wonderful nineteen seventy one sety fair Lane, complete with
an eight track sound system in it. So we purchased

(01:13:25):
this vehicle, very happy with ourselves, and set off to
Perth to find that the only eight track that actually
fitted the eight track machine was Helen Ready. So we
had Helen Ready playing non stop from Sydney to Peers.

Speaker 8 (01:13:44):
Wow.

Speaker 19 (01:13:46):
And have never listened to him Ready again.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
And you wouldn't need to now, goodness, Now I am woman. Yeah, jeepers,
creepers or you're my world exactly.

Speaker 19 (01:13:59):
Yeah, it was a fun trip.

Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Was it a bucket list thing to drive that way?
Or was that convenience or finances?

Speaker 19 (01:14:06):
I just always wanted to do it. So we'd spent
quite a bit of time in Sydney and we had
friends that had moved to Perth, so we thought, let's
do it. Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
And did you stay long? And I've never wanted to
do that? But as I'm talking to you, I think,
well why, I don't know what? Maybe I would like
to do that. Did you stay in Perth for a while?

Speaker 19 (01:14:26):
Where was there for about eight months? Eight to ten months?
Then sort of felt it was a long way from
New Zealand if anything happened to family or friendship whatever,
So eventually moved back to Sydney and we were there
for probably another at least ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Perth's fore remote. They say it's the remote the most
remote city in the world, which is strange, but you
would feel quite iclated living.

Speaker 19 (01:14:49):
There, I reckon definitely did. We met a lot of
friends over there, and people that you know would have
turned out to be great friends, but exactly that feeling.
It just felt a very long way from home.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
How many days was the trip, do you remember? With Helen?

Speaker 19 (01:15:07):
Uh? Yes. There are motels and things all the way,
and we had three nights that we stopped. But basically
we would be up at six in the morning and
drive till six or so at night, so it was.

Speaker 8 (01:15:20):
A long time.

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
So it was it was four days, three nights. Yes, yes,
I thought it would be longer.

Speaker 8 (01:15:28):
Mmm.

Speaker 19 (01:15:29):
No, it yeah, I mean it's pretty boring driving. But
one other, very very funny part of the strip of
the trip was that we would keep passing. On the
very first day, we passed a little mini and there
had to have been four young men in it, which
you know, it was pretty crowded. And every night we'd

(01:15:50):
put into the motels or would ever accommodation was available,
and stayed at night and probably about four hours later
the little Millie would come. We would be up again
about six in the morning and they'd be up as well,
and we got the next up and we'd be there

(01:16:11):
probably about four or dinner time or whatever, and the
mini had about nine o'clock at misage.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
Do you think do you think it's something a lot
of Australians want to do, is drive across Do you
think that's something that because yeah, I don't know about
that if that's a big Australian thing, but I have
met people that have done it over there.

Speaker 19 (01:16:30):
Yeah, we've met Australians and a lot of English people
on that trip. But yeah, probably the majority would have
been key with I think I'd.

Speaker 3 (01:16:45):
Like to talk more about that, Mary, So I think
that's a good story. There you go, there's a good
story all about eight tracks. But then you can talk
about that nulla bor as well. So there we go
eight tracks and driving across Australia. It's brought it out
of it. Marcus. A friend's dad had an eight track
player in his van. The tapes looked like a Nintendo cartridge.
Good description. When we were with him, we'd turn the
volume up, hide from certain I love in a fowl house.

(01:17:07):
He would get so embarrassed. Think they were transit vans
back then. Kat Marcus. How about how he's in is
third in the world's shooting things into space? Marcus, The
new road has a moldy name. Does anyone know what
it is translated to in English? Well, let's have a

(01:17:29):
look at it, shall we. Maria sent that through. Let
me see the name of the road, and I you know,
in some ways, I think that's probably a reasonable question. Now,
where was the text where she said, what the to

(01:17:52):
ahu ah Turanga? I will see if a translation is provided.
It might be a name of a place and a

(01:18:13):
little bit of a quick google for this people. I'd
missed the memo that they weren't toling it, so I'm
excited about that anyway, get in touch eight hundred and
eighty to eight and nine. Oh, okay, So it does

(01:18:35):
the name it's it's it's the name of it is
relevant to a traditional route that went that way, Tiahua
Tudunga translates to the place of tudung and refers to
a significant rock and historic route, particularly in the Manutu Gorge.
And it's also name of the new highway project. So
there's some local history that meant that that is the

(01:18:57):
right name for it. Dean Marcus here. Nice to hear
from you.

Speaker 10 (01:19:03):
Good evening, Good evening, arcers. I wanted to talk to
you about eight tracks.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Yeah, good, thank you.

Speaker 22 (01:19:13):
As I understand it, it was mostly United States issue.
Like your previous caller said, it was from an old
American car, and I don't think they were ever commonly
put into many cars from other countries.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
So what there was a while there when most American
cars would have eight tracks set in them, or it
would be some is it the way it kind of worked?

Speaker 22 (01:19:40):
I think it was a luxury option somewhere between the
sort of the mid sixties and the and the early
eighties sorry early yeah, early eighties, but most other markets
didn't really didn't really put eight tracks into their cars,
Like there were some Japanese cars that had eight tracks,

(01:20:03):
but they were mostly put in for the US market
cars and similar for European cars.

Speaker 10 (01:20:09):
Yeah, so what.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
If the eight trek existed at the same time? Is
the cassette or did one? Did the cassette replace the
eight trek or was the eight trick considered a bitter
form for quality?

Speaker 22 (01:20:25):
I no expert, but I think there was probably a
bit of a cross. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, but those
eight tracks would be like, you know, I'm sure you
remember early radio days where you would have the carts
that is a loop.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
Yeah, they're like that to play an ad or whatever.

Speaker 22 (01:20:41):
Yeah, yeah, they're very similar. They were slightly lower, slightly
smaller format. I was going to say aspect ratio, but yeah,
slightly smaller format, but only you know, there's only a
few centimeters between them. So if you remember the stack
of cats that you used to have to play the
ads back in radio days, but those carts were on
a loop, whereas the eight track was more of a

(01:21:04):
continuous loop for the of an album or whatever like that, and.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Then we'd go right back to the beginning. So would
you wouldn't You wouldn't have two sides? Could go straight in,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 22 (01:21:15):
Yeah, it goes straight in as I understand it. Yeah, yeah,
I remember they used to hassle l Bundy back in
the old series Married My children because this old Dodge
had an eight track in it, and the kids would
always be like, well you can't get that on eight track, dad,
or that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
I'm just because I'm just because I'm sure I've spoken
to people in the past that have had them here,
and I don't know if they would have had them
or imported them, or where they would have got the
I guess we'll find out.

Speaker 10 (01:21:44):
Well.

Speaker 22 (01:21:44):
I think your previous caller did mention a car that
had an eight track in it when they were traveling
around in z But the model she mentioned would have
been a US model. You know, I'm not saying they
never existed, but I don't think you would have found
them in your Humber ninety or your you know that
the old British Roots group cars or anything like that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
You know, I'll see if we can. I'll bet you'll
find someone tonight that probably went and got one or
cross fitted it, or because I mean the troublers were
there's not room to check one, and is there otherwise
you sit on top of the day.

Speaker 22 (01:22:19):
I have the opposite.

Speaker 20 (01:22:20):
I have an old nineteen sixty seven Oldsmobile and by
the time I got it it was it was very unmolested.
But at the same time, somebody had taken the eight
track out and and put a you know, traditional kind
of low form cassette deck into it. But what I

(01:22:41):
was able to find was was something that fitted in
the in the dashboard perfectly the way that the eight
track would. But now that the space of the eight
track is taken up by like a little digital screen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
You should go put Are you going to go back
to the eight track?

Speaker 22 (01:22:58):
I don't think I would be able to find one
and hook one up that reliably.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
But then you put it, and then you probably couldn't
find out, you know, you probably couldn't find the cassettes anyway.
Be nice to talk. I've to go to headlines. But
lovely that, thank you so much. Eight hundred and eighty
today ate all Brisbane against the Sydney roosters Bury. It's Marcus,
welcome here.

Speaker 23 (01:23:21):
You get it there, Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:23:22):
Yeah, I had an eight track.

Speaker 23 (01:23:24):
I'd put it in my XA Falcon way back in
those days.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Okay. So the XA Falcon was what.

Speaker 23 (01:23:32):
Year seventy two?

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Did you have it? You?

Speaker 23 (01:23:37):
No, no, no, it was just two years old, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:23:39):
And what sounds that it just had a radio and
it just had a radio and it did it.

Speaker 23 (01:23:45):
It had an ordinary radio. But I saw this head
in the paper. Some guy was selling them bring you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
Over at Vonport.

Speaker 23 (01:23:54):
Yeah, so I drove all away over the air and
bought this eight track. And how much, oh, I can't
remember how much it was. It's going way back but
I spent all weekend putting it in, and then I thought, oh,
I've got to get some make track, you know, disc

(01:24:15):
sword do you call it?

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
You know?

Speaker 23 (01:24:17):
And then I find out there's not many people in
Auckland that sell the blanket things. And I found out
that there was a guy in an arcade out of
Oda who.

Speaker 4 (01:24:28):
That sold them.

Speaker 23 (01:24:29):
So went out there and I bought a jetth row
Tell one, and the wife and I sat in the
car in the main street of Oda her and pushed
this cassette and oh, the sound was fantastic. It was
jet Throwtell and the track was Hunting Girl. So that's

(01:24:52):
what I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Remember of eight.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
There's a couple of things that are interesting that you'll
call and I've got some questions for you too. Yeah,
I think that music shop in the arcade and Oda,
who is famous for all sorts of reasons. Yes, yes,
I remember sort of reading about some of the early
DJs you know that were playing that American music, and

(01:25:17):
they often talk about their influence, and they always talk
about a shop and an arcade over her where they
got all the latest kind of releases from America. So
I think probably five to ten years on it was
kind of famous for all sorts of other reasons. So yeah,
but tell me, was it hard for you to install it?

Speaker 14 (01:25:36):
No?

Speaker 23 (01:25:36):
No, no, well I'm not an auto electrician. I installed these,
you know. I just screwed it sort of under the dish,
you know, and bite it up and why it went.
But the sound was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
That was under the you put it under the dash.

Speaker 23 (01:25:56):
Yeah, well, you know, I just screwed it on, you know,
because it was quite a big, big sort of setup,
you know, not like a little you know what, a
little cassette player or anything.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
Okay, And then after Jethrow tell you managed to get
all sorts of albums for it and cassettes for it.

Speaker 23 (01:26:23):
Yeah, they were a bit hard to come by. But
that was the only shop that I found that sold them.

Speaker 4 (01:26:29):
Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
Do you remember the shop? Do you remember what the
shop was called?

Speaker 23 (01:26:34):
No, I can't remember Markers.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
Okay, I'll try and find out, because I've heard a
number of people talk about that. I presume it's the
same one.

Speaker 23 (01:26:44):
Yeah, it was the only one I knowed who that
sold all that sort of stuff. No, but the sound
was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
I thought the sound was a lot better than cassettes.

Speaker 23 (01:26:56):
Yeah, well, I thought it was in here. I wish
I had taken it out when I sold the car,
to be honest, when I think back now.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
Yeah, I remember people talking about that. But if you
couldn't get many records for it, then I can't imagine
that would have been that useful the technology.

Speaker 23 (01:27:17):
No, no, it didn't sort of last very long. But
it was good while I had it. So you know,
I had my few few tapes I used to like playing.
Isn't it mind in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
Those days didn't need too many tapes. I mean three
or four would do you wouldn't You don't listen to
the broad record the broad amount of music you do
these days.

Speaker 23 (01:27:35):
No, No, But anyhow there was my little if you
sold with a crack.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
I wonder what it was. The guy in Devenport. Was
he seing them from his house?

Speaker 8 (01:27:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 23 (01:27:50):
It's just where you're coming into Devonport along the main
road there. There was just before the rubbish tip there
was a big two storied place block place. I think
they are made into apartments. Buddy, that's where I went there.
I drove the It was on the right going into

(01:28:12):
given Port.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Okay, nice to hear from you, anyone got any other
eight tracks, alwies like to hear from you, Marcus. My
Ford Fairmont ninety three svo V eight had eight track
which the CD stack in the boot of the car
came out in the Ford. Thank Tracy Marcus who used
to work on Radio Messy and Palmerston North back in

(01:28:34):
the day. And nearly all the music from our local
bands was on eight track cartridges that went into a
multiplayer eight track machine. You might have had them at
BFM back in the day.

Speaker 10 (01:28:44):
She is great.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
I'm pretty sure we didn't. Everything was just on CARDI
or CD or you know, obviously, but you think you
I worked at a Ford dealership in the seventies. Most
many of the fair Lanes, Fairmont's GT Falcons had eight
tracks in them. The lady whoaid you drove to Perth
was in a z D Fairlane and Ossie car not

(01:29:06):
you say, Johnny Marcus, Do you know what a discatron is?
A portable forty five rpm? Oh that's quite a good
response about that people. I'm just trying to work out
with the name of the records is it Gemini Records?
That was an note to who is that in the arcade?
Is that the right one? You might have something to

(01:29:29):
say about that also, but also eight tracks nineteen away
from eleven. China has put on tariffs one hundred and
twenty five percent. I would say that it makes the
Americans more vulnerable with the Chinese, because the Chinese, if
they want soy and oil, there's other places they can go. Yep,

(01:29:54):
one hundred and twenty five percent tariffs. That's all happening.
Good evening, Tony, it's Marcus.

Speaker 17 (01:30:03):
Welcome, gooding, Marcus. Listen to your previous caller took about
the record shop and Oda Who that he got the
eight tracks from.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
Yes, and it.

Speaker 17 (01:30:18):
Was called DJ's Records, and it was in Mason's Lane,
Oda Who, which was a little arcade off the main
street middle of Odhu' shopping center. And for us people

(01:30:40):
who grew up in an Oda Who in the seventies,
that was as teenagers, that was a great meeting spot
for anyone who loved music, particularly on a Friday night
when that was the late night shopping era. Of course,
so we would Yeah, there was just a little tiny

(01:31:04):
place in a done An arcade, but one of the
few record shops know to Who. So I probably met
your your previous caller there on.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
It was owned by some did you work there? No?

Speaker 17 (01:31:21):
No, no, no tea.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
And was owned by someone with great passion, was it?

Speaker 17 (01:31:27):
Yes, I seem to remember. Yeah, certainly above just the
usual record shop owner. He was definitely a museo kind.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
Of guy, because it seemed, it seemed in those days
it's that, you know, communities with record shops, you know,
you could you could do wonders. I mean, you could
put people in touch with each other for bands and
all sorts, you know, and and get people inspired to
all sorts of music. And great things happen in record shops.
I mean it doesn't. I'm sure I don't even know

(01:31:58):
they exist anymore. I guess they probably don't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Well.

Speaker 17 (01:32:02):
The ones that exist now that I frequent are selling
secondhand records. A great one in Pitt Street in Central
Auckland called Flying Out, Yes, which has a lot of
new vinyl, which you know, all the old stuff that
leads it and everything it's there, but it's you know,

(01:32:24):
it's sort of eighty dollars brand new vinyl, but they've
still got I picked up Joe Walsh second hand one
for six dollars the other day. You can't argue with
a Sick Mind, which is a classic live double album
which I remember very well from back in the late

(01:32:46):
seventies when I was a teenager. So you know, I've
never got rid of my vinyl and I'm still playing it.
But now I'm adding to it with all this the
secondhand shops around.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
But.

Speaker 17 (01:33:01):
It's all still out there.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
But you are you in a house rounded by are you?
It's not unmanageable, is it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
Now?

Speaker 17 (01:33:10):
I'm not a hoarder. I've built my own little out
of an old packing crate, bits of timber. I've built
her perfectly bespoke record sort of crate which houses my

(01:33:33):
my all my stuff. But yeah, I haven't. I'm not
one of these guys who's got three walls.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Well I'm pleased about that. I look a lot of
my Facebook friends and people have formerly people I've worked
with it over the years at b F even places
like that. They seem quite involved in going to record
feares every week, which we don't have in Bluff, But
I presume they have them in halls and stuff, and
people drag along the whole their records and sell them.

(01:34:03):
Is that something that you're involved with because I kind
of haven't quite kind of worked out what that scene is.
Is it something that you've partaken.

Speaker 14 (01:34:10):
No, it's not.

Speaker 17 (01:34:10):
I know that that's out there, but I'm more of
a bag and base. I don't mind the old cratches
and sort of I quite like buying old albums that
have got someone's name script Carol don It with felt
tip from nineteen seventy five, and then it's crossed out
and there's George or something written underneath it, and you know,

(01:34:36):
I buy them in that very used condition. And if
the a few seconds here and there on the on
the grooves skip, I don't mind because I think that's
sort of it's it's you're sort of listening to the
history of.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
Yeah, and tell me something with your was gem and
I records the record shop and I tell her who
as well? Was that something you're familiar with? Did that
come on later on?

Speaker 22 (01:35:06):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:35:07):
I don't, okay, I don't recall that name. DJ's was
the one that I went to and used to meet
my friends. Yeah, crowded space, so late shopping Friday night,
mid to late seventies. Anyone who was interested in music
would sort of cram themselves in there because we used

(01:35:30):
to in those days. Friday night shopping was a big
thing and there wasn't much else to do. So you're
just get in your old Valiant or whatever and or
Vauxhall and rock up to the main street and odahu
and you just you catch up with your friends and
you just start from when you walk the main street

(01:35:52):
and back and I'm sure this is the same and hilland.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
I'm sure you're right, Tony. Look nice to hear from you.
Thank you so much, and I able to move on.
But good stuff. Sydney eighteen twelve over Brisbane eight twelve,
Sidney lead, Risbond. That's the Rooster's ron, Ats Marcus, Welcome,
good evening.

Speaker 24 (01:36:11):
Hello Marcus is Ron from Darua here here. You're interested.
You've been talking about the eight tracks?

Speaker 15 (01:36:17):
Yes, yeah, I.

Speaker 24 (01:36:19):
Got involved with them about ten years ago. Someone gave
me a eight track player which I stuck in my Mustang,
and then I started getting quite keen on them. I
ended up with about two hundred tapes, and I ended
up also buying a couple of recorder players, which means
that I could record LPs onto eight track, CD onto

(01:36:42):
eight track, or even cassette onto eight track. Wow, which
meant that you gave you a real you know, real
because you could record onto just any old eight track tape.
You didn't have to do anything. You just put it
in the player and recorded. And but the yeah, the

(01:37:04):
sound quality of them is quite good because the tape
speed there's three and three quarter inches per second against
the one and seven eighths of a cassette, so that
tape speed was higher, meaning the quality was a bit better.

Speaker 3 (01:37:19):
So you said you've got you had, did you say
you've got two hundred?

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
Well?

Speaker 24 (01:37:25):
I did have. Yeah, I've sold some recently.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Hang On one were a lot available? Did they sell
a lot new in New Zealand? Were they widely available
or had people imported them themselves?

Speaker 11 (01:37:36):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:37:36):
Look, I once I started getting interested in then they
seemed I seemed to be getting cracked to ones of
a sale'.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
That's the way with obsession, isn't it. Yeah, okay, people
find you.

Speaker 24 (01:37:51):
Yeah, Like I even bought boxes of brand new ones
still with the cellophane on them, and I remember to
swapped me to tierrawa. I bought twenty twenty twenty tapes
for twenty five dollars a brand new There were mainly
orchestral ones and all that, you know, But I taped

(01:38:11):
on top of them.

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
So when did they stop? When did recording artists stop
putting out music on eight track?

Speaker 24 (01:38:20):
Probably the mid eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:38:21):
Okay, that's where I thought. The mid eighties.

Speaker 24 (01:38:23):
Okay, yeah, yeah, mid eighties. Yeah. They were originally designed
in the fifties for advertisements for radio stations, yep. But
there were quite a big unit and Leah of Leah
Jet Fame wanted music system in his private in those
little jets, so he reduced the size of them and

(01:38:47):
perfected them. And a lot of my tapes had Leah
Ink actually on them, so that Leah Leah was the
one that perfected them. And the first American company, a
car company to put them in as an option was
Forward actually had them as an option. Then GM and

(01:39:08):
Chrysler and all that went afterwards, you know. And but
but yeah, the but if you're interested in eight tracks,
you've got to know how to fix the tapes, because
the tapes are about fifteen hundred feet of tape in them,
and and the joint they're joined with glue, and as

(01:39:31):
time goes on, the glue let's go. And you've got
to know how to fix them. I've fixed about sixty
of them I think so there's.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
One continuous loop of tape and it's where it's where
the join that that goes right correct. Yeah, yeah, because
what you said, Ryan, because we've always went in radio
when we always had carts. But I remember them being
slightly bigger than the eight trinks, And what you were
saying is pegging that up, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:39:55):
Yep, they were. They were quite big. I've seen photos
of the original radio station one and they were at
least oh yeah, they were quite big. Yeah I thought that,
but they Yeah, and when you see them, when you
pull one of the tapes to bits, you cannot see
how they work. There's one spool and the tape comes

(01:40:15):
off from the center, goes around past the playback head
and onto the outside of it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I looked at them. Yeah, they are complicated.

Speaker 24 (01:40:28):
And what happens is the joiner where the glue let's
go and all that the joiner is actually metal tape.
It's got to conduct electricity. So I just used to
use cooking foil. And when that goes past the sensor,
it actually at the end of you know, when it
runs right through, it'll then click the playback head down

(01:40:49):
a notch to give you another two tracks, and then
it'll go and it does that four times, and then
it'll go back to one, and it'll just they just
go continuous if you want them.

Speaker 3 (01:41:02):
Does anyone still manufacture a new blank eight track cassettes?

Speaker 24 (01:41:07):
I don't know, Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
Have be someone on the end summer in China or
summer that could well do it.

Speaker 24 (01:41:13):
There's possibly someone. But I stuck in ahead and you
know you've probably heard of petrol Head magazine. Yes, I
was stuck in ahead and there a couple of times,
and I had replies for tapes from long Array to
christ Church.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
Well, now tell me wrong. I've got a minute left.
What car are you driving now? Has it got a
Nate Trek in it?

Speaker 11 (01:41:33):
No?

Speaker 24 (01:41:34):
I had it in the sixty seven must He But
but I've sold that car. I've now got a twenty
twelve Dodge Challenger.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
Has it got a Nate Trek in it?

Speaker 24 (01:41:44):
No? No, it hasn't. This it's no it has isn't It.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
Doesn't sound like a very good car, is it right?
It sounds like a shuttle. Isn't called a challengerh Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:41:54):
So twenty twelve I.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Think the Challenger after the old Space shuttle.

Speaker 24 (01:41:59):
No, the challenge is the original ones went up to
nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
I think, oh, yeah, it's a good looking car. Looks
like it looks like a Mustang or something, does it?

Speaker 24 (01:42:11):
Oh you sort of?

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
Yeah, cahead you know more about them. It's a nice
looking car. I'm going to run. But nice to hear
from your on. You're a dream call Andrew, Good evening,
and welcome, Hi Andrew.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
Good evening, Marcus. How are you this easy?

Speaker 20 (01:42:26):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Andrew? Thank you?

Speaker 5 (01:42:28):
So just I'm a bit of a music enthusiast, So
I guess it's always been. I'm fifty five now, and
it started out. I'm the youngest sibling. I got two
older brothers, and my oldest brother was into audio stuff
a little bit, and I guess that kind of wet
my appetite when I was quite young in my early

(01:42:50):
teenage years, and I started out seventeen is probably when
you've been listening, you know, all night, and then I'm
thinking about stuff that I bought. So I bought and
you remember the old twin shaft radios we used to
cars before they went to what they call it didn't mount,

(01:43:10):
so now how they slot into like the box and
the dashboard or most cars they're built in now, but
so the old ones were called the twin shafts with
the two knobs, if you remember.

Speaker 10 (01:43:21):
So.

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
I bought an old Sony unit from the Trade and
Exchange paper if you remember those.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
Days, I do, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:43:28):
And it was just the head unit and two amplifiers
and I didn't have any speakers, and I can remember
writing a sticker on the top when I bought it.
I think I paid four hundred and fifty dollars, can
you believe, in nineteen eighty seven for this unit. And
it was digital. It had a digital readout which you
know for the stations in tuning. So that was really

(01:43:51):
early and that was a lot of gold then. But
I was kind of consensing it back way back back then.
I had one hundred and forty watts between the two
amphs for this car stereo and I did run it.
It was it was pretty impressive at the time I
gave my pair. It's a whole lot of cash. When
they went to Australia and they brought me some speakers
over there, I sent them over with a pioneer catalog

(01:44:14):
of certain speakers I offered and they couldn't get the
rare ones I wanted. But the guy in the shop
my mom my, mum said, the guy in the shop said,
I know what he wants, and he came back with
what's now you know, was common as the old six
by nine's, but this was in like nineteen ninety I
think it was. And I mounted them all up rock solid,

(01:44:38):
and I had a Sedan, a toy out of Sedan,
so the boot space became the you know, like the
base space. It had massive base it was. It was
actually quite funny. It was quite impressive, you know, and
you think now that it's become so popular, but I
then as you grow older, you're just not as interested
in the base anymore. And Watson, my work vehicle is

(01:44:59):
just fine. You know. I bought another head in it,
a Nakamichi to put in it, but I never put
it in there. But I'm quite a big audio enthusiast,
and I did look at buying an eight track out
of eBay, and yeah, I could only sort of sea
flying car stuff around. So I thought, it's not a

(01:45:19):
format that I'm going to be able to go sort
of that far with, you know, like for at home,
because is it considered.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
Very good for its audio qualities. Eight track in a car?
Is that the attraction of it?

Speaker 5 (01:45:32):
I don't know, because you think it's eight tracks, right,
because a standard compact cassette is four tracks, right, because
it's stereo. So a standard cassette as we know it,
the compact cassette, which I think was invented by Phillips,
and I don't think I think from memory just looking
the other day it was the nineteen sixties. Because I've
been conversing with a guy that I've bought some DVD

(01:45:58):
media because I've still got DVD recorders that I use
for recording TV. I love old audio formats. So people
will get a laugh out of that. I'm not sure
I didn't. Of course, it was only analogue back then.
But there's actually, you know, there's I mean, so you
picture set where most people know is the compact cassette,
but then there's also DCC digital compact cassettes, which Phillips

(01:46:23):
that Phillips invented quite a few things. But then you've
also got that, I don't know if you have heard
of that, digital audio tapes. So that's quite funny because
the guy I bought the DVDs off, some of them
got damaged, and then he might even possibly be listening
at the Actually Victor is his name, and he sent
me some replacements and we've got talking. We've exchanged about

(01:46:45):
ten or twelve emails now about audio formats and old
media formats even for computers, and he sent me a
couple of DABT tapes, so I digged out. I've got
three DAT players. I've got two that are recorder units
portable like a walkman, but there are a recorder unit
as well in one that's just a player unit. And

(01:47:06):
I've been lucky to come into contact with some people
or a guy I bought I liked. I love mini
disc stuff too. I've got multiple mini disc portable units,
and also what we call in the hi fi enthusiasts
sort of talkers, seventeen inch units, which is what a
full width stereo is, because there's also the MIDI systems,

(01:47:27):
which were fourteen inch, but most high fi enthusiasts like
the seventeen inch. So I've got a lot of seventeen
inch units of Japanese stereo quality stuff from a particular
era that I like collecting, from from the eighties to
the early nineties, about nineteen ninety three. Most people think

(01:47:48):
that the audio quality started to go out of the
units because the big box stores like Farmers and that
were starting Like wharfedale speakers used to be awesome, but
then Farmers come in and started retailing them, and then
they said to like the manufacturers all you know, we
want you know, two hundred thousand units at this price.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
The quality is and the old stuff is that what
the audio files like.

Speaker 5 (01:48:14):
Mainly? Yeah, the quality in the eighties. What everybody?

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
What are you listening to?

Speaker 5 (01:48:21):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
So it seems surprising you. So and do all the
stuff and you're listening to talk back.

Speaker 5 (01:48:30):
Because you learn stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Yeah, you learn that.

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
I've talked to you when I was in my late twenties.
I'm fifty five now. So you learn a lot of
stuff and you learn a lot of people. I mean,
I'm just a massive audio enthusiast. I'm looking at now
my massive pile of CDs I've got, but I've got
CD recorders. So I've got a Yamaha unit. It's got

(01:48:54):
a hard disk drive in it, and it's got a
CD recorder in it, and it's got a mini disc
player recorder in it. That's quite that was quite a
unique find that one. But I've got like six tens
that I know of, so it might be getting to
be a bit of a I don't know if it's
really an obsession. I'm just a really but.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
Is it any particular music you listen to? And out
of all of that, you.

Speaker 5 (01:49:20):
Mean what sort of genre in a way, or I've
got a massive genre. So I love hard rock stuff
like oh zz top or I've got Marilyn Manson, I've
got oh whoever? I got?

Speaker 14 (01:49:37):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:49:38):
I can't think of the German band Mutta is the album?
Do you know that one?

Speaker 11 (01:49:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:49:43):
Ramstein?

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
Ramstein is.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
But I've got I've got everything, you know. I've got
a love a bit of classical music. I've got the Veldie,
I've got quite a bit of you know, the Veldie stuff,
Nigel Kennedy, all sorts. But I'm big into vinyl as well.
So what I used to do is I couldn't get
a CD player for the car and for my first
little mind Crow stereo unit I bought also when I

(01:50:08):
first started work. But I knew, I knew how to
I knew how to pick the eyes out of stuff.
I've always been able to So my first little micro stereo,
a Sony that I've got, and that's a tinyly little
micro had forty five what's rims. So that stands for route,
means square for the amplifier, and that was massive for that,

(01:50:30):
you know. So what I used to do was record
from vinyl to tapes for my car, and I made
like stupendously good tape recordings that actually I can still
play now, even that much later. But I've got a
massive stack. So consequently, I've got a massive stack of
vinyl and I still add to it now, and well

(01:50:53):
maybe it's getting a bit out of here because I'm trying.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Just got my bike my buttons off. Look, Andrew, it doesn't.
I don't think it sounds like a sish at all.
It sounds like a great patient to me. A couple
of texts Marcus, that down eight track memory lane was
so enjoyable. Do thank the caller. I do hope you
talk again. I do recall always finding them broken tapes,
spreading around on the side of the road and tied
it tied around lamb post. Keep his number. Thank you
make Marcus three eight tracks. My first car was in

(01:51:20):
nineteen sixty three. Mini They never came with radios or cassettes,
so Hils Boy races back in seventy one would fit
a radio and a separate eight track into a custom
made dashboard or fit under the dash There were plenty
of tapes available in records shops in Scotland, UK at
the time. The eight track sound was the best ever.
Should have kept at Charlie Willington. Marcus, I still have

(01:51:42):
all the vinyl I bought at DJ Records at four
Park Lane Arcade. His name was Dave. He offered me
one of three platinum albums he had of the Beg's
Staying Alive. I bought it and still have it, have
around three hundred LPs. Still have the DJ sticker on
the back of the cover. Love that shop. Such good memories, Maggie, Maggie,

(01:52:04):
nice stuff. Keep it going. Had on midnight which talking
eight tracks? Dion. It's Marcus. Good evening, Hi, Dion, how
are you good? Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:52:14):
Okay, I'm calling because you mentioned me earlier in the
evening about my cut finger, which was very kind of you.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
Well you did text me, yeah, and.

Speaker 10 (01:52:27):
To let you know I had to wrap all sorts
of stuff around my finger and and what happened was
when I was typing today extra extra letters.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
It was terrible anyway, so you cut you cut your
finger on the bit of metal on the on the
opening a can.

Speaker 10 (01:52:49):
No, well, while I was taking it out to recycle.
So now I wanted to talk about what do I
want to talk about? Oh, people were talking about you
during the day, about how wonderful you are to go
to sleep too. Do you know that?

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
No, Okay, I feel odd about that.

Speaker 10 (01:53:14):
It's well, I'm sure you would. And I think it's
great though, because your show brings so much satisfaction to
so many people, and it's not that they want to
go to sleep. Most people said that they just.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
Wh where's this deal? Where's this deal on?

Speaker 2 (01:53:36):
This is during.

Speaker 10 (01:53:39):
The twelve to four So that's oh yeah, all that stuff.
But other people as well, and I thought it was
it was always nice.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
To tell me that, yeah, okay, yep.

Speaker 10 (01:53:57):
And I wanted to say that I've got loads of vinyl.
I just picked up on that just now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:05):
I've got none. I've got no vinyl, I've got no CDs.
You've got what I've got no vinyl, I've got no CDs.

Speaker 10 (01:54:14):
Why it's a good question, I think it is. It's
a great question.

Speaker 3 (01:54:27):
The CDs. You have all those CDs and you find
after a while you're not playing any of them because
you've all gone to Spotify.

Speaker 10 (01:54:33):
I get CDs, but why has you got no vinyl?

Speaker 3 (01:54:39):
I guess I'm not ever in a space playing music.
I'm at work at the evening. The work at the evenings.
I've got kids, the kids. The kids, actually, the kids
are writ into music. The kids sing a lot, they
write into music with a lot of the music they pick
up from movies or video games. It's quite interesting kids
with music because they're quite actually got quite right wide tastes.

(01:55:00):
But they don't sit down and just listen to music.

Speaker 10 (01:55:04):
I've got stuff from when I was.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
In my.

Speaker 10 (01:55:10):
Like from seven until.

Speaker 3 (01:55:13):
Like what what what have you got for when you
were seven?

Speaker 8 (01:55:16):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
How does that? It's not a song though?

Speaker 18 (01:55:20):
Was it?

Speaker 15 (01:55:21):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:55:21):
It's a it's a it's a story. But that was
my first ever, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
But what's your what's your what's your earliest music record?

Speaker 10 (01:55:31):
You've got Kenny Rodgers?

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
You yeah, good? The Gambler, Kenny Roger.

Speaker 10 (01:55:41):
I think it might have been it was it was
in the early eighties and then I think I went
on to Queen.

Speaker 8 (01:55:50):
Might have been my next one.

Speaker 10 (01:55:53):
Not sure.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
I've always got a strong allergy to Queen. I don't
know why they never jailed with me. That's okay, that's
exactly right. I'm going to run along. But nice to
hear from you twenty three pass if we are talking. Gosh,
what about that guy with all those different things he
was talking about? Wow? Wow, kind of fall on. Eh. Yeah,

(01:56:25):
I'm not a audio nut at all. Although I didn't
notice the car Steeria was sounding a little bit. I
didn't have an xcent well I had. It was t
bow in the car, so it has got to go
to the panel beat it. But I don't know. I
don't know why. Suddenly the stereo has gone on it.
It's become quite I thought that some of the stations
must be off the frequency anyway, that's fine. Just couldn't

(01:56:51):
work out why that was. But no, I'm not so.
I mean, I had Vinylly while having a vinyl and CDs.
You had all those CDs and you put them one
of those books because you downsized all those books that
you can travel with them, and you find you're just
not playing them. And of course once you're gone from
the CD cover into those books and never that appealing anyway,
because you put them back upside down. You don't know

(01:57:12):
what they are, because a lot of the CDs are
just blanked with patterns on them, and you forget what
they are. Actually, I must have them somewhere. I still
have got a CD player. I think I just don't
know where it is. Oh, I suppose one day the
kids will discover the old CDs. Yep, you never know.

(01:57:35):
I've tried to educate them on music. I've said this
is an important I've played them more the important songs.
I see, you're gonna know what this song. This is important.
I say, you're going to know this song. This is
the longest song you've recorded that Ellis's restaurant. They enjoyed that.
I think I've done my job with educating them anyway.

(01:57:58):
Can't tell kids much. There's two opinionated. It's like kids
with food. They'll know within a second if they like
it or not. It's not like, oh, yes, is interesting,
it's like no, yep, so opinionated. Fay, it's Marcus.

Speaker 25 (01:58:14):
Welcome, So Marcus, I'm enjoying your show.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:58:21):
But you were talking about Galmatian. Yes they are. They
are actually the Croatian people.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
I thought, yep, okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:58:32):
One elderly lady, I'll give you any other women who
are knitting people. One elderly Croatian lady told me any
Mohir and Gora our pack of wall. Soon as you
get it, take home, throw it in the deep freeze.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
Yep, that's right.

Speaker 25 (01:58:55):
It sets the wall and it doesn't flop out everywhere.
But that's all. That's all I want to say anyway, Marcus,
and you're keeping well.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Very well, Thank you very well. Looking forward to the weekend.
Got the kids for two weeks. We've got holidays. I'm
looking forward to that also, but I'll keep working.

Speaker 25 (01:59:11):
Oh well. One thing with the weekend. Yeah, there was
a classic car show on out of the glen Brook
Railway and they'll have the steam train running out there
and it starts on Sunday about nine o'clock o'clock. If
anyone's interested to go out and see the classic cars

(01:59:32):
and the steam train, go for it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Quite a go ahead thing. Glenn Brook is at the
rail conference and some of those young guys from glenn
Brook there the future. They were good, they are good.
They were good operators, Faye, a.

Speaker 25 (01:59:44):
Humber super Snipe. Yeah, so we'll take our car out there.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
What sort of sound what sound systems the super Snipe got, Faye.

Speaker 25 (01:59:53):
It's just got an ordinary radio. But my Toyo Diarras
has got a wonderful stereo system and I have CDs
in the car which I play all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
What do you listen to, Faye?

Speaker 25 (02:00:06):
I'm mainly of like film Coulter. He is actually a
pianist and Irish. Now he's a pianist, but he's got
the orchestra in the background, and it's more more of
a Celtic or Celtic magi.

Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
Yeah love Celtic.

Speaker 25 (02:00:23):
Oh yeah, like Irish Scottish.

Speaker 3 (02:00:25):
Does this thing as well? Or just instrumentals?

Speaker 25 (02:00:29):
Ah yeah, but also there is a singing one. I
like the Foster and Allen.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
I wandered through the hills with you, Maggie.

Speaker 25 (02:00:37):
Yeah, well there's got a lot of other ones here.
There's plenty of cider.

Speaker 23 (02:00:41):
In the bar.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
Oh yeah, it's spent a long time wandering through the hills.
There was a while on Ready to Roll, right, and
I don't know if you watched Ready to Roll in
the eighties or late seventies, but there's not a month that. Honestly,
Foster and Allen they wouldn't move. I think in the
end of Boy came on and put them sideways, but
it was always Foster than Allen. They must have sold
truckloads in New Zealand as they honed wandered through the

(02:01:04):
hills with you, Maggie, so one, no Boy. They sold
a lot of albums. They're always touring till I'd imagine
never Allen and Foster's always Foster than Allen. Would they
still be alive? Do you reckon have a guess? I'd
say that either both be alive or both dead. Would

(02:01:26):
they be ninety or would they be seventy? Hard to know,
isn't it. When you're in that cool Droy look, you're
kind of ageless. Fosters and Allen actually singular Foster and Allen.
They're still going. They've been going for forty nine years.

(02:01:51):
They've done about literally they've done probably seventy albums, but
nothing quite as good as Maggie. I was only born
in nineteen fifty two. He's not even that old. That's
Tony Allen and Foster was born in forty seven in
County Kildare in the side of the curR. Yep. I

(02:02:17):
wouldn't be surprised if the two had recently have they
They had their own TV series. Almost want to go
out on Wandered through the Hills with you?

Speaker 2 (02:02:31):
Meg?

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
I don't think I will, but I'm tempted. Someone sex
Remarcus Foster and Ellen are completely broke. Now why would
they be broke? Crypto not crypto Speridium. Why would they
be broke? My lot of musicians have bad managers, don't

(02:02:52):
they like old laughing Lynn Lennard Corny lost all his
money with the manager and he don't know if they broke?
Are they w'd you hear there? Get in touch if

(02:03:12):
you're on a talk Keith L twelve. That's a bit
of news that passed me back, passed me by. Oh yep,
Foster's and Allen Tony, Allen Ahana's partner.

Speaker 17 (02:03:21):
We have.

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Pennyless by ruthless con men. They fell for one of
Ireland's most ruthless con men. That's an exciting That's not
something I thought would happen. Cheap, Good evening, Linda, It's

(02:03:44):
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (02:03:46):
Yeah, Hi, Marcus. Foster and Ellen are still alive. Both
of them. And I've seen them twice in New Plymouth
in the opera house. Wow, years apart, but yeah, they
had the common sense to do their shows in the
opera house. Also, enter see the Seekers twice in the

(02:04:10):
Bowl of Brooklands and New Plymouth and got drenched with
rain and got sick after us each time. Yeah, but no,
they are a great a pair, those two.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
And they'll still be touring because they've lost all their money,
so they probably need to.

Speaker 16 (02:04:28):
Who said they've lost their money?

Speaker 3 (02:04:30):
They've lost all their money.

Speaker 16 (02:04:34):
I've never heard that.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
Yeah, it's all on the wires. The convent took all
their money an accountant and.

Speaker 16 (02:04:41):
Oh you're kidding them.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
They lost a lot. They're bankrupt. They've been a good musician.
Doesn't mean you're good with your finances, does it.

Speaker 21 (02:04:54):
No.

Speaker 16 (02:04:55):
Faster owned race horses and things toe and they used
to make money and he got Alan into it. Toe
Foster used to ride as well. He rode us not
in the racecourses. But yeah, he's got he had land,

(02:05:18):
so he had horses in that. Yeah, race horses, and.

Speaker 3 (02:05:22):
I've lost a lot.

Speaker 16 (02:05:24):
Oh, look, the poor big is they're not fear at
the end of the road. Rule because they would be
about my age. I'm about I'm eye one. They wouldn't
be far off that. Yeah, we're getting close to them.

Speaker 3 (02:05:40):
I think I want to see the Seekers at the
Bowl of Brooklyn's, did you Yeah, I was there too.
What year would have that been, like nineteen seventy one
or something?

Speaker 16 (02:05:50):
I know this one time. I think it was the
first time we saw them. Judas had just lost her
husband three weeks before, and she still went to head
with the show.

Speaker 3 (02:06:03):
What happened to her? Sorry, what happened to him, mister Durham.

Speaker 16 (02:06:11):
I don't know, just died of natural death. She's died
as well now, oh yes, yeah, yeah. But the second time,
we were right up front in front of the lake
and the rain was coming down the hill and we
were in a mini lake of our own. Boys, did

(02:06:33):
we get so?

Speaker 3 (02:06:35):
Yeah, I didn't know your husband had died.

Speaker 16 (02:06:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, but years ago, years, years and years
the first show I think it was he died.

Speaker 3 (02:06:53):
Yes, we're going to say about Fosters now and again
they had what they had, what.

Speaker 16 (02:06:59):
They had the common sense to not take on the
Bowl of Rocklands and but to go into the Opera
House and New Plymouth here.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
They would have been good at the bowl.

Speaker 16 (02:07:13):
Oh slip. No, I mean well, the two times that
I went, I got drenched and got thick up. Yeah,
well yeah, but yeah, a bit of a miracle but
I managed. But I mean yeah, they were they were undercover.
But our opera house is quite good here. It wasn't

(02:07:35):
much good for the Phantom in the opera. I saw
the Phantom here and I've seen it four or five
times in Sydney. But the chandelier wasn't anywhere near as
impressive as the Sydney one.

Speaker 3 (02:07:48):
It's new Plymouth. It's not going to It's just be
your local musical players, wouldn't it. I mean that, you know,
that's just that's.

Speaker 16 (02:07:54):
Just Oh no, we put on some grad Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (02:07:57):
I know every small town, every town in the country
seas out. Honestly, our musical theater could be world beaters,
but they're just it's a smaller pool, isn't it.

Speaker 16 (02:08:06):
We did lumbers, rubble and yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
I know, I know, and they put a lot of
effort into it, but it's not it's not like full
time professional musicians, is it.

Speaker 16 (02:08:17):
Oh to me, it was, But you hear what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (02:08:23):
He's got a system and they've got that mess of chandelier?
Are they mean people be paid.

Speaker 8 (02:08:28):
Ticket?

Speaker 16 (02:08:29):
But I tell you what, the barricade in the Lammer's
Rubber here in New Place was pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (02:08:36):
Who was Jean Valjean?

Speaker 16 (02:08:40):
He came from Stratford. We had a lot from Englewood
and Stratford. And we've got a great company of people
that in the year in the shows at the house,
we've got some great one.

Speaker 3 (02:08:59):
What was the barricade made from? Like old furniture and
stuff and old?

Speaker 16 (02:09:04):
Yeah, but it's spun around. It was really impressive because
I also saw it in Parmerston North and ours was
up there with the Parmerston North one. Yeah. No, we're good.
We've got some real talent here. People forget that we're here.

(02:09:24):
They think we're part of Australia. People think could stick
out into the Tasman.

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
Forget you plymouths there. Yeah, you'd want people to forget,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (02:09:36):
What's that people?

Speaker 3 (02:09:37):
You'd want people to forget, wouldn't you.

Speaker 17 (02:09:40):
No.

Speaker 16 (02:09:41):
I've met tourists around town, a young couple and they
said this case is amazing. Why isn't it advertised more?
And we took them back to our farmland and showed
them out, showed them around a typical farm and they
were just so.

Speaker 3 (02:09:59):
Lying away with where's your farmlet I'm not there now,
Frankly Park, I think Frankly Park right, yeah, yeah, Oh
so you know in New plymus I spent a lot
of a life in your PLUMOTHLANDA. It's almost like a
second home. So you're Taranaki write ye Isaiah, not long

(02:10:22):
Isaiah two months ago?

Speaker 16 (02:10:24):
Oh well there you go.

Speaker 5 (02:10:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:10:26):
Yeah, so you know the Vole of auk One as well?

Speaker 3 (02:10:29):
Yes, absolutely, As I was saying, I thought saw the
Seekers there?

Speaker 16 (02:10:33):
Oh yeah, they were there.

Speaker 3 (02:10:37):
Twice sixty sixty seven and nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 16 (02:10:42):
Yep, there'd be right. That was quite a big get
in their performance whenever we got drenched both times.

Speaker 3 (02:10:50):
What's the musical group doing this year for that? That
did that, did Lamers? What's this year's performance?

Speaker 16 (02:10:58):
I don't know because I'm only one now so I'm
not getting around much. But my husband and I when
it was alive, we went to all the live shows
down in the Opera House and that, and we saw
Charlie Pride in the role.

Speaker 3 (02:11:16):
Of brook Ones Love Charlie Pride.

Speaker 16 (02:11:19):
Yeah, yeah, those years were they were good years.

Speaker 3 (02:11:24):
Yeah, there was music that was are they're still good
years now. The music was good, yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:11:31):
Yeah, you know the music in the sixties, seventies, eighties
good stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:11:37):
You know, you're not getting into the new stuff so much.

Speaker 17 (02:11:41):
Nah.

Speaker 16 (02:11:43):
Really well, they just they seem to just yell at
the microphone and repeat the same way.

Speaker 4 (02:11:50):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:11:50):
If anything, Linda, I think probably the people don't yell
anymore of it. If I had any criticism about the
modern music, it's the two whispery.

Speaker 16 (02:11:59):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:12:00):
If you listen to them, they run accompanied and it's
too kind of That's my take on it. I like them.
Go back to a bit more wrong evening David's Marcus.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
Welcome, Marcus, silly question. What's Nate track? I've owned Falcons
and Fiamont's and Feirlanes all my life, and I don't
know what Nate Trek is.

Speaker 3 (02:12:20):
It was an American cassette system they had for cars
in the seventies and the eighties that you'd put the
cassette and it would just play one side right round
and then go back to the start. I think I
think it's quite well. I'm surprised it's passed you by.

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
Yeah, because I've owned from the xpeed GS Faremont to
z K Felane, XC Falcon and Edamont. I don't know
what Nate Trek is made. I thought i'd clear that up.

Speaker 3 (02:12:52):
Okay, maybe it's one of those things that now you'll
keep hearing about it now you're aware of it. Sometimes
it happens too, doesn't It.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
Probably not a six set player made. I think they've
gone by the board.

Speaker 3 (02:13:04):
Okay, Crusader's had a good win today, be happy with that.

Speaker 2 (02:13:07):
Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep. And I was watching a
bit of the Broncos game Britain Broncos. I don't know
what the story was.

Speaker 3 (02:13:15):
There, but twenty six sixteen the Roosters have won that.
They seem ecstatic. He's still weak on defense, that tall guy.

Speaker 2 (02:13:23):
But anyway, yes, yes, and the fallbacks still question mark
over him. Who's Auckland got this week? Markers.

Speaker 3 (02:13:31):
They've got Melbourne. They've lost sixteen on the trot to them,
and they're in Melbourne and Melbourne, so you'd be doing well,
you'd be doing well to win that. But if they do,
that could define the series. But two of them, two
of them are looking like they might be signed by
the Cattle and Dragons or some of the or Hull
or Leeds or something, so that would call I don't

(02:13:53):
think the Warriors cope well with uncertain TIRA amongst the
team players don't have that's always handled that well. So
I'm a bit worried about that.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
And goodness knows what's happened with Penrith this year. I
think they've give nm up. They've done four on a row,
and that's the risk on the Laurels.

Speaker 3 (02:14:09):
Well, I reckon that guy that the defensive coach was
so very good. Now he's the the Bulldog's coach, and
I reckon that the new players didn't experience him, and
he was such a good defensive coach and he's no
longer there. And then they're putting it down to anyway.
I don't know too much about that.

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
Oh oh good, good deal on anyhow.

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
Yeah, it's for job Dave.

Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
Yeah, well yeah, well fed middling good and well good good.

Speaker 23 (02:14:40):
Evening, good evening, Dave, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:14:47):
That's it for me. It's going to go out with
some Meggie Foster. But unless I can play the whole song,
I'm not going.

Speaker 23 (02:14:54):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (02:14:54):
But what a great song that was actually as I
Wander through the Hills with You, Meggie. I've never seen
two people dressed more ordinarily from music video than Foster's
and Ellen. Yeah, unbelievable that their own style like woodwork
teacher from the seventies. Good night.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
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