Love a saucy base (2 April 2025)

What do you do with the free power slot you get from your electricity provider? And was Val Kilmer a better actor than Richard Chamberlain?

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

Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be first and foremost are rip Val Kilmer. He
was pretty good one he and The Doors Cheap as screepers.
And there was that director that famously said there's two
things I'll never do. One as Claimbunt Everest and the
other has worked with Val Kilmore, I think notoriously difficult.
But anyway, people loved him in Top gun Is. I
have seen that movie for those people that I've seen

(00:31):
no movies. But anyway, yeah, sixty five, so that's tragically tragic,
tragically young. Anyway, do come through. My name is MICUs. Welcome.
He was Jim Morrison in the Doors movie and he
was extraordinary and that that was a good film. Why
was that such a good film? I don't know. It

(00:51):
was a great film. And he looked kind of like
him but he kind of wool in the desert there
with a cactus. Wow. Anyway, there we go. I might
watch that again. It was an All of a Stone movie.
It's been a big couple of days, a couple of
weeks for All of us Stone, first with the JFK
Files and now with Val Kilma anyway. Of course, Cal

(01:13):
McGlaughlin was in that also. Get in touch by name
is Marcus hid twelve o'clock tonight, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty nine two detected the Hope. It's good you are.
We are about to partake in an atmospheric river. Now,
these things are media events because the media says they're
coming as they should. That is their job to let

(01:34):
you know what's going to happen with atmospheric rivers. I
don't know the situation now in it seems in some
ways the media has gone slightly quiet on it. I
don't know what that means. If you've got updates where
you are of the atmospheric river, I'm thinking the West coast,
I'm thinking Buller, Buller, and I'm thinking into the Nelson

(01:54):
air if it's raining or started raining off there's heavy rain,
let us know, gout some months rain in twenty four hours.
Important for me to let people know about this. Yeah,
so get in touch here till twelve. But first I
would like to just keep you up to date with

(02:17):
the weather. What's going on with that one? So if
you have got weather, if you've seen whether, if you
know of whether, let us know eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty and nine to nine two text. It hasn't
got its own hashtag yet.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
There is a live feed on one of the websites.
Not is an atmospheric river. It's atmospheric river barreling towards
New Zealand. It's a bend of moisture. The worst of
the rains expected to head overnight. Orange heavy rain warnings
are in place, with a moderate chance of Tasman Tessy

(02:52):
going to red. So I want to be across all
this and I'll be caught watching met Services Keeps heither.
Keeps said they're particularly considered about Tasman northwest of Motuweko,
where in orange heavy rain warning had a moderate chance
have been upgraded to red. This is not the time
to go caving. Reds reserved for the most extreme weather events.

(03:19):
So I'm looking at the Wayne radar. It's heavy around
between Westport and Nelson, although very hot and calm down
south twenty degrees in inver Cargo, it's been a tremendous
I don't feel while I've got to say that, I
only say that because I think there's some people in
the north. I think I think there's some people in

(03:41):
the North Island. This is me sounding like a paranoid
South Islander. There's some people in the North I think, jee,
if it's raining in Nelson, man, oh man, it must
be underwater and bluff. I think they think, well, if
it's that bad, there will continue growing. Well times it
by five by the time we get to the bottle
of the South Island. To be honest, the bottom of
the South Island's hardly rained all year. I know that

(04:03):
because I'm actively trying to plant plant but it's too
early because the ground too hard. Although I sold a
lot of seed today with the rake. You know, if
you've got an update on the weather, that's important. That's
kind of the back topic for all of tonight. That's
the most important thing I will be covering is the
weather because if it starts being evacuations or anything like that,

(04:25):
this will be this will be your main placetering up
and say, oh, well, this is what's happening. Marcus, I'm
in a hookah ticker. No heavy rain here. I'll put
another word in that, Marcus, I'm in a hookah ticker.
No heavy rain here yet. Someone said Top Secret was

(04:48):
their favorite Val Kilma movie. It's not something I'm familiar with.
I only watched Top Gun later in life. Oh, then
I watched it to get ready for the sequel. That's right.
I enjoyed the sequel. Val Kilma wasn't that, But I
think probably in an unwell condition. Oh eight, one hundred

(05:13):
and eighty ten eighty nine nine to the text you
want to come through, But firstly, and most importantly, an
update on the weather. If you've got one of those
phone that through. Is it raining in Nelson's raining? And
what's work? Is it raining in Tarkica? All those three
That's where I want to hear about, because, more often

(05:34):
not when it rose rains heavily in those areas, the hills,
the Tarkka Hills get shut down, don't they. I think
a couple of years that happens. If you have got
an update, they've been neck to hear from you. Oh
here we go. Wet in Nelson, Marcus, thank you? How wet?

(05:54):
What you want to text us?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Raining heavily has been for an hour, it's increasing, the
river's beginning to flood. Anything like that that would be
of interest to me. But started clearly raining in Nelson.
So there we go. Mark is surely the MET serve
that the MET server should be sounding an alert. I

(06:20):
have seen some, but perhaps should be more intense, but
not to a point of panic. Better safe than sorry
for an old five fight of thirty five years noll.
I think it's always a difficult challenge with weather publicity
because if they overcook it and it doesn't turn out
to anything, they're worried that people will be less intentive
next time it happens. So all they can tell you

(06:43):
is what might happen and where they are in the
state of the weather system coming across the country. Marcus
val Kilmer's movie with Robert Downey and Downey Junior Kiss
Kiss Bang Bang was very good. I'm down South and Dneeda.
Windy Sea is wild. I only I've rely liked Drizzlet
Time so far. By the way, huge surf and Sydney today.

(07:07):
I don't know if you watched that online. It was
like the final scene of Point Break, the people surfing
in it, but yet it seemed to have done a
lot of damage to some of those saltwater pools. The
one at Bondi there was damaged massive waves coming through,
So I presume it's the same with the system that's
bringing this atmospheric river across. So she's all happening, Marcus.

(07:31):
There is no rain in Auckland, but it's raining road
cones there everywhere. That's right. Funnily enough, As I came
to work tonight from the bluff, I tried counting road
cones because with a guy that rang last night, he
had gone between Belfast and Calcutta and he had counted
fourteen hundred. I tried counting them as I drove to

(07:52):
town and it was too hard to count them. He
must be going like this, what are three of us?
Were very very hard both sides the roads. Don't know
how he did it. Be a good challenge out of
road cone counting challenge, very difficult, be a good thing
for a taskmaster. So the other thing I wanted to
talk about, well, as well as the weather, and I'm

(08:14):
catching a keeping a watching brief on that all night.
What I do want to talk about tonight is because
it's in the news, of course, and that is power
prices and the potential that power prices will go up. However,
there are some sort of services now, there are some
sort of things that power companies are doing, including one

(08:37):
of the well, I think they're all having kind of
schemes like this. One of the ones that Contact I
think it's Contact has got is between nine and twelve
you get free power. Now, what I want to know
if you, if you're one of those on one of
those plans where they give you a day free power

(08:59):
or three hours free power, I want to know how
creative you are getting and the things you are doing
to you all that power then, like are you turning
the oven on fall and opening the door to heat
your house? Are you smelting aluminium? I don't even know
what the other things you could do that use a
lot of electrocis What are the things you are doing

(09:20):
that uses a huge amount of electricity that you are
using when you've got your free power. Because we've got
to talk about this, because Navel got smart meters, the
power companies are desperate to do these sorts of things,
like these sorts of gimmicks, and you've got all the
free power for three hours, how are you using that
free interest to hear discussions about that, because this will
be interesting. Other people can do the same things when

(09:42):
you don't blow a fuse. But what happens when you've
got free power. How many things can you run? And
I'm curious to know what you can do to do
that because some of you will have become fixated about this.
Some of you probably got called out the window to
your neighbor's place, have you? I don't know. That's what
I want to talk about that tonight. Techniques to really
not wrote their power companies, but use as much as

(10:04):
you can when you've got one of those free windows.
So if that's something you're wrong and thought about, let's
be hearing from your people. My name is Marcus Hurdle
twelve oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Marcus, will farmers
take stock to higher ground as opposed to winter? How
do people protect beckyard laying hand from pounding rain? Who

(10:27):
knows no rain and fielding yet? Marcus beautiful eight hundred
eighty ten eighty nine to nine two detect if you
do want to come through. Dave's confused. He said the
atmospheric river arrives tomorrow. That in fact is not true.

(10:47):
The worst of the rain is expect to hit overnight,
and overnight is now now. Now, Hi, Beth, it's Marcus.
Good evening and.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Welcome gre Eavening.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
I just wanted to talk about the free power days
and what I use mine for.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
You.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
First of all, can I tell it you're with Mercury
obviously because you see that. Say what you get one
free day a week? No?

Speaker 5 (11:18):
Two three days a year?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Oh okay, wow, that seems a bit miserable.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
But yes, okay, just the long service being a customer
over so many years. But I get discounts monthly etcetera, etcetera.
But each year I pick two days, usually a Tuesday
in July. That's when I'm running the heater. But also

(11:43):
the second free day, I choose it and I clean
out my wardrobe and give everything a wash.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
So I'll run the washing machine six or seven.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Times, and you've got a dryer as well.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
No, I try and do that one in the spring
summer and just use the clothes era.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
Okay, So would they when you do your When you
do your wardrobes, that involves washing all your clothes, does it?

Speaker 6 (12:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh some of my dresses are over one hundred years
old dress, so I like to I like to wash
everything and make sure it's all doesn't smell bunky.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay, Are they inherited with your old dresses?

Speaker 5 (12:30):
No? I'm in my sixties and over the years going
to costume parties and I used to go around sicking
hand shops and so for a great Gatsby party, finding
the nineteen twenties dress. Wow, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Do you think do you have any idea how much
that would cost you that you're saving on that free day?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Probably not that much. But it's a bit of fun.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh it sounds exciting. All right there, I'm there with
your bed, you're the cupboards clean, get your heaters in
the room, get them all toasty. I'm loving a free day.
We haven't got a smart meter, so we don't don't
know why weren't going to smart We said we didn't
want a smart meter. We're going to smart meter.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
It's three hundred dollars to get a smart meter more
for us. Nathan as Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 8 (13:17):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Good Nathan, thank you.

Speaker 8 (13:22):
So when I have a free power day, I normally
fill my spar up for either the winter or the summer,
and I'll slam that on and just do a bunch
of you know, just general crap around the house of
washing and you know, the dry usage and everything. That's
that's about as most as I do.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
How many three days are you getting, Nathan, I actually
don't even know.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
I only just noticed an email today with what was
the mercury? I think I'm with saying that I had
a free power day, but I only joined those guys recently.
But I just had those three hours. I think it
wasn't Genesis.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yes, And what would you do with them?

Speaker 9 (14:11):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (14:11):
Same thing.

Speaker 8 (14:12):
I normally just slide the stack those hours up and
just slam the spar on.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Have you got any idea if you worked out how
much the spar costs to heat up?

Speaker 8 (14:22):
I mean the elements three kilo watts and per colorat
I think I'm paying about twenty six cents per color
what hour?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Okay, six sixty cents an hour, So that's twenty four hours.
That's sixty times twenty four that's fourteen dollars.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
Yeah, that's probably about half that though, because the heater,
the heater wouldn't be like having the heat for that long.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Okay, Okay, it's a good thing to do.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
Probably about about ten bucks.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, okay, I'm liking it, like you luck keep it going.
We're all in your free power hour. It's the topic
forget the atmospheric River on the three Power Days of
Free Power Hours. Boo sad to hear about the dying
of or the death of Val kill me. He was
a re underad actor, but I had a great body
of work. Arguably The Doors was his best individual role.

(15:12):
My kids loved him in Willow, which was filmed in
New Zealand. I was looking about Willow recently. I think
only parts of Willow were filmed in New Zealand. I
thought it was all filmed here, but then I saw
people doing a pilgrimage in the UK. But he met
his love interest, his wife Joanne Wally while filming Willow.

(15:34):
My favorite alltime movie. His was the co star on
Heat with Hollywood legends bes Gino and de Niro, one
of the best heist movies ever. In Vale was awesome.
And yeah, no, I think Willow was filmed because I yes,
I was aware of all the stories about the filming
of Willow, and then I recently looked about where it
was filmed, and it was filmed mainly in England. I

(15:54):
think if my memory is best than I think it
is because I thought it was all done in Queenstown. Yes,
the majority of filming took place in Dinner Quarry and
Wales with someone else Stretch Studio in Hertfordshire, as well
as a small section in New Zealand. Well, we were
led to believe it was all filmed here, so I

(16:16):
felt upset about that that I have been sold a dud.
Maybe someone out there was involved when the filming of
Willow Thing was filmed around Queenstown. I think Warwick Davis
was here because he's one of the well known actors.
He was was an Ewoch and it was he also
RTD two I think, so pops up on the shows occasionally. Yeah. Anyway,

(16:42):
there was always a bit of scuttle but about the
behavior with that SKO that's part of the course. It's
the same kind of sizes and that was applied to
the filming of The Wizard of Oz when they treated
so appallingly Dave Marcus welcome, Hi Dave. You're still with us? Dave,

(17:04):
Well like Dave to perish, Ben Marcus welcome.

Speaker 11 (17:08):
Hey Marcus, you wore with Mercury too. And we get
the free power days. Well, you get so many points
for every payment you make and you get an anniversary
three power day, and then I think we end up
with two or three more and we just we normally
just use them in December bring the power bill down
a bit. But we don't have a smart meat. Yeah, yes,

(17:30):
so you can pick what.

Speaker 10 (17:31):
You know winter, wouldn't you, Well, we.

Speaker 11 (17:36):
Don't have a smart meeting Marcus, So.

Speaker 12 (17:38):
You've got a calendar, Yeah, but ours is done.

Speaker 11 (17:41):
On the average. So if there's thirty thirty one days
in the month, they just you don't calculate your power
build and divide it by how many days per month,
and if you're using three power days, they're just taking it.
So it's a bit of.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
A head smart meter. Is you need a smart meat?

Speaker 7 (17:59):
Were you all yes?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Were you all woo woo about the radio waves? Why
didn't get one? No?

Speaker 11 (18:05):
No, Well when we brought the house, that never had one,
and we yeah, we just haven't looked into getting one.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yeah, it used to be free. Now it's three hundred
because I got the meat of the meta person comes
around all the time looking for a letter.

Speaker 13 (18:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (18:18):
Well it's like we looked at it changing to the
contact one, but then they're like, oh, we'll just basing
on average. So there's there's really no point like unless
you've got a smart meter.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Smart I don't know why I was so paired about
the smart meeting. They seem the best thing since before
we had smart meters. Yeah, I don't know, and I
don't talk bout nine years about that smart meters. It
was wall to warp. People just paranoid about them, you know,
with them sending right there with and they could feel
it in their brains.

Speaker 11 (18:48):
I think you have more problems with the five gene
and the smart meter, to be honest.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Is it five G though? Could well be?

Speaker 11 (18:55):
No, No, no, I think that I'm pretty sure they
had some sort of sim card or something in them,
and I don't think it's five G.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
But but yeah, it does. It does go to telecommunicates
with head offers. People don't said to be going on
about five G anymore, do they.

Speaker 11 (19:15):
No, No, it's like you know, it's all wepning. You
can't do anything about it. So that is what it is.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
You say, some smart words they have been. It is
what it is. Dave Marcus, welcome, You got years.

Speaker 7 (19:30):
On, years made, years are on, And what happened before
my phone decided to go on to mute? Yeah, Hey,
Guinny Guiney Baker, you know, to Kinney Baker. He played
our to dto to D two and Star Wars?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Is he the tall guy? Which was our D D
two to D two?

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Was the trow you know, the start up guy, the
drive with two rigs and two arms.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Who isn't that C three p o?

Speaker 7 (19:59):
Oh, now you've got me there, you might be right made?
Was he the coping they're walking the scuttling Coca cola can?

Speaker 12 (20:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (20:13):
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
Hey. I'm a contact energy mate. I get the three
power between nine and all day, no, no, no, nine
in the morning till five in the evening every weekend.

Speaker 14 (20:29):
Wow. Yes.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
And I do the housework. I do the hoovering, and
I put the oven on, and I usually cocky the
path pasta crap pasta dish. It'll do me a couple
of days, or a roast, and I crank the heat pump.
I crank it hard out.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
I'll be giving your house, can be giving your house
a good earring too. What was the past? Did you say?
Crap pasta?

Speaker 15 (20:52):
No?

Speaker 7 (20:52):
Not, no, it tastes all right, it's not crap at all.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
What sort of past did you say it was?

Speaker 7 (21:00):
I boiled pasta, you know, just boil it, and I
do a tomato saucy base with it with chocolate course
and what have you. And yep, yeah, and and and
I'll throw everything in from the veni, from the frozen
VENs to a bit of meat and whatever I've got around.

(21:21):
It all goes into the to the to the tomato
saucy the you know the yep, yeah, you know with
me either there or I'll crank the oven and I'll
put a roast on with spuds and what have you.
And but I'll make of them, mate, don't worry about that.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
What would be that? What would be that? What would
god on a repaint and like a what would count
first percentage? What would be the most expensive thing you
could do with your power on that free day?

Speaker 7 (21:52):
Turn my hot water on because I don't have hot
water on usually. I just usually bore with U.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Oh wow, okay, so you do your hot water that day?

Speaker 7 (21:59):
Also, well, I'll flick that on just for the sake
of the because I'm not one. Because they swim every day,
you see, so I need you know what I mean?
But no, Well, I run the hoover had out and
I make sure everything's huvid here there and everywhere, and
even the sills and give them a but I crank

(22:20):
the heat pump as well. Made I make sure it's
on and run the TV and you know, but I
look forward to the weekend, Marcus, you know what I mean.
It's a small one. It's a small one. That's why
I view it.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Can you work out from your app how much you
are saving that day? They don't tell you? Do they
keep doing?

Speaker 14 (22:38):
Now?

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Marcus? They sent me an interesting email to say that
I have used that. I think it's thirty percent of
my bill is of power. Electricity is used on the weekends,
which means they send they send it congratulations, which I
think they're.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well, hang on because it should be forty percent because
the weekends forty two out of sit on. It's not
that's okay, be some yeah, hang on. How much you're
doing in the weekend?

Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, they said something thirty six percent of my power
bell my power usage is used on the weekends. So
I figure out, well, I know, I'm using a dam
side more on the weekends than what I do normally.
You know what I mean. I'm fairly frugal when it
comes to running this or running that. You know, but

(23:35):
as you say, you're at the house, either heat or whatever.
I run the heat pump and who you see that?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Because if you if you work out the weekend right
as a percentage of the week, it's twenty eight point
it's twenty eight point six percent of the week. So
you're only using like one percent. You're not using that
much more to spike with the hot water on in
the oven, and you're past the dish.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Marcus, I pay my paid power bills one up from
four twenty dollars a week up to forty dollars a week.
I see it's doubled as of start of April. I
questioned that, and they came back whether they're going to
reduce it to thirty six dollars?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
So I think all they have is a power only
forty dollars a week.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
No, yes, yes, yes, yes, two week over spread over.
Let's every week they take they're taking.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, it seems pretty good.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
Well, yeah it should be too. It's only me, myself
and I here.

Speaker 14 (24:36):
Yeah enough.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Oh wow, goodness, I wonder what else you could do
on that weekend to use more?

Speaker 5 (24:46):
What?

Speaker 7 (24:47):
What do I what else do I do?

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well?

Speaker 2 (24:49):
You've got you need like a you need like a
night store, heat up some rocks and you can spread
them around the house to warm it throughout the week
or something.

Speaker 7 (24:56):
You put them in the oven markets some volcanic right,
So yeah, well it's not a bit I like you're thinking, get.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Some of those rocks up the poor Hill's Dave. Thank you.
There we go the filming of Willow and your free
power day, Marcus. We are with Genesis and get free
power hours. Shout. We usually booked for three hours in
our heart out dishwasher, two loads of washing, charging devices, cooking, showering, vacuuming,

(25:25):
and water blasting. Are these people sure they get in
free power?

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:31):
I don't know about that, Marcus. At the eighties, I
was skiing at Kadrono found myself taking a back trail
at the top of the mount. I came across a
series of tps. There was a sign saying that Willow
was filmed there and they left the TPEs for Kiwis
to enjoy for goodness sake or welcome. We are talking
about if you've got one of those schemes where you
can save power at the time, what do you do

(25:51):
and how do you do it? And what are the
things you can do to save the most power? Can
you kind of save power into the next day. Someone says,
we usually spend twenty five per week on the power
that last three powered hour use thirty eight tuned on
the underfloor heating, washed all the beardlemon popped in the drawer,

(26:12):
and baked all dale exhausted by the end of the day.
Judy Marcus, I'm on the contact energy free power nine
pm to midnight. Thirty three percent of my power usage
falls into this window since we moved to this plan.
I achieved this by putting the timer on for the dishwasher,
washing machine, and dryer. I also charge up our phones's

(26:32):
electric toothbrushes, diceon, et cetera. I'll also do some slow
cooking once a week. It's phenomenal, but I do really
organize organize myself to maximize it. Marcus, I have three
hours of power with electric Kiwi free hour is good
to start. Find it ting any convenient of a time.

(26:54):
Now do anything useful. Spending more time I would with
a fixed rate. Spending more than I would have a
fixed rate falls the same category as a phone plant.
A hassle to change, Marcus. I work for a power company.
None of these plans are freeze. It's made up and
you're on peak rate or daily charges, et cetera. The

(27:19):
trick is like the bloke that was on just now
is to use nothing in those peak times. So for instance,
with the family, little kids, it's not great as you
can't just not give a shower a hold off washing.
If you can make it work, that's worth it, but
you really have to be careful. Chris, charge the EV
during the free hours free Well, no one's got the

(27:39):
EV yet, thought they'd be all people here. Charge the EV.
Change the names EV nine to twelves, nine pm to midnight,
seven days a week. Contact. We do the laundry. Each
cycle takes seventy minutes. We run the dryer. We do
oven baking. We put the pressure or slow cooker meal

(28:01):
starter so next day dinner prepared or halfway done. Heat
the house part in the kids bedroom heat designed thanks
Mitch or mish Mish. It might be Mesh Marcus. I'm
with Contact nine to twelve free power. I have my
hot water heater on a time and so heats up automatically.
Never ran out of hot water. It cuts the power

(28:22):
ball by thirty percent. So just while I'm here, why
are people so obsessed with the movie Willow. Once again.
It's one of the movies I haven't seen, but it's
not a movie I haven't seen that people talk a
lot about apart from the filming of it, and I
think there's people of a certain age group that are
obsessed with it. I've got no idea what it really

(28:45):
is about it. It's a bit like a it's a
bit like Munchkins or Ewoks. I think like a fantasy universe.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Anyway? It might have been transformative for you, Willow. It's
one of those movies that bubbles along a people have
on VHS and watch all the time. It's kind of
had a life after it was a movie with board
games and TV series and it's kind of yeah anyway,

(29:20):
So you might want to mention that also, and how
to use your free power when you've got those free
power hours for summit's three hours a night for some
of us a couple of days a year. I'd like
an expert to know. I think the sparpool's a good idea.
I'm kind of trying to think of the best way
you could use your power to use later on in

(29:40):
the week. But I guess probably the ultimate thing to
do for that, would get some of those Tesla batteries,
wouldn't and charge all them up on that day and
then power your house for the rest of the week.
Would was no one doing that because the batteries are
too expensive, all because they draw too much charge. I
don't know the answer, or here we go. We use
the free power hours to charge house batteries. This allows

(30:03):
us to extend the power hours, Marcus. People should check
that their hot water cylinder not set to a higher temperature.
I saved close to fifty dollars power usage after having
the hot water tank off intermittently by installing a duel

(30:24):
element hot water heater and usually only their bottom element
during free power hours. By installing a jewel element hot
water cylinder and using only the bottom element during free
power hours, I'll slashed my energy costs. The bottom element
runs on free electricity, usually at night, giving me nearly
free hot water. If demand spikes and the tank runs low,
the top element kicks in the heat, just the upper half,

(30:47):
keeping things efficient. It's a simple tweak that pays off
big time. I'm with key we Power. I get an
hour free power every day. Kim. Someone says, how's your
new skydish. I've got no idea if it arrived, it didn't,
well look kind of bigger. I'm not quite your whether
or not there was no notice left. Hi, Chris Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (31:11):
Yeah, Marcus. Free usage applies to Mercury for power day usage.
Oh you've looked on the Google it so you can't
if you're not supposed to use as much power as
you can't? Say's hear usage?

Speaker 2 (31:25):
How do they police that?

Speaker 12 (31:28):
Well, they could tell by your meter how much of
use for the day. They want to look at it.
They can see your smart meat to take it over.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
So what is what is fear and what is unfair usage?

Speaker 12 (31:39):
I don't know. That's just what it says on their
terms and conditions.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Yeah, it seems like all those people that have called
have kind of go for gold and they haven't been
kind of they haven't been caught out for it though,
have they?

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (31:51):
Well maybe they will one day. Yeah, I mean I.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Don't know what unfair usage of powers. I'm trying to
think about that. As you've said that Unititi, you're running
a cable to your neighbors, they.

Speaker 12 (32:01):
Might they might do it. After the night's talk talk show.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
We'll find if anyone else knows what's for you? For
usage done for you? Hey, just about Trump and the
tariffs tomorrow In Australia, they're saying the price of beef
might double from twenty six bucks per kilo at the
supermarket of fifty bucks. The thinking goes, we already this
is a quote. We already know there's a high demand
for Australian beef around the world. Ah, the American tariffs

(32:31):
on agricultural imports would see more countries by Australian beef
to avoid trading with the US. So it could well
be the case for our beef also, and lamb that
they say, oh well, we'll get such a good price
for internationally, we're going to put the price up locally
as well. None of this breaks well for us, does it.

(32:57):
McDonald's has Minecraft meals with sixplictable toys, including Burglar and
that purple thing. What's that about if I miss something
for McDonald's. Oh, the Minecraft movie is out on Thursday.

(33:18):
Oh so the Happy the Happy Meal. The Happy Meal
toys are the Minecraft version of Grimace.

Speaker 7 (33:27):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I don't even know that the Minecraft there, But will
there be any good? It'll be a dud. The fact
that there's no pre production means it's probably hopeless.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Oh jeepest creepers. Do I want to go to that?

Speaker 10 (33:38):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Not really, rather go see Wicked again. Hey. By the way,
I also saw talk about cross promotion, and because I mean,
I have children, but not only are we getting a
minecraft McDonald's thing, but also I am saying that Lego

(34:00):
the new Lego range is Formula one with cars you
can build, even with the DT whatever it's called, the DRS.
And I presume you raced them and looked quite good.
I thought, well, because Lego is doing everything now, it
seems like Lego is getting in kind of the hot
wheels car racing slot car market. I don't ever did

(34:20):
any good or not. I couldn't really quite understand by
looking at that WED I see that commercial, but yeah,
that Lego is doing Formula one series, which I thought
were good on them. I don't know which way the
money flows, and I don't know if you race the
cars on tracks or I don't think they're remote controlled.

(34:45):
Peter Marcus, welcome, thanks for calling.

Speaker 16 (34:47):
Good evening, Good day, Marcus Marcus. There's a there's a
lighthouse and Ireland Bay that a guy had built for
his wife while she was overseas. She was Marcus.

Speaker 14 (35:00):
And I sick.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
They rented out and it was on the It was
on the market not too long ago. It was quite
an interesting build. Actually, yeah, it's a fantastic thing. I mean,
it's exciting when you drive around there an Island bay
and there's sort of a stone castle next to it,
isn't there?

Speaker 16 (35:18):
Yes, yes, you know you're around the country.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
I got to the done Age, Yeah, you know. And
I've often, I've often thought, good on them. Have you
stayed there?

Speaker 5 (35:27):
No?

Speaker 16 (35:28):
No, No, I just used to live around the corner that.
That's where I was brought up, so I know a
bit about that area.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Okay, I appreciate that. Peter. Hey, my only lighthouse story
is staying and that's all I stayed. And I stayed
on Center Island, which is in Fovo Straight. No I didn't.
I stayed on Dog Island and Fogo Straight, where there's
a lighthouse and New Zealand's tallest lighthouse. And I stayed

(36:02):
in the lighthouse keeper's house, which is no longer used
because it's manned. It's unmanned, it has been for a while.
And there was a number of lighthouse keepers houses there,
and they've all got wooden shutters on, because if you're
living in a lighthouse community, you'd want very good insulation

(36:23):
from the light because you wouldn't want to be blinded
every I should know what the cycle is because we
did look at it from our house. I think it's
thirty seconds in forty five seconds or something like that.
So there's wooden shutters on all the windows. And it's
the only time ever in my life I've woken up
in the middle of the night and had no idea.

(36:47):
It was so dark, I had no idea where I was.
I tried to walk around the house, I think to
go to the bathroom, and it got completely lost. Never
ever happened before. In the most unnerving feeling to be
in a place that's just totally dark and it's sort
of trying to my way along the walls to get

(37:07):
back until someone else was awoken. They said, oh, I
think they had a torch or something like that, but
very vividly I remember that, but just so dark, I
had no idea where I was. Anyway, that's my Dog
Island story. Very fortunate to have stayed. They're not going
to get that on her anyway. But yes, I don't

(37:28):
a way to call it the lighthouse.

Speaker 7 (37:32):
B and B.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Keep being you, Marcus. I like your big ex house
and tapping your fingers don't change. Rain is steady and
north Canterbury. But I'm not complaining. No one's complaining. You'll
be needing that that will be a welcome reprieve. Maybe
you cause a lighthouse because it has a light in
the house. I wonder if the noise is an artifact
inserted dependent on what mode you used to listen. I

(37:59):
listened on iHeartRadio and perceive it as you tapping your fingernails.
Perhaps direct air is scrubbed for noise, Marcus. My grandmother
lives in Lighthouse Rode Bluff Hill, Napy. Also, your studio
has no background noise must be the poor radios, Tina.

(38:21):
Maybe it's called the lighthouse because it's made of carbon fiber, Joel,
like you're thinking, Joel, Marcus, I use I would use
three hours of free power by using the washing machine,
then the dryer in the winter. Also i'd put the
washing machine on and maybe the heat. And what my
real question is is how much power are you saving?
How much money do you think you're saving? With that

(38:42):
free power day, and is it worth all the effort
with your slow cooker and your pressure cooker and all
those things that you do, because I don't think anyone
really knows. I mean, I know the hot water uses
most of it. I don't know how much the oven
costs to run. It's kind of hard to get that information.

(39:03):
Nice bit of rain and Aukland today is such a
reliefal around unusual noises from the wires apart from a
few callers. My husband and I stayed in the lighthouse
in Wellington as a gift from our children. The man
built it a surprise for his wife. The views were amazing,
but the stairs so steep you couldn't take a cup
of tea up without doing yourself a mischief, and my

(39:26):
husband had to go sideways up the stairs as his
shoulders were too wide. I think it all seems very
fun building a house shape like a like a lighthouse,
but I think the reality is that you build your
house and most of your house is stairs. That's the
reality of the lighthouse structure, stairs, stairs and more stairs.

(39:49):
We're talking about how you save your hours of power
and how much money is saving with your free days
or your free Hours. Also the movie willow your thoughts
on that and Val Kilner deed today at sixty five
very good in the Doors, very good. Ja Morrison one
of the great movies, great costumes him and Meg Ryan

(40:15):
was Meg Ryan's partner. I think so they're at Venice
Beach on the canals, then into the desert. Loved it.
Um Liam Lawson back in the other team. I think
that's on this weekend the Formula one and Daylight Saving
will end three the Sunday. I wonder if you're a

(40:37):
night shift worker, right, do any people trying to just
their sleep for the week before Daylight Savings like stagger it?
So it's less of a change to people do that.
Curious over that, By the way, Australian elections on March
on May three, and there's heavy rain for northern and
western parts of both islands and northerly gales for parts

(40:59):
of central New Zealan. If you've got any updates from
the weather, let me know this day. In nineteen sixty eight,
Kubrick's two thousand and one, A Space Odyssey had its
world premiere. I never knew just how bored I could
be with that movie. I was young and I watched it.

(41:19):
I thought, jeapest creepers. When will it end? And I
think there was probably an intermission and then it went
and then we went out, and we remember it just
seemed so long. Mind you, I was an impatient child,
but that just seemed excruciatingly long. Never gone back and
seen it, never wanted to. I will one day thinks

(41:45):
about three hours long?

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Is that?

Speaker 7 (41:47):
Right?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Anyway? Get in touch onto it, these things or anything else?
Malcolma and Willow and the Power. By the way, I
have googled because Valcilma was Batman, I have googled Batman's
Batman actors rated. He was second to last. Not very good.
There we go, Rod Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
I guess tell you good right, thank you. Last year
I was in the biggest caves in the world and
mam Mamboth Caves in the bottom of Kentucky and we
were down below a group a tour and halfway through
all the lights from out was designed like that, and
he sat down and they said this is dark. And

(42:29):
it was dark, and nobody's said it's a word for
thirty people. And then also this is dark, I mean dark.
Then the lights can be gone, and they said that's
dark and it work. And those caves are forty four
hundred and fifty square miles at the bottom of Kentucky
what are they called road math Mammoth Caves?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Wow? And did you walk for a long time to
get there where it was that dark?

Speaker 9 (42:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (42:59):
No, no, down seven hundred steps and then then there's
a tour and to come out some no in the
the shoe shoes and beautiful or or a little the
way until they set you down halfway and then turn
the lights off.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Because when you when you really can't see your hand
in front of your face, can you watch that dark?
It's it's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
But I've never I've never ever been a dark thing
that I'm nearly eighty. Yeah, that was unbelievable, unbelievable and
that was dark.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
With rod Worth visiting the Memo Caves, Oh.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yes, for sure in the world and it's you go
through a door at the top you think you're just
going into a basement, and then you go down all
those steps and then there's two hours to walk through
and that one corner and it's four hundred and fifty

(44:00):
square miles. It's on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
How is it? How far are you going to them?
Just down as I suppose you, down the seven hundred
steps and that's it, is it?

Speaker 4 (44:14):
No, no, no, A big tour and camels else somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
I don't think I've ever ready heard of them.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
It will look it out memos cake, Yeah, well you
know me.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
I look things up Rod, thank you Godness. Don't even
know if they will. The longest cave. I think it
might be the biggest cave in the world. I think
they're still exploring it. Goodness. It goes for miles. Special

(44:47):
creatures inside it, like fish blind fish cave fish bats.
Looks fascinating. Anyway, good evening, Valerie, it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 15 (45:00):
Oh thank you. Excuse me. I do not have a
very good throat. But anyway, yes, you're talking about val Kilma. Well,
I haven't listened all night, but I listen every night,
and a couple of days ago Richard Chamberlain passed away
and I haven't heard anything. Have I missed something that

(45:24):
you have talked about Richard Chamberlain in the last couple
of days.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Yes, we spent quite some time talking about him. On
Monday night, oh, I'm very sorry. Then, yeah, he was
the original actor in the Born Identity as well that
people have forgotten about. Yes, and also I have looked
him up.

Speaker 15 (45:46):
He was a great favorite and a very very famous person.
I was just wondering, I'm sorry I missed that because
I thought it's always talking about very recent movie stars that.
Of course, Richard Chamberlain was well famous, and Val Kilma
was very good too, but not in the same league

(46:06):
Richie Chamberlain and hang on.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Hang on. You would say probably that Val Kilma was
a more successful actor because he was a movie actor,
whereas Richard Chamberlain was very much mainly just a TV actor.
Is it going to Oh, no, you are so wrong,
I think to say that.

Speaker 15 (46:27):
Sorry to say that, but I really know my movies,
and he was in many many movies. But anyway, I
don't want the movies. Was he in, Oh, so many movies?
I looked them up the other day and there's so
many that we don't know. You have to really sort
of go and ask questions about these stars on Google

(46:49):
and it lists all in.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
I mean his movie He certainly wasn't the actor that
Val Kilma.

Speaker 15 (46:55):
But you're talking about the recent very recent times. I'm
more or less talking about going back a bit, and
he was very very famous. But anyway, market I'm sorry, Marcus,
I'm sorry I missed it.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
It was a good discussion.

Speaker 15 (47:08):
Thank you. I'll have to go now because my fight's
not very good.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
It is it on the men to your throat?

Speaker 15 (47:16):
Not really, No, it'll be okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Okay, there we go. Well, I would year pound for
pound Kilmer much greater actor. I don't. I mean, why
am I arguing with her? Why bother? Marcus?

Speaker 6 (47:31):
Why bother?

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Of course, Richard Chamberlain was Aramis and the four Musketeers
just kind of had minor roles or something. It'll challenge
me on that, won't they. Chamberlain never married and had

(47:53):
no children. He was not open about his homosexual everymost
his career. To protect his privacy and as acting opportunities,
he was out as a gay man by the French
women's magazine Nudu and December nineteen eighty nine. So there
we go. That's stuff that I didn't know about him.
But anyway, not that that's probably important at all. But

(48:20):
whereas it says, what is great movie successes? Where as
far as Oscars or Anything. An American actor and singer
who became a teen idol in his title role of
the TV series Doctor Kildare. He's subsequently in the title
the King of the Mini Series for his work in
TV miniseries such as Centennial, Showgun and The Thornbirds. Also

(48:46):
performed classical stage roles and worked in musical theater. But yeah, maybe,
oh yeah, well, Valkilma, he wasn't the great Batman. Val Kilma,
they reckon He didn't really stamp his mark on it.
Of course, Christian Bale was the ultimate Batman. And Adam West,

(49:07):
of course, so very good. Oh eight hundred eighty tonighty
HOWI what's happening? My name is Marcus. Welcome. Loved Val
Kilmer on Batman when I was younger, but my absolute
favorite was his portrayal of Doc Holiday in the legendary

(49:28):
Western movie Tombstone. Boast on real people and events, absolutely
worth a watch, arguably the best Western movie ever made.
Best cure for a shift word definitely seen as z
B the Marcus That show in particular makes the night
go fast, brilliant. I now drive freight trains for a living. Wow, Shannon.

(49:49):
Nice to hear from your Shannon brilliant ten oh seven
hit on midnight, Glad to be here till midnight. Oh
eight hundred eighty tonighty Lourie Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Hi Marcus. Yeah, coincidently your last weekend. Are sitting up
in the caves on top of the Takata Hill with
a group of hydraulics and hydrolgicists and surveyors. They turned
the lights out there.

Speaker 10 (50:18):
For a while.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
And yeah when although it's not a deep cave, you
know that really is black but it's only about a
three hundred meters walk but takes about forty five minutes.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
And what's the hydrologist? Are they working out where the
water's flowing? Is that what they're doing?

Speaker 6 (50:36):
No, we're having a reunion. Oh you were basically probably
years ago when you went down to you did your
trip to Ta Vanda Station or Vanda Station used to be.
When you flew up the right valley is that range
of mountains on the left called the Asguard Range, and
they're onto the right of the Olympus Range. So this

(50:59):
particular group were known as the as Guard Ranges. You'd
probably remember rolled trevit Chin, the glaciology guy that I
have wa couple year.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I have I've had people refer to the as guard Rangers.
I have heard the eight. Were you one of them? Yes?

Speaker 6 (51:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (51:13):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (51:15):
From back I went started at Trevor and Shin and Anltani.
They started that work on the glaciology of the Right
Valley back in about nineteen sixty eight, I guess, yeah,
and sort of took on that name.

Speaker 15 (51:29):
But Trevor.

Speaker 6 (51:33):
Did glacially working out mainly the Ivory Glacier in New
Zealand as well. That yeah, we we had to get
together at Ky Territory and went off really well. Actually
you know, covered quite a lot of the different years
that how's it going down? How many had forty?

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Oh god, how well done you.

Speaker 6 (51:54):
With wise and girlfriends, et cetera. Hey. The other interesting
thing was that we finished off we went to the
have you heard of the Rewalker Resurgence, which is in
the Rewalker River. So if there's going to be an
atmospheric river hitting the Targat Hill or those areas around
there and large amounts there's going to be this this

(52:16):
resurgence will be a place to go and have a
good look at it.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Because is it like a standing wave that comes up
a river? It will do.

Speaker 6 (52:23):
No, it's a big pool where the water comes out
of on the that's that Nelson side of the Tactic Hill,
you know. Over on the other side there's that big
or the Pooper Springs, which is a larger version of it,
but very cold cave water comes out deep blue pools.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Oh, I see, I see. So it's a it's a resurgence.
Is an underwater stream that comes to the surface. Is
that what it is?

Speaker 6 (52:48):
Yeah? Yeah, and it's all that any of the order
that falls on the on the Taca Hill will make
it smoke its way out to there. But supposedly, you know,
you can get a lot extreme sort of flow coming
up out of that resurgence, you know, in these sort
of conditions. So it's a old doc have set up

(53:08):
walkways and it's an impressive little place to go.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
It's it's quite handed to the road too, isn't it.
You got to rew Okay, I'll check that out.

Speaker 14 (53:17):
Well with a look.

Speaker 6 (53:18):
Yeah, but you know, it was good, good reunion. Old
Trevor's well remembered. It was a had a great practical
joker and of course.

Speaker 10 (53:31):
It was.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Yeah, maybe a discussed for another day, Laurie, but thank
you We're stiven worked out who's the better actor, Al
Kilmore or Richard Chamberlain. I think it was probably Val Kilma.
Chairman is just a matinee idol, isn't he. I mean
the trouble with Val Kilma. Has he really inhabited a

(53:53):
role and became impossible to work with? As the director said,
there's two things I'll never do. One is climb Mount Everest,
the other has worked with Val Kilma. That's one of
the greatest quotes of all time. The Doors, great movie,
Top Gun, good movie. Willow. The interesting thing about Willow

(54:14):
right Willow was the movie that they always said was
filmed in New Zealand. But when you go to its
Wikipedia page, which I do often because I'm obsessed about
how obsessed people are with Willow the movie, it says
principal photography took place in Alfred's story Alfred Studios in Hertfordshire, England,

(54:39):
with location shooting taking Plasan Do Know What, Quarry, Wales
and some in New Zealand. It was supposed to be
filmed in China, but the Chinese government refused George Lucas
the chance for location shoot there. He then sent a
group of photographers to South China, which was used for

(55:02):
the background blue screen footage, and to a RaRo National
Park in New Zealand was chosen to house Bev Mouders Castle.
It doesn't say it was filmed in Queenstown. Well, I
always thought that they took over Queenstown, so you might
have some information about That's the movie Willow filmed in

(55:24):
the late eighties, I think, but Queenstown's not mentioned, but
I'm sure it was filmed there, so you might have
something to say about that. That's what we are on
about tonight. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine
nine text former locations Milford Sound Fiorderal National Park, south

(55:49):
of New Zealand, Queenstown. Oh yeah, that's better now on
the IDIMDB page doesn't say anywhere about Oh yes, Milford
sound Fielder National Park south of New Zealand, Queenstown, Tongareo
National Park.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
So it was some of it was filmed in New
Zealand mountains and the lake scenes filmed in Queenstown, Otago
and the castle was on Tungario National Park, but most
was filmed in a quarry. Good evening, Peter as Marcus
Welcome are you doing there.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
Bill Kilmurray, Yes, obviously. I mean the dude right, she
really hit right. I mean, you know, you look at
the Company's Don't Fall, you know, trop Gun and Heat
for example. Just absolutely fantastic movie. But the movie that

(56:49):
I loved him in the most was a Zucker's an
Abrahead's movie called Top Secret.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
No One tell me the plot, I haven't tell me.

Speaker 14 (57:01):
More, Okay.

Speaker 9 (57:03):
He plays a rock and roll singer not not a
million miles to move from from Elvis Presley, who gets
pointed at the last minute to go behind the Iron
Curtain into East Germany as part of a cultural festival.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
He ends up.

Speaker 9 (57:25):
Getting romantically entangled with a girl whose father is a
scientist is being held prisoner. He ends up falling into
a French resistance cell who is led by the ex
boyfriend of the girl he's just hooked up with, who
used to be on a desert island. Very much like

(57:46):
the word. I mean, it's a complete spoof movie. I mean,
he does a couple of musical numbers, he's got fantastic
comic climbing. It's just one of those absolutely ridiculously stupidly
funny movies that, yeah, it's just just great, great laugh.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
When are we talking? Is it eighties or nineties? It's
called top Secret, righties. Yeah, Okay, have you watched it?
Is it one that people are watching more recently or
you watched it at the time.

Speaker 9 (58:18):
I watched it at the time, and it's when you
sort of go back to every so often. Yes, it's
it's yeah, it's a very very self aware breaking the
fourth wall. Yeah, very very interesting. Great Peter Sushian's in it,
for example. Yeah, it's it's if you if you've got

(58:40):
a spare Friday or said there and I go go
look it up. Ever watch City, Brainton Neutral and just
have a good laugh.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Okay, really appreciate it, Peter. Nice to hear from you.
By the way, too. Valkilma wasn't Outsiders, which we just
talked about last night, that book that people studied and
was such a great film with all those young actors
before they were famous, Matt Damon and Tom Cruise et cetera,
et cetera, Media West as they're all in it. And
of course he married Joeanne Wallace from who he met

(59:08):
on the filming of Willow, so you'll know about that.
This is the bit that I like. Kilmer had a
reputation for being difficult to work with and having feuds
with some of the actors with whom he worked, never
good for career, notably either of Doctor Morrow co star
Malon Brando and Red Planet co star Tom Sizemore. Kilmer's

(59:40):
Tombstone co star Michael Bihan said, people ask me what
it's like to work with Val Kilma. I don't know,
never met him, never shook his hand. I know Doc Holiday,
I don't know Kilma. Richard Stanley, who directed Kilma for
three days in the islan of Doctor Moreau before being fired,
recalled Val would arrive and an argument would happen. John Frankenheimer,

(01:00:04):
replaced Stanley, said I don't like Val Kilmore. I don't
like his work ethic, and I don't want to be
associated with him ever again. Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher
called Wilma Kilma childish and impossible. So there we go.
That's a situation with Val Kilma, and we are talking

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about him and Richard Chamberlain. By the way, Top Secret
seemed to be his first real movie after The Outsiders,
but did a great number of movies. Anyway, do get
in touch with our talking and talking about those days
when you get as much power as you can use,
what for free? What do you use it on? I

(01:00:51):
am sixty. My wife just told me about cookie beer.
My father worked for Bets and Heges, and my uncle
his brother worked for Cadbury, Hudson's and Swips. I wore
the cookie Bear costume at my sister's ninth birthday party.
Got drunk on my neighbors. Oh sorry, got urinated on
by my neighbors alsatian and the cover was blowing. Richard

(01:01:14):
Chamberlin was very good in The Three Musketeers, although Oliver
Reed stole the show. Here Comes the Rain to hook
a ticker. Marcus Marcus Welcolm was great in the following
movies Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, The Saints.
Lots of rain here in Golden Bay. No flooding dot
dot dot yet, because yeah, she's quite prone that part

(01:01:43):
of the country to flooding in recent years. We had
Tarka get cut off not too long ago on that road.
Was kind of and there was flooding to coastal flooding,
wasn't there There was more with a storm stage with
houses being inundated. I think that was around Reworker or
somewhere like that. But if you can update me on that,

(01:02:04):
I would appreciate that also too. Talking about the movie Willow,
I'd like some calls about that. Why are people so
obsessed with that film? Because I think people even come
around the country to go work out where that was filmed.
It's one of those movies that inspires much adoration and pilgrimages.

(01:02:30):
They should set up a village like Hobbiton still on
the plan to get to Hobbiton, although I'd be recken
on a south on Hobbited. It's crazy to me they've
never built one. By the way, I know what Willow is.

(01:02:55):
I'm aware of the movie because there was much talk
about when they filmed it in New Zealand. It was
just bits of it been filmed in New Zealand. I
think because Warwick Davis wasn't it also very famous from
the Star Wars canon and kind of pops up quite
often on British chet shows. Yeah, anyway, get in touch.

(01:03:21):
I think it was in Harry Potter too, wasn't he
as well as Star Wars? But I think Willa oh yes,
he was an Ewok. I don't think he was ARTD two.
Was he was someone else d D two. I think
I've got my actdoors confused from Star Wars. But get

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in touch if you want to be a part of
this discussion, or if there is anything else you want
to talk about. Eight and eighty. Yes, Kenny Baker was
R two D two. But Warwick Davis was the Ewok
in that great Battle of the Ewok scenes, also a

(01:04:08):
Tetwine Street trader and also played Yoda in some scenes
and phyleas Filwick and grip Hook and Harry. Of course
he hasn't died, but wasn't Willow and then a series
about Willow that followed on from that. I just thought

(01:04:28):
we might have someone tonight that was involved with the
filming Marcus on the tome Renu to Stratford railcar cart trip.
They stopped in the middle of the long curved tunnel
and turn the lights out to experience pitch blackness. And
it was cold too. Val Kilma wasn't top Gun too,

(01:04:50):
even though his voice was affected with the throat cancer.
That didn't stop him. Steady Rangers starting here in Stoke
and Nelson Marcus looks like we are forecast to get
one thirty millimeters at sea level over the next thirty
six hours. Cheers Dave at Stoke, Marcus minor drizzle here

(01:05:11):
in christ Church, thank you. Someone said there is a
road up Bluff Hill called Lighthouse Road. Yes, well, the
airbnb is next to a reserve where the lighthouse was
proposed to be. But the lighthouse was part of the prison.

(01:05:33):
Have you ever been to that present It used to
be a backpacker I don't think it is now, but
it was terrifying. I think several people were hanged there
and not very pleasant circumstances. But it also was a lighthouse.
Only two prisons in the world were a lighthouse, Napier
Prison and Alcatraz. And these thing about Napier Prison, they

(01:05:56):
didn't even have a lighthouse keeper, just made it the
prison guard's job. And it's very undocumented, even it's Wikipedia page.
I don't say it was a lighthouse, which is kind
of weird because to me, it's the whole reason of
it being. They say it's haunted, and that's highly likely

(01:06:24):
that it is. In my humble opinion, you wouldn't want to.
You can sleep in the cells, or you could when
it was a backpackers, but you wouldn't want to be terrifying.
It's all kind of old stone. It's god forsaken place. Anyway.
I've also got emails saying that, in fact, Cookie Bear

(01:06:44):
did pre date the cookie Beer on the Andy Griffith Show.
Someone's done some research. There was another call this weekend
that someone was this week that someone was quite highly
charged about glenn Us. It's Marcus, good evening and welcome.

Speaker 13 (01:06:58):
I had stated in.

Speaker 7 (01:07:00):
What a not.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Really tell me about that?

Speaker 13 (01:07:04):
Yes I have, and no one believed what I'm saying.
They can bleed me or not. I was outside in
the hanging yard, but I had a cell and it
was called the officers Myth and they said to me,
would you like to go in a ghost hunt? And
I said, oh, yeah, you're pulling their legs. I like cats, Marcus,
I love cats. I saw an apparition of a cat

(01:07:28):
outside myself.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Hang on, hang on, why were you there?

Speaker 13 (01:07:33):
Because I like going to these spooky places Red, No,
not really.

Speaker 15 (01:07:38):
I just liked that.

Speaker 13 (01:07:39):
I have a fascination. I just wanted to see what
it was all about, what all the talk was about.
So I went to stay there myself, and I really enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
It, so you went to stay in the cell.

Speaker 13 (01:07:49):
I was in the officers Myth, which is outside near
the hanging yard. They were like little cabins, you know,
it's called the myth. And I locked myself in the
room that night and I said, oh, well, you know,
and they and they had apple pied my beard. You
know what apple pies. Yeah, they'd apple pied in my bed.

(01:08:09):
So I had to sleep on top of the bed.
The next morning before I go Marcus, they said to me,
would you like to go on the ghost hunt? And
I said, I think I've seen enough last night. And
they told me they had a cat sitting by the
kitchen that was a real cat, like I touched it.
I love cats, right, And I told them about this
cat that I saw and they said, oh, yeah, what

(01:08:31):
color was it? I said it was a Siamese Persian.
Oh you must have seen Basil. Marcus, are there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
You must have seen Basil.

Speaker 13 (01:08:43):
They said, you must have seen Basil. And I said,
who's Basil? He said, Basil died in the prison many
many years ago, and he's still walked around like and
he's still taking over the prison. Well, and I thought,
oh my god. I remember the next day they said
do you want to go on the ghost hunt? And

(01:09:05):
I said, I've seen enough last night to last me
a lifetime. But I enjoyed the experience. Marcus, Now, is
an API prison opened again under a new name or
is it closed down?

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
I thought it'd closed, but someone might fact check me
on that one.

Speaker 13 (01:09:19):
Yeah, because I'd like to go back again. I know
it sounds scary, but I like to go back and
get a formation of Bezel again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Was ghost cat Basil doing anything?

Speaker 10 (01:09:33):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:09:33):
No, It came up to it had red eyes and
it came near me and I said, what the heck
is that in the dark? I must be and I
followed it and it disappeared, but it came with the
apparition of it came towards me because I love cats.
Cats are attracted to me. And I said, what are

(01:09:55):
you doing here? Like I was talking to myself, and
I distinctly saw a Siamese Persian cat and they said, oh,
you must have seen Basil last night. He doesn't. It
doesn't appear to many people. Only those who feels comfortable
with you know what I mean, like an animal animal person?

(01:10:15):
And I was and then I had my camera back
to underneath Mike in my suitcase. I had my camera
and I thought, oh my goodness, I should have taken
a photo.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
I wouldn't have come out. That's that ghost. Don't come
out though, you're just.

Speaker 13 (01:10:30):
I like to go back for the experience again to
see what I saw that that many years ago. But
it was it was sort of like a spooky place,
but area, you know, sort of like real jail looking,
you know.

Speaker 14 (01:10:49):
Cold.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Yeah, Oh to God for saken place at the stone building.
Let us thank you. Twenty five to eleven texts Marcus.
We have one hundred and fifty one Genesis our power shout. Marcus,
we have one hundred ffty one Genesis power Shout hours
saved up. We'll use them to heat the house full
blast for an hour or so after work and winter.

(01:11:11):
They keep giving them away perfectly. They're black. We are
talking about if your power company has a deal where
you get a free day or free free hours of
free power, how do you use that? That's the question.
If you have contact with a nine to twelve for
free or with Genesis with a free day, what do
you do to maximize that? Do you fill up the sparpool,
do you charge batteries? What do you do. That's the question.

(01:11:34):
The back topics are Willow val Kilma and the darkest
it's ever been in your life. By the way, I
was the other day, I was driving past why Toma
where they do that blackwood a rafting. God, that's a
good thing. If have you had a chance to do that.
That's a blast that one did that years ago. And
often think about that. They put you in there and
the inner tube and you're going to jump at that

(01:11:56):
leap of blind faith. Tremendous. What are the great things
to do? Anyway? I presume it's still going. I presume
it's still going. Well, yes, but Voal Kilma versus Richard Chamberlain. Oh,
I don't think you compare them. Richard Chamberlain to me
was goodness me anyway, that's just me talk to talk.

(01:12:22):
You've got an update on the atmospheric river. I'd love
to hear from you.

Speaker 9 (01:12:30):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Dan has texted. Dan lives near the railway in Pardor,
just south of Greymouth, Marcus Wooden gusting and very warm
bit of rain, going to be a stormy old night.
Extremely hot wind too comes it's coming that it's rotating
that way, springing hotier down. Oh, just a good text

(01:12:55):
point that someone's made via text, Marcus, we need to
be careful with the free hour of power. If you
have electric water heating and run the bath through a
hot wash, the water will no doubt be reheated later
at a full rate marketing full stop marketing question. Mart
good point. I think most of the times it's fairly
legitimate what they are asking. No, I mean, yeah, yeah,

(01:13:17):
I think normally it's a free day or of free
three hours, and a lot of people just heat the
water cylinder during that hour. So that's why I'm still
waiting for calls about the movie Willow. That's all right.
I'll keep persevering about that, just because think it's probably
something that perhaps someone was involved with the firming of

(01:13:38):
it because it was filmed here and it was always
I think we probably always felt that it was a
big part of his animals in that movie. And as
I say, haven't seen it. Marcus. We have free power
from nine pm till midnight. We turned the hot waters
silmers off in the morning and on again at nine pm.
Paul pump on the timer for free power. Dishwasher, washing

(01:13:59):
machine and dryer heaters in the winter all go on
at nine PM power bill went down sixty percent every month.
There you go to great text, there's someone really using it,
saving sixty percent on their power. If you've got something
to add, love to hear from your ma, name as
Marcus good evening, Welcome, there's something different you want to
mention talk about? Say do up for it? That's me

(01:14:22):
saying up for it. Oh, eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty text on nine two nine to if you want
to but here till twelve o'clock tonight and val Kilma.
So yeah, be good to hear from you. I don't
know what else you want to mention, but if you
have got something else you do want to mention, I'd

(01:14:44):
love to hear from you tonight, hopefully before this break actually,
so if you come through now, they'll be lovely. It
gets you involved. There might be something if there's something
different you want to mention. Also to I have mentioned
you what's sort of the new stuff that's happening tonight.
It is the day to day to thirty two. It's

(01:15:11):
the day to day fifty seven years ago that two
thousand and one. A Space Odyssey had its world premiere
in eighteen hundred on this day Beethoven's first Symphony is premiered.
I couldn't hum that one. I'm afraid some of you
will be able to at the body shop that's gone forever.

(01:15:38):
I hope you managed to use your vouchers. And the
Atmospheric River is well and truly hitting New Zealand as
we speak. So here's the latest. I can't find the story.

(01:15:58):
They're doing a role in coverage of that. I can't
see that currently.

Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
What I can tell is raining south of Greymouth. It's raining,
and hooker tickets raining in Stoke it has started. That's
the Atmospheric River for you. Come on, people, would be
great to hear from you tonight. Some of the other texts. Marcus,
we use the Genesis power shout for eight hours to

(01:16:25):
put on the pool cleaning robot, the pull heat of
the pul pump vacuum the house, do the washing and
dry the dishwasher, charge all the batteries and the tool shed,
charge the phones and laptops, run the juicing machine to
do a weekly juice. Gosh, what a life that is.
They've got everything, haven't they, including all the batteries and
the tool shed. Marcus listened to you in Vernon, France,

(01:16:47):
Run a River Cruise, Sunny Buck, Cold Hair, Helen, We
Have Free Powers, Sat down Sunday nine to five. It's
great Catherine. Not great Catherine, but it's great Catherine. Marcus.
The movie The Door was nineteen ninety two. Vow Kilmer's
portrait of Jim Morrison had the original Door Doors ban quote.
They were in awe of how his look and singing

(01:17:09):
voice was perfect with Jim's. It's a great film. I
reckon it's the greatest biopick, isn't it? Is it a biopic?
I think it's a is a biopic. I think it's
the greatest biopic. There we go. I'm going to make
the bold statement. Fight me for that one. You might
in't fight me about who's a better actor, Chamberlain or Kilmer.

(01:17:31):
Best biopic ever. I'll tell you what. It's not that
Elton John movie or that one about Freddie Mercury, terrible Labomba.
That's quite a good biopic. Argue it's the Doors, best

(01:17:55):
biopic of a musician. That's not gonna ask you about tonight.
Fight me for that one. She removed off cookie Balk
Cookie Beer. I saw some letters and some comments about
people like thinking. It was just I can't think of
anything better than getting rid of getting rid of cookie beer.

(01:18:18):
The twenty best Biopex ranked. Where's they ranked the doors
I walked? The line was quite good minded Johnny kesh
is good any got the doors moving in it? Good evening, Helen,
it's Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Yeah, eating Marcus. Now, you've got to be very careful
with water cylinders, turning them off because of the danger
of Legionnaire's disease. The temperature in the water cylinder must
be kept at sixty six degrees and at the tap
so that you're not scalding it, scalding yourself at fifty five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Very good point.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
Now about c Joe's. I mentioned to you that I
must try them again. Terrible, No, they're really I think
they must must have been a different variety, because the
once I got at the supermarket the other night, I thought, well,
I'll try these, because they didn't seem to have that
terrible smell about them, and they were really, really nice,
So I re evaluated my The mentioned the memory of

(01:19:25):
the other one dates back many many years, and that
I still can remember what it spelt like. But these
were really, really nice. They were large, large ones, and
the ones that I had all those years ago were
kind of very small.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
No one's too old to change, Helen. That's fantastic. I'm
excited for you. I remember well.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
John who was it dumb rang In and he mentioned
something about the taste depending on you know which variety they.

Speaker 2 (01:19:55):
Were, Helen, they all taste the same. I don't reckon.
I know my figure, as I've eaten more than most.
I don't reckon there's any variation at all in flavors.
I thought that guy was it's getting too obsessed about it,
like a craft beer type person, pid interfy Joe, as
they all taste the same. That's my take anyway, Thank you, Helen.
Twelve from eleven best Buy. Would it be the Doors?

(01:20:17):
I think it is. Might listen to the album on
the way home. I love the way it started, I
love the well the soundtrack was fantastic. I kind of
determined to get the call about Willow Tonight. Maybe some
of that was involved with the filming when it was
in New Zealand. It was a pretty extraordinary cast actually,

(01:20:44):
and I don't know Val Kilma was in news in
for that filming, but was during the filming of Willow
that he met his wife. That's why we are talking
about that. I've got no idea what the plot's like,
I think in my mind, although I've never seen it.
I've got that slightly confused with Labyrinth. Was it filmed
in News? Was it filmed in New Zealand? I'm sure

(01:21:06):
one of them was filmed in New Zealand. But anyway,
I go back and see only parts of will they
were filmed Zena. Most of it was filmed in the
quarry in Wales, and a very difficult shoot. Well it's
difficult if our film was involved. That was his byline. Difficult,
very very difficult. But might have just been insecure, nervous.
You never know, had a younger brother died tragically, they

(01:21:27):
were drowned or something. Seven to eleven. Hello, Brian, it's Marcus.
Welcome and Barron.

Speaker 17 (01:21:35):
This is the life of Byron, Life of the Doors,
Life of our Kilmore Christian Race.

Speaker 12 (01:21:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
Do you remember that quite well? I mean I remember
all that.

Speaker 17 (01:21:46):
Yeah, yes, was the nineties stuff, and it was probably
the nineties sixties nineties. It was what sorry, generational, the sixties,
the nineties year, nineteen sixties, ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
Nineties, I mean the Doors are one of those bands
everyone's rediscovering. And I think that Val Kilmer movie got
heaps of people into the Doors because it was such
I mean, it's celebrated the music.

Speaker 17 (01:22:14):
Absolutely, and it's generational, it's hopefully it is sort of
nineties was the revolution of the sixties sort of thing.
And I think the bar cutmore actually he killed me
now vocals now the whole party scene of the sixties

(01:22:39):
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Now that sort of that leather pants look of Jam Morrison's,
didn't he.

Speaker 17 (01:22:45):
Yeah, well it's sort of like the guns and roses
and that's rose pants. You've got hutcheson stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
Oh very much, Yeah, very much like you. Well, Hutchinson
was readdoors esk, wasn't he.

Speaker 17 (01:23:01):
Yeah. Yeah, we tried to do the Jam Morrison. He
was the only even on stage. The crowds were sort
of like the fellows are bullying him on stage because
he was out there doing it. Then he go back
to the movie mear Ryan and the poetry of Jamarrison,

(01:23:23):
I think, go back to Baltimore. His acting in that
movie was absolutely brilliant. Remember who was who produced.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Or directed the movie, Oliver Stone.

Speaker 17 (01:23:38):
Yeah, Old Stone, absolutely brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
And I think Tarantino was involved in Coppler was involved,
and Departmer was involved, So all sorts of people were involved.
Maybe all of them wanted to make a movie, but
they all had some input. I think.

Speaker 17 (01:23:51):
Yeah. Yeah, Oliver Stone, he was yeah, above everyone else
at the stage.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
He was very.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Olive Oliver. Oliver Stone first heard The Doors when he
was fighting in Vietnam one year old soldier.

Speaker 17 (01:24:08):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, that movie ship and then
you've got the Doors of the movie. And I'm paying
homage to you bel come tonight because he was in
Top Gun and the Doors. He was one of my
favorite actors. And yeah, unfortunately his voice gave out in

(01:24:29):
the end.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
And yeah, so yeah, did he get an oscar for it? No,
I don't think. I don't think it was that well appraised.

Speaker 17 (01:24:36):
Was it. It's an art section of the movie. The
Doors were behind Jesus Stones, the Beatles, the Eagles, the
doors are hidden behind everything else.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
But if he was still alive, that's still well. I mean,
I don't know if his death meant they were more
legend or less of a legend. And the old bath the.

Speaker 17 (01:25:03):
Legit continues whether you're alive or dead. Chamberlain again religions
no God, no Chamberlain, Yes, yeah, no. We also sort
of leave a thigh at the end. I think, Jamarris,
unless legacy is just like the sixty nineties sixties or

(01:25:25):
nineties ninety sixties, I'm going to.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Go viine because Brian, because you're sort of I'm hearing
less and less of you. But I think just I
like it.

Speaker 11 (01:25:35):
I like you.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
Just.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
I don't know if the band The Doors are into
the movie at all. I don't know if they gave
it the approve. That's always the case with the band,
isn't it, whether they actually say, yeah, it's good, let's
not do it. Calvin, Marcus, welcome Marcus. How are you good?
Calvin yourself?

Speaker 10 (01:25:52):
You're not hey, hell, I've been listening to you for
the last couple of hours and I did try this
in through a message, but never the mind. I heard
your last call for you know, call through and whatnot
and what I want and just yeah, interesting one to
share about the darkness matter, which is a little bit
what the darkest has ever been in that type of thing.

Speaker 6 (01:26:14):
Dude.

Speaker 10 (01:26:15):
Yeah, I thought I'd like to share an experience that
I had about the darkest that have been. So I
had a trip. I went to Tonga one time a
few years ago and I stayed at a hotel resort
you could say. And it's a very small island, so

(01:26:38):
you know, I went out exploring and everything, and let's say,
you know, a bit of euphoria was experienced. And by
the time we came back to you know, our place
to stay had a pool. You know, I wanted to go,
and it's very hot there. I wanted to go and
you know, cool off and just hang out a bit.
And they said, hey, look the pools closed. I said, okay,

(01:27:02):
well what do I do now? I look across and
literally within like ten meters there's the vast ocean.

Speaker 6 (01:27:12):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:27:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, like during the daytime, it
was so fantastic. There's people going there and looking at
the fishes. You know, it's my first time there, in
my first this is my first night there. So I
decided to just be like, you know, I can't say,
like any old Q, but just saw the water and

(01:27:35):
I was like, you know, all closed. Well, there's a
whole water pool. There's a lot of fool up there.
So I decided to go for a bit of a
swim and it's beautiful, you know, hot weather. It's about
nine o'clock and as soon as you step into the water,
it's just like instant wow, this is nice and cool.

(01:27:58):
And like I said, you know, after experiencing a bit
of euphoria, you know, going on an island to all
the bars and stuff, I went for a bit of
a walk in the water and a bit of a
swim and.

Speaker 7 (01:28:11):
So nice.

Speaker 10 (01:28:12):
And by the time I actually looked it back, and
I did look back and I said, whoa, this looks
like I'm a certain distance away.

Speaker 2 (01:28:23):
Yeahs terrifying. And you're a good swimmer.

Speaker 10 (01:28:28):
Yes, well for personally, yeah, i'd say I'm okay swimmer. Right,
I'm skinn of shark, petrified, buttrified a shark. But what
I'm saying is it's this is how far I got to,
you know, walking slash swimming that even if I was
to stand on my feet, the water was up to

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say chest level. And I'm about one hundred and eighty
five centimeters, so you know, I'm not the tallest, but
like I'm semi tall, so yeah, it was kind of
up to the chest and you know, I swim and
then you get the the rocks and the little coral
reefs you could say we can stand on and well
not so. I saw a stair bet out and I

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was like, wow, this is so beautiful.

Speaker 14 (01:29:12):
You're the waves.

Speaker 10 (01:29:12):
You look at the stars. It's just stars that I
haven't seen them, you know in New Zealand. I'm like,
probably have, but you just never had the opportunities yet, right,
And it was so fantastic. And I turned around. And
when I did turn around, after I did my whole
walk flesh from brigade out there, and I looked it
back and I looked back at the resort we're saying it,

(01:29:36):
and I could see how small the island actually was,
you know, and the surrounding buildings and the surrounding resources,
and I was like, wow, you could actually see the
circle starting to pan out.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
Oh I see. Yeah, you would have done sorry to
not know how you find your way back, but that
didn't happen.

Speaker 10 (01:29:56):
You just had to follow the light to get back.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Okay, I'm wondering about that.

Speaker 10 (01:30:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, And I want to turn around,
you know, facing back towards the ocean well swimming up
to which was so awesome. You couldn't see anything or
it was just pure dark, and all you could see
was the start if you if the water wasn't like
was the fact of the water was lashing around you,
and you could hear the waves further down there. You

(01:30:21):
could tell you in the water, you know, because it
just made such neutralizing temperature because it was such so
hot there, and it was so fantastic until I heard
some voices, and the voices heard said, hey, what are
you doing? World here for swimming and then and then

(01:30:44):
they said to me, you know, if they keep swimming further,
you're gonna end up with the whales. And I was like, wait,
what it's like?

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
And were the other people in the water there as well?

Speaker 10 (01:30:57):
There was no one in the water. This was this
was a solid experience, but well yeah there was people
in the water, Like what's this about to tell you next?
So for this whole time, what I'm doing is a solo.
My partner at the time, she's sitting there, she's just
watching as like a lifeguard you could say. She's like, Okay,
this man has just lost and he's just going in
and you know, experiencing some things. So I went and

(01:31:19):
then I heard these called and saying, hey, what are
you doing? And they said, well, I said, oh, I
just start again and said, well, if you keep going
any further, you're going to be going to his wheels.
And I said what And I turned around and I'm like,
we have these voices, you know who's talking to me?
And it turned out to be three or four fishermen,

(01:31:40):
no torch, no nothing. And I'm thinking, in my head,
I came out here because I've got a lifeguard sport
off back there. But you know, I'm an a you
four age date and and I know kind of what
I'm doing, and like, I've got to follow the light
back and I'm thinking, these guys have no light, no
what server and he has a trolling.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
They've got calful, they've got built a night vision amazing
delibate to see how far you can see.

Speaker 10 (01:32:10):
It was crazy, you know, to just have human contact
that far up. Yeah, And it just amazed me that
these guys were out they're fishing. And so anyways, I
took the advice, you know what, maybe head back and
I'll tell you what the walk swim back too short was.
That's when I realized how far I actually came out.

Speaker 2 (01:32:33):
Good story and I leave it there.

Speaker 12 (01:32:34):
Calvit.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
Thanks very much for that twenty past eleven. My name
is Marcus Welcome. I liked what Helen said about Legionaire's disease,
although many people get that anymore. You're not gonna drink
from the hot tap, are you?

Speaker 12 (01:32:45):
Or are you?

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
How worried are we about Legionnier's disease? Sometimes I find
myself in an old church hall and I look at
the zip but I think, well, actually it screams of Legionnaires.
But yeah, I don't know if many people get it.
I think you've got to be sick anyway, who knows.
I'm not an expert. Although I did read really long

(01:33:06):
winded article about where Legionnaire's disease came from. It was
a reunion of people they called legionaiers. It must be
an American military term or something. And then a reunion
in a hotel in Chicago, and they all got sick.
It's because there was something wrong with the water heating.

(01:33:28):
Quite a good story. But I don't even know what
the Legionaires are. It seemed to be some sort of
I don't fully know. I don't fully remember what it was,
some sort of military group, the Legionnaires. I don't think
their war reenactors. I think they might be like the
Home Guard. Someone will know you guys are strong on military.

(01:33:53):
I can't find anything that says oh. The American Legionese
is what they're called, a patriotic veterans organization, focusing on
service to veterans, service members and communities. So it came
out after World War One, War weary war War War

(01:34:15):
weary veterans. Lex, it's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 14 (01:34:19):
Oh, here you go, mate. They you were talking about
their Willow film. I was actually on a riding horses,
So here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
Finally, I thank Lex, thank you so much for calling.
I knew there'd be someone.

Speaker 14 (01:34:34):
There was about It was about twelve of us. They
were there for in Queenstown for about eight weeks, and
then there was another group of people, probably one hundred
and twenty odd riders did three odd days going to

(01:34:57):
be in the late eighties. It would I think the
sheer market creation. A few of us were farmers and
we're all props, but we went into this stuntdid.

Speaker 6 (01:35:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:35:09):
I've done quite a bit of show jumping at the time,
so there was a few rodeo fellas with us.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Of course it was market eight cuss Okay, wow, it
was it Upcronett Peak.

Speaker 14 (01:35:24):
They had a village built on the Crown Range on
the backside of Cadrona and then they had another village
where the Goodies was over on John Lee's farm on
the Crown Range where they had that racetrack.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Yep.

Speaker 14 (01:35:42):
And oh they did stuff all over the show, but
only about it was probably only half the film was
done in Queenstown. The other half was done in Wales.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
I think it was a quarry in Wales and was
the village of Village of Dwarfs, Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:36:02):
One of them was, Yeah, yeah, but the same thing
as we're talking about that joke.

Speaker 7 (01:36:08):
They just died.

Speaker 14 (01:36:09):
But the guy I had to teach one of the
actors how to ride, and he was a big bars that.

Speaker 7 (01:36:16):
He was a joker called.

Speaker 14 (01:36:18):
Pat wrote Now he was in a thing called or Veterston.

Speaker 2 (01:36:25):
Pet Yes, yes, yes, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 14 (01:36:29):
And he his name Bomber yep.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
And I'm well but he was a good joker. He
had a he had a real a real Liverpool Jordie
guy or something, wasn't he yep?

Speaker 14 (01:36:41):
Oh yeah, he had a yeah, but he actually owned
a Gymnasium in Manchester here. Yeah, it was quite interesting.
He's real good to teach because he was a big
bars trying to ride a horse and that of them
two factors are probably not not the best. And I'm
only shorts and.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
Was was was Val Kilmer part of it as well?
Was he there for the food law?

Speaker 14 (01:37:08):
Yeah, he was the guts of He was in the
goodies and he was in them. He was probably part
of the main He was the main actor. And there
was another woman there. I can't remember the name. They
didn't really impress me. They were sort of pretentious bastards,
really hard, I imagine we were all pretty hard jokers,

(01:37:33):
and it was quite interesting. All there was some good
yarns I can tell you about it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Yeah, because people said it was all just a bit
of a party, but I don't know if that was
true or not. People say that sometimes.

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
Well, we we had to, Like we were up at
four o'clock in the morning and taking horses up the
controlling the road, and we had about fifty horses in
the workshop. That ended the workshop out and put score
and and we had fifty horses in there. Well, we're

(01:38:06):
filming at the top of Corona yeah, it was quite good.
It was good fun, but it was bloody cold. We're
on the dark side in the middle of the winter.
What was the what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:17):
What was the act of the big bastard? Did you
call him from out thee? What was his name again?

Speaker 14 (01:38:23):
Pet Roach?

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
Pet Roach? Oh yeah, okay, And did you see did
you see the movie?

Speaker 10 (01:38:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:38:30):
Yeah, yeah, I think it was good at one of
those internet things.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
But yeah, but could you see yourself? Could you see
yourself in it?

Speaker 5 (01:38:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:38:42):
Well we knew we were really backdrop things and and
galloping around in the snow, tooking horses over and but
you could yeah, we were. We were only behind the scene.
You could see who you can see who you were.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
But here's a beginning. Used to be a professional wrestler
to pet Roach. Yeah, he's a big unit, real good.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
I was on.

Speaker 14 (01:39:10):
I'm pretty small, only feeling, but I did a lot
of riding. I was so jumping on and not at
the time, breaking a lot of horses, and yeah, I
was pretty good.

Speaker 17 (01:39:21):
He was.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
He was General Kale, that's right.

Speaker 14 (01:39:26):
Yeah, he had this big mask on, looked like a
skull on my c somebod his head.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
How long did the how long was it film for legs?

Speaker 14 (01:39:38):
Well, we were I was there from day one in
New Zealand, which was I can't remember now. We were
there for about five weeks. I think six weeks might
might have been longer than that. And then when it
all packed up they went back and a lot of
it we went in, We went on, had cameras on

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the ground and a few jokes, muggled a few photos
out the whole story. Like, it was interesting to see
how they went about it because no one knew what
the story was about. Okay, well, like we saw these
bloody dwarfs or together, and they'd come out in the

(01:40:22):
van and carry on. We didn't really know what the
hell was story was about. Really they were interesting is
that they got one there. There was a joker. There's
a ginger head American fella. I've seen him in the
Battle of Britain actually that they had on TV either.
I can't remember the fellow's name, but I had to

(01:40:43):
teach him to ride, and he couldn't ride again in
the Northwest to his bloody hope.

Speaker 2 (01:40:48):
Do you think they were the actors that could ride?
I mean, that's not that's not a mean.

Speaker 10 (01:40:52):
Thing to.

Speaker 14 (01:40:54):
Well, vow joker. He could write of course he was
pretty good rider. Yeah, well like I wouldn't say it
could jumper heense or not? But he consider on a
horse here man the girl could ride the girl that
was the main hacker, and I could write about joke,
this American good guy bloddy hopeless. And I was riding

(01:41:16):
along the road at Arthur's Point, trying to teach him
how to walk trot and Candor and his van of
Ozzie girls the ski season pulled up and he started
going on about head got the job because he could ride.
Oh like I was in there with an old swanny.

(01:41:38):
He's all gone up, looking like he was going to
jump it park and in Germany, you know. And I
was just in an old swaning and gumbo. I was
on a pretty good horse and a great show jumper
that I had, And I said to him, and he
has been but clever and whatnot, And I said, oh well,
we better get going. And I turned and jumped the

(01:42:00):
fence off the roadside and went up, seeing me like
a buddy. It's quite good. All the girls later at
the It's Pub, I think, and Queen Stain that's where
we were. Kemp Ye and we have quite a good time.

Speaker 2 (01:42:21):
Are you still on the land links? Are you still
in central.

Speaker 5 (01:42:25):
No?

Speaker 14 (01:42:26):
My farmer?

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, well getting on.

Speaker 14 (01:42:30):
I'm getting on there, but I still i' still hunting
jump horse.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Are you expecting Are you expecting rain today? Rix? Is
that gonna?

Speaker 14 (01:42:37):
Are you getting getting We're getting away back tonight. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
And that's and that's welcome, is it?

Speaker 14 (01:42:43):
Oh yeah, We've we've had pretty tough up here in
the last couple of years here.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Yeah, okay, I really appreciate your calling. Licks. You made mynight,
loved you. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:42:53):
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